allie rasmus joins us with more on why this crash scene could be dangerous. allie? >> reporter: this is 17th and clayton and as you can see there is a patrol car and an officer directing traffic around this street. if you pan around here, you can see this is what is causing this street closure, there is a five-story building in a residential neighborhood and you can see the scaffolding is all torn apart. this happened when a car crashed into the scaffolding early this morning. just over the last few minutes, it looks like springs of wood and they are working to repair the scaffolding and make it more stable. police got a call at 2:45 and the driver took off right after that accident so police have not been able to question the driver or get information about how this happened. they are working to stabilize the scaffolding and he told police the scaffolding is no longer in danger of falling and police say the weather this morning is also working in their favor. >> the right side is stable and the left side has been removed from the sidewalk. it appears to be half and

allie rasmus is live from that location. allie? >> reporter: well, the presidential motorcade just pulled up about three minutes ago. you can see the president going up to air force one. a short time ago, i don't know if you missed it but he did stop to greet and shake hands with a family member. it looks like this is going to be an on-time departure. the president's air force one was supposed to depart at 12:25. now you are looking at the family that is walking away. this is a family. we don't know who they are but they were out here on the tarmac, brought out here on the tarmac. they were able to shake hands with president obama and now they are being led away out here on the tarmac at moffett field. but again, president obama has boarded air force one. the scheduled departure is 12:25 this afternoon. this is a very short visit for the president. he arrived here at moffett moffett field less than 24 hours, 4:00 yesterday. his -- his plane was about 45 minutes late yesterday but it appears today it will be departing on time. the p

allie rasmus is outside the hayward police department with discoveries and what is next? allie? >> reporter: she was last seen where she was taking a nursing class, she left during a break and never came back. that was nearly four months ago and police have been investigating her disappearance. they believe she was murdered.

allie rasmus is at golden gate park to tell us what will happen next. allie? >> reporter: people are already saying goodbye and some of these people who posted these signs are not happy about the changes. other signs are criticizing san francisco's parks district for now renewing the family's lease. the current boat house operator is on his way out after a long legal battle with the city on that lease and the park district is bringing in a new company to run concessions here. they will still offer row boat and paddle boat rentels and they will be able to sell park related merchandise as part of their new contract. they will make this -- they are worried it will make this place seem too commercial. >> a local company that has been doing it for a long time, it is something like every other place and every other park, we lose a little more of something special. >> reporter: they promise to keep some of the old charm, but what you will not find is bike rentals at stow lake, that will be gone and this is the last week you will be able to rent bikes. but if you are

allie rasmus is outside the hayward police department with discoveries and what is next? allie? >> reporter: she was last seen where she was taking a nursing

allie rasmus is outside one school that could be affected, allie?porter: well a total of five schools and could affect as many as 900 students. this is one of the five schools the district is thinking about closing and here are the others, along with lakeview, they are thinking about shutting lazear, maxwell park and santa fe elementary schools all in oakland and the city is discussing these closures and many parents are expected to be there to speak out about it. closing these five schools will save them more than $2 million and it could be used to improve other schools. they met with parents privately to explain the possible closures. >> for me this is convenience, -- convenience, this is my neighborhood and i will have to go outside the neighborhood. >> the spokesperson said in the past if the district could shut down and combine as many as 30 schools, tonight's beard meeting dashboard meeting is at 6:00 at mcarthur boulevard and the school board is not expected to make a final decision on the closures until early next month. allie rasmus ktvu ch

allie rasmus joins us now and has more on what happened and how long this closure will be in effect, allie? >> reporter: they have blocked off the street in 17th and clayton and as you mentioned, a patrol car is directing traffic and this is the reason why. as we pan over we can show you it is covered with scaffolding but if you look at base of the building you can see the scaffolding is all torn up. police got a call that a car had crashed into this scaffolding. that car sped off so police have not been able to find the driver and police called out a contractor to come out and fix the scaffolding and he is already working on stable licing -- stablizing the structure. >> it appears to be half and a half, the contractor says it is stable and he has torn off the top part of it so it will not fall unless we have high winds at night. >> police -- >> reporter: police say all they know about the car that crashed into the scaffolding was silver because there were pieces of the car from the wreckage out here. the occupant is not in danger and they hope to have the scaffolding fixed in a coupl

