in the east bay regional park district jeff pierce kron 4 news. johnsos®cent lather a bubes hp hancthe perice. so w juscleayouraby when youan ge her mucmore? >> reporter: to look at take a look at this for corporate babies have been born as an actual higher number than usual the been born in the last three months. the baby boom brings the total to 81 whales in the puget sound area. a spokesman for the center says they hope this is a sustained upswing in the population. but he says they will remain endangered until the population gets above $100. 100. >> reporter: seth terry and the warriors are taking names and breaking ankles. and something that see meld baseball's fans are gonna love at the ballpark coming up. >> reporter: will live in san jose this morning where there is yet another security breach will tell you how woman data on the airfield as coming up in a live report. >> reporter: health alerts have been sent out to parents into east bay high schools. i tell you why they send that out. >> reporter: and the rumpled dealt trial of a south ba

today kron 4's jeff pierce visited one dog with the new owner. >> reporter: he is a most fortunate dog >> still a little skiddish about strangers and people. it took her a good night to warm up to us. >> reporter: she was ones of dozens of dogsless dude by the humane society -- dogs rescued by the humane society. >> they didn't deal with people. they were bred, raiseed for meat. they needed a special needs home. all of these dogs. they were 57 of them that came over. they all have to be treated special. any dog that comes from a cruel background has to be treated special. >> reporter: korean farm where alabama lee was rescued raised dogs in dark, crowded, unheated cages. the humane society was able to shut down the farm and bring the dogs to california. those dogs will need a patient pet owner to overcome their ordeal. >> any animal that gets rescued doesn't know what a loving home is. >> reporter: the humane society is working to close more korean dog forms and jackie stevens is grateful. >> thank you to the people that rescued them. >> reporter: jeff pierce, kron 4 news. >>> still ah

kron 4's jeff pierce visited one lucky pup with his new owner. >> reporter: this is ashley. she's jackie stevens' new pet and she is a most fortunate dog. >> she's still skittish around strangers and new people. >> reporter: ashley is one of dozens of dogs rescued from a korean meat farm. >> any dog that comes from a cruel background has to be treated special. >> reporter: the korean farm raised the dogs in dark, crowded, unheated xaidges the humane society international was able to shut down the farm and lead the dogs to northern california. >> any animal that gets rescued done know what a loving home is. >> reporter: the humane society is working to shut down more korean dog farms. >>> up next, a shocker at the final four. the overall number 1 seed goes down in a rematch of last year's game. highlights next. >> baseball is back. join me and mitch roberts as he look ahead to the season opener. and the giants battle the spurps it's a playoff of all your sunday sports needs after the local news. ♪ you should shop at grocery outlet first, ♪ ♪ because their prices are up to 60%

jeff pierce.>> if you are coming into san francisco, wanted to remind you that the major closure taking place on van ness avenue is happening between post and ellis streets. >> it is not expected to open until 1:00 tomorrow morning. the reason for the shut down is that it can start on a pedestrian turn. it will connect the new medical center and medical building on van ness avenue in san francisco. >> well, president obama is back in washington this morning after attending summit of the americas in panama. the president made history meeting with raul contracts tree. it is the -- raul castro. >> jim acosta from cnn takes a look at the historic meeting. >> it is a cold war no more. as the president and raul castro came face to face, the first exchange between u.s. and cuban leaders since mr. obama was even born. >> it was time to try something new. >> we are welling to discuss everything. >> but we need to be patient. >> the president told leaders gathered at the summit in panama. he wants to turn t

