officers were called to kern and school streets around 10:15 last night.y have gotten word something violent was going to happen here and spotted two cars they believe were tied to the two people they were looking for. two shot, a third suspect ran into a backyard around here. oakland police had to use helicopters for several hours to locate them. they tell me they recovered several weapons out here. as for the two officers, they are okay. oakland police telling me they should wrap up their investigation out here fairly soon. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, today in the bay. >> thank you for the latest details there, christie. >>> i want to check the day's news with marla tellez. good morning. >> good morning, laura. it's 6:30 now. in an effort to fight back crime in oakland, a group known as safety first is sending out community ambassadors in korea town. it's a combination of community policing and social work. they ride around on electric scooters as seen here, identify a problem area or person and work to fix that. >> very important. i belie

what is interesting that no one spoke in favor of the changes because we don't use as much energy as kern county. the people need their air-conditioning. to cover the current rate structure those that use a lot of power are subsidizing those that don't. the gap keeps getting wider. currently those that use less pay less. that idea behind that was to encourage conservation. those that spoke out against the new rate structure are worried about the environment and those on a fixed income. >> many people at this point are paying for food or medicine. >> we are supposed to be encouraging people to use less energy and to cut carbon emissions. you don't do that by raising the rates for using less you do it by rewarding them for using less. >> based on the vote, those that who use less we'll see a rate increase. the commissioners say you can argue the merits on this but this is how the majority of the country does it. pg&e hasn't commented yet. officials wanted to wait until the vote came down. it came down about five minutes ago and we'll have them later this afternoon. live in san francisco, am

what is interesting that no one spoke in favor of the changes because we don't use as much energy as kern county. the people need their air-conditioning. to cover the current rate structure those that use a lot of power are subsidizing those that don't. the gap keeps getting wider. currently those that use less pay less. that idea behind that was to encourage conservation. those that spoke out against the new rate structure are worried about the environment and those on a fixed income. >> many people at this point are paying for food or medicine. >> we are supposed to be encouraging people to use less energy and to cut carbon emissions. you don't do that by raising the rates for using less you do it by rewarding them for using less. >> based on the vote, those that who use less we'll see a rate increase. the commissioners say you can argue the merits on this but this is how the majority of the country does it. pg&e hasn't commented yet. officials wanted to wait until the vote came down. it came down about five minutes ago and we'll have them later this afternoon. live in san francisco, am

kern avenue, last night about 10:15 is when this started. what we are hearing is police were serving search warrants and may have gotten a tip that something violent was going to happen in the neighborhoods. the police may have spotted one of the cars of the people they were tracking. what led to the shooting? they are not saying yet. several weapons were found on the scene. the person found in the backyard had weapons as well. the officers are okay this morning. we are trying to get an update on the second person who was shot and taken to the hospital. it's a small neighborhood. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, today in the bay. >> thank you for that updated information and continuing to follow that investigation. we are out here in castro valley this morning, waking up with the cows. can you hear them in the distance this morning? and the horses. we have more on the rodeo coming up. i want to check the forecast can christina loren. >> good morning to you. i'm sure you are happy this morning. it's not that cold. close to 50 degree

where we are standing, kern avenue still shut down this morning. as soon as we get an update, we'll bring it to you. >> thank you. we'll check back with you. >>> horses quarantined across california because of a deadly virus, herpes one. it starts as the flu. sick animals often have to be euthanized. in utah, 54 california horses were there, ten are now sick. it can be spread by contact in feed, grass, water and mud. until it stops spreading, most horse events are postponed throughout the state. >>> a bay area preacher says the rapture will take place this saturdays. but, other pastors are telling a different message. today, cheryl hurd reports. >> reporter: we have been getting a lot of phone calls and e-mails about this billboard. now, there's a group out there trying to calm people down. pastor jacob of cal vry bible church say people are e-mailing him worried that the end of the world is coming may 21. >> what we are trying to do is be here for the people listening to harold and have bought into his message. >> reporter: the doomsday message is

there are some kern's turns that were expressed about the project itself that there will be an opportunity more than likely about what sort of approval process. and more than likely, there will be a conditional use. there is not, thank you. but the appeal is on the environmental analysis. it is not on the project itself. if there were no, this is the avenue of the discretionary review. i assume there are other ways that could be brought forth. in any case, i think at this point, we are analyzing the environmental peace, not the project itself. i feel that it is adequately discussed. they talked about the curve issue where they actually have a smaller cut than was the case before. they talk about the pedestrian impacts, the historic and pacs, and i am satisfied that they have addressed this adequately. again, we're dealing with environmental and tax in the various that is handled by the zoning administrator had not the project itself. commissioner borden: i completely understand the concerns about the process and i knowledge that she had a point about the notification issues. i know this ha

