ken pritchett live.he temperatures have dropped and the snow there is starting to fall, ken. >> reporter: frank it is starting to fall. you can see it's really coming down. now i have little pockets, hard to see on camera but it shows 30 degrees. i can tell you with this wind it feels colder than that. this road behind me was completely clear of snow. no chains are required right now but we talked to some drivers who are in a rush to avoid the weather. his mirror gauge was in the 40s once he dropped 2,000 feet. the clouds for most of the day have brought rain along with low visibility at times. earlier today caltrans was gearing up for the storm and the inches of snow to come. >> i heard 10 to six. whatever happens, we'll just push it off the road. >> reporter: caltrans is bringing in more people and equipment working a 24 hour shift starting at midnight. but the snow is not the only concern on i80 that could complicate driving tomorrow. >> worse thing we have going right now is miles and miles and miles

ken pritchett live. the temperatures have dropped and the snow there is starting to fall, ken. >> reporter: frank it is starting to fall. you can see it's really coming down. now i have little pockets, hard to see on camera but it shows 30 degrees. i can tell you with this wind it feels colder than that. this road behind me was completely clear of snow. no chains are required right now but we talked to some drivers who are in a rush to avoid the weather. his mirror gauge was in the 40s once he dropped 2,000 feet. the clouds for most of the day have brought rain along with day caltrans was gearing up for the storm and the inches of snow to come. >> i heard 10 to six. whatever happens, we'll just push it off the road. >> reporter: caltrans is bringing in more people and equipment working a 24 hour shift starting at midnight. but the snow is not the only concern on i80 that could complicate driving tomorrow. >> worse thing we have going right now is miles and miles and miles of construction. we're restricte

ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the wet weather is also effecting the commute. look at that. that is interstate 80 been berkeley. look that access road to the left, when that is busy you know traffic is bad. the middle lanes towards san francisco, and it is slow in both directions right now. and things are also jammed up on interstate 280 in the south bound direction. that is heading into downtown san jose and looks like it's slow going in both directions because of the wet weather. our coverage continues on www.ktvu.com. just cleck on the weather tab. >>> 911 dispatchers had to be evacuated because of a gas line puncture. it took pg&e crews 3 hours to cap the line but in the mean time workers, a library and residents had to be evacuated along with the 911 dispatchers. the wind has been dispersing the gas. >> the 911 dispatchers were relocated and everyone was allowed back this afternoon. >>> san francisco police shot and killed a man who stabbed his parents this morning. -- parents this morning. when police arrived they found a 78-year-old man who was stabbed.

ken pritchett. >>> a federal appeals court upheld the position of a ceo because of his role. prosecutors say rays failed to disclose that dates were altered on stock options given to employees. reyes is set for release in november. >>> today the labor department says says applications were down from 1,000 to 404,000. >>> word of a slow down in investment led to a drop but stocks resurged before closing. >>> an east bay school threatened with closure says it is staying open for the rest of the school year. el cerrito schools says parents raised $100,000 to stay up and running until june. the school says its financial problems are due in part to a drop in enrollment and construction bond. >>> it is a city without a doctor. we're not talking about a tiny town. it's in contra costa county. a city where 30,000 people call home. new at 6:00, lorane blanco live with how that's about to change. >> reporter: the clinic is not quite ready to open just yet. you can see inside it's still empty but that will change very soon. and for the first time in more than two years, this city will f

in palo alto, ken pritchett. >>> steve jobs long time partner and friend wazniack says jobs helped apple succeed. >> it took a lot of privacy to help apple develop things the right way. he had really good control of himself. really good discipline. >> reporter: a tribute to steve jobs that was in the making before his death is now taking on new momentum. a group of fans had declared next friday october 14th steve jobs day. that's the day the iphone 4s is set to be released. since job's passing the group is calling on people to dress like jobs in a black turtle neck and jeans and postremembrances. >>> sailors and marines spent part of their day bringing toys to kids in san francisco. men and women from the u.s.s. rashard arrived. today they delivered books and toys to kids in the pediatric hospital. the sailors and marines say they are glad to give back to the city. >>> coming up, a bird's eye view of fleet week. ktvu's john fowler takes us right into the cockpit with one of the world's most thrilling pilots. >>> we have it all today. heavy rain, lightning and now sunshine. we want to giv