good morning allie rasmus. >> reporter: good morning, they are shutting down operations at the end of the day today. it comes after a long fight between recreation and the boat house operators and the lease for the current operators has run out and now the park is bringing in a new operator a company based out of new mexico. they will still offer row boat rentals and they will also have a cafe with snacks but they say some of the old character and history of the old boat house will be lost once it changes hands. >> it will take a lot of the authenticity out of it which could be anywhere. >> people have also been able to rent bikes and that's changing too. the new company will not be offering bikes and this is the last time they will be able to rent bikes. allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the agency is asking congress to step in and help straighten out its finances. right now the biggest concern is a $5.8 billion payment plan and without help they may be forced to shut down by this winter. >>> lee has been downgraded to a tropical depression and it is moving across mississippi wit

ktvu's allie rasmus joins us live from san francisco to let us know what's happened in court so far. allie? >> reporter: what's at stake in this hear something who has the right to defend the constitutionality of the proposition? the state attorney general only or anyone else? now, proposition 8 bans same- sex marriage in california and that's what was at issue in this hearing here today. but last summer, a u.s. district judge ruled that proposition 8 was unconstitutional. now, normally, it is up to the state attorney general to defend the constitution ailty of a law when it is called into question. but then jerry brown and kamala harris have both declined to defend proposition 89 on appeal. so supporters of -- 8 on appeal. so supporters of proposition 8 have decided to challenge judge walker's ruling. so today, they set the day to hear arguments about whether the on opponents have the right to do that. attorneys for both sides made their case before seven justices this moving. the court's chief justice talked about the issue at hand. >> the government officials have dropped out of th

as allie rasmus tells us and is joining us live from oakland we still don't know how she died, allie? >> reporter: that is right and that is what pathologist will try to figure it out. they brought in a dentist and confirmed those remains belonged to missing student michelle le. they are still trying to fine the cause and manner of her death. she was taking classes in hayward where she was a nursing student. she never came back. her family organized one of eight searches and it was during one of those searches that a volunteer discovered her body. that road was located between 680 and foot hill road in an unincorporated part of pleasantton. the mother who found those remains is the mother of a murdered teenager. her daughter was killed by a register sex offender two years ago and she was in the bay area to help with the search for michelle le. she was the first to discover the remains there. it belonged to missing nursing student michelle le. they also changed support offers and volunteers for all of their help. the family says they are working on organizing some sort of of public ven

allie rasmus is outside the hayward police department with discoveries and what is next? allie? >> reporter: she was last seen where she was taking a nursing class, she left during a break and never came back. that was nearly four months ago and police have been investigating her disappearance. they believe she was murdered. we were hoping to talk to police about a possible break. a volunteer with a search group found a body off the side of a dirt road. that road is between 680 and foot hill road. the body was decomposed so investigators were not able to tell whether it belonged to a man or woman but a spokesperson said the medical examiner may be able to determine the gender as early as today and we will be waiting for that information. search crews from the alameda's search office went through to see if there was any other evidence left behind. they are not saying what anything was significant and meanwhile the woman arrested for her was a former high school friend of lay lay's who blamed her for ruining her relationship with the ex- boyfriend. she may end terrible a plea to t

volunteers found that body yesterday morning just off interstate 680 and that is where ktvu's allie rasmus this morning with what's happening next in this investigation. allie. >> reporter: to give you a better idea of where this discovery was made, to the east of us right over here is interstate 680 where it's over that wall and we are actually close enough where we can hear the cars on the freeway where we are standing. to the west of us is a bridge, a pedestrian bridge and on the other side of it is foothill road and this seems to be a pretty well traveled area because this morning we have seen people on bikes jogging past us. behind us police tape, this dirt road, about 1/4 mile of this dirt -- up this dirt road is where this body was found yesterday. investigators comb through the brushy trail where the remains were found and this morning half a dozen police cars still in that area making sure the crime scene remains secure. the alameda coroner removed the body yesterday night and because it is decomposed they cannot yet determine the sex of the body found there. but the sheriff's pub

