he's not met matthew mueller, but he has read the e-mails sent to reporter henry lee.pected were written by a lawyer. a lawyer police now believe was matthew mueller. >> what emerges from the e-mails is a complex picture of someone that needs attention, who needs to be perceived a certain way. >> for example t w, the way the writer was outraged when denise was accused of a hoax. >> so when he says how dare you not believe she was kidnapped, what he was really saying is how dare you not believe that i committed this crime and pulled it off. >> you can't see my handiwork because the police here are failing miserably and they need to recognize how flawed they are and how wonderful i am. >> he's a master criminal. >> he's a master criminal, and he's running circles around everyone else. >> maybe he was. from the beginning police couldn't believe the elaborate details of the kidnapping. aaron told them he took so long to call 911 because he was drugged and confined to a square of red tape and monitored by a webcam, they didn't buy it. and when denise wouldn't get on the pla

. >> coming up, len ktvu's henry lee shows-- coming up, ktvu's henry lee shows us this edition of unsolved crimes. at at&t, we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. connecting with the things that matter most. and because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, we've created access from at&t. california households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for home internet at a discounted rate of $10 a month. no commitment, deposit, or installation fee. visit att.com/accessnow to learn more. >>> a bay area mother lost her daughter a year ago. she is still seeking justice. ktvu crime reporter henry lee spoke to the victim's mother and has more live from the newsroom with today's fox 2 unsolved. >> the mother and the sheriff's office are desperate for clues and they hope that someone out there will come  forward with information that will lead to a break in the year long investigation. >> i just miss her terribly. >> reporter: a year after her daughter was found killed near byron, she is still searching for ans

crime reporter henry lee is live at the oakland police department with the latest on the investigation there. henry? >> reporter: the investigation was led by oakland police, but investigators say the suspects wreaked havoc in cities far beyond oakland for crimes ranging from burglary to murder. ktvu cameras captured s.w.a.t. teams serving search warrants across oakland. police also fanned out across alameda, contra costa, and santa rosa counties. >> we are going after the infamous west oakland gang, that we believe and feel very confident were responsible for terrorizing our communities. >> reporter: it wasn't just oakland that was terrorized. police say the suspects brought violence to antioch, pittsburgh, fremont, tracy, and stockton. >> these gangs were involved in shootings, robberies, murders on some occasions. not just within the city, but with outside cities as well. >> reporter: law enforcement descended on locations throughout oakland. this is a home on market and 14th streets. california patrol officers were among those who took part in the operations. not too far away, we f

not that i no. >> henry lee.tvu fox 23 news. >>> california will not require law enforcement agencies to account for a backlog rape kit. thousands are sitting untested and many agencies cited lack of staffing and resources for the law. the new law requires agencies and labs to give a tally of untested rape kits to the justice department by next july. agencies have been working to improve their backlog. 1900 backlog kits were finished thanks to o'malley. >>> student centers are to provide abortion medication until 2020. the governor says similar services are widely available off-campus. the author says she will you reintroduce the legislation during the next session. >> governor brown approve several other state laws including one that makes california the first to require companies to have women on the board of directors and all publicly traded companies have to have one woman on the board of directors. supporters say more women in power can help change corporate culture and critics worry whether the law is const

henry lee, ktvl fox news.>>> still to come, trouble in belvedere. the crumbling seawall that foreshadows a much larger problem.>>> a sneak peek at some options at the chase center in san francisco.>>> what antioch residents will be voting on in november could affect their quality of life. >>> a bay area city is asking residents to open their wallets. antioch voters will consider a sales tax rate to fund city services. rob malcolm is in antioch where he spoke with the mayor and some voters. >> reporter: the vote is until november 6 but more money for taxes is going well for those heading to the polls month. >> the chart enough money for everything else as it is and now they want more for taxes? >> reporter: measure w is a one cent tax increase. it doesn't sound like much but the mayor says it will generate 14 million in revenue annually for the city general fund and we -- and will be spent wisely. >> to help increase police, youth services and create a better quality of life.>> reporter: this means a lot. >> reporter: it will help keep the city clean

henry lee has more. >> reporter: this is the path taken by a sonoma county sheriffs suv.e was chasing this man, accused of stealing portable generators. the pursuit ended with the deputy crashed into this home on highway 1. >> the deputy lost control because he was going to past. he went over an embankment and crashed into a house. >> reporter: the house was an air b&b rental. three people from san francisco were sleeping at the time and could not get out. deputies did help them escape before both the patrol car and house caught on fire. >> the deputy kicked the door in and rescue the occupants. they then noticed the smoke coming from under the car and the house caught on fire. >> reporter: firefighters spent hours putting out the fire and checking for hotspots. the deputy was taken to the hospital and the suv was a tol speed pursuit. >> something like this is going to happen. >> reporter: charlie takes care of a rental home next door. >> back off and call for backup. it is not that important to chase and went through this kind of neighborhood. >> reporter: there was ligh

