are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] >> this is ktvu fox 2 news at noon, starting now. >> san jose police officers shoot and kill a man. now we obtained a radio recording explaining what happened. good afternoon, i'm tori campbell. it all started with a call to 911. but family members say the moon was crying out for help and should not have been shot. ktvu fox 2 news' janine de la vega has the story. >> reporter: his name is

phillip watkins and she watched as he was shot on sherman street. >> he was disstressed. something i had never seen before. i didn't think things would get to this point. he was upset. he felt things weren't going right. >> reporter: buchanon called the suicide help line worried about her future son-in-law. then, there was a 911 call saying someone was locked inside an upstairs bedroom. it was watkins who called 911 and it was his way of calling for help. the radio captured tense moments when they arrived. >> male walking towards us. >> reporter: they ordered him to drop the weapon, so he fired. >> shots fired! >> they shot him. and i begged the policemen not to shoot him. that he needed help.

they could have tazed him. >> reporter: watkins was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. a police spokesperson says the officers were in fear for their life and they are trained to stop a threat. watkins was 23 years old, attended san jose high school and deanza college where he played football. he was engaged to buchanon's daughter. >> he was thinking of becoming a policeman. ironic huh? >> reporter: it is unknown if this is a case of suicide by police. detectives are trying to piece together what happened here. in san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu fox 2 news. new at noon, a key figure in the san francisco conspiracy case involving leland yee was back in court today. raymond shrimp boy chow and five others were arraigned on an indictment this morning. the charges against him remain the same including conspiracy,

racketeering and money laundering. chow's attorneys are demanding federal authorities allow him to be released on bail. he has been held since his arrest last april. >> he wants to get in front of the jury now and get his story to the jury now. he has faith that the jury is going to make the right decision. >> chow's defense attorneys also asking for the court to set a trial date in the case and try chow first since he has been in jail for so long. a trio of global problems has the attention of lawmakers on capitol hill. the senate hears testimony from a high-ranking general about slowing down troop withdrawal in afghanistan. meanwhile, the obama administration is forced to abandon another overseas embassy as congress considers a request from the president to fight isis. >> reporter: in response to a growing number of casualties

within the afghan security force, general john campbell says the obama administration is considering slowing down troop withdrawals. he is looking to keep 5500 troops behind. >> i have provided options to my chain of command to take a look at as we do this winter update for additional options. >> you provided those options. do you favor them? >> absolutely. >> reporter: in yemen, u.s. diplomats fled the embassy there in the wake of the iran uprising of rebels. now reports that u.s. marines were able to destroy vehicles and weapons before they left to the wrong hands, the question is who is guarding the u.s. embassy itself. >> we expect them to respect international conventions and we expect to be able to return to the embassy in the same condition. >> reporter: back on capitol hill, congress continues to weigh a request from the president for authority to take

the fight to isis. but the political rift is growing wider. democrats want reassurances the battle will not go to the ground while republicans say air strikes alone are not enough. >> we are going to have to have boots on the ground. the iraqi army is a long way from being viable. >> reporter: the senate is expected to vote on the nomination for ashton carter for defense secretary. if confirmed, all these problems would become his. in washington, joe wallman, fox news. the united nations approved a crack down for funding on isis. they threaten action for anyone buying oil from the terror group. the resolution was unanimously passed. >> the united states strongly supports today's resolution which is part of a comprehensive tragedy to degrade and destroy isil. >> the u.n. says last year, the

islamic state made $1 million a day from oil sales. bob simon has died, police say simon was in the backseat of a car that hit another car stopped at a traffic light in new york city. simon's car then slammed into a metal median barrier. the 73-year-old journalist died at a hospital. simon was a contributor to 60 minutes. he just did a segment last week on the movie selma. he was an overseas correspondent starting in the 1960s and was captured by iraqi forces in the gulf war spending 40 days in a prison. president obama returns to the bay area to head a cyber security meeting in stanford. he will land tonight at 5:30 p.m. and tomorrow attend the summit at 8:45 a.m. some of the biggest names of the tech industry will be there. tomorrow night, the president plans to attend a fundraiser on a private home on san

francisco's russian hill and spend a second night in the bay area before leaving at 10:00 saturday morning. facebook is making a change. starting today, you can name a facebook estate executor of your profile. that person will be allowed to manage your account after you die. they will be called a legacy contact and can respond to new friend requests, update the cover photo and profile and archive your posts. until now, people have been allowed to view the person's pages but no changes could be made. the stars are out at pebble beach today as the at&t national proam gets underway. ktvu fox 2 news' fox savage shows us how the big name celebrities prepare for the tournament. >> reporter: the driving range was crowded early this morning as progolfers and their celebrity counterparts warmed up. former 49ers quarterback alex