ktvu's allie rasmus has talked to replacement nurses. >> reporter: those nurses is a traveling nurse company based out of alabama. we caught up with some of those nurses who were hired. there's 500 that were hired by alta bates to replace those on strike. some of the nurses we talked to, the replacement nurses, told us they were shocked and saddened about what happened to the patient who died over the weekend. several newspaper reports say that patient died after being given a nutritional substance directly by i.v. instead of being fed through a feeding tube. but the nurses we talked to with this company defended their credentials and their qualifications. >> of inurses' worst nightmare. it's a -- every nurses' worst nightmare. >> reporter: one of the nurses who did not want to be identified for fear of losing her job said she used to work at a bare hospital. she said she's kept her california nursing credentials since then and sutter health, which owns alta bates, flew her here and paid for her hotel stay, and that's in addition to her pay. >> i made about 4,000. some of us cannot g

allie rasmus is following this story and she will be with us shortly about what the police are now sayings next in the investigation. we'll get a report from allie in a few minutes. >>> 7:59. new this morning, a woman on board a plane flying from manila to san francisco gave birth. it hatched on phillippines flight 104. we're told several nurses who happened to be on the flight helped deliver the baby boy and passengers cheered once the new boy started to cry. once the plane landed. mom and baby were sent to a medical center in burlingame. both mom and baby are said to be doing well. >>> the oakland city council will hear complaints about what some say are excessive owners trying to fix up dilapidated homes. they were quickly fined with blight that prevented them from cleaning up their homes. >>> we have developing news coming in from pakistan. gunmen just opened fire on a group of shiite muslim pilgrims and killed 26 of them. those pilgrims are on the bus. they were headed to the iranian border at the time of the attack. officials say a pickup truck blocked the road and then a group of e

ktvu channel 2 reporter allie rasmus is in the city at the civic center bart station.he site of today's protest. >> reporter: if it seems like the bart protests are never ening, organizers say that is the point. he refers to the weekly demonstrations as quote a marathon not a sprint. while the most -- the latest demonstration that is supposed to happen today 5:00 here at the civic center station. it will be the seventh demonstration here in the past two months. according to anonymous' website, the group plans to continue the protests every week until their demands are met. they want the bart police disbanded. they also want bart to apologize for shutting off cell phone service last month and want a more thorough investigation of a shooting of a man in july. commuters said they seemed a little exes a per rated when we told them about the latest protest. >> i'm sympathetic to a point, but i wish there was some way we could sort of compromise on some of this and especially when it hurts people who have to commute so far in to the city. >> it's just annoying. it disrupts w

body was positively identified and they are telling us about the questions that still remain, allie rasmus has more. allie? >> reporter: the next step for rent sick pathologist -- forensic pathologists is to determine the exact cause of her death. it ends a four month search for michelle le. she disappeared while taking a nursing class and left during a break and did not return. cell phone records show her cell phone had been in the niles canyon area the day she vanished and that's where they were doing a search finding clues to her whereabouts and on saturday, one of those searchers found her remains near pleasantton. now the volunteer who found the remains is the mother of a murder murdered teenager. she was abducted and killed by a registered sex offender in 2009. this week she was in the paper to help with the search for michelle le and she was the first to discover those remains. they were positively confirmed and confirmed by the alameda county coroner. her family released a statement yesterday evening asking for privacy during this difficult time and they are in the works of plannin