henry lee says oakland police were chasing an acura and armed suspect was arrested. highway patrol did not release any information on possible injuries related to the crash.>>> a 49ers fan has been hospitalized in critical condition after being punched outside levi stadium following last sunday's game. santa clara police the incident began when a 33-year-old man in san jose kicked a bottle in the parking lot. it landed near david gonzales who police saypunched the vithe hospital. dollars is facing charges of assault and battery in the set to be arraigned tomorrow.>>> a new proposal from the department of homeland security is one to make it tougher for immigrants seeking legal status. the government intends to look at additional fact is to determine how dependent an immigrant is on government services. christina run down has a report. >> people are wondering what is going on and they are afraid.>> reporter: in concord, people are help to enroll and renew their insurance medi-cal. she says that several immigrants say they don't want coverage afraid it will affect their

henry lee reports. >> reporter: investigators are asking for tips in the unsolved case. >> i just miss her terribly. >> i just miss her terribly. >> reporter: a year after her daughter was found killed near byron, she is still searching for answers and thinking of what could have been. >> she had plans for her life. you know? my sorrow is that she didn't get to find her way there yet. you know? there were things she worked on and wanted to accomplish. >> reporter: in october 2017, emily courchesne was house- sitting for her aunt and uncle at their home off marsh creek road. when she didn't go to work or respond to messages for two days her mother feared the worst. >> i knew at that point that something horrible had happened. two days was just not something she would do. >> reporter: tragically, her intuition was correct. >> one of the girls from the officer found her and then called the police. >> reporter: an autopsy reportobtained by ktvu says courchesne had been shot multiple times in the master bedroom including twice in the head. there were no signs of a struggle but a screen to a

she didn't have no enemies, nothing, i know. >> reporter: henry lee, ktvu news. >>> a lafayette womang in a hike in the sierra has been found safe. 63-year-old diane solomon got separated in sequoia kings national park. other hikers found her this afternoon, but didn't say if she sustained any injuries. >>> it's been five months now since a stockton couple and their young daughter were killed, but family members have not given up hope in finding the killer. they were shot and killed in a south stockton apartment on mother's day. today their family and community hosted a car show to raise money for anyone with information on their murders. >> the family needs help. trying to solve this murder, you know. so someone needs to talk and help. >> crime stoppers already offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. the money raised today will be added to that reward. if you have any information about this crime, you're asked to call stockton police or crime stoppers. >> tomorrow marks 25 years since the kidnapping of polly class from her home in pet a louima -- pelosi. she w

. >> this is a first says ktvu crime reporter henry lee. he is a veteran on this beat here. he shows us the surveillance video and test us what the thief did not steal.>> so they're here, puts on his hoodie. >> reporter: this is surveillance video from east bay flowers in san leandro. it shows a burglar climbing through a broken glass door and going straight for giant teddy bears. >> it's just insane. why would he want to steal teddy bears from a florist? seriously. >> reporter: you can see him with an armful of teddy bears outside and that's where he stuffs them into a car. the family-run store at the corner of east 14th and davis has been hit before but never anything like this. after reviewing the surveillance video, they have their theory. >> i sincerely believe that it was because he was in trouble with his lady or something. you know? >> reporter: it all began at about 3 a.m. on thursday. the man casually walks by the shop and the glass door suddenly breaks. police say they believe he fired a bb gun which you can see him holding in this video. >> he, like, walks by, ke

in oakland, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> a driver is in custody tonight following an early morning crash and chase at a busy intersection -- excuse me, a busy freeway interchange in the east bay. chp says the crash happened shortly before 4:00 this morning on west bound 580 near the 680 interchange in dublin. officers say the driver lost control of her suv, hit the center drive, then hit a light pole that fell across two lanes across 580. the crash happened after officers tried to pull her over for speeding on 680 near bollinger canyon road. the driver is a woman in her 20s. she was taken to the hospital with moderate injuries then arrested. the crash caused delays at the interchange for more than two hours. >>> taking for people who have restraining orders agait have w their possession. that's the focus of a proposed pilot program in santa clara county. an existing state law bans anyone with domestic violence restraining orders from owning or buying a gun. enforce the law and take guns away from people with those restraining orders. >> right now, we don't have a formal comprehensi

crime reporter henry lee takes us through the chase, rescue, and arrest. >> you can see it right there. >> reporter: this is the path taken by a sonoma county sheriff's suv. a deputy was chasing this man, ryan moore, accused of stealing portable generators. this pursuit ended when the crash ended on highway 101 and bodega bay. >> once the pursuit happened, the deputy was going too fast, lost control and went over an embankment and crashed into a house. >> reporter: the house was an airbnb rental. three people from san francisco were inside sleeping and cannot get out. deputies, including the one who crashed, help them escape including the patrol car when the house caught on fire. >> they got them out of the house safely. the patrol car, they noticed smoke was coming out from under the patrol car and the house caught on fire. >> reporter: several firefighters spend hours checking for hotspots. the deputy was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.'s suv, a total loss. the incident has once again raised questions about the safety of high-speed pursuits. >> the faster you chase, the

