reporting live from stanford, janine de la vega janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a new study says two bay area cities are among the worst places to park in the nation. oakland is ranked as the second worse place to park a car. san francisco was right behind in third. chicago was number one for the worse place to find parking. san francisco charges twice as much to park a car. oakland was boosted into the number two spot. >>> tornadoes touched down in three northern california counties yesterday. this is video of one of the tornadoes in roseville. the national weather service classified the tornado as an ef- 0 with winds of 65 to 85 miles an hour. about a dozen homes suffered roof damage. not far away in the town of willows in glen county, the national weather service confirmed that another ef-0 tornado touched down there. minor damage was reported but no one was injured. the third tornado was reported in butte county. tornado warnings were issued around 3:30 yesterday afternoon until around 7:30 in the areas as well as in placer, el dorado and sutter counties. >>> a very acti

janine de la vega is down at the scene and police are here to tell us how he may have died um see patrol cars, now that is right across the street from st. john's park. we have covered other stabbings in the past couple of years there at that park. here is what we know. just before 3:00 a.m. a person in the area spotted the man lying facedown on the ground. that pedaled 911 and officers found a lot of blood around the man's body and had determined the man had been stabbed. and we do expect a police spokesperson to arrive on the scene to give us more information. buses and trains are still running but they are not stopping at st. james. they are detouring around the area and we hope to bring you more details on this case coming up on the morning news. reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> there is new information on a tense situation in san mateo county. a s.w.a.t. team shot and killed a man who was barricaded. he then stabbed a s.w.a.t. officer after they stormed his home. >>> this certainly was not the outcome they had hoped for. he wanted to s

ktvu janine de la vega is live at the scene with what is happening right now. janine. >> reporter: we are in east san jose. they have knocked down this fire. it is in this back of this house. we do know that two people were inside the house and they suffered bad burns. to get more information on what is happening right now and how this all started, we go to captain reggie williams with the san jose fire department. when you got here the flames were really raging. >> yeah what we have is an exterior fire. firefighters had a difficult time accessing the structure. if you look at the building it had security bars throughout. we had to use our rescue bars to remove the people. we did have two residents that were badly burned and take tonight local burn center. we have knocked down the fire. we have searched the property. there is no one else inside the building. we will be heading into the mop up phase. again we don't know what caused this fire. the cause is still under investigation. we should have our arson investigator in route. >> reporter: and it was actually a

reporting live from san jose janine de la vega choughs. >>> time is 6:46.ormation about the richmond schoolteacher accused of child sex abuse. on wednesday police arrested ron ginto when he was teaching. he started working there just months after being fired from the making waves academy charter school. ktvu news has learned, that that dismissile came as investigator were investigating charges that gintoed students and he was preparing for another over night trip with students when he was arrested. >> something that wasn't disclosed was that in two or three weeks, he was going to take a group of kids on a field trip over night to yosemite. >> the school board president is now promises to improve the school districts background checks in respond to the anger over this case. >>> today the russian parliament voted to support any decision made by the people in the region of ukraine on becoming a part of russia. yesterday president obama spoke for about an hour with russian president vladimir putin. president obama said a referendum announced by pro russian auth

janine de la vega you are there now. what kind of damage is out there? >> reporter: well, you can't see it because the fire happened not in the front of the building but let me tell you where we are. near san jose avenue. it's an industrial part of town. the place that got hit with this fire it's called the eldorado which is a bar possibly a restaurant. the damage is in the back because we believe the fire started in the corner of the building back there. just before 2:00 this morning people passing by in the area spotted flames and smoke and called 911. firefighters were able to knock it down in 20 minutes. they say the fire appears to have started in the back office. no one was inside at the time and no firefighters were injured. >> we were able to contain it and keep it to a single alarm. we are currently trying to salvage what is inside and we shut off electricity and gas to the structure. >> reporter: firefighters say they do not believe the fire is suspicious because of who they observed. the business was locked when the fire started inside. they d

ktvu janine de la vega just arrived on the scene and has more. definitely looks like a pretty active scene. >> reporter: yeah there are fire engines all around us. this is in willow glen. i want to show you what is burning. this is the church of god of san jose. it's a home to a congregation of about 100 people. the back of the building is what is on fire. it is a church office. when we arrived here, you could see lots of smoke, smell a lot of smoke in the air and what we know right now is that about 5:30 passer byes apparently called this fire in and saw flames about 15-20 feet high shooting into the air. when firefighters arrived, they started to extinguish it. it is in the back of the building. we did speak to the pastor's wife who says she woke up to the sound of windows breaking, all sorts of noises. she came out here. she is in complete shock. she said she locked up the church at about 8:00 last night. so she has no idea what happened here. it's still too early to figure out what caused this. again fire is knocked down but it is definitely