. >>> allie rasmus is live outside one local campus that may possibly be closed. allie? >> reporter: well, the school here behind us is lakeview elementary off grand avenue near 5 -- 580. the average classroom there's one teacher for every few students and that's a good ratio. there are five schools the oakland school district is thinking of closing along with lakeview, they are also talking about shutting down -- >> reporter: altogether, there are more than 900 students that attend those schools. the school district says closing these schools could save them more than $2 million and that the oakland student population has declined. oakland has about 101 schools for every -- excuse me, 101 schools for a total of 38,000 students. town's board meeting is at 6 -- tonight's board meeting is at 6:00 at the lakeview school. they are not expected to make a final decision about closing these schools until later this month. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, allie. >>> the berkeley college republicans are going ahead with a controversial bake sale. the sale starts i

ktvu channel 2 reporter allie rasmus is in berkeley with word of this bail for freedom deal. good morning, allie. >> reporter: good morning. those three hikers were uc berkeley graduateses. the details of the possible release of shane bauer and josh fattal are now in the hands of the swiss embassy. the u.s. and the iranian government do not have diplomacy. now, shane bauer and -- now, if the two men are released on thursday, the bail is set at $500,000 each. their attorney says bauer and fattal's family are trying to come up with the money to secure that release. the two have been in prison for two years. just last month it appeared there was a setback. an iranian court sentenced the men to eight years each for espionage after being accused of spying for the u.s. the three hikers said they crossed over accidentally and they had firmly maintained their innocence. spying charges against them. sarah shourd was released in prison one year ago on humanitarian grounds. her release was with a price tag. the iranian court ordered her to pay $500,000 in bail before she was freed. and i

live in oakland, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> we have new information about the fatal crashrk we told you about earlier on mornings on 2. the chp tells us it was caused by a hit-and- run driver. it happened on southbound 101, south of marsh road after 530time this morning. the chp said the victim's car was rear ended by the older model pickup truck. the victim stopped in the center lane and was struck by a taxi cab. the pickup truck took off and investigators are looking for the driver. we should motion the chp had hoped to have that roadway back open by 8 and we did just check in with them and all southbound lanes many shut do you. >> in nepal, two americans are among the dead after a plane contrarying tourists in mount everest crashed while trying to land. all 19 people on board were killed. a witness said the plane hit the roof of the house in the village and broke into several pieces. no one on the ground was killed. it was foggy and visibility was very low in that area. the plane was returning from a mountain flight that took passengers to view mount everest and other p

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> 7:08. well, the deadline is tomorrow for saving an old tree named granny in menlo park. it's a 300-year-old oak. it's in danger of being put down because it's right in the path of a waterline project. the group fighting to save granny sent an official proposal to the san francisco utilities commission. it outlines turning the area into a park. they say the park needs to be created to justify the extense of digging and tunneling under the tree instead of cutting it down. >>> it's 7:09. we want to check in with tara. >> we just had one of our coworkers from here at ktvu to let us know about the traffic hazard. the chp is reporting three to five bicycles. cars on the right hand side -- on the left-hand side, no problems. and 280 near the 880 interchange are folks driving on 280 towards santa clara. finally some -- finally some video we shot earlier. this is on san francisco's side. it happened around 4:00 this morning. the truck had major accident but luckily, it's not causing any traffic dela

as ktvu channel 2 news' allie rasmus tells us from heyward, the body turned up after a search of missing nursing student michelle le, allie? >> reporter: there could be some legal developments. the woman arrested giselle esteban is due back in court in heyward. 27-year-old giselle esteban was a former high school friend of michelle le's and police say she blamed michelle le for ruining her relationship with an ex-boyfriend. at her hearing she could be assigned a public defender and may end terrible a plea to the murder charge against her. that plea comes as they investigate possible developments in the michelle le case. a volunteer with the search group found a body off the side of a dirt road and that was located in foot hill road in an unincorporated part of pleasantton. they were not able to tell whether or not it belonged to a man or woman but a spokesperson said the medical examiner may be able to answer that question the gender of that body as early as today. michelle le was last seen where she was taking a nursing class. she left class after a break and never returned nearly four

live in treasure island, allie rasmus. >> thank you, allie. >>> emeryville school has emerged from a state takeover. school officials celebrated the event. they handed a check as the last payment. emeryville mayor praised voters who approved a new tax for school >>> congress is more unpopular than ever. the new york times and cbs news poll shows just 12% of americans now approve of the way congress is handling its job down from 14% just onemonth ago. partisanship and bickering are the major reason. >> president obama signed into law the first significant change in patent law since 1952. the law is supposed to help the patent office eliminate a huge back log of applications. >> right now, there are about 700,000 applications that have not even been opened yet. these are jobs and businesses in the future just waiting to be created. >> reporter: mr. obama signed the bill during a vision detroit a school in alexandria, virginia that specializes in science and technology. he also had a chance to see what the students were developing, including a wheelchair that responds to brain waves and

