friend list? . good morning. i'm dave clark. >> i'm tori campbell. it's thursday, december 8th. we want to go right to sal with breaking news in oakland. >> that's right, tori and dave. we've confirmed that police are looking for a wanted suspect. they know who this person is in in two neighborhoods in oakland. one of them is near the corner of 5th and g. another one in san leandro, near 106th avenue, the oakland border. we're knot sure of the cross street -- not sure of the cross street there. we have a reporter at one of these scenes. we're trying to get more information. one thing is for sure. there is a lot of activity. stay with us. we're getting reports that they know who this person is. he was involved in a high- profile crime recently. so we will let you know as soon as we confirm that. again, these are two police searches. the chp is also involved with the oakland police and some other jurisdictions in this search. stay with us. we'll have more coming up. we're also following a new development in the occupy sf. just about 20 minutes ago, police issued a new warning to protesters who remain at justin herman plaza. claudine wong joins us live with new video. >> reporter: good morning. protesters have been out here all morning long. they've been allowed to stay as long as they didn't have tents. take a look at this. you can see people clearing out of here. they did not want to cleave but within the last -- leave but within the last 20 minutes they were ordered. >> the park is technically closed. your presence here is a violation of 3.02 of the park code. what i would like to do is facility eight your first amendment work and ask you to -- facilitate your first amendment work and ask you to leave the park, politely. >> reporter: there are only about a dozen or so people in there. but they didn't really think they should have to leave and didn't want to. >> reporter: will you leave so they can clean? >> we don't necessarily need to leave for them to clean. we've been here for months and they've come in and clean. >> reporter: do that tell you that they will make you move if you don't move on your own? >> the cops are trying to say that the park is closed. parks and rec just has their job to do. we'll try work with them. we're not trying to stand in the way of their jobs. >> reporter: there have been a couple of instances overnight. if we come back out here live out here to justin herman plaza, you can see things are clearing out pretty quickly out here with protesters leave, as they've been instructed to do. we've seen a much bigger police presence. western we got here, the police were lined up -- when we first got here, the police were lined up on market street. there's the mobile command unit that's been in place. and at the bus stop, there are quite a few police officers there. they were holding their riot helmets in hand. it looked like they were ready for some kind of action but that didn't happen. protesters left on their own. we've seen a large crowd at the federal building. 60 people in comparison to the normal 10 that have been there. will they be able to see? that remains to be seen. we're gonna head up there and we'll get back to you. claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. the city has already spent $1 million controlling and cleaning out the sf camp. that figure is expected to go up to make sure that protesters don't violate the order. your time, 7:05. there was an earthquake just hours ago near the geysers in sonoma county. it was a 3.3. it hit before 2:00 a.m. it was follow bide several aftershocks. the -- followed by several aftershocks. residents in cloverdale felt it. still no word of injuries or damages. hour earlier, a bigger quake hit off the coast of humboldt county. the usgs says it was a magnitude 4:00. a dispatcher up there says they didn't get any calls about the quake. they didn't even feel it up there. football is expected to have a big effect on the local roadways. lorraine blanco is live in menlo park with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the social network is moving in and like everything it does, it's going very big. the study says that all of the new drivers in the area might cause a traffic nightmare. not just at minor intersections around willow road and bay expressway but also around highway 4 and 101. facebook wants to hire thousands of new employees in menlo park. they are even asking the city to remove the 3600-person limit. eventually the company could employ as many as 9400 people at this campus and another location on the front of bay expressway. there's a meeting tonight to talk about these issues tonight at:00 at bell -- at 7:00 at bel haven -- belle haven senior center on terminal avenue. there will also be a public hearing about this in january. back to you. german authorities have intercepted a mail bomb addressed to a top banker. it was sent to the head of deutsche bank in frank further, germany. police say it was a fully functional -- frank -- francfurt, germany -- frankfurt, germany. police stay was fully functional. 