health and science editor john fowler live now with a story you will see only on two. john-- >> reporter: well, they are trying to solve a bit of a medical mystery. the gorilla is now awake and alert after the surgery. technicians anecessitate his sister zura and took her to the zoo hospital. >> she's like my baby, sort of. one of my babies and she's at the hospital. so i'm a little nervous. >> reporter: gorillas are vulnerable to human disease so the rest of us wear masks. >> she has had chronic medical bones with her gastrointestinal tract, mainly diarrhea, bloat. >> reporter: unlike other gorillas, she will eat items dropped at her reach. doctors needed to get a closer look, so this first of its kind called a capsule endoscopy, which is a tiny camera put down zura's intestines. >> we think she's suffering of chrones disease. >> reporter: dr. shield donated his services. dr.shield says they should have results in the next couple of days. visitors can help by not dropping or throwing objects into the animal enclosures. john fowler, ktvu news. >> that is really somethin

john fowler joins us now.'s in oakland with the research. >> reporter: researchers say microbes found in northern california mud redesign life as we know it. due east of the bay area near yosemite, the sierra's volcanic lake, full of arsenic where these bacteria thrive. turning life science as we know it upside down. >> this is a huge deal. this is a phenomenal finding. we're talking about taking the fundamental life and replacing one of them. >> reporter: phosphorous the very like form of life is replaced by arsenic, it's the only life form known to do so. discovered by felisia wolf- simon. >> and if there's organism doing something different, we've cracked open the world to what's possible in other worlds. >> reporter: it's hard to overstate the impact of finding life operating by different rules. >> how is it that these organisms cannot be poisoned by arsenic at these high concentrations. that's a major research, how do organisms cope with toxins. >> maybe we'll be able to find et now, because we have more

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new details are just coming in about a deadly bus stop along the peninsula today. coming up, we just learned about the woman who was killed today. >>> it's going to be different. >> the next two years, yes are going to be very challenging. >>> a bay area lawmakers are bracing for the power shift in washington -- how bay area lawmakers are bracing for the power shift in washington. >>> got out of the truck and just immediately told the bus driver stop. stop stop. >>> an eyewitness talking tonight about a horrible scene in palo alto today. he was watching as a bus hit and killed a woman who was crossing the street. it happened this morning, another woman told us he spoke to the victim as she was on the ground just moments before she died. maureen naylor is live with new information about that victim. >> reporter: in just the last half hour police have told us the woman who was killed in this intersection was a traveling nurse from cupertino. the driver who hit her was making a left hand turn on university avenue it hit her in the crosswalk. both the

but there are some things that you need to know to protect yourself and john fowler is live tonight in santa clara to explain. john? >> reporter: we're at ecs r efining. it's the biggest bay area electronic cycler. they go like this 24/7. i want to show you a tiny fraction of 150 tons of televisions. computers and electronic games, cell phones, things that they will smash, shift through and in some cases salvage just today. this is the busiest time of the year in the e waste business. >> people are buying things for christmas, getting rid of their old things. it's probably a 10% to 15% u ptick over normal months. >> reporter: in the bay area alone this month, people will throw away about 110 million tons of waste. landfills no longer take this stuff. we are in truth electronics, consumers. >> i've got computer, printer, tvs. >> we have a wii, we have a psb. plasmas. >> reporter: best buy stores o ffer a $10 coupon if you return old electronics for recycling. >> we're getting a new one we are gonna research where to recycle it. >> reporter: 75% of the waste ends up in asia and africa wh

reporting live, health and science editor, john fowler. >>> two airlines have bumped into each other today in st. louis. a u.s. airways plane clipped a united airlines plane. the airport says that no passengers were hurt. the planes were inspected for damage which appeared to be minimal but both flights were cancelled. >>> coming up next at 6:00, it's happened again, another large pothole this time it shut down an off ramp. even though the repairs are done, that ramp will not be open until tomorrow. >>> an on another bay area freeway, you don't see this every day. why all the money from one armored car had to be transferred to another armored car today. >>> it's like the wifi you find at a coffee shot but this time on a large scale. >>> what happened tonight at disneyland for the second straight day, it's something that is almost unheard of. those stories and more coming up next at 6:00. >>> and a troop believed to be controversial in china will perform tonight in san francisco. the dancers say they tell stories of virtue as they entertain the audience. one of the dancers is from pal