crime reporter henry lee got a tour and is in our newsroom with just what he saw. >> reporter: inside b.a.r.t. police headquarters is the command and control center. if a crime was committed on b.a.r.t. property, chances are, it was all caught on video. this is the center of the b.a.r.t. police video unit where digital images from the entire b.a.r.t. system is reviewed, str parking concourse, fair gates. >> reporter: the screens allow b.a.r.t. police to monitor some of its 4000 cameras in real time. police can also retrieve video from a crime that has already happened. >> if we get what's going on online during the day, through the work hours, we try to be very interactive with dispatch and officers in the field to identify suspects. >> reporter: the surveillance system includes pan, tilt, and zoom cameras that can be moved to follow people as they make their way through b.a.r.t. property. >> reporter: here at the lake merritt b.a.r.t. station, the camera is watching me as i go through the gate, and down onto the concourse. still walking, i'm going to head out onto the escalator and o

. >> henry lee, ktvu, fox 2 news. >>> san jose police are looking for a man who they say drew swastikas at a local business. they said a man drew the hate symbols near a dentist office on union avenue near camden on sunday morning. he's described as white, 30 to 40 years old, a beard and a mustache. he has a tatoo on his white forearm. he was wearing a white shirt, gray shorts and nike shoes. >>> and they found an antisemetic are involved in antiwhite, antiamerican, antifreedom conspiracies. other posters have been around the country. and this was said: is was said: >>> right now, it's 4:26 and contacting police, now, it could be easier. the dispatch centers in the became area that will receive texts to 911. plus, hurricane michael plows through florida and takes aims at the carolinas. i'm at the fema headquarters and we'll have more on the national response coming up. >>> and here in the bay area we're off to a nice start, we'll tell you more about the morning commute on the busiest freeways. >>> good morning, thank you for joining us on this thursday morning, october 11th, lets check

ktvu's henry lee says it happened in broad daylight and has left the victim's loved ones struggling to understand why. >> he is only 17 years old. didn't get to finish school. >> reporter: a memorial of flowers and candles in honor of omar saragosa, shot and killed outside this lucky supermarket in antioch. these balloons spelling out polo for omar's favorite clothing line. a steady stream of mourners paid their respects. >> it just don't make sense. his life was took-en way too so far. >> reporter: at 4 p.m.ot him in the parking lot of the store on east 18th street. first responders performed cpr but the antioch high school student died at the scene. his mercedes e350 with bullet holes in the windshield was surrounded by crime scene tape. a day after the killing, antioch police were in the parking lot. someone wonders if someone envious of omar might be responsible. >> over money and everybody is trying to make it in this life and he happened to be making it. >> only a little boy. he had his whole life ahead of him. >> reporter: loved ones are hoping for those who know what happened t

ktvu's henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> caught in the act. two men nabbed after trying to set up credit card skimmers at a south bay gas station. how alert neighbors played a role in their arrest. >> come november 1st here in alameda county, there's going to be a big change in how people get their electricity supply. some of them may not want it. but they have to say so. >> plus, a busy day at local convenience stores with people buying lotto tickets hoping to hit tonight's mega millions jackpot. the prize up for grabs and your odds of winning. >>> an alert neighbor tipped off police overnight leading to the arrest of two people allegedly setting up credit card skimmers at a south bay gas station. we hear about it often. you catch them in the act, though, it happened at royal gasoline in sunnyvale. elissa harrington was there and talked to police about what neighbors saw. >>> reporter: investigators searched the inside of gas pumps at world gas in sunnyvale after two men attempted to install skimmers in the credit card machine. a neighbor cal

crime reporter henry lee got a tour of the facility and joins us live from oakland. >> reporter: inside b.a.r.t. police headquarters is the command and control system. is part of a crime was committed on b.a.r.t., chances are it was caught on video. this is the center of the b.a.r.t. police department unit, where digital footage is reviewed, stored, and analyzed. >> we try to do a little bit of everything that we are parking lots, concourse, fair gates. >> reporter: the screens allow police to monitor some of its 4000 cameras in real time. police can also retrieve video from a crime that has already happened. >> we get what's going on live during the day. we listen to the radio and tried to be very interactive with dispatch and officers in the field. >> reporter: the surveillance system includes pan, tilt, and zoom cameras that can be moved to follow people as they make their way through b.a.r.t. property. here at the lake mary b.a.r.t. station, the camera is watching me as i go through the. a, acted down onto the concourse. still walking, i'm going to head out onto the escalator and ou