the acc conference championship trophy and we also expect to hear from the athletic director kern wanterson and the university president -- seven anderson and -- kevin anderson and the university president. if you want to watch the press conference live, go to the website, wusa9.com and we'll have complete coverage coming up tonight at 5:00. j. c.? back to you. >> kristin, thank you very much. gary williams will certainly be he ised. >>> up next on 9news now at noon, we're going take you to a ribbon cutting ceremony honoring the legacy of the civil rights pioneer. >>> the economy adds more jobs than expected last month. the i'm alexis christoforous with reaction from wall street. >>> officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony about an hour ago to rename a d. c. library in honor of dr. dorothy iheight. dr. height was a civil rights leader who died last year. the library is on benning road near minnesota avenue in northeast. >>> a grand jury has indicted the woman accused of killing her co-worker inside a bethesda store. investigators say 28-year-old brittany norwood hatched an elaborate plot t

the shootings happened last night on kern avenue near i- 580. tara has learned the police chief met with the officers in the last hour and she's also got new information from neighbors. tara. >> reporter: we have learned the identity of one of the suspects, one of the men shot and killed by police here last night. family members say he is 30- year-old antoine jackson, killed here in a car that was parked where you can see the shattered glass. and you can see also the cancelled. and flowers that one of his cousins has laid here. we'll look at video that our crew shot last night. ktvu was the first to arrive on scene and we were the only ones to look at just minutes after the shooting happened. at 9:00, officers had received some inside information that violence was about to erupt. they got a tip on a target vehicle, a light blue van, tailed by a victim's car, a red lexus. within an hour and a half they spotted the cars and moved in. gunfire started, two suspects were shot and later died at highland hospital. a third suspect took off. jackson's fa

the fire started early this afternoon near lake isabella in kern county. that's 110 miles north of los angeles. the u.s. forest service reports it has burned 200 acres so far and voluntary evacuations are in place. they are keeping the firefighting helicopters on the ground, but crews have been able to fly to air rail tanker plane -- to aerial tanker planes. that is a reminder of the fire season to come, but elsewhere in the state, it still looks like winter in some respects. squaw valley and several other resorts operate on the weekend and they are running more lifts than usual. squall value had three feet of fresh snow last week on top of a 14-foot base. so you can ski this memorial day weekend on some pretty good snow. >>> what is the forecast going to be around the state and the bay area? meteorologist sandhya patel is here. sandhya, no snow, but it is cooler than we expect. >> yeah. here in the bay area we will see unusually cool conditions this time of year. but by now, you are probably used to it. may has been an unusually cool month. as you look at

police shot two suspects at 10:30 last night the award and kern. those suspects are in custody as is a third suspect found in a yard nearby. there were no injuries to the officers. police haven't explained the circumstances of the shooting. anne makovec will have a live report at 5:00. >>> new bombshell details coming out again today about arnold schwarzenegger's affair. >> it turns out that his secret son and his youngest son with maria shriver were born a week apart. elizabeth cook shows us how neighbors are describing the little boy. >>> reporter: this picture from 1994 shows arnold schwarzenegger dancing with mildred baena, his housekeeper, who three years later would become the mother of his son. today baena and her teenaged son live in this bakersfield neighborhood. their home has turned into a media circus. marty steel man lives next door. >> really nice kid. it's a kid you want to have, you know? my husband taught high school for over 35 years. and there's not too many kids like this. >> reporter: the boy was reportedly born in october of 1

as some staunch supporters are expressing kerns. >> why do we emphasize things that hurt israel at the expense of the palestinians who won't even negotiate face to face? it makes no sense. >> reporter: lester, we can expect to hear more in the comes days. the prime minister stays on here in washington. on tut he gives a speech to a joint meeting of congress, and tomorrow president obama travels across town to give a speech on american/israel relations to a major pro-israel lobbying group. >> the question of borders is personal in the middle east where both risrael and the palestinians lay claim to some of the same land. we have reaction to his speech in the troubled region. >> reporter: in a single statement, president obama went to the core of the arab/israeli conflicts, israel's 1967 borders. the issues remains emotional in israel where many see returning to 1967 as putting israel's very existence at risk. >> the '67 borders are something that is fragile. >> reporter: on the other side of the divide, palestinians feel without enough land they'll never be secure either. >> we will not

