john fowler b i r thless -- births. john fowler is live now with the story. >> reporter: pardon the word, but this is all about eggs. invitro fertilization doctors may only implant five eggs. limiting invitro fertilization to just one egg at a time could mean 16,000 fewer premies a year in the icu. saving $800 million and 800 little lives each year. >> it's important that we diminish the number of multiple gestation pregnancies that we're creating through these technologies. >> reporter: but dr. herbert told me that mothers may see that unfair. it's a very expensive process to only implant one egg. but remember octomom. but there's ways to make sure this fertilization does not go wrong. three eggs for say a woman of about 42. but the idea of a single egg transfer regulation restriction has been tried in europe and recently in canada with a 90% reduction in multiple births. john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> at this hour, cal state university sacramento students are occupying a campus building for a second straight da

as ktvu and science editor john fowler reports, this eventually could mean fewer big earthquakes. >> reporter: called the world's most dangerous fault, the heyward fault cuts through east bay communities. scientists tell me it's already taking up 1/4 of san andrea strain. >> the heyward fault is trying to be the new center of risk, if you will. >> reporter: the reason, this kink in the santa cruz mountains and the fault is trying to reduce friction by straightening out fracturing north. that would chip san francisco and the peninsula off the north american plate. >> i think it's all shifting. i think the whole world is kind of in an active volcanic and earthquake activity right now. >> reporter: scientists say the bay area's hazard remains significant. >> hopefully i'm not here when the big one hits. >> reporter: a new study today reveals the straightening model in the southern part of the san andrea where a big quake is already overdue. researchers say at another kink north of palm springs the san

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> two dozen paramedics were honored for going beyond the call of duty. they awarded 27 paramedics and emergency medical technicians. among them was a pair of medics from sonoma county who helped deliver a baby on christmas eve. many of the ambulance workers visited the state capital. >>> a warning tonight for bay area beachgoers and what animal rescue groups are saying about critters may seem approachable enough. >> wet weather could return to the bay area tomorrow. chief meteorologist bill martin will tell us where it will get whacked and if it will impact your commute. >> pretty cute. dozens of seals are at the mammal center being rehabilitated. they warned people to stay away from baby seals. it may appear abandoned when the mother is out for food. they recommend calling the marine mammal center rather than interfering. >> time now to talk about the weather. >> i have wind gusts of 20-25 miles per hour. we go to live storm tracker two. i had gusts of 25 at golden gate bridge. temperatures are on the cool side. today's temperatures were in the mi

ktvu's health and science editor john fowler joins us with an idea that could save lives. >> reporter what you see here are bags of drinking water. it is saltwater from the bay. a few seconds after treatment, safe drinking water. >> reporter: it's pumping the water out -- >> using this red hose to our emergency response trailer. >> reporter: inside they showed me a series of filters and pumps that turns sea water into drunking water in seconds. designed fordisasters like another earthquake. >> we want to get water to victims as quickly as possible. we can bag them anddistribute them as quickly as possible. >> reporter: the bags are tough, the system's power is as clean as the water. this mobile solar power system is unhampered by weather. >> overcast is not a problem. >> reporter: one already sold to canada. they say they're also talking to the military about a battlefield version. and they say this unit can supply emergency drinking water for about 5,000 people a day indefinitely. reporting live, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> authorities are trying to find the source of a wid

at time kutv's john fowler filed in report on what investigators were looking at as they tried to figureout what happened. >> reporter: federal investigators today picked through the crash site and say they never before had seen a simultaneous double wing failure on the plane. three crewmen die in the firefighting crash caught on videotape. the airplane was making a routine down wind, downhill fire retardant drop when both wings failed and caught fire investigators can't say whether fire or failure happened first. >> we need to enhance some of the pictures and study them a little bit more to figure out which came first. we have conflicting witness statements as to which came first, but we have some very good evidence to work with. >> reporter: a crucial clue is where the wing failed. it was right where the fuselage and wing meet, what engineers call the wing route, normally the strongest part of any airplane. expert say that points to two factors. metal fatigue and speed. >> if you exceed the structural capability of the wing by maneuvering it quickly, you can rip the wings off. >> repor

health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> people across california joined hands today to support community colleges. in san francisco's porters marched in front of city college before taking part of the joining hands ceremony. this group featured a lot of senior citizens who say they appreciate the computer and exercise classes they take at sf college. >> anybody who has ever been to community college and having been to two of them in my life, i know we can't do without them. it's a great opportunity. >> other hands event took place throughout california. over 10 million americans attend community college. an estimated 200,000 students may not be able to go to school next fall. >>> a catholic congregation in southern california celebrated mass on this palm sunday despite the devastating loss of their church. an arsonist set the church on fire. the fire burned for more than three hours and cost $8 million in damage. a priest escaped the flames and was treated at the scene for minor injuries. today's mass was held at a hall in the same parish. >>> president obama w

