allie rasmus just arrived on the scene. ail what do you know about the -- allie, what do you know about the pedestrians? >> reporter: first responders got the call at 10:30. this is where it happened, steven road and west hilldale boulevard. emergency responders are in the process of reopening this road. you can see it's a very residential area. let's show you a view overhead from newschopper2. accord doing police, a man driving a black acura was heading west on hillsdale and the car went off the roadway and hit four pedestrians. the victims, a woman in her 20s and four teenagers were also struck. now, sergeant rick decker with san mateo police is here. at what point what are you looking for? >> we're staying updated on the injuries for the driver and the pedestrian. we're investigating what caused the collision, what caused the driver to veer off the roadway and we'll go from there. >> reporter: the four people who were struck, a woman in her 20s and three teenagers, are they students. >> the three of them are students, ye

allie rasmus explained what it is all about and introducestous a man who has come a long way because of it. >> reporter: donald pope feels like he is coming up full circle. >> i'm giving back what buzz given to me. >> reporter: pope is a u.s. military veteran. he spent 15 years of his life homeless battling addiction. >> for a long time, i was mad at the service and mad at a lotover people and i didn't want to get any help. >> reporter: but in 2006, his experience at east bay stand down helped him break that cycle. the event at the alameda county fairgrounds is for needy veterans. 500 of them are taking part. for four days they live in the tents and follow a military style routine. >> it reconnects them to who they use to be and gives them a comfort zone they can approach a chaplain or a counselor. >> reporter: this year pope is one of the volunteer tent leaders. >> some guys are going into programs from here. >> reporter: he is helping fellow veterans navigate camp. there is also one on one time with job and housing counselors and access o other social services and a court on site t

ktvu's allie rasmus is live with a look at the numbers and the message the highway patrol is trying to drive home. >> reporter: here on 880 traffic is moving smoothly. 6:00 p.m. on labor day is usually the time when all the travelers and partyers head home. >> reporter: while your eyes are on the road, his eyes are on you. he drives faster than the speed limit on purpose. and scans every vehicle on this stretch of 880. >> checking the freeway i am responsible to cover. >> there is more people on the road that are just traveling to and from parties and hanging out with friends. >> ate 0 saying the legal limit -- .08 are the legal limit in california. labor day weekend 2013 from friday at 6:00 p.m. through 6:00 a.m. monday, there were zero dui related deaths. this year during the same period there have been three people killed in drunk driving crashes. dui arrests are also up. 140 arrests labor day 2013. this year 154 arrests. those numbers don't include the last 12 hours of the labor day weekend from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. today so the final numbers from the chp may be higher when they

ktvu's allie rasmus has a look that surveillance video showing one of the crimes. >> you can see the after math of the largest of the fires. this is the back side of the businesses and police believe the fire was deliberately set and the camera caught the act on video. >> man in a hot and white shirt walked to a dumpster. the man starts to walk away and brings into a sprint. >> there is smoke coming up. and now you have embers. >> reporter: the flames continue to grow below an apartment unit. >> we will see 4, 5 people here in a minute. >> they escape before the flameinize gulfed the building. -- flames engulfed the building. >> this helps. there is nothing like actually seeing somebody in the act. >> two men were arrested sunday morning and remain in jail. stephen petersen and andrew gutierrez. police believe andrew gutierrez is the man in the video. police went through stephen petersen's apartment yesterday for evidence. andrew gutierrez doesn't appear to have a permanent home. police don't know what connection the men have and the motive. >> it is out of character. >> reporter: he

ktvu's allie rasmus is live now with a first hand contact from a man -- account from a man who saw the whole thing. >> the three teens and the teacher are all expected to survive. one of the teens was released from the hospital late this afternoon. they are part of a special needs program here at hillsdale high school. >> stopped there to cross that way. >> reporter: he had been working outside a home 10:30 a.m. this morning when a car veered towards a group of people. >> i was about to scream be careful but it was too late. >> reporter: a woman was hit first, then the car struck three teenagers before slamming into light. the woman is a student teacher at hillsdale high school. the teens are special needs students. all of them and the driver went to the hospital with serious injuries. late this afternoon police told us all of the victims are expected to survive. but at the time he feared for the woman's life. >> for one moment i touched the shoulder of the woman, i said god take care of this girl. >> reporter: police are trying to figure out why the driver veered off the road. >> when