san francisco celebrates the largest cherry blossom festival on the west coast calls jeff pierce reports from behind the scenes >> reporter: the japanese club of el cerrito high school practices twice a week. >> : this is a fisherman that's it and tell by the movements is like pulling the rope is done to encourage the fisherman to keep looking harder. >> : news it music >> : chanting and music >> : is important to add the we can to keep the japanese culture alive >> : since i was a cat i've always been a fan of asian culture food martial arts lang which was really you need to make language. >> : not only are you getting experience of dancing and you're also watching other performers as well and you try to learn through the dance moves. >> : cultural changes as one of the things the week this world has to offer a nest we're doing our part to keep this culture alive. >> reporter: at el cerrito high school jeff pierce kron 4 news >> catherine heenan: and the cherry blossom festival continues in san francisco's japan town next weekend one of the highlights is sunday afternoons parade for a f

that we want and need to keep going on in the future. >> reporter: at tokonoma and pacific but jeff pierce reporter: plus we have lots of sunshine with cooler temperatures them had today we were really one with a east today. 80s all over the place 84 in oakland '70s all went out to the ocean but things are changing for tonight just a little bit beyond the winds of a pickup low clouds. that will make for slightly cooler weather by the bay and on the arrests of four test coming up >> pam: well the royal baby watch has started for the duke and duchess of cambridge get ready for the birth of their second child. the hospital where the baby will be born is making preparations to managed the expected crowd of people hoping to see the on this royal cnn world kind of correspondence max auster has this report from buckingham palace >> reporter: the baby is due sometime before the end of month the media is already starting to take their positions there. more positions are being marked out outside the hospital. and if you roll fans the party turned up their already >> : we're booked into a war till we

. >> pam: kron 4's jeff pierce spoke with a wild life expert who has been studying the big cats usingadult female and she has been visiting the same camera location for at least a year. >> reporter:steven bobzien is a wild life ecologist for the east bay regional park district and for several years now he has been studying mountain using motion sensing cameras. >>ohlone wilderness which is a very remote contiguous out path highly suitable for mountain lions. as the animal passes the view of the camera will take a whole series of images of the animal. >> reporter:bobzien hopes his cameras mystery surrounding mountain lions in the east bay. >>what the remote camera study is going to help us do is possible figure out what the population is and where some of these cats may or may not be coming from. >> reporter:the cameras have captured hundreds of pictures of mountain lions in just a small part of the park. >>the cameras have taken about three hundred and ninety eight pictures of the mountain lions and having that many photos allowed us to identify at least nine individuals within this r

his name is jeff pierce and we had jeff on "good day philadelphia" this morning. >> are you truly single. >> great. >> single for how long. >> how long have you been single single. >> if do you your job today, i don't know. >> you're looking for love? is that what you're saying? >> when it comes to -- >> you said if we do our job right f we find someone for you will you go out on a date with them. >> you're pushing this on me. >> here we go. >> i'll hold you. okay go. >> he showed some of this moves with alex sitting on his back. >> lucky alec. >> there you go. >> hey howard. >> i guess. the nfl has come down hard on one of its players which is led to 10 game suspension and that will effect the eagles and the phillies played a really sloppy game as cole hamels was looking for his first win of the season much that's all coming up in sports. keep up with those everyday messes with the help of roomba from irobot. a full suite of sensors automatically guides roomba around your home, going under furniture and along edges while avoiding stairs. and its powerful 3-stage cleaning system sweeps b

. >> jeff pierce. a man expected to survive aver she was shot mlt times outside of an apartment building. it happened around 6:30 last night. on carolina street. they found the man outside the building in one of the walkways with multiple gunshot wounds. he was taken to a hospital and the shooting remains under investigation. >> taxes are due april 15th. people who got help paying for health insurance under the new health care law are seeing a direct impact on their refunds. the law offers tax credits so people who wees employers don't offer health insurance can buy private coverage. tough estimate what you expect to make. that's going to challenge a lot of people. 5 #% of its commerce dpot health insurance ended up owing money. about third over the estimate resundayed it not. 365-dollars on average. >>> coming up, a search for a r?kada couple who's 3-year-old baby was dead. >> a live look outside of san francisco from our camera along the embarked. cloudy skies subsidy skies. an afternoon high of 57 w