john fowler has the story. >> reporter: her story is uplifting. firefighters and sheriff's responded and they have a story to tell about the first question is how this 2-year-old cal fell into a were covered while. >> well, the plywood was rotten. it was not strong enough, so that's how the the cal fell. >> reporter: he said he held up her head and he would not let his blue button-down. >> this is a unique problem because of the terrain surrounding the well. >> reporter: they brought in a pump and dumped out thousands of pounds of water. >> it took probably a good 45 minutes to an hour to get all of the water out of the well. >> reporter: now want to? enrolled a crane and a buckaroo came with ropes. >> we employed the cowboy to go down pit he knew how to strap the cow up. >> she is on the hill behind us right now so it is a happy ending. >> reporter: they are now as good as it gets. he says his cows are not to be slaughtered and will live as pets and will likely remember this day for a long time. >>> all lanes leading into yosemite national park a

science editor john fowler, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> good news for san francisco in its bid to host the america's cup in 2013. the only city in contention now is new port, rhode island. today the head of that state's economic department raised doubts about whether new port could afford to host the race. he said new port would not be ready to commit to being a contender by the december 31st deadline set by the race organizers. along with san francisco an unnamed italian city is vying to host the next america's cup. >>> outgoing san francisco mayor gavin newsom launched a new plan to revitalize part of market street. the mayor says market street is effectively san francisco's main street. he wants to transform it from the embarcadero up to octavia street. the idea is to attract more people to shop but no word yet on what city officials plan to do. >>> an unusual joint offer food for marijuana. organizers say the effort paid off for the second harvest food bank in watsonville. from november through christmas eve medical marijuana patients at this marijuana dispensary received a complim

science editor john fowler, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> good news for san francisco in its bid to hosthe america's cup in 2013. the only city in contention now is new port, rhode island. today the head of that state's economic department raised doubts about whether new port could afford to host the race. he said new port would not be ready to commit to being a contender by the december 31st deadline set by the race organizers. along with san francisco an unnamed italian city is vying to host the next america's cup. >>> outgoing san francisco mayor gavin newsom launched a new plan to revitalize part of market street. the mayor says market street is effectively san francisco's main street. he wants to transform it from the embarcadero up to octavia street. the idea is to attract more people to shop but no word yet on what city officials plan to do. >>> an unusual joint offer food for marijuana. organizers say the effort paid off for the second harvest food bank in watsonville. from november through christmas eve medical marijuana patients at this marijuana dispensary received a complimen

ktvu science reporter john fowler has our report. >> reporter: the city hall glows red for 25 million worldwide aids deaths. at golden gate parks age memorial grove a moving ceremony. the campbells remember a son and brother. >> our family comes, like, every year to this. so it is kind of a big day. >> reporter: gloria brought flowers for lost friends. >> i am benefitting from the therapies. but you know, there is a tremendous loss that we have to honor. >> reporter: some recalled scarier times. >> it felt like a war. and as opposed to being surrounded by bombs and carnage, you were being surrounded by death. >> reporter: 30 years ago this street was ground zero for what then was a 100% rapidly fatal epidemic. today medical science has turned it into a chronic manageable disease. now the issue is aging with hiv. >> i've been positive for 25 years. i was diagnosed in 1985. >> reporter: 62-year-old kelly houston says three anti-virals keep him healthy. he volunteers for clinical trials. >> there is always the hope and always the possibility. and the necessity to figure this out. >> repo

ktvu science reporter john fowler has our report. >> reporter: the city hall glows red for 25 million worldwide aids deaths. at golden gate parks age memorial grove a moving ceremony. the campbells remember a son and brother. >> our family comes, like, every year to this. so it is kind of a big day. >> reporter: gloria brought flowers for lost friends. >> i am benefitting from the therapies. but you know, there is a tremendous loss that we have to honor. >> reporter: some recalled scarier times. >> it felt like a war. and as opposed to being surrounded by bombs and carnage, you were being surrounded by death. >> reporter: 30 years ago this street was ground zero for what then was a 100% rapidly fatal epidemic. today medical science has turned it into a chronic manageable disease. now the issue is aging with hiv. >> i've been positive for 25 years. i was diagnosed in 1985. >> reporter: 62-year-old kelly houston says three anti-virals keep him healthy. he volunteers for clinical trials. >> there is always the hope and always the possibility. and the necessity to figure this out. >> repo

