ktvu's tom vacar near the scene now. tom who found the car?reporter: it was an inspector doing the most simple of inspections. what he did was simply look down. and this is the situation that developed. at mid-morning a caltrans road condition inspector walking on the shoulder of highway 1 discovered a car down a steep hill 100 to 200 feet down the southbound lane. initial reports indicate the air bags had been deployed and the car was open with no one inside. the inspector called the chp with the car's information and was soon matched up with the san rafael missing person's report of 93-year-old robert davis who had been missing since the ends of february. responders then found a body which was brought up the road and transferred to the coroner's van. >> they were successful in finding remains. they will work on identify which we do not have at this time. >> reporter: now that probably means the victim was able to get out of the car. at least was out of the car at the time and may have indeed died of exposure. that will certainly be discovere

tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> he knew something was wrong when he opened a door. he came face to face with a burglar. >> hurt myself a little bit. otherwise i am all right. >> the one thing they took that prompted him to chase after the thieves. >> new snow in the sierra but it is what you can't see that is a problem. bulldog: [yawning] i can't wait to get to mattress discounters because the tempur-pedic bonus event ends sunday. choose $300 in free gifts, and, get up to 48 months interest-free financing with any tempur-pedic mattress. ♪ mattress discounters >>> new at 6:00 p.m. burglars picked the wrong house. instead of getting computers or tvs they got chased off by the homeowner. ktvu's ann rubin is live where she spoke to the man who wasn't going to let them get away. >> reporter: he was afraid of what they were going to get away with so he tried to stop them. he didn't have a plan, he just reacted. >> reporter: he thinks the burglars broke in here and began ransacking his place. he doubts they were inside long when he got home. >> everything was off the table

tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> b.a.r.t. released a statement, bart has upgraded its safety procedures and invested $5 million in resources to bolster safety performance. >>> no arrests have been made in a case of a 9-month-old baby who was left in a car. the father forgot and left his suv parked on the street where he works. the father discovered the baby at the end of the day. >> i don't know how it happened. he got distracted or something. when he got back he found had baby, he called 911 and when they come over they found out he is dead. >> family friends say they are strickened by the tragedy. people were outside working women a few feet of the suv but didn't see or hear anything. >>> new at 6:00 p.m. a san jose police officer association is calling it a political stunt. a proposal to real in officer whose left the department. as ktvu's mike mibach reports pension reform is in the middle of this debate. >> reporter: lights and sirens in san jose. it is a city that lost 400 officers since 2008. some officers have argued

tom vacar is live in contra costa county where state firefighters must defend more than 30 million acresof wild land. tom. >> reporter: get this, what is true today has been true every day this year so far. and that is at least 10 active wildfires. >>> the folks who work on california's fire fighting air force know how bad bad really is. already this year we've had 1,100 fires. that's already doubled this time in the state last year. >> conditions this year are much drier than we've seen in california this time of year. >> reporter: tankers, helicopter and spotter plains remain here are already on duty. >> typically this time of year almost all the aircraft would be sitting here ready to go out to the air bases. >> reporter: the few aircraft that do remain in sacramento are getting their finishing touches and are destined for the wettest part of california in the extreme north. but this year there are no wet parts of california. so these will be on station six weeks early. >> the summer months are only going to get drier. only going to get hotter and that fire threat will only go up. >>

tom vacar has been following this story from the beginning. he was in the court for the arraignment and joins us live now from the newsroom. tom. >> indeed. it took only a few minutes, but it is clear pg&e intends to fight these criminal matters as is its right. >> they just redid that. >> a small group of anti anti anti pg&e advocates, pg&e executives executives were not on hand but the lawyers pled not guilty to the 12 violations of the federal pipeline safety act, each count carrying a half million dollars penalty. federal prosecutors say an additional law that would greatly enhance the fine since the government alleges that pg&e knowingly violated the act. that issue will ultimately be resolved before the federal judge that actually tries the case. >> what we want to see happen is that pg&e is forced to take responsibility, to take full and complete responsibility and to do what is necessary to assure that this never ever happens again. >> time and again, the question has been raised. should any people be held criminally accountable for th

tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> aol is telling users to change their passwords again because of acurity breach. they discovered the breach from a search in spam. they launched the spam attacks. they are still investigating the situation but says 2% may have been effected. >>> the ledgens who were once part of -- legends are preparing to play one last game. joe montana and roger craig went over the details today for the final football game at the stick. it will be a flag football game on july 12. the game will be a rematch of super bowl xix. they will be going head to head against dan marino and other players on the miami dolphins and it will do good for local charities. >> we are going to raise money for the fire department and the police department along with one of the kids parks there by candlestick. >> tickets go on sale may 10 and start at $30 a piece. >>> now at 6:00 p.m. one person killed, another hurt when a chp patrol car slammed into them during a chase. we are learning about the three mistakes the deputy made. >> a flock of chickens killed on a high school campus. now p

ktvu's tom vacar took those concerns to the drug maker ceo. >> reporter: food and drug administrationval means this medical test will soon be available nationwide. >> this is all about preventing cervical cancer. >> reporter: he says it is an important new tool proven by tests on 47,000 women. >> it would allow the doctor to make a decision about whether the woman was at risk or had cervical cancer. >> reporter: critics say the test costs twice as much as traditional screening. he disputes that. >> if you can prevent a woman getting cervical cancer you have a significant benefit to the healthcare system because having to treat a woman that gets cervical cancer is expensive. >> reporter: critics worry it could lead to a lot of over treatment. >> part of the approval process by the fda was to look closely at this to make sure that you have the right balance between the number of women you detect and the number of we mean that -- of women that go. >> reporter: tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the san jose sharks tonight will try sweep the los angeles kings in round one of the stanley

ktvu's tom vacar talked to san bruno city leaders. >> reporter: this morning a group of advocates stood by as pg&e was called. pg&e executives were not on hand but the lawyer plead not guilty to 12 violations. carrying $6 million. >> no employee did anything intentionally wrong to make this tragic accident happen. san bruno was a terrible accident. >> reporter: the judge who will try the case met with prosecutors and pg&e this afternoon. >> what we want to see happen is that pg&e is forced to take responsibility, take full and complete responsibility and do what is necessary to ensure this never happens again. >> reporter: though they will fight the case they already changed their culture. >> over the last few years we made a lot of progress on our system. we brought in new leadership. >> we have seen as pg&e represented there has been a lot of progress. and we look forward topping actually making the necessary -- forward to pg&e actually making the necessary changes. >> reporter: -- we believe that the -- >> we believe that the corporation and the individuals who made those decisions s

ktvu's tom vacar is live at the airport. this volves a weapon unsealed in food. >> reporter: great work by tsa agents. a disguised knife in a common food item carried in a carry on bag. it happened at the screening station for alaska airlines. he says what agents discovered in a passenger's carry on bag was -- >> a 8-1/2 inch knife inside a enchilada. she said she doesn't know how it got into the bag. >> reporter: the woman turned over to the sheriff's department here in oakland was questioned and they decided she could be cleared for travel however tsa assesses fines if it decides to fine her. >> fines could range $10,000 but it is usually negotiated with the passenger. >> reporter: knives can be legally transported in checked baggage. the tsa website has all the rules everyone needs a travel without trouble. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> federal transportation security administration are looking at last week's bus crash. 10 people died when a fedex truck crossed the center divide and crashed in the a bus. the nationa

ktvu's tom vacar is seeing how pg&e stepped up a program to cut the number of so-called dig ins thatumber one reason for accidental gas line breaks. >> reporter: every month pg&e choppers over all pipelines. the pilot paroler looks for and records digging activities. >> we are looking for threats to our pipelines integrity that puts the public at risk. >> reporter: crews are looking for any construction project no matter how big or small within 300 feet of any lines because we dig into one of those you could cause an inferno. >> well drilling. boring. >> reporter: if they see signs of possible digging, especially the locations of lines painted on the street they move on. but if the indicators missing. >> we escalate the threats to a immediate. ktvu channel 2 news we activate an emergency notification network. >> you have to wait approximately two working days to have your underground lines located and marked. >> reporter: last year there were 2,000 line damaging dig ins. $11million worth. >> the responsible party is on the hook for the fines and the damages to the line. >> reporter:

tom vacar brought us this report. >> reporter: neil daniels was a united airlines pilot for 35 years.ne march night near sir kouz new york, daniels in command of a jumbo jet says he had an encounter with something. >> there was a white white brilliant light to the wing tip. it affected the controls. air traffic control said what are your intentions. it took off and disappeared to our rear at the 8:00 position. everything went on to normal. we went on and landed. >> reporter: and trying to avoid ridicule, the incident was not reported. pilots do see unknown things. lind loconell is part of the reporting system. it's where pilots can report complaints, close calls and other incidences without losing their licenses. >> we do get reports of sightings. it's very difficult from our position to untangle it because there's so many things you have to consider when you're looking at what would be called ufos. >> nasa directed us to this man, richard haynes. retired nasa scientists who for so many years specialized in training pilots. >> they're subject to the same visual illusions that anyone e

