as a homeowner's association, you have to anticipate as a resident of san francisco, there's going to be a lot of ground deformation and our utilities will have problems. we recently had window storms and while pg and e has done a wonderful job, there will be breaks. you will be able to camp in your argument. it would be like you went away for a long time for a camping trip. you will be able to change the thinking about where people go. one of the big issues in katrina, people were forceed to evacuate. if we had a large fire. we might have to force an evacuation. >> one the things we're trying to develop is an expectation, this is our bottom line expectation for building performance. your building, while it might not be damaged. will it be sufficient to camp out it? >> we are not quite there yet. >> that's the kind of expectation. >> i think we should pass this along to the audience. ere should be design standards. there's a discussion, what should our design standards be for new construction? and the building department, we on caps are going to say, what standards should those be? an

. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. let's look at windows. >> let's assume this window is broken in the earthquake. we have wind and rain blowing in. one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of shingle. you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. they take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. >> there is one at the neighborhood support center. >> at the neighborhood support center. you're going to wrap this plastic around t

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if you are a homeowner or better yet if you are under water just a few months ago you might be -- you probably are way above. the nine-bay area county price is up year to year 33%. here in alameda county, 44%. this little three-bedroom, one- bath rancher was appraised at about 280 a year ago. it has just sold at $400,000 taking multiple offers and it just keeps right ongoing. -- right on going. >>> reporter: mary leone is checking out a house in oakland. she has the cash but is concerned about the competition. >> i thought i was a good buyer with a lot of money down but these days, people are just coming in with cash only. >> reporter: now a new real estate report may only fuel her worries. last month, the median price paid for a home in the nine- county bay area jumped to $555,000. that is up 33% in a year. the fastest pace on record. >> it has been a hot market. >> reporter: real estate broker andrew has been in the business for 15 years. >> we have a huge influx of various people who want to live here. >> reporter: as to why the record jump in prices? experts point to fewer bank- o

a homeowner was slapped with a big bill for doing what the city told her to do. >> the tree had a full canopy. >> reporter: she admits she won't win any prizes for tree trimming. but anne and her husband worry the branches could break off and blow away in a storm. we new if the tree fell down and hit somebody we as the property owner would be responsible. back in april, they cut away leaves and limbs turning the tree from this to this. two weeks after the mars cut the tree, the city says it received a complaint. and the couple got a ticket for excessive pruning. the fine? more than $1,700. >> this was an extreme case. we don't go after people for aesthetic pruning reasons. rachel gordon of the city public works department says homeowners are required to maintain the trees according to guidelines posting on the city's websites. it warns against cutting off large branches. the city contends they remove 95 percent of the tree's canopy. leaving the tree vulnerable to disease, sunburn, and death. >> the best thing people can do is higher professional tree pruners. >> even since we trimmed i

a homeowner in milford says he has been using this pine street as a back scratcher. the homeowner says he has been reporting wildlife for 10 years and this bear is one of the many images he has captured over the years. >> this afternoon at 4:00, oakland-based kaiser permanente's republic station is on the line facing criticism from customers on sky roberting costs. at 5:00, the former police officer who pepper sprayed students at occupy protest wants big bucks and he things he should be paid tonight at 5:00. >> now friday's "purr-fect" pet and we are introduced to the new friend. >> we have best selling. >> their here from the friend spca. tell us about grapefruit. >> this is grapefruit, a three month old kitten, beautiful boy, a little bit like frank zappa. available for adoption. >> tell us about your book signing? >> tomorrow i will at the spca in san francisco between 2:00 and 4:00 and i will be reading from this and autographing copies. >> about your cat and how it affected your life? >> like racing in the rain for cat lovers and it is a fund read if you like cat

by the way the family brought a civil action against a homeowners association to settle for about a million dollars already. >> that was settled but this would be another one against zimmerman? >> absolutely. >> what happens now in terms of the laws in florida, in sanford in particular? do you think anything is going to lap? >> it would be up to the state legislature to take a look at that. obviously community activist groups and others are going to push that stand your grand or ground laws be -- stand your ground laws be amended. they can't put in there every possible factual circumstance. this was a different set of facts that brought these two people together. clearly zimmerman, had he not gotten out of the car with the gun and not got in this altercation, we wouldn't have a dead 17-year-old. we do. and what the jury said was that zimmerman was not criminally responsible, but that doesn't mean he wasn't responsible under a civil law or criminal federal civil rights action. look for that to happen in the next several weeks. >> scott bolden with reid smith, thank you. >> thank you very muc

