ktvu's katie utehs is live there in downtown oakland in the street where is it is just getting underwaytie. >> reporter: good morning mike. the starting just happened and the runners are on their way. if this hasn't woken you up already, look at this sea of neon. we are talking bright green, bright pink, a lot of bright orange, too. good morning here in oakland. there are nearly 10,000 runners out here today expected for the fifth annual oakland running festival. now the time to beat, these are the marathon runners. i'm told the time to beat is 2 and a half hours, just about the best time, and that was from 2012. there are some 300 plus volunteers out here making this all happen, and there's also i tell you a large oakland police presence keeping this place safe because as you know, the boston marathon bombing has forever changed security at major events. >> security is tightened up at all kinds of events not just running events but stadium events as well. first of all clear bags is here to stay, and then of course we have a number of check points as well, so if somebody does try to car

katie etehs is live with what -- katie utehs is live with what happened. katie? we are having problems with katie's audio and we will check back with her in a minute. we will head over to napa where two women were hurt. the chase ended with a crash. it started near jefferson street and after police spotted a stolen suv and all ended when the suv crashed. and you can see from the video, they had to use rope and basket to rescue the women. >>> remembering sierra la mar, the south bay teenager who disappeared. she vanished while walking to a school bus stop in an unincorporated area. she was a cheerleader. as they have every saturday morning, they went looking for her yesterday. it was one of the largest turnouts in some time. even though her body has not been found. they charged 22-year-old garcia torres with kidnapping and murder. he plead not guilty. her friend will remember her today by dedicating a beverage in her honor. it wraps around a tree. that is where she spent freshman and sophomore years before moving to the area. it reads in part. dedicated to sierra

katie utehs has been out there with firefighters all night long and has more on that concern. e. >> reporter: good morning, tori. firefighters updated me about five minutes ago. here's the game plan -- construction crews are on scene today. let me show you the far corner of the building, that tall portion is just being held up by the scaffolding, according to firefighters. they are not clear how many stories that is. but it's quite dangerous. so demolition crews will knock that down first thing this morning. if we look across the building, you can see that fire crews are still putting out hot spots. they are doing that somewhat preemptivively i'm told, they have to move the fire trucks out of the way so the heavy machinery from the demolition crews can come in and start pushing this building inward. there's nowhere for the debris to go but inward. they will shove it toward the center of that building and then fire crews will get in place again in place the demolition crews unearth any of those hot spots. let's show you some video of the crews working yesterday too move the moun

katie utehs is live in the neighborhood with some new information from a neighbor about that house. katie. >> reporter: the neighbor i spoke with she didn't want to go on camera but she tells me she is not surprised that firefighters stumbled across marijuana in this home. people in her 20s did not frequent the home. within the last hour narcotic officers have arrived on scene. they are currently in the house taking pictures and securing the plants. they must be moving the plants, because just got a fresh whiff of the breeze and it smells like there is a lot of plants inside. someone called 911 around midnight to report a fire on the roof. nobody was home at the time and when firefighters got inside the home, they found the marijuana and since then officers have been on scene. they have told us there are quote a lot of plants inside. but again narcotic officers inside the home securing the plants and we hope to get an update on just how many plants are inside and who may billion connected to this home when they finish with their search warrant. live in hayward katie utehs ktvu channe

katie utehs is in hayward this morning. katie, reporting that firefighters are the ones who stumbled on to the plants while trying to put out a house fire. >> reporter: that is right. i spoke with lieutenant who tells me that hayward investigators are still trying to obtain a search warrant. so they can recover the marijuana plants that were found. but both the lieutenant and officers on scene tell me they were quote a lot of plants. here's what we know so far. a 911 call came in just before midnight with the caller reporting a roof fire at the house of a 23500 block. no one was home at the time. police forced into entry into the home. they is when they discovered the house fire. you can see household items but it's hard to tell if anyone is really living here. nobody was home at the time as we said. pg&e crews responded to shut off the power. police tell me they are investigating the possibility whoever was growing the pot was also stealing electricity. now at some point in the next few hours, officers are expected to arriv

