rita williams, ktvu. >>> rita's jailhouse interview with mehserle lasted for about an hour. we plan to bring you more of it. coming up tomorrow, rita will be live on mornings on two. she will also have different exerts at 5:00 and a completely new report back here tomorrow night on the 10:00 news. >>> oakland city attorney today filed civil lawsuits against four protesters who took to the streets the night mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. city attorney john russo says terry dugard stole merchandise from a jewelry store. >>> storm tracker two picking up rain in the bay area, it has been just offshore all day. you saw the clouds, there were a few sprinkles they showed up in san leandro. i do have rain up in millvalely right now. rain at point rays, scattered showers at petaluma. you can see rain right there on the east side of the bridge. that's the strongest cell i have, most of the activity is moving in this direction. as the showers move north and on shore, we can see the showers pick up tonight. and those showers will last perhaps into the morning commut

rita williams, ktvu. >>> rita's jailhouse interview with mehserle lasted for about an hour. we plan to bring you more of it. coming up tomorrow, rita will be live on mornings on two. she will also have different exerts at 5:00 and a completely new report back here tomorrow night on the 10:00 news. >>> oakland city attorney today filed civil lawsuits against four protesters who took to the streets the night mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. city attorney john russo says terry dugard stole merchandise from a jewelry store. >>> storm tracker two picking up rain in the bay area, it has been just offshore all day. you saw the clouds, there were a few sprinkles they showed up in san leandro. i do have rain up in millvalely right now. rain at point rays, scattered showers at petaluma. you can see rain right there on the east side of the bridge. that's the strongest cell i have, most of the activity is moving in this direction. as the showers move north and on shore, we can see the showers pick up tonight. and those showers will last perhaps into the morning commut

rita williams exclusive interview with johannes mehserle last the an hour. if you want to learn more about that interview rita will join us this morning. >>> time now 6:27. it has been a halloween tradition in the bay area for years. >>> i'm jade hernandez. we're live in san francisco monitoring traffic this morning. rain is greeting commuters. we'll have more on that coming up. >>> welcome back. rinking the morning news. you see gaga. not lady gaga. it's a business farming in china. celebrating halloween. hersheys is there. largest producer of chocolate. getting ready for trick or treaters on sunday. >> my mouth is watering. we'll say good morning to you. thank you for joining us. we made it to friday october 29th i'm dave clark. >> good morning i'm pam cook. the wet weather here in the bay area is causing problems this morning. jade hernandez is in in san francisco there are reports of flooding. jade. >> that is right. you're taking a live look at highway 101 right there. there is some spots in san francisco which always give drivers trouble. today has bee

rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and to see more of rita's exclusive interview with mehserle, tune in to the 10:00 news tonight. tonight as 10:00 he asks him how he could mistake his gun for his taser and what he would say to oscar grant's family if he had the opportunity. >>> the project is called ebart. i would go from the bay point station to antioch. the extension is estimated to cost $462 million. officials say that 50% less costly than building a conventional bart line. >> a unique project, the coordination of caltrans, the widening of highway 4, additional lanes together with bart. >> reporter: the project is expected to create 600 yards during construction and about 80 permanent jobs once ebart the complete. >>> i'm seeing a lot of green behind you bill. >> that's the rain now. it'll show you where the rain has been falling, where it is falling. we go outside right now and show you what we have. you see the rain showing up in the north bay. the main rain bans are north. see how it skirts to pacifica and the avenues of san francisco. i'm going to stop the latest imagine and

he sat down with rita williams. the jury convicted mehserle of voluntary manslaughter of the death of oscar grant. he thinks the jury got it wrong. and he's been portrayed differently from who he is. >> some people see you as a racist. are you? >> no, ma'am. >> a cold-blooded killer? >> no, ma'am. i'm peaceful by my own nature. >> that's not the aimening some have after watching that cell phone video. it shows mehserle firing a single shot into oscar grant's back as he lays face down. >> how do you live with that? >> i know it wasn't intentional. it wasn't about -- the decision i made wasn't about to shoot him. i know that. >> meze everly says when he -- mehserle says when she realized he shot him he was in disbelief. when oscar grant started to lose consciousness he said that he prayed that grant would be okay. rita williams exclusive interview lasted about an hour. if you want to hear more of that interview rita will be live mornings at 2 at 8:15 this morning. she will have different times on the 5:00 and 10:00 ne