pg&e fly over all 7,000 miles of high pressure natural gas transmission lines and today ktvu's tom vacarent with them. they look for construction crews working near the lines and if they see digging where lines are marketed on the street the helicopter moves on. but if the lines are not marked they take action. >> we escalate those threats to an immediate with a call to the local pipeline supervisor. if we can't reach them we goo egas -- go to gas control. >> last year pg&e ordered 1600 work stoppages. because crews fail to wait for gas lines to be marked. pg&e offers to mark the pipelines for free but it takes a couple days. >>> the giants and the a's played today and coming up a baseball round up. mark ibanez here after the break. >>> mark ibanez is here and the giants and a's had matinees today. >> the giants started hitting the ball in colorado and the giants, you knew they had to finally start hitting the ball and they did it today. it was hit it or hit it out of the park or nothing and it starts early in the game. matt cain was having problems. he because down 5-2. two on. michael

this is cell phone video taken by ktvu's tom vacar as he drove down the jackson street exit next to the burning car on 880. it's not clear what happened or if anyone was injured. but the chp temporarily closed all lanes while firefighters dealt with the fire. the lanes were back open sometime before 10:00 a.m. >>> two people in the hospital with third-degree burns over 80% of their bodies. what investigators believe caused the explosion that injured them. >>> more than 70 years after his service. a filipino world war ii veteran is being awarded a prestigious medal. why it took so long to honor his historic service. >>> back now to live pictures of the fire burning in southern california. firefighters are trying to contain this 200-acre wildfire burning in san bernardino county. some homes and at least two schools are being evacuated in the north side of rancho cucamonga. road blocks are set up in the area to keep people out. fire officials say strong winds are making it difficult to fight the fire and so far crews are being increased on the ground. so there's more firefighters there to

we just lost tom vacar. we hope to have his live shot coming up in just a moment. >>> down in the peninsula, the san mateo county coroner released the name of a man killed last night in a sailboat accident near redwood city. the 31-year-old was one of the people onboard. the mast came down and hit sun and another man. that second man is in critical condition. the sequoia yacht club sponsored the race. >> the club is going to suspend racing for the next couple of weeks out of respect for the families and the victims in this terrible incident. >> organizers say the race was informal. the captain of the bella was tested and was not under the influence of alcohol. >>> just about an hour, investigators are set to begin tests to help determine the cause of the bus fire near orland. a cal trans engineer and a chp accident investigation team are headed to the scene to try to recreate the conditions leading up to last thursday's crash between a fedex bus and a tour bus. 10 people were killed including five high schoo

. >> reporter: tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> tonight at mid-night is the deadline for the open enrollment period for covered california. california's health insurance exchange is encouraging thousands of people who started applications to complete them before midnight. march31st was the original deadline but due to some technical glitches, extension was granted to people who had already started applications but were unable to finish them. >>> oakland is pulling the plug a little early on dump sites that were placed to stop illegal dumping. turns out the prompt -- project may have been a little too successful. bins were overflowing with debris because people from other city brought their trash into oakland. the city told us it's no longer accepting any bulk trash at any of the sites and that the bins are not going to be replaced. the program was designed to help clean up oakland streets and was set to run through tomorrow. >>> it may soon be illegal for people who live in san francisco to lease out their homes on websites like b & b. a person could only rent out their apartment

tom vacar, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> federal health regulators are ready to propose new rules tomorrow that would give them authority over electronic cigarettes. the proposed rules would also ban the sales of e-cigarettes to those under the age of 18, along with cigarring and pipe tobacco. a law passed by congress gives it the power to prohibit tobacco product sales to minors. the proposed rules would also require the makers of cigars and e-cigarettes to provide the fda with the manufacturing process, and the ingredients in their products. >>> keeping children safe on airplanes. the head of the ntsb is renewing her push for child safety seats on passenger airlines. the child restraint system could have saved three babies in crashes over the past three decades. debra hirshman is disappointed she hasn't been able to get regular laces changed. she tells us, she can't believe her eyes, when she boards a plane, and sees parents holding kids on their laps. >> the laws of physics don't change. you can't hold your baby at 50 miles an hour, why would you think you could hold them at 250 miles a

