kay thompson texaco to look at their efforts.orter: hot behind this door, school classrooms were distorted by fire. and this is where they will have to make do. 50 percent of the skills base was destroyed by the fire when it is building now classed as have been relocated to a second building on campus. as >> berry today teaches return to fund a classroom to walk up, and they have a chance to get ready for tomorrow to. >>reporter: 18 of volunteers help the teachers to piece their classrooms back together. they fished through what ever was salvaged and set up bookshelves and put furniture back together. ron buchanan and first grade teacher had for into the water in his classroom and lost almost everything. >> all the children's picture books were destroyed. 2500 picture books. >>reporter: the school is seeking help from the public asking for donations with school supplies and financial support to help them get back up and running. >>james: we are following in another story one of the officers is and what you up in the morning with

kay thompson explains what happens. the case >> a 90 year-old man attacked inside of its own fall back. the detector broke through the front door and it's pointed a gun at him. he said he told the burglar he was nervous and had to use the bathroom. he had a gun hidden there, he came out of the bathroom shooting, he shot the attacker three times. the attacker did get off one at shots that struck the man in the head, the bullet went through his cheek. his family says he is in stable condition at marin general hospital, his head is swollen and leading in the camera here out of one here but they are happy he is alive. thalia 1/2 >>james: new this morning, the labor department put out new weekly employment numbers for last week. the jobless claims fell more than expected down 15,000. it is the fourth drop in five weeks. december employment reports come out tomorrow. despite that, the dow is off. the markets are off, the dow, nasdaq and as in the treated-. the dow was off 70 points. they're falling amid renewed concerns about

kay thompson explains what happened. >> in a green beret a 90 year-old man was attacked inside of his home and fought back. he was inside his house when the attacker brought to the front door in the pointed a gun at him. he told the man he was nervous and had to use the bathroom. he had a gun hidden there. he came under the bathroom shooting and shot the attacker three times. the attacker thought of one shot the bullet went through his cheek. he is in stable condition, his head is swollen and bleeding in the cannot hear out of one year but they're happy he is alive. >>james: we have headlines coming up on the other side of the break, here is a live look outside. here is a live look at mt. tam. a little bit breezy but down low it is cool and clear. >>justine: said triton these live pictures coming to us from houston tx. more than one dozen people are injured. there are at least 15 ambulances on the scene. investigators are saying that fog could be the reason for the accident. >>james: president obama is looking to boost summer job prospects for kids. the white house says with help from

kay thompson is live in nevada with the latest. kate >> it is all hands on deck for the fire department and police department in nevada. we are here at their rush creek open space preserve. this is where the latest fires were discovered early this morning. firefighters have been all day out here and getting them out. we have a video from earlier this evening when i went to station house 61. that is one of several firehouses that has extra staff on hand tonight. they have called in their reserves. there are 15 firefighters from marin county overcalled in early to help nevada fire in case there are more fires set throughout the night. most of the crews have been up for 48 straight hours because of these fires. the police also have patrols around the neighborhood. >> we have additional crews out. as a result, those officers and fire personnel located six of the fires before they were reported to us. >> there have been 56 fires total. fires started at 9:00 p.m. on saturday and again sunday evening and early monday morning. many of thes

kay thompson is there and is joining us live with the latest period fell >> this community has been very involved from the beginning when these attacks happened. from are really falling through in getting the latest update, possibly the final update from police in this matter. there currently listening to the commander telling them about the investigation into the tip that helped them briefcase. this community was rocked by these attacks. people have had to change the way they live their lives. i ran into a woman to death, this is a brass knuckle taser that her husband bought for her. he did not want her walking around at night or in the morning with this suspect on the loose. maureen kelly was in court today with the suspect. >>maureen: the list of charges fred dozer faces, attempted murder, attempted rape in the multiple counts of kidnapping, assault, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration with a foreign object and a robbery. during this attack in november, the suspect allegedly punched and choked a woman, using a one object to strike her. >> we are pretty confident of who the su

kay thompson is live at marin general with more. did bandaged. he is bruised and swollen. he cannot hear out of one of his ears but he is alive. he was able to get off three shots by outsmarting his attacker and shot his attacker three times. the attacker was able to shoot the man once. the attacker then left the scene. he called 911 to get help. i spoke with his sister who said it is amazing that he is alive. >> he has been talking to me. he has been telling me all about everything. he says, i told you i was tough. we heard a crash, the robert came in, he jimmied open the door, he had a gun and told him, we are going to take you out. he talked the robert to allow him to go into the bathroom. that is where he had a loaded pistol. he came out shooting. the policeman said, he must have taken game. >> the attacker was caught by police. he is 30 years old. police say that he has residences in a bottle and petaluma. he is now in custody and will be charged with burglary and attempted murder. >>catherine: in oakland, community outrage after the murder of a five year-old boy. fiv

