morning, i have been a patient for four or five months now and i don't like that the san francisco general hospital will be transferred to laguna hospital and especially for me, i don't have medical insurance and if san francisco general hospital is like a one stop shop for me and the complete facilities, and the lab tore torrey and the pharmacy where i get my medicine and the emergency when i needed it. and it does a lot of services for me and i love the organizers and all of the stuff because they don't put me like a patient but as a member of their family. i feel at home at san francisco general hospital and if it is to laguna hospital it is far from my home and i have to travel longer and i am thinking it as decreasing for me and that is all. >> thank you very much. >> and next speaker, please? >> >> good morning. >> could you help her with the mic. you can use the other one it is probably better. >> thank you very much. >> all right, thank you. >> good morning supervisors. i am more than appalled when it come to the most (inaudible) of the city the city department and health department and sen

san francisco right now. that is at san francisco general hospital. that is where we are waiting for a news conference to start surrounding information about a body that was found in a stairwell at sf general. at this point it remains unclear if that, in fact, belongs to a woman who disappeared from the hospital several weeks ago. good morning, everybody. thank you, as always, for joining us. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm marla tellez. christie smith is live at the hospital where the hospital and the sheriff's department are about to give an update on this investigation. christie, good morning. >> good morning to you. i think we just got the answer to the question that we were waiting for. david, a spokesperson for the spalding family just came out a couple of minutes ago and said that lynn spalding's daughter just got notified from sf general that they believe they are fairly certain that the body found in the stair well yesterday morning was that of lynn spalding. they still don't have 100% id. lynn spalding, the 57-year-old woman, a patient, was admitted

news. >> thank you very much. >>> we told you about the news conference taking play at san francisco general hospital. let's take you to the conference about the body found in the hallway. >> the police department representatives and garcia, the director of health for san francisco is here with us today. i'm going to let them speak in just a moment. i want you to know that we know there's a great interest and a lot of concern about this case that we share. every one wants answers. we want answers too. m9ñ but what we are going to giveÑi you now is all the information we doxd have. we willñr not beñrçó taking que. we will have given you all the informationÑi we have. moreÑiçóÑiçóñr information will beñr coming. we'll continue to provide that. i hope you check our website where we have a blog on the right-hand side. that's how we continue to push information out. i want to be clear about what today is and thank you for coming. you'll be getting as much information as we have now from our two speakers. thank you. good morning i'm dr. todd may, chief medical officer at san francisco general hospital and

san francisco general whose body was found in a stairwell yesterday. officials call the situation devastating, while a family spokesman accused the hospital in failing in its duty. brian flores is in san francisco where an emotional news conference just wrapped up 30 minutes ago. >> reporter: the family of 57- year-old lynne spalding said ever since she went missing after being admitted here at san francisco general hospital, incompetence been an emotion -- it's been an emotion roller coaster. a press conference end ed 30 minutes ago -- ended 30 minutes ago. hospital officials and sf jen. they say have enough information -- and sf general. they say they have enough information to determine it's lynne spalding. they notified her 23-year-old daughter that they were fairly certain it was lynn. the body was found in a rarely- used stairwell. she was admitted use of a bladder infection. but went missing 17 days ago. the hospital says this has never happened and are cooperating with the investigation. >> our hearts go out to the family and friends of lynne spalding. her disappearance has ended in tragedy. at this time we don't know what happened. we're here

san francisco general hospital said nothing like this happened in its history. >> our staff is devastated. >> the hospital today confirmed the body of lynne spaulding was found yesterday in a stair well. the hospital and the sheriff's department says it was searched but lynne spaulding's family is angry it took 17 days before her body was found by engineers doing an inspection. >> we want to know what the protocols are, were they followed. when was the first search. how extensive it was. >> we have an established protocol when it comes to patients who become missing and that protocol was followed. >> we asked san francisco general hospital whether surveillance cameras should have spotted her leaving her room or inside the stair well. >> i can say there are cameras throughout the campus. i don't have knowledge all are covered by cameras. >> reporter: fire exit alarms were working the day lynne spaulding went missing. for her family it leaves more questions than answers. >> lynne spaulding died alone. in a stair well. in one of the finest medical institutions in this country. >> reporter: b

san francisco general from 198502000. i have a friend who is my friend's son has been on dialysis for decades and i have a friend who has been a dialysis tech. dialysis belongs at san francisco general hospital. and it always has. and general has tried for years to get rid of dialysis. we have been through this issue again and again and again. and it really makes me angry that this issue keeps coming up. i am completely unimpressed by all of these arguments of what services need to be in the old san francisco general hospital. and are we supposed to believe that a heavily sedated psych patients are able to rescue themselves in the event of an earthquake, these arguments do not make sense. also, i have got to say that it is really cold to hear dph answer the question about whether there might be a loss of revenue by moving dialysis to laguna honda. and the response dph's response is well the affordable care act is going to force the patients to continue to take the other services, of san francisco, general. and so to hell with them, they are going to be forced to do it any way. the other issue is that private dialysis services are less safe than public dialysis. thank you. >> thank you. >> ne

