patti lee is live in the city to explain what's going on here, patti. >> i'm live at justin herman plaza where folks here say they don't mind paying to skate here, because it is traditional and it is temporary. but these programs are getting an icy reception. >> reporter: at glen canyon park, 16 kids are making nature art. >> this is $165 for the basic camp which is a four day camp from nine to three. >> reporter: forced by a budget shortfall. the department is also upping it's efforts to lease it's park clubhouses to nonprofit and for profit groups. many virtually unused because of cuts to programming and the lay off of 50rec directors this fall. >> the driving force here is trying to provide the programs that we no longer can. the people who are leasing our clubhouses will be paying a rent of $1,400 a month. it helps. >> reporter: but many neighborhoods oppose the idea. >> given that it is a community center, something should be coming back to the community. >> reporter: there is also concern the city is essentially privatetizing public buildings, that were upgraded on the taxpayers di

patti lee is back in oakland with our report, patti. >> reporter: oakland police say the men who drove into this fence then fled on foot were known members of a gang. one of which aimed this pistol at a police officer willing to fire. oakland's assistant chief jordan explains how efforts to arrest gang members led to the a officer shooting. >> the occupants were armed with an assault weapon. >> reporter: opd painted a dark portrait. saying the four suspects that crashed this car were known members of a violent west oakland gang. >> they've been involved in well over a dozen homicides. multiple shootings on a weekly basis. >> reporter: with that background established, police justified how two officers chaising 19-year-old suspect edwards on foot ended up killing him. >> during this pursuit, mr. edwards stopped, coming face to face with an officer. he drew that pistol you see on the paper and the officer fired at him. >> reporter: they say they found a loaded assault rifle in the car. >> we're trying to protect the community, we did everything we could to stop these individuals from goi

reporting live on mount tam, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and from patti let's go straight out to bill martin with when the rain is coming in. it's not so much when the rain is coming in. this is just the gee -- gee joe graphy -- geography. beneath the hills there is a certain type of clay and that clay gets wet -- and that clay expand when it gets wet. this is nothing new. we're just starting the rainy season. every time we get rain out here, 130%, 120% average of rainfall, the clay expands. here is the cloud cover moving in. it gets out here tomorrow afternoon. it has some subtropical m oisture, maybe an inch, inch and a half of rain kind of similar to what we saw on saturday. i will have specifics with the computer model. it's the geography of the bay area. we get a lot of rain. we're used to it. i will be back here in a little bit. >> we'll see you then. now to the east coast where the big digout really got underway. a strong storm dropped up to 30 inches in some parts. that's causing all kinds of problems, especially at a irports. heather childers is live in newark new jer

patti lee live in the city with the latest developments. patti. >> reporter: this month-long manhunt came to an end only by chance because the cousin of missing girl had been to be shopping at this sports basement with her boyfriend and spotted the girl walking with her alleged kidnapper and a third man, whose involvement is unclear at this time. 15-year-old jean berlinghoff is in protective custody, her uncle under arrest and a third man from oregon detained for questioning. >> the suspect was shocked and said oh, no, so we knew something was wrong. they all provided us different names. subsequently the cousins came back and gave the true identity of the abductor and the victim. >> reporter: san francisco police say they detained the trio at 15th and folsom. they were standing around this red bronco, where they may have been spending the night. the three did not resist arrest. police say the 15-year-old victim appear to be somewhat relieved to be found, but also expressed concern about the welfare of her alleged abductor. berlinghoff has be

patty ty lee, ktvu channel 2 kut -- patti l eigh, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the government has decided to go paperless. 80% of checks are sent to bank accounts. but 186 million checks were m ailed last year. starting in may and no longer than the spring two years from now, everybody will receive electric payments. >> each year it will save $ 120 million in post as -- postage costs. and it's estimated that the trust fund will save as much as $1 billion. >> most of the 600,000 lost or stolen check aims will be eliminated by direct department. >>> u.s. homes sales edged up last night. the national association of realtors says 4.8 million homes were sold in november. that's a gain of 5 poi 5% -- 5.5%. the commerce department has gin o verall economy. the gross domestic product j umped 2.6% from july to september as business spent more to build their inventories. commits are predicting a b etter -- commits are predicting a better-than-expected report due to increased consumer s pending. news that the economy grew faster than expected over the summer was well received on wall street. >>> the