smith took some practice shots and so did actor andy garcia. and even before the tournament got started, there was a hazard for the players to contend with. a family of deer in the line of fire. comedian ray romano says he took a break as they passed by. >> the last thing i want today do was knock a deer off, you know? >> reporter: on the putting green, buster posey got prepared for day one of the at&t national proam. the celebrities taking part say the goal is really just to have fun and hit a few good shots. >> i'm fully warmed up. >> you get nervous for these things? >> no. i have done it enough. i'm not nervous. >> there are a lot of talented golfers out here, but sometimes at pebble beach, the pros can take a backseat to the celebrities. >> reporter: giants ace matt cane signed autographs at the peninsula country club this

morning. he talked to us about his mind set coming into a tournament like this. >> not too bad right now. you start worrying about hitting people. >> come on guys. >> reporter: as the tournament kicked off this morning, people crowded around the first tee to watch a fan favorite, the always energetic bill murray was making a fashion statement with the most unique pair of golf pants on the green today. he took a bow, clearly happy to be out golfing on such a gorgeous day. alex savidge, ktvu fox 2 news. goo covered birds nursed back to health. we are there as more get released into the wild. and are scientists close tore finding the source of the mysterious substance? sunny skies across the bay area today. mark tamayo is next to break down the highs you can expect this unusually warm holiday weekend. we all know smoking is bad for

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all parties agreed to a cease fire midnight saturday and an agreement for both side to pull back heavy weapons. vladimir putin was involved in the talks and the ukrainian president, france, and germany. if it holds, it could end a ten month conflict that has killed 5,000 people. most of them civilians. police in milpitas have identified a person of interest in a hit and run crash that killed a 14-year-old girl. they are looking for this man alex alkazar. he owned the truck in the crash, but police don't know if he was driving. investigators found his car a half mile away following a trail of debris. the 14-year-old died from injuries suffered in the crash. turns out that smoking is even worse than previously

thought. according to a new study by the american cancer society. findings are found by health data from more than a million people tracked for ten years. five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco. smoking was linked to significantly increased risk of infection, kidney disease, intestinal disease caused by inadequate blood flow and heart ailments. these are in addition to the well known causes like heart attacks, stroke, and lung cancer. a south bay law school is offering a class in the legal issues surrounding marijuana. a class at santa clara school of law this semester focuses on policy regarding legalization of marijuana. the class will take up issues on regulations, taxations and policing as they decide whether

to legalize the drug for recreational use in 2016. it is currently legal in colorado, washington, alaska, and oregon. a group of boards was once covered in a sticky substance is nursed back to help. today, more were released back in the bay. sal castaneda is live in sausalito where the birds were released an hour ago. good afternoon sal. >> reporter: good afternoon. we were right here when they released them just a little while ago and we have video tape to show you of that release that we captured. six birds were released after spending weeks at the international bird rescue center in fairfield. the birds were first spotted last month in the waters off the east bay. they were covered in a gray rubber cement type substance. the birds would have died unless they were treated. the substance still has not been identified and the source of the mystery goo is still underknown. 170 birds were collected by the

center and after today's release. about 80 remain in recovery. >> we are doing this all on our own. there is no responsible party on this because we still don't know what the substance is that was in the bay. like i said, four weeks ago. so we have incurred quite a bit. it is a bit of a hit for our organization. these birds take a lot of care. they are up at our fairfield center right now. >> reporter: now check out this picture. this bird shown here is as it was found covered in the gray mystery goo. now we have video of it being released. it looks healthy as you can see it flowing away. it seemed content, of course we have no way of knowing that but it seemed content to be back in the water. the people doing this say it is very rewarding. >> i always say a release of birds lifts your spirits and this is one of those days, too, that everyday we come back out here to release birds that

should be in the wild. it feels really great letting them go. >> reporter: the birds were here, but they don't cooperate with live tv. they were in the bay here. so they have flown off. i saw one of them taking little flights near the golden gate bridge. we have developing news in this regard. my colleague noelle walker received some information that fish and game department is closer to identifying what this mystery goo is. and that is very important because if it is traced to a source, the people who released it will have to pay for the rehabilitation of the birds an any other mess that this goo created. live from marin county, back to you in the studio. >> all right, and i'm sure that is not going to be a cheap price tag either for getting the birds back to the wild. thank you sal. let's check on the forecast with mark tamayo. pretty nice outside. >> very nice tori.