it was a long day at san francisco general hospital for police, hospital staff and family and friends of lynn spaulding. the family is disappoint that day the coroner cannot offer close sure after a long day. the family does understand that accuracy is important in dealing with such things. >> sensitivity of the family and for others with missing family to release anything other than 100% identification. >> reporter: the body was found on the stairwell around 10:00 a.m. they say the stairwell is infrequently used. lynn's family said the ups and downs of the case have taken a toll. >> i don't use this word lightly, traumatized. it's difficult to get a phone call saying we think we found your mother's body. she's on an emotional roller coaster. >> reporter: we're expecting some sort of announcement from the coroner tomorrow. i'm jeff benefit. >>> police and the fbi are searching a home in northeast pet ta lou mafusz where two devices were found. >> reporter: an fbi evidence response team gethers remnants after debt nateing two pipe bombs. the pd and fbi agents found four devices, two be

also about whether the discovery of a woman's body found in a stairwell yesterday at san francisco general hospital is the big question and a lot of people are asking this. a woman disappeared more than two weeks ago. ktvu's brian flores is at san francisco general right now. >> reporter: this is an active investigation being lead by the -- led by the san francisco sheriff's department. not only security at the hospital, but they are also in charge of trying to figure out how this woman died. the coroner has yet to fully identify the body found yesterday along the stairwell here at san francisco general hospital. but sources close to the investigation tell ktvu that it is a 57-year-old -- that it is 57-year-old lynn spaulding. the woman's body was found in a rarely-used exterior stairwell. her body was taken by the coroner's office yesterday afternoon. more than two weeks ago, the hospital reported she meant missing after coming here to be treated for a bladder infection. her family says this has been an emotional roller coaster for the family. >> someone has died in a mysterious fashion here at sa

the body was found in an exterior stairwell at san francisco general hospital yesterday. e coroner has not confirmed the identity yet but it's likely to be the body of 57- year-old lynne spalding. she had vanished from a room in the hospital nearly three weeks earlier. >> the fact that she went missing from her bed at san francisco general on saturday, september 21, at 10:15 a.m., and now here on october 8 her body was found in that hospital in a stairwell, i just don't have words for how many questions that raises for san francisco general. >> spalding's family and friends have been searching for her since she disappeared last month. >>> san francisco law student is now in trouble with the law herself. she is accused of a hit-and-run and assault with a deadly weapon. megan zato and a friend left a club on lakeshore avenue in oakland saturday night. when they tried to stop a group of people spraying graffiti, the taggers began spraying her car. police say zato took off then returned to run down the vandals but instead, she hit an innocent bystander and then drove off. >> i

. >>> the medical examiner has an update on happened to the missing patient at san francisco general hospital. >> we're going to track fog tracker and look at the temperatures in your neighborhood. that's coming up next. >>> the death of a patient who was found in a stairwell at san francisco general hospital 17 days after reported missing was not the result of foul play. that's the words of a family spokesperson. san francisco mayor ed lee said he's ordering an independent review. before make the announcement he toured the floor where lynne spalding disappeared. he checked the alarm on one of the doors leading to the stairwell where the body was discovered. >> as soon as it opened there was not an alarm you could hear. it's a very busy floor. there is constant motion on that floor. you have to put all the facts in perspective of the daily operation. >> the mayor said he did not see any security cameras leading to the stairwell. >>> cooling off period between bart and bart unions. are we minutes away from a strike? we're live from oakland, next. look at them with that u-verse wireless receive

. >>> now to the death of a patient who went messing at san francisco general hospital, today -- missing at san francisco general hospital, the body of 57-year-old spalding had been found in a stairwell. they are angry it took 17 days for her body to be found by engineers doing a quarterly inspection of the stairway. >> we want to know what the protocols for a search are, are were they followed, when was the search, how expensive it was. >> the hospital's chief operating officer tell us the hospital established the protocol for missing patients and fire alarms were working. >> we spoke with one friend of 20 years who created the find lynn facebook page when spalding was reported missing. >> i stayed in her house last night. was so convinced she would come home that night, but nothing. >> spalding divorced with two adult children. the family is devastated by her loss. >>> there were tense moments at the oakland zoo as police served for a man -- searched for a gun. one bullet hit the store. police were concerned he might have jumped the fence to the zoo. the armed man was not located in th

a woman's body found this morning at san francisco general hospital. and our sources tell us it's a woman who disappeared from that exact same hospital more than two weeks ago. >> we have been following this story all day. david is live from san francisco general hospital. >> reporter: we're waiting confirmation from the hospital. but a source tasked with leading the investigation tells us it is the body of the woman who went missing from her hospital room 16 days ago. the discovery was made about 10:00 this morning in a rarely used exterior fire stairway. a hospital worker was called to engineers who said they initially spotted what they thought was a mannequin at the bottom of the stairwell. we a still picture of sheriff deputies guarding the taped-off crime scene of the stairwell on the fourth floor. hospital officials have not identified the victim or explained how the victim died. >> it is concerning that this body was found. we're distressed. we don't know what happened. it is our top priority to find that out. >> reporter: the discovery brought a