. >> allie rasmus. >> channel 2 news. >>> police are still looking for the gunman. it happened at 10:30 last night. when police arrived, they found one person with serious injuries. two people left the scene. traffic on interstate five # zero is back to normal at this hour following a deadly crash. >> this is around 9:30 last night. it blocked all but one. and forcing the chp to issue an alert. they have not yet revealed the identity of the victim. nine entire road was reopened a couple of hours later >>> they continue to battle a fire at yosemite national park. an evacuation order is in effect for homes on harris road in the pond rosa base inarea. even though the flames are 60% contained, it is still quite dangerous. >> it is one of the incidents, due to the drought, fire activity is ongoing. >> they played a huge role slowing down the fire and red cross shelter was held up for the people who are forced to evacuate. >> the management district has addressed a smoke advisory alert. this is from california wildfires and increased the potential for poor air quality. it

ktvu's allie e rasmus talks to the man who claims he found him and the family who still has questions. >> reporter: sergio's older sister was too emotional but wanted to express gratitude. >> thank you to the homeless people who found him and thank you to everybody. especially to god who was watching him, he was very lucky. >> reporter: it's where police say at four -- 4:00 this morning, sergio wandered in startled. >> one of the homeless men found the little boy and flagged us out. >> reporter: a man and woman said they heard noise outside of their tent, and went outside to look where they found sergio. >> he was unclothed so they gave him a blanket, some water and that was our boy. >> reporter: sergio zepeda's home is a couple of miles from here and police believe he spent the night wandering alone and barefoot. >> we want police to keep investigating. we didn't see anything major with him walking up the hill. that hill is not great to walk in. hardly any scratches, a little bit of dirt on his feet. >> reporter: it appears no foul play was involved in sergio's disappearance. and hos

in pacifica, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and 3800 involves spread out across 83 different sites in santa cruz and monterey counties scouring the shores there and they picked up nearly 22,000 pounds of track and recyclable materials across those two counties of the dirtiest site the elkhorn slew on monterey bay. some of the strangest things collected including a christmas tree and water pipe. >>> parents got a free checkup to make sure their children are safe on the road. alameda health services and ucsf benioff children's hospital sponsored event. technicians went over the car shetseats to make sure this that they are used properly and give parents peace of mind. >> we find four out of five seats have errors in their installation or usage. >> the event was held to you coincide with national seat check saturday. the leading cause of death among young children is car gets. >>> family and friends questioning police. >> i was so proud of my son, and i wish we were here. >> remembering their son after he was shot and killed by a police officer, the answers that they are demandi

ktvu's allie rasmus was in the courtroom today and is here to explain the motivation behind the attack. >> he had been with the police department for 30 years and late this afternoon we got official conformation that gregory thompson retired on friday. today three days after he pleaded no contest to felony charges. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> reporter: gregory thompson ignored the crowd of cameras as he rushed out of the courthouse. the former police officer now has a felony record after he pled no contest to assault and vandalism for attacking a woman with a baseball bat last month. it happened in richmond around 2:00 a.m. august 16. neighbors heard a woman screaming in the middle of the street. when police arrived they found gregory thompson with a mask and a baseball bat. the woman came out of the bushes and pointed at guilder any time as the attack -- gregory thompson as the attacker. neighbors told us the home had been broken into recently. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> reporter: the district attorney says stopping scoters was his motive. >> he went down there

ktvu's allie rasmus tells us how the mini will be used to -- money will be used. >> reporter: police have two officers a thet district high schools. -- at the district high schools. the goal is to add two new officers to the middle schools in town. >> reporter: students pour out into the hallway on their way to class they give high fives to the woman in uniform. she wears the police badge, a school resource officer based at the school full time. >> say high to kids. >> reporter: her job is part law enforcement officers, part therapists. >> you can get them to talk to you about their lives. >> offer help, like the time she helped her resolve a conflict with another student. >> she helped me understand their situation. he wasn't in a good place and didn't have a father figure. so i let up on that. >> she is a normal person even with a uniform on. >> part of caring about the kids is investing your time and knowing there is value in them and that just because they are bad today doesn't mean they are bad people. >> police will now be able to add more people to the schools here. they recei