. >> they go through about 50,000 pods of kern county potatoes a day at california chips, but each one is needed because it takes about 100 pounds of potatoes to make just 25 pounf potato chips. that's no smallotatoes. for "california country", i'm tracy sellers. so now thawe've learned about a couple of varieties of potatoes, the next question is what do we do with them? here's the chef with a couple of ideas for you. >> hi. i'm richard sluzarz, chef here at the grand hyatt san francisco. and one of the-- what we're gonna talk about today,r what we're gonna prepare today is mashed potatoes. and why--why we're gonna do mashed potatoes, it's something that is a very simple thing, but i know there's some times some people have some issues with mashed potatoes and, you know,why did mine tu out lumpy?" "why did they turn o--maybe not so, uh creamy?" and so en youake mashed potatoes--and we start re with russet potatoes. so we peel our russet tatoes, d then we dice them, and then we put them in a pot. and we start with cold water. and you always--when you're making mashed potatoes, you shou

. >> firefighters say they are making great progress in containing a wildfire in kern county that forced hundreds of evacuations. the so-called fire is burning in the lake isabel will area just north of bakersfield. the fire was reported late yesterday. by the afternoon the homes were being evacuated. by late evening many of those people were allowed back to their homes. the fire is about 65% contained now. 1100-acres have burned. no word yet on what started the fire. >>> welfare recipients in alameda county won't lose their rent subsidies if a landlord fails to fill out the proper paperwork. a state appeals court ruled this week that a policy to eliminate the $191 subsidy because of a landlord's failure to act was unreasonable. general assistance recipients get $363 a month plus that rent subsidy. the county policy would have taken the rent subsidies out of welfare checks leaving each client with very little money to by food and other necessities. >>> livermore residents will get a chance to vote on an extension of bart into their city. the alameda county registrar of voters has certifi

. >> we had this problem in kern county two summers where the fifth tier was so high and when the temperaturese over hundred degrees, more than 30 days, rates shot up much more than any of us thought was reasonable. >> the proposal calls for a $25 surcharge on all customers. >> instead of providing high energy users with better and more effective efficiency services they want to lower rates for these energy hogs. >> it's unclear when the vote will be taken, heather ishimaru, "abc 7 news." >> there is a new online tool to help you get numbers on how state budget cuts may affect your child's school. education reporter lyanne melendez shows us how it works and what you'll find. >> there have been numerous marches throughout the state bringing attention to cuts in education. and then, there are the numbers. >> we've reduced over 20% from the state. it will increase costs at all levels. >> but how much of that information is understood? it's a new online tool that maps funding of california schools. just click on your school district and the information pops up. it shows how much districts will los

sally kern broke down and carbon monoxide as she apologized for saying there were more blacks in prison they didn't want to work hard in school. state lawmakers in oklahoma voted to recommend rim and her and she even voted for her own rep i'm and. she said women don't work as hard as men because they tend to think a little more about their families. the oklahoma naacp says she should resign. >>> donald trump has found himself in another war of words, this time with david letterman t all stems from the late night host's on-air suggestion that trump is a racist because of his persistent questioning of president obama's birthplace. frump fired back play letter saying there is no one that is less of a racist than him. trump even canceled his upcoming appearance on the show planned for may 18th and letterman says trump better be prepared to apologize if he plans to come on his show again. >>> many newspaper headlines blared the world dead in bold letters when talking about osama bin laden. time magazine taking a different approach in its special edition. bin laden's face simply covered in a

police say wednesday night they received information that a violent crime was going to happen on kernwhen officers arrived, they found three men sitting in a parked car. they tried to question the then. all three were shot during the confrontation. two later died. >>> there's no court session today for the trial of the killing of chauncey bailey. after the closing arguments, the case is in the hands of the jury. lawyers gave their closing édem( the prosecution's key witness. he says bay ordered him to kill three men including bailey. >>> a north bay man is missing. he took off from nevada wednesday afternoon, headed for a private airstrip on the family property in tracy. he never made it. brown was the only person on the plane. a search for brown and his plane will continue this morning where his plane was shown quickly losing altitude before going off the radar. >> it scares me most that he's alive and can't do anything. you know, is he under the snow? is he under a tree? >> brown lives in gardnerville, nevada but owns two wineries in california. the winery donates a portion of pro