rita's interview with mehserle lasted about an hour. if you want to hear more about the interview, rita williams will be here live in about an hour and she will have different excerpts on the 5:00 and 10:00 news tonight. >>> 7:18. four protesters who took to streets after the mess verdict are facing charges. oakland's city attorney filed a civil lawsuit yesterday. police say darryl dugas of castro valley and terry williams stole jewelry from a store. the lawsuit names raquel sharp and paul rasol of oakland. the city attorney says he wants to send a message as the mehserle sentencing date approaches. >>> this afternoon, there will be a ceremony dedicate the b.a.r.t.'s office of the new independent audi -- auditor. sandre swanson will be recognized for his work for this event. >>> the presidential panel looking into the huge oil disaster in the gulf issued its first finding, indicating halliburton should have known the cement mixed used in that well was not strong enough. the panel says that of the four tests done by halliburton before th

rita braver will talk with novelist philip roth. we'll celebrate an anniversary with the flintstones and a lot. first the headlines for this sunday morning the third of october 2010. threats of attacks by osama bin laden's al qaeda against tourist sites in europe this morning triggered a terrorism travel alert from the obama administration. i urges americans to be extra cautious in public spaces. rutgers university paid tribute to freshman tyler clementi yesterday at a football game on its new jersey campus. clementi, the student who took his life after a sexual encounter was streamed online, will be remembered later today at a vigil. the supreme court begins a new term tomorrow. among other cases, the court will hear first amendment arguments in the matter of anti-gaiman protests at military funerals. there's a new face on the court this term. justice elena kagan who replaces retiring justice john paul stevens. now for today's forecast rain will fall in the rockies and the mid atlantic region but the rest of the country should expe

rita is the only reporter to interview him. he will describe that night and what he says grant was doing. it's a story you'll see only on channel 2 tonight on the 10:00 news. >>> with just a few days left before election day, the candidates for senate were out today stumping for votes. carly fiorina made her first showing. >> this campaign is about holding washington accountable for how they spend our money and the policies they put in place. this campaign has been about barbara boxer's 28 years of failed leadership in washington, d.c. >> fiorina says shelfs great after her two days in the hospital and thanks everyone for the well wishes she received and dismissed concerns her health would be a factor in the race against barbara boxer. boxer was in the bay area today highlighting the differences between her and carly fiorina. >> when my opponent had a chance to create jobs, she shipped them overseas. i've been fighting for made in america. there's many, many differences between us. women's right to choose, offshore drilling. a

ktvu's rita williams is keeping an eye on today's accusations. she is in the newsroom now with our live report. rita. >> reporter: with just two weeks before the election, voters seem to know the two major candidates for governor, republican meg whitman and democrat jerry brown and that seems to be the problem. a recent ppic poll shows about half the voters surveyed are dissatisfied with both of them. >> so i'm very proud to be here and endorse and present jerry brown as our next governor of the state of california. [ applause ] >> reporter: dissatisfaction or not, someone will be elected governor and today california's former governor wants to be governor again, jerry brown was in san francisco picking up the endorsement of asian pacific islander leaders and he again was criticizing his opponent for not releasing how much money she herself would save under her proposal to eliminate the capital gains tax, which he favors keeping. >> she can talk all she wants but the truth is she wants to enrich herself and her contributors and the very wealthies

as rita williams shows us, if it gives way the result could be devastating. >> reporter: a new study shows worst case scenario in a major earthquake. santa clara county's biggest dam, anderson dam, could collapse. potentially sending billions of gallons of this water into morgan hill and san jose. >> a concern for all of the residents and the neighbors around here. a big concern. a big hazard. >> reporter: folks that live in the potential flooding area are understandably uneasy about what could happen. >> it is a concern. so t does not keep us from buying here, though. >> reporter: the water district says they are taking steps to keep the worse from ever happening here. that worst would be a 7.25 earthquake or higher on the fault within two km of the dam. >> there are materials at the base of the dam that would liquefy. >> reporter: if the reservoir was full as it was here in 1997 a fallure of the dam, though remote, could send a wall of water 35 feet high into downtown morgan hill in 14 minutes. within three hours it could reach 8 feet deep along coyote creek in san jose. to keep th

