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good afternoon. i'm tori campbell. it's official. 49ers linebacker patrick willis is retiring from football. he's set to make the announcement any minute now at a news conference at levi stadium. we first told you yesterday about the speak licks on his future with the team -- dash speculation on the future of the team with him. he has played his entire eight-
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year career with the niners. willis's announcement comes just as other fan favorites appear to be on their way out. as we reported yesterday, frank gore is expected to sign a new deal today. he's expected to go the philadelphia eagles or indianapolis colts. also michael crabtree and mike upote are set to leave and justin smith is also expected to announce his retirement from the nfl by the end of the week. patrick willis is approaching the podium now. he's just about to come out. we're watching live as a press conference is about to get underway at leave vie stadium. he will be announcing his -- levi stadium. he will be announcing his retirement. he is the third 49er to retire from the nfl in the last two days. >> have a couple of speakers prior to pat address everyone.
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then we'll turn it over to pat for his thoughts and q and a. >> it sounds like there will be a few other speakers first. the owner and the manager of the 49ers. we'll monitor this and we will be bringing it back to you shortly as soon as patrick willis starts talking. moving on, emergency crews are working to get a derailed train back on the tracks in san jose. a pair of cargo train cars came off the tracks before 10:00 a.m. this was at east tailor and north 7th streets. one of the empty union pacific rock carriers is teetering on its side. you can see it right there. a wheel or axle broke off just before the train came to a stop. the fire department says no one was injured, though, and no hazardous materials are involved. union pacific is bringing heavy estimate out to right the train cars but there's no word yet on how long that will take.
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oakland police investigators are busy trying to figure out who shot and killed a young mother. one of three shootings that happened last night. brian flores is live in oakland where police are not revealing a lot of information. >> reporter: yeah, you are right, tori. good afternoon. the only comment we received from oakland police is they continue to speak with investigators into what happened. earlier this morning, we did canvass the neighborhood trying to talk with neighbors out there and they didn't want to talk to us because they are afraid for their lives. but the shooting happened before 5:00 last night in west oakland off 28th and chestnut. the information we learned this moesh -- morning from a neighborhood said this started as a large street brawl. one of the girls she said was getting beat up pretty bad. a group of men drove by. one of them her boyfriend and shots rang out. the woman we spoke to recalls hearing anywhere from 20 to 60 gunshots inside.
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she ran inside with her 9-year- old daughter but unfortunately caught in the crossfire was a woman with her kids. she just moved back into the neighborhood a year ago. neighbors also say during the gun -- gun battle, she was trying to shield her kids when she was hit. this morning a pastor we saw speaking in the neighborhood was try ing to conso many the -- console the many neighbors distraught. >> my heart is broke. i really understand that we're in crisis proportion. >> reporter: a few hours around this shooting, there was another shooting from highland hospital. sheriff's investigators describe it as a shootout but nobody was hit there. investigators do say the gun battle appears to be connected
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to the one in west oakland. deputies followed. no word if anyone was arrested. there was a shird shooting at 10:30 off linden -- third shooting at 10:30 off linden. a reward has increased from $10,000 to $20,000. back to you. >> thank you very much, brian. right now, we want to go back to levi stadium where a news conference is underway. we've heard from the -- we've heard from jed york, the owner of the 49ers, saying some very nice words about patrick willis. right now we're looking at trent baalke, who is the general manager of the team. let's listen in. >> he said, as only pat would very respectful, said, hey, trent, do you realize that free agency has started?
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[laughter] >> and i looked at him and i said, yes. and he looks at me very sincere and he says, do you realize we were 6-10 last year? and i said yeah. and he looks at me one more time and he goes, don't you think we should be doing something? [laughter] >> but i looked at pat and i said pat, how about you play middle linebacker and you let me do the rest? we laughed and we still laugh about that moment. but this team, this unity is gonna miss you. it's gonna miss the leadership, the passion, the ta tent. gonna be difficult to re-- talent. gonna be difficult to replace. when i think about you, i think of greatness. when i was working with coach parcels and he used the word
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greatness, greatness, you've earned that term, greatness. you've accomplished a lot. seven all pros, six pro bowl selections in an eight-year career. there's no doubt you could carry forward and accomplish great things on the football field. but you got a new calling. it's a calling that we support. i know your teammates that are seated here, the teammates that are on this team now and have played with you in the past are gonna support you in that calling, and we can promise you as an organization that we're gonna support you moving forward. there's not much more to say but thank you. thank you for being the person that you are, thank you for being the player that you were and thank you for taking your talents to the next calling. and trust me when i say that
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this organization will support you moving forward. thank you, pat. >> well, i mean, obviously, a lot of things are gonna be said about pat willis. we talked about how great he is as a player. talk about how great he is as a leader. talk about all of the things he did on the field and he redefined his position. that's documented. it's all there. we all know it. that's a different man. pat changed a lot of lives
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here, and pat will change a lot of lives. pat's one of those guys that's gonna make a difference in the world, on a greater scope than he was able to do now. never met anybody more honest, more humble and never met -- we talk about what a man looks like. that's what a man looks like. every sense of the world. he's -- tremendous class. he's insightful. he has wisdom beyond his years. i've never heard him complain. okay? i've never heard pat willis complain. anybody that knows anything
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about him. loving, caring and honest. he's somebody i respect greatly and i think what he did on the football field is a small measure of what he's about to do. he's not gonna be stand there for the newspaper article. he's not gonna do it to get on tv. he's not gonna do it for any other reason than what he feels in his heart. he's given everything here every day. he's given us everything he's got in every facet of his life and i hope that some day i can help him with something. i love you. we all love you. and i just hope people spend a
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little bit of time on the man rather than the player. thank you. >> i stand up here today.
