that e-mail actually did not say lockdown but the classroom was on lockdown.ished and the location that we were at on campus, william hall, was across, so it was pretty far away and the parking lot was right behind us. >> so you felt safe then leaving the class even though you didn't know where the gunman might be? >> well, it seemed very skeptical. we weren't taking the alert very seriously. the alarm had went off but the threat level was kind of low and we were relatively close to the parking lot so we did feel confident and especially with the security measures on campus. there were officers patrolling right outside the window that we could see. we did feel safe enough to just walk across to the parking lot. >> ashley, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate that. >> no problem. >>> faa engineers will be back on capitol hill today to lobby law makers who haven't left for vacation. the faa is partially shut down. members of congress may not do anything until september. so if they don't, it leaves 4,000 government workers without paychecks, hundreds of

however, the campus remains on lockdown.tech notified people this morning on their home page and through facebook, posting the following alert, saying "a person with a gun reported near dietrick. stay inside. lock doors. emergency personnel responding. call 911 for help." a short time ago, we heard from blacksburg police officials and campus officials, saying they consider this to be a credible alert. no further reported sightings, though, of the man that the three summer campers say that they saw this morning, roughly at 9:00 a.m. however, this alert still remains in effect while officers on patrol are looking for this alleged gunman on the campus. my colleague, peter alexander, is with me, as well as criminal profiler clint van zandt. and pete williams is also back with us now. pete, i want to start with you. i know you're just off the phone with your sources. what are you hearing? >> well, the three young people who reported seeing this -- and the map you're looking at -- what they thought is sort of at the very bottom ri

been warned that there is a lockdown in place right now.gain, we should tell you, within the next ten minutes, a news conference that will take place at burruss hall. campus police will be speaking to authorities. we have crews on the scene and we'll bring you more information live as that happens. officials, we're told, will provide what they've described as a simple press briefing in front of burruss hall when that takes place. as we noted just a short time ago, this is significant for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that this campus was hauntingly the site of those awful attacks, or that attack four years ago, but perhaps if there is any benefit, it is that because it is summer, there are not nearly as many people on campus right now. we'll try to get those shots back up to you, as it goes to black. we, again, are going to take a short break. we will be back after that break, give us a moment to regroup, make phone calls to folks on campus to make sure we have all the information we can deliver to you. we'll keep an eye o

it's on lockdown right now. were shot down and killed four years ago. we'll bring you the latest. >>> and in san francisco, police are looking for a gun that was used as an assault earlier in the morning. we'll show you the pictures of the suspect they already have in custody. >>> and another frightening incident involving a california teenager and a sand cave. >>> breaking news in san francisco. police have rushed to a shooting scene in the potrero hill neighborhood. kraig debro just got there. what do you know? >> reporter: good morning. this is the 1000 block of connecticut, near 25th and connecticut. police are investigating. apparently the suspect ran in there. according to police, there was a shooting somewhere in this neighborhood. they are not sure where exactly. a bomb in her 40s was shot once in the ankle. she's been taken to the hospital for treatment. what you are looking at now is the man who is the suspect. police confirmed that for me. i don't know if you saw the paper bags on his hands but bliss

we are on an official lockdown, doors are completely closed. there are some guards around campus, but just the hustle and bustle of cop cars, news anchors and stuff like that. there's no reports of injuries, just a little bit of a scare right now. >> you said there was a lockdown fa taking place, which means there's not a lot of people milling around, not in the camps or in the classrooms right now this. kind of lockdown taking place because of 2007, everyone remembers what took place on that campus when there was a shoong rampage, one of the students on campus, and what came from that after 32 people were killed, what came from that was a lot of criticism about the security on campus. tell us how a lot of the people on campus were alerted of is lockdown? >> we have had three or four updates, text message updates, and also e-mail address. i received one, i don't know as far as the time, but probably about ten minutes between the time that they spotted him and the time that we were alerted. we have received three updates since then. twitter is a