. >>> change is underway on stow lake and allie rasmus is there in the golden gate park, here is more on what to expect. >> reporter: you can see signs people have posted on the back of the area where many are not happy, the family of the man who run this boat house is shutting down operations and after today you will be able to rent those paddle boats but some new paddle boats will be coming along with a new boat house operator. the lease ran out and the recreation and parks district will be bringing in a new company. that new company will run a cafe on the grounds and they will be able to sell park related merchandise. not everyone is happy about that idea. some of the people say they are afraid the new operators will make this place seem too commercial when it will lose some of its sharp. >> i think they want to target it for tourists and they obviously have stated they want a steady stream of people coming through here. >> it comes after a long fight between the san francisco recreation park district and the current boat house operators they have been going back and forth over the

allie rasmus is live at the scene where there are still some unanswered questions. allie? >> reporter: exactly -- [ no audio ] >> reporter: we know there was some sort of confrontation that happened here on barington court. at some point police tried to pull over a car that had been stolen. that stolen vehicle was a ford mustang. there were two men in the car. members of the santa clara county auto theft task force saw that mustang and the task force is made up of san jose and chp officers, they ran the license plate of that car, realized it had been reported stolen. when they tried to pull over the driver, a con fronttation broke -- confrontation broke out and two officers fired weapons. a man was shot. >> we don't have all of the details to provide a statement as to what led up to it investigators are processing the scene where this occurred. and also the officers involved in this are being questioned along with the suspects. >> reporter: now, the 31-year- old man is being treated at the hospital. we're told he has non-life- threatening injuries. the other person in the

kutv's allie rasmus with more on the medical error that officials say caused the death and how a labor strike and lockout may have played role. >> reporter: these nurses work in the oncology unit at alta bates center in oakland. >> we get to know our patients and they billion pour family. >> reporter: it was in that unit that police say a 66-year- old woman died early saturday morning because of a medical mistake. >> these nurses weren't there when it happened. they haven't been on the job since thursday. they went on strike and were locked out by the hospital. alta bates spokesperson says when the nurses went on strike they had no choice, but to hire 500 replacement nurses for a minimum of five days. the hospital admits it was one of those temporary nurses that made the fatal error. >> as soon as this incident occurred we notified the corner's county coroner's office and the state of california. >> reporter: they won't explain exactly what happened, but "a non-prescribed dosage of a medication was administered." this was gross incompetence. >> just across the street from where the nur

allie rasmus joins us from oakland where b.a.r.t. urging riders to make backup plans for this evening. allie? >> reporter: well, today's protest is being organized by the cyber activist group "anonymous." according to a statement by their website, they say these -- [ no audio ] >> they want the b.a.r.t. police department disbanded and they want an apology for shutting down cell phone service and the group wants a more thorough investigation of the b.a.r.t. shooting death of a man on the civic platform in july. today aprotest will be the 7th in the last -- today's protest will be the 7th in the last month. some b.a.r.t. passengers we're talking to are getting angry. >> we don't really agree with what they are protesting for. >> i'm sympathetic to a point but i wish there was some way we could sort of compromise on some of this. >> reporter: the most recent protest was four days ago last thursday. protesters stayed outside of the palace station, as they were instructed to do. but b.a.r.t. police said faregoers were blocking the gate so