the so-called cove fire began yesterday in kern county near bakersfield. no injuries are reported. flames have charred about 200 acres of the sequoia national forest. >>> in joplin, missouri, the death toll from the deadly tornado has risen to 139. 105 people are still missing. there is a grim place, but there are signs of hope returning. casey wian reports on a contractor who has already started to rebuild amid the ruins. >> this is america and we're going to rebuild it. >> reporter: four days after a historic tornado demolished much of joplin, missouri, contractor daryn collins started construction on the first new building to emerge from the rubble. >> at some point we're going to have to stop scratching our heads and staring at the rubble and roll up our sleeves and get things back to some sort of normalcy. >> reporter: he's rebuilding his wife's beauty salon which he built once before 17 years ago. on tuesday collins discussed the idea with shocked city officials. wednesday they gave him the okay to start. thursday construction began. >> we've had just an enormous outpouring o

a violent crime was going to happen on kern avenue.hen officers arrived, they found three men in a car on the street. they tried to question them when two got out of the car with guns. all three men were shot. two later died. >>> a north day vitnor is missing. a 78-year-old took off from nevada wednesday afternoon, headed for a private airstrip on their property in tracy. he never made it. he was the only person on the plane. a search for him and his plane will continue this morning. his plane was shown quickly losing altitude before going off radar. >> what scares me most is he's alive and can't do anything. you know, is he under the snow? is he under a tree? >> brown lives in gardnerville, nevada but owns two wineries in california. the winery donates a portion of proceeds to breast cancer research. he took up the cause after his wife died from the disease five years ago. >>> the man accused of accidentally starting the 2008 summit fire will stand trial. a judge says there is enough evidence to try him on charges he recklessly starte

. >> we had this problem in kern county 2 summers ago where the fifth tier was so high and when the temperatures were over 100 degrees for more than 30 days, rates shot up pch more than any of us thought was reason. so we are trying to deal with tha that. >>reporter: proposal calls for 25 dollar surcharge on all customers. >> instead of providing l high energy users with better more effective energy efficiency services, the commission wants to basically lower rates for these energy hog by raising them for the poor. >>reporter: unclear when that vote will be taken. this is abc 7 news. >> state lawmakers may not need as much of your money. unexpected surge in tax money has come in. more than 2 billion dollars and it could take a nice bite out of the budget deficit. capitol correspondent annette reports from sacramento. pirjs expected 2 and a half billion dollar surge in income and sales and use tax has lawmakers hoping this is a sign the state finances are improving. the windfall can help solve the remaining 14 billion dollar budget deficit. >> great news for the state of california. great news fo

that we're falling today with a deadly shooting, happened before 1030 last night, the 3000 block of kernve. officers reportedly had a search warrant at that street when gunfire broke out. >> investigators as you can see still have. investigators are here attempting to remove a car that is somehow connected to the case. we do not know the search juana's for but we can't tell you that to place such as fire the shots and were not harm to. we're still treading get information from the public information department, on the very latest in this case. but will be quite some time before we get that information. one man was shot, one man killed, one suspects taken into custody. >> the father and two sisters of the giants fan who was severely been at the stadium on opening day, are speaking out for the first time. take a look of the video still leaving the l.a. county medical center on monday, he is an ambulance there, taken by ambulance to san francisco general. he suffered a severely fractured skull, and damage to the frontal lobe of his brain, he was taken off one of 5 seizure medications yester

>> joey kern. >> who is good night?say, who is your beau. >> i like that. where are you from? >> don't ask. you don't want to get into my mother's world. is he in the business? >> yes, he is. >> we had emily giffin on and we are crazy about her. >> absolutely. she was on set. she was our biggest cheerleader which is unusual for the author of the source material to come in and support what it is we are doing with her words. she is lovely. >> she is a sweetheart. >> we are so excited. your movie "something borrowed" opens nationwide today. we wish you all the best. >> thank you. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> up next, one of the most inspiring woman you will ever know makes it realize you can do anything. [ sniffs ] ♪ bye! bye! ♪ hi. hey! hey! [ laughter ] ♪ [ female announcer ] walk into a burst of fresh fragrance when you pass by. get motion activated glade sense and spray and release the magic. sc johnson, a family company. creme body wash with nutrium moisture. after 1 week we took their close-ups. when th

