noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and our coverage continues on www.ktvu.com. you can watch cell phone video of the chase and shoot out and read more about the criminal case against the suspect. >>> a man who is always due in court for reckless driver is back in trouble with the law. police arrested him again on friday on suspicion of drinking while driving following a collision. this is video from back in april when he was arrested for reckless driving on 580. the chp says this time he was driving a 1999 corvette that hit a light pole before rolling over on highway 580 about 3:00 a.m. last friday. both he and a passenger were injured in the crash. we are told the passenger is in critical condition. >>> today b.a.r.t. larched a new effort to ensure -- launched a new effort to ensure the stations could be evacuated if an emergency. two years ago an issue caused smoke to fill the platform. b.a.r.t. cleared everyone in 90 minutes. but concerns were raised about getting around people who were sleeping or sitting on the grounds. b.a.r.t. officers are issuing warning

in sonoma county, noelle walker, ktvu news. >>> this is what it looked like most of the day around the bay area. this is our view of san francisco late this afternoon. and boy you can see in that picture, low gray clouds blocking out the sun. while this system wasn't a big rain producer. mark it was still quite strange to see this happening in july here. >> it felt strange out here. a bit tropical in nature. today waking up this morning we had our first round of rain throughout the region. the amounts really did not measure up to much. only trace amounts to .1 of an inch. but it is july 20th. we're talking about rain showers out there. this was the first way we tracked this morning between 7:00 and 10:00 pushing across a good portion of the region especially for the northern half of the bay area. all this moisture is moving in from the south and east producing thunderstorms out toward the sierra. that's basically been a constant all weekend long. pumping in low clouds and scattered rain throughout the area. here's the most recent imagine. the coverage still up there especially in parts

noelle walker is reporting with the person investigators are now looking for. >> reporter: a bouquet of flowers springs among the wildfires at the edge of petaluma road. >> this road is terrible. it's dangerous. >> reporter: laura web says her husband heard tires screeching on the stretch of road early saturday morning. >> then he heard an impact. but it sounded so hard he thought it was another car. >> reporter: it wasn't a car. it was 21-year-old basilio nathan garza jr. who was walking home when a car hit him near the intersection hunter lane. the driver did not stop. >> this was an accident. this turned into a crime when he left the scene. >> the chp says nathan was walking in the traffic lane. the suspect driving right at him. they know he saw nathan because of the skid marks left in the roadway showing he hit his brakes right before the crash. >> the damage to the car is extensive. >> reporter: the chp found the car parked on the street on near by holly avenue. investigators want to talk to 33-year-old rohnert park resident. >> people just go too fast. >> reporter: on this fast

. >> noelle walker tells us the home is a distination for drinking and more -- destination for drinking and more. >> there it is. >> half pint. >> spill over from problem he noticed that vacant house next door. >> a year ago it was a well furnished place. now it is a shell. >> reporter: with a view of the city. and regular uninvited guests. >> how do you know to come here? do you have permission? >> no. >> reporter: this man told us the house is a regular hang out. [ indiscernible ] >> people camp. people camp. >> reporter: 24/7? >> yes. >> the house has been boarded up several times but that hasn't stopped the regular squatter parties. >> drinking. and smoke weed. that is it. >> and on cue right in front of our camera the beer and weed were flowing in the park next door. >> disrespectful to the neighbors. >> the neighbor told me he has seen parties here of 20 people or more and things are so bad he installed security cameras. >> reporter: last week they caught these men trying to break in to the attic. till they saw the new security cameras. >> i don't know what else to do. >> reporter

noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> confusion at sfo. accused of posing as a tsa screener and patting down a woman but he was arrested for something else. >> new developments in the fire that killed five women on their way to a wedding party. why officials are slashing the fine for the limo company and calling it fair. >> plus a new feature on facebook to keep you on the site longer. >>> woman who was injured on highway 17 is suing the truck driver and his company. the big rig caused a 10 car pile up one week ago. according to the complaint she suffered an injury to her liver. another man was killed. six more people were taken to the hospital. an attorney filed the lawsuit. it claims the driver admitted his trailers were over loaded and he was driving too fast. it accuses the drive of negligence and his employer of negligent hiring and training. >>> facebook users may able to go shopping soon. several businesses are testing the use of a buy button in ads. that button would allow users to buy products from their facebook page. payment inf