virginia tech, apparently it's gone on lockdown, this is the same university by the way, back in 2007gunman, the student there unloaded on students and professors. from virginia tech t police there telling us that there's a possibility of a person carrying a weapon there on campus so. they are suggesting that everyone stay inside for their safety. apparently, regular school is not in session right now, but summer sessions are still going on. not sure who first reported this, but right now virginia tech police saying that the university of -- virginia tech university is on lockdown, possibly because of a person carrying a weapon there on campus. we're following this for you getting news by the second now, we'll keep you posted. >>> let's check other news across country, at least 30 people are injured, one critically after an accident in new york state a bus carrying polish tourists flipped on the interstate. police say the driver was going too fast for the rainy conditions last night. >>> and a scary night for some campers in northern new jersey. a black bear wandered into their campsi

we got two inmates in there, lockdown inmates, southern hispanics. standard protocol when we hit the cell, tactical cell search. are we straight? okay. cool. let's roll. we're going to go through the section door, second cell door in from when we enter the unit. we'll go rushing into the door, we're going to pop the door. sometimes these guys fight with us. sometimes they comply with our orders. there's a chance there could be chemical agents or use of force. this is an unexpected type of cell search. they don't know we're coming. we use that element of surprise. thanks. okay. control, are we good? okay. we always take staff threats seriously. but definitely in light of the recent events where staff were basically put in the hospital, we're going to have to take every recaution. >>> coming up next on "lockup: extended stay," officers score a big fine. but are there more threats looming against them? later, can the rookie keep his cool with a hot-headed inmate. robot 1:good morning... robot 1:...female child. sfx: modem dial-up noise woman: flaws? yea

the lockdown began at 9:00 a.m. the district says students are being told to stay in their classrooms. a spokesman says the incident is not related to a similar situation yesterday that we covered live on ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. students from castlemont high and east oakmont pride were let out yesterday while officers searched for four suspected carjackers. these are scenes from news chopper 2 a short time ago of a lockdown at horseman elementary and the search for a carjacker nearby. if we get more information on this story, we will bring it to you during this newscast. >>> meanwhile, it's been almost a year since the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno and today federal investigators are pointing the fingers squarely at pg&e. the national traffic safety board is releasing its final report on the blast at a hearing in washington, d.c. according to the ntsb, a litany of failures led to the explosion. among pacific gas & electric's failures, some dating back more than 50 years, with unsufficient inspections,

as the police action and lockdown continued. >> you know, it's just right up the street. you know, i can see what's going on from where i'm standing. and it's really scary. >> reporter: we're back live. you see police remain out here tonight. we're told they have secured two locations, arrested five people, they are now waiting for some search warrants so they can search those two locations. again, a very scary day for parents and children up the street at horace mann elementary school. all of the children have been dismissed. they were dismissed within the last half-hour. many came out crying. parents are relieved. they're also upset. some say they don't know if they want to send their children to school tomorrow. reporting live in oakland, nbc bay area news. >> okay, thank you. >>> the kids back at home and safe tonight. >>> in san francisco now, a father of two is fighting for his life tonight. the 22-year-old was shot in the head while on a break from his job as a cook in the mission district. co-workers tell police the man was standing not far from the restaurant wit

following the attack, all state facilities went into immediate lockdown.hey're sure this incident was an isolated one. >> ever since the last incident at tehachapi against officers, corcoran has been on full alert, searching cells and shaking down inmates to prevent similar attacks in their own prison. >> what are you looking for right now? >> anything, weapons, anything that would be considered contraband. >> pornography, not supposed to have it. >> we'll give him a cell search receipt saying we took it. most of the time we'll just destroy it because it's not dangerous contraband. >> what are you really looking for? >> just anything, like needles, drug paraphernalia, information. like that would be information. you got names, numbers, akas. >> what makes information so dangerous? >> what we don't know is what's dangerous. these guys just had a major staff assault up at tehachapi, less than a week ago. we don't know. could it go down here? very easily. you never know. i mean, that's -- i like to go home after i do my eight. and i like to see everyone else