" >>> it has been weeks since anybody has seen a 57-year-old woman being treated at a san francisco general hospital. this morning, a bay area family now wondering if a body found at that hospital is the woman they have been looking for. her name is lynn spaulding. the medical examiner says it will be taking some time to identify the remains of spaulding's family, now fearing for the worst. "today in the bay's" christie smith live in san francisco where a lot of questions are still surrounding this entire case. most of them remain unanswered. >> good morning. >> reporter: we are hoping to hear from the hospital a little later this morning. there are so many questions this morning about how in the world something like this could happen. a woman's body found in a stairwell here at the hospital yesterday. more than two weeks after another woman was last seen here. there was a search by family and friends for her. the family of lynn spaulding has so many questions this morning about what's really gone on. they have been posting missing person's fliers all over the city of san francisco and trying to mak

san francisco general hospital says it's making it more difficult for patients to slip through the crack. 17 days after this woman went missing she was found in the stairwell. >> we're looking to make our hospital safer. >> aural stairwell doors will require an alarm triggering an alert to sheriff's deputies. >> the nursing staff will take a census of that unit. >> patients who leave without informing each other and patients who leave against medical advice. they will have more pressing priorities than treatment. >> they may need to care for a loved one, they may need to secure their housing which may be tenuous. >> developments show that sf general had a combined 423awols and amas last year. oakland showed 249 such incidents. its own numbers show 136awols and ama's this year. they've shown a steady increase in the problem that affects every hospital. >> is there anything you can do to keep people in the hospital if they don't want to be here. >> the bottom line is no. >> one week later it's unknown why lynn left her hospital room here but there are investigations as to why it took more

. >>> the mayor of san francisco will be holding a press conference to discuss the death of a woman at san francisco general hospitalfound dead this week more than two weeks after she was admitted to the hospital and disappeared from her room. mayor ed lee and the director of the department of health will hold a press conference. ktvu has a reporter there and we will have the latest at 5:00 p.m. >>> making san francisco streets safer for some may have made them more dangerous for others. ktvu channel 2 news learned making streets more pedestrian and bicycle friendly could be slowing down for identifications and police officers -- firefighters and police officers responding to emergency. we road along with teams in the city. >> making bike lanes and putting palm trees in the middle. taking out a lane of traffic. >> we don't want to pile on challenges. >> those leading the fight for pedestrians and bicyclists insist it is possible to keep streets safe and have room for first responders. >>> new information on a police stand off in santa rosa. a man believed to have barricaded himself inside his home was found hiding i

says it will take some time to identify the remains of a body found in the stairwell in san francisco general hospitalhe family of 57-year-old lynn spaulding. both sides expected to get back on the bargaining table. >> berkeley's janet yellen will be nominated as the next head of the federal reserve. scott mcgrew making history. >> it will happen at noon today. she will be the first woman nominated if the senate approves of it. she will be the first woman to head the fed. yellen, incredibly well qualified. she is currently vice chair of the fed, second in command to ben bernanke. coincidentally, we will get the latest minutes from the most recent fed meeting today. we will be looking closely for any comments made by yellen. she is expected to continue the fed's easy money policies. as the head of the fed, she is so powerful or will be so powerful, you could honestly say she will be the most powerful woman in the world or possibly the second most powerful. angela merkel is the chancellor of germany, the biggest economy in europe. she runs that. she technically has an army and yellen doesn't. she got he

sane. >> the search is on for a man who could be a key witness to a mysterious death at san francisco general hospitala mystery on the san francisco bay. not even eight of google search and find the answer. we will top stories we are following on this wednesday morning. as hundreds gather to say goodbye to a sonoma county

hospital bed 2 1/2 weeks before. a new report shows spalding may have been discovered earlier. >> lynne spalding checked into san francisco general for a routine infection and disappeared september 21, two daze after being admitted. the "san francisco chronicle" reports that a week before spalding was finally found dead in a locked hospital stairwell an orderly saw an unconscious woman in that spot and stepped over her. twice. her family is outraged about the new revelation. >> what this tells us is what didn't happen, what should have happened ... immediate care and assistant for someone who is laying on a stairwell. >> the orderly told a nurse what he had seen and according to a chronicle she contacted the sheriff which provides security. >> the big question: what did the sheriff department know and what did they do. >> she may have been confused by medication. the cause of death is unknown. the sheriff said they are investigating every aspect and how they responded. spalding's family want answers. >> san francisco general hospital said they are committed to finding out exactly what happened so it will never happen again. >> ne

the stair well yesterday. >> what happened at our hospital is horrible. >> reporter: san francisco general hospitalforce told ktvu channel 2 news yesterday was the body found was that of lynne spaulding, who disappeared from her hospital room september 21. >> we do not know how she came to be in the stair well yesterday. how long she had been t

but one thing is certain, someone died in a hospital stairwell and san francisco general has questions to answer. tonight the san francisco police department and the sheriff's department are investigating this case. the discovery of the body raises tough questions about how thoroughly the hospital was searched when spaulding disappeared. reporting live in san francisco, jean ellie, nbc bay area news. >>> negotiations and a rally over this evening but talks will resume between b.a.r.t and the union in the morning. we are 48 hours before the cooling off period ends. union leaders took a break to hold a rally in oakland. members say they have made three public attempts to come to a deal with nothing firm to show for it. >> whether there is a disturbance in service this week will come down to one issue and one issue only, whether the b.a.r.t board shows leadership and steps up to the plate. >> a strike could happen as early as friday morning if a deal is not reached in time. >>> now to changes in the weather. this is san jose where we are tracking potential rain showers and a chilly start