in san francisco, patty lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> tonight's four detectives from virginia are in san francisco working to uncover new evidence in the kidnapping case of a 12-year-old virginia girl found alive in san francisco. one key piece of evidence they did find was located near san francisco international airport. >> this morning, the remnants of a crime scene on the outskirts of ocean beach. this camp site packed with potential clues that could lead to the conviction of 32-year- old jeffrey scott easley. >> presently mr. easley has three charges against him. >> from credit card fraud to kidnapping, easley is also is suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, 41-year-old tina smith, the employer of the 12- year-old -- mother of the 12- year-old girl. smith was found dead in virginia on monday. today her car was located in the bay area. >> we have recovered the car. some of you folks asked us about that yesterday. it's my understanding that it was located in a parking lot. adjacent to the airport in san francisco. >> easley and the 12-year-old girl had been last seen together o

ktvu's patti lee live with more. >> reporter: i'm at garfield park, where behind me you can see police are all over the scene. they are on foot looking for witnesses in the shooting that took place. the police departments internal affairs department arrived to investigate this incident which sparked just about 3:30 in the afternoon. that's when an officer approached four men that were drinking at the playground. one of those men became belligerent and started fighting with the officer. the other three men ran away, the officer ended up shooting the suspect. >> the officer sustained nonlife threatening injury, all i know is there some kind of lacerations. i don't know where, as well as the suspects shooting was nonlife threatening also. once the investigation continues we will have more information. as you can see it's very active at this moment. >> reporter: this officer did approach these four men by himself. they says that not unusual in certain situations. now the officer did sustain some nonlife threatening injuries. at this point investigators do not know if the suspect was armed.

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more on a fix that can't come soon for a lot of people, patti lee. >> reporter: we're at the source of this odor. behind us is the plant's odor control section. it's a box full of sand , and it's supposed to work like a box of arm and hammer. but it still has it's problems. >> reporter: shauna shacaloco has lived across the street from the treatment plant all her life but she has only started to notice it in the last few months when it started to smell. >> it smells like a public bathroom, it's basically what it is. >> reporter: a sewage plant has been in this position for decades. but there's been few complaints about odor until now. >> we don't really know what's going on there. >> this is the raw sewage. it gets pumped up to the building over there. >> reporter: deputy manager of the plant explains the problem. the regional water board ordered the plant to stop using bleach to remove odors. that board's engineer has come up with a new combination of odor eating bacteria to get the job done. but they're still trying to get the recipe right. >> the smell comes and goes. there's no con

patty lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >> this rain is making for a wet commute. let's take a look at what's happening on bay area freeways. in emoriville, traffic is slow as it usually is. and also there on the side access road to the freeway, it is slow. this is a peek at interstate 680. traffic here slow as well, but not quite as slow as we saw on interstate 80. >>> steady rain has been coming down all day long, and more is expected. but will we get a break in between in bill martin joins us now, and he has been tracking the storm. >> we're going to get a little break. we don't have much more rain to go. the showers this morning, we forecast that yesterday. the afternoon commute is wet, and we told you that would happen again today. and showers will begin to shift south this evening. you can see the rainfalling now. heaviest rainfall today was up in this area, up in the coastal hills, maybe an inch of rain, maybe a little bit more. the rest of us, anywhere from a quarter do a half-inch. it's coming a little bit closer here. we have cells that are a little bit m

ktvu's patty lee is in richmond now with the latest on the investigation. patty? >> reporter: well, julie, down this popular trail at around noon today, police tell us a bird watcher noticed a small flock circling what she thought was a dead seal. when she realized it was a human carcass, she called for help. at point isabel, a break in the rain enticed dog lovers, hikers and bikers out on to the trails to stretch their legs and enjoy the view. which looked a little like a crime scene off this path along baxter creek. at least according to shawn humphreys who stopped to find out what was going on. >> i was like oh, maybe it's animal control or something like that. and then as they were pulling, you know, taking the shovel and kind of pulling it up, you could see, like, hands, i guess, you know, something that was creepy. >> if you look out this jetty right here, you will see a log about 200 feet out. >> reporter: officers from the east by regional park district are investigating how the body of an adult person ended up in this protected area in the park. so badly