if there's no further evidence that there was a gun, will they lift this lockdown order. that's the choice they'll have to face at some time this afternoon. interestingly, if in fact there was someone carrying a gun on the college campus, that would be potentially alarming but under virginia law, according to a recently written opinion by virginia's attorney general, it wouldn't be illegal. the other thing is these young people told the campus police that they didn't think the man was operating in any kind of threatening way, that he wasn't pointing the gun, he didn't seem to be menacing, and that is all they have. also, they said that the gun, what they thought was the gun, which they described apparently as a long barreled gun with a short potentially pistol grip handle, was concealed partially, covered with a piece of clothing or some kind of piece of cloth, and they said they didn't know whether the person was trying to conceal it or what. so they still don't know whether there was a gun in the first place. >> it's of course alarming and i can tell you that schools ar

the second lockdown of an oakland school in as many days. we bring in jody hernandez at the scene all day. there now things are finally settling down. i know there was a lot of tension and angry comments front parents. what's the latest now? >> reporter: pretty ugly scene. children are home with their parents tonight after spending the entire day on lockdown here at their school now. you can see that the police tape is still up. and police are still out here in the neighborhood. however, we have been told that the neighborhood is secure, police apparently are waiting for some search warrant returns so they can go in search two locations for potential evidence. meanwhile, many parents are not happy about how the school reacted to it all. a kay yo a scene outside horace mann elementary school. parents clamored to get their children. s.w.a.t. teams converged on a home where five home invasion robbery suspects, barricaded themselves inside. >> it is still scary. right up the street. i can see what is going on from where i am standing. it is real

in southern california: california: santa monica college is on lockdown...olice igating reports of >>> we can are follow breaking news in southern california. santa monica college is on lockdown. police are investigating reports of a gunman on campus. the calls came in a little over an hour ago. police immediately ordered staff and students to stay indoors. these are live pictures over the college. school is not in session right now. some people are on the grounds at this hour. police haven't verified the call just yet. >>> palo alto may be one of the first cities in the bay area to go green. the city wants to install solar panels throughout palo alto and then have it as the main energy source. stephanie chuang has more on how local businesses could benefit. >> reporter: the city of palo alto has set a goal to get at least one-third of its electricity from green sources by 2013. these solar panels off east bay shore road will cover the rooftops of local businesses. >> they will sell the power to the city when they generate it. >> reporter: the businesses wou

>> once inmates complete their time in extended lockdown, they transfer to the working cellblock, a 90ay transitional housing unit where prisoners must earn the right to return to general population. one of the inmates here is 24-year-old ahmad lawrence who goes by the nickname pimp. >> my nickmaim pimp. i got that from my big brother and all my cousins by me having a lot of ladies had i was young, when their girl friends, you know, it didn't matter what i did or how i did it. i still kept them approximate. >> incarcerated four years ago on a cocaine charge, he's doing time for allegedly selling drugs in prison. >> i was always in the population, got in an incident. somebody went and told the lieutenant colonel that some drugs were being sold on the compound. they ended up finding me guilty and sent me to extended lockdown and i won my appeal and i come to the working cellblock. now i'm doing 90 days and i'll be on the compound soon. >> if and when ahmad earns the right to return with good behavior, he could be placed here. in the prison's most coveted living quarters. >> basically thi

this is live scene of sky 7 in oakland where we have a school lockdown right now. can see the police presence at horace mann school they are looking for a carjacking suspect there. we will follow it 4:00 and 5:00 and have the latest on our website at abc7news.com. again we have breaking news at that school lockdown at horace mann in oakland. >> advice to help you get in on this the vintage shopping trend but on the news at 4:00 and 5:00 michael finney test test those expensive e.e.d. lights and they uncover a gladiator school in rome. those stories up at 4:00 and 5:00. we'll see the sun at some point. >> it will make a brief appearance. >> thank you for joining us us.

