christien kafton is on the scene gathering more details.n will have more information coming up at 8:00. >>> long-time giants announcer john muller received the ford frick award. he started falling oakland -- calling oakland names in 94. and john fogerty was inducted for his classic baseball an thom "center field -- anthem" center field "which everyone knows the lyrics" put me in coach. i'm ready to play " john, he is so easy to listen to in baseball. >>> let's go to sal now. you have a lot to talk about this morning. >> that's right. we've been busy. if you are watching the traffic. >> it's been a good morning at the toll plaza. westbound. no major problems. traffic is moving along pretty well. 880, however, a little bit slow especially on the northbound side getting up to downtown oakland. no mayor problems there. it's time for the forecast now. let's go to steve. >> plenty of fog and low clouds out there. it will be cooler today for many, unless you are up in lake county, you are the lone post. what can i tell you? you need a cold front t

we are live in san francisco, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >> 5:02. as we mentioned earlier it has been a violent night in antioch, police are trying to figure out if three overnight shootings may be connected. the first one happened and it was deadly. it was about 12:18 this morning, it happened on ban onway. then about a half-hour later a store clerk was shot at a 7- eleven store on hillcrest avenue. the very latest shooting was just after 1:00 a.m. and again, this was on ban onway. ktvu's kraig debro is out there right now, so kraig, what do you know? >> reporter: good morning, dave. it is ban onway and sick ka more -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: -- happened just before midnight. you can see behind me police are very busy with the crime scene -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: -- ban on, you see police there still evidence tech on the ground. third person showed up at a hospital with -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: -- here is what police say happened at around 12:00 this morning. they say shortly after midnight they received a call shots fired here on ban

christien kafton is in oakland with the latest. >> reporter: child development center behind me is one of seven sites in danger of closing and closing their doors for good for a lack of funding. now a group of parents is stepping forward saying, they'll run the day care programs themselves if it comes to it. anita is one of the seven oakland centers that had their funding slashed to just 3 million in the governor's revised budget proposal. that means they could all be forced to close their doors. >> if it wasn't for this ogram, i wouldn't be able to work. >> reporter: five of laurise brown's children go to manzanita. she's one of the moms that makes up the advocacy group called oakland parents together. she's volunteering her own time to keep the oakland center running. >> the parents, community members, teachers who have gotten lay off notices are willing to come in to keep this program going. >> reporter: the district has filled some of the gaps left by the proposed state budget saving all day preschool indefinitely and day care for school aged children through august. she says despi

ktvu's christien kafton joins us now with the latest on this case. good afternoon, christian. >> reporter: well, good afternoon. this is the gas station where this whole car theft and kidnapping investigation got underway. take a look right here. you can see if you take a look here through the window that there are a pair of police officers in there. they are bringing back tape. they had those this morning, trying to dub them over looking for clues about their suspect. police say the victim and his daughter pulled into this gas station this morning. the father got out of the car to pay, left his five-year-old daughter in a car and that is when a mini van pulled up alongside and the unthinkable happened. one of the suspects from that vehicle gets out and gets into his cadillac. our victim had left his keys in the car and the suspect takes his car and then was last seen driving on to carlton boulevard. >> investigators say the father immediately called 911 but he was so distraught it took a while for dispatchers to figure out exactly what had happened.

christien kafton joins joins us now with the latest developments. >> reporter: the shooter wa

we're live here at point reyes national park, christien kafton, ktvu news. >>> the mothers of four uc berkeley graduates are have new hope tonight after an iranian was released and sent home to tehran today. >>> oakland police released more than a dozen photos today of their most wanted looters. police are asking for help of those raiding business in downtown oakland the night the mehserle verdict was announced. >> reporter: it's been weeks now, this sears department now on broadway is still boarded up. but today oakland police released photographs of some of the people they say were involved in the vandalism and the looting. oakland police say the images were captured by camera phones, police and store surveillance equipment. police are asking the public to help identify people on the videos. >> the photographs are very clear of individuals that were involved in this, i know citizens of oakland are very upset about what happened in their city about having outside people come in and break into businesses. >> reporter: police say with 80 police officers laid off this week, oakland need

christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you for that update. >>> 6:51.ater today bp's board of directors will meet but the company says no final decision has been made about management changes. there have been reports suggesting that tony hayward will hoof the company. the british media reports he is negotiating the terms of his departure before bp reports second quarter earnings tomorrow. >>> checking in on wall street. a live look at the big board as expected, quiet was fairly flat in your this morning. most of the comments were positive after those stress tests were done but many analysts say the test is not stringent enough. we do have earnings once again coming up this morning that could send the marketing either direction. >> 6:52. have you ever dreamed about being in a big movie? now might be your chance. the website called be in a movie.com will let you know which movies are filming here and how you might be an extra. one of them starts filming today at the oakland coliseum called money ball, the story of how the 2002 oakland as won 100 games des

we're live in oakland, christien kafton, ktvu channel two news. >>> that freeway shooting came days after oakland police layed off 40 officers. that has people in oakland wondering if police will be able to handle calls. >> reporter: it's been a week since oakland released police officers. >> you don't know how many hours or maybe the whole day to wait for police response. >> reporter: he's not the only one with those concerns. >> what if i get robbed and i dial 911 on my cell phone, how fast are the police they have going to respond to me. >> reporter: oakland officers have improved their response time from an average of 15 minutes a call down to nine minutes but still short of the department goal of five minutes. but with the lay offs will response times go up? >> that is a concern. and what we're part of the resources we had out on the field were extra resources to prevent these crimes from happening. >> reporter: joan says there are just as many officers on patrol today than before the lay off. and he wants to take away the perception that police are not responding to calls. >> it's n

christien kafton is live with more. >> reporter: we were on hand watching crews hard at work on tiburon boulevard. today they were preparing the site. take a look at the camera. you can see they've already dug the hole where one of the town's license plate damrahs -- cameras will be located. >> cars, truckses and suvs roll in and out of tiburon on two major arteries. within a week that could all change. as in the simulation, the cameras will capture the license plates of everyone going in and out of tiburon. >> police chief cronin is the man behind the program. >> this is what we're in, in post-crime investigations you can go back and determined if a vehicle registered to a particular person was in a place. the chief said the idea was already under consideration when a woman was killed at her home. >> we believe if there was a camera, it would have been a very valuable tool in solving the crime. to this it da, that crime is still -- to this date, that crime is still unsolved. >> i like the idea. i i find there is a lot of activity that goes on that's not reported. >> others worry about

christien kafton joins us now. >> reporter: i spoke with park rangers here at point rays, they confirmedor me late this afternoon that in fact, the third body in this case has been