we are not running into am coverage, janine de la vega joins us right now and janine de la vega you tell us there are some events happening to try to get people to sign up today? >> reporter: yes, there are and i have been on the california cover and as you mentioned, there are numerous events going on throughout the bay area to help people end roll for this end insurance and there is going to be one here in sunnyvale on st. a episcopal. they need to go to the california website and fell out all of the benefits paint but police must return to complete their application and select a plan. if they don't the penalty is 95 per adults or 1% of household income which is greater. if you don't plan oncoming to be held in the bay area, you can call the staff and prepare to be patient, times were reportedly run to an hour, if you get they will see if there are any issues reporting live, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> and we have new information on the channel 2 website. you can look for it on the i link. they will look for new patented stuff that is a mistake. the ruling comes

janine de la apartment -- airport. janine de la vega has more. >> reporter: on may 14th, virgin american will shut down the ticket counter and stop offering daily flights to los angeles. >> it's sad because it takes out one extra airline to pick from. hopefully others make up the routes they were flying. >> reporter: virgin american launched service out of san jose less than a year ago. there was a lot of fanfare and excitement then. british billionaire and founder richard branson was there to show off the plane's entertainment system in funky purple lighting, even saying he hoped to expand here. but the numbers were not adding up. >> ridership was going up. it's a highly competitive route. we had a lot of service between here and l.a. >> reporter: virgin american released this statement saying, "despite our steadily improving performance, we've not met ecket pects takes and made the decision to fly on more lucrative long-hall destinations. >> we fly them a lot. it's between them and southwest. it may give southwest the edge to up the p

janine de la vega is at the scene.have an update on this developing story in just a few minutes. good morning. i'm tori campbell. >> i'm dave clark. >> let's talk about weather and traffic. ready to push winter out the door? >> this is it. >> this is it. it will be sunny and warm. first day of spring tomorrow. overall, a lot of sunshine. clear skies. cold for some. not too bad in san francisco. we'll go 70 for a high. temperatures will cool down. the reason being we still have a hint of an offshore breeze. 38 pacifica. fairfield is holding on. it's a little cool for some. the nights are getting much warmer. sunny and warm. a little breeze some of the higher elevations. 60s and 70s. temperatures, mainly 70s. coast and bay. >>> good morning. we're looking at a commute that's not too bad but is certainly slow in many areas. let's take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. traffic is backed up here. the drive time is 30 minutes with most of that time he waiting at the -- most of that time waiting at the toll plaza. this is

ktvu janine de la vega is there.e will have a live report on a possible security breach that is being investigated. this could effect thousands of people. not what you want to hear first thing on a monday morning. stay tuned a report is coming up. it is monday, march 24th i'm dave clark. >> good morning, i'm pam cook. thank you for joining us. steve paulson is here. i know rain is a little later in the week. what will it be like today? >>> tomorrow. >> tomorrow. okay. >> we do have some fog. it will burn off sooner today. slightly warmer today. et specially inland. 30s and 40s and 50s. it will be mild top warm later. we will see a rapid buildup of that fog bank and possibility of thundershower activity. and definitely know. this morning most areas are clear and either cool for some or cold for others. not bad. 39 santa rosa to 50 redwood city. fairfield and antioch and livermore and san jose. there is our system still low. got a ways to go. sunshine and warm temps after that coast and bay burns off. it will be a litt

ktvu janine de la vega is joining us live with the passionate responses we are hearing from the citizens of san jose. good morning, janine. >> reporter: good morning. people have strong opinions about this incident. they say if it's true, it's sad and an abuse of power. and it doesn't sit well that this alleged incident happened when the officer was on duty. 38-year-old jeff graves posted $100,000 jail to get out -- bail to get out of jail. in court documents it shows that graves responded to a call where a husband and wife were arguing. the woman was a former hoe maid -- hotel maid. she decided to go there to stay the night. it says he raped her. we asked people if this effects their trust in police. >> i'm sure it would make me slightly more hesitant to trust a police officer. i don't think overall it will really impede me from going to an officer if i really needed help. you would assume someone is a police officer because they want to do good and help people. >> reporter: sources tell ktvu some of the physical evidence in the case was found on grave's bullet proof vest. this is the f

janine de la vega is known where march madness is definitely going across the campus. >>> a lot of themt think this team would get this far. stamford was considered an underdog and some didn't speculate that everything has changed. this afternoon stamford will face off against the dayton flyers in memphis. the men had lost three straight games and this march they have played basketball. they have made it this far in six years and it is the most significant victory against johnny dawkins getting them to this point and they are pull at this point to get them to win. >> the kids are so excited and have been talking about it for days. it is amazing they even got in, so we are excited. once again it begins at 4:15 and if they continue they will advance to the elite 8. >> reporting live, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> it is a new mission breaking the rules and some unsuspecting commuters will see their face on a billboard, guess who is behind this campaign. >>> and the stunning arrests on leyland yee. >>> highway 4 you can see for your, we have a lot of traffic on many bay

janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> they will be tackling the issue of pedestrian safety. five pedestrians have been hit and killed in the city this year. another one happened after a 90- year-old woman am as hit and killed. he plans on targeting the most dangerous treats tenderloin an extra resources and they are facing almost a disthis is. his 7th grade students why stunned as they watched police officers walk into their classroom. >> police department came and handcuffed him in front of his classroom and took him off the campus. >> his arrest comes just a couple of months after he was hired at the school. they emphasize that the arrest is not something they for saw. he had possessed child pornography. >>> a sentenced was handed down as part of a plea bargain. he served as a compliance officer and end is known as a strong advocate of gay rights. >>> he has been arrested for embezzlement. he forged the signatures and took out an unauthorized loan. they learned their end document had dropped to $700 and the symphony was forced to close but was saved by donations. >> it is

ktvu janine de la vega is joaning us live from the airport with what may have led to the surprising move. janine. >> reporter: virgin america started operating here less than a year ago. it comes as a surprise to many that they would leave. the business journal is reporting that virgin america is shutting down service because demand in the market hasn't met the airlines expectations. there was a lot of fanfare when virgin announced air fare. if the route performed well, virgin would consider expanding operations to san jose. but the journal reports from the get go ridership was disappointing and other airlines that fly to l.a. started adding flights and cutting prices. travelers are already waiting to board the first flight today at 6:30 a.m.. here's what they had to say. >> it's sad because it does take out one extra airline to pick from. hopefully others make up the routes that they were play flying. i know a lot of different airlines go to lax. maybe they were not getting ahead on the competition. >> reporter: it's a blow for san jose because they were trying to attract new carriers.

janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. >>> time is 6:38.pening today it is a big day for 16,000 kids from all over california. they are celebrating we day. brian flores is joining us live for what we day is all about. i know you are getting wet but still an exciting day. >> reporter: it certainly is. organizers peg it as the super bowl of youth volunteer. 16,000 kids will pack oracle arena behind me in just hours from now hearing from celebrities and speakers about the importance of volunteering in their communities. yesterday though organizers did their last preps before the big event this morning. we day is an event to celebrate what kids have done to make a difference in their world. in the bay area they have seen schools. picking up trash to shaving hair heads. and that was their ticket to get here. you couldn't buy the tickets for we day. you had to pledge and act on how they would change their communities. >> young people to come to we day. it's amazing the impact by kids. >> kids from all over the state will be here. even from my hom

reporting live janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> we have more information about local events where you can get health registering for today's healthcare deadline. you can go to our went site -- website and find a link for hot topics. >>> they are following a 5.1 magnitude quake over the weekend. they were red tagged after large cracks had been reteemed home and they are also closed because they are down. >>> the program trains community members on disaster response skills including small fire suppression and light search and rescue. training requires 25 hours of hands on experience followed by a field day and you have to complete all of the classes to complete this san. >>> last night the theater hosted it's biggest crowd in years for a final showing of raiders of the loft arc. some people came hours ahead of time to making sure they had good seats from that show, the nathan, following jurassic park. >> this is the place to come. this is the last night. >>> fans of the dome started a change .org and in an effort to change the architecture. >>> hundreds of people are ma

janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you, janine. >>> san jose police are investigating the city's 10th homicide of the year. a city worker pressure washing the streets near st. james park found the victim lying on st. john's street around 3:00 this morning. police are talking to witnesses and looking for any surveillance video that might show what happened. >> we do know there was some sort of disturbance. the subject was stabbed at least once. we're trying to determine what led up to that and the circumstances and motive behind this murder. >> police say the man was in his late 20s or early 30s and they say homeless people hang out in the park but they don't know if he was one of them. >> prosecutors will not file charges against a homeless man accused of fatally discussing a 16-year-old in a campbell park on sunday. they say there's evidence that 4-year-old todd tharp stabbed the teen in self-defense. in jailhouse interviews, he said the teen and his friends jumped him for no reason, kicked him in the head and hi

janine de la vega is down there in san jose. alex savidge at another fire. we understand another one is on -- something else is on fire in that location. but we will tell you this location there was something at that house that kept firefighters from getting to the people inside right away. we will take you back to that scene in a moment. thank you for joining us it is friday, march 7th i'm pam cook. >> and i'm dave clark. let's go to steve. >> thank you pam and dave. we have mostly clear skies. temperatures starting off in the 40s. some of that fog favoring san mateo coast. it will be a nice day today and nicer tomorrow. some of these higher clouds will head toward mendocino county and lake county. here is sal. >> all right. we do have traffic. that is going to be doing very well at the toll plaza. you may have heard of a crash earlier at the toll plaza. that has been taken care of. there is no problem on the bridge getting into san francisco. and by the way, there are no problems on 880. as we look at the commute here on 880, the traffic continues to look