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >> a water main break flooded an oakland street today. a construction crew working in the area hit a water main. no word on how much water gushed from the pipe. >>> a lot more water in los angeles today. look at this. a driver ran into a fire hydrenderant. soaking vehicles nearby. thousands of gallons went shooting sky ward. they had a tough time turning the water off. >>> a deadly storm today killing 18 people. we have tornado pictures to show you here from alabama. there are reports the twister hit a hospital there. authorities blame the storm for 12 deaths in alabama. 5 in mississippi and one in arkansas. that region has just been hammered lately. >> this is that time of year. let's go to storm tracker 2. tornado warnings in effect now. right now. here. flash flood warnings as well because of all the rain. bad news for them. i will back it out. if you are traveling across the mid-section you will experience flight delays from the storms. different story around here. things settling down. high clouds. patchy coastal fog. shows up and go

. >>> i'm john fowler with a first of its kind organ donation chain. why give a body part to someone you don't know? we'll explain next. >>> the oakland a's opened their season tonight with a loss to the seattle mariners. fans are worried the team will leave oakland. ktvu's eric rasmussen is live at the coliseum where there might be some new hope tonight. >> maybe just a little bit. believe it or not tonight was actually a sell out. more than 36,000, the team even sold another thousand standing room only tickets. a lot of those fans were wearing t-shirts like this one. they were urging and demanding ownership let the team stay here in oakland. >> drive to left. >> reporter: new and improved a's have hopes of winning on the field. but if the team will stay in oakland they'll have to win over fans like owenson. >> i just feel like we're second class citizens. >> reporter: he cancelled his season tickets because of concern. >> we're smart consumers. when we don't think we're getting our money's worth. we put it some where else. >> reporter: now lewis is b

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> go ahead and pull up a seat. the interesting opportunity bart is giving its riders as the agency looks to its future. gabrielle giffords is being told what happened the day of the shooting. her reaction and the details still being kept from her. >>> bart leaders want your opinion on something up close and personal. the train seats. a lab has been created to get feed back on the seating for future cars. you can comment on things. we took our own survey. had get rid of the fabric. >> comfortable and clean. >> cleaner seats. they are nasty. dirty. >> the lab will taken to community centers and events. go to www.ktvu.com to learn when it will be at a location near new. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords started to learn the details of the shooting in january that left her with a shot to the head. gabrielle giffords' reacted by saying so many people and no, no, no. she is still unaware a staffer, a judge and a 9-year-old girl are among those killed. this friday she is expected to attend the launch of the space shutt

as john fowler reports, it was the first blast of a new tsunami disaster warning system. >> reporter: at three minutes after 1:00 it barely raised an eyebrow. the first test of the tiburon's new warning system. >> i watch out for -- tsunamis? emergencies? >> i knew exactly what it meant. it was a tsunami warning and i saw it on channel 2 this morning. >> reporter: tsunamis in tiburon? >> it was a surreal experience. >> reporter: next time a firefighter could push this siren button. >> a steady siren. when people hear this they can tune into radio station 840 and hear what the emergency might be. >> again, the siren that is being sounded is a the test. >> reporter: we're prone to a lot of differentty disasters in this area: >> reporter: officials tell us today's sirens was not loud enough. they plan to install more towers for the system like this one. john fowler ktvu channel 2 news. >>> san jose's butcher park is open to dogs again following the mysterious death of a family pet that was on this newscast next sunday. the city first reported that the city closed the park after a dog bec

our john fowler explains more. john. >> reporter: well, an airliner is really a tube under pressure like this balloon, at altitude higher pressure inside helps passengers breathe and make the airplane stronger. but like a balloon, inflate and deflate too many times, engineers say the rip in the roof happened right where they inspected it on what's called a lap joint between sheets of aluminum. >> they are a point where you typically have higher stresses because the sheets are not perfectly aligned so there's a little bit of bending here. >> reporter: i spoke with aviation accident expert roland hewitt. on each climb to high altitude, air pressure, 2 tons per square foot pushes out from inside the cabin, then relaxes on descent. that's one. records show the jet had an unusually high number of cycles, 39,000. that's one for about every hour, 10 minutes of flight time. experts say 737s are favorites of short haul airlines and so are more prone to this problem. >> their airplanes have more of short hops and therefore th