>> san francisco general hospital is under a microscope tonight this, isn't just a local story but international story. hospital in an embarrassing situation. perhaps that is why the hospital fwhot entertain questions from reporters leaving members of the family and friends exas per yaited. >> hard questions are hard to answer. >> lynn's friend had been hoping to get some answers when the sheriff's department and hospital confirmed the death today. >> this is shaken us to our core. our staff is devastated. >> we do not know how long she had been there. >> a kindergartener could have put together that statement. >> lynn spaulding entered san francisco general hospital for treatment of an infection september 19th. two days later despite checks she disappeared, family, and friends were angry because it took 10 days for the hospital to admit they vanished. >> lynn spaulding die add flown a stairwell in one of the finest medical institutions in this country. i hear the sheriff's department initiated a search. >> lynn could would be alive today if maybe someone checked the stairwell. >> today, hospita

>> san francisco general hospital is under a microscope tonight this, isn't just a local story but international story. hospital in an embarrassing situation. perhaps that is why the hospital fwhot entertain questions from reporters leaving members of the family and friends exas per yaited. >> hard questions are hard to answer. >> lynn's friend had been hoping to get some answers when the sheriff's department and hospital confirmed the death today. >> this is shaken us to our core. our staff is devastated. >> we do not know how long she had been there. >> a kindergartener could have put together that statement. >> lynn spaulding entered san francisco general hospital for treatment of an infection september 19th. two days later despite checks she disappeared, family, and friends were angry because it took 10 days for the hospital to admit they vanished. >> lynn spaulding die add flown a stairwell in one of the finest medical institutions in this country. i hear the sheriff's department initiated a search. >> lynn could would be alive today if maybe someone checked the stairwell. >> today, hospita

. >>> new information involving a patient found dead at san francisco general hospital. the attorney representing the woman's family is speaking out. ktvu's david stevenson reports on what the attorney says he uncovered in the case. >> the body of lynne spaulding was cremated today, two weeks after she was found dead. she was missing 17 days. ktvu channel 2 news confirmed there was a report of a person in the stair well in the days before the body was recovered. it is unclear whether sheriff's deputies checked the stair well during searches for the woman. >> i heard that some hospital staff had observed a body on the balcony prior to its being acknowledge as discovered. >> source received an e-mail tuesday indicating a hospital worker reported seeing a homeless person sleeping in the stair well where lynne spaulding was found. >> you don't go to a hospital and die of tragic circumstances all alone on a balcony. >> the hospital ceo said we feel terrible for lynne spaulding's family and friends as this part of the story must be painful. our hospital staff is committed to f

. >> san francisco police need help to fine the man who first reported seeing someone in the stairwell of san francisco general hospital four days before a missing woman's body was found there. the san francisco chronicle says there were four requested made for deputies to come to the building to look for lynne spalding. she was found 2 1/2 weeks later in a locked stairwell. a man told a supervisor that someone was in the stairwell but the man disappeared before he could be questioned. we will have more from our news reporter in a report from san francisco general in the next half hour. >> another demonstration will be held in santa rosa today to protest the fatal shooting of 13-year-old andy lopez by a sonoma county sheriff. more than 600 people attended t funeral in santa rosa. lopez is carrying a toy ak-47 when shot we near his home. the deputy has been identified as deputy erick gelhaus, a veteran officer. the message from last night resonated with lopez' friends. >> he was too young. he didn't deserve that. he still -- he is gone but he is here in spirit. >> two rallies were felt if santa rosa. though were huge. a

hospital is, in fact, a missing loved one. 57-year-old lynn spaulding was last seen at san francisco general hospital on september 21st. her family has been searching all over san francisco ever since then hoping to find her. yesterday, hospital staff found a woman's body in a fourth floor exterior stairwell. the medical examiner says it will now take time to try and identify the remains shall which leaves spaulding's loved ones facing the possibility she is dead and was on the hospital campus this entire time. >> i can't imagine many things more horrible for her friends and family than her body being there abandoned for 19 days. >> in the meantime, hospital officials say they will be releasing more information as it develops and right now, they are cooperating with the investigation >>> it is 4:33. the clock is ticking. we are now less than 48 hours away from another possible b.a.r.t. strike. in just a few hours, talks between b.a.r.t. and its unions will resume this morning. the 60-day cooling off period ends at midnight on friday. if no deal is reached, workers could walk off the job as early as f