allie rasmus talked to the man who was shaken by what he saw. >> reporter: he can't erase the image from his mind of a young woman lying on the ground after being hit by a car. >> i touched the shoulder of the woman. i said god take care of this girl. >> reporter: he had been working outside of a home on stevenses road at 10:30 this morning. he saw a man in a black acura coming towards of group of people. he says it looked like the driver was leaning over toward the passenger seat. >> it was too late. >> reporter: the car veered off the road onto the sidewalk. a woman in her 20s was hit first. then it hit three teenagers before slamming into a streetlight. the four pedestrians, and the driver identified as a man in his 50s, went to the hospital with critical injuries. the young woman is a student teacher and the injured teens hillsdale high students. another teacher and about a dozen classmates saw the whole thing. >> we are offering support services to other teachers who witnessed this very serious accident. >> reporter: knowing though witnesses will need help. he is still trying to com

. >> coming up a couple in their 90s attacked in their home and moments ago ktvu's allie rasmus talkedhappened and how they escaped. coming up at 6:00 p.m. plus -- >> no compress exit from the 49ers game. why -- express exit from the 49ers game. >> these stories and much more coming up new at 6:00 p.m. . >>> president obama plans to visit the centers for disease control and prevention tomorrow for a briefing on the ebola outbreak in west africa. the president is also expected to outline a new strategies to help fight the disease. the u.s. has pledged $100 million to pay for equipment for healthcare workers along with food, water, medical and hygiene equipment. the ebola outbreak has killed 2400 people, mostly in liberia. >>> woman who tried to return photo ground -- return a photo at ground zero finally suck seized last -- suck ceased last week. she -- succeeded last week. on friday she got a fall. it was this photo at a friend's wedding. it sat on his desk in one of the twin towers. >> the story isn't about the picture or me, it is about 9/12. that was best of humanity. on 9/11 we had

allie rasmus, ktvu news. >>> now at 6:00, a town devastated by fire. >> i had to run up the back hillour stuff and we were one of the fortunate ones that our house didn't burn. >> reporter: the progress being made tonight as a statewide fire fight is in full force. >> they were thrown out of a giants game during a confrontation about native american head dresses. why they're suing the city. >>> and student came up with a app on how to get around the city with the less crime. >>> from air attacks to boots on the ground. california is waging a statewide battle over a series of wildfires. as thousands of homes hang in the balance. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. right now there are 11 wildfires burning throughout northern california from near the oregon border all the way down to yosemite. perhaps the most damaging fire is the one burning in weed california in siskiyou county. more than 100 buildings have burned, most of them homes. >> in el dorado county the king fire is still threatening 500 homes. it doubled overnight and is raging through the el dorado nat

livermore, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the sheriff's office is investigating a double shootinge party overnight in contra costa county. it happened in oakley on ridge crest court and cinnamon ridge drive. when deputies arrived they found two men suffering gunshot wounds. they were both taken to john muir hospital in walnut creek. no word though on the extent of their injuries. another person at that home was hit with an object and treated there at the scene. so far no arrests have been made. >>> a man injured by a car in oakland is still in critical condition condition. the man was hit yesterday afternoon police say at east 12th street and third avenue near lake meren. the investigation into finding out if he was in the crosswalk is still underway. in oakland a police lieutenant says the officer was making a turn at a slow rate of speed while responding to a call. >>> there's a warning out today about a mountain lion sighting in woodside. the sheriff's deputies received a report about one year the county park about 10:30 this morning. they were investigating the report and advi

