claudine chang, legal counsel for the japantown garage corporation. glad chairman farrell brought up the question of paying a middleman [speaker not understood]. actually this lease is not about $1. why we pay $1 and what are we getting back? if i were in your shoes i'd ask exactly the same question it is a very valid question. i want to bring up a point. when garage lease was first approved in 1988, [speaker not understood] realized unique economic benefits by entering into this lease. again, director's message to the committee, he talked about oversight and community relations. and [speaker not understood] benefits. i would like to bring to your attention these benefits are not just intangible. they are pretty quantifiable because over the last few many years, the japan center garage contributed to the city's transportation fund of over $1.1 million every year to the city's transportation fund. and on top of that, the japantown, according to [speaker not understood] office, had an increase of 70.7 percentage on sales tax relative to the city's avera

claudine wong ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> the popular street festival returns tomorrow but there will be changes because of the violence. it will officially end an hour earlier than before. the event held a long telegraph avenue will no longer stretch down 16th street and instead it will be concentrated between west ban end avenue and telegraph. >>> coming up, what the mayor said about adding more police officers to the streets. >>> a missing couple once lost now is found in peru. the relatives of the mission couple is relieved to know they are alive, here is reaction from their family. >>> they were thought to be missing in peru after they did not use social media. but yesterday they used it to let their family members know they were alive. they were constantly posting about their whereabouts and when they didn't post anything, the family became worried and there was limited communication but there was legitimate concern because they issued a travel warning to say they were going to be issuing concerns knowing there are kidnappers going on down there. >> we cannot describe the hope, the emotion and the relief and exhau

claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> the first friday street festival returns tomorrow and there will be changes because of the lastvent. it will officially end at 9:00 p.m. an hour earlier than before. the events held a long telegraph avenue will no longer stretch down 16th street and instead it will be concentrated. thenow last night mayor jean quan was talking about the budget and it was during his state of the city address and those are the biggest challenges facing the city of oakland. coming up at 6:45 what she said about adding more police officers to the city streets. >>> a broken water-main we showed you, crews will return to repair the damaged roads. a 61-year-old six inch cast iron pipe broke open and created a 300-foot sank hole. they don't know when it happened or caused this damage but five homes are red tagged. >>> they are now banning plastic bags and they are approving an old fans from offering plastic bags. those will cost customers and that ban takes affect july 1st. >>> sal, there is a problem on 580 and the pass? >> yes, that's right it looks like there is a report of a big- rig on fire and we

claudine wong involving major league baseball. >>reporter: that's right, dave, we are standing in front of the coliseum and that's not going to changer likely for the next four seasons but this is significant because anything that provides a pathway for this team is significant and these are tentative guidelines are being reported and in this case it does provide framework that a move would be viable and successful. we don't know anything but this all comes from the los angeles times report but if it can meet them it takes a critical step. in order for the as to do that, they would have to approve the vote and to rescind the giant's territorial right to that area. even if it could happen, we do expect the giants to continue to fight this. it is faux focused on the viability of the site and financial projections and they will ask for those projections but the a's will have to show they can make money once it is done. one preparation on the table they are prepared to show about the move to the south bay. this is still a very long process this morning and the only statement from major league baseball about in just says the committee it

the deputies telling you so far this -- claudine, what are the deputies telling you so far this morning? >> reporter: it's been quiet. pat hour we've seen the changinge guard. you can see the two latest to arrive to be parked right down in this crime scene area. their mission, they told me, was simply to take muir no one comes in or out of here while this investigation continues. from our vantage point, we wanted to show you a look at the area. you can see this paved road turns into kind of a dirt road and the house that this all happened in kind of behind those trees. a little tough to see. we can see two other vehicles parked in front of that home, too. we do not know if they belong to the victims. three people found dead inside the home. this all started yesterday afternoon. let me tell you what we do know -- police confirmed that yesterday a man and his girlfriend were trying to track down the man's brother. they tried to get ahold of him on the phone for four hours. couldn't get ahold of him. he and his girlfriend came here. that's when they found the bodies. his brother along with two other men or male victims found all in a bedroom back bedro

change for friday. your weekend looks good on friday. a little saler on sunday. we'll continue the theme into monday. >>> flower shops are getting ready for a busy day. claudineancisco flower mart. it -- is live at the san francisco flower mart. it busy. i know they expect a big crowd. >> reporter: they do. they had the florists come in for those coming in to get some flowers. we did find someone, a regular customer, out too buy something pretty for his girlfriend today. chandler holmes is here and i stopped you because these are gorgeous. >> but can you show how long those are. those are four foot roses. around there. >> i have a tall vase at home. your girlfriend knows, she's getting flowers. >> maybe thinks they are normal roses -- >> big plans today? >> we're gonna go to dinner. not too much. >> reporter: i was giving him some grief about this 6 million proposals. but you said you are young. >> too young for a proposal. >> reporter: okay. thank you for stopping and chatting with us. those are gorgeous. it's been a very busy morning. we talked about how busy this time of year is for these florists. they say in one day, it's like two weeks of business. they

changes. >> people left in the dark. what they heard moments before their lights turned off. . >>> welcome to "mornings on 2". it is super bowl sunday. i am mike mibach. >> i am claudineg. >> mike has a red tie on. i am wearing red. rosemary also in red. everyone is wearing red. sea of red. and blue skies, right. >> that's right. some of us waking up with blue skies and greeted by the clouds and fog once again although parts of the north, they are seeing this. widespread 40s. a lot like this. cool start and it is mid-winter after all and seasonal temperatures. we do have the advisory, hazardous waves and subsiding today. bringing up the temperatures in a few moments. i have rain to talk about in the extended forecast. back to you. >>> the wait is over. we are now seven and a half hours away from kickoff and anticipation is brimming from the bay area to the bayou and we will go live to new orleans. and we will talk to bubba about what they must do to win the game. in the meantime, they are getting ready to get on a bus to head from the team hotel to the superdome and coach jim harbaugh led them them through a walk through. he wanted to get the team used to playing out