ktvu's patty lee is in richmond now with the latest on the investigation. patty? >> reporter: well, julie, down this popular trail at around noon today, police tell us a bird watcher noticed a small flock circling what she thought was a dead seal. when she realized it was a human carcass, she called for help. at point isabel, a break in the rain enticed dog lovers, hikers and bikers out on to the trails to stretch their legs and enjoy the view. which looked a little like a crime scene off this path along baxter creek. at least according to shawn humphreys who stopped to find out what was going on. >> i was like oh, maybe it's animal control or something like that. and then as they were pulling, you know, taking the shovel and kind of pulling it up, you could see, like, hands, i guess, you know, something that was creepy. >> if you look out this jetty right here, you will see a log about 200 feet out. >> reporter: officers from the east by regional park district are investigating how the body of an adult person ended up in this protected area in the park. so badly

patty lee is live with more on this. >> reporter: the announcement came as a bottom shell because of the timing. >> in a week, they are going to go rhode island and say it's a better deal? i don't get it. >> reporter: mark says he was disappointed to hear the company may choose newport to host the america's cup after negotiating with his team for months. >> they had told us we were the only america city in the deal when it started to change, i suppose technically, they have every right to shop it. >> reporter: he says negotiators enough started talking with newport officials after san francisco supervisors approved the city's bid to host the race. >> because they had a deal in their hands they could have people compare. so they were shopping our deal. >> reporter: this letter presented today in nport confirms bmw has spoken with the governor elect and is requiring assurances that the state park in rhode island where the race will be held will be ready in time. >> we remain an active [ inaudible ] on our offer. snoot america's cup project manager says the mayor and his team are talkin

patty lee is live at the richmond san rafael bridge with that part of the story. >> reporter: the rain is starting to pick up, and right now on the roadways flooding is at a minimum, which is one of the reasons that traffic is still flowing freely. minimizing the effects of the storm system has been a priority across the bay area, but especially in the north bay which was hit hard by this storm front earlier today. in san rafael, 8 two-man crews combed nearly every street in the street with rakes. >> we have been busy, keeping the basins open. >> reporter: price says he has been at this for days trying to get rid of a glut of leaves. >> this whole valley here backs up. all the homes and the woodland area, all the dealerships would flood. >> reporter: in san francisco along ocean beach, water poses a different kind of threat. >> i have seen this parking lot slowly disappear every year i come. >> reporter: a section of the great highway is still at risk. even after more than two and a half million dollars worth of erosion abatement projects. the shoreline still needs a buried sea wall in

patti lee, ktvu news. >>> there are no significant problems, heavy equipment is on stand by at one creek ready to clear any debris that might block the gutters. police and fire crews went door to door to warn residents about the flood danger, alerting people to the possibility of evacuations. >>> in marin county some residents say they worry that this storm will spread contamination of a recent raw sewage spill. but officials say the rain could actually help by diluting the contamination. >>> there are no mayor problems on highway 17 to the santa cruz mountains tonight. earlier tonight we found families preparing for the storm by filling sandbags outside the disaster area right there. one woman told us she needs those bags to keep water from flooding her home. >>> and rain down here means snow up in the sierra. a big surprise coming up in a live report for you at 10:30. keep in mind you can monitor weather conditions 24 hours a day. go to ktv u.com. >>> we're going to live storm tracker 2 to show you the conditions. i'll be back here in just a bit. >>> i want to make a difference in the