. >> reporter: tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> tonight at mid-night is the deadline for the open enrollment period for covered california. california's health insurance exchange is encouraging thousands of people who started applications to complete them before midnight. march31st was the original deadline but due to some technical glitches, extension was granted to people who had already started applications but were unable to finish them. >>> oakland is pulling the plug a little early on dump sites that were placed to stop illegal dumping. turns out the prompt -- project may have been a little too successful. bins were overflowing with debris because people from other city brought their trash into oakland. the city told us it's no longer accepting any bulk trash at any of the sites and that the bins are not going to be replaced. the program was designed to help clean up oakland streets and was set to run through tomorrow. >>> it may soon be illegal for people who live in san francisco to lease out their homes on websites like b & b. a person could only rent out their apartment

tom vacar, ktvu news. >>> let's bring in our chief meteorologist, a beautiful day out there today. >> right now the fog has cleared from the coast. so all that fog that we've seen the last couple of days has vanished. it'll come back tonight. good sunset out there. these are the highs that were recorded today. 80 in concord. 79 in morgan hill. slightly cooler than yesterday. and as we go into tomorrow, slightly warmer. numbers are going to come back into the 80s and upper 70s. maybe some mid-eight -- 80s. you come in close and you can look at the avers and see they're clear. the fog will be back late tonight and early tomorrow morning. so here's the satellite imagine. there's no fog any where to be seen. the winds are blowing out of the airport. those winds are going to continue to blow and as they do that fog will have a chance to reestablish itself and make a push for some of the inland bay values. so right now temperatures kind of in the mild side. san jose 71 degrees right now. san francisco 62 degrees. and san jose tomorrow, it's going to be a nice day as i mentioned. you're goin

tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> more details now, in october, 2008 b.a.r.t. inspector was struck and killed by a train along the tracks. in that case he was also following had protocol of simple approval with regard to worker safety. b.a.r.t. was fibbed for that -- fined for that violation. >>> continuing coverage of the bus crash on interstate 5. this big rig is providing critical information to investigators who are trying to figure out how last week's crash happened. it is one piece of a recreation today. five students, 3 adult chaperons and two drivers were killed when the fedex truck slammed into a charter bus. it took place along the same stretch of interstate 5 where it happened. ktvu's noelle walker has more. >> reporter: yes, they got two vehicles that were identical to the ones involved in the crash. they sent them down i-5 on the other side of this fence. ran a chp break to do it. they were trying to figure out what happened that led up to the crash. >> 911 emergency. >> reporter: 911 calls released today from witnesses to an unmanliable tragedy --

tom vacar, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> federal health regulators are ready to propose new rules tomorrowt would give them authority over electronic cigarettes. the proposed rules would also ban the sales of e-cigarettes to those under the age of 18, along with cigarring and pipe tobacco. a law passed by congress gives it the power to prohibit tobacco product sales to minors. the proposed rules would also require the makers of cigars and e-cigarettes to provide the fda with the manufacturing process, and the ingredients in their products. >>> keeping children safe on airplanes. the head of the ntsb is renewing her push for child safety seats on passenger airlines. the child restraint system could have saved three babies in crashes over the past three decades. debra hirshman is disappointed she hasn't been able to get regular laces changed. she tells us, she can't believe her eyes, when she boards a plane, and sees parents holding kids on their laps. >> the laws of physics don't change. you can't hold your baby at 50 miles an hour, why would you think you could hold them at 250 miles an ho

tom vacar ktvu channel 2 news. >>> spacex there try on friday to launch a supply mission into the internationaltion. it was scrubbed on monday due to a helium leak. the launch is set for friday with saturday as a backup. the space walk has been rescheduled to replace a backup computer that failed last week. space walk is now set for easter sunday or wednesday of next week. >>> check out this next video, six people are recovering after a horse and carriage got out of control in downtown savannah. it happened yesterday afternoon. you can see here as we roll the video a person chasing after a spooked horse as it tore right down the streets with its carriage in tow plowing into parked cars and bucking off its driver. five passengers were forced to jump from the carriage. the horse was eventually caught and calmed down with some carrots. the driver by the way suffered the most serious injuries with two broken ankles. when in doubt use carrots. it's such a low tech way to get it. if it works it works. >>> let's go now to our chief meteorologist bill martin. you told us to expect warmer weather for to

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