temperatures approaching the 70- degree mark. we are talking 70s for today. we will continue to work things back up over the next few days. here is the live camera looking out to marin county. at mount tam, 2500 feet. always fun to play up there. lots of clear sky ins this area and the entire region. at least a good portion of central and parts of northern california. we have a few high clouds approaching the north coast. no rain drops to speak of, but some of the high clouds will drift over the bay area the next few hours. maybe partly sunny skies at most in terms of cloud cover. but temperatures, the big story not only here, but across the entire state. in the lower 80s for los angeles and san diego. a little close tore home showing you some 60s and a few spots, 70 degrees out toward half-moon bay. san francisco, 66. san jose, 65. walnut creek in the upper 60s . a forecast headline, obviously sunny and warm for today. the dry weather pattern will continue and it will be a nice

weekend. in fact, a lot of 70s for both saturday and sunday. so high pressure is in charge offshore. it is strengthening and pushing into northern california. that compressing air, the sinking air. it started yesterday, continues into it today and also friday. so fair skies, a few high clouds out there. temperatures mainly in the low to mid 70s . this high weakened a little bit, not much. still no rain clouds to speak of and no drop off in temperatures as well. at&t proam at pebble beach, the place to be. 70s , mostly sunny skies. we have a swell approaching the region so you will see a lot of wave activity near the immediate shoreline. so a dry pattern continues in fact. here, you can see the clouds heading way up to the north this weekend. and even into next week. this is a week away. thursday still keeping us dry. of course, a serious situation, we could definitely use the

rainfall. but unfortunately, the forecast models are not producing much in the way of significant rainfall, but that could change. right now, we are going to keep it dry. san jose, 74- degrees. half-moon bay, 72. a lot of 70s over the next few days for friday and into the weekend. and no rain clouds to speak of. we will shave off a few degrees for sunday. and into monday, but tori, it is beautiful out there. just walking around. you see the sunshine out there and the forecast models will change their minds an open up the storm door once again. >> all right. ly have to enjoy it. thank you mark. a bay area native takes to the national stage on american idol. katherine skinner took a shot at fame.

>> stocks higher on wall street. cisco systems has been the biggest gaining. its stock is up 9.5%. the dow jones is up 111 and the s&p is up 19. a san francisco native is among those who are hoping to make their dreams of stardom a reality on american idol. ktvu fox 2 news pam cook sat down with katherine skinner earlier today saying her inspiration to compete came from an unlikely source. >> ♪ it is always dark before the dawn. shake it up, shake it out! whoa! shake it out, shake it out!

♪ >> that is katherine skinner, american idol hopeful from san francisco. belting it out, she says her 19- year-old psychic cat told her she should try out. she is here with us now. so, your cat told you toe try out? >> yes. mustafa, my psychic cat. >> so you didn't have any dreams of stardom on your own? >> i did, but he was probably my biggest inspiration. >> that's very cute. judges and fans are calling your voice very gritty and mature. i can't believe you just turned 16. that you sound more like a 40- year-old. who are yours your inspirations? >> the rock tars, freddie mercury, david bowie of course. >> so you said you got that fabulous coat from david bowie. >> yep. >> back in the 70s .

>> you were not born in the 70s though. >> no. i got a time machine. >> i thought you were maybe an old soul coming around. so what are you most excited about or hoping to get out of the idol experience? >> i just think exposure. that is the best part of it. also, i met so many amazing people that you see on the show. >> so many talented people. >> so many talented people. i remember get willing and thinking i can't believe how much talent there is. not only in america, in this world. it is amazing. >> oh my gosh, yeah. speaking of talent, the judges. what was it like going in front of the judges? what did you think? >> i think that for me, tiswases surreal, like the whole experience was so surreal i was like i am ready to do this. i was thinking i'm ready to do this. after it happened they said you are going to hollywood. i thought did this just happen? >> did you get some good

advice? >> most definitely. um, i think that one of the most important things is just stepping back. sometimes, hitting a song super hard isn't the best approach. and for me, i am really big. i like to really rock out, but taking a step back and being more subtle. [ laughter ] >> you don't seem subtle. but we will see you tonight. we will see you tonight on american idol. and we wish you well. i know your ultimate goal is broadway. katherine skinner, don't miss it tonight at 8:00. you can root for our san francisco native. yes we will. all right, once again, president obama is expected to land at sfo at 5:30 this evening. we will have a crew bringing that arrival to you live on the air and we will be streaming it live on our website at ktvu.com. there could be some traffic problems around the airport as well. so we will be following that for you, too, at ktvu fox 2 news. thanks for makes us your choice for news. we are always here on ktvu.com and you can follow us on

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