janine de la vega joins us live from menlo park where she just spoke to scientists there about this. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, hydrologists are monitoring these closely and there is not enough, so the department of water resources is looking at puts a series of three rock barriers up to keep saltwater out of the delta. >> if the water is too salty to consumer and also to salty to put on farmland, so the delta effectively becomes a place we can't use for water supply. if we don't put in the barriers we are going to get to that game over situation a lot sooner than if we do put them in that is why more than likely the barriers are going in this year. >> scientists expects the concerns of pumping too much ground water since the reservoirs are already at critically low levels, they are keeping their eye on water quality, they say if the water is continuously used contaminants can build up and that is why cutbacks are already being put in place around the state, live from menlo park, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2news. >> about 200 firefighters are battling a fire th

here is janine de la vega. >> reporter: good morning. this is going to save them gas money and time and a lot of them are pleased to hear that the extension should open sooner than planned. mercury crews is due to open a full year ahead of schedule in late 2017 and the extension will travel 16 miles adding stations in milpitas, and so far papers are saying they are installed through fremont and the tunnels through central park are complete. here are some ariel pictures for of the new warm steaks in fremont and the tracks that have been built. concrete will be poured later today at the bar quest terrible -- barrys station. >> people had to finish because of the construction. >> reporter: they will make way for a tunnel that needs to be built. now there is a plan to add 6 more miles to reach downtown san jose and it comes with a big price tag, and right now the funding is falling short for that. janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> well, japan is marking the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake which left 19,000 de

janine de la vega joins us live from palo alto to share new information that you just learned. janine? >> >> reporter: tori, police just released an image of the burglaries from security cameras inside the home. this break-in prompted a lockdown in the neighborhood and response from s.w.a.t. at this hour, these two men are still on the loose. now, this is the -- these are the two men police are looking for. right now, officers still have a very vague description other than the thieves appear to be in their mid-20s. they were wearing dark clothes. police say they broke into a home on ans avenue in middlefield sometime between 5:20 and 6:25 yesterday evening. a woman in her 30s returned to her home with the baby and a relative when she discovered the rear door was open. they quickly ran out. police spent more than five hours doing a search. in the end, they were unable to locate the men. now they are studying the video. >> they are looking over any items of evidentiary value that may be in the home. for example if fingerprints were left, items removed, anything like that. routine

janine de la vega has more. >> reporter: it was a busy morning at the dmv, people trying to renew their driver's licenses or registration. even though the news came out over the weekend, most customers had not heard about the potential security breach involving credit cards at the dmv. >> you don't want certain people to get ahold of that information, so it's definitely worrying. >> reporter: law enforcement agencies informed the dmv about potential hacking into their system. the dmv maintains there's no evidence of a direct breach but it is investigating out of an abundance of caution. it centers around transactions made online with credit cards made between august of 2013 through january of 2014. >> i was really surprised. it happens everywhere -- i was not really surprised. it happens everywhere. >> reporter: the dmv is renewing its systems and investigating the outside vendor that processes credit card transactions and the credit card companies themselves. the agency says it has heightened its monitoring of website traffic and credit card transactions in light of this. >> now that i

janine de la vega just spoke to investigators and joins us live. good afternoon, janine. >> reporter: good afternoon, tori. this is a blow to the police department. a spokeswoman told me that this officer's arrest is in no way a reflection of the other officers here who are here to serve the public. more ral is already low in the -- morale is already low in the department and officers are upset and disappointed that one of their fellow officers is accused of this. now, here is a booking photo of 38-year-old jeffrey graves taken last night when he turned himself in. he's a six-year veteran of the department and worked the overnight patrol shift when the alleged sexual assault took place last september. the district attorney's office says graves had responded to a disturbance between a husband and a wife who had been drinking. the woman who was a former hotel maid told officers she wanted to stay at the hotel so graves grove her there while another officer followed. prosecutors say she went to sleep but 15 minutes later, there was a knock on the door.

ktvu's janine de la vega just spoke to officials and joins us live. >> reporter: hayward unified school district says it appears that five students are involved in this incident. police are helping with the investigation. it's still being determined what substance was in the brownies. but it appears it was pot. let's go to a photograph the student provided of paramedics arriving to hayward high school yesterday morning after a student noticed one of her students was getting sick. a second student became ill and complained of stomach cramps. one girl was examined by emergency crews and released to her parents. the other was taken to the hospital. two other students admitted to administrators they had also eaten the brownies but did not become ill. >> i heard someone sold brownies to this girl and she started throwing up and the person who sold the brownies got caught. >> reporter: it appears one student sold the brownies on the way to school on an a.c. transit bus. teens on campus tell us the students who got sick were girls. school administrators are taking the incident seriously and ar

that's where janine de la vega is now.on you've learned from the police. >> reporter: police say the suspect is a transient to their knowledge. he has no prior criminal history. i asked the captain if the suspect knew that the victim had died of his injuries. he say they did tell the suspect that and his reaction was that he felt bad about it. now, this all stems from an incident. some sort of fight that broke out here at john d. morgan park at the baseball field. now, here is a photograph of 24- year-old todd tharp under arrest for the murder of a 16- year-old boy from san jose. they say at 8:30 last night, the teen was with his friends near the bleachers and the baseball field. they got into an argument with tharp. it turned physical. tharp was beat up. the teen was stabbed. it's unclear who injured who first. >> we feel very confident that we have the suspect in custody and that we are interviewing the correct people that were involved and, you know, all homicides are difficult. we do have a very thorough investigation