. >> welcome back, we want to take you to san francisco this morning, san francisco general hospital, new information coming in about that case that seems to still be a mystery of exactly what happened, a body of a woman found in a locked stairwell, she was a patient at san francisco general, brian flores is out there this morning with the new information. we will check in with him in just a moment. >>> it is wednesday, october 30th, almost the end of the month. i am pam cook. >> good morning, i am dave clark, let's check weather, steve it is cold. >> it is indeed but will warm up, 34 graden, 38 windsor, 39 oxdental there and you can tweet me there, clear skies temperatures 36 napa airport, livermore 43, 41 not far away from there, so fairfield now down to 41 so it is cool, no frost advisories, still too much moisture, san francisco will go for 61, each day bumping the high up one degree, 24 now in tahoe, 39 ukia, i am sure there are 30s or 20s there but have not heard from anybody, this system falling apart and diving south, sunny today, fog, cool to mild on high temperatures, everyo

. >> we have an update on the body found in a san francisco general hospital. that is the san francisco general hospital. that happened in a stairwell. overnight a spokesperson saying the medical examiner confirming it is the body of lynne spalding. at this point there is no cause of death. more tests under way to try to figure that out. a hospital worker found the body more than two weeks after she disappeared from her hospital room. family members say spalding may have been confused because she was taking medication. >> the city of cof san carlos i looking into potentially dangerous pipe lines. the city manager says he wants to spend the money to hire a team of experts to investigate whether a pipe line through the city is dangerous. he plans to ask the council for approval at a meeting on monday. two days ago the cpuc ordered pg&e to keep the natural gas pipe line shut down after internal e-mails revealed concerns about corrosion and cracks. >> this morning we could learn more about the circumstances around the death of a man at a detention facility. joseph a

. >>> plus in the case of a missing woman found dead at san francisco general hospital, what we're now learning about spaldings's death. >>> and a brave little boy stands up to a thief. we have video of the incident and reaction. stay with us. female announcer: sleep train's sleep train's inventory clearance sale, ends sunday. save 10, 20, even 35% on a huge selection of simmons and sealy clearance mattresses. get two years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. even get free delivery! sleep train stacks the savings high to keep the prices low. but hurry, sleep train's inventory clearance sale ends sunday. guaranteed! ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ . >>> earlier this evening, michael yaki joined us, on the lack of movement from either side. >> what significance does the transit workers vote have on the contract? what impact? >> it's interesting because last fight the bart management basically kept on saying, we want this put to a vote. they're going to put it to a vote and we know how that's going to be. they're going to be reject it overwhelmingly. i don't q

in san francisco, outside san francisco general hospital wayne, abc 7 news. >> we will bring you theatest development on that story as it continues to mav forward. well bart and union are still trying to reach an agreement on new contract. about heather spoke with bart chief negotiator tom hock. he says he think there is plenty of time still in the next 2 day to work out remaining issues. negotiator work on wages pension medical benefits and key issues. and here's what they said tonight. >> we can fought again tee anything. we are working as we have from the very beginning very hard to get a deal that will be are the fade by our members and ensure. >> we could get it done in. i'm ready to good home. >> last night talk went until about now, 9:00 o'clock. as on the calendar just 2 day left before the 60 day court ordered cooling off period ends. >> other union members rally tonight to she solidarity with the 2 union currently in talk with bart. they rally in the plaza in oakland and march to the cal-trans building where the negotiations are ongoing. group says sense of urgency t toen t

as he was saying, it takes about ten to 15 minutes, san francisco general hospital, needs it, and the final dialysis, and ability. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker, please? >> i am a san francisco resident and also a staff person at the san francisco general renal center. and i just want to quickly address the issue of non-compliant facility that was discussed and none of our staff take the building safety lightly for both ourself and our patients and so we spend hours a day building the unit and we recognize that the building is old. and like many other buildings is not sound and our dialysis, and paishlts are questionablely deserve a new facility in the near future, but as of now, our unit undergos numerous inspections every year and was not cited for any violations during the hospital wide state safety inspection just last year and dph wants to move us out of building, 100 sooner than later because the dialysis, specific, life safety codes that came into effect in 2010. and they laxed the regulations in 2012 and according to an article in business, dialysis, facil

crime tape was up at san francisco general hospital. where a woman's body was been found in a stairwell. the discovery comes more than two weeks, after 57- year old lynn spalding was reported missing from the same hospital. so far, police have not confirmed any connection. hospital officals explain what happened. a hospital employee who saw the body says it was decoposing and appeared as if it had been there for sometime. san francisco police are looking into how the body got there. even though the body has not been identified.family and friemds of lynn spaulding are speaking out. they say this is not the outcome they were hoping for. while the body has not been identified. family and friends of lynn spaulding. the woman who went missing from the same hospital. are speaking out. covered in a white blanket, the coroner's office wheeled out the body found in the stairwell at sf general. even with no official confirmation it is missing 57 year old lynne spaulding her friends tell kron 4 news this is not the outcome they were hoping for. sot