. >>> a dogs helped save a homeowner from a fire in san jose this morning. but more than 90 cats at that home did not make it out alive. ktvu's janine de la vega has a report on the rescue and why there were so many cats. >> reporter: this cat is one of seven that made it out alive at this home in south san jose. the bodies of more than 90 cats lay in crates strewn on the front lawn and throughout the property. >> i'm just stunned. i mean, i'll have to deal with where i go from here, but right now, it's -- i'm just stunned at the fear and suffering of my animals. >> reporter: carol miller says her dog bunny woke her at 1:45 a.m. to alert her of the fire. the two ran to an enclosed patio. >> when they got to the rear of the house, they saw her on the ground in the fetal position with smoke and fire over her. >> reporter: it took firefighters an hour to knock down the flames. the fire ravaged the home gutting it. firefighters say it was a challenge trying to put out the fire with so many animals inside. >> i've not witnessed this many animals at one residence.

a homeowner interrupts a burglary by this woman when she returned to her house. >> this morning, investigators are trying to determine how a grass fire near the san jose airport started. flames broke out in a field near component drive in orchard parkway at 6:00 last night and reaped the edge of the meadow recycling law. can you see the smoke and three acres of the grass burning. two tractors were cutting grass in the field but not sure if they sparked the place. >> hot weather in the south bay and it looks like we have more hot weather coming our way. >> absolutely. good call. a spark from hitting a rock could have started it which is how dry it is. we will have breezes this afternoon if you headed to the bay shore to get relief from the heat from 2:00 to 9:00. winds are from the southwest at 15- to 25-knots. we have a little bit of faster breeze in fairfield at 20 than yesterday. the clouds are limited and we find it is not quite so cloudy and temperatures could be a degree or two cooler and most of us in the mid-to-upper 50's. the next 12 hours we have a warming trend by noon and coastal cl

as a homeowner who plans to start a family in my dwelling, an industrial facility with a 400-kilowatt generator to operate in my back beyond yard. thank you for your time. >> my name is michael

as a homeowner who plans to start a family in my dwelling, an industrial facility with a 400-kilowatt generator to operate in my back beyond yard. thank you for your time. >> my name is michael hrynko. i live at portrero avenue. we own our home. we have separate loans. we are repeatedly treated by the planning department as if and i have in old from mr. teeg, it went to owners, not occupants. so when mr. silver man says that there were no complaints because no one was paying attention. that's why the posting of the sign is very important. further, i objected to scott sanchez having say, hey, what's going on. what is this about. please do not sign that letter. on a monday. i meet with the neighbors on wednesday, on friday, the letter is signed, you were sent the letter. i was never sent the letter. whereas i go to the planning department to read the case files. i'm the one who disseminates the information to everyone in the neighborhood. i know what's going on. this is what i found. rca was a cable company. they laid most of the fiber optic for the city of san francisco. the owner spen

as a homeowner who lives one 1/2 blocks away from bacon, i can a at test to the fact that this is a great area. i don't want people to come to our area and find boarded up store fronts. instead i would like them to join me for coffee. please let them continue to operate here so that our neighborhood can continue and our friends and especially our children can experience it the way we did when we were growing up. thank you very much for your consideration. >> good afternoon. i have lived at 116 frederick for over 25 years and very familiar with my neighbors and the community and we are a very vocal and opinionated group of people. we treasure our neighborhood. it has been a shame to have vacant storefront on that street. it has been a very difficult retail price to stay in business. and bacon bacon has filled that need wonderfully. i find them charming. it's very clean and issues brought up can be and will be addressed and remedied. i'm very much in support of this. i love having an area that is walkable so i don't have to walk on a rainy morning. thank consideration. >> mr. president and