katie utehs is live in the neighborhood and katie, you just learned about something police plan to do within the hour. >> reporter: police have told me they have a written search warrant that officers are trying to get it signed by a judge and within an hour they expect to be on scene. at that point we may possibly learn just how many marijuana plants are inside this home. it appears some officers have arrived. a 911 call around midnight for a roof fire tipped police off to the marijuana grow within the house. nobody was home at the time. so firefighters forced entry into the home. that is when they discovered the plants. from our advantage points you can see household items but it's hard to tell if anyone is living here. police tell me they are investigating the possibility that whoever was growing the pot was also stealing electricity. now again it's unclear how many plants are inside the home and officers have arrived with some buckets to begin removing those plants. i can tell you from across the street we can smell the marijuana. katie utehs ktvu channel 2 news. >>> east bay stud

katie utehs, channel 2news. >> looked great! >> see anything you like there? >> all of it! i don't know where i would wear it, but it's fabulous stuff. >> we might need a hat at least for the next few days because of the sunshine, then something to keep us dry, right? >> that's right. a bit of a breeze tonight, but we are tracking rain channelses in the five-day forecast. a good idea to keep the umbrella nearby on standby. you'll see it over the next few days. wepacifica checking in at 59 degrees. most of the bay area cleared out, but offshore we have a weather system, not approaching the bay area yet, but this will be the key factor in our forecast by tuesday and into wednesday, producing rain across southern california. right now, just patchy fog offshore that will gradually work its way closer to the bay for the overnight hours. current temperatures, we have 69 in fairfield. san jose right now at 65. san francisco, 57. santa rosa right now at 65 degrees. for tonight, partly cloudy and breezy. winds are on the order of around 10 to 20 miles an hour, bit of a chop on the b

ktvu's katie utehs is live at police headquarters with more on the possible connection between the two cases. >> reporter: heather, neighbors tell me in the fruitvale area, they see and hear plenty, but often stay quiet to protect their families. several people told me today off camera they believe the cases are connected and it's a theory police are investigating. >> we feel it is not random. >> reporter: a gruesome early morning discovery has unnerved people living along oakland's 34th avenue near foot hill boulevard. >> that's what the danger s you don't know where you stand. >> reporter: around 4:15, firefighters extinguished a burning body. you can see them looking down from a neighbor's roof, towards the body located between a fence and an apartment complex. lieutenant henderson jordan says homicide detectives arrived shortly after. >> they are treating the incident as a suspicious death. >> reporter: police say the body, indistinguishable as far as age and identity, was a man. neighbors we spoke with think today's incident is connected to an earlier homicide. >> it's scary. thre

ktvu channel 2 reporter katy utehs is live at the house with information about the investigation and the family living there. katie? >> reporter: claudine, detectives are still working to determine who lived in this home as of yesterday afternoon. from neighbors, we've learned that at least a family of four lived there. a father, mother and two daughters. deputies received a 911 call around 4:00 yesterday evening. once inside the home, stanton and carlton avenues, they found the body of an adult female. as of this morning, the body has been removed and autopsy is scheduled for monday. investigators have not said how the woman was killed, but tell me the victim is a family member. neighbors told us what they heard yesterday. >> i heard that there was some type of argument that occurred early in the morning and then the daughter came after school and found the mom. >> reporter: the oldest daughter was seen at the house speaking with investigators. she is 14 years old and a second daughter, an 8-year-old, has also been accounted for. detectives have been on scene processing evidence at t

katie utehs has more on what neighbors say was happening around the house. katie?e with a next door neighbor who never suspected that marijuana was growing in this house behind me. take a look to the yourself. it's rather unassuming. inside the garage we saw a stack of plant pots as well as some of the marijuana that's been boarded up. the house is secured by city workers. let me show you the boxes of marijuana narcotics officers removed around 6:45 this morning. three boxes filled the back of a pickup truck. but it was a 911 call from someone who spotted a fire on the roof of the home in the 23500 block of stonewall avenue that tipped police to the grow. responding firefighters broke through the side door of the garage to gain access to the home and stumbled upon the grow around midnight. >> at midnight. i did hear some fire trucks. but i thought it was probably someone was sick and they just came to pick them up but never expected that. >> reporter: other neighbors tell us they've seen young people frequenting the home and were not surprised there was a marijuana