san francisco that happened a couple of hours ago. here is video just in to kron 4. a blue vehicles struck multiple parked vehicles in the area. the fuel driver was transported to san francisco general hospitaln unknown injuries. the collision is still under investigation. >> it looks like this was going at a high rate of speed. all of these cars were just parked on the side of the road and see slam dance all these cars. >> now let's turn to the weather. we have the friday it forecast. >> we are waking up to patchy calls and the temperatures are on the cooler side. napa is at 43 degrees. we have areas of low clouds primarily in the north. daly city is in the upper 40's. not only are we dealing with chilly temperatures but we are all so seeing fall the. you will notice on future cast 4 that we will still have pretty clear conditions. 60 degrees will be everywhere else. as we move into the afternoon it will get a gradually warmer. it will be 70's out to in livermore valley. there will be a lot of people going out for tonight and you should dress appropriately. you can expect partly cloudy conditions but warmer weather is on the way. i will have more details coming up. let's focus on the aftern

san francisco. this is san francisco general hospital. investigation goes on into the death of a hospital patient whose body was found in a stairwell earlier this month, almost two weeks after she went missing. the person the hospital is searching for right now that may help piece together what happened there. we'll get you a live rosht in a couple of -- report in a couple of minutes. it's october 30th. i'm dave clark. let's check weather and traffic. >>> steve, a chilly morning. >> 30s and pockets of fog. kind of dance congress its way around -- dancing its way around. chloe said in lake county, it's foggy. a little bit of on the coast -- a little bit on the coast. cold, mostly clear. mostly sunny later on today. a little bit warmer. 30s, 40s to right at 50. no doubt about it cold. some of that patchy fog will hold back a few of these high temperatures. 39 ukiah, 22 up in tahoe. 33 in reno. things are much better in the sierra nevada. a few high clouds might clip us. a cold morning gives way to sunshine. mostly sunny. a slight warmup. ag

> police need help to fine the man who first recorded see someone in the stairwell of san francisco general hospital before a missing woman's body was found. the "san francisco chronicle" reports the hospital made four requests to the sheriff to go to the hospital for lynne spalding would vanished from her room september 21. a building engineer found her october 8 while inspecting a locked stairwell. investigators say four days earlier a man told someone that there was a body in the stairwell. that person has disappeared. we will have more from amy hollyfield in a report from san francisco general next half hour. >> another demonstration will be held in santa rosa to protest the fatal shooting of 13-year-old andy lopez. 600 people attended the funeral last night at resurrection church. he was carrying a toy ak-47 when shot last week near his home. the deputy has been identified as erick gelhaus, a veteran officer with the department. the message from the funeral resonated with lopez' friends. >> he was too young. he didn't deserve that. he still -- he is here in spirit. >> two rallies were held in s

san francisco sheriff's department. four days before when spalding was found dead. right now it's still unclear if that man was an employee at either hospital. we did reach out to a spokesperson for san francisco generalshe says she is happy there is a wider net being tested on the investigation and she and her staff are helping any way possible. now that when this is described as an asian male around 34 years old about 5 ft. 8 in. tall. he had medium build and might have been wearing a blue shirt with a tie. for why that when this has not come forward to help this investigation while that is anyone's guess. reporting and san francisco, scott rates, kron 4 news. >>james: the victim who died in a shooting saturday evening has been identified. 19 year old jose rodriguez was shot in a drive-by shooting that also injured seven others. four of those victims remain in the hospital in critical but stable condition. the victims were passengers in four different cares headed to vallejo for a party. one of the cars got a flat tire, and while they were pulled over to change it, a white s-u-v with tinted windows opened fire on the group. police have not determined a motive for the shooting and have not located an

the victim was stabbed and taken to san francisco general hospital in serious condition. >> new details tonight concerning the safety of a gas pipeline in san carlos. abc7 news has learned the gas line will be shutdown as early as tomorrow. in a statement, pg&e says the pipeline in question line 147 is, quote, completely safe. e-mails from a utility employee to san carlos officials question the integrity of the pipeline that was installed in 1929. pg&e is following an order to shutdown the line. san carlos residents say it is about time. >> that's serious. come on, they should have shutdown a longtime ago so they knew better. so what is san carlos going to beat san bruno next? come on, guys, get it together. >> city officials activated a -- an emergency center. >> a big night in oakland where the a's fans were amped up for the second game of the american league division series. with tonight's win the series is tied one game apiece. >> passengers on bart broke into a spontaneous cheer for the a's. fans stopped by to remember the playoff year. and then they went into the stands to cheer f

for a man that first reported seeing the body of a missing pash glunt a stairwell at san francisco general hospital. after telling a supervisor, that man disappeared. "today in the bay's" christie smith live at san francisco general with an update on this ongoing and kind of strange investigation. good morning, kristy. >> reporter: good morning, jon. how could a man report seeing someone in a stairwell but the body wasn't found until four days after that report in the very same spot. the body of 57-year-old lynn spaulding was discovered in a locked stairwell at sf general hospital on october 8th. at 7:00 in the morning on october 4th, the man told the hospital supervisor that he saw someone laying there. the supervisor looked but didn't see anyone. spaulding disappeared on september 21st, two days after being admitted for a bladder infection. the hospital says that sheriff's deputies were asked to look for her four times. exactly what that entailed is unclear. now, the question, of course, is, who is this man. he disappeared before he could be questioned. he is described as an asian man in his 30th

