we have claudine wong at the airport this morning. watching it. >> yeah we will be watching the flight flights. we are also following some traffic problems right now here in oakland. northbound 880 in oakland there is a seven-car pile up at fifth avenue. as a matter of fact, traffic is so quickly backing up we can see it now. let's go to the 880 camera look at the backup here. people are bailing on the freeway it's so bad. this is a major traffic issue as we remove the super there you can see how slow it is. this has been issued as a cig alert. it's rare we have a seven-car pileup on the freeway and this is a major traffic problem. we recommend using 580 as an alternative and to stay with ktvu we'll be on the crash. let's move along and take a look at 280 in san jose happily this is not effecting the south bay. traffic is moving along very nicely getting up to into the valley. let's go to rosemary. >>> good morning, to you. giving yo i a live look at the gray sky out there. it will bare off. we will see mostly sunny skies for your aft

in a story new at noon, ktvu's claudine wong explains. claudine. >> reporter: good afternoon. a very active scene are you can see behind me fitzgerald drive, it remains blocked off. the wells fargo bank where all this happened is in this shopping center to the left of fitzgerald. just within the last half hour, the police chief held a brief press conference and the latest information is one pinole officer injured, shot in the shoulder, his injuries are not life-threatening. one armored car guard is injured. his status unknown. one suspect is dead and one suspect is in the hospital. the armed robbery happened just after 9 as kevin gilligan arrived to get a haircut near wells fargo. >> i pulled in the parking lot to get a haircut, and i got inside the door and we heard three or four shots. i looked back and saw a black guy running down from the armored car, around the corner. >> two officers initially responded to calls for help and moments later shots were fired. >> two or three more shots, we saw one of the police officers or two of them carrying back another officer, looked l

claudine wong joins us to explain what is next for the company. >> this media storm certainly continues over steve jobs' resignation from apple. i want to show you video of the media camp out. certainly, ever ione is watching stops and everybody is waiting to hear from jobs or his replacement tim cook. tim cook sent an e-mail to employees, promising that the best years are you ahead. >> he will be on stage, at the next event and then he will do what steve jobs has been dog, hand it over to the senior people who are in charge of those different products and showing how deep the bench really is in apple. >> reporter: that being said, no one is arguing that tim cookies steve jobs -- that tim cook is no steve jobs, but he sent an e-mail to employees. experts say that's the point where jobs is considered one of those people bigger than life. apple is now bigger than jobs. >> i think what steve jobs has done, he has helped build that vision into the dna of the company and into those executives. and so even if one guy is not going to have that vision and driving the company in the same way, i

claudine wong is heading to sfo right now. there is much more information about hurricane irene on our channel 2 website ktvu.com. and make sure you stay here with ktvu throughout the morning. we will follow what irene is doing. we will also take you live to north carolina for the very latest from there. >>> redwood city police are investigating a bizarre and tragic hit and run in redwood city. two cars hit and killed a man last night. kraig debro tells us the victim wanted to be hit. >> reporter: good morning, pam. police are look for the drivers of two vehicles in connection with this suicide. if that sounds a little strange wait until you hear why. the man ended upright out of the street here. he was killed when he was hit by two vehicles. the orange spray paint marks the spot. the body ended up on the 1800 block of elle camino drive. the drivers of a silver sedan and smaller sized suv are wanted in connection with this suicide. the drivers could be charged with felony hit and run. even though it appears this is an accident

as claudine wong tells us there could be dualing protests at the start of the evening commute. >> reporter: we've all seen the chaos and as monday approaches authorities are getting ready again. the group anonymous says it will protest tomorrow night and every monday indefinitely. but is more better? >> no, no it's not. >> i think it's a bit excessive and it's affecting the wrong people. >> reporter: among other thing, protesters want the b.a.r.t. chief and inspectors fired. and an investigation into a officer involved shooting. the group called commuters take back b.a.r.t. says it will protest at the same time to show the quote misguided protesters that they are outnumbered and won't shutdown b.a.r.t. again. >> it's not surprising. i would be mad as well. >> reporter: it will be an evening of dualing protests. during the last protest 35 people were arrested and one commuter told us she's crossing her fingers because she can't ferry in and she can't drive. >> that's not really an option for me. so i really hope that it doesn't continue. >> reporter: one thing is certain, the costs to handl

claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you. >>> 7:02. well, there have been several strong aftershocks following the biggest quake to hit the east coast since world war ii. the wiggest -- the biggest after shock -- aftershock was a 3.4. it rattled virginia just a little while ago. that following the quake that hit on the east coast early yesterday afternoon. it was centered in rural virginia, about 80 miles from washington, d.c. millions of people were scared from toronto, canada, a way to south carolina. it shook up washington, d.c. the u.s. capitol, the pentagon, several other government buildings, they were all evacuated. cracks were found in the top of the washington monument. it's gonna be closed indefinitely. at first a lot of people in washington thought it was another terror attack. >>> 7:03. our colleagues who work in ktvu's washington, d.c. bureau became part of the quake story. they were forced out of their offices and into the street, moments after the ground started shaking. we talked to them on the news at noon. we'll see h

claudine wong is live at sfo. are flight plans changing, claudine? >> reporter: i spoke to a spokesperson at sfo. they expect the big changes tomorrow, maybe sunday has we head into the weekend. that's when you'll really start seeing things change. i want to show you the departure board. there are flights going to the east coast. many believe this is, obviously, the calm before the storm in terms of travel because flights are getting out just fine. there are flits leaving within the next couple of hours. there's one that left at 7:20. on bred that flit a couple who -- board that flight a couple who left three days early. >> a part of us feel like we were should stay here but all of our kids are freaking out. our son-in-law works in the hospital and they're evacuating all the patients. our daughter is historical, so we feel like we should go home. >> they're headed back to new york. you're looking at the security line here in term flail two. again, right now things look good. expect people to start maybe changing plans to get here today and try to get