rita sapalla, chancelllor at evergreen community college district. is here so we can introduce her to the best of the bay area. why should voters vote for measure g? >> community colleges stand for opportunity and access. we need capacity to be able to provide the education and training for the workforce, for the silicone valley and make sure that we will be enabled to have the kind of ability, infrastructure and development that is necessary for us. >> and right now you have to go to the bank to borrow money to keep the doors open. how ridiculous is that? >> for the first 100 years -- it felt like 100 years, believe me. for the first 100 days before the budget was signed, indeed, we had to go to the bank to borrow money, and it was about 17 million we needed to borrow to keep the doors open and it cost us $320,000 in interest. which, again, comes out of our budget. it was absolutely a horrific thing to do. i'm glad we had the possibility to do it, but we were not the only district having to do that. 73 districts up and down the state of california w

rita williams, ktvu, channel 2 news. >> rita's exclusive interview with mehserle lasted for about an hour. and you will now find the interview in its entirety online at ktvu.com. we have just post today within the past few minutes. go to the mehserle tab on our home page. >>> a note is shedding new light tonight on a strange case involving the death of a hayward teenager and the arrest of his twin brother. the alameda county sheriff's department said the 15-year-old boy died of as fixation with a rope. authorities say his twin brother broke into a home and tried to stab himself the night before. authorities tasered the boy to subdue him. they said the surviving brother reportedly signed a note saying they were both unhappy. >> there is no real reason why. there is no -- there is nothing specifically pointed at. there is no traumatic incident that's pointed at. it is just basically says that they are unhappy and they have been unhappy. >> the sheriff's department says it will decide whether to rule the by's death a suicide once they speak to the surviving twin. >>> police in reno say

rita williams, ktvu, channel 2 news. >> rita's exclusive interview with mehserle lasted for about an hour. and you will now find the interview in its entirety online at ktvu.com. we have just post today within the past few minutes. go to the mehserle tab on our home page. >>> a note is shedding new light tonight on a strange case involving the death of a hayward teenager and the arrest of his twin brother. the alameda county sheriff's department said the 15-year-old boy died of as fixation with a rope. authorities say his twin brother broke into a home and tried to stab himself the night before. authorities tasered the boy to subdue him. they said the surviving brother reportedly signed a note saying they were both unhappy. >> there is no real reason why. there is no -- there is nothing specifically pointed at. there is no traumatic incident that's pointed at. it is just basically says that they are unhappy and they have been unhappy. >> the sheriff's department says it will decide whether to rule the by's death a suicide once they speak to the surviving twin. >>> police in reno say

. >> reporter: sol and rita rogers have been married for 63 years.to lose rita to alzheimer's, sol couldn't bear it. but he wouldn't let go. so he started getting into bed with her at the nursing home outside boston. >> she became a new woman. she knew who i was. she could talk and smile and laugh. i love you very much. >> reporter: a miracle, the doctors called it. >> you love me? >> yes. i do. i do. >> reporter: even in the shadows, there is love. ♪ somebody loves you ♪ so find yourself somebody to love ♪ >> reporter: terry moran, abc news. >> and we're back now again with maria shriver. 5 out of 5 on the stress level. >> felt by caregivers. >> caregivers say it. >> people that do the caretaking are at much more risk of depression themselves, increased risk of getting alzheimer's themselves. >> if companies were to do one thing, what could they do? >> offer flex hours. talk to their employees, ask them if they're in this multiple role situation. >> and you talked about adding in elder care to child leave. >> well, there's a lot of people who say, y

rita williams, ktvu. >>> hayward police arrested six students today after several fights. the first one was between a mail and female student. then two other girls got in another fight. no weapons were found in any of the fights and no one was seriously injured. >>> the two major candidates held their first and most likely only event today. san francisco district attorney harris is running against cooley. cooley said there is one major difference between them. he supports the death penalty and harris opposes it. >> she's absolutely consistently religiously refused to follow the constitution and her oath in that regard. >> two drive home a point, cooley said he has the support of the family of a san francisco police officer who was killed on the line of duty and that harris refused to use the death penalty against his killer. >> the reality is i'm opposed to the death penalty, but i will follow the law. >> the san francisco chronicle has endorsed harris while the los angeles times is backing cooley. most polls show cooley with a slim lead. >>> police say a woman has come fo