in san francisco, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> all right. looking at those temperatures again, the hot spot today was antioch. these are the highs. the national weather service highs today, 76 in san rafael. temperatures tomorrow generally the same. i think in this area 82 in fairfield, places like that, will end up being 84 make. so it's just subtle changes. that's what we talked about yesterday, day before that, too, just very subtle changes this whole week, no big heat- up, no big cooldown, just sort of straight ahead as she goes. and in a way, that's real good because we're not bucking any big-time for a danger. it's always high but it's not red flag warning stuff as we have seen the last few weeks. there's fog at the coast now. and you see all the fog there. that fog is going to work its way back into the, you know, into the bay tonight but it's not going to get all that far inland. as a matter of fact, we're looking for temperatures generally tonight -- going to to get cool. overnight lows last night in the 30s in the napa valley. we g

live in antioch, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> a family-run business for more than 30 years. early next year this east bay restaurant will be forced to close. the reason? a new tenant who moved in recently. >> plus, we are continuing to track hurricane michael as it moves into georgia tonight. coming up, we'll go live to the florida gulf coast where the hurricane made landfall this morning. >> also ahead, new developments in the lawsuit against monsanto, the same judge who awarded a bay area man $289 million now considering a new trial. do you hear that? no. it's quiet. too quiet. xfinity home cameras. xfinity home gives you an extra pair of eyes to help watch over your family. plus, you have added peace of mind from 24/7 professional monitoring. xfinity home. simple. easy. awesome. xfinity customers, add xfinity home and get a great offer. plus, ask how to get free installation. call, go online, or demo in an xfinity store today. (music throughout) >>> the re-opening of a portion of fremont street near the to re-open friday's but transportation week from today, october 17th.

ktvu's henry lee spoke to the man' his widow and other relatives as they issued a plea to the public to help police find to every killed him. >> i know michael loved me unconditionally, and somebody took that for me. >> reporter: and jeanette says she feels like it's all a dream and that she will see her husband of 8 years, michael watkins, again. >> it's like i just want to wake up and this all be done. >> reporter: watkins was walking along buchanan road near meadows at about 4:30 saturday when he was hit by a red vehicle. possibly a ford f1 50 pickup truck with a sunroof. the driver never stopped. watkins' widow says she learned about what happened when a friend forwarded her a stranger's video on instagram. >> it was of michael laying on the floor and somebody was trying to resuscitate him. and i was just like, why would you send me something like that? you could have just said it. i did not need a visual. >> reporter: she had to tell her 7-year-old son, also named michael, that his daddy isn't coming home. father and son share the same birthday. in february. >> i explained to hi

are crime reporter henry lee takes us through the chase, rescue, and the arrest. >> reporter: this is the path taken by a sonoma county sheriff's suv. a deputy was chasing this man, ryan moore, accused of stealing portable generators. but the pursuit ended when a deputy crashed into this vacation home on highway 101 in bodega bay. >> once the pursuit happened, the deputy lost control, going too fast, lost control and went over an embankment and crashed into a house. >> reporter: the house was an airbnb rental. three people from san francisco were inside sleeping at the time and cannot get out. deputies including the one who crashed helped them escape before both the patrol car and house caught on fire. >> after the detyand got them o house safely, they noticedsmoke house caught on >> reporter: firefighters spent several hours putting the fire out and checking for hotspots. the deputy was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. 's suv, a total loss. the incident has once again raised questions about the safety of high-speed pursuits. >> the faster you chase, the faster something l

henry lee, fox 2 news. >>> and caltrain services will be limited on the weekends in san francisco. two stations will be closed and trains will not run past the bay shore station. construction crews are going to prepare tracks for electrification. there will be free buses during the closures. the weekend closures will last until the spring. >>> new this morning, the nobel peace prize was just awarded to two people, for their work to be end the sexual violence as a weapon of war. >>> dennis has treated thousands of people in the congo, one were -- many were rape victims. and at the age of 23, this woman was named as one of the first goodwill survivors for dozens of people who were involved in human trafficking. >>> and first unhappy with the working conditions, thousands walked off the job, the demands at marriott hotel workers are making to their employers. >>> good morning, you can see traffic is off to a nice start here on the highway, how long will it stay that way, we'll be watching it for you. >> a lot better today, it will be cooler and a lot more sunshine on a friday forecast

crime reporter henry lee joins us live back in the newsroom with more on what happened. >> the man who died was mentally ill and had been seen running in and out of traffic. but his family says that is no justification for the deadly confrontation with deputies. >> if, what he was doing, and the client was walking in and out of traffic, that is not a death warrant. >> reporter: civil rights attorney john burris joined the family of chinedu okobi in demanding answers. he died after being tased by san mateo county sheriff's deputies. >> there does not appear to be a justification for the use of tasers, in the manner in which it was done. >> we believe that the least of what we can have as a family is closer, as to how he died. >> reporter: they spoke after a memorial for chinedu okobi in san francisco, where they honored the morehouse college graduate and father who they say had a mental break on october 3rd. authorities say that's when he was seen running in and out of traffic on el camino real in millbury. investigators say he immediately attacked the deputy after he got out of his pat