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> two people are recovering tonight after a car plowed into a bar this afternoon. it happened before 2:00 p.m. in the san francisco north beach neighborhood. two people inside the bar were hurt and taken to san francisco general hospital with non-life threatening injuries. the driver had a warrant out for his arrest for selling marijuana. investigators are working to figure out what caused the driver to veer off the road and into the bar. >>> a wildfire that broke out in northern california this afternoon has already damaged or destroyed 75 structures and threatening many more. it is in the town of weeden and is 200 acres. here are pictures from the area where smoke is filling the sky. the fire right now is threatening a thousand homes. evacuation orders have been issued for weed. students from two schools were also evacuated today and part of interstate 5 have been shut down. and the king fire is still only 10% contained and threatening 500 homes. 60 miles east of sacramento. the fire started on saturday and grown to 3900 acres because of wind and

as alley rasmus explains some of the smaller family wineries were hit hard and they are still in therocess of assessing the damage. >> when part of your livelihood is tangled up in a mess like this. >> we don't know how many. >> counting up your losses can take time. >> still getting the final tallies. it's been a couple of weeks for them getting the barrels. >> making wine has been a 20 year labor of love for jill and steve. >> we are a tiny boot straps winery. >> they sell about 4000 cases a year online and to restaurants. they lease land to grow grapes and store their wine. >> that's when a lot of small producers do. trying to make it happen is much as we can. >> 20% of their 2013 red wine inventory was destroyed on august 24th. worth about a quality of a million dollars. >> -- quality of quarter of a million dollars. >> banks wine division said the wine sympathy lost $100 million. >> this napa valley is some of the most expensive wine in the world. >> putting a dollar figure is one of the first steps to getting funding. >> but there is no time line on when or if that money will c

in the meantime, allie rasmus will have more on this story at 5:00 and 6:00 on the cute news. brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, brian. >>> the fires in alameda happened two days after five suspicious fires in east oakland. early friday morning, a house, a warehouse, a car, and a pile of debris were all set on fire. so far there's no word of arrests for the oakland fires. police have not said if the same people arrested for the alameda fires may be connected to the fires set in oakland. >>> an antioch child is in the hospital with a traumatic injury this noontime after an incident on a school campus. it happened just before 9:30 this morning at parks middle school on spartan way. according to the fire department, the child suffered traumatic injuries when he collided with another student on campus. because of the fog in the area, the child could not be airlifted. he was taken by ambulance to uc davis in sacramento due to the seriousness of his injury. >>> happening now -- san francisco police are holding a community meeting at pier 1 on the embarcadero to discuss

ktvu's allie rasmus reports. >> reporter: third and south q streets in livermore is not the place laren jiver ever thought she would see crime tape. >> for this neighborhood. i never heard anything like it. which i don't believe i heard gunshots at first. >> reporter: they arrived at this home to find five people struck by the bullets. >> three people, two males and all adults. >> reporter: all in their late teens to early 20s. they were among the 20 people gathered at a house party that evening. according to deputies, three people showed up to the party uninvited. >> there was a verbal argument, they were asked to leave. >> reporter: they did leave. about 30 minutes later, police say a white sedan pulled up to the front of the home. someone inside the vehicle started shooting. >> five really loud pops. just simultaneous like back to back. just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. >> reporter: livermore police say the five victims suffered gun injuries. >> to me it's unexpected because usually they only invite people they know. >> reporter: tosta says she was supposed to be at that party. >> i

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> developing news tonight involving the ray rice investigation. this afternoon evidence emerged that months ago an nfl executive was sent the video of ray rice knocking out his fiance. julie haener is here with details on the new evidence. >> the nfl says it is now looking into claim that a law enforcement official sent the video to an nfl executive in april. a law enforcement source played a voicemail and that voicemail has a female voice saying you are right, it is terrible. last night in an interview nfl commissioner roger goodel said no one with the nfl to his knowledge had seen the video of ray rice and his fiance from inside the elevator till tmz posted it monday. roger goodel maintains the nfl asked law enforcement for all video and assumed there was video from inside the elevator but was never able to get it from law enforcement. the video was longer than the tmz version. you can hear the couple shouting and she spits at him before he punches her. as rice gets out of the elevator and greeted by staff, rice says no cops. after the reports s

allie rasmus is joining us live from petaluma police headquarters.w information. >> reporter: good morning. the girl got away unharmed but petaluma police tell us if it hadn't been for a chance encounter this girl had with a family friend, the outcome might have been different. this all happened yesterday around 2:00 in the afternoon on a busy street. that is where a man pulled up beside the 13-year-old girl and asked her for a ride. she said no but he kept insisting. following the teen for half a mile. finallien when the girl started running and got scared a family friend driving by noticed her and saw the girl was in a panic and pulled over to help. that is when the man in the car finally drove away. they decided to put out an alert about the incident to all the schools in the area. >> he made his initial contact with her. she said no thank you. he drove ahead. she walked up and caught up to him. he asked her again. at one point she started to run. he was following alongside of her. >> reporter: fortunately this girl got a very good description of