ktvu's noelle walker is live from stockton with what happened. >> reporter: frank, this is the criminal complaint, it is 45 pages long, 35 counts against the 19-year-old -- against the 19-year-old gang members. the prosecutor said there are still details to fill in, not the least of which is why. >> reporter: in a small courtroom one of the city's biggest criminal cases is just beginning. 19-year-old jaime ramos clutched the 45 page criminal complaint against him. ktvu channel 2 news obtained a copy. charges of pre-meditated murder, robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder. >> attempted murder on a peace officer. >> reporter: for each officer involved. >> attempted murder on a peace officer. >> reporter: the charges stem from the july 16 armed bank robbery at the bank of the west where three gunman took three hostages and led police on a hour long running gun battle. >> what were they thinking? >> reporter: today the district attorney released this picture of some of the weapons used that day. the shooting ended with the deaths of two suspects and hostage misty holt-sing. police believe

noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >> there is something else you may want to avoid, scores of a small jellyfish. they are blowing on shore. more people aren't bothered by them but avoid walking through them with bear feet. now let's bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin. >> we get lightning strikes all the time. the pattern we have right now, very similar to the pattern that gives us thunder and lightning. here is that complex yesterday. 1:00 p.m. this is the same complex that moved on shore and caused all the problems. a cluster of thunderstorms. the air mass moving up from had gulf of california and it has been doing this for four weeks now. continues to stream northward and even now you can see some of that moisture spawning thunderstorms around the lake tahoe area. the chances of thunderstorms tonight slim. a chance of a sprinkle a possibility. but what is interesting, the last time we had a pattern like this 1977. that was the last big drought. interesting patterns develops. when i come back the chance of showers and what you can expect moving forward. >>> briman college s

ktvu's noelle walker is live with who authorities are looking for right now. >> reporter: we know theis nathan garza. the chp says the accident that killed the 21-year-old would have been just that, an accident accept the driver sped away. >> reporter: flowers among the wild flowers at the edge of the road. >> this road is terrible. it is dangerous. >> reporter: her husband heard tires screeching on the road early saturday morning. >> and then he heard an impact. but it sounded so hard he thought it was another car. >> reporter: it wasn't a car. it was 21-year-old garza who was walking home when a car hit him. the driver did not stop. >> this was an accident. this turned into a crime when he left the scene. >> the chp says he was talking in the traffic lane. the suspect driving at him. they know he saw him because of the skid marks shing his hid his break -- showing he hit his breaks. the chp found the car parked on the streets. investigators want to talk to a 33-year-old. >> he knows we are looking for him. >> the hit-and-run driver -- >> people just go too fast. >> reporter: on this

ktvu's noelle walker spoke with a doctor who worked in africa during the first outbreak. live with what you learned today. >> reporter: he says the good thing is that the incubation period is short and people get very sick which makes it harder to spread, which is bad news for anyone infected. the peace corps is pulling back hundreds of volunteers. >> reporter: today two volunteers in west africa are in isolation after being exposed to a man who died of the ebola virus. he worked in africa during the first outbreak in the 1970s. >> this is a large outbreak. >> reporter: more than 1200 people have been infected. that is already more than half the number of people who got it in all of the previous outbreaks. this killed 60% of those infected. including an american. >> he got it from his sister who also died weeks earlier. without them knowing she had it. >> reporter: he got on a plane with ebola before he knew he was infected -- >> it is possible and maybe probable but you will find it quickly. >> reporter: now this week's senators put out an alert to doctors to be on the l

our noelle walker reports, a judge just sentenced lawrence denard to 130 years to life in prison pluseven years. we're still waiting to hear the sentence for the codefendant, will le torrence-- willie torrence. they were evacuated of killing 3-year-old carlos nava. >>> a new kind of police officer is being trained in san jose to help fill the ranks of the department. police chief tweeted this photo yesterday of the first academy class of community service officers or csos. they will be in training for the next five weeks. the aim is to free up sworn officers to handle active crimes in a severe department with severely low staffing levels. they will handle calls for crimes that have already happened without criminals on the scene. >> so the community service officers will be able to respond to the low priority calls, go out there, take a police report, do some investigative work and file that report with the police department. >> the department says the civilian officers will not be able to write citations or make arrests and will be armed only with pepper spray. >>> some people living