. >>> firefighters are gaining control of the wildfire better thanking in kern county.usand of residents had to evacuate, right now, the fire is 65% contained. the damage so far has been limited to a patio roof. >>> dodger stadium caught fire during the 5th inning of a game, forcing some fans to change seats. it happened last night as the dodgers were taking on the florida marlins. smoke started billowing into the upper deck along the first base side. they found the fire burning in a confined storage area. fans were never evacuated, and the game was not delayed. >>> one week has passed since the police have arrested a suspect in the beating of bryan stow. the family says stow is still being monitored seizures, but so far he has not had any. >>> baseball fans attending tomorrow's memorial day game with the a's, are being asked to donate to the troops. the money is going to go toward buying supplies like toothpaste, bottled water, and energy bars. >>> memorial day is a federal holiday, that means of closures. banks, post offices and schools won't be open either. as far as

it said that colonel donovan, because he was a kern in world war i, will collect information for me of national importance, and he'll do other unspecified duties. okay, and this was setting up an organization called the coordination of information. it later became the office of strategic services, the oss as we know it. it was such a vague order that roosevelt's other officers scratched their heads thinking what the heck is this guy up to? what are you getting into? he sent follow-up memos to explain exactly what this coordinator of information business was all about. donovan liked to say that he began his unit, his oss, from minus zero. in effect, he really started out with one guy, which was wild bill donovan, okay? in the beginning he was kind of like a player in a pick up basketball game looking for agents or operations or covers wherever he really could find itment for example, the phillips lamp company who sold lamps overseas, donovan made arrangements with the phillips lamp company salesman when they went overseas that if they reason across anything of interest for him in their

firefighters in kern county are mopping up after a wildfire that forced thousands of people to leaveheir homes. they announced yesterday afternoon, that a fire near lake isabella was full can contained. it burned near highway 178, which was temporarily closed. it also threatened 40 homes. >>> time now 7:50. san jose police are investigating after a violent weekend. a 35-year-old woman was shot and killed while driving on ambler way saturday night. we don't know her name yet, but family members say she was a mother of five. the woman's nephew who was a passenger in the car was slightly injured in the shooting. this was the 24th homicide in san jose of the year. police found vincent lee. so far, no arrests about been made in either case. >>> it's ten minutes to 8:00, the public broadcasting service says it has been hacked, and a recent story on its website says 2pac shakur is alive in new zealand. the hackers say they do it for entertainment, not for financial gain. >>> working with a major defense contractor after information systems came under attack. lockheed martin says it detected

kntv's mikala kern has more. >> reporter: more tourism and more jobs.t say a giant ferris wheel will bring to vegas. this city recently ranked second in the country as one of the worst places to find a job. sky view hopes to create 400 over the next two years. >> our construction people tell us we will have 200 jobs during phases of construction and about another 200 jobs, permanent jobs in the operation of the wheel and the retail complex down below. >> reporter: this is what attracted county commissioners who gave the project a rare unanimous yes. >> you can have hundreds of people put back to work and that says a lot right there. that helped along with that 7-0 vote in knowing it will create jobs. >> reporter: the first phase of the project begins with the demolishing of this 50-year-old hotel. in its place, a 500-foot tall ferris wheel, which will be taller than the mandalay bay hotel. the wheel will have an l.e.d. screen in the middle larger than a football field, more than three dozen gondolas, capable of holding 22 passengers and a breathtaking v

travis, i don't care that you work for governor kern. you know the protocol. the senator's the ranking official when it comes to greeting international guests. (travis) nice try, but the governor of california is gonna be at the bottom of those stairs when the prince of wales sets his pretty royal toe on california soil. really? well, then i'd hate to see your face when his royal highness walks straight past her and says hi to the senator because they played golf together in scotland. (clicks mouse) (baby crying) i didn't know you had a baby. you know, maybe--maybe we can, uh, you know, set up... (increases volume) something with the prince at the hotel, like a photo-op. do i need to call 9-1-1? i think he's hungry. or maybe he's just wet. (screaming continues) scotty! uh, it's-- it's not a baby. yeah, well, whatever it is, deal with it. look, i'm glad we settled this issue. (beep) uh, you know what? we didn't settle any... (crying stops) what are you doing? that was important. you keep insisting we can manage a baby with two careers, so i thought we'd have a

on may 18 oak lands police say they had information about a violent crime about to happen near kern avenueto pull over a car carrying three men. investigators say two of the men came out of the car with guns. officers opened fire, shooting these two men. the attorney says opd is releasing little information to their families. >> the irony is the chief always talked about transparency. so this is acting just like the old people did. this is not transparency. transparency is not when you don't say who the officers were, where the weapons were. years minds would like to know. >> police say the incident is still under investigation. >>> the man accused of sexually assaulting a girl at piedmont high school is denying the allegations. this is 55-year-old victor salazar. police say he convinced a 17- year-old girl to go into the girls bathroom with him. police say he took pictures of the girl and kissed her before trying to take it further. >> sexual battery occurred and attempt oral cop lakes of a minor. >> the school district says background checks are done on all employees. the police departme