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rita williams, ktvu. >>> hayward police arrested six students today after several fights. the first one was between a mail and female student. then two other girls got in another fight. no weapons were found in any of the fights and no one was seriously injured. >>> the two major candidates held their first and most likely only event today. san francisco district attorney harris is running against cooley. cooley said there is one major difference between them. he supports the death penalty and harris opposes it. >> she's absolutely consistently religiously refused to follow the constitution and her oath in that regard. >> two drive home a point, cooley said he has the support of the family of a san francisco police officer who was killed on the line of duty and that harris refused to use the death penalty against his killer. >> the reality is i'm opposed to the death penalty, but i will follow the law. >> the san francisco chronicle has endorsed harris while the los angeles times is backing cooley. most polls show cooley with a slim lead. >>> police say a woman has come fo

ktvu's rita williams has been following the trial since it began and is in our newsroom. >> reporter: both sides have layed out their sentencing argumenting and these briefs were submitted. prosecutors are seeking prison time, the attorney for mehserle says mehserle should not be sent to prison. now the former bart police officer faces a maximum of four years in prison on the involuntary manslaughter conviction and up to ten years for use of a gun. mehserle's defense attorney is seeking to have the gun conviction thrown out and is asking for a new trial. mike reihns told me yesterday that if this was not such a high profile case, person with mehserle's background would only be getting a light sentence. they did not specify for how long. the los angeles county jury that convicted him determined that mehserle did not intend to kill grant but was criminally negligent when he fired his gun instead of his taser. for the first time you're going to hear from mehserle himself. he tells us about the shooting and what he feels should happen. and he talks about his victim, oscar grant. i conduct

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rita williams is there with more. >> reporter: sea officials say they are trying to solve a mystery. they want to know why gulls are dying right here in this one spot in san francisco. this is we're 94, a former dump now a 7-acre oasis here in the south eastern corner of san francisco that birds call home. >> places like pier 94 are so important. because as the bird populations continue to decline, they need places like pier 94 where they can roost and rest safely. >> reporter: industrial life and bird life seem to peacefully coexist until this year. that's when folks from the audobon society say they noticed a sharp increased in the number of dead and dying gulls here. >> we're not finding this amount of mortality any where else in the area. >> reporter: infectious disease, rat poison and oiled feathers from animal grease. the birds may be getting into trouble at the near by plant. or that the animal fat is getting into the water. >> any oil in their feathers breaks down their ability to insulate themselves. >> reporter: the rendering plant is owned by darling international. no one

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rita williams explains in tonight's special report. >> reporter: they aren't here just horsing around. doctors and stanford medical students are learning from these horses how to be more patient with their patients. >> first of all they are beautifully, secondly they really show a lot of their feeling in a very transparent, very open way. and we can learn a lot from horses. >> reporter: we've all known brilliant doctors with no bedside manner while polite patients may not tell those doctors how they are coming across, supersensitive horses will. a neurorow surgeon at the university of arizona a lifelong horseman first had the idea of so called equine facilitated learning a decade ago now sanford is one of many medical schools using horses to teach doctors. here at stanford's web ranch, dr. beverly cane is putting her staff through the paces, horse and humans learning from each other. >> am i being heard, herd. >> reporter: beverly cane teaches students to watch their horses personalities emerge. >> he's curious, but he's a lot more polite, he's a little more submissive an he would be

secretary of the homeland security says that when the lessons were learned from hurricane katrina and rita. they must be prepared to handle possible terrorist attacks. >> we live in an ever changing threat environment. there are those who would seek to attack us, al qaeda or al qaeda-affiliate's, for example. >> the feds are contributing nearly $2 million. >> she is help those in the area trying to target employers who have harbored or hired undocumented workers. >> we will be sure to -- be sure to stay with us right here. >> they have put a solid campaign together for the ravens. it is so good, he wants to sing about it. that is next in sports. >> 19 days and counting. is a fund-raising frenzy until election day. we have more on the dash for cash coming up on our commitment 2010 report. >> it is a cool friday force. what about your weekend? how will show you what the seven-day forecast looks like. it is blustery with northwest >> with of the midterm elections just three weeks away, there is a dash for cash. president obama was fundraising and delaware. -- fundraising in delaware. >> many