ktvu janine de la vega is there. she will have a live report on possible security breaches at the dmv. this could effect thousands of people. stay tuned for that. good morning. thank you for joining us here. ktvu channel 2 morning thinks. it's monday, march 24th i'm dave clark. >> good morning, i'm pam cook. thank you for waking up with us. 6:31 is the time. steve says pretty nice today. there it is over your shoulder. >> what lint? oh the front. right there. [ laughter ] we do have fog. it looks like it's expanding north to south but not so much inland as it did yesterday morning. a little warmer away from the coast as high pressure builds over for one more day. it looks like it will get knocked over for awhile. patchy morning low clouds that will definitely favor areas closer to the coast. temperature drop. clouds roll in and pretty good changes for us. finally looks like a pattern of rain. first the front and then we deal with the area of low pressure. the possibility of thundershowers as we head toward wednesday.

reporting live from san jose janine de la vega. >>> atf investigates are looking into what sparked a fire at a san jose church. it started around 5:30 at the hurricane church of god of san jose. flames and heavy smoke were coming from a detached office behind the church building. firefighters were able to put out the flames before they could spread. the fire department says it does not believe the cause of the fire is suspicious, but it's required to call in the atf to investigate. >> we do have mandatory reporting on any assembly halls, church structure or things of those nature to make sure we don't close our eyes to a possible suspicious event or hate crime. there's nothing here that says that to us. >> the church says all the contents including church records which were kept in the office were destroyed. >>> and fire investigators are also trying to determine the cause of an early morning fire at the el el dorado bar. firefighters say it started inside the back area office of the restaurant before 2:00 this morning. it was contained within about 20 minutes and no one was injured.

reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega. >> thanks. >>> it's 7:34.francisco will be tackling the issue of pedestrian safety today. five pedestrians have been hit and killed in that city this year. the most recent happened about two weeks ago when a 90-year- old woman died after getting hit by a truck at california and fill more streets. at 9:30 this morning san francisco mayor ed lee will introduce new safety measures. he plans to target the most dangerous streets, including the downtown, tenderloin, and south of market areas. there will be extra resources, including more police officers and road improvements. >>> new developments in san jose's four-year-long legal bat well major league baseball of the possible relocation of the oakland a's. last night the city of san jose filed an opening brief with the federal appeals court in their antitrust suit. san jose contends that baseball should no longer receive an antitrust exemption and should allow the oakland a's to move to the south bay. the san francisco giants have claimed exclusive territorial righ

janine de la vega joins us about the dangers about this drug and what authorities are saying. >> reporter was found here on the stevens' creek trail and million are waiting -- that is something that gifts you both hallucinating affects and other emotional form meant. -- to your. s. they sent a letter warning of its long latching effects. >> the only thing is a zombie like state, the person is out of it but they are hyperaware and hypersensitive so they can see real well but they are out of it. >> they have little experience with the drug but it comes with pills and drugs. they are work being to identify similar incidents or trails. >> they are trying to talk about the threat, reporting live in mountain view, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> san jose police are looking into a situation where the woman met the suspects at the target parking lot on east san jose monday night. once there she decided to back out of the purchase. she said the men forced her into the car at gunpoint, took her to a bank and ordered her to make a withdrawal. she was ordered to have additional mo

janine de la vega is talking about what happened. >> reporter: pam, if you count turn lines, this isanes of traffic and there is no crosswalks here, that is a question for police, was the victim trying to cross before he was hit. this is video of what happened in the southbound lanes justest of capital expressway. emergency crews rushed to help but were unable to save him. he was pronounced dead at the scene. several people stopped to talk to police including the driver. we are told that driver is cooperating went investigate terms it is up clear and as of now the victim's identity has not been released. san jose, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> they are scheduled to give an update on a bay area cold case. it is including very ron can and she was 18 years old at the time. she was last seen waiting for a bus to go to a birthday party. her body was found in pacifica. family and friends said they never gave up hope that her family and friends would be left. >> other victims were killed in pacifica mill bray annandale lip city -- and dale lip city. they are expected to

reporting live from sanford janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> paulina is competing inirst senior championships. she finished 12s earlier this morning and that's five spots earlier than her placement during the olympics but she is qualified to skate in the free skate and that takes place on saturday. county supervisors will also take $20,000 out of its reserves on the use of illegal fireworks and they have not held one since 2009 because of budget cuts. >>> some people in california are finding a silverling in a drought, trying to cash in on the situation and how it is affecting businesses. the serious measures he is taking to further his cause. >>> good morning, we are looking at a commute that still may be affected by wet roads. we will tell you more about the south bay commute straight ahead. >> lots of clouds coverage over us and we will have significant rainfall projections coming in. so you made some bad decisions last night. make a good one this morning. try my... warm and flaky croissant sandwiches made with fresh egg and melting cheese. choose supreme or sausag