henry lee is there tonight with more. >> reporter: all is quiet now. it was blocked off last night after u.s. park police shot and wounded a suspect. it's a tourist hot spot and the view is spectacular. aquatic park is right at the foot of the municipal pier, a most unlikely spot for an officer-involved shooting, especially one involving u.s. park police. the shooting happened around 9:30 tuesday night right near the pier at the end of van ness. >> about 9:30, i was in my car at van ness and cop car after cop car went by. and so i was wondering what was going on. >> reporter: authorities say the park police officer came across this toyota camera. at some point there was a it confrontation and the officers shot and wounded one of the suspects. that man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. a second suspect was arrested for having a gun with an extended magazine. investigators haven't said why the officer opened fire. >> i don't think you expect it to happen here, but i guess that's just sort of the common response, you know. you don'

crime reporter henry lee says it has left the victims loved ones struggling to understand why. >> hewas only ,17 at the center school.>>reporter: a memorial flowers and candles and honor of omar zaragoza shot in killed outside of a supermarket in antioch. the balloons spelling out a polo for omar's clothing line. the steady stream of worn judgment mourners paid respect. suck it doesn't make sense that his life was taken so soon. >>reporter: about 4 p.m. tuesday when someone confronted omar and shot him in the parking lot store in east 18th street. first responders performed cpr but the attack high school student died.'s mercedes e3 50 with bullet holes in the windshield try to buy crime scene tape. it after the killing, antioch police were a visible presence in the parking lot. investigators have not discussed emotive, but friends wondered of someone envious of omar may be responsible. >> over jealousy, over money. i-buddy trying to make it in this life and he just happened to make it.>>reporter: loved ones hoping for those who know what happened, to do the right thing. slug it doesn

ktvu, henry lee. >>> a bill approved by governor brown is allowing guidelines to develop housing around the stations. it wants to build 20,000 housing units in the next couple of decades. legislation will speed up building new houses at price points and help traffic congestion. they say it takes voice away from local government. >>> and they're hoping to take up a case about a billionaire who has house on the beach. the billion area has been fighting over access to half moon bay. since the higher court refuses to take up the case, the lower court has ruled it. and he's looking for a gate to install on the property, to stop public access. >>> and heavy rain led to this, flash flooding, the national hurricane center says it will drop 4 inches of rain on the desert. and southern california is expecting a lot of rain in the next few days. >>> a lot of rain is expected, and the department of water resources, the sierra snow pack was 358% of average, that's a significant drop from the previous years, numbers were lower in southern california where they recorded 3.4 inches for the entire seaso

henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> we want to learn more about what is going on with this investigation. >> we bring in max, former fbi investigator, are you surprised how quickly they captured the suspect? >> not at all, not knowing what we've heard today, it sounds as if, and i know no more than you do, about the investigation, other than what is in the media, but it sounds to me like good old-fashioned innovation -- investigation. which is what brought this to a successful conclusion, i hope. a timely collecting of forensic evidence and getting it to the fbi laboratory, and finding a fingerprint, searching the fingerprint datafiles, matching that to a suspect, and then finding dna on two different devices, i believe, is what has been reported in the news, independently corroborating those in going to the databases, and finding the same person's dna, as the fingerprint, it sounds like really good work, the identification, i'm just amazed once again as i was during the unabomber, the ability of the united states postal inspection service, they do a fantastic job, and this program of pos

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i am henry lee , ktvu fox 2 news . >>> we will have more about the investigation which is being updated as more cases are reported. that's on our facebook -- on our webpage, ktvu.com . >>> it took a day to find hasib bin golamrabbi guilty of murdering his parents . now he is waiting to learn his punishment.>> reporter: and joining us live outside, jesse. >> reporter: good afternoon, jurors left the court room and they say the case is finally over and they want to go home. the next phase, sentencing, will determine if this convicted murderer will see the outside world a game. hasib bin golamrabbi sat expressionless as the verdict was read in the hall of justice. guilty for the death of his parents, golam rabbi and shamima rabbi . the district attorney said that justice was served, but -- >> it was a tragedy to the community. a couple is dead and one son was orphaned at another convicted of killing them. >> reporter: police found a couple's bodies a day after their killing in their suburb of san jose. he told investigators that an intruder shot and killed his father and someone else kille

henry lee has the video evidence. >> there he is. >> reporter: this is surveillance video from east bay flowers in san leandro which shows a broker -- burglar climbing in and going straight for giant teddy bears. >> it is insane. what you want to still teddy bears from a florist?>> reporter: you can see him with an arm full of teddy bears which is where he stuffed them into a car. the family-run store at the corner of east 14 and davis has been hit before but not like this. after reviewing footage, they have theories. >> i sincerely believe it was because he was in trouble with his lady or something. >> reporter: to begin and 3:00 a.m. on thursday. the man casually walks by and the glass door suddenly breaks. the police say they believe he fired a bb gun. >> you walked by and shot it and kept walking.>> reporter: he waited 10 minutes before stealing the teddy bears. he went back and stole flower arrangements. >> he walked inside a cooler and took bunches of frozen stuff.>> reporter: he then stole other teddy bears. >> a real deep is here from that money not the teddy bears and roses.>>