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it's tough. it's hard. but it's also easy at the same time base i knew -- because i knew there would be a day, the day that the san francisco 49ers called me, i knew there would be a day that i would leave and i always told myself that, i wanted it to be, you know, in a way that was just amazing. i will never forget 8 years old watching tv and seeing all of these lights go off and 7/11/16 and they would always come on, the dallas cowboys and monday night i'm watching and i see all of these lights go off and i see to myself in a small town
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i grew up, you hear the crickets. you walk outside and you see the street lights and the gravel roads and the only thing you think to yourself is, man, when i saw those lights go off, one day i'm gonna be special. all of them lights are gonna shine on me like that. i'm gonna be special and then here i am today standing before you guys not as a perfect man but as an honest man, and i feel like i have no regrets standing up here today as i have no regrets yesterday and the day. one thing i will always do is live by everything you got today so when you look back tomorrow you don't feel ashamed because you left anything on the table. and i feel like in my seven and a half, eight years, whatever you want to call it, i feel like there would not have been a day in my career that i don't
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feel like that i didn't give it everything i had. what's funny is it's amazing we see with the eyes instead of like what we know and, man, if only i knew -- if only i knew what it took to go out there on sunday and play these games, some of you really would sometimes like just -- just take a breath and be thankful that you have something to cover, that you get to have something to watch out there that we get to bring the kind of joy that we bring to these games. with all that said, i would have never thought in a million years that i would be spanding
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up here on -- standing up here on this podium saying to you all that i've had the most amazing eight years of football of my life, being a part of this historic organization. i want to thank jed and the york family for this -- for the amazing opportunity and journey i've been on my life. i thank you for allowing me to be able to show you that -- to show you a kid that he could do what people thought couldn't be possible was possible because you guys took a chance on me because you guys took a chance and it made it hard for me to come in and say -- i was draftped. that was good enough. some people didn't have me going as a linebacker. that put pressure on me.
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number 11, i gotta give something back. so when you see me going the way i've been going and practicing me the way i've been practicing it's because i'm so humbled. so humbled to have had this opportunity. i've been so humbled -- >> you've been watching live an emotional 49ers linebacker patrick women list discussing his decision to retire from the nfl. he said it's tough but easy at the sale time. he wanted to -- same time. he wanted to leave on his own terms. he got high praise. you can continue to watch this press conference at ktvu.com and we'll continue to get reaction from players and fans and we'll have much morning at ktvu.com and fox 2 at 5:00 tonight. still to come here at noon -- foggy morning and is rain on the way? rosemary is tracking the changing conditions. and targeting suge yarry drinks like soda, the new
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restrictions being used to turn the tide on the high calorie drinks.
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hillary clinton just finished speaking out this time about her emails. clinton came under harsh criticism when it came to light
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that she used a private e-mail and server. some accused her of avoiding transparency. in new york, she said she opted to use her personal e-mail as allowed by the state department simply for convenience, so she could carry one phone rather than two. >> the vast majority of my work e-mails went to government employees at their government addresses which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the state department. >> she said she provided 55,000 pages of work-related e-mails to the state state department but did keep out our personal emails. this is not known how it will impact our campaign for president. legislation set to be introduced today would put warning labels on soda ads. if approved by voters, the ordinance would apply to all
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new ads within the city. other supervisors are proposing a ban on soda ads on city property including muni buses and shelters. and to ban the city from spending money on sugary drinks. all right. rosemary joins us with a look at the weather. how is it looking >> the clouds are finally beginning to clear. the clouds are on the increase. those clouds associated with a storm that will dring us drizzle this evening. note not a whole -- not a hole whole lot. four-mile visibility in oakland. if we go to the north, santa rosa five-mile visibility and napa seven. as we go through the second half of the afternoon, the fog will linger with you not be too -- but not be too bad. the clouds are not going away. if i look back toward point arena even picking up on a few scattered showers. this system still offshore as we move through the evening
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hours, the chance for showers coming our way will increase but this is our best bet in here. the future cast model will show you what we do get won't be a whole lot unfortunately. most of the energy of this storm is gonna stick to the north of us. as we roll through your tuesday, a mostly cloudy today. temperatures in the 60s for the afternoon. early tomorrow morning we begin with scattered showers here. as we roll through wednesday morning, maybe the foot, a few scattered showers and then that will really be what we see for the enentire day on -- entire day, on and off. i think .10 or less. by wednesday evening at sunset we're already trying out. for today, partly cloudy skies. 62. right now in walnut creek. 59 in san francisco for the afternoon. low 60s to low 70s with partly sunny skies and the extended forecast with your bay area weekend always in view, showing ut chance of showers moving -- you the chance of showers moving in and into the weekend,
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mostly sunny skies, and temperatures reaching the 80s. >> that's amazing. we're still in winter. one of the biggest retailers in the nation is cutting hundreds of jobs. where target plans to put all of that cost savings.
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ouch. stocks plunging on wall street following a broad drop in europe as investors threat about the declining euro. investors concerned about rate hikes coming sooner than later. the dow is down 259. the nasdaq is down 63. and the s&p down 26. we now know how many target employee also find them sells in the bull's eye of layoffs. they are laying off 1700 and eliminating 1400 positions that have not been filled across the country. it's part of a restructuring aimed at saving $2 billion over the next two years. as target tries to compete with other big box stores as well as
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online retailers. well, changes are coming to a once popular attraction at disneyland which might move it into the 21st century and maybe beyond. disneyland is closing the inknow vengses exhibit hall in tomorrow land at the end of the month. it's been in tomorrow land since 1967. disney has not announced any plans for what will replace it. however there's speculation it might be either a marvel comics or a star wars attraction. thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. we're always here for you at ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter and facebook. thanks for watching, have a great day.
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