. >> this has to do with a penalty at 30 santa rita avenue. >> so moved. >> is there any public comment on this? on the motion to reschedule i'm 8 -- -- item 8. >> aye. >>aye. >>aye. >> aye. >> aye. the >> is there any member of the public that would like to speak on an item that is not on the agenda before the the -- is not on the agenda? >> if you listen to some of my comments, some could get a perception that there is some sort of personal vendetta: on here and i want to assure you that there is not. i tend many of the commission's -- i attended many of the commissions to make sure that public comment is allowed without restriction. i believe that the first amendment of the constitution and the constitution of the state of california both guaranteed debt and i be know that all board members take an oath to support and defend those consultations. i have some level of anxiety of getting here that i might miss the swearing in and then have someone imply that i will not tell the truth. my real concern is that at i have started to attend board meetings and some of the processes by which m

. >> let's get a question from skype, rita. good morning to you, rita. >> good morning.ave a question, i was 45 years old, diagnosed with cancer. and i am about 5 1/2 years out. i had chemo, radiation, reconstruction and a double mastectomy. and i'm concerned about the lingering effects of the fatigue, the chemo brain and the body achings. >> i think we talk so much -- we don't talk once someone's cure about lingering effects. and keep me brain is something women really talk about. >> there's a lot of collateral damage from our treatments and it's something we don't talk about enough from the chemo, you can also have second cancers from the chemo, you can have heart disease from the chemo, you can have problems from radiation, from the surgery. and we have to go beyond the cures to the cause so we don't have to go through all these treatments and we don't have the side effects. >> is this goi-- as always, tha for both of you being here. >>> how to update your kitchen without spending a lot of money. but first this is "today." [ female announcer ] join yoplait in our comm

. >>> mehserle speaks exclusively with ktvu's rita williams from behind bar. she spent more than an hour with him, hear what he has to say about his life since the shooting and what he wants to say during his sentencing. a series of exclusive reports begin thursday on the 10:00 news. >>> a nurse has been attacked in the bay area. the latest assault happened yesterday afternoon in the contra costa county main jail. officials say an inmate was having what appeared to be a seizure. when medical staff arrived he told a nurse he was faking because he didn't want to be in a particular room. that inmate then picked up a desk lamp and hit the nurse in the head. >> that's the part that angers me most about this. that this knuckle head attacked a person, a good person that was trying to help him. >> the nurse was taken to a hospital with severe headache trauma. the sheriff the described her injuries as nonlife threatening. deputies used a taser to subdue the inmate. >>> the napa county coroner said that the state hospital nurse that was found dead was strangled. the psy

rita williams has more. receipt tau? >> reporter: uply, early tomorrow morning, competitors in the lpga will tee off here at the blackhawk country club in danville without a transgender player. that's her showing her the form that helped her win the women's long drive championship in 2008. , two years after her reassignment surgery as was required by the competition. >> this is the actual golf ball that i used. >> after that the group changed the rules to coincide with the lpga that competitors must have been born female. how can they say it wasn't directed at me, i'm the only professional woman golfer in the united states that's a post- op transwoman. >> reporter: so now this air force veteran who spent 18 years as a police officer and deputy sheriff in southern california has filed suit against the lpga and the long drive association and their sponsors, saying they at-birth requirement violates california's civil rights law. >> i am emotionally, physically and legally a female. >> reporter: her attorney chris dolan, sa