homeowner. the victim was stabbed during a struggle but is expected to survive. one suspect was caught trying to get away. officers are searching for that woman and another man. >>> a serial killer was his inspiration. expected to face charges after three female bodies were found on his property. police responded to a foul odor report and found the bodies wrapped in trash bags. former girlfriend is speaking out but does not want her face shown. she feels lucky she did not become a victim. >> he pulled a gun and pointed a gun to my head and asked me was i ready to die. >> he searches the streets for young girls or women like me. >> the bodies were very decomposed and take several days to identify the victims and how they died. >> politics is taking over easy going marin. don knapp on how passion is spilling over into public meetings. >> reporter: everyone knows marin as the mellow county where people in nature all just get along. or at least they used to. >> [ arguing ] >> reporter karla posted this video of a meeting held by supervisor susan adams. new developmen

i'm a supporter for the solar because of the fact as being a homeowner, low income for energy and the fact that my electric big is $3.14 a month. i would like to hear more talk about solar because i don't know where your energy is coming from. you are talking about bringing in because i asked this question some years ago and that's before a lot of these babies have gone up here and spoken when they are talking about energy. i'm setting up this committee. i asked the question. i said, i asked the question at the meeting in port row hills, i said who owns the line? they said pg & e. i said who owns the grid? they said pg & e. i said i'm going to be pg & e tonight because this is when this department was trying to put together peakers in my community and we fought against that. the thing of it is that i hope that you all make the decision because that is your responsibility. because i'm even concerned more about jobs, local hiring and this is one of the reasons that local hiring passed is because some of the unions did not local hiring to come forth to hire from the community. so i just

. >>> and a homeowner is involved in a fire and we will tell you what happened to that homeowner. >>> complete news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> good morning, thank you for joining us, i am pam cook. >> and dave clark has -- dave clark has the day off, steve, there is a bit of drizzle out there. >>> this will be the coolest day and even this satellite image is showing, here is my good friend sal. >>> san mateo bridge look good and you can see it there, it may affect flights and we are checking it for you. it looks good on highway 4, not really thick fog but the roads are getting busy in antioch. >>> police are investigating a shooting in the city's mission district and joining us from 22nd and bryant here is more on what thinking saying about the victim and the suspect. >> reporter: the victim was apparently alert when the police got here and he said the man who shot him lives inside the same building he does and san francisco police have that building surrounded and you can see they are surrounding it and they are earning the potential shooter to

a homeowner who enters a mortgage agreement posting their home as collateral while they're paying off the mortgage loan now the homeowner retains ownership and continues to live. what is hypothetically controlled by the bank and the bank of course has the right to foreclose on the house at the borrower defaults now. is when the bank then reuses or coast that same collateral back and to back it's own it trades and borrowing and in this example that would be a mortgage backed security and then the next day and take that same collateral and post the security and it can be profit he did it again and again and you can see where this girl weighing the risk associated with the cation is that is essentially a house of cards so if one bank within the daisy chain it goes under multiple entities are counting on owning the same source of collateral and because the collateral is not. it can be off balance sheet or incognito bridge here's how david stockman explains it. cards this. layer upon layer of creative bid up the price borrow money against it by some. higher use that. it is the same thing a

if you're a homeowner and you're all of a sudden paying more for your mortgage, that could mean less discretionary spending. and yet in today's session, we saw retailers actually doing fairly well. >> i think retailers did well because of the jobs nurp, but what higher rates does is it's great for banks and horrible for banks' customers. if you're trying to borrow money to buy a home, and you're thinking you really missed the boat with rates a few months ago below 2%. so it causes problems. as mike really well pointed out, it causes problems for the home builder. you know, lennar is still quite a ways off its 52-week low. but we saw a big put buying in lennar. big buyers of the july 32 puts today. as you might expect, because this is going to be horrible for the home builders. maybe not so much for housing in general, but for the home builders that have to do big plan developments, they're just really in trouble, because they have so much capital investment. >> and mike, at the same time, in terms of the home builders, you've come tonight with a negative trade on the etf that tracks