we have been looking for her since then. >> reporter: this morning, san francisco general hospital officials say the body of a woman was found in an exterior stairwell. an area not normally used by visitors or hospital staff. the identity of that person is unknown. >> it took ten days for san francisco general to issue a statement about the fact that lynn spaulding had gone missing, and i think as to why, that is a good question. i think also a good question for sf general is, are there videocameras covering every entrance and exit including stairwells? >> reporter: well, that is saying a lot, but we do not know if this hospital has surveillance cameras inside the hospital or outside the hospital. in fact, hospital officials are not confirming anything at this point. we do know that spaulding worked in the service industry and that she was in between jobs. it's also important to note that the body that was taken away about an hour ago has not been identified. we'll have an update on this story coming up at 11:00. reporting live in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, cheryl. >>> h

. >> san francisco sheriff's department along with the san francisco general hospital are looking forers this morning as they investigate the death of 57 year-old lynne spa lding. and those at san francisco general made it official, and that the pace and that was missing for more than two weeks is the woman that was found inside the stairwell earlier this week. no. friends and her family are searching for answers. kron4 mike pelton is live at the hospital with more. >> late last night a family po spokesperson posted something on facebook and stated that she was the body that was found. the discovery came after she vanished from her hospital bed more than two weeks ago. she was here receiving treatment for an infection. they issued a joint statement stating that they have great concern and that they do not know just yet what happened. >> her friends are just devastated. >> you go to the hospital to be taken care of and to be watched. people can just easily disappear. it just as i make any sense. i know they do not happen very often but i am sure the basic have something in place. >> th

this morning, though. >>> we could find out today if the body found in a stairwell at san francisco general hospitals that of a patient who went missing last month. katie marzullo live in the newsroom. >> we talked with san francisco general this morning. the spokeswoman tells us the hospital will make an official announcement sometime today. but a reliable source has already told abc 7 news the body is that of 57-year-old lynne spalding. here you see a picture taken inside sf general. a police officer and crime scene tape blocking the stairwell where a hospital worker found the body yesterday. actually, in an exterior stairwell on the fourth floor. now, lynne had checked into the hospital with just an infection last month. she was put on medication that made her disoriented. two days later, she disappeared from her room. that was more than two weeks ago. family and friends created a facebook page. they've been searching, of course, tirelessly for her. but now it's possible she never left the hospital. >> if this body is lynne spalding's, as i've said repeatedly today, i think there are a lot of que

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not satisfied. >> the one glaring omission is, how a woman was missing for 17 days in san francisco general hospital. >> reporter: family and friends want more information about the hospital's search protocols and how the search unfolded. they also don't know how she died. family members fear medication caused st. pauling to feel confused and disoriented. >> we are hear for answers and that statement just now provided very little other than to know what we all knew last night. >> reporter: in san francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. >> now, the sheriff's department says it can't release more information because it is an open investigation. but officials did say they are reviewing their own alarm and search procedures. >>> well, new signs bart workers may be spoiling for a strike. the 60-day cooling-off period ends at midnight tomorrow and that means workers could go on strike just before the friday morning commute. kpix 5's phil matier on the rank-and-file workers who seem to be ready to walk out and right now. phil? >> reporter: that's right. we have a cooling-off period but if last night is any indicati

but what happened to he >>> it has been confirmed the body found in a stairwell in san francisco general hospital was that of a missing patient there. but what happened to her, that's still very much a mystery. 57-year-old lynne spalding disappeared on hospital grounds nearly three weeks ago. an engineer found her body tuesday during a quarterly inspection of a stairway. hospital officials insist they followed protocol once they noticed spalding had been missing. >> when she was not found, hospital staff notified the family and the sheriff's department on site. the sheriff searched the campus and did not find her. >> the sheriff's department will conduct an investigation now. hospital administrators say they will review the hospital's alarm and search procedures, as well. >>> san francisco police have no suspects in their latest homicide. a man was shot multiple times at about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. he died on the corner of mission and brazil in the excelsior district next to what looked like a bag of groceries he was carrying. police say a man was seen running from the area. the investigation

san francisco. >>> the one glaring omission is how a woman was missing for 17 days in san francisco general hospital. >> still a mystery. what happened to lynne spalding? and how did this woman die? now we're hearing from the hospital. >> if you have a tomb, you can go ahead and push that through like that and the magazine drops. >> it's a law to close a loophole on semiautomatic weapons in california. how gun supporters say they can shoot at both holes. >> the weather forecast tonight if you are heading out, a clear fairly mild evening in the bay area. a little bit of a warming trend on track. we'll have the forecast for you after a break. >> still no deal on a bart contract. no promise there won't be a strike. tensions surrounding talks, shows some cracks in the union ranks. the coroner confirms it's 5 year old lynne >>> new details tonight about the body found in a stairwell at san francisco general hospital. the coroner is confirming it is 57-year-old lynne spalding, who went missing nearly 3 weeks ago. kpix 5's ryan takeo says the answers offered today are not enough for spalding's friends. >>