reporting live, health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu news. >>> ktvu.com has more information on the tainted meat study as well as on staph infections. just look under the ktvu.com right now section on our home page. >>> well san francisco is trying to head off another lawsuit against the city's ban on tobacco sales in stores containing pharmacies. the pleasantton based company calls the ban arbitrary. the california court of appeals refuses to dismiss the case that is if it does both sides will meet in court in june. a similar lawsuit by phillip morris was thrown out. >>> california's unemployment picture brightened a bit last month. the state's jobless rate slipped to 12% in march that is 1% lower than in february. and 4% lower than in march of 2010. here is how the jobless numbers broke down in the bay area. solano county has the highest unemployment rate at 12.3%. marin county has the lowest at 8.0. >>> there's good news and bad news tonight on how much money americans are spending. the labor department says consumer prices were up. about half a percent in march. that's th

john fowler explains why the problem happened in the popular 737 plane. >> it is a point where you typically have higher stressors because the sheets are not perfectly aligned so there is a little bit of bending. >> reporter: i spoke with expert roylan hewitt, air pressure, 2 tons per square- foot pushes out and then relaxes in one cycle. the jet had an unusually high number of cycles, 39,000. that is one for about every one hour 10 minutes of flight time. experts say that 730 sevens are favorites and are more prone to this problem. >> they accumulate more cycles. >> two decades ago the roof ripped off and aloha airlines 737, a flight attendant was sucked to her death. a china air 737 crashed, killing 225. the faa fined southwest three years ago for failing to inspect the fuselage cracks. huyett says failures are rare. >> they will happen. >> reporter: he expects the faa will require thorough and more frequent inspections on airliners. >>> a former star for the golden state warriors will be inducted into the basketball hall of fame. he and nine others were elected to day. he was a standout a

as ktvu and science editor john fowler reports, this eventually could mean fewer big earthquakes. >> reporter: called the world's most dangerous fault, the heyward fault cuts through east bay communities. scientists tell me it's already taking up 1/4 of san andrea strain. >> the heyward fault is trying to be the new center of risk, if you will. >> reporter: the reason, this kink in the santa cruz mountains and the fault is trying to reduce friction by straightening out fracturing north. that would chip san francisco and the peninsula off the north american plate. >> i think it's all shifting. i think the whole world is kind of in an active volcanic and earthquake activity right now. >> reporter: scientists say the bay area's hazard remains significant. >> hopefully i'm not here when the big one hits. >> reporter: a new study today reveals the straightening model in the southern part of the san andrea where a big quake is already overdue. researchers say at another kink north of palm springs the san andrea jumped two faults. >> it shows how over time they've containinged and rearrange

john fowler first brought us this report the day before the henley was brought to the surface. >> reporter 30 feet below the surface of these calm south carolina waters lies a civil war submarine thought to be the watery grave of nine confederate members. tomorrow, the henley and presumably remains of the men inside are scheduled to rise to the surface 136 years after they sunk off the coast of charleston. >> i can guarantee i will cry. i will. i get tears in my eyes when i think about the bravery of these men. to get them home after all these years and get them out of that cold seabed, i'm going to cry. >> reporter: today it's hard to make up the henley half buried in the sand. but a replica shows its daring resign for the time. authorities say the henley is the first to sink a ship during war. the hunley's crew ran it like a bomb on a stick singing the ship with its crew of five. then the henley itself sank, no one knows why. >> they were committed to the blockage, that's all that mattered to them. >> reporter: in 1995, adventure author found the ship. and what took years to find will ta

now, even though much of the oil appears to be gone, ktvu's john fowler shows us how the people in the gulf area are still very much affected. >> reporter: 11 workers dead, 87 days of gushing oil, more than 200 million-gallons, 20 times exxon valdez today the beaches look clean but they still find sea turtles dead in disturbing numbers. >> it is ten to 15 fold increase which is significant. >> reporter: crews still work marshing fouled by oil. >> this is still about an ecosystem. >> reporter: and fishermen still suffer. >> i can't catch crab. there is none out here. where they won't we don't know. record shrimping off 80%. >> they took away you know everything i worked for and everything i love to do. it's a culture down here. >> reporter: bp has paid $4 billion in claims. >> so i think in terms of speed and generosity we are doing it right. >> reporter: greed and questionable made a few insiders profiteers so-called spillmillionaires. some are still waiting for checks. >> i don't believe anything they tell us anymore. >> reporter: last month they created an industry safety industry. g