in oakland, katie utehs ktvu channel 2 news. >>> an suv slams into a house and we learned that nobody was behind the wheel and the vehicles with stole. >>. >> other possible security breach investigated. >> a risky rescue, how a man's lunch played a key role in saving an injured dog stuck on a busy freeway. . >> a strange chain of events sent an suv barreling into a home in oakland, damaging several cars in the process and what makes it all stranger no one was behind the wheel. crash caused extensive damage to several vehicles and house it crashed into. it happened in the 400 block of coolidge in oakland's dimond district. katie lee patti lee. >> well, she lives down the block and walked over to see the damage caused by that runway suv, a car she told me she report stolen last week. totaled cars, wrecked lawns and downed street signs a path of destruction on coolidge avenue. >> it's really scary. this is weird, a very weird crime. >> reporter: john delaney thought a earthquake had hit, but found a chevy tahoe buried into their home. >> pretty clear that someone had purposely put the f

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but first, katie hue tess -- katie utehs is live in san francisco where the rain brought down a big tree>> reporter: a crane was just here to remove the stump of the tree. i want to show you what's left. that giant tree behind me. it's a trin to the one that fell and while we desperately need the rain, today's storm also brought some destruction. >> i'm very sad. >> reporter: during the rain storm, this giant chinese elm toppled in san francisco's castro neighborhood, taking out power and gas lines on its way down. homeowner neil rosenbaum said work exposed extra soil near the tree base. >> my hunch, this heavy rain washed down the street, oversaturated the soil and the roots couldn't hold it. >> reporter: fromup and utility -- from cleanup and utility crews, habitat for humanity volunteers in concord, many drudged or drove through the downpours. >> decided why don't i come out even in the rain and dope nate- - donate them? such a good cause. >> reporter: the home building organization is seachting new or used tools. >> we're here tomorrow as well. we're hoping people will come out and w

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katie utehs, ktvu news. >>> this whole system is going to fly south in the next few hours.it's kind of rain too especially in the north bay around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. it'll be raining pretty hard. then real wet at 4:00 a.m.. this is will be the heaviest rain. you see the rain, heavier showers showers moving into san jose. >>> americans targeted in afghanistan. tonight at 10:30 the attack that hit too close to home for an aid organization based here in the bay area. >>> almost a week after a massive landslide in washington, the search for victims still has a long >>> crews say they are still not giving up hope in finding survivors of that massive mud slide in washington state. but the search to find victims and answers remains a slow and difficult task. and tonight we are still waiting for word as to exactly how many people were lost. at this hour, the confirmed death toll remains at 17. 90 other people are still unaccounted for. ktvu's erik rasmussen has the latest. >> reporter: volunteers are working in up too -- to 4 feet of mud in some places. still no new signs

. >> the reporter katie utehs is live to explain how that could be approved and who would be affected. katie. >> just being able to get your lotto ticket from the pump. >> many of us use plastic. >> it is even. and easy. and many do not go into pay. >> 72% were told not to go in the store. and customers could use debit cards. >> if you win and they would be credited to the card used. >> only the plus gameless. would be. and could come for the state and they would purchase tickets r. >> she is not sure. >> typically not. had. >> i usually pay quash and use it at the pumps. so i have to go in what ever the market. to buy my ticket any way. >> if approved between 100. and 151 station assist would be selling the push and this is in the sacramentoage log area. how they would verify age of gambler was here at the pump. >> channel two news. >>> well gas prices are starting to make the seasonal climb and that is expected to 10 for the next few weeks. experts say longer days; more driving and they all contribute to the price hike. california often get hit harder as we all well now. >> californ

ktvu's katy utehs is live in san francisco with what people in the neighborhood are saying about thisy? >> reporter: allie, despite the fact that officers shot and killed a man who was allegedly armed with a gun last night, this park is full of joggers and dog walkers. but we're learning this morning that it's also full of people with other less than noble plans. >> during the day, i do see people gathering and sort of thinking. they seem rowdy at times, but i've never seen it to that point where, you know, someone is getting into a physical fight or showing a gun or anything like that. >> reporter: around 7:00 last night, people in bernal heights park called 911 to report a man with a gun holesterred at his side. witnesses say he was acting strangely and boxing in the air. when officers arrived, the man pointed the gun at them, so multiple officers died. the man fired. the man died on scene. >> the citizens called. they didn't appear to try to take him on, which, you know, we advocate. >> reporter: the deputy chief says the department will hold a neighborhood meeting sometime early n