our crime reporter henry lee is in the newsroom with more. >> reporter: this is a variation of a stranger asking a kid help to find a dog. there was today dog in this case and now albany police are urging people to be careful. >>> reporter: albany police say a man may have used his dog as bait, his target unsuspecting children. it happened on monday morning. two girls saw a group of people trying to catch a loose dog and a man took the dog by the collar and let it go. >> est seen releasing the dog and that the girls -- he was seen releasing the dog and that the girls helped try to capture the dog. >> reporter: they saw the same man again, this time in a vehicle. >> then he later got in the truck and followed them and asked them to get into his truck. >> reporter: the girls said no and he drove away. a few minutes later the same man drove up to the girls a block away and spoke to them again. >> the second incident he said, hi, girls,

. >> crime reporter henry lee joins us now with the pleas for help. >> reporter: the family tells me they are ready to forgive whoever struck and killed this married father here on buchanan road. but first, the driver has to surrender. >> i know michael loved me unconditionally. and i feel like somebody took that from me. >> reporter: antoinette watkins says she feels like it's all a dream, and that she will see her husband of 8 years, michael watkins, again. >> it's almost like i want to wake up. >> reporter: watkins was walking along buchanan road near meadows at about 4:30 saturday morning when he was hit by a red vehicle. possibly a ford f1 50 pickup truck with a sunroof. the driver never stopped. watkins' widow says she learned about what happened when a friend forwarded her a stranger's video on instagram. >> it was of michael laying on the floor. someone was trying to resuscitate him. i was like, why did you send me something like that? you could have just said it. i did not individual. >> reporter: she had to tell her 7-year-old son, also named michael, that her daddy wasn't

our crime reporter henry lee is live in san leandro with details on this very unusual burglary. henry. -- henry? >> reporter: this guy fired twice from a bb gun and made his way around the corner and forced his way inside. he be lined not for the flowers, not for the cash register but for stuffed animals. >> so there he is, he puts on his hoodie. >> reporter: this is surveillance hideo -- video it shows a burglar climbing through a broken glass door and going straight for a giant teddy bear. >> why do you want to steal teddy bears from a florist? >> reporter: you can see him with an arm fell -- armful of teddy bears. the store has been hit before but never anything like this . after revealing surveillance fitted -- footage they have a theory . >> i believe he was in trouble with his lady or something. >> reporter: it all began about 3:00 in the morning on thursday . the man casually walks by the shop and the glass doors suddenly break . police tell me he fired a bb gun, which you can see him holding in this video. >> he walked by, got his bb gun at the window . >> reporter: after

henry lee got a tour inside the new video command center. >> this is the nerve center of the part thepolice department video unit where the footage is reviewed, stored, and analyzed. >> we have the parking lots and platforms and concourse, fair gates. >> reporter: this allows them to monitor the 4000 cameras in real time. police can also retrieve the video from the crime that has happened. >> we get whatever is going on live during the day. we listen to the radio and we try to be interactive with dispatch in the officers. we try to identify suspects. >> the system includes zoom cameras that can be moved to follow people as they make their way through the bart property. this camera is watching me as i go through the fair gates. out of the concourse.still walk i'm going to goget out of this station, across the and going bart police headquarters building in downtown oakland. another camera will get me coming into the bart police headquarters. the cameras capture the image of john cowell of the night that he stabbed a deal wilson at the station in oakland. the suspects were caught with th

crime reporter henry lee is in the courtroom and will let us know if something develops their. >>> worker continues around the clock to try to figure out a permanent fix for the transparent transit center. crews are hoping to have the permanent fix in place by the end of the year. the joint powers authority delayed the reopening of fremont street until next wednesday. cruz thought not pulled samples from the two cracked steel beams. once they do that, they will have a better idea of just how severe the issue is, once they get the results. the new $2.2 billion transit center is under warranty. the city says the taxpayers will not be responsible for the added expenses. those are some of the top stories we are working on. >>> now to san jose where the city council is expected to vote on a tentative agreement next tuesday to increase firefighter pay. according to the san jose mercury news the agreement would increase firefighter's base pay by at least three percent a year. through 2023 at a cost of about $40 million to the city. report says the agreement would create a program to rehire firef