janine de la vega is live in the downtown area, we hear this is a homicide investigation?yes, i just spoke to a lieutenant, there is a body of a man laying down there in the street where you see all of those patrol cars. they are waiting for homicide investigators to a to arrive here on the scene and right now they are securing it. this is video we talk just before 3:00 a.m. and there was a pedestrian walking by. he saw the man facedown in the street and there was blood all around him. again he was facedown and they too realized he was unresponsive when they examined him they didn't touch him or turn him around but whatever he was injured from it was not consistent with being hit by a car so they believe it was a homicide and it definitely is suspicious. they don't know what race he is but they know he is an adult area looking for witnesses and they will see if it might give clues into what happened here. we did ask if this person appeared to be a transient by the clothes he was wearing but he was unable to speculate on that. we will stay on the scene to determine to give

janine de la vega is joining us live, you are in san jose and talking with those getting ready to makecases. some of them are boarding the buses and they will be traveling to sacramento and they are urge lawmakers to pass a proposed pilot program to offer a four-year degree at a community column. now the student's trip is in the march event where thousands are urging support for public education. now this year, the students from evergreen valley saying it will alleviate the office is -- costs. it needs to bring one year degrees and if it is approved it will be a pilot program and community colleges will not provide four-year institution. >> it will not conflict as we are opening a pilot program tonight have degos as these these are fiends are going in more and more high demand. >>> there are 21 other states that already allow community collegeels to offer 2 year degrees and california is one of the most inn know native states and it will. >> actually do what they can to to support them to get this passed. janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> in san leandro the cause of a

reporting live from fremont, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> there is a report on a hate crime attack on a transgender student. he said he was sexually assaulted by three boys in a school bathroom and he now admits he made up the lie. how the school board president could be the latest wake-up call call. the and we need to look into all of this. >>> just last month teachers at hercules high overwhelmingly approved a vote in the school's principal and -- principal. that came for lack of safety which led to arrests. >>> meantime it is fueling the debate of a right to come through and which shall they use. both supporters are worried they will he can employed this to promote their political agenda. >>> mayor jean quan casted a tie breaking vote in favor of a new surveillance violence center and i vote and the item passes. >>> now there were jeers at city council by critics awareness center. it will be a -- opponents and they will use -- they are afraid they will use it to spy on people and they voted for the measure that only covers surveillance at the port of oakland

janine de la vega is at that station in morning.ven witnessed some of this basically life-threatening behavior, right? >> reporter: yeah, we have. there's so many warning signs here telling people into the to do this. but we've seen -- not to do this. but we've seen people come and walk across the tracks when the gates are down. a train is coming. they don't seem to care and they don't want to talk to us about what they took the risk. the man you are about to see in this video is lucky. you can hear the warning sirens that a train is coming in the background. several people scurry across the tracks. just as a train approaches, a man walks across narrowly getting hit. caltrain is highlighting this close call to prove to people that it's just not worth it. we captured several people doing the same thing this morning. in the same place, ignoring the warning gates to beat the train. we asked riders about taking the risk. >> i'm kind of a goodie two shoes about that thing. partly because i think -- even if you do it and get by with it, o

janine de la vega has been on this story since 4:00 this morning.k with a live report on the investigations, plus she'll tell you how students are reacting. >>> good morning. tuesday morning, i'm dave clark. >> i'm tori campbell. quick look at weather and traffic. rosemary is in for steve. still a little bit of rain or drizzle? >> a little bit. by 10:00, we'll be in good shape. we'll be mainly dry for today. i have to go back to 12 hours just to show you when the rainfall came and went. picking it up at 6:00 p.m. yesterday, it begins to move through the bay area, many of us were caught in it during the evening drive home. by 1:00 a.m., it's south of the south bay. in the overnight hours, the rain stopped falling but we are left with this very moist air in place. and drizzle still reported in some areas this morning. although it's better at this hour than it was an hour or two ago. in an hour from now, it will be better than where we are now. here are a few totals over the last 24 hours. most of us picking up less than .25 from the central to south b

janine de la vega is down there this morning and we will check in with her, more on this investigation and how it is a affecting traffic and we will be with her in just a moment. march 4th, i am pam cook. >> let's talk about weather and traffic, rosemary is in for steve? >>> we are waking up to plenty testify gray and the system moved -- plenty of gray and the system moved. take a look, it is 5:00 and now we have a few popping up by 10:00 or so and we have mainly dry and by the under much hour we will be dry over the next few hours. 155 redwood city 155 in livermore and 55 in after moon bay -- half-moon bay take a look at some of these numbers, 66 expected in oakland into the north bay, mid-60s for areas like santa rosa and again with mostly cloudy skies. when i come back we will have a loom at how much rain fell and we will be already looking at the next storm. >>> we have a new syringing alert at the ramp and it is an injury with an over turn vehicle. and for this overturned car, fire department and medics are on the scene and this is an airport bound traffic so if you are trying to

janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 7:34.berkeley apartment last week. police say the victim was 54- year-old sylvan fuselir suspected of being the notorious bandit because he used polite notes to rob east bay businesses. he was found dead in his home during a welfare check by police. there's no word on how he died. but a $15,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of his killer. >>> time now 7:34. san francisco is considered one of the most walkable cities in america. but with the recent rash of pedestrian injuries and deaths, city leaders want more to be done to keep walkers safe. ktvu's brian flores joining us live in the city, what do they plan to do? >> reporter: good morning, there was another pedestrian accident not too far from here. one person in the hospital as a result of that, but we are on vanessen bush, this is one of the busier intersections and city officials have seen way too many pedestrian accidents and fatalities last year and this year. they say enough is enough. what they plan on doing about

janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> one of the reasons was competition. you see here all the airlines that fly that route. >>> millions of customers information stolen. now new revelations the breach at target could have been prevented. the warning that went ignored. >> it is just a little loss but multiple ply that and a leak become as lake. >> a massive 300,000-pound gate finally arrives at fulsome dam and how it got there is really something. >>> the first section of a massive new spillway gate made it to fulsome lake. you see that. 300,000-pound gate was trucked from washington state and it was so big there were rolling closures of two lanes along i-5 during the trip. it is one of 12 that will be put in place by the u.s. army corps of engineers as part of a spillway project. it will provide a better way to release water during heavy rain and reduce the flood risk to areas near sacramento. >> gives us more ability to be wise managers of the water that does come. >> fulsome dam will become a new dam once they are installed. the project is aimed at makin

janine de la vega has more. >> reporter: i've been logging onto covered california every half-hour. i've been playing around with it and have been able to create an account and i haven't run into any problems just yet. but there's bound to be a rush of people. i will continue to monitor it to make sure that it keeps on working because people are gonna try to get on it today to enroll. earlier this morning, people in states such as louisiana and virginia were getting a message telling them that -- it says they have a lot of visitors on the healthcare.com website. it's asking them to wait. but in the last couple of hours, the department of health and human services was able to bring the system back online, here in california, people without insurance need to go to covered california's website before midnight create an account, fill out the required information on the apply for benefits page. after clicking continue, they will be able to send a consent for verification page and they can hit save and exit. people must return by april 15th to complete their application and select a plan.

ktvu's janine de la vega joins us live from the dmv in los gatos to tell us what we should look out for. good morning, janine. >> reporter: good morning. people just started showing up at this dmv office in los gatos. you know, one of these customers told me that she tried to renew her dmv registration online. she couldn't. so she's coming here in person to do that. this breach affects customers who use their credit cards online. the dmv says it was alerted by law enforcement with the online credit card processing service. the dmv maintains while there's no evidence of a direct breach into the computer system is it is lawn offing an investigation. the -- launching an investigation. it is reportedly related to credit card transactions made online between august 2013 through january of 2014. >> i just renewed my registration and i didn't know that happened. it would -- would that have changed my course of action? honestly, probably not. that may be foolish. i acknowledge that but i'm just being honest. >> reporter: because it's convenient? >> because i want to get my registration paid. >>

janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thanks, janine. >>> while virgin american is pulling out ofced that it will expand its service to that airport. starting may 16th, hawaiian will offer daily flights between san jose and honolulu. it's putting bigger jets on the route to honolulu and maui from oakland. that happens in june. >>> some students in uc berkeley are thinking big. they have launched a campaign to try to get president obama to deliver the commencement address last year. they are working anen invitation to the pro president and they have an influential ally, janet napolitano, who served in his cabinet as homeland security secretary. >>> the obama administration is proposing rules for pro fost colleges. it would -- pro-profit colleges. new rules take effect in 2016. >>> more than 90 new officers will join the california highway patrol today. an official graduation and ceremonying-in ceremony is set to take place at 10:00 this morning. an hour and 15 minutes at the chp academy in west sacramento. for the past 27 weeks, they've been undergoing sometimes grueling, training

janine de la vega is joining us live from san jose with what people are saying this morning and the effect this is having on other officers. janine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, brian. this is really a black eye for the department where moral is already low. i've been talking to officers off camera that say they can't believe this. this is the last thing the department needs. if this is true, they can't believe what a bad judgment call that officer jeff graves made. graves has been with the department for six years and worked over night patrol shifts. he has bailed out of jail after being arrested for forcible rape. in court documents, it shows that graves had responded to a call where a husband and wife were arguing. the woman was a former hotel maid. she decided to spend the night at a hotel where graves took her there and had her fall asleep in her room. >> i think it's really sad that there is this scandal going on in the police department. especially if it's all true. it's really horrible that somebody would probably be abusing their power and trust that somebody else woul