. >>> in oakland and him into school was placed on lockdown for much of the day as police search for a group of men responsible for a series of home invasion robberies. about three 50 students or no incentive from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 this afternoon. homeowners will not at gunpoint into school. they searched nearby homes and eventually arrested five suspects. one man called police who stood there is saying that he was stopped in the attic of a house. >>> this is the second straight day at a school in oakland has been placed on lockdown. >>> able he is behind bars tonight after he was shot by shift at the. it happened about 9:00 p.m. last night. they noticed a suspicious man near a car. to him and read then turned and pointed a gun in. the deputy shot the suspect in the leg. come in was treated at hospital and then plugged into a. it's been turned out to be a loaded bb gun. >>> apparel those court heard arguments today about whether the accused design gunmen jared loughner can be forced to take antis psychotic drugs. he was found not confident to stand trial. his attorneys say he shou

so they pulled back and put the building in lockdown. they asked us to leave the public grounds and come inside. a lot of equipment including robotic equipment that can test for bombs. we have no indication that's what it is. i want to be very clear about that. we usually don't give these things any coverage because political stunts can happen, people who want to be on television jump the fence. because we were live on television, we showed it. the secret service responded in a nanosecond. there's no indication of any threat, no indication that the president was at risk. but you did have somebody jump the fence at the white house. there was a swift and dramatic response from the secret service. the backpack is still on the grounds. i'm inside now so i can't see from the outside as to how those tests proceeding. but it's a routine protocol here it at the white house. this happens sometimes. of course it's not routine when you watch it. >> are you in the briefing room now? >> inside the briefing room. we were asked to come had in here. tha

santa monica college is on lockdown at this hour. three people reported seeing a gunman walking on campus about an hour ago. although school is not in session, some professors and incoming freshmen are there for orientation. police have not verified the calls or determined determined if any shots were fired. but once again, breaking news, santa monica college in southern california is in lockdown. >>> one of san francisco's largest gang trills -- trials is expected to go to the jury today. federal prosecutors accuse the seven defendants of belonging to the ms-13 gang and are charged with wang -- with waging a war against rival members. one was the murder of a -- a stabbing. the defendants face life sentences if convicted. >>> the fcc is investigating b.a.r.t.'s decision to cut off cell phone service ahead of last week's planned protest. the fcc says it has received complaints and is gathering information from b.a.r.t. they are also looking into whether eliminating cell phone service jeopardized -- jeopardizeed safety. they are also i

an elementary school in oakland is on lockdown as police search for robbery or carjacking suspects. a perimeter is set up on ygnacio and congress avenues. one person has been detained. it's not clear whether the suspects are armed. we'll follow the developing story. horace mann elementary school is on lockdown. >>> federal investigators announced the cause of the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. in comes after a day of criticism for pg&e. as stephanie chuang shows us, there was much more blame and finger pointing to go around. >> reporter: almost a year later -- >> the explosion was right in my face and almost knocked me down. >> reporter: -- rick is still in disbelief over the september 9 explosion that killed 8 people in his san bruno neighborhood. he is still waiting for answers from pg&e. >> what did pg&e know? and if they did know something that they should have done, why didn't they do it? >> >> reporter: these were the questions also being asked by the national transportation safety board in a year-long probe. >> this tragedy began years ago with pg&e's 1956 installati

. >>> plus an oakland school in a lockdown. why some parents are not happy with the way the school handled the situation. >>> good morning. traffic is moving along pretty well if you are driving on northbound 280 getting up into the valley. we'll tell you more, coming up. >>> good morning. plenty of low clouds around but it will start to clear off north to south and sunny later on by the coast, highs 60s and 70s and fog, sun, then breezy. >>> you got to see this. waves almost 60 feet high. drawing a lot of people to the beach in china, incredible. part of a phenomenon known as astronomical tide time. now the waves are only this big for 10 days in the lunar calendar. the tide mixed with winds from a typhoon are making those waves even bigger. >>> well, this morning, students will be returning to horris man elementary school in oakland. that's one day after a nearby police standoff lead to a school lockdown. now students were kept inside their school from 9:00-4:00 until after several nearby homeowners were robbed at gunpoint. po

