claudine?k you. >>> a deadly problem in lake chabot park. >> local dogs have died so far and there may be more. >> debra has more on why a warning from the east bay regional park district is too little too late. >> it's this green algae that's everywhere. it's fatally toxic to dogs. >> katie warns anyone, especially anyone with a dog wishes they knew what she didn't know. >> healthy as could be. >> she let her dog splash in lake chabot on wednesday. >> it was a nightmare, it's like when am i going to wake up. >> a few hours after the hike, vomiting and seizures and irreversible coma. it's a shock and our kids are teenagers and they're devastated by it. >> the 300 acre lake is showing a green tint from a toxic algae that's taken hold without the rain that would flush it out. it's not a swimming lake, it's emergency water supply, but dogs tend to get wet. >> with the shock and bleeding, abnormalities and liver failures are the case that is we've seen. >> three dogs dead in two months, the poison

claudine, back to you. >>> thanks, alley. we will see you soon. >> cool. >> i looked online it is one hundred bucks a person but it looks like it gets pretty crowded. pretty cool and gets booked up quickly. >> the ship is great and played a huge role in world war ii and the apollo mission. >> and looking there to see the torpedoes. pretty cool. >> time to set the new year's resolution. >> start i would come down for swimsuit season. >> don't talk about swimsuit season, that's rude. coming up at 8:15. a fitness expert to show you simple work that you can do at home that won't break the bank. thousands of firefighters battling firefighters in australia. six homes have been destroyed and change in the weather could slow the fire's progress. officials say it will take days to get the fire under control. >>> and the u.s. is imposing sanctions on north korea because of the cyber attack on sony pictures. president obama signed an executive order authorizing the sanctions these are the first sanctions punishing sung un. >>> the tahoe

mike and claudine?ld bargain to bring it down to $2.99, i'd swing out there and take it for a spin. >> pretty nice. one of the things they were telling me about, and i don't know yachting, boating, i'm not familiar with any of this but they're making a big deal out of it. you can direct it by joystick. they set's a lot more user friendly for people, first-time yachters or boaters to test out. that was one of the things they were impressed about. >> hey, allie, how is the weather out there? because it looks pretty gorgeous. has it warmed up pretty nicely? >> reporter: it is. as the morning has been on, i've lost my scarf, my coat. it's definitely getting nicer. great view. you can see the air is a little bit hazy. temperature-wise it's just perfect out here. >> thanks for that tour. >> thanks allie. appreciate it. >>> so we've had this question of the day on what you're doing today. so we have some responses. dana says, my family and i are going to half man bay for the day to bay fresh seafood. >> that s

i'm mike mibach >> i'm claudine wong.rning. rosemary, when does it burn off? >> usually by mid-morning. there are going to be a few pockets that linger today. it's going to be a lot like yesterday. we're going to add in a very slight chance of a few scattered showers over the north bay. whatever falls not going to be much. let's look outside our doors this morning where we have the mid and high level clouds up above that deck of low cloud cover. look at that. it's a beautiful view at least from this perspective. as we get into the second half of the day, again low clouds will begin to deteriorate, not altogether though. the satellite showing you just how widespread it is. we have very thick fog in our valleys this morning. we'll start in the east bay, concord is down to a quarter mile visibility. livermore less than that. i have to point out that darker gray indicating a quarter mile or less. so patchy dense fog over the east bay valley and north bay valley as well. it's very widespread. santa rosa and napa reporting quar

i'm claudine wong. >> and i'm mike mibach.e people thought it was chilly, but i was able to get out with a bike ride with the family and enjoyed the afternoon. we thought it was cool. >> not in the afternoon but in the morning. and i had my heater going the entire time. >> rosemary, another beautiful afternoon in store, you think, for all of us in the bay area? >> especially if you like it warmer. we have a warming friend -- trend coming our way. we'll take a look at the numbers, and let's check on the air quality. this is an issue once again for today, another spare the air day meaning no burning in the fireplace. some areas are just above the moderate level, a bit unhealthy, and this is something to consider if you have lung disease or suffer from asthma ordeal with asthma. the east bay, moderate but we will have the air pattern continue probably tomorrow and today. 38 in concord and 39 in novato and 42 in napa, wow, relatively balmy. napa in the upper 20s, and 33 in walnut creek, freezing, and still a chill in the air but n