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the next inning, posey comes into the score to make it to rita one. rebate would be safe at second, that it is 41. but tim, in those six take a deep. he makes a 11 game gets four to three. here comes the relief corps coming in, brian wilson with 85 run on base, then in front of these brain and nervous a philadelphia fans, one giant fed back there, cheering on brian. its 33, all four of his hopes for a strike vote. 43, the giants won it. quite confident in the locker room >>. we have to check our ego at the door, put the personal statistics outside, and go out there and play as a team. and i think that is one of the main reasons we're we're at right now. for us to be able to come together and play well as a team. says a lot. >> we've seen to play a lot of them, it has been a good experience for these guys, playing these types of games. >> now i have been, in the clubhouse on the inside they're jumping up and down, on the outside is a quiet confidence. so giants' game to tomorrow if that is not enough, the raiders play the niners at candlestick tomorrow

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rita williams just arrived in rodeo and has the latest on what's going on. >> reporter: this has been going on for a couple of hours residents in residents in crocket and rodeo. commuters are probably noticing it as well. it was much bigger than this earlier, maybe three or four times the flame and billowing smoke but they have got this under control. we are told that this will continue until as late as 10:00 tonight because that's how long it's going to take to shut down the plant because they've added equipment failure. and the flair is the intentional burning of excess fuel. air testing is under way for hydrocarbons but we've been told that they have been detected as low. so this has been deemed a level two and only people with respiratory problems are being urged to stay inside and avoid breathing the air. so far hazardous materials folks here in contra costa county say no one has been sickened, no one has reported for care in connection with this. inside the plant, they are trying to figure out the hydrogen official failure. as the hydrogen burns off this flame will get smaller a

reporting live in oakland, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we have a champion.mong the great pumpkins in this year's weighoff in half moon bay, the first place goes to ron root the citrus heights. the winning pickup kin, 12,535 pounds. the farmer who grew the giant pumpkin said it's a product of lots of love and passion. >> it just consumes you. they keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. >> his pumpkin is slightly smaller than last year's winner. he says generally speaking this year's pumpkins turned out smaller than expected because of the cooler than normal sum sneer vacaville fires put out three grass fires that started out a freeway in rural solano county. a spokesman for vacaville fire says one fire was about ten acres. >> the other two burned less than an acre each. just minutes ago, the national weather service issued a red flag warning for parts of the bay area that are vulnerable to wild banned fires. the warning covers mountainous areas above 1,000 feet in napa, sonoma, marin, alameda and contra costa counties. the red flag warning started at 6:00

rita williams is in morgan hill now. >> reporter: i'm sitting atop anderson dam. anderson could collapse sending millions of the gallons worth of water into morgan hill. >> definitely a concern. a pretty big hazard. >> reporter: folks who live in the potential flood area are concerned about what could happen. >> it is a concern. it didn't keep us from buying here though. >> reporter: santa clara county water district officials say they are taking steps to keep the worse from ever happening here. that worse would be a 7.25 7.25 earthquake. if the reservoir were full as it was here in 1997 a complete failure of the dam, though very remote could send a wall of water 35 feet high into downtown morgan hill in 14 minutes. within three hours, it could reach 8 feet deep along coyote creek in san jose. to keep that from ever happening, the district will keep the reservoir no more than 56% full. today it was 54% full. >> we think we can keep the reservoir at a safe level to protect the residents. >> reporter: to retrofit the dam it would take six years and $50 million. >> t

father fatherhood, for thfirst time since the shooting, mehserle spoke to ktvu's rita williams. mehserle says right after he fired that fateful shot, grant's friends yelled grant had a young daughter. >> my son that wasn't born yet, and why it happened i don't know. >> mehserle's only child, a son was born one day after the shooting. and you can watch more of the mehserle exclusive interview tonight on the 10:00 news. mehserle explains how he mistook his gun for a taser and what he would say to grant's family if he had the opportunity? >>> the apparent explosive materials were on packages on board a plane. one was intercepted in dubai one in england. both were being sent to two synagogues in new york. >> i've also directed that we spare no effort in investigating the origins of these suspicious packages. >> reporter: no explosives were found here in the united states, but security has been increased for cargo and passenger flights while al- qaida has not been blamed in this incident, the group is active in yemen. >>> on the bay bridge tonight, construction ewes had finished stac