ken pritchett is in saint hele in, a. >> reporter: can you see where the leaves have been pruned?o the grapes are exposed to the sun that we have right now and the slight breeze to help them dry. it was done because of the rain. these grapes look fine. no rot, damage caused by that rain but there has been damage reported elsewhere. these grapes were rush from the vine to the hopper before to much damage could set in. you could see the water damage. >> when we saw the rains a week or so ago we thought all right, we can get through this. >> reporter: but the president of the winery said that second storm made it worse. >> we have now made the decision to pick a couple varieties that we would have probably liked to have waits a few more day he is. are. >> reporter: those varieties more at risk for rot. some growers fired up giant fans to dry off the grapes to keep rot at bay. >> with all the rain and cold weather its pushing back harvest. we are running in to problem was mold, some varieties are getting bunch rot. >> reporter: michael what barber vineyards said they should have been

ken pritchett shows us some of the changes taking place. >> reporter: it is day 18 of the occupy protest but this morning there was a second look to the second coming of the encampment. >> it's way more organized, they learned from their mistakes. >> reporter: the tents are more organized and the area more sanitary. the food has been moved off the grass. the substandard living conditions led to the decisions on tuesday. >> i'm wondering what the police chief, what is going to be their argument now. >> reporter: last night hundreds of people marched from the plaza to police headquarters to demonstrate against what they called excessive police action. but a spokesperson said it was not behind the march. >> the march is more of an anti police march, the whole purpose was to confront the plus. and i felt as though that was just incorrect. >> reporter: shake anderson says outsider piggy backed on the occupy oakland movement but occupy oakland is planning a walk. it will maintain services and employees may participate. the city says it will continue to maintain a minimal police presence here a

ktvu's ken pritchett is live in oakland where finding a message here is not easy. >> reporter: it is not a easy task as you said. the hikers will speak for the first time on the west coast. they will speak here at the plaza. they will speak about their time in iran. if you look across you will see dozens of different messivers. >>> -- mess messages. >> we are looking for work. >> reporter: but there are other agendas and signs that read housing is a human rights. stop police brew tally and support for medical marijuana. his concerns are about oakland. >> we believe they are justifications for the city of oakland to justify stereotyping. >> there is not one message but i think we are all here in all forms. [ singing ] >> rights, immigrant rights, racial justice all of these issues are linked and it's up to us to show how they are linked and tell the story what is happening to us. >> reporter: some say a message is on the way from this young movement in the random scattering of tents are thereare sign of organization. some say this group will have a unified voice. >> yes, we will get t

ktvu's ken pritchett has more on the reality check from fans and a local teacher. >> reporter: in the sellout crowd of raiders fans, tailgating before the game we found a different sort of fan, a man watching fans with a camera. >> i see it as primary symbolic behavior coming out of the individual cells of each individual. >> reporter: he chairs the department at the college and is studying the pre-game raiders nation for more than 10 years. he says this image? >> that could be the super bowl in our business right now. >> reporter: of masks and costumed raiders fans is slanted in the nationally televised media. there are more jersey-clad families out there than those who stand out. that is what the team wants people to understand. >> i hope -- i mean like i said, they're -- they have kids out there, mine and everybody's families should enjoy the game. >> reporter: he says the rough and scary image is over blown. >> they look hard core, but there are softies out there as well. >> reporter: this year we have seen rough fans and criminal acts. but johnson says that the true blue fans don

ken pritchett tell us why some are saying the reforms go too far while others are saying they don't go far enough. >> reporter: a key piece of governor brown's pension plan is raising the retirement age to 77. >> there's a lot of great years left in your 70s. >> reporter: but many are not laughing this state worker thinks it's unfair. >> 67 years is too old to get retired. >> reporter: the governor says his plan will save millions of the dollars of taxpayer cuts in half and it eliminating pension spiking where state workers cap their pay before retiring. >> any spiking in the system should be fixed. no one should spike the system. 99% of my workers will make between 34 and $20,000 those are facts. >> reporter: public employee union workers reject the governor's proposal that state workers pay half of their pension contribution. >> makes no sense to me whatsoever. none whatsoever. we say to the governor, no. >> reporter: democratic leaders say reform is needed but not at the expense of workers. the governor's plan does not go far enough. >> i try to do something that is legal, that will

ktvu's ken pritchett, it looks different from how it looked yesterday, ken? >> reporter: yesterday the ground was soaking wet, there wasn't a bit of snow. now look at it a foot of snow on the ground all from one night from one early october storm. >> reporter: despite a closure of 80, caltrans kept the roads clear from snow, snow that was coming down heavy. but even where the snow had not fallen, there was problems. >> a lot of oil on the roadway. makes it slippery. >>> the driver of this truck and passenger suffered minor injuries after hitting a icy patch. >> for whatever reason he panicked, applied the breaks and lost it. >> reporter: in addition to snow, they caution drivers of 10 miles of road construction. once passed the construction and near the summit drivers can cake in quite a site, mountains covered in snow. >> i mean, it's great to get the ground cold. >> reporter: it received close to a foot of snow overnight. a good omen for a ski area that opens first in late october. soon it will add to what nature brought last night. >> we will turn on and t

ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> raining all afternoon. you want to see how it's effecting the commute? this is a picture of 1man 1 towards the bay bring. right lands headed towards candle stick park. there is an accident nearverment on 101. that is impacting the commute. golden gate bridge, traffic is moving very well, i just checked www.ktvu.com, traffic is 35 miles an hour across the bridge. our coverage continues on our website, www.ktvu.com, live radar and maps to check out the conditions where you ling and live traffic, click on the weather tab. >>> broken gas line caused a scare today. they punctured a gas line today. silly haul, the library and the 911 call center had to be evacuated. responders received help, though from mother nature. >> wind has been dispersing the gas. >> homes and an apartment complex were evacuated. pg&e cruise capped the line three hours later and everyone was able to return. >>> remember thursday we reported a similar situation, a crew rupture ad3-inch steal gas line. pg&e was also able to cap that line in

ktvu's ken pritchett tells us the damage is there but the extent the hard to pin down. >> reporter: thesestling grapes rushed to the crush because damage was starting to set in. here you can see some of that damage. >> when we saw the rains come in a week or so ago. we thought we can get through this. >> reporter: but the winery president dan davey says yesterday's rains were the second blow in a one-two pufrplg. >> p u nch. >> we made the decision to pick some that we would have liked to wait. >> reporter: some wineries powered up large vans to dry off vineyards and keep rot at bay. >> with all this rain and cold weather it's pushing back harvest. we're running into some problems with mold. some varieties are getting bunch rot. >> reporter: michael moncata says these grapes should have been harvested a month ago. >> we're going to try to ride it out until we get those flavors and the sugar is where we want them. >> reporter: rain and rot are the latest damages to this vintage. a cooler summer, reduced pollination and yields with somein yards down about 60%. >> quality wise i think it's s

ken pritchett tell us why some are saying the reforms go too far while others are saying they don't go far enough. >> reporter: a key piece of governor brown's pension plan is raising the retirement age to 77. >> there's a lot of great years left in your 70s. >> reporter: but many are not laughing this state worker thinks it's unfair. >> 67 years is too old to get retired. >> reporter: the governor says his plan will save millions of the dollars of taxpayer cuts in half and it eliminating pension spiking where state workers cap their pay before retiring. >> any spiking in the system should be fixed. no one should spike the system. 99% of my workers will make between 34 and $20,000 those are facts. >> reporter: public employee union workers reject the governor's proposal that state workers pay half of their pension contribution. >> makes no sense to me whatsoever. none whatsoever. we say to the governor, no. >> reporter: democratic leaders say reform is needed but not at the expense of workers. the governor's plan does not go far enough. >> i try to do something that is legal, that will

ken pritchett. >>> senator barbara boxer is applauding the president's announcement and she released a statement today saying in part, quote today is a day to honor all troops and our military families who have sacrificed so much over the last nine years to give the iraqi people a chance at a better future. >>> libya celebrating a new era without gadhafi. but after the dramatic events that took his life yesterday, there are new questions today about the way gadhafi died. there was more jubilation in the streets today. across libya and around the world. the new transitional government plans to officially declare libya's liberation on sunday. but burial plans for gadhafi are on hold. his body is on ice in a freezer. people are calling for investigations on whether gadhafi was killed while fighting or if he was -- today nato officials agreed to stop air attacks. they will meet next week to formalize the end of the military mission. we will continue the coverage of the libyan revolution on our website. there you will find more videos, slide shows and the latest news. >>> a lot of people