claudine wong in the newsroom now with more on the substance, claudine, and it is causing a lot of concernlling it goo because they are not sure what else to call it. all they know is that it's affected dozens of birds along the east bayshore line. >> should be all white, like this middle patch here. >> you are looking at video that our crews got yesterday from the international bird rescue research center located in fairfield. that is where they are trying to tweet dozens of birds. the department of fish and wildlife rushed samples to the lab on friday. the lab stayed open late and usually, usually it is a very quick process to identify the source of the problem. not this time. all they know right now is that the goo is not petroleum. it's not vegetable oil. it's not fish oil. >> this is some gray gunk that's very sticky on the feathers. extremely difficult to get off. and the -- to the point where the birds aren't even trying to preen it off. anything that disrupts their waterproofing means they will stay on the water. they beach themselves and become hypothermic. >> some birds have died

claudine wong, ktvu two news. >> what do you say? >> wow. >> holy cow. >> wow.. >> can you imagine sleeping. >> i can't even imagine doing anything like that. >> i asked about aren't they freezing up there and he said it's actually not that bad. >> it's pretty cold but they actually planned this exactly. they know exactly what they're doing. they found this two week window to climb. because imagine climbing with a wet face. i don't know the guy that is set up the climb the meteorologists but i know that's exactly what they did. they picked the perfect period to do that. any kind of ice on that face or moisture would make it slippery. it's hard to imagine. >> that takes nerves of steel. >> it does. and those guys are built different. they are just wiry. they can just, spider man up that. >> exactly. >> so outside right now. we have a pretty nice night. it's kind of mild around here. temperatures will be in the 40s, upper 30s. there's the approach to the bay bridge. those red lights you see are going toward san francisco. the white lights are going toward sacramen

ktvu's claudine wong looks back. >> reporter: there are images from 2014 that are hard to forget from fires like the one that destroyed this san francisco construction project. the police shooting protest that over took the city streets and freeways. the scandals, all 39 woman described as a high end prosttuse and the -- prostitute and the politics become -- politicians become defendants and a manhunt for ryan chamberlain who had bomb making materials. cautions over ebola. healthcare and immigration reform. mother nature with the 6.0 earthquake in napa. and the drought still has us realing and curving. trag a -- conserving. tragedy, a police chief was shot and killed by a fellow officer. >> difficult oo express in words -- to express in words. >> reporter: and the rampage that took the lives of three students. there were stories of survival, who can forget the 15-year-old stow away who made it from san jose to maui in a wheel well of a plane. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: sports gave us a lot to talk about. the 9ers with the nfc championship loss and then good- bye to jim harbaugh. r

as ktvu's claudine wong reports, next week they have a new product coming out to help give people one. >> i make sure not to wear head phones, take small precautions. >> i carry around pepper spray, like a lot of people around here. i feel like a small emergency isn't -- just because you're feeling nervous, that's not big enough of a reason to call the police. >> reporter: that's what folks at oakland-based safety call the gray area. >> people aren't just safe or they are in danger. there's this area where sometimes they feel threatened, feel a little uncomfortable. there's a potential for a situation to happen. >> reporter: that's where this little device comes into play. >> i love it. >> reporter: it's called safety, invented by south bay resident bill huang. it's pretty unassuming, but huang wanted to keep it simple. >> no charging, no monthly fee, no sim card. it's only one click. >> reporter: click it once and it sends out a text to a predetermined group of people, what the company calls your safety circle. >> you rapidly click it and it will send not only will you receive a call

it is saturday january 17, i'm claudine wong. >> and i'm mike me back. welcome back. >> i miss rosemary. >> why didn't you take me with you. >> guess what i did? >> i put up my rain gauge. i have a rain gauge. >> it's misty and i thought hey, i might need this. >> we have a feeling we'll get rain. >> you won't see a lot of rain. we may get a few sprinkles over parts of the north bay for the weekend, not enough to really matter but just enough to make us a little damp. giving you a live look, here comes the sun, we have 20, 25 minutes or so before the official sunrise. mid and high-level clouds and fog out in this morning. let's look at storm tracker 2, we're waking up with a mix of sun and clouds. we're not seeing anything falling this morning. santa rosa picked up a few 100ths yesterday and we'll continue this pattern as we get into the weekend. fog out in this morning, concord is reporting visibility down to 2.5 miles. santa rosa it's thick, down to a half-hour and livermore the visibility is okay. as we get through the morning hours we have fog to dea