in oakland, claudine wong, ktvu. >>> a fatal stabbing in san josi is the latest in an unexpected surge in homicides this year. police found a man who was stabbed in south san josi around o10:30 and he died an hour later at san jose regional medical center. his death is the 32nd homicide in san josi this year, compared to just 20 in all of last year. no arrests have been made in last night's killing. >>> two men are being treated for gunshot wounds after a man opened fire in the market district. police say the shooter opened fire on a man in his 40s around 21:15 2:15 a.m. both men are expected to survive. no arrests have been made, but the gunman is described only as a black pleal in his 20s. >>> the clean-up is underway from an overnight fire anyway child-care center in san francisco. the one-alarm fire started in the computer room of the children's council of san francisco. investigators do not consider the fire suspicious and believe it may have been caused by overheating equipment. ktvu news would like to apologize for mistakenly reporting this morning that that fire occurred at mis

claudine wong tells us tonight about a chihuahua only offer. >> reporter: they are tiny, some weighing in at just about 6 pounds. but what they lack in size they are apparently making up for in numbers. the chihuahua population is booming in california and rescue groups are in crisis mode. >> it's amazing how many chihuahuas are filling up california shelters. ours has currently 30 in the system. if you go to public facility, county facilities, over 30% of the dog population can be chihuahuas. so there's a real crisis in california and it's causing a lot of shelters to ship them out of state. >> reporter: so a donor who took this problem to heart decided to respond with his wallet. donating money so that chihuahua owners could come to the tony la russa center could come and get their chihuahuas neutered. >> unfortunately we cannot fill up our spay/neuter appointments. unfortunately they're not being filled. >> reporter: this free procedure will save lives. claudine long, ktvu news. >>> hayward was home this weekend to all things zucchini. organizers say they've raised almost $3 million

claudine wong has more. >> reporter: barry bonds' attorneys want the conviction thrown out.hey will head to federal court to try to make that happen. barry bonds was all smiles yesterday. we want to show video of him at at&t park. it's not baseball he will be focused on but his court case. bonds' attorney wants to persuade the federal judge to throw out the obstruction of justice conviction. remember, a jury convicted bonds of obstruction in april. they said he deliberately got in the way of the investigation into whether or not he used performance enhancing drugs. his lawyers say he was speak inelogiably and making things difficult. his attorneys said that's not a merit for the obstruction of justice conviction. this is the next saga, gets underway at 10 a.m. >> thank you. >>> a man from pan grove is in jail this morning, suspected of running an operation that made fake driver's licenses and credit cards. christopher mathison was arrested by sonoma county sheriff's deputies. detectives found various materials used to make counterfeit licenses and credit cards. mathison is b

claudine wong, channel 2 news. >>> some restaurants are closing until water tests confirm it's safe. tests could be completed by the enof the week. san mateo health officials are advising people to boil their water. >>> in overnight news, a man is behind bars after a police chasely the north bay. police were notified that suspects, 4-year-old gerald mccarthy was riding a motorcycle drunk and with a handgun. officers spotted him yesterday. they chased him on highway 101. when they cornered him he displayed the gun and threatened to shoot himself. the sheriff's department took over from there. >> we didn't know what we had. all we know is we had an armed subject who didn't want the peacefully surrender at that point. >> he did surrender at 10:30 last night. he's been booked in jail. >>> deputies are searching for the gunman who robbed a woman at her home in ash land. it happened on saturday at about 12:30 in the afternoon. three robbers knocked on the door and forced their way inside. the man hit the woman on the head. she was treated at a hospital. so far no arrests have been made. th

. >> i'm claudine wong.emary orozco here with your morning forecast. >> near replica to what we saw yesterday. temperatures very similar. that trough still hanging off the coast. this is eventually going to fill in, and our pattern is going to change. a nice warm up into next week. for today, more of the same. temperatures very similar within a few degrees of yesterday. slightly warmer in some spots. we'll show you where, coming up in just a few moments. >>> time now is 8:01. we start this morning with new video of a nasty brawl between fans at candlestick park between the battle of the bay. a 46 second video posted on youtube, shows a man in a 49ers jacket, exchanging blows with a man in a raiders shirt. some could be seen watching and cheering. two separate shootings. ktvu's allie rasmus is live now in san francisco with details on the multiple investigations underway. >> reporter: we start with the two shootings that you mentioned. both of them happened in the park lot after last night's game. one of the

claudine wong is off this weekend. it's saturday, august 13th. for many, it's the last weekend before summer vacation is over. rosemary. >> good mornings to you! living along the coast you're still waiting for summer to arrive. if you're inland, life is good these days. temperatures remain below average, not a lot of change in our pattern. we will be partly cloudy to mostly sunny for the afternoon, less of a marine layer as we wake up this morning. in fact some of our inland spots waking up with partly cloudy, mostly sunny skies. the afternoon breeze will be back and our temperatures upper 50s for the coast, widespread upper 70s to low and mid-80s for our inland areas. we will pinpoint your neighborhood coming up in just a few moments. >>> the search continues this morning for a two-year-old girl suspected of being kidnapped by her father. ali rasmus is live at san francisco international, and authorities consider the father toar flight risk. >> reporter: that's right, 49- year-old mourad samaan is a u.s. citizen born in egypt and speaks spanish