general. says the hospital is clarifying what happened that day. speaking on behalf of lynne spalding's family. just hours after spalding's body was creamated. david perry says san francisco general hospital tells him that four days before saplding's body was discovered in a stairwell. a man wearing some sort of badge notified at least one senior hospital staff member that he had just coss across a body. sot- david perry/spokesperson, spalding family the hospital did not return kron four's calls or messages for this report. perry says a hospital official tells him that it's still unclear as to who the man is who initially came across spalding's body, or if he works for general hospital. why it took four more days after the initial discovery for spalding's body to turn up is also still a mystery. seeing that the sheriff's department says it did conduct multiple searches on hospital grounds for spalding. in san francisco, philippe djegal, kron four news. horsemen >>erica: traffic maps show all was well for the northbound direction of a 80 interstate. your cmos would bring on the road when sensors. >>james: that meeting was not the >>: department of health and human services

> with those eight words, san francisco mayor placed full clout, and power of the office into finding out what led to disappearance, and death of san francisco general hospital patient lynn spaulding. >> this should not have happened. we all agree we want to prevent this from happening again. >> in two and a half weeks the 57-year-old went from being a patient under treatment to a missing person when she disappeared from her room to a mystery after the hospital staff found her body in an outside stairwell 17 days later. today, the mayor announced an investigation to find out what happened. >> i told the family i wish to have answers just as they do. >> one department supposedly deputy searched for the missing woman but missed her. >> if a search is done for a woman and 17 days later her body was found that is not an adequate search. i don't know how standards fell down. but these are not the standards to which a fine institution like san francisco general should expect it's security detail to live up to. >> with understanding they are the police of the site them have jurisdiction on the grounds. that is as much as i can say about that. and i'm not into point

san francisco general is the city's main public hospital, with more than 590 patient beds. kron 4's charles clifford has put together a virtual tour of the hospital. and shows us where spaudling's body was found. >> reporter:this is an overhead google earth view of san francisco just to the west of highway 101.. east of petero avenue.. this is 23rd avenue. >> reporter:the emergency department is here on the south side of the building..the entrance is on the first floor. >> reporter:lynne spaulding was admitted to the hospital on sept 19th and according to her family, she was staying in a room on the fifth floor of the building.. which is the women's health center... her bed was apparently just steps away from the nursing station. >> reporter:now, the hospital says she was found on tuesday in an exterior stairwell on the fourth floor. we don't know exactly where but we believe she was found here on the north side of building 5. investigators were seen working in this area. >> reporter:this is video from inside the hospital on tuesday, it was taken on the fourth floor and you

>>darya: san francisco law enforcement san francisco general hospital officials.veryone is looking for answers this morning as they investigate the death of 57 year-old leonard spalding whose body was found and a rarely used stairwell and the hospital to rid her friends and family are waiting for answers as well. kron4's mike pelton is live at san francisco general hospital with the up played is that we do >>: how did she get there and why did it take more than two weeks to find her. those are two of the many questions left by hospital officials today one day after day identify the dead woman's body as that of 57 year-old patient lynn spaulding. she was found dead in a rarely used exteriors there will here at the hospital on tuesday morning by an employee. the discovery came after spaulding and vanished from her hospital bed more than two weeks ago when she was receiving treatment for eight and affection for it yet today hospital officials and shares indicated they don't yet know what happened and now spaulding friends are coming forward devastated by her loss. >>

exterior stair well on the hospital campus." >> pam: now at 8-- >> pam: crime tape up at san francisco general hospital. where a woman's body has been found. than two weeks after 57- year old lynn spalding was reported missing from the same hospital. confirmed any connection. kron4's j-r stone is live at s-f general where the body still has not been identified. >> pam: j-r what's the latest from the scene tonight? >> reporter: also within the last 10 minutes at least four cargoes of detectives have left this hospital scene. i do want to go to the news video because you busy here at a hospital in the hallway all on the fourth floor where this all happened yet to see the area roped off with yellow tape a woman's body was actually found in the exterior stairwell outside of this hallway. still a number of questions unanswered. an employee work there did tell me that it did look like men spalding but more details would not be coming tonight. and the cause of death are all up in the air. i can tell you all day long detectives have been coming in and out of the hospital, not saying much. that was not happen t

after the break. >> and coming up new details about the woman who was found dead inside san francisco general hospitalsaying. >> why residents @ san te'o par are upset over security appeared >> in it is a story you always see on kron4. >> plus white woman is suing police after she was arrested on suspicion [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. this week, load up on your favorite coke products. 12 packs are $2.77 each. tide is $16.99 for 150 ounces. that's under 20 cents a load. and oikos greek yogurt is just a buck. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >> we have new details and the death of a patient found in a stairwell at san francisco general hospital. >> the city's medical examiner says while the cause of lynn spaldings death is still under investigation. >> however, all officials i can say it appears she was dead for many days before remains were discovered. >> and a family spokesperson citing sources close to