ktvu's claudine wong is here with reaction. >> reporter: we first told our viewers about this this morning and it hit a cord with a lot of them. we wanted to share comments on facebook. this is the best app i have ever used. love the heads up when police are ahead. john said when the app alerts police reported ahead, you slow down. the app makes roads safer. she says if you don't break the law you don't need the app. thank you for your service. just a few of the hundreds of viewers who have weighed in. >> the people behind the waze app say it is about contributing to the common good on the roads. >> go from one point to another and look at the waze to make sure there is no traffic, back up, whatever. >> reporter: and they don't want anyone to use it till a feature that allows drivers to mark the location of police officers is turned off. why? it is dangerous and could help police killers find their targets. a sheriff in virginia called it a police stalker app. during a meeting critics referenced the shootings of two norge officers. -- new york officers. the shooter posted a waze screenshot

claudine wong spoke with her parents. >> two month old london is never alone at this isolation room. because this could happen. >> time stops, and you don't freeze, you just -- it's just such a terrifying moment and you feel helpless. >> london has whooping cough. >> where she got it, i don't know. >> she is too young for the vaccine. when she first got sick a couple weeks ago, doctors thought she had pneumonia. >> thinking we are treating pneumonia, we'll be out of here, it's going to be clear and good to go. >> on january 16, aubrey posted this picture saying, i'm just too tough for pneumonia. a couple days later, the cough started. >> she started with this cough and she would cough really hard and she would start to lose her color. she would start to turn purple and red, like she stopped breathing. >> they ended up at the children's hospital where she was diagnosed with whooping cough. that's what aubrey's post started to change. they ended with a plea, please vaccinate. her posts are raw and painful. she posted this picture after london suffered through yet another terrifying epi

. >> good morning, i'm claudine wong. we just keep talking about that weather this morning.he big talk about how nice it's going to be, how warm it's going to get. it's been so nice in fact that we keep sending rosemary. >> get out of the building. >> out the door. who wants to be inside when it's so nice outside. >> how's it look something. >> basking in the sun. i need my shades out here this morning. it's a beautiful start to the day here in the east bay. we're looking at temperatures in the 40s beginning to warm up now, and by the afternoon low 70s in the forecast. i'll step out of the way is and show you what's going on behind me. we are with mostly clear skies. it is a spare the air day. what a fabulous view. i can see all the way into the city of san francisco. we have crew highway on here on the water. temperatures unseasonably warm. let's get into the current numbers. for some of thus is a chilly start, 45 degrees in napa, 45 in fairfield and 47 concord. 42 in walnut creek. i start with you because you are dealing with fog this morning. outside your door perhaps not

ktvu's claudine wong with some of the biggest stories over this past year. >> reporter: there are imagesare hard to forget. from raging fires like the one that destroyed this san francisco construction project. to the police shooting protests that overtook our city streets and freeways. there were the scandals. in silicon valley, all eyes were on the woman described as a high end prostitute, and the tech exec who died after she allegedly injected him with heroin. we saw politicians become defendants, most notably, leyland yee. and ryan chamber line, who feds say had bomb making materials in his russian hill apartment. cautions over ebola, healthcare, and immigration reform. mother nature took headlines with the 6.0 earthquake that caused widespread damage in napa and solano counties. and the drought still has us all reeling and conserving. there was tragedy. thomas smith was mistakenly shot and killed. >> it's very difficult to express in words, i think, how much sorrow you're feeling right now, and how much pain. >> reporter: there are stories we still don't understand, including the is

claudine wong and our editor steven haggard give us a look at the past year in local news. >> reportere images from 2014 that are hard to forget, from raging fires like the one that destroyed this san francisco construction project. >>> hands up! don't shoot! >> reporter: to police shooting protests that overtook our streets and freeways. there were the scandals. in silicon valley all eyes were on the woman described as a high-end prostitute and the tech expect who died after she allegedly injected him with heroin. we saw politicians become defendants, lee land lee and, this man, ryan chamberlain who the fed say had bombmaking materials in his apartment. cautions over ebola, immigration reform. mother nature took headlines with the 6.0 earthquake that caused were damage in napa and solano counties and the drought still has us still reeling and conserving. there was tragedy. thomas smith was mistakenly shot and killed by a fellow officer during of search of an apartment. >> it's difficult to express how much sorrow you are feeling right now and how much pain. >> reporter: and there are

. - i'm cooking with claudine today, with my daughter, titine. we've cooked together a while, huh? - we have. we definitely have. - but i know you are not great with pastry. you don't like it. - no, i'm scared of pastry. but this this is beautiful. - but i did those little tartlets for you-- i mean, those little-- actually galettes. they are flat. and i have fresh fig here, so i'm going to put a center right in the center of this and this.