the campus put on lockdown. virginia tech, of course, the site of the 2007 massacre that left 33 people dead. students and faculty still being told to stay inside, lock their doors and wait for further notice. trace gallagher live at the breaking news desk with that sketch. hi, trace. >> reporter: hi, shannon. yeah, the alert is still in effect and might be for some time because, remember, virginia tech is one square mile, a very large campus. we're talking about hundreds of thousands of square feet of buildings they still have to go o through and search. i want to . >> virginia tech is not about to take any chances. listen. >> we're in a new era. obviously, this campus experienced something pretty terrible four year ago, and the choice facing us and particularly the police departments are when you get a report, what are you going to do with the report? regardless of what you think the veracity might be or the ultimate conclusion might be. >> reporter: so the students are still inside the building, some of them

today another lockdown. three teenagers reported seeing a man with a gun. police rushed and conducted an intense building by building search. the gunman was not found. the lockdown lasted more than five hours and was lifted before noon our time. virginia tech police released this sketch of what the man may have looked like. summer classes were cancelled for the day and students and staff were urged to stay indoors. the massacre of virginia tech in 2007 remains the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in united states history. >>> topping our health watch tonight, new details on that nationwide recall of ground turkey meat following a salmonella outbreak, linked to one death here in california. >> the meat company, a well-known meat company, cargill is recalling millions of pounds of turkey. here's chris with more details. >> reporter: the recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey is second only to the ground beef recall of three years ago. meat giant cargill is recalling fresh and frozen turkey products produced at its plant since february 20th and susp

it was put on lockdown about 10:15 a.m. about 2:00 p.m. parents started showing up trying to get their students out of school. there were several hundred parents some of them were getting upset some saying that they not received any notice or phone call that their kids are being kept inside of the school. about one hour ago they started giving the kids out one by one but there were a lot of upset parents that one of the school to do a better job of communicating with them. >> they did not call me at all. i am mad about that myself on did not go off, i am up here with all of this chaos and for what? >> about half an hour ago all the kids were released and most of the parents have left, there are still a few stragglers showing up to pick up their kids but the police are still in the neighborhood in investigating the incident that happened about 9:30 a.m.. >> around 9:30 a.m. oakland police surrounded this house looking for suspects in a series of violent home invasion robberies believing the suspects to be armed, the swat team was brought in

>> reporter: it was, in fact, in lockdown.wn was lifted about half an hour ago, martin, after a thorough search of the campus failed to turn up either the man who was sighted or a gun that three young people said they thought they saw him carrying. they gave a very detailed description of the man. this was a composite sketch the police put together. but they never found him or what the young people thought was a weapon. so after thoroughly searching the campus, they've decided to lift this alert. the classes are still canceled for the rest of the day, but the campus will be getting pretty much back to normal late tonight and tomorrow. >> are the police assuming this may have been some kind of bizarre imaginary thing? what's their conclusion? was this guy there or wasn't he? >> reporter: i don't think they know the answer to that question. as of a few minutes ago, they just couldn't say. there was some skepticism about this -- about whether the person really was in fact carrying a gun. they don't doubt that the young people tho

this is live scene of sky 7 in oakland where we have a school lockdown right now.n see the police presence at horace mann school they are looking for a carjacking suspect there. we will follow it 4:00 and 5:00 and have the latest on our website at abc7news.com. again we have breaking news at that school lockdown at horace mann in oakland. >> advice to help you get in on this the vintage shopping trend but on the news at 4:00 and 5:00 michael finney test test those expensive e.e.d. lights and they uncover a gladiator school in rome. those stories up at 4:00 and 5:00. we'll see the sun at some point. >> it will make a brief appearance. >> thank you for joining us us. have a great d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d

two schools on lockdown because of the danger of the situation. police had their guns drawn. and i in the sky and officers en route to aid in the hunt for two men. those men carjacked a man in west oakland. >> the vehicle had crashed near a house. and a voice as the acts jumped out of the car and ran. >> reporter: and officer chased the men on foot eczema is an intense that turned and pointed a gun at the officers of the officer fired several rounds. >> reporter: one man was arrested in that neighborhood. around 50 officers remained going door-to-door. people of a neophyte were troubled, especially with young children with using on of the police activity. >> we have young kids out here. that is all they know. >> reporter: the suspects are known gang members. >> they are acquaintances of the ghost town gain in west oakland. they are a simulated and members of that game i saw. >> reporter: failed the community will come forward -- the opening of unity will come forward to catch these men. >> we have posted unedited video. you can click on it when you get to our homepage at ktvu