here is john fowler's report from christmas day, nine years ago. >> reporter: they came this christmas morning to nature's own whapel by the sea, san francisco's ocean beach. some, such as engineer paul chan said this christmas seems different. >> i was just sitting here, it feels a little bit different. i think there are a lot of things that are going well for me and a kweisi mfume of things that aren't, but it's just nice to be out here c. cyclist david wulf said september 11th changed christmas for him. >> it's my toast to do at christmas and i'm going to bring that point up. we all fee very fortunate to have come through this incident and come through about our heads high as a country. >> reporter: the lynch family said their traditional christmas day dog walk at the beach took on a special memeaning this year. >> my traditions are going ooutlast anything. nobody could do anything to change nem. >> given what happened september 101th, i think it changed everybody's lives, especially mine and it's affected my kids and everybody that you talk to. i think just that you hold life more

health and science editor john fowler has the unique story. >> reporter: at the gorilla enclosure, dominic silverback watched intently as his sister was anesthetized and took her to the zoo hospital. >> she's like my baby, sort of, one of my babies, at the hospital, and i'm nervous. >> reporter: gorillas vulnerable to human disease, so the rest of us wear masks. >> she's had chronic medical problems with her gastrointestinal track, mainly diarrhea, constipation, bloat. >> reporter: unlike the other gorillas, it will eat stuff dropped within her reach. >> she has gi issues, and we're wondering whether it is because of that or something else going on. >> reporter: as with any other patient doctors needed to get a closer look. so this first of its kind procedure called a capsule endoscopy, in which a tiny video camera is actually inserted into zura's intestines. >> we think probably she has crohn's disease based on markers, blood tests that we have taken on her. >> reporter: gorillas carry the gene for crone's, a sometimes fatal autoimmune disease. powerful drugs can treat it. >> all of the d

in 2001 john fowler brought us a story of how that came to be. >> reporter: their planes were unreliable, under powered and unable to cope with bad weather. pilots risked their lives and many died flying the mail. but those pioneering airmail pilots shrank our world in the 20th century. in 1903 bicycle makers willber and oroville writing took to the sky in their airplanes. the first flight stunned the world. inspired people and inventories such as glenn curtis. it also set postal officials thinking. the first to act was here in northern california, post master je holmestead of petaluma. he asked a local race car driver turned aviator named fred weissman to fly the mail. he had this airplane now in the postal museum in washington, d.c. weissman has just flown his almost other identical airplane in the big aviation show in san francisco. that plane, the diamond is now at the pillar aviation museum. he had no air know nautical training but had built these airplanes after seeing pictures of the wright and curtis airplanes. >> instead of having today like a stick that you turn left and right

health and science editor john fowler, c tv u channel 2 news. >>> three major airlines say they're raising prices effective immediately. united, cont nental say they're boosting fares on many domestic flights and they say the move may anticipate rising fuel costs or in an attempt to recoup an estimated $100 million loss from flights canceled in recent days because of bad weather. >>> a leading index of home prices shows a shore one month drop in the bay area. the monthly shiller open price report released yesterday shows prices fell 1.9% from september to october but year-over-year the bay area's prices were up 2.2% in october. nationwide prices in the 20 largest metro areas all posted a decline in october. on wall street stocks flucuated in a narrow range and ended the day mostly flat on light volume and did manage to gain 20 points notching the highest close in more than two years. the nasdaq lost 4 points. >>> apple is a us coulded of violating privacy and fraud laws in a lawsuit that seeks to gain class action status. the company is accused of encoding iphones and ipads with devices th