ktvu's ken pritchett tells us the damage is there but the extent the hard to pin down. >> reporter: these grapes rushed to the crush because damage was starting to set in. here you can see some of that damage. >> when we saw the rains come in a week or so ago. we thought we can get through this. >> reporter: but the winery president dan davey says yesterday's rains were the second blow in a one-two pufrplg. >> p u nch. >> we made the decision to pick some that we would have liked to wait. >> reporter: some wineries powered up large vans to dry off vineyards and keep rot at bay. >> with all this rain and cold weather it's pushing back harvest. we're running into some problems with mold. some varieties are getting bunch rot. >> reporter: michael moncata says these grapes should have been harvested a month ago. >> we're going to try to ride it out until we get those flavors and the sugar is where we want them. >> reporter: rain and rot are the latest damages to this vintage. a cooler summer, reduced pollination and yields with somein yards down about 60%. >> quality wise i think it's still g

ken pritchett live now in squall valley. ken what are the conditions like there now? >> reporter: frank, just a few minutes ago the very cold rain let up. there's no snow on the ground but we're told at the very top this afternoon at some of the higher elevations they did see fresh snow coming down. take a look at the pictures we have from the squall valley cameras, that is not new snow. that is snow that is still left over from last year. this overnight storm may be a good omen for the winter ahead but tomorrow expect some difficulty on the roads. on our drive up interstate 80 there was rain and a few nuggets of hail. but caltrans knows what's coming they are gearing up. >> and we're getting our equipment ready. putting our plows on and getting our sanders fixed up and ready to go. >> you feel like you're ready? >> yeah, we'll be ready. >> reporter: starting at midnight plows will be on the road. they're expecting six to 10 inches of snow. the slick roads are not the biggest concerns. >> the biggest thing we have going now is miles and miles of construction. we're re

as kent pritchett reports, some say the movement is more old fashioned than high-tech. >> reporter: fromose to san francisco. and oakland. occupy wall streets are spontaneously popping up in areas around the bay area and the nation, and they're talking to one another. >> we use live web feeds, twitter, any type of moment to moment communication with any given occupied zone. >> reporter: michael cliff at occupy san francisco says most demonstrators are drown by social media. james is using his technical know how to improve communication by live streaming this event. >> i think that we need more of a collaboration between all of the occupy movements. not only do i think that we need to do that here in the united states, i think that we need to do it globally. >> reporter: some are concerned the organization benefits of social networking can cause problems. >> the groups are getting a little paranoid, because there have been infiltrators. >> reporter: vibe has become very popular with this movement. it works like twitter, but anonymously. it's in wide use in new york city. it's yet to catch

as kent pritchett reports, some say the movement is more old fashioned than high-tech. >> reporter: froman jose to san francisco. and oakland. occupy wall streets are spontaneously popping up in areas around the bay area and the nation, and they're talking to one another. >> we use live web feeds, twitter, any type of moment to moment communication with any given occupied zone. >> reporter: michael cliff at occupy san francisco says most demonstrators are drown by social media. james is using his technical know how to improve communication by live streaming this event. >> i think that we need more of a collaboration between all of the occupy movements. not only do i think that we need to do that here in the united states, i think that we need to do it globally. >> reporter: some are concerned the organization benefits of social networking can cause problems. >> the groups are getting a little paranoid, because there have been infiltrators. >> reporter: vibe has become very popular with this movement. it works like twitter, but anonymously. it's in wide use in new york city. it's yet to c

coming up at 5:00, ken pritchett will have more on this. live in sonoma, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, tara. >>> some criminals in california will no longer serve their time in a state prison. the new realignment program goes into effect today. it requires judges to sentence nonviolent, nonsexual offense criminals to county jails instead of state prisons. the goal is to ease overcrowding. >> counties are supposed to receive money from the state to help pay for those. but there are doubts about whether it will be enough. >>> there's something different around some schools in the south bay this week. ahead -- the reason for new safety precautions. >>> rose maregy back in a couple of more -- rosemary is back in a couple of minutes with more on the rain. >>> a plea for mercy to an italian jury from american student and convicted murderer, amana knox. knox-- amanda knox. >x2ú!xgxgxgx7ñ [ screaming ] [ zapping ] there goes dwayne's car. oh, man. there goes dwayne's house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does