noelle walker will keep us posted and will have much more on 5:00 tonight. we're live in oakland, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> today, san francisco is enacting a state law that supporters say will help people suffering from severe mental illness. ktvu's sal castanedo is live inspect city to explain how laura's law will work. good afternoon, sal. >> reporter: tori, good afternoon. many who are advocating for the law say the streets of conviction will be much safer because of it. the mayor signed a law this morning which will force some mentally ill people to enter outtreatment. the mayor and other leaders say this is an important step to get people the help they need. those termed mentally ill who have been jailed or hospitalized twice could be forced to enter treatment. a judge under the advice -- under the advice of a doctor would derm the course of action. >> laura's law does not force medication on the back end. it simply produces a court order that says you need to take it. the results if you don't do it are some type of psyche w

noelle walker. >>> mark landis frequently invited former and current students to use his apartment. a male student discovered a surveillance camera disguised as a tissue box. that discovery prompted a police investigation. he thought accounts at sf state from 1986 to last friday when he resigned. >>> testimony will continue in the molestation trial of a former concord teacher. joseph martin is accused of molesting male students. he pled not guilty to 150 counts involving 14 former students. on thursday, a data expert testified that child porn website history and suspicious searches were found on two computers belonging to martin. martin's defense attorney argued that martin may have accidentally been redirected to the website through unintended pop ups. >>> a vallejo man shot and wounded a pit bull today after police say the dog and another pit bull were threatening people. neighbors say the two dogs were roaming around lincoln road west this morning and acting aggressively. one woman said she encountered a dog as she tried to get inside her house. >> they were coming toward me. you

.  in stockton, noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and again as noelle mentioned stockton crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to $10,000 to help catch the driver who dropped off the three bank robbery suspects last week. police recovered the dark colored four door sedan about 2- miles from the bank last friday. but they still don't know who was behind the wheel and hope someone will come forward to provide answers. anyone with information is asked to call stockton police. >>> mosquito fogging on the peninsula is set to begin in the next hour. the san mateo county mosquito and vector control district says it found mosquitoes with west nile virus in two areas last friday. the district now plans to spray insecticides in a half mile radius of where those mosquitoes were found includeing the area near san mateo high school. the other area they plan to spread tonight is lad era. the fogging should last for about six hours and wrap up around 5:00 tomorrow morning. >>> tropical moisture still in the area. relative humidities out there are running 60 to 80%. relative humidity. that'

noelle walker has been in the courtroom. >> it was a long day in court today. carlos was just 2 years old when he was struck and killed by a bullet that was meant for a gang member. >> no but thank you for asking okay. >> reporter: it essentially ended up being continued. >> tomorrow we'll see what happens. >> reporter: the courtroom was packed with family and friends of the two convicted men. lawrence den ard and willey torrence. carlos nava was three years old when he was shot and killed on international boulevard just blocks away from his home. the boy was on a toy car stroller when he was shot by the drive by shooting. the intended targets were gang members. both are facing life in prison for the life of carlos nava. no one from the nava family was in court today to hear any of these proceedings and no one from the nava family was in court last month when those two men were convicted. he even called them walking billboards with tattoos for their gang. something that one of the defense attorneys objected to strenuously. again the sentencing has been continue

noelle walker tell us the vacant home has become a destination for more than just drinking. >> come on. >> reporter: ian williams daily dog walk is part neighborhood clean up. >> half pint, that was just empty. >> a year ago i think it was a pretty well furnished place but now it's a shell. >> reporter: a shell with a panoramic view of the city. >> it has the potential to be a nuisance. >> reporter: and some regular uninvited guests. >> how do you know to come here? do you have permission from the owner. >> no. >> reporter: this man who wanted to hide his face said the spot is a hang out. >> 24/7 there's people coming, people coming. >> reporter: 24/7 people are coming here. >> reporter: the home has been boarded up by the owner several times. but that has not stopped the squatters. >> for drinking beer, smoking weed. that's it. >> reporter: and right in front of our cameras, the beer started flowing and marijuana next door at the park. things have gotten so bad he recently installed security cameras. last week the camera caught these men trying to break into the home's attic until the

noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new video from vallejo tonight where a man was shot and a witness on the scene said he died. the shooting happened on sutter and york street. dozens of casings were on the street and a silver lexus had several holes in it. there's no word if the -- >>> a coaster in southern california derailed today. magic mountain's ninja coaster struck a tree branch shortly before 6:00 p.m. and stopped abruptly. at least one car was left kind of dangling. it took more than an hour to get the riders down. the coaster whips through the trees around 65 miles per hour. >>> the entire project is still expected to be completed on time. b.a.r.t. is building a 10-mile extension from fremont to san jose. the delay comes after a judge ruled in favor of the city of milpitas. milpitas won its bid to stop crews from closing dixon landing road during the construction. construction on that part of the track was supposed to take eight months and include a partial closure of dixon road in order to keep this major road open, construction is expected to take 10 months longer. the fi

noelle walker, ktvu news. >>> a former twitter employee has filed a lawsuit against a company. san francisco chronicle reports that peter taylor lost his job when he was 57 years old after receiving stock for his good performance and for meeting expectations on a job evaluation. taylor was in charge of managing the expansion and operation of twitter's data centers. the lawsuit says he was fired without warning and replaced with workers in their 20s and 30s. >>> berkeley is gearing up for a new fight to get radiation warning stickers on cell phone packages. a proposed warning will go on september 9 for warnings that warn consumers about possible brain cancers from cell phones. that's after a failed ordnance in san francisco four years ago. it was defeated by the wireless agency. berkeley plans to get help from an attorney to make up a label that doesn't violate rites. >>> a google executive is scheduled to appear in court. she is accused of ejecting google executive forest hayes with heroin and leaving him to die when he was in obvious disstress on board his yacht in the santa c

in corta mad era, noelle walker. >>> fog and low clouds out there now. we have a lot of thunderstorms up in the mountain this is afternoon. the last couple of days, since about noon today. look at all the lightning strikes. powerful storms that are now dying off but they won't go away tomorrow. heavy rain around truckee, south and north lake tahoe. for us we have lots of fog now. not showing up on this imagery but they're saying all the fog is all the way inland in the lafayette area. it's going to go across the bay into hayward. the usual suspects where you had it this morning you're going to have it again tomorrow morning. and temperatures tomorrow, are going to be a lot like today. we got a lot of wind blowing some very cool air inland. we have gusts to 35 miles per hour in fairfield. the winds are blowing pretty hard. we've got wind gusts about 18 miles per hour in hayward. cool mild day again tomorrow. fire danger takes another break. we have a tkpwaot respite from the fire danger this week. a lot of fog in the morning. this is 6:00 a.m. friday morn

new at 10:00, noelle walker live tonight as speaking with the two women who decided to get involved. >> reporter: woman and her baby are here in the hospital. the two women who decided to help did not know the woman but knew -- >> i heard two extremely loud screams for help. >> reporter: she looked around the corner and saw a woman standing near a telephone pole standing in the middle of the street and holding something in her hands. >> she said yes, call 911, i'm having a baby. >> reporter: what was she holding? >> the baby. >> reporter: so she rushed to call 911. >> a woman just delivered a baby, she will be in the alley way. >> i heard the babies cry. >> reporter: the woman did not just have duncan but her visiting friend kholer trying to help. >> both of our concerns is a baby. >> reporter: they were the right people at the right time. kholer is a counselor. >> i said i need to address the baby. i said is it a boy or a girl. do you already have a name. >> reporter: the women had not -- had not seen the girl in that displaced place. >> i think it's what you do when it counts. >> r

i'm noelle walker. >> and i'm mike mibach. fire in clayton in a couple of minutes. but first, let's say hello to meteorologist mark tamayo. >> good morning to you guys. we're starting out with mostly cloudy skies over a good portion of the bay area. not too much change over the past two to three hours. here is our live camera towards san francisco. you can see basically overcast and fog here. temperatures in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. the satellite perspective does show you the clouds from south san francisco to san francisco, oakland, heyward, down in the south bay as well. san jose reporting mostly cloudy skies at last check. a solid blanket of overcast towards south san francisco, san bruno and brisbane. current numbers out there updated for the 9:00 hour, showing you 60s toward concord, livermore. san jose, 60 degrees. san francisco has warmed up to 59. santa rosa in the upper 50s as well. so the low clouds out there, seabreeze, another camera perspective for you. we'll warm things up inland today, a little warmer f