. >> reporter: health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu. >>> some residents of san francisco alongth some in marin county are about to lose their super mark. delano is closing five of the seven stores. customers of the 24 hour store on 18th street near castro in san francisco said the store is going to be sorely missed. >> it's my all night refrigerator and i don't think it's going to be all night anymore. it's very sad. i've lived here for 16 years and they're like family. >>> an attorney for delano said the store owed a million dollars of unpaid rent. >>> and the community stepped up to help a school that was hit by thieves. the thieves made off with $50,000 worth of laptops and i pads. police say they have noment ises but police are investigating footage from campus security cameras. >>> the state agency has released the list of 40 bay area companies that owe the state back taxes. topping the list is a shipping company. c & jc usa incorporated. a cement company is said to owe $3 million. and dillan, dillan american foreign center -rpblgs we tried to reach the company, but two co

. >> reporter: health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu. >>> some residents of san francisco alongth some in marin county are about to lose their super mark. delano is closing five of the seven stores. customers of the 24 hour store on 18th street near castro in san francisco said the store is going to be sorely missed. >> it's my all night refrigerator and i don't think it's going to be all night anymore. it's very sad. i've lived here for 16 years and they're like family. >>> an attorney for delano said the store owed a million dollars of unpaid rent. >>> and the community stepped up to help a school that was hit by thieves. the thieves made off with $50,000 worth of laptops and i pads. police say they have noment ises but police are investigating footage from campus security cameras. >>> the state agency has released the list of 40 bay area companies that owe the state back taxes. topping the list is a shipping company. c & jc usa incorporated. a cement company is said to owe $3 million. and dillan, dillan american foreign center -rpblgs we tried to reach the company, but two co

john fowler is live tonight with our story. >> reporter: researchers found it in northern california mud. a tiny microbe that is so fundamentally changes the way people look at it it violates the rules of life on earth. due east of the bay area near yosemite, the volcanic bay where these extraordinary bacteria thrive. turning life science as we know it upside down. >> this is a huge deal. this is a phenomenal finding. we are talking about taking the fundamental building blocks of life and replacing one of them. >> reporter: in the bacteria's bna,phosphorous is replaced with arsenic. it's the only life form to do so. discovered by bay area geomicrobiologis, felisa wolfe- simon. arsenic is not arsenic to every living thing. >> how is it that this organism cannot be poison by arsenic at these high concentrations. that's major research in bio chemicals is how do organisms cope with toxins. >> maybe we will be able to look -- >> reporter: scientists may check again for arsenic based microbes. a more earthly use is to come up with an arsenic eating bacteria. arsenic is a major problem for

john fowler reports. >> reporter: it's cell phone video from airport public areas. >> you can see airport security is kind of a farce. >> reporter: you tube video posted by 50-year-old airline pilot chris lou waving his notebook here. he says the tsa reaction surprised him. >> i up loaded the video to get the reaction from the you tube committee, community. >> reporter: the tsa has not addressed lou's claim that employees entered the airport by a simple card swipe. lou and his lawyers say it's a well known loophole that needs to be addressed that they've heard from hundredsover pilots and ground crew. >> who have all said unequivocally that this problem exists. >> let me make it clear that i have the up most represent of the pilots and crew. >>> california soon to be governor jerry brown will get to decide whether the pursue the sale of 11 state buildings. today the state supreme court denied governor arnold schwarzenegger final plea to allow him to complete the sale before he leaves office. arnold schwarzenegger says selling the buildings and leasing them back would save the state money.

john fowler reports. >> reporter: it's cell phone video from airport public areas. >> you can see airport security is kind of a farce. >> reporter: you tube video posted by 50-year-old airline pilot chris lou waving his notebook here. he says the tsa reaction surprised him. >> i up loaded the video to get the reaction from the you tube committee, community. >> reporter: the tsa has not addressed lou's claim that employees entered the airport by a simple card swipe. lou and his lawyers say it's a well known loophole that needs to be addressed that they've heard from hundredsover pilots and ground crew. >> who have all said unequivocally that this problem exists. >> let me make it clear that i have the up most represent of the pilots and crew. >>> california soon to be governor jerry brown will get to decide whether the pursue the sale of 11 state buildings. today the state supreme court denied governor arnold schwarzenegger final plea to allow him to complete the sale before he leaves office. arnold schwarzenegger says selling the buildings and leasing them back would save the state money.