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new york city is in virtue all lockdown, for the first time bus, subway, and trains service has been shut down by the weather. thousands have been evacuated, including hospital patients, and they're batoning down the hatches in beantown. >> stay indoors and off the road from late tonight when the rain will get high, right through tomorrow. >> reporter: back here in north carolina, the thing that is so strange about this storm, the fact it's actually worse now after the eye passed than before. usually it's the opposite. that's why we had to switch to "skype". we're inside the hotel lobby. waiting for this to finally give up and pass us by. irene has been taking her time. 'abc news. back to you. >> alan: she's talking to us via "skype". let's go do leigh glaser, who has been tracking the storm. this thing has paralyzed the eastern seaboard. >> leigh: it has and things are going to get worse overnight and particularsly tomorrow morning. irene, cat gore 1, winds 80 miles-per-hour. moving slowly to the north northeast at 1 miles-per-hour, and now it's centered 15 miles southeast of norfol

the university went in to lockdown after three children attending a summer catch on campus reported seeing a man with a gun. the children said they saw a man walking quickly with what may have been a handgun covered with a cloth. police posted a warning on the university website and began notifying students by e-mail and phone and began an extensive search of the campus. >> the alert that went out asked people to go inside and secure themselveses with further notice. that's what they are asking people to do. again, it will be their individual decisions but you have the information that we have. they need to make their own decisions. >> so far, police found nothing. you probably remember back in 2007 when a gunman stormed virginia tech and killed 33 people in worst school shooting in u.s. history. in march, federal authorities fined the school for waiting too long to notify students about the initial shooting in april of 2007. >>> iran's ambassador to iraq today says the two u.c. berkeley graduates held on espyianage charges will be released soon. the ambassador says he doesn't know when jo

the campus remains under lockdown. people are still being told to stay indoors after summer camp students reported seeing a man with what could have been a handgun. that was around 9:00 a.m. this morning. police held a press conference a short time ago to say so far there have not been anybody matching the description that students gave them. when we have an update we will bring it to you. >>> a missouri law bans teachers with becoming friends with students on facebook. on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th. so i want to major in biology. miss gopie is the best teacher i ever had. she's amazing, i love her. [ jade ] i'm teaching jasmine ap biology. i knew she had the talent... i always pushed her. [ jasmine ] her class

. >> five men are in custody in oakland tonight after a stand- off and school lockdown today. about 9:30 this morning, police tracked several home invasion suspects to a home on melrose avenue near 49th avenue. they closed the streets and locked down horace mann elementary school. after several hours, police had all five men in custody. parents were allowed to pick up their children from school around 2:00 this morning. >>> oakland has seen 72 homicides so far this year. city leaders are in disagreement over how to curb the violence. ideas range from teen curfews to gang injunctions, though no decisions have yet been made. j.r. stone shows what could be done in oakland that has been done in other cities. >> reporter: three cities that have dealt with gang problems and homicides are listed here, philadelphia, new york and los angeles. we start with philadelphia. they've put strict teen curfews into effect over the last three weeks. you can see some of the video here. violent crime is slightly down but during august the homicide rate dropped by more than 50%. the cost of this pr