crime reporter henry lee spoke to the sheriff today about these latest allegations, and henry joins us live back in the newsroom with more. henry? >> the sheriff agrees that these cases are troubling. and, says this is in no way a reflection of the sheriff's office. >> they are not playing with a full deck. the lights are on but nobody is home. >> reporter: fernando miguel soria says he was sprayed with human waste, known as gassing, at least three times by other inmates, with the help of alameda county sheriff's deputies at the santa rita jail in dublin. >> a large shampoo bottle, shook up, and doused from head to toe. >> reporter: he was booked into jail after being accused of resisting arrest at a psychiatric hospital while trying to get medication. he says he does not know why he was targeted. >> i can't figure that out. that's something i will have to work out with a psychologist. >> this is the most despicable. >> reporter: attorney john burris fired -- filed a lawsuit against the sheriff's office. names justin lin, eric mcdermott, sarah krause and stephen sark is. all deputies h

henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news.e of the oakland zoo has no plans to raise the railing and the tiger attraction. the zoo is warning the public about following safety guidelines after cell phone video captured a man climbing over a protective barrier to get something on the outside of the tiger enclosure. the tiger approach the fence when the man started to climb down. ktvu spoke to the woman that recorded the video. >> nobody expected that. little kids are there and they don't know. they can hop the fence and think that everything is fine and nothing is going to happen to them. because somebody else did it. >> the railing is 42 inches high and meant to keep people from the second barrier fence that is 5 feet away. there were four female tigers in the enclosure. disease says that if they had caught the person that climbed down the fence, he would have been kicked out of the zoo. you may remember that the san francisco zoo made changes to its tiger grotto after an attack in 2007. the siberian tiger escaped from the cag

. >> henry lee, thank you. >>> san francisco police are looking for a group of women accused of severely beating a young man, leaving him with life-threatening injuries. it happened before 2:30 this morning -- sunday morning on mission street near 25th avenue in the bernal heights neighborhood. police say an argument between the 20-year-old victim and up to six suspects, all women, escalated, and resulted in a fight. when police arrived at the scene, they took the victim to the hospital. his condition has not been released, and so far, no arrests have been made. >> it appears that the suspect was able to flip his handcuffs to the front of his body and then somehow, open the rear passenger door, where suspects are housed. >> now, the man accused of stealing a truck and a police car is back in custody after officers found him miles away in another stolen truck. >>> plus, united coming up, the reason for her depauld replace her. >> there is that fog out there. temperatures have cooled off quite a bit in some places. i'll let you know what you can expect tomorrow. >>> u.s. ambassador to the

crime reporter henry lee is in the newsroom with what we know so far. >> reporter: at last check, this boy is in critical condition after being shot in the stomach in oakland. i have learned that the father is now under arrest for allegedly storing a gun improperly. a 3-year-old boy is now clinging to life after being shot inside his east oakland home. >> i hope that everyone has this family in their prayers. what a tragedy for a 3-year-old child to be hanging onto his life. >> reporter: the shooting happened just before 7:30 monday night in a neighborhood in east oakland. police are calling the case a very unfortunate accident. oakland mayor libby schaaf was breached by investigators. >> this is an active investigation. we do know that the incident happened inside the home. there was an unsecured firearm inside the home. >> reporter: police aren't releasing many details, including who pulled the trigger. but i have learned that oakland police arrested the boy's father, 29-year-old kavhan page, on suspicion of criminal storage of a gun, child cruelty involving great bodily injury or de

live in pittsburgh, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >> truly a sad story. we hope we will be able to find the people or person responsible. >>> the fire chief announced she is retiring. she is the first woman to ever leave the fire department and has been in the post since 2004. the 54-year-old chief has been with the san francisco fire department for almost 30 years. she was one of the first female firefighters to join the department back in 1990. joanne hayes-white says she will stay on the job until a replacement is hired this spring. >>> there is outrage in the lgbt community tonight over a report suggesting the trump administration is altering the legal definition of gender. the department of health and human services is looking into changing the definition of sex as unchangeable, and based on a person's biological sex at birth. this would rollback an obama era regulation which recognized gender largely as an individual's choice. ktvu's christien kafton joins us now. he is live where the news is drawing massive criticism. >> members of the trans commun

so we are starting to think, forensic scientist, that is some of the things that henry c lee college amous for. we did some poking around on some saudi websites, and we saw the editorial board of a saudi forensic society had on it henry .ee in a dr. salah this was extraordinary. so we send out press releases. we have e been trying to get soe response t to the university. the university any year and a half has never said a word to us, but they do say some things to the media. the first response was, well, we are told that it is a different man. the spelling is different and so on. that seems pretty odd there would be two saudi top forensic namame.t with the same so we wrote to that society and asked them, is there a second man? we never got a response. then just a couple of days ago on the editorial board page, in english, salah's name was removed. we think that theory of the two men the same name has been put to rest. amy: stanley heller, we have to go to break that we will do part two and post it online at democracynow.org. we have to end the show. stanley heller, executive director