>>catherine: kay thompson joins us live near the rich in san raphael bridge. how this traffic look? >>reporter: traffic is moving ok but it is cold, dark and rainy. we can show the traffic but this is in the commute direction this is people leaving the city in driving through marin county. this is northbound highway 101. over here you can see the headlights are on, the wind chill wipers are going in this area usually has a lot of traffic. this is where the richmond san raphael bridge me tie 101. people have been out in the rain waiting, who did see a couple told trucks in the area as well now the rain started here early. can show the large total of standing order this is on the on ramp of highway 101 the cars have to navigate through this. you can see quite a collection of war and the raindrop still hitting the po. people are trying to make their way home this evening. reporting live from iran nine k. thompson with kron4 news. >>reporter: we have the rain falling in the bay area and the big question is can the tahoe region get any of us know that some people have been waiting for. i

kay thompson has reaction to the news. >>reporter: with jobs on the line and make cuts, the attitude as city hall was hostile. city employees are wondering if they will have a job in two weeks. >> this is my business card and on the back of the business card is the city's mission statement his and what this says he is employees are treated with fairness, no seat, and less fat. but we are seeing none of that today. and tonight those words are not more- there are written on >>reporter: 22 public works employees are expected to be laid off many when given pink slips they were lifelong employees. >> refer someone to be here for 20 + years to the first time i've ever seen in a thing like this to get a pink slip. >> i think it will be maybe one week until i know i will be able to pay my mortgage and take care my family. rob >>reporter: doe city plans on laying off a little more than 100 the book area this is cause a lot of anxiety and fear and has been questioned by city council members. >> i haven't asked a question why did the

kay thompson is live at a city hall with a look at what happened to.r: as you can see there is just a small handful protesters outside of city hall. we can show video of protesters earlier this afternoon they were beating down the doors of city hall. they were angry over the police coming to the plaza last night and making an arrest also ticking down several structures. you can see a tug of war with police officers that the protesters tried to get into city hall. the police officers were shouting that someone will be down to talk with them but the protesters insisted on speaking with someone and they began to shout let us in. the police finally got the doors locked. the protesters were sent out five of the most then down to talk with them. 4 people were allowed to come to city hall and speak with the mayor. they made several demands including having those arrested last night released. they also won a police to have sensitivity training. police contend that they told the protesters they had to take down the structures that were here last night and the p

>>james: kay thompson shows how fans at the marina district dealt with the loss. >>reporter: in the marina it was a tough night for 49ers fanzine their team lose in overtime the chance to go to the super bowl disappearing before their eyes. people left with shop on their faces. they had complete disappointment after going so far in the playoffs. they were parting the night away they were so excited, screaming and yelling and then to see the 49ers lose it, but devastation. >> we are die hard 49er fans and very disappointed. >>justine: police tell us this morning there were the usual number of injections and arrest at the game. it is not clear what that person was arrested for, most roof for public drunkenness, battery and resisting arrest. in one incident a police officer had to use pepper spray to protect herself. >> two officers contacted a suspect on the third level the ballpark, he is thought to the officers one of them with a female officer, she used her pepper spray on the subject and he was taken into custody as some of that overspread affected her partner o

kay thompson has more on what happened.orter: in the early morning hours of december 7th, more than 100 police officers seized upon the occupy san francisco camp, but some people knew that they were coming. officers posted messages to facebook and twitter and this tick people off giving them clues that something big was about to happen. officers posted or tweeted statements like the following. >>reporter: that information on the internet spread hinting at the scheduled police sweeping of the camp. in the future to control this, sfpd said it will keep officers out of the loop. for large operations officer of will be told where to bring their gear and what time to show up and then they will be briefed. >>james: it is not unprecedented sfpd does keep operations, large ones anyway under lock and key and they plan to do more in the future. >>justine: the occupy protesters not have richmond city leaders talking about changing some of their policies as well. they held a meeting late into the night last night. city officials are tr