and, san francisco police re to find two home invasion suspects who are on the run after stabbing a homeowners for kpix 5 news this morning... beginning at 4:3 >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. washington, d.c., expect thunderstorms today. thunderstorms in atlanta as well, but some sun in st. louis. partly sunny in denver and seattle, mostly sunny with a high of 78. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. kate, the wife of britain's prince william, was admitted to a london hospital in the early stages of labor. the baby will be third in line to the british throne. >>> and thousands of people were allowed to return to their homes in palm springs, california, on sunday. heavy rain helped firefighters contain the fire. >>> pope francis is heading to his home continent. he's from argentina, but he arrives in brazil for a week-long visit. he took off for rome this morning for his first international trip since becoming pope. more than a million people are expecting to celebrate mass with the pope on wednesday. >>> in iraq the relentless bloodsh

struggling to make their mortgage payments new and more affordable loans here's the plan would work say a homeowner has a two hundred thousand dollars mortgage on a house that's now only worth one hundred to one hundred thousand dollars under the rules of eminent domain the constitution requires that when the home is taken there be a reimbursement at market value so the city would take the home and offer one hundred thousand dollars minus twenty grand for fees and costs associated with the process and write a check to the bank that held the mortgage for eighty thousand dollars the bank would write off their hundred twenty thousand dollars loss on the deal and both the tax code and a number of for. banking programs would protect the banks so they don't lose money all the bank loses is the profit it would have made if it continued to hold the mortgage the city of richmond would then offer the homeowner their home back with a new eighty thousand dollars mortgage the homeowner has gone from twenty thousand dollars in debt to eighty thousand dollars in debt with one hundred thousand dollars asset now in

grant douglas the sweedish team knocked a homeowner as he was burglarizing a grudge attached below homehomeowner to the to confront him, but the suspect fled the scene on a bike. police found him hiding behind trees and a search revealed the stolen items. >> out of the america's cup by a fatal accident in the san francisco bay hopes to be back out on the water soon. artemis racing was out of the competion after an accident in may that killed crew member andrew "bart" simpson.and badly damaged their yacht. but racing officials say that the team is likely to join the race by next weekend. the next race is scheduled for tuesday. artemis racing is scheduled to race against the italian team luna rossa, >> after some momentum from tim lincecum-- who tossed a no-hitter saturday night. the giants fell short of sweeping the padres. barry zito wasn't at the top of his game. and neither was the rest of the team. padres scored 10 runs on the giants. >> josh donaldson blooped an rbi single with two outs in the 11th inning. boston 3-2. the red sox haven't won a series in oakland since july 2006. a br

one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of shingle. you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. >> okay. we're back in open session and colleagues can we agree not to dispose the comments of this discussion and we have a in terms of 4 names. to the flu board on july 23rd and colleagues we'll take that >> any public comment on that. >> i think we can. >> actually, the motion was adopted in closed session and so we will take our comments on say closed session and we'll close public comment and so, now going to item number 4. >> this is an information item. >> so we're going to public comment for item 4 and seeing none, none we'll close. >> and in the general public comment it's closed and will now be closed due to no one coming forward. >> we seek adjournment. >> colleagues w

. >>> and a homeowner is involved in a fire and we will tell you what happened to that homeowner. >>>te news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> good morning, thank you for joining us, i am pam cook. >> and dave clark has -- dave clark has the day off, steve, there is a bit of drizzle out there. >>> this will be the coolest day and even this satellite image is showing, here is

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a homeowner says she interrupted a burglary by this woman when returning home one afternoon. >> thank you. a massachusetts judge giving prosecuters more time to prepare the case against a former new england patriots football player accused of murder the judge delayed the hearing in the murder of a semi pro football player, hernandez pleaded not guilty. bill bella check defended the decision to release hernandez. >> i and other members of the organization were shocked and disappointed in what we had learned something someone in our organization that is involved in a murder investigation is a terrible thing. >> he says patriots will learn from this quote terrible experience and says it's time for the team to move forward. >> the president began efforts to refocus the debate saying he wants focus to be on the middle class to expand homeownership. republicans leaders say the president should work with the g.o.p. on job creation the president blames washington for taking its eye off the ball. >> we need a long term american strategy based on steady efforts to reverse forces that have consp