. >>> ktvu's health and science editor john fowler is live in alameda with how vegetables have inspired a new anti cancer craze. >> reporter: the idea is sunscreen that kills cancer. by preventing damaged skin from becoming melanoma. despite a billion dollars a year in sunscreen sales, skin cancer is on the rise. >> my wife and i are aware of it and we use sunscreen every time we come to the beach. >> reporter: melanoma runs in families. >> my mother has had numerous precancerous things removed. >> i always try to put the highest sunscreen that i can. >> but it does nothing for precancerous spots. so penn state scientists look to anti cancerous compound. researchers tell us that the reoccurring molecule in broccoli is too weak, but by tinkering with the molecule they were able to come up with a precancerous fighting compound. it reduced premelanoma tumors. >> it maybe an additional thing they could add to sunscreen. >> reporter: mcmahon says despite discovery nothing is better than this. >> minimizing exposure in the first place. if you can do that that will further prevent melanoma. >>

now, even though much of the oil appears to be gone, ktvu's john fowler shows us how the people in theulf area are still very much affected. >> reporter: 11 workers dead, 87 days of gushing oil, more than 200 million-gallons, 20 times exxon valdez today the beaches look clean but they still find sea turtles dead in disturbing numbers. >> it is ten to 15 fold increase which is significant. >> reporter: crews still work marshing fouled by oil. >> this is still about an ecosystem. >> reporter: and fishermen still suffer. >> i can't catch crab. there is none out here. where they won't we don't know. record shrimping off 80%. >> they took away you know everything i worked for and everything i love to do. it's a culture down here. >> reporter: bp has paid $4 billion in claims. >> so i think in terms of speed and generosity we are doing it right. >> reporter: greed and questionable made a few insiders profiteers so-called spillmillionaires. some are still waiting for checks. >> i don't believe anything they tell us anymore. >> reporter: last month they created an industry safety industry. gov

reporting live in the hayward fault, john fowler. >>> nummi operators have voted to authorize a strike. that does not mean that cable cars would stop running right away. dennis herr era says that -- >> david stevenson talked to a bus rider that recognized her behind the wheel. >> reporter: for the second time in a month a nummi l train is caught on cell phone video speeding through a tunnel with its door open. the man who shot this video would not talk to us on camera but says passengers were stunned when the train left the station with the door wide open. another train that left a station with the door open got the train operator fired. >> we're still looking at the video today. >> reporter: nummi officials are also at a loss today to explain why this bus driver was allowed to work thursday after being caught on cell phone video last february texting while driving. >> right now we're looking as to why she was there yet. the bottom line is she shouldn't have been. the man who recorded the texting video reported seeing her behind the wheel again. when the driver showed up to work yet ag

john fowler is here with a warning and what this means for our aging population. >> reporter: and because its based on an earlier type, it did not have to go through clinical trial. but it may grind off bone here. two years after her ars hip implant, she can barely walk and it's getting worse. >> i will just break out in tears because the pain is so excruciating. >> reporter: plus she says she's chronically fatigued. a reaction to cobalt dust grinding off in her hip. >> my body is a ticking time bomb and i'm shocked. >> the fact they kept marketing these for so long after they knew there was a problem, and they knew people were suffering. is outrageous. >> reporter: chris cox told us that they continued to -- >> reporter: terry galloway says she's tired of suffering. >> i have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow at noon and we're going to discuss the removal of this instrument. >> reporter: doctors perform a quarter million hip implants. some are calling for tightening of devices. johnson & johnson has declined comment on if lawsuit. >>> hundreds gathered in san francisco today to brin

reporting live, john fowler, ktvu news. >>> an apparent mechanical glitch is to blame for activating a siren. it's one of the 17 emergency warning signals in richmond. a malfunction triggered that alarm at about 7:10 this morning. a crew is set to investigate and deactivated it about 30 minutes later. >>> redwood city has approved a plan to consolidate its fire department with the city of san pablo. it could save both cities $79 million a year. the deal still has to be approved by the city of san carlos. >>> california utilities will have to draw a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020. governor jerry brown signed a legislation into law today at the sun power solar power manufactured site in milpitas. >> today we have something that is a real success story. it's california leading the country. >> governor brown says the law could lead to tens of thousands of new jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. also today, the department is releasing loans for the sun power plan. budget talk could lead to a breakthrough at 6:15 you will hear why unicorns dominated talk today at

