david stevenson continues our team coverage. he's live in san francisco, where right now, some are taking to the streets in protest in hopes of highlighting the bigger issue at hand. >> reporter: well, there are about 70 protesters in the street behind me. they are rallying outside nancy pelosi's san francisco office. they got there at about 4:00. the crowd includes about a dozen priests are about to block rush hour traffic behind me here on 7th street. they tell us they are willing to be arrested if it helps highlight what they sees the national need for immigration reform. immigrants rights activists say it's not enough that a federal judge locked -- blocked key parts of the law. it doesn't change anything in terms of the situation and in terms of the system being broken. i don't want folks to lose that. >> reporter: judge bolton said federal law trusts the state on immigration and says arizona can't require immigrants to carry papers at all times while requiring police to check residents' inmigration status while enforcing ot

david stevenson is in san francisco now with a live report. david? >> reporter: the dance cafe behind me voluntarily shut down a week ago after a fatal shooting in the parking lot there outside. it's set to reopen as soon as tomorrow even as city leaders have tentatively approved making it easier to close troubled nightclubs permanently. >> the string of violence includes a shooting outside of jelly's, the june shooting of a police officer outside this mission district club and a fatal shooting outside swade nightclub. >> you will get 2,000, 3,000 people more of people released into the street of 2:00 a.m., filled with alcohol and looking to keep the good time going. >> reporter: as residents called for action, the committee took up whether to give the city's entertainment commission the power to permanently revoke the permits of troublesome clubs. >> we're not just being react in. we're trying to be proactive. >> reporter: security called for plans, i.d. card readers a the rear and front of the club. law enforcement officers say monitoring clubs com

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david stevenson reports. >> reporter: george gascon says he's looking to bring a new investigation processhat he implemented in arizona. >> we want the officer to go in there and feel great about the process. >> reporter: the president of the city's police officers association says the program could backfire. >> to be like san francisco where the public defenders and the defense attorneys are very sophisticated and very smart. i think it does a tremendous potential for losing some cases because of chain of cushionty. >> reporter: hammer says certain cases should be off limit to civilian investigators. >> when you talk about residential burglary, which is one of the ideas. those can be rather sophisticated investigations. i would rather see a trained investigator looking for subtle crews that a reasonably new person would not pick up. >> we're talking about training people, providing the right level of supervision. >> reporter: mesa arizona civilian investigators seen in this photo don't carry badges or guns. police there say they've cut response time and have helped resolve a number of cas

david stevenson reports. >> reporter: george gascon says he's looking to bring a new investigation processat he implemented in arizona. >> we want the officer to go in there and feel great about the process. >> reporter: the president of the city's police officers association says the program could backfire. >> to be like san francisco where the public defenders and the defense attorneys are very sophisticated and very smart. i think it does a tremendous potential for losing some cases because of chain of cushionty. >> reporter: hammer says certain cases should be off limit to civilian investigators. >> when you talk about residential burglary, which is one of the ideas. those can be rather sophisticated investigations. i would rather see a trained investigator looking for subtle crews that a reasonably new person would not pick up. >> we're talking about training people, providing the right level of supervision. >> reporter: mesa arizona civilian investigators seen in this photo don't carry badges or guns. police there say they've cut response time and have helped resolve a number of case

reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu. >>> it's time to scale back clean up efforts on the gulf but also stressed his company is committed to helping people in the region get their livelihoods back. bob dudley met today with former fema chief along with state leaders in biloxi, mississippi. >> the commitment by bp to restore the gulf coast, make sure that the businesses and the individuals who have been affected by this bill. the longer term impacts of the oil and marshes and the beaches are remediated. >> reporter: dudley is said to take over for tony hayward in october. meantime the static kill maneuver designed to permenantly flood that wall may be delayed until tuesday. >>> the emergency room at children's hospital oakland is back to normal tonight after a frightening morning. police say an armed man entered the er and took a staff member hostage. and that prompted city -- rather hospital officials to review their safety procedures. kraig debro had our report. >> reporter: i gave up, i gave up, and don't shoot me is the only thing we could hear catrell say. polic

reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the san mateo couple willow go on trial after all. because of a last minute change in pleas. michael guitierrez pleaded no contest. the couples trial was expected to begin today. gutierrez faces eight years in prison when they are convicted sometime in the fall. >>> more information on the storm in the gulf and the effects it's taking on the efforts to clean up the oil. >>> oil clean up crews are getting out of the gulf as tropical storm bonnie bears down on the region. presenting the cadillac "summer's best" sales event. a fantastic opportunity to get a great offer on a new cadillac cts sport sedan... ..the most acclaimed vehicle in its class and a car and driver 10 best third year in a row. summer brings out the best in all of us, so now's the perfect time to get behind the wheel of a brand new cadillac. now during cadillac's summer's best sales event... get zero percent apr financing for 72 months or this attractive lease offer on a cts sport sedan. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton resided in a ceremo

reporting live, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> tomorrow, the b.a.r.t. will consider extending train service from the coliseum station to the oakland international airport. the board will discuss a new funding plan for the $480 million project, one that relies op a mix of local, state and federal money. back in february, the federal government withdrew $70 million in stimulus funds saying the plan didn't consider the needs of low income and minority riders. b.a.r.t. addressed the problem by soliciting community feedback at public meetings. b.a.r.t. directors are expected to vote to cut fares by 3% for about four months because of an unexpected budget surplus, but a b.a.r.t. survey found for out of five riders opposed the idea. >>> well, new amateur video is raising new questions about reactions of san francisco police. now, the tape appears to show officers pushing a female suspect onto the pavement, but as kraig debro reports, the department says thorough doesn't tell -- says that video doesn't tell the whole story. >> reporter: in this latest videotape

david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> a new study finds san francisco's controversial compost is safe for residents to use. the city's public utilities commission released the results of the $25 study. it found the bio solids compost offered by the city is not toxic and meets state and federal safety standards. officials say the compost is the safest product sold in garden supplies stores. some critics have claimed the free compost is polluted with toxins. >> ipod users are suing apple claiming the new ipad gets overheated and it shuts itself off after remain not guilty direct sunlight too long and therefore is useless as an ebook reeder. it charges apple with fraud and negligent misrepresentation and deceptive advertising practices. the plaintiffs are asking for an injunction against apple's "false promises" and for punitive damages. >>> a security consultant has collected as details on 100 million facebook users and published the information online. it contains each user's facebook address and id. he published the date too high light privacy with facebook but facebook says the

david stevenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> a new study finds san francisco's controversial compost isafe for residents to use. the city's public utilities commission released the results of the $25 study. it found the bio solids compost offered by the city is not toxic and meets state and federal safety standards. officials say the compost is the safest product sold in garden supplies stores. some critics have claimed the free compost is polluted with toxins. >> ipod users are suing apple claiming the new ipad gets overheated and it shuts itself off after remain not guilty direct sunlight too long and therefore is useless as an ebook reeder. it charges apple with fraud and negligent misrepresentation and deceptive advertising practices. the plaintiffs are asking for an injunction against apple's "false promises" and for punitive damages. >>> a security consultant has collected as details on 100 million facebook users and published the information online. it contains each user's facebook address and id. he published the date too high light privacy with facebook but facebook says the in

david stevenson. >>> the death toll from a greyhound bus accident now stands at six. with at least 21 others injured, several critically. it happened this morning on highway 99 near downtown fresno. the bus was headed from los angeles to sacramento with 32 people on board. the bus hit an overturned suv that was blocking two lanes of the freeway. >> one of the gentlemen helped me off the bus, i'm just wondering, am i going to be okay. am i going to pass out, am i getting ready to die or what? >> i crawled out of the side. there's a hole on the side of it. i crawled out the side and helped people. there was a lady in the chair next to the door, i got her out. >> reporter: now these are pictures of three of the six victims. bus driver james charles hue wit and vanessa gonzalez and stephanie cordoba. there's no word on what caused that bus to turn over. >>> fewer bus drivers called in sick today but passengers can still expect delays amidst the ongoing labor battle. the ac transit and drivers are arguing over the workers holding a sick out. although the union says the not