these are two people police are looking for a homeowner says she interrupted a burglary by this woman when she returned to her house one afternoon. '7 >> carolyn: sky7hd flew over this fire. the grass fire burned about three acres which was north of san jose airport. i did spread to a scrap yard but firefighters jumped right on it and put it out. >>> just about everyone is back in their homes in alamo for the night. they were locked out after a gas leak. gas line that was gushing for hours is now capped off. keira has more. >> pg&e crews worked for four and a half hours to clamp a broken gas line when east bay mud crews were working on a broken water line. >> for all the u, of pipes in the ground and many pipes. markings with earth movement and changes that happen in subdivisions, markings are not always there. >> mud spokesman says on routine calls like this their crews first check markings that show where pg&e has gas lines compared to their water lines. he says this gas line wasn't marked. they didn't know it was there. >> as we were digging to do our work. markings were off. so ou

a homeowner is stabbed when a trio of home invaders rush into his home. cate caugurian is at san francisco general hospital where both the homeowner and one of the suspects are being treated. >> and we're hearing that they are both expected to be okay. let's take a look at video. this happened just after 12:15 this morning on the 1500 block. one of the suspects talked to the victim and coerced him to open the front gate. then the two other suspects forced him back in the home. one of the suspects stabbed the victim in the torso. they saw one of the suspects trying to runaway. jump out of the back window on the first floor. but that's where officers were waiting for him. and we know that suspect fell pretty hard and he actually almost or maybe broke his leg. he is also here at san francisco general hospital. >> do we know if the suspects were armed with other weapons. >> when they arrested that suspect they did find a handgun but still two other suspects on the run. and police are saying they too might be armed. >> all right. cate caugurian live in san fran

several suspects through finger prints and these are two suspected burglars police are looking for, a homeowner interrupted a burglary by this woman when she returnd to her house at 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon or one afternoon. this morning, investigators are trying to determine how a gas fire started with flames breaking out in orchard parkway at 6:00 p.m. last night. the amount of smoke caused by the tall dry grass as it burned was three acres. a last people called to report it and firefighters say two tractors were cutting grass in the area. >> it has been hot in the south bay but the wins are the troubling part. >> they can make it get out of control quickly. they are calm until we get to around 2:00 when we pick up at the bay. it could have been something as simple as a spark from a rock. now, the mild temperatures show 60's in the east bay inland neighborhoods and only conquer at 59 below that. i left the house this morning i heard an air conditioning running at a neighbor's house. around the bay, the temperatures are milder, at 55 in oakland and hair, and 54 in san francisco, and novat

they're trying to track down a homeowner or whoever may be renting the place. no one was injured next door and it will try to monitor this situation and speak with some of the neighbors to see how long these people were here all along or when was the last time that this saw them. >> watching what is now tropical depression "flossie" off the coast of hawaii. the storm had been categorized as a tropical storm as it headed for hawaii's big island and maui. the storm is not only affecting residents in hawaii, but also travelers around they bay area. there were several cancellations yesterday, and more are expected today. kron 4's solo reporter jackie sissel is live at san francisco international airport with an update. things are looking better today than they did yesterday. if you are trying to go to the island i cannot tell you that that would be good news. many flights were canceled about a half-dozen or more. in fact, a united cancelled all their flights going into hawaii. it is a different story this morning and the good news is that according to the board, al

grant douglas lowrie woke a homeowner as he was burglarizing a garage attached to a home. he homeowner contacted police after he saw lowrie exit a side door of the rson items. his bike and the homeowner attempted to confront lowrie, but the suspect fled the scene on the bike. police found him hiding behind trees and a search revealed the stolen items. police in pleasanton have arrested a 19-year-old man who allegedly hit another man with his car following an argument in a parking lot at stoneridge mall. witnesses apparently followed the suspect vehicle -- a 2002 chevrolet silverado - as it fled the scene after the collision. officers tracked down the vehicle on dublin boulevard and detained the driver, dublin resident frank gallant. gallant was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and booked into santa rita jail. the critically acclaimed film. based on the shooting death of oscar grant at an oakland bart station. has opened in select theaters nationwide. the movie is called fruitvale station. the film is about the last 24 hours before oscar grant's death.starring micha