intercepted another package in sacrament of that was addressed to democratic senator kamala harris henry lee shows us how the fbi and the bomb squad deeply removed that one. >> reporter: if these bomb disposal robots, outside the colonial post office in south sacramento, the mail facility transformed to a crime scene after a suspicious package to senator kamala harris was intercepted by postal workers. >> i will confirm that the package was addressed to senator harris. here in sacramento, at the address. >> reporter: that wasn't all be there is confirmation of a link to other bombs targeting key regrets which led to an arrest of a suspect in florida.>> we do believe that the packages related to the nationwide investigation. >> reporter: the device in sacramento was similar to a dozen others i had been found across the country. area residents were told to shelter in place. others decide to leave.>> they asked me to stay in the house or leave because they were going to take the package out with the bomb disposal thing here in a minute.>> reporter: members of the fbi task force shared with poli

discovered that there was a problem in appalachia, and i think you start out kind of covering henry and lee county in particular in rural virginia, is that correct? >> guest: i didn't cover the epidemic when it first bubbled up in the late '90s that was the purview of the core but when i wrote factory man which i finished up around 2013, which is a book about the aftermath of globalization in henry county in martinsville and all of the distressed communities and what happens when the jobs go away i started to hear from policemen and other sources that so much of the crimes in the community was drug fueled by methamphetamines and heroine. how was that happening and sure enough, it was. i didn't understand at the time how heroine and oxycontin and other opioid pills were connected. i didn't understand a word chemical cousins and if people were additionally prescribed to opioids whether it be oxycontin or percocet or whatever, once they are addicted and they get cut off, they get dope sick and that fuels them to have to get more. when the pills dot expensive and harder to get around the time i

roanoke virginia and you discovered there is a problem in appalachia and you start off covering henry and lee county in particular quack. >> yes. i actually didn't uncover the oxycontin epidemic at the time but when i finished around 2013 this is a book of the aftermath and also what happens to a community when the jobs go away. we started to hear from policemen and other sources that so much of the crime in the communities was fueled by methamphetamines and heroine. i thought like heroin and rural areas? sure enough i did not understand at the time how heroin and oxycontin and the opioid pills were connected that they were chemical cousins it if people were initially addicted to prescribe opioids for percocet or whatever once they are addicted and are cut off they get dope sick that fuels them to have to get more and when pills got expensive and hard to get around the time oxycontin was reformulated in 2010 then drug cartel started to bring in heroin and that was one hell of a business model t7 setting the stage a lot of constituents would be surprised to learn that there was an opioid and h

host: you discovered that there was a problem in appalachia and i think you start out covering henry and lee counties, in particular, in rural verge, is that correct? >> beth: yeah, i didn't cover the oxygen econten epidemic when the bubbled up in the 90s, that was the police reporters at the moment with when i wrote factory man i finished in 2013, which is a book about the aftermath of globalization in henry county and martinival, and all descrevd communities, what happens to a community when the jobs go away. and started to hear from police many and sources that so much of the crime in their communities was drug-fueled. mostly by methamphetamine and heroine. and i thought heroine, heroine in rural areas? how is that happening? and sure enough it was, and i didn't understand at the moment how it -- how heroine and oxygen ecotten and other opioid pills were connected. i understand they were chemical cousins and that if people were initially addicted to prescribed opioids whether it be oxycontin our perk set or whatever, once they're addicted and they get cut off they get dope sick and that t

virginia, and you discovered that there was a problem in appalachia and you start out covering henry and lee counties in particular in rural virginia, is that correct? >> i didn't cover the oxycontin epidemic in the late 90s. that was the purview of our courts and police reporters at the time. when i did factory man, finished 2013 and aftermath of globalization of in henry county in martinsville and what happens in community when the jobs go away. i started to hear from policeman and other sources that so much of the crime in their communities was drug-fueled by methaphetamine and heroin. i thought, heroin in rural areas? how is that happening? sure enough it was and i didn't understand at the time how it had been, how heroin and oxycontin and other opioid bills were connected. i didn't understand they were chemical cousins and that if people were initially addicted to prescribed opioids, whether it be oxycontin or percocet or dilaudid or whatever, once they're addictinged, they get cut off, they get dopesick and that fuels them to get more. when the pills got harder to get around the time o

this is the strangest victory -- if he won chickamauga, then lee won gettysburg. henry halleck really had a struggle finding his revisionist biographer. there is an opportunity for some young graduate student who wants to make their mark on the field. there have been attempts, but they have fallen short, much as halleck did for most of his career. the thing you look at when you study henry halleck -- by the way, that is a painful exercise he often itself -- meddled and interfered without directing. he was the guy who would tell you why whatever you were doing was wrong and you would say what should i do? and he was a, i don't know. that's not my job. you all know these people. great second guess her. a great critic. a miserable failure in terms of giving constructive direction throughout the conflict. -- he is serving basically as a representative of the administration in his dealings with george mcclellan .nd ulysses s. grant after the seven-day battle, halleck visits mcclellan at harrison landing, down at the union headquarters and discusses, should we move the army o