david stevenson is live in the city with the report. >> reporter: there are about 200 nail salons inan francisco and this proposed new ordnance is aimed at making it safer for those who work inside. >> i just love your nails. >> reporter: it's considered a luxury by some, but now manicures are being called dangerous. these chemicals are in nail polishes and nail polish remover. >> after a few years, i was diagnosed with breast cancer and then you know i had asthma too. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor david chu introduced an ordnance suggesting that salons swap nail polish and removers with similar items that don't have those chemicals. environmental scientists say it's a good first step but with the nail polish companies, it's still a secret what's inside these chemicals. environment groups this afternoon gave out free manicures at a cosmetology school. >>> a sixth california child has now died this year from whopping cough prompting health officials to increase their campaign. the county has 62 cases so far this year. but marin county where some parents are reluctant to vaccin

david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >> the ruling does not throw out arizona's controversial immigration law, rather it halts several key parts from taking effect until the courts weigh in on the issue. the judge blocked three important sections of the law -- the requirement that police check a person's immigration  status while enforcing other laws, also requiring immigrants to carry their papers at all time. >> today a key piece of the new span of the bay bridge was put into place. construction crews carefully lifted and secured the first section of what will be the bridge's significant tower. tom vacar is live on treasure island. >> reporter: indeed we're building a badly-needed bridge. but in fact we're leaving a legacy. three others will stand beside this to form the base and four will be placed on top to complete the 520-foot tall tower structure. participants at the milestone ceremony know we're building is something way more than a bridge. >> this is a world-class structure. there's nothing like it in the united states. one could argue there's no tower like this anywhere in the

it is solid backup from alvarado solidly down to stevenson scene of a multi vehicle accident one of the vehicles blocking the middle lane. big delays for the nimitz freeway that will affect your ride to the done border bridge as well. the bay bridge we found out there is a slow-moving vehicle on the incline it has a flat tire. the smart thing to do is get off this ban and that's with this vehicle is doing but it is moving slowly in the left- hand lane towards the island still metering lights were slowed for the first time and sometimes a bit of a back up at the bay bridge westbound. thankfully lanes will be clear shortly. let's get a check on whether. >> beautiful shot of mt. tam peeking out around the clouds clouds are the store this morning like they've been many morning in the past week fog as well it will burn off slowly today san rafael 52 it will warm up to 69 by noon talk about at 72 and then click back down to 63 by 8:00 p.m. widespread fog through the bay area taking a look at the future cast bay area stockton with bob at this point that continues to be the story over the next

ktvu's david stevenson has our report. >> reporter: hayes valley form opened in january on what oncemped to san san francisco demolished california's freeway. there were plans to add additional colonies. but police are now investigatinging the crime. karen peterose this morning conducted an autopsy on her beehives. swing entered the farm and sprayed pesticides to. >> i know there's only one person that has the mentioned san joe se innocence kept e the president wait for them -- -- sales proceeds were said to help fund the project. farm managers are talking now about guarding new colonies with motion detectors. >> now we take care of the contaminated commitment. we take it and reside here and beside, where will he take many more hives. about 100 people in the city keep bee come knees in their backyard. and say the culprit could be charged with a felony. in san tpraep ciscoe, david steventon ktvuj today seeking a ban on a pesticide. the chemical is brought the state. the lawsuit is a result of a 2007 petition in which the natural resources detpeps counsel sill and pesticide. >>> vector

northbound side of 880 at stevenson boulevard. the opposite side of the freeway, the last time i told you. that vicinity was still watching for any lanes to be closed. right now we hear there are a couple of reports of that and avoid confirmation. it doesn't sound like it's a huge issue. we don't see any slowing there. 680 to the right, slowing coming out of the grade. look at this light volume of traffic. we'll let you know but it sounds like a construction vehicles or perhaps the construction itself. and 880 further north we're looking at a light volume of traffic coming past the coliseum. no as in town so no game time traffic. light for the nimitz freeway heavy for a lot of other people. back to you guys. >> no kidding. exactly. thick around there. thank you. >>> meantime, it is friday, the weekend is here. people want to know about the forecast. and it looks like it's still going to be a little hot, rob. >> we had a sneak preview of the weekend forecast yesterday. with you saw the temperatures climbing into the 90s inland. thi