rita williams exclusive interview lasted more than an hour. we'll broadcast additional segments later in the day at the ktvu news at 5 and tonight at 10. interview segments are also posted on www.ktvu.com. >>> bart is celebrating a ground breaking today to expand service in the east bay. the project is the beginning of the new east bart extension called e-bart. it will run down the median of highway 4 to hill crest avenue. the new diesel powered system is expected to reduce traffic congestion on route 4 and at $262 million officials say it's 60% costly than conventional bart. the project is expected to create 600 jobs during construction and 80 permanent jobs. >> unique project. the coordination of cal-trans, the widening of highway 4, the additional lanes, together with bart, coming together to make it possible. >> officials say e-bart will carry as many people as an additional lane of highway traffic but without the unfriendly transmissions. >>> quite a bit going on today with the weather. rain this morning and more in the forecast? >> there

rita williams sat down with johannes mehserle mehserle this week inside of jail. tomorrow night, for the first time, you will hear from johannes mehserle on the shooting and what he thinks should happen at next week's sentencing. our exclusive report airs tomorrow night on the 10:00 news on ktvu channel 2. >>> a state prison official accused of selling drugs to prison inmates is behind bars in santa clara county. undercover officers arrested 38- year-old sergio nugella in gilroy yesterday. he was allegedly picking up cell phones and drugs for the inmates. police say he was also getting $2500 for his services. he's being held on $130,000 bail. >>> san jose police are searching for the men who robbed two marijuana dispensaries at gunpoint. surveillance video shows them robbing the store. cash and marijuana were also taken from the dispensary. they believe the same two men robbed another san jose dispensary on september 18th. >>> a two-alarm fire in the south bay did considerable damage to a business. the fire was reported about 3:15 this morning at the corner of eas

rita williams, ktvu channel news. >> for the latest be sure to view ktvu.com click on the meheserle case tab. >> residents near walnut creek don't feel safe after yet another assault at their apartment complex this weekend the the fifth since june. contra costa sheriff's department made an arrest in connection with the first three arrests at park regency but now two more cases sexual assault less than two weeks ago and now an attack saturday night. some tenants want to leave but they are having a hard time getting the complex to waive fees of $3,000 or more. >> today i decided they can take me to small claims court if they want to i am moving for my own safety. >>> the suspect in saturday's assault is a white male between 5'8" and 5'9" brown hair and facial hair. >>> a driver of a stolen van runs down a veteran police officer and investigators say he did it on purpose. the driver ended up getting away officers are searching for him tonight. ktvus maureen nailor is live in san jose at the hospital where the officer who was hit is recovering from surgery. >> officer brower had that surgery

rita williams sits down with johannes mehserle for his first interview since the shooting, how he describes that night and what he says grant was doing web he pulled the trigger. you will only see that story tonight on our 10:00 news. >>> the actor who played dano in the original version of the tv version "hawaii 50" has died. he played detective dan comes for 11 years -- dan williams on the show for 11 years. he was the son of herald hayes. there's no word on his cause of death. he was 72 years old. >>> still ahead -- a little bit of good news about the jobless rate. now we're getting information about a planned mission to mars and about astronauts who will not come back to earth and the bay area will play a role. man: empty nest? new kitchen, new us? woman: who are we? chic, modern, daring dinner-party hosts. that sounds dangerous, maybe we're more the traditional sunday brunch set? i'll expect slippers and a cocktail to be ready when i get home from work. point taken. how about... peaceful, quiet cottage in the country folk? now that's us. spend over 2500 dollars on a new kitchen and sav

reporting live in oakland, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> across the bay a heartbreaking situation in san francisco this afternoon where a number of people living inside an apartment complex say they lost everything. it appears that many of them don't have insurance. this comes after a massive fire destroyed their complex early this morning. patty lee is live on the scene with more on what happened. patty? >> gasia, fire crews tell me that the building is on the verge of collapse. it may not look that fragile but the wood structure underneath is demolished. >> i'm looking at my building and it was like this is somebody else's nightmare, not mine. >> reporter: stephanie heinz escaped the fire that startd in her building around 5. you go to bed, climb out your window without your shoes on. >> reporter: the fire may have started small but it quickly swallowed the 8-undercomplex and damaged adjacent building. >> the stairwell had collapsed between the second and third floor. we made the decision to pull everybody out and go defensive on it. three people were transported to nearby st. f