. >>> a police standoff forced an oakland school to lockdown today. parents had to escort their children from horseman elementary school. it happened after officers surrounded a home on malworth avenue near 49th where several robbery suspects had barricaded themselves inside. there had been a series of home invasions and robberies in the area this morning. investigating officers spotted a suspect's car and traced it to a home there. >> redirected the officers to gather around the suspect's kitchen. break out the window to possible hurricane get them to start negotiations. >> those attempts didn't work so police brought in the s.w.a.t. team. the suspects later surrendered peacefully. one was in the attic where he tried to hide and he got stuck. >>> adored by their communities. >> i think it is really nice. >> it is a jungle out here. amazing we are surviving. >> but felix mitchell was adorned and his implements did not die. how 25 years later his mark is still being felt in the bay area. >>> well, now we know what happens when a plan goes horriblely wr

the hospital kept unit t-3 under lockdown until around 9:00 'othis morning. a union representative did not know if the patient had been arrested. this comes after a patient killed a staff member last fall. last week-patient jeff massey pleaded no contest to murder in the death of psych tech donna gros last october. >> probably seep them along the embarcadero, pedicabs. now a war is brewing between licensed pedicab companies and a new company that is accused of operating illegally. here's more from the embarcadero. >> reporter: this is the battlegrounds, the embarcadero on the water front. established pedicab companies say a new company is hiring unlicensed foreign students to operate the cabs. >> wonderful, wonderful, very wonderful. enjoy with the bike. >> reporter: these italian tourists enjoyed their ride on a san francisco pedicab the cabs pedal back and forth every day. the ferry tourists to popular sights along the waterfront. >> now we going fisherman wharf. >> but established pedly cab company say a company may be intaken jerg -- endangering tourists.

next morning as i reported for duty in new york's times square, the crossroads of the world was on lockdown. you know, for this 24-hour mcdonald's, only in manhattan do they have 24-sure mcdonald's, normally these doors are open. they never shut them because people are coming here at all hours. today, nobody. but as the morning played out on live television it became pretty obvious the storm was not going to be so bad. at this point, it mostly feels like a rain event at this point as opposed to a powerful wind hurricane. and so today there is a whole lot of arm chair quarterbacking going on. the forecasters did get the path of the storm right but they were, they admit, wrong about the storm's strength. >> if you don't get the wind and the track right, you're not going to get the storm surge right and therefore, likely, always have some overevacuations. >> reporter: all this has also put people like the mayor of new york on the defensive. >> we can't just when a hurricane's coming get out of the way and hope for the best. that's not responsible. >> reporter: though new york city and the othe

classes resume at an east bay school following the lockdown.he police activity that kept student indoors for hours. >>> a father accused of throwing his son off a boat in california gives his side of the story. f ♪ ♪ mm-mmm-mmm-mm-mm-mmm ♪ mm-mmm-mmm-mm-mm-mmm [ female announcer ] kraft cheese has more full length shreds in every bag. you'll see the difference. ♪ mmm >>> breaking news. a large house fire in hercules. this fire was reported just after 7:00. it quickly went to two alarms. as you can tell, firefighters are still battling this blaze. you can see gray smoke is coming out. for a while, it was all thick, black smoke. this is on puerto fee know court in hercules. you can see that newschopper2 -- that was -- it was easy to find it because we saw the smoke from miles away as newschopper2 flew up the east bay. this is on puerto fee know court and hercules. we'll have more on this coming up. >>> 7:53. this morning, students are returning -- returning to a school in element, one day after a standoff led to a lockdown at the school. students

we haven't heard the exact word "lockdown" mentioned here on campus. but they have been pretty specific about encouraging people to stay indoors, make sure and not come outside, stuff like that. but there are people kind of walking around campus, buses running, stuff like that. so it gives you kind of the impression right now at least that the seriousness of this matter, for lack of a better term, has toned down just a little bit. >> thank you very much. i appreciate the live report. we'll keep your audience up to date on what's happening there. >>> to the extreme heat, heat advisories are up in 15 different states spanning from southern california to north carolina. and many of those states including texas have been dealing with these blistering triple-digit temperatures for weeks now. in arkansas, forecasters are predicting that temperatures could top at 108 degrees. in phoenix, the temperatures are inching towards 100. >> it feels like the worst one so far. i've been here 15 years. >> this is serious stuff. and i'm glad the coaches are taking the ne