stevenson is here, one of the first people when i served as co-chair on the counsel council in israel, he was one of my biggest mentors when we went traveling to washington, d.c., and san juan, puerto rico. he really mentored me. when i was writing my bio i thought about him in the beginning that i would get really real about it. other than the education and things that you hear about all the time. the one thing with the work that we do, i am so proud of all of that you i want to talk about while i'm here, a lot of the people -- i don't know all the people that nominated me but i know a lot of the people that nominated me were elders and they were from the lgbt spirit community. and the one thing i remember growing up was home phobia, internalized racism, external racism and the feeling of not being a part of or not being as good as other people and when i got married and i had ny children i moved to the state of georgia which is where my ancestors came from and before the civil rights law was passed in 1968 everything was secretary gated. i had to take my little girl to the doctor's

ktvu's david stevenson has our report. >> reporter: hayes valley form opened in january on what oncee ramped to san san francisco demolished california's freeway. there were plans to add additional colonies. but police are now investigatinging the crime. karen peterose this morning conducted an autopsy on her beehives. swing entered the farm and sprayed pesticides to. >> i know there's only one person that has the mentioned san joe se innocence kept e the president wait for them -- -- sales proceeds were said to help fund the project. farm managers are talking now about guarding new colonies with motion detectors. >> now we take care of the contaminated commitment. we take it and reside here and beside, where will he take many more hives. about 100 people in the city keep bee come knees in their backyard. and say the culprit could be charged with a felony. in san tpraep ciscoe, david steventon ktvuj today seeking a ban on a pesticide. the chemical is brought the state. the lawsuit is a result of a 2007 petition in which the natural resources detpeps counsel sill and pesticide. >>> ve

david stevenson is live in the city tonight with our report. frank, we just spoke with chief gascon and talked to him about the plan to hire civilian investigators to collect, fingerprints, dna and take police reports. the goal is to free up officers to focus on more serious crimes. >> we want people to go in there and make the victim feel good about the process. >> reporter: chief gascon said he's looking to bring to the city a ram he pioneered in mesa, arizona, six years ago about hiring civilians to help. >> a city like san francisco where the public defenders and the defense attorneys are very sophisticated and smart, i think there's a potential for losing cases because of chain of custodies. >> reporter: jim hammer says some people should not work some cases. >> residential burglaries, those are serious cases and it could qualify as a third strike for some. >> reporter: police say they have cut response time and have helped resolve a number of cases since the program began a year ago. >> in the last year -- out of the cases we had, there w

david stevenson is live in san francisco with more. >> reporter: critics say there should be more to be done to make san francisco safer. >> the mayor hired me with a clearer vision. that vision is to make san francisco the safest city in the country. >> reporter: chief gascon today delivered a message. violent crime dropped

reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson. >> bicyclists will soon notice changes in the goldenate bridge. crews will begin painting the bridge's main cable. bicyclists will be asked to walk their bikes through the scaffolding area until that project is done. then in november, a four month long seismic retrofit will begin. at that time, bicyclists will not be allowed on the west walk way, instead they will be die diverted to the east walkway. >>> bp announced today it has selected a man from mississippi to become ceo. as many gulf coast residents welcome the change but are waiting to see results. >> reporter: it was just a few weeks ago that crews were cleaning up tar balls along florida's pensacola beach. this imagine is more important, gulf coast residents say than today's news of a new ceo. >> it's going to take many many years for them to repolish their imagine. because i think that their imagine is shot here in this country and probably around the world. >> reporter: rebuilding trust in the u.s. is just one battle robert dudley faces. the 54-year-old american who grew up in

do you ever think of just -- as adelaide stevenson once said, go out on the beach, eat some strawberries? >> i think that -- if you stop doing what you love, i think it is the first step towards the grave. i think that it is the combination of the work and play that keeps you alive, keeps you vital, keeps you connected. >> larry: health deteriorates if you permanently retire? >> i think so. >> larry: what do you want your legacy to be? hugh hefner, businessman, civil rights activist, philanthropist? >> somebody who played a valuable part in the social sexual changes in my time. i'm pretty secure in that. >> larry: do you still read every page of every issue? >> no, no. i used to in the very beginning. the magazine -- the major headquarters are in chicago. what i still do is pick the covers, pick the playmates, pick the pictorials, oversee the total package and see that it's together and making sense. >> larry: what's christy doing now? she left the magazine? >> she left the magazine but certainly isn't retired. she keeps showing up on cnn and cnbc and she's -- >> larry: what does she do?