we will have that story at 6:00 p.m., live, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new details in the carjacking chase and deadly police shooting that shut down the financial district last week. today we learned six officers fired 30 shots that suspect. this new information came out while the police chief was holding a public meeting. ktvu's noelle walker is in san francisco with what else the chief had to say. >> reporter: 32 shots to be specific. that is one of the details we learned today. they are standard procedure for san francisco police after any officer involved shooting. the chief says that they are being done in order to give the community as much information as they can, as soon as they can. >> yes we will get started. >> reporter: at a town hall meeting police went through the events of last thursday morning. >> officers began to broadcast guns. >> subject has a gun. >> that led san francisco police officers to shoot and kill a carjacking suspect. police say six officers fired 32 shots. the drama played out at 6:00 a.m. in the financial district. the investigation closed

allie rasmus joining us live now.hole is now boarded up. >> reporter: that's right. the damage is still very visible here at this home on 18th and burbank in richmond. those plywood boards have boarded up a gaping hole in the side of this home. in front of it you can see the path the out of control bus took before it crashed into the house. it plowed through two metal fences, took out some trees and further up to the left you can see the family even had a garden out here and the bus went through and destroyed some of the tomatoes in the garden, they are searching for 23-year- old richard contreras. around 5:30 last night he was speeding through the naked when he ran -- neighborhood when he ran a red light and hit the bus. the impact caused the bus to lose control and crash into the side of the home. 11 people went to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries including the bus driver and passengers. also there was a child and 3- month-old baby boy in the living room at the time of the crash. the impact knocked the

allie rasmus live for us this morning in pacifica with the 30 30th annual california coastal cleanup.we are at linda mar beach and pacifica where coastal cleanup day is well underway. things got started at nine but a lot of volunteers showed up early. they signed in and then they picked up some gloves and some buckets and garbage bags and went to head out on the beach to start collecting trash. this event has been going on for 30 years. last year the city of pacifica had more than a thousand volunteers show up to help clean up the beach and at a dozen other sites throughout the city. they collected about 3,000 pounds worth of trash last year. now lynn adams is the president of the pacifica beach coalition, and you've been spearheading and organizing this local event here for a while. tell us what is the most common trash item that people find. >> the most common trash item everywhere every time is cigarette butts and then we'll get bottle caps and straws and small little wrappers, lots of little small pieces of microplastic, especially on this beach where the plastic breaks into small

alley rasmus is joining us live. >> reporter: we are waiting outside alameda fire station in the downtown and investigators are supposed to give us an update on the investigation into the suspicious fires. 7 happened overnight. you can see behind us things have not gotten started yesterday. we have seen alameda police and fire fighters getting ready for things to begin. alameda police arrested two men overnight on suspicion of arson. they are both adult males, one is a alameda resident and the other is a transient, who frequents is alameda and oakland areas. this is video of one of those fires. this is around 2:30 this morning on san antonio avenue. the fire started outside an apartment building. and spread inside. no one was hurt but several were displaced. there was another fire at a different apartment building that also displaced residents. two hours later, fire fighters got a call at several businesses on park street in alameda. that fire was the last of the 7 fires and the largest. it damaged at least three businesses. no one was hurt but the owner of the bright one-hour cleaners wh

rasmus sen had to say.er on, the indications are that we are going to see nato may be providing some sort of military backing or helping the ukrainian military in its conflict with the russian forces. how far do we know that goes? what is nato talking about here in its relationship with ukraine? >> i don't think it goes too far to be fair. like the european union, nato consists of 28 countries that have to make decisions unanimously. what it appears is that they are prepared to say something with a declaration. as you heard, perhaps some kind of coalition of the willing that would be prepared to take things further. what ukraine is looking for is ,ilitary assistance, weapons and it doesn't look like nato is prepared to go that far. several get 2, 3, maybe countries that are. that might happen at this meeting. interesting comment about the islamic state as well. would nato be prepared to take separatelamic state from one individual countries like the united states is doing now? we know that britain is going