patti lee, ktvu news. >>> there are no significant problems, heavy equipment is on stand by at one creek ready to clear any debris that might block the gutters. police and fire crews went door to door to warn residents about the flood danger, alerting people to the possibility of evacuations. >>> in marin county some residents say they worry that this storm will spread contamination of a recent raw sewage spill. but officials say the rain could actually help by diluting the contamination. >>> there are no mayor problems on highway 17 to the santa cruz mountains tonight. earlier tonight we found families preparing for the storm by filling sandbags outside the disaster area right there. one woman told us she needs those bags to keep water from flooding her home. >>> and rain down here means snow up in the sierra. a big surprise coming up in a live report for you at 10:30. keep in mind you can monitor weather conditions 24 hours a day. go to ktv u.com. >>> we're going to live storm tracker 2 to show you the conditions. i'll be back here in just a bit. >>> i want to make a difference in the

patti lee has the story. >> reporter: family members are posting these fliers in the streets where they say their father liked to take long walks. they also say he generally stuck to the sidewalk. oakland investigators says the more likely he wandered into the trails in the near by woods. >> you haven't seen this man walking around the neighborhood? did you. >> reporter: he was last seen leaving for his afternoon walk around 2:30 on tuesday. >> he takes walks two to three times a day. walks sometimes four miles or even more. >> reporter: the former physician was wearing a green baseball cap, and blue jean, pushing a walker like this one, only green. his children say he has favorite routes from which he rarely deviates. >> we're worried that he fell some where, or went off course. >> it's strange that nothing has been reported. he has a walker which is labeled with his name and phone number. >> i'll keep an eye out for him. >> reporter: neighbors are starting their own searches. >> i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> reporter: driving the streets where they've seen the 90-year-old walking

the explosion happened after 8:00 tonight at a home that was being remodeled near dowling, patty leeis live to show us what happened. >> reporter: a 61 year old man is in critical condition tonight. you can see that the top floor of this house looks like it is folding over on to the car. this house is essentially leveled. this explosion also damaged these nearby buildings, and neighbors tell us just around 8:00 they heard and felt an explosion so powerful they thought it was an earthquake. and then they started hearing cries for help. that's when they found leon censer on the ground. he lived on the first floor and managed to make his way out of the house, but his clothes caught fire, his neighbors scrambled to save him. >> i felt it collapse, as i opened the door, i heard help me, donna, help me. it was leon on fire. >> i heard this guy asking for help. help, help, he was screaming for help. i jump over my fence, saw this guy in flames and everything, laid down on the ground, taking his clothes off. >> reporter: neighbors have been telling us friends of leon who live on this block w

the explosion happened after 8:00 tonight at a home that was being remodeled near dowling, patty leelive to show us what happened. >> reporter: a 61 year old man is in critical condition tonight. you can see that the top floor of this house looks like it is folding over on to the car. this house is essentially leveled. this explosion also damaged these nearby buildings, and neighbors tell us just around 8:00 they heard and felt an explosion so powerful they thought it was an earthquake. and then they started hearing cries for help. that's when they found leon censer on the ground. he lived on the first floor and managed to make his way out of the house, but his clothes caught fire, his neighbors scrambled to save him. >> i felt it collapse, as i opened the door, i heard help me, donna, help me. it was leon on fire. >> i heard this guy asking for help. help, help, he was screaming for help. i jump over my fence, saw this guy in flames and everything, laid down on the ground, taking his clothes off. >> reporter: neighbors have been telling us friends of leon who live on this block were

reporting live in san leandro, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> there is sad news to report tonight about a toddler who fell into a fountain at a san francisco hotel last week. 18-month-old owe layoff '88 -- oliver ma tara -- meterra died. the boy had wandered away from his mother, nanny ask -- and twin sister. after a frantic search he was found in the lobby's fountain. he was later revised but died on saturday. the hotel is working on plans to improve the security around the fountain. >>> the future of medical marijuana in san jose is being hotly debated. they are holding a session dedicated solely to the future of medical marijuana clubs and emotions are running high. robert handa live in san jose tonight with more on what's going on right now. robert. >> reporter: we are at city hall and there is a very emotional meeting going on right now inside. we just stepped outside where the city council is trying to figure out how to control and regulate pot clubs even as the number of pot clubs and the community anxiety level keeps getting higher. >> stop the raid. >> reporter: medical m