what will affect it is at stevenson boulevard. a sig-alert has been issued. it's blocking two lanes. things slow coming out of san leandro because of an earlier sig-alert there continuing down through fremont and toward auto mall parkway and durham. livermore a little slow there. our live shot down through the south bay. san jose, all directions moving slowly. but there's that haze in the air. and that will be an issue closer to the coast as far as visibility. >> temperatures a good 5 to 10 degrees higher than average. 60s, 70s and 80s. just look at that. we usually have nice warm temperatures. live over sunol. temperatures in the 50s. we'll get to 60. san francisco, 76 livermore. 77 san jose. 73 in napa. brent and laur awe'll have more of that cool condition tomorrow. >>> now to one of those youtube finds that makes your day. one little girl inspired thousands of people. check out her morning pep talk. >> my whole house is great. i can do anything good. i like my school. i like anything. i like my dad. i like my cousin. i like my aunt. i like my addison. i l

traffic is barked up all the way tout 0 stevenson, growing worse at the caldecott tunnel. are driving to 880 northbound this moving, that traffic will be thicking up approaching high street. at 8:57. there's northbound. let's go to mark. >>> hi there, sal. we two have a big dose of fog. today temperature the range from the upper 50s coast lied -- coast side. warmest locations inland. skies becoming partly sunny this afternoon. a little bit cooler for your wednesday. thursday and friday. >> a little bit warmer. a lot of "little bits" in the forecast. >> that will do it for us. thanks for watching, everyone. >> bye now.

but 880 heading so the south bay, an accident -- to the south bay, an accident on stevenson. traffic has been moved out of the lanes but traffic is still pretty slow and southbound 880 at hayward, there is another crash there. 880 is not in good shape. >>> 7:25. here's mark. >> good morning of we're starting off with the this morning. this has all of the numbers from yesterday. yesterday one of the coolest days of the week. today we'll begin to change things up a little bit. you can see up toward the oakland area. right now we do have mostly cloudy skies. in fact, pretty much the same observation across the entire region. as far as the spot forecast toward mountain view, we had the clouds at least in the short term. as we head into the afternoon by 12:00, partly cloudy. a little bit warmer for today. for this morning, mostly cloudy and cool, 53 to 58. you can see the forecast model by 3:00 pulls out closer to the -- pulls out the fog bank closer to the coastline. 59 to 86 degrees later on today. these numbers, up a few degrees over yesterday's highs, especially out towards fa

the slowing toward stevenson and auto mall parkway. slow out of newark.hat's not much better as you are heading towards the san mateo bridge. southbound side very slow. westbound okay. eastbound with the headlights. reports of a car fire on the bridge. >> tough to make out with all that thick fog in place. that will take awhile to burn off. sfo and delays for arriving flights up to 52 minutes because of low ceilings. look at the highs today. cold and mild for this time of year. 77 san jose. 74 san rafael. 60 san fransco. we'll continue with this trend through the weekend. so mild conditions. still afternoon sunshine for us. and then look at that. a little cooler next week. risk for sudden cardiac death.t i was 23 years old, i wasn't overweight. i never dreamed this would happen to me. when the doctor told me i had three blocked arteries, i felt like i was punched in the gut. i found out that one in three women die from heart disease. how did i not know that? >>> we have a developing news update for you on something we've been following all morning long. n

for now reporting live, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the contractor involved in that work site accident in san francisco is facing some heavy fines tonight. building officials have shut down the work site where a deck collapsed yesterday afternoon and sent a worker into a trench where he became trapped for several hours. now, officials with the city's building department tell us if the contractor had the proper permit, the accident could have been avoided. >> everything from keeping you active to a gym in -- you know, in the building itself. there's also a spa. there's obviously lots of trails and the big amenity would be the presidio itself. >> that was the wrong sound for that story relating to the accident yesterday in san francisco. cal osha is also looking into that accident. building inspectors tell us the company brian mcnamara construction had no record of violations. >>> do the oakland police -- today the oakland police department is operating with 80 fewer plimples. they were all laid off -- fewer police officers. they were all laid off because of budget problems