i live with my husband at 44 -- my name is rita vance. i live with my husband at 4400 elizabeth street. this affects the neighborhood from the backside. when living in an urban environment, our green space becomes vitally important. my personal green space is my backyard. it is my oasis in the city. allowing 8 four level addition to this house would significantly block my access to light and sky. that house is already large and close to us because it encroaches into the green zone. this project would bring it even closer. the height would also be greatly increased. i will be looking at an ugly wall in the day and a wall of lit windows at night. the lack of privacy would be tremendous. while i agree it is necessary and desirable for this commission to ensure that a remodel is pleasing from the streetview, i encourage you to also consider its looks from the back. the rear elevation, as proposed for 940 elizabeth, is clumsy at best. i have visited friends who have lovely homes, but when you walk out in the back yard you are faced with a jarr

as part of our ongoing story, rita williams sat down for an exclusive interview. she is the only reporter he has spoken with and on tomorrow night's 10:00 news, you'll hear for the first time what the former bart police officer has to say about the morning and what he plans to say next week. >>> for the first time today, oakland police invited the public to attend a regular meeting. the presentation was held this morning at the oakland museum of california. police say it is a valuable tool. >> it's a more efficient way to deal with crime instead of suppressing an entire area, focus on one block or issue to address that. >> police say so far this year there have been 65 homicides in oakland compared to 89 homicides in all of last year. >> karr lee fiorina is resting at home right now. she was admitted to the hospital yesterday morning and given an iv to combat an infection after a surgery she underwent in july. she's expected to return to the campaign trail tomorrow. >>> new hope for car making in the bay area. >> the economic disaster that was the closure of the p

es el nieto de armando manzanero y vive en lima bajo el cuidado de su abuela, a rita. >> su hijo, rodrigoso queremos entrevistarnos con su papÁ. >> ¿te es de tu papi y tu mami?¿donde estÁn? >> en espaÑa. >> ¿y tu papÁ donde esta? >> en mÉxico. >> ¿el seÑor manzanero conoce a su hijo? >> no, pero si su hermano. Él ha visto a su hijo. >> su deseo es que manzanero conozca a su nieto, que lleva el mismo apellido que el artista. >> es su sangre ¿no? es muy inteligente. >> ¿no conoces a tu abuelito? >> si. >> ¿como asÍ?¿donde lo has visto? >> en televisiÓn. >> primer impactointentÓ reunir a manzanero con su nieto, mientras Él estaba en su visita en lima. no tuvimos Éxito. ♪ >> armando manzanero llegÓ a lima con juan pablo, uno de sus hijos. pero se fue sin conocer a su nieto, que lo Único que pide es un permiso para viajar a espaÑa y reencontrarse con su madre. >> el talento hispano brillÓ en la semana de la moda en nueva york. >> me encuentro en el lincoln center. esta serÁ la nueva sede de la semana de la moda desde este aÑo. veamos. >> el primer hispano en presentar su nueva colecciÓn. >> cu

she remains at a santa rita jail on $4.3 million bail. >>> the city of oakland wants to help domestic violence victims partnering with kaiser and the law center to end the effects of domestic violence and working to provide victims with legal services and mental health support. >>> a warning for bart riders. expect delays this weekend because of track construction. the delays in train service are in both directions. they said it will start 9:00 friday night and continue through sunday. normal service resumes monday. you can weigh in on bart's proposed train fairs and parking fees at an east bay open early next year. the bart boardville a public hearing for the west dublin train station this morning. for trips starting at the new station, they want to charge $4.15 to berkeley and $5.40 to the embarcadero and $10.40 to the airport. parking fees at the west dublin pleasanton station is $1 a day for regular parking. the public hearing is at the kaiser center in oakland at 9:00. >>> developing news and possible chaos for the commute. emergency repairs under way at the bay bridge. inspector