the university went in to lockdown after three children attending a summer catch on campus reported seeing a man with a gun. the children said they saw a man walking quickly with what may have been a handgun covered with a cloth. police posted a warning on the university website and began notifying students by e-mail and phone and began an extensive search of the campus. >> the alert that went out asked people to go inside and secure themselveses with further notice. that's what they are asking people to do. again, it will be their individual decisions but you have the information that we have. they need to make their own decisions. >> so far, police found nothing. you probably remember back in 2007 when a gunman stormed virginia tech and killed 33 people in worst school shooting in u.s. history. in march, federal authorities fined the school for waiting too long to notify students about the initial shooting in april of 2007. >>> iran's ambassador to iraq today says the two u.c. berkeley graduates held on espyianage charges will be released soon. the ambassador says he doesn't know when jo

. >>> security lockdown at a white house. a man jumped over the fence with that backpack.. he's been taken into custody. there's a lockdown until the bomb squad can come in and check that backpack out to make sure there is no danger. we're waiting for that procedure to take place here at the white house. as we do, we'll keep you updated. the suspect taken into custody this on a day in which the president signed into law the debt compromise agreement. it's a deal that didn't give him everything he wanted but a deal very important to the president and candidate obama. there's no doubt this compromise on the debt ceiling the president signed today fell far short of what he initially wanted. remember at the beginning he wanted a grand compromise, $4 trillion over ten years. he got a little more than half that. he insisted at the beginning one debt ceiling increase. this compromise a two-tier program. and the president also wanted what he calls a balanced approach, meaning he wanted tax increases guaranteed as part of this deal. there is no guarantee of tax increases in the dea

the university went in lockdown as teens seen a man with a gun.they released a sketch of the gunman and searched the school. but they found no one with a weapon. after the april 2007 killings they put student notification and security into place. 33 people died in that shooting spree. >>> paul mccartney has been drawn into britain's scandal over journalists hacking into the voice mail of new subjects. he told critics he planned to talk to the police about a claim by his former wife, heather mills, that a reporter for the mirror group listened to a voice mail that he left for her back in 2001. the news corp has been accused of hacking into the voice mails of new subjects. >>> nasa says all signs point to a discovery on mars that could mean there is life on the red planet. they looked at images taken by a satellite orbiting mars and noticed dark stains appearing and disappearing. they say it is liquid water flowing downslope. the water would be dense, though, like syrup. nasa says it is the best evidence so far that there is water on mars and where

santa monica college under lockdown.ble gunman. >>> the game may be changing on moammar gadhafi's side and also with the growing rebel movement trying to force him out of power. up to now, opposition forces have not advanced in large numbers there on the capital of tripoli but a rebel spokesman says that that will soon happen, possibly by the end of the month. that is coming as news emerged today that the libyan army loyal to moammar gadhafi launched this scud missile in the direction of rebel units just a couple of days ago. i want to go straight to the senior international correspondent, matthew chance there in tripoli. matthew, first, i want to start with the report of the scud missile launch. if it is true, how might that change things? >> reporter: it certainly is true. it's monitored by u.s. warship off the coast in the mediterranean sea. it was fired from the a town of gadhafi's hometown towards the port of brago, where tlu clashes right now. notoriously difficult to target these missiles. this one, according to t

nearby east oakland pride elementary school and castlemont high went into lockdown. school officials took students off the playground back to class. in the perimeter, neighbors drawn into the street by a spectacle of flashing lights, helicopters and police cars for a manhunt that showed no sign of coming to a close. and that manhunt still no sign of coming to a close at this point. as i said 75% of this perimeter search and the other two suspects haven't been found. authorities say they are still hoping that those remaining men are hiding somewhere within the perimeter. they have not identified the two men who were arrested but they say they have criminal records and have been involved with some high-profile crimes here in east oakland. >> give us a sense of where you are. you are on the edge of the perimeter? cars are diverted around? >> reporter: that's right. many of these cars right here are actually being rerouted around the perimeter and as we said it's several blocks long. this is just the back end of it on 81st and bancroft but it goes as far as 88th. >> keep