ktvu's health and science editor john fowler spoke to an expert and found why this particular aircrafts susceptible. >> reporter: engineers say the rip in the roof happened right where they expected it in what's called a lap joint between sheets of aluminum. >> they are a point where you typically have higher stresses. there's a little bit of bending here. >> reporter: i spoke to roland huet. air pressure two tons per square food pushes out of the cabin, then relaxes on departure. experts say 736s are favorites and likely prone to these problems. a china air 737 crashed nine years ago killing 225. the faa fined southwest three years ago for failing to inspect cracks. >> they will happen. they don't have a catastrophe consequences. >> reporter: huet says he believes the faa will require stricter items. >>> the over all quality of lair line service rose last year according to the. on time performance rose to 80s%. the rate of lost bagged was bumped. >>> air tran was number one followed by hawaii, jet blue, alaska and southwest. researchers made the rankings by compares on time performanc

ktvu's health and science editor john fowler spoke to an expert and found why this particular aircraft is susceptible. >> reporter: engineers say the rip in the roof happened right where they expected it in what's called a lap joint between sheets of aluminum. >> they are a point where you typically have higher stresses. there's a little bit of bending here. >> reporter: i spoke to roland huet. air pressure two tons per square food pushes out of the cabin, then relaxes on departure. experts say 736s are favorites and likely prone to these problems. a china air 737 crashed nine years ago killing 225. the faa fined southwest three years ago for failing to inspect cracks. >> they will happen. they don't have a catastrophe consequences. >> reporter: huet says he believes the faa will require stricter items. >>> the over all quality of lair line service rose last year according to the. on time performance rose to 80s%. the rate of lost bagged was bumped. >>> air tran was number one followed by hawaii, jet blue, alaska and southwest. researchers made the rankings by compares on time performa

john fowler takes us into the operating room as doctors perform a unique series of transplants hopingve not just one but five lives. as john shows us it's the first time it's ever been done on the west coast. >> reporter: at san francisco's california pacific center. we were there for a remarkable 10 operation sequence. five recipients getting five anonymous living donor kidneys. >> just an amazing gift. >> reporter: 65-year-old april lansgraph waited on a transplant list five years without a donor match. >> so i've watched her lose energy and her appetite and -- >> reporter: april and her husband alan make one of today's pairs but their tissues does not match. so april is receiving from someone she doesn't know. adam is donating a kidney to someone he doesn't know. >> it's a rare opportunity. you live your life and you have two kidneys and you don't need them both. >> reporter: all truism yes. but alan's donation ensures his wife gets a live kidney. four other pairs of nonmatching donors and recipients made the same deal. this unique donor change made possible by a special tissue mat

science editor john fowler is live now on how this could affect the site of future earthquakes. john. >> reporter: i'm currently on the hayward that soon could

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and the san onofre held a drill today in case of an plastic surgery. e mergency. they are required to do an exercise like this every two years. this emergency drill is taken on new significant after what happened in japan. >>> the clouds are increasing outside right now. pretty nice day today. tomorrow increasing clouds. sprinkles in the forecast in the morning. and then temperatures well begin to warm up a little bit. the skies begin to clear in the afternoon. 35 in santa rosa. as promised the computer model depicting tomorrow morning's compute. here we are tonight, the clouds increase. early tomorrow morning 5:00 a.m. you've got showers showing up in the north bay. not a big deal. here we are in the 6:00 a.m. hour. scattered showers out toward livermore. not a big wet commute. but it's a little bit out there. then the cloud cover, 7:00 a.m., scattered showers. san mateo up on the north coast. this isn't going to shut you down on the morning commute. 8:00a.m. or getting into that hour. more rain in the north bay. and as we look at 9:00 a.m. you can s

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and the san onofre held a drill today in case of an plastic surgery. e mergency. they are required to do an exercise like this every two years. this emergency drill is taken on new significant after what happened in japan. >>> the clouds are increasing outside right now. pretty nice day today. tomorrow increasing clouds. sprinkles in the forecast in the morning. and then temperatures well begin to warm up a little bit. the skies begin to clear in the afternoon. 35 in santa rosa. as promised the computer model depicting tomorrow morning's compute. here we are tonight, the clouds increase. early tomorrow morning 5:00 a.m. you've got showers showing up in the north bay. not a big deal. here we are in the 6:00 a.m. hour. scattered showers out toward livermore. not a big wet commute. but it's a little bit out there. then the cloud cover, 7:00 a.m., scattered showers. san mateo up on the north coast. this isn't going to shut you down on the morning commute. 8:00a.m. or getting into that hour. more rain in the north bay. and as we look at 9:00 a.m. you can s