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and michelle le's family released this statement -- >> the family also asked for privacy. >>> david campos will formally introduce a plan today to give free rides on muni to school children. campos wants to provide the rides to 12,000 kids who are between the age of 15 -- other rather, between 5 and 17 years old. he says it will help struggling families who cannot afford to send their kids to school. one mother says she know as parent who relies on the kindness of one particular bus driver. >> he says, come on in. she says, i don't have any money and he waves her on. so she knows that that bus driver is sympathetic enough to turn a blind eye. >> the plan would cost the city $7 million a year. it's not clear exactly where that money would come from. critics say it's just too expensive. >>> bay area transportation buses and union -- bosses and union leaders are standing together in an effort to keep congress from cutting fun fund -- from cutting funding to transportation. transportation officials called for full funding after federal transportation bi

allie rasmus is there now and has more on what's happening in the state supreme court around the plans for a protest outside. allie? >> reporter: well, that hearing starts at 10:00 this morning. but at 8:00, opponents of proposition 8 plan to gather out here on the courthouse steps. you can see some of those on po -- opponents have already arrived. they are starting to set up and they have their signs out here. now, at issue in today's hearing is whether supporters of proposition 8 have the right to defend that proposition in court. last summer, u.s. district judge von walker struck proposition 8 down as unconstitutional. cameras were not allowed in the courtroom during that trial but these are sketches from those proceedings. normally when the constitution ailty of the state law is called into question, it's up to the state attorney general to defend the law. but in this case, then-attorney general and kamala harris, have declined to defend proposition 8. so the supporters decided to challenge judge walker's ruling themselves. they went to the 9th circuit court of appeals. but today t

allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the prime suspect in a south bay crime spree is behind bars this morning. paul ray castillo is back behind bars in west sacramento. the parolely is accused of shooting a 4 -year-old man -- 42-year-old man while robbing a gas station. castillo carjacked the lexus and took the owner friday evening at an apartment complex. >> most of our investigators have been working in tandem developing leads following leads and trying to track them down and luckily we were able to get a solid lead which led us to his location. >> castillo has a lengthy record. while the shooting victim was found, his body was linked. co workers say she always smiled and had a positive attitude towards life. she acted like a second mother to them offering advice and helping out in any way she could. >> [inaudible] she was more like my sister. >> she was an influential figure in the community and leaves behind a daughter.$♪$>>. >> they are looking for suspects in a double shooting. it happened at 9:00 on first lane near magnolia. several young men got out of a car and began shooting

live in oakland, allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. >>> well the woman accused of killing michelle le will be back in court next week. 27-year-old giselle esteban was in court yesterday but did not enter a plea. it was postponed until she is officially assigned an attorney. now the lawyer representing giselle esteban's proceedings would only say the seven month pregnant defendant is quote, coping. >>> antioch police are investigating the mysterious death of a pedestrian. investigators say a man in his 60s was killed while walking on to lone tree way 9:30 last night. they are still interviewing witnesses to see what led up to the tragedy but the woman walked right into the middle of a dark street as the car approached. >> this guy out of nowhere ran across the street, i saw him run across the street and he just got smacked. >> now the driver immediately stopped and is now cooperating with authorities. police say he is devastated. >>> well today marks the second spare the air day in a row in the bay area and you are encouraged to reduce energy use and fans report pacing. -- transportati

allie rasmus is in our newsroom to explain who could be affected, good morning allie? >> reporter: the oakland school board is not expected to make a decision on whether to close until the end of this month and many parents will be at the meeting. here are the five elementary schools on the list lakeview lazear, maxwell park and santa fe. last night the principal met privately with parents to explain their options should the schools close. they told ktvu channel 2 news they will be at tonight's board meeting to speak out. >> i am upset. this is my neighborhood and now i will have to forgo -- i will have to go outside of the neighborhood. >> the school district said closing those five schools will save them more than $2 million and that money could be used to improve other schools. a district spokesperson said the district could close or combine as many as 30 schools in the next three years. the tonight's board meeting is in at mcarthur think boulevard. >>> they are going with a bake sale all to protest affirmative action. it starts on the plaza an originally the group

