ktvu's noelle walker is live where the government shut down is keeping some tourists away. >> reporterthis sign went up an hour ago. it is meant to give tourists a heads up but local businesses say the signs are too general and they are worried they will scare tourists away. >> reporter: a welcome sign it is not. a lonely road with national parks service detours along the way. >> people were very understanding. >> reporter: they came from new york but the space they wanted to see is closed off. >> we can't get the ocean views. >> reporter: polices that are still open are feeling the government shut down pinch. >> we are california's largest oyster farm. >> reporter: the beach access is closed. but the farm is still open. business has been down since the government shut down. >> at this point it was just here we go again. here is one more thing. >> reporter: she says the government shut down is driving tourists to other more welcoming destination. >> not much of an attraction now to come out here on the weekend and spend time. >> reporter: he says guests are canceling reservations becau

card precipins ktvu's noelle walker is live with more on the cause of today's massive glitch. >> reporter: from viewers who couldn't get their weekend grocery shopping down with their government- issued ebt cards. grocers and customers i talked to say the outage lasted all day. today empty carts that went into grocery outlet in the berkeley came out of the store empty too. >> i tried my ebt card and it didn't work. it said the system was down. ebt or electronic benefit transfer is the federal government's debit-card style food stamp system. today this grocery outlet put out signs to drive customers away after the ebt system went down in 17 states including california. >> it's kind of sad. it messed up our sales a little bit. >> reporter: the assistant manager says most of his customers are on federal food stamp assistance and spend an average of $80 to $100 a cart. crystal rogers left with an everyoney cooler that felt more like a trick than a treat this time of year. >> what about the people with kids? they don't care? it's saturday. >> reporter: xerox, the vendor that runs the electroni

noell walker has the story. >> reporter: across the street over there is a glowing memorial. reminder of the consequences. there are no words for the loss of someone so young who died so suddenly. but friends and family are trying to find them here at the corner memorial near the intersection where kevin sam died. kevin's father chokes back tears talk about the horrific crash that killed his son, injured his daughter and has his wife clinging to life. she was driving her silver mercedes suv at 80 miles per hour. a spokesperson told ktvu sue has a clean driving record. tonight she's out on bail. no one answered her home at her sunset district home. her curtains were shut tight. a neighbor said she never saw sue speeding. at abraham lincoln high school, fellow students held a memorial. the loom here hangs as thick as the fog. >> you can tell everybody is missing him. >> he feels so angry about her killing him. >> reporter: his father says this could have been anyone's son. kevin sun's family is still making funeral arrangements. noelle walker, ktvu news. >>> new developments to

reporting live, noelle walker, ktvu news. >>> a three alarm fire in san francisco's mission district damaged several buildings today. started at about 12:30 this afternoon in a residential area. gusty winds blew the fire into adjacent buildings and filled the neighborhood with large amounts of smoke. fire crews helped people escape from the building and evacuated several other buildings including a pilates studio. it took firefighters 90 minutes to put out the fire. >>> it will cost $400,000 to fix maverick restaurant and repair water damage to the apartments above it on 17th near mission. investigators say the fire was accidental. the owner told us he thinks a pot of oil left on the stove was to blame. >>> we have new information tonight on a deadly shooting in oakland that claimed the life of a care giver. police today identified the victim as 43-year-old damond jones of oakland. jones was shot and killed about 13:15 yesterday afternoon. police say he was walking near his home on 22nd and holly when he was confronted by a stranger. >>> we are learning more information about a woman

noelle walker has the story. >> reporter: we're told they moved on to s.f. general where family members have gathered to get information about the victims in this triple shooting. at about 7:30 tonight the crime scene tape went up on rose alley. >> the witnesses we talked to head the shooting and saw the victims down. >> reporter: police say it was either a drive by or walk up shooting that left three people shot. two of the victims in their early 20s the third in his early teens. a witness took this video shortly after she arrived. she is too scared to show her face. >> the boy is very young. and i guess really scared of the shooters. >> at this time, with the change in the area over the past few years it's a surprise. >> reporter: man who has lived here most his life tells us it wasn't always like this. >> we didn't resort to shooting. we fought it out. now the kids are chasing blood like it's money. >> reporter: police still want to talk to witnesses. they're looking for any surveillance video to give them any indication on what led up to this triple shoo

reporting live, noelle walker, ktvu news. >>> a three alarm fire in san francisco's mission district damaged several buildings today. started at about 12:30 this afternoon in a residential area. gusty winds blew the fire into adjacent buildings and filled the neighborhood with large amounts of smoke. fire crews helped people escape from the building and evacuated several other buildings including a pilates studio. it took firefighters 90 minutes to put out the fire. >>> it will cost $400,000 to fix maverick restaurant and repair water damage to the apartments above it on 17th near mission. investigators say the fire was accidental. the owner told us he thinks a pot of oil left on the stove was to blame. >>> we have new information tonight on a deadly shooting in oakland that claimed the life of a care giver. police today identified the victim as 43-year-old damond jones of oakland. jones was shot and killed about 13:15 yesterday afternoon. police say he was walking near his home on 22nd and holly when he was confronted by a stranger. >>> we are learning more information about a woman

noelle walker has the story. >> reporter: we're told they moved on to s.f. general where family members have gathered to get information about the victims in this triple shooting. at about 7:30 tonight the crime scene tape went up on rose alley. >> the witnesses we talked to head the shooting and saw the victims down. >> reporter: police say it was either a drive by or walk up shooting that left three people shot. two of the victims in their early 20s the third in his early teens. a witness took this video shortly after she arrived. she is too scared to show her face. >> the boy is very young. and i guess really scared of the shooters. >> at this time, with the change in the area over the past few years it's a surprise. >> reporter: man who has lived here most his life tells us it wasn't always like this. >> we didn't resort to shooting. we fought it out. now the kids are chasing blood like it's money. >> reporter: police still want to talk to witnesses. they're looking for any surveillance video to give them any indication on what led up to this triple shoo