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kay thompson with kron4 news.hanges is the weekend tomorrow will be very similar to what we have been scene is warm and sunny and it will be perfect for the 49ers game. as we head into sunday temperatures will drop and more cloud coverage will roll in. it will be cool into monday and the rain returns late next week. we have these very dry pattern in areas of high pressure tracking well to the north. this pattern can break up one of two ways, you can see the storm brought down the coastline and you can see it undercut the area of high pressure. that is what we will see as we head into next week. caught on wednesday and thursday we see the rain just to the north. heavy rain over the bay wednesday and thursday. we need rain, and here is your extended forecast. temperatures will more mobile little bit will be warmer air as the rain moves in. we will keep you posted. >>reporter: across the bay area we are tracking neighborhood crime, we have information on copper that is being stolen in sunnyvale. thieves have hit at l

kay thompson has the story. >>reporter: firefighters spent all day combing the space in the open woods in a bottle. they were looking for flames or embers to extinguish. this is the latest batch of fires set by a serial arsonist, this time it was set deep into the woods. >> we do not have any positive identification whether it be juveniles, all adults, or sting or multiple suspects. >>reporter: after meeting with the fire department police officers hustled out of the station heading out on patrol looking for anything suspicious. >>reporter: -- >> the last time we had additional crews out and as a result those officials located a suspect. >>reporter: the fire department went to make sure they had enough coverage in case the arsonist struck again. some engines have been up for 48 hours straight. this engine has been putting out fires all day in the open space preserve with the 50 lb. backpack filled with water. while no one's property have been damaged in the fires people are frightened that that trend may not las

kay thompson tells us what happens next. >>reporter: this is your video highway 85 shut down. here the bank robbers' car crash on the highway. >> we did take one person into custody at the crash scene, the second person that was in the vehicle was able to get out of the car and flee on foot. >>reporter: when the pair a 35 year old san jose resident and a 23 year old held up this bank on snell avenue police and thought it could be explosive. the bomb squad was called in and for five hours highway 85 was shut down all the bomb squad blew up the device that turned out not to be explosive. >>reporter: for safety reasons people living close to the scene were evacuated from their homes around one p m. >> they told us we had to evacuate so we did. >> on it was uncomfortable leaving your home and not knowing what was going on. but they gave us about 10 minutes to go and they wanted to make sure we were all safe. >>reporter: people will get back into their homes later in the afternoon. >>justine: while running away one of the bank or recess six ended up on the gunderson high school cam

kay thompson was tracking the storm for us all day in the north bay where we saw some of the heaviest round of rain. >>reporter: the rain slowed things down a highway traffic was slowing at a crawl on 101. it effectively put this car wash out of business for the day and left people at a bus stop cold and cranky. the beneficiary of hours of soaking rain, cab companies getting a boost in business and the gunners were working overtime to deal with the rain. many people try to take the wet weather in stride. >> we have been waiting, it is about time that it came. >>justine: stay with us on kron4 as we track the storm on air and on line. you can get weather updates anytime and do not forget to send us your weather pictures to our facebook fan page under kron4 news. >>james: we are anxiously anticipating some this conference championship game against the giants. this is video from last saturday's playoff against the saints at candlestick. there was a battle on the field and apparently the action happened off the field as well. we had some unruly fans that had to be dealt with. they see 54 p

>>pam: let us head outside with kay thompson how are the driving conditions? >>reporter: a very slow and saudi commute for a lot of people, let us show you right here this is 101 north bound this is headed toward the rich in san raphael bridge, you can see how with the roads are, people's windshield wipers are on full blast this evening the ground is saturated and the roadways are wet. and they have the electronic signs up and running morning people to slow down because there's so much water on the road and then cooling on the side of the roadway, traffic toward the bridge is moving quite slowly at this point, but throughout this way, traffic on 101 north is moving well at this point but is slow going to get to hear, it is on and off but it definitely will not be a quick commute home for anyone this evening. reporting live i and k thompson with kron4 news. >>reporter: this just in, sf zero reporting widespread delays and cancellations because of the weather, 39 departing flights have been canceled, 29 arrivals, and ongoing delays up to three hours in some case