in berkeley, alli rasmus >>> the new bay bridge cost billions of dollars but might have cost a lot of major jobs. >>> and local politicians getting into a heated dispute. >>> and what better way to celebrate and anniversary than to give back. the massive gift to charities but when you grew up surrounded by rock 'n' roll and heavy industry, you just might make a name for yourself. ♪ that's what a blue-collar attitude can do in a white-collar world. ♪ now lease the all-new 2011 chrysler 300 for $339 a month for well-qualified lessees. >>> the transformation of the bay brim is on schedule with the new eastern span scheduled for 2015. there is concern that getting the job done on time and under budget came at the cost of bay area jobs. claudia cowan reports. >> when it was built in 1936, the san francisco bay area bridge was a construction project that put people to work. when the new one is open, it willing an international affair from the bottom up. can you see the enormity of the project. this bridge is an example of massive outsourcing. half a dozen countries are contributing either e

allie rasmus is in berkeley where their loved ones have waited long time to hear they may be coming homereporter: an iranian court has agreed to set bail for the two men at $500,000 each so if they can come up with that money they will be free on monday. they are trying to put that money together to cure their release. they have been imprisoned for more than two years and just last month it appears their case had faced a set back after they had been sentenced to two years in prison for espionage. a third hiker shaw shaw was accused as well after -- sarah shaw was accused as well. they crossed over accidentally and have strongly maintained their innocence since then. they were released on humanitarian and medical grounds and her release also came with a price tag. she was also ordered to pay $500,000 bail and it appears their release may be due to a similar arrangement. she said the family is not ready to comment on the possible release or talk about it just yet. again the two hikers have not been officially cleared by the iranian court and right now there is the swiss embassy which reps

allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we have developing news coming this morning, there has been a guntle right in downtown kabul in afghanistan. look at this new video coming from kabul, firefighters fired assault rockets in the direction of the american embassy navel headquarters and other official building. people were inside the american embassy and they were told to hide under their desk. so far no injuries reported. >>> the search continues after they escaped in contra county. they escaped from the boy's ranch on picks lar road. are sheriff's officialed warned employees about the escape and they heard noises on the roof but it turned out to be roofers. one is described as being mentally challenged, he is black 300 pounds and 6-foot 3 inches tall. at least one of those teens is considered dangerous. they are asking for people in discovery bay areas to stay inside and lock windows and doors. >>> time now 5:33 somebody was rushed to the hospital after being hit by a car. it happened just after midnight. san francisco police say the driver of the car stopped after the impact and was

in berkeley, alli rasmus >>> the new bay bridge cost billions of dollars but might have cost a lot of major jobs. >>> and local politicians ( grunting ) >>> the transformation of the bay brim is on schedule with the new eastern span scheduled for 2015. there is concern that getting the job done on time and under budget came at the cost of bay area jobs. claudia cowan reports. >> when it was built in 1936, the san francisco bay area bridge was a construction project that put people to work. when the new one is open, it willing an international affair from the bottom up. can you see the enormity of the project. this bridge is an example of massive outsourcing. half a dozen countries are contributing either expertise or material, none more so than china. 3000 chinese workers spent five years fabricating the steel used to build the road beds, all of which are shipped overseas from shanghai and delivering another blow to california's battered economy and 12% unmany employment rate. >> not only do you lose the fabrication job but those people paying taxes, those people buying groceries, buy

live in hayward, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 7:02. police in south san francisco out there looking for suspects in a double shooting. now, it happened last night about 9:00 on first lane near magnolia. investigators say several young men jumped out of a car and just started shooting. two teenagers were wounded. we don't know their condition. police say as many as four suspects are out there on the loose? >> there were two people in the vehicle as it drove off, witnesses said. there might be additional two suspects who had gotten out of the vehicle. >> reporter: the gunman got away in what was described as a honda accord or civic sedan. the motive is still under investigation. >>> lawsuits could delay or even kim plant for high-speed rail in california. cities and nonprofit organizations are suing. a coalition of cities for groups on the peninsula has gone to court twice. after the first lawsuit, the rail authority did a new study but a new lawsuit is challenging that revised study. >>> in less than 30 minute, president obama will unve