noell walker has the story. >> reporter: across the street over there is a owing memorial. a stark reminder of the consequences. there are no words for the loss of someone so young who died so suddenly. but friends and family are trying to find them here at the corner memorial near the intersection where kevin sam died. kevin's father chokes back tears talk about the horrific crash that killed his son, injured his daughter and has his wife clinging to life. she was driving her silver mercedes suv 80 miles per hour. a spokesperson told ktvu sue has a clean driving record. tonight she's out on bail. no one answered her home at her sunset district home. her curtains were shut tight. a neighbor said she never saw sue speeding. at abraham lincoln high school, fellow students held a memorial. the loom here hangs as thick as the fog. >> you can tell everybody is missing him. >> he feels so angry about her killing him. >> reporter: his father says this could have been anyone's son. kevin sun's family is still making funeral arrangements. noelle walker, ktvu news. >>> new developmen

noelle walker ktvu channel 2 news. >>> coming up in ten minutes we'll have more coverage of that triple shooting last night in oakland, including what witnesses told us happened right before the gunfire. >>> a man is under arrest in a bay area hospital accused of cause a deadly wrong-way crash while driving drunk. police say 24-year-old zachary katz drove an infinity nourish in the southbound lanes before 4:00 this morning near syria point in brisbane. tonight a viewer sent us the pictures of the damage. the highway patrol says the infiniti hit a tami cab headoon. one of the passengers was ejected and died at the scene. the other passenger and taxi driver suffered major injuries as did the suspected drunk driver. >>> new developments as pge respondses to new safety kers over a natural gas pipeline. pge says it will shut down a transmission plain san carlos under a court order. line 147 runs under brittan avenue, late yesterday the city got an order to shut down the pipeline. the city says it otained e- mails from a pge engineer expressing concerns over the pipeline awn one says, "are we

noelle walker is live to tell us how the little boy is doing tonight. noelle. >> reporter: julie the hospital toll us the child is still listed in critical condition. this is not where a 2-year-old boy should be spending the night. children's hospital in oakland is becoming a much too frequent stop for a child. >> they don't know the aftermath of what they have done to somebody's child. >> reporter: it happened this afternoon, broad daylight. the trail of a running gunfire that spanned the 94th and 95th hundred side of sunny side. two blocks away a child was playing on the sidewalk. a stray bullet hit him . when a shooting like this happens, police talk and police are all ears. >> you can't keep quiet. you need to come forth. this need to stop. there's too many kids dying on the street. >> reporter: since 2011, five children under eight years old have been shot and killed. among them 8-year-old adrian martinez shot by his father's taco truck. 23-year-old hyrum lawrence that died at the hospital where the late latest victim is recovering from surgery. it

noelle walker, with the story of the basketball player who was born with all of the tools except forreporter: kevin lowe told me it's still surreal to him to see his name up there in lights. when i asked him how he pronounces his name he says it's lowe like wow. like in his story. >> reporter: the path kevin lowe he took to get here -- >> if you gave me a left hand, i wouldn't take it. >> reporter: what lowe was missing he made up for in height. at 13 he was already 6'10". >> within a year he had a hook shot. within a year and half of that he could shoot free throws and i said we have ourselves a winner. >> reporter: now they have themselves a big screen star too. lowe got the attention of a documentary film producer, long shot the kevin lowe story follows him from high school varsity to division one basketball. from teenager to young man. >> it wasn't an easy thing to do with a disability but i made it work with the help of certain coaches and role models who really helped me in different ways to get me where i needed to be to be successful. >> reporter: success is measured in many

noelle walker is live to tell us how the little boy is doing tonight. noelle. >> reporter: julie the hospital toll us the child is still listed in critical condition. this is not where a 2-year-old boy should be spending the night. children's hospital in oakland is becoming a much too frequent stop for a child. >> they don't know the aftermath of what they have done to somebody's child. >> reporter: it happened this afternoon, broad daylight. the trail of a running gunfire that spanned the 94th and 95th hundred side of sunny side. two blocks away a child was playing on the sidewalk. a stray bullet hit him . when a shooting like this happens, police talk and police are all ears. >> you can't keep quiet. you need to come forth. this need to stop. there's too many kids dying on the street. >> reporter: since 2011, five children under eight years old have been shot and killed. among them 8-year-old adrian martinez shot by his father's taco truck. 23-year-old hyrum lawrence that died at the hospital where the late latest victim is recovering from surgery. it

noelle walker, with the story of the basketball player who was born with all of the tools except forone. >> reporter: kevin lowe told me it's still surreal to him to see his name up there in lights. when i asked him how he pronounces his name he says it's lowe like wow. like in his story. >> reporter: the path kevin lowe he took to get here -- >> if you gave me a left hand, i wouldn't take it. >> reporter: what lowe was missing he made up for in height. at 13 he was already 6'10". >> within a year he had a hook shot. within a year and half of that he could shoot free throws and i said we have ourselves a winner. >> reporter: now they have themselves a big screen star too. lowe got the attention of a documentary film producer, long shot the kevin lowe story follows him from high school varsity to division one basketball. from teenager to young man. >> it wasn't an easy thing to do with a disability but i made it work with the help of certain coaches and role models who really helped me in different ways to get me where i needed to be to be successful. >> reporter: success is measured