janine de la vega joins us live.w officers who say it's disturbing because they want the public to know what they can be trusted. >> reporter: this is really a black eye for the department where morale is already low. yif been speaking with officers and they say if this is true they can't believe what a bad judgment call officer jeff graves made. people i've been speaking to this morning say what particularly bothers them is this alleged incident happened while he was on duty. 38-year-old jeff graves has been with the department for six years and worked the overnight patrol shift. he's bailed out of jail. in court documents, it shows that graves responded to a call where a husband and wife were arguing. the woman, who is a former hotel maid, decided to spend the night at that hotel and graves took her there in his patrol car. when she was there. she checked into a room, fell asleep but the criminal complaint says 15 minutes later, graves knocked on her door entered the room and pushed her on the bed. it then says he

janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> now at 6:00 p.m. bolts and water leaks are two problems we know about on the eastern span of the bay bridge, now 2 investigates obtains the list of potential problems and fixes that still need to be done. >> students wear pink to honor the memory of jenna betti who was struck and killed by a train over the weekend. the moments she shared with her boyfriend before she died. >> police take on a strategy for growing their ranks. >> making use of social media. we are going to them. >> the new ways they are seeking recruits and the battle they are facing. >>> complete bay area news coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 p.m. >>> scattered showers are falling across the bay area right now making for a slow and slick ride home. julie haener is here now for what we are working on for 6:00 p.m. >> right to our chief meteorologist bill martin who is tracking the rain. couldn't hit at a worse time. >> great because we need the rain. perfect for what we need for the reservoirs but hitting

janine de la vega has been talking to police and neighbors and joins us now live. good morning, janine. >> reporter: good morning, tori. police are stepping up patrols in this neighborhood after this incident happened. neighbors who live here say that crime doesn't really happen in this area. this is the midtown area of palo alto. some of the people here have video cameras on their home and police hope that evidence will help them in this case. this all started at 6:30 last night. a woman in her 30s returned home with her baby and another relative and noticed the rear door had been forced open. she heard a door slam. they ran outside and called 911 to report burglars in the home. police arrived on scene and determined the suspects were inside. police say they were able to see the suspects in the house because the woman was able to view cameras in her home through an app on her phone. the s.w.a.t. team were called. avfive hours, the police entered the home and determined the suspects were no longer there. >> i see there's suspicious activity going down. >> reporter:

ktvu's janine de la vega joining us live now from san jose where you are out there talking to students who are going to sacramento this morning to make their case to lawmakers. good morning, janine. >> reporter: good morning, dave. well, a bus full of evergreen students just left campus, headed to sacramento. they want lawmakers to know that community college students need more opportunities and they say a new bill can help accomplish that. now, dozens of students gathered on campus this morning to be part of the annual march in march event. they are joining thousands of students across the state traveling to the california to urge support for public education. students are supporting 850, a proposal to allow community colleges to offer four-year degrees. the author of the bill says that california needs to produce 1 million more bachelor degrees than it currently does to remain economically competitive. students say it will also help them financially. >> that can have a huge impact in students' lives. college is extremely expensive. if we open the doors, we can open doors to more educ

reporting live from mountain view, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> 8:40.ies in one bay area city. coming up, pam cook tells us why the most recent crime is getting so much attention. >> reporter: and confusion, frustration and hopefully a little bit of patience for commuters. we'll tell you how the braurt delays are affecting the morning commute. >>> we're still looking at roads in the east bay that are very crowded including the drive to the san mateo bridge. once you get on the bridge, it does look good. we'll give you an update on all of the crowded east bay freeways getting to this point. >>> a lot of cloud cover over us. some misty conditions maybe some drizzle out there. we have to wait for the rain this evening. it's on its way. we'll see how much is in the rain, though. >>> one day after s&p 500 surged to an all-time high with its biggest gain since october, stocks are changed. one report shows that u.s. companies added slightly more jobs in february than the previous month. the dow is currently down 35. the nasdaq is up 1. and s&p is flat. >>> 8:4

janine de la vega is down there this morning and we will check in with her, more on this investigation and how it is a affecting traffic and we will be with her in just a moment. march 4th, i am pam cook. >> let's talk about weather and traffic, rosemary is

reporting live from fremont, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> 7:09. continuing coverage now of the missing mama lash shaw airlines jet. more than three days after disappearing, there's still no sign of the aircraft. a massive search continues in the air, on land and on sea. crews from ten countries on 40 ships along with helicopters and airplanes have found nothing. we're learning more this morning about the two passengers on the flight who boarded with stolen passports. interpol, the police organization, released these images of the men who used the stolen passports. they also revealed that they were from iran. now, authorities say they have found no terror links to the men. ktvu's alex savidge is following all developments this morning and will have a report in 30 minutes with what authorities have learned about the plans of one of those men. >>> this morning, japan is marking the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing. in tokyo, the prime minister and emperor will speak at a memori