[applause] i have to tell you that pritchett early early -- earlier in the year, particularly in february when we really have a surge in gang violence, only was an organization we worked with closely and help us quite a bit in the escalating violence that was pretty prevalent in february of this year, so we appreciate the great work you are doing, and we look forward to continue partnership with you. [applause] i believe rock connally is here, president of the san francisco boys and girls club. -- rob connally. we work with this organization a lot, and we have a mutual goal and trying to provide guidance to the youth of the mission district, and again, officers from the district continually marvel at the dedication that people are doing. thank you very much. [applause] and ricardo garcia -- i work with him almost daily in dealing with potential gang violence or back in february when we had a legitimate plate of gang violence, he was out there on the street every day. we were in discussions every day for the strategy to deal with gang violence plaguing us, and it was very successful, and w

we're going to go to ken pritchett. he has rain coming downright now. he has snow on the ground. >> well, that's right but the snow is way up at the top and it's left over from last year. they had snow up at the top of squall valley. if you look at the base here you can see there's no snow there. it's brown and green but come tomorrow morning it's very likely that we will see at least some of this space or all of it covered with snow. the base of the mountain is barren now but that soon will change as optimism for another ski season runs high. >> we think it's a good sign, the snow is coming early and we're hoping for an opening day in late november. >> reporter: the resort says 811-inches fell last year. >> we broke every record in the books. we were skying on the fourth of july and a lot of us are itching to get out there, we're hoping for another one of those. >> reporter: caltrans is gearing up. >> we're going to 24 hour shifts tonight and we've got more people coming on the way up and we're getting our equipment ready, getting our plows out and get

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ken pritchett. >>> more details now on some of the bills. another bill that the governor signed ahead of today's deadlines also has to do with children's day care. he signed a law that will allow children over the age of 12 to receive vaccines for hpv. >>> ab791 would have required extra warning for women who have dense breast tissue who can mask or mimic breast cancer tissue. >>> police fire and emergency services will not be impacted. and parking enforcement agents will still be out issuing tickets. but public works will be suspended. >>> joe b era mamte was filming a segment for cooks on fire. v era mante the a former firefighter who came up with the idea -- >> varamante is a former firefighter who came up with the idea. >> they're going to compete, one crew is going to be here and another crew is going to be on the other side of the table. they're actually going to compete against each other. they're going to cook off. >> the winning team will get up to $10,000 to donate to their favorite charity. the judges by the way are actor vincent

tonight ktvu's ken pritchett joins us now.e's in alameda with a woman who showed us some of the damage from each quake. ken. >> reporter: robin summer lives in this home, the damage she suffered was very light. it was just some personal items but after living here for many years, she said what she experienced today was very unique. >> it's crazy, this fell off of here. >> reporter: this is a 100-year- old antique clock. this morning it had a glass face. no more. >> this was my nana's clock. the mirror fell and this fell on the mirror but this is pretty heavy. >> reporter: samborel took us on a tour of her home just before the earthquake hit, her robert was touching its leg. and her mother was taking a bath. >> she started banging on the wall, and i came in. >> what did it feel to you. >> this afternoon it was not so hard. but tonight i was standing in the kitchen and it was like the whole house got picked up and i jumped. i mean it felt like it picked my feet up. >> reporter: these cabinet doors flew open sending a wine glass

our ken pritchett is live with what may have caused the accident. >> reporter: railroad experts i talked to say that at this stage this early on that may, may be too simple of an explanation. the trains hit nose to nose. but for the passengers on board. >> everybody got an awful joke. >> reporter: amtrak says 125 passengers were on board the train that was stopped at the station. the moving train had 14 people on board. >> one of the amtrak trains ran a red signal. >> reporter: trains can slowly pass red signals if given permission by dispatch. >> we look for route cause. it's easy for the conductor or whoever is on, there's usually more to the story than most folks might think. >> reporter: many possible explanations exist such as a switching error that put the trains on the same track. the explanation is what was the error and who made it. amtrak and the federal railroad administration is investigating. >> something went wrong here, unfortunately. >> reporter: this was a low speed impact. the railroad experts i talked to said it was fortunate that those trains hit nose to nose. one loc

tonight ktvu's ken pritchett joins us now.lameda with a woman who showed us some of the damage from each quake. ken. >> reporter: robin summer lives in this home, the damage she suffered was very light. it was just some personal items but after living here for many years, she said what she experienced today was very unique. >> it's crazy, this fell off of here. >> reporter: this is a 100-year- old antique clock. this morning it had a glass face. no more. >> this was my nana's clock. the mirror fell and this fell on the mirror but this is pretty heavy. >> reporter: samborel took us on a tour of her home just before the earthquake hit, her robert was touching its leg. and her mother was taking a bath. >> she started banging on the wall, and i came in. >> what did it feel to you. >> this afternoon it was not so hard. but tonight i was standing in the kitchen and it was like the whole house got picked up and i jumped. i mean it felt like it picked my feet up. >> reporter: these cabinet doors flew open sending a wine glass flying t