7:07. san mateo county paid a $55,000 settlement to the family of a special education student who was pepper sprayed by police. now, the lawsuit goes back to an incident from last year. a 7 clld boy had climbed on top of a -- 7-year-old boy had climbed on top of a bookshelf in the classroom. the police were called. one officer used pepper spray to subdue the child. they say that was necessary because the child was out of control. the fame argued he was treated like -- like a criminal. we want to go back to sal and check on that breaking news. >> we do have newschopper2 over police action in oakland. it's a police search and it looks like they are lined up somewhere in the area of 106th and foothill. we're getting word there were two separate searches for a wanted felon in connection with some recent crimes in oakland. two search locations, a rather extensive search with oakland police and the california highway patrol. they have a lot of officers in these neighborhoods. one of them is 106th near foothill. the other is at 85th and g street. ktvu has a reporter on the ground trying to get more information. as you might imagine, police have been too but stoi speak with us to confirm some of the details we have or some of the reports we've heard. but this person is a known suspect. they think they know where in man is and they've surrounded two neighborhoods trying to get him out this morning in this early-morning police search and raid in oakland. stay with us. we'll keep you posted let's go to the -- posted. let's go to the bay bridge toll plaza, about a 15-minute delay. no major problems in oakland on 580 -- on 5 0, really slow there because of a car in the roadway. they have to get that car out. traffic backed up from highway 13 all the way out to park boulevard. that's a very long backup. >> let's go to steve. thank you, kindly. you probably know already butvy to be the bearer of bad news. is really cold out there. not only is it cold -- it's really cold out there. not only is it cold, it's damp. the fog's come back. the rain has not. the rain has not. we had the fog, then we had the wind, now we're back to the fog. we'll probably get another wind event. next week, i think we'll see a little pattern change. except for fog, it's a very quiet pattern. we did have fog, frost, the combination of the two. it's cold out there. 20s, 30s and 40s. we'll have mostly sunny skies today. temperatures with hazy conditions. calm conditions, but boy is it a dry pattern. we need the rain. we need the snow. i know the days are nice but we need the rain. the system has fallen apart a little bit. but it has ramped up the fog. some visibility about a quarter of a mile. most of it is a low cloud deck. it's everywhere today. 27, napa, 29 fairfield. that's cold. 32, santa rosa. 34 redwood city, 32 livermore. bethel island, 27. kenwood in the up ir20s, danville, yountville, 29. kentfield -- upper 20s. danville, yountville, 29. you can see the west coast, it's dry from san diego to seattle. everything is going up and over for a while. maybe we'll see a different pattern next week. cold mornings, more fog. but dry, dry, dry. hang in there. still have time. 50s and 60s. 60s san jose, mountain view, sunnyvale. the extended forecast, except for night and morning fog on the increase it looks really quiet. >> thank you, steve. 7:12. harsh accusations. what russian leader vladimir putin has accused of hillary clinton of doing. and the investigation on the deadly plane crash in nevada. aaron, you're all set. great, thanks. mike, thanks for doing that discount double check. you saved us hundreds. what was that? the discount double check? it's when we comb through your policies and make sure that you're getting all the discounts you deserve. no, i get that part, but you guys are doing my move. the discount double check move? that's my touchdown dance. so you're a 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[ male announcer ] get to a better state. state farm. rodgers! discount double check! . good morning. breaking news in oakland. we have a fire. newschopper2 has spotted it. this is on renwick street. the nearest big streets are hyde and fairfax in oakland the this is just west -- a little -- in oakland. this is just a little west of 580 and about a mile east of 880 in this area of oakland. looks like a pretty big house fire here, again, in this residential neighborhood near the maxwell park area of oakland. just off hyde street. a few blocks away in hyde street. and again, fairfax, is the other big street. we just spotted it, from the large plume of smoke riseing. we're not sure how many alarms. again, a house fire in oakland with smoke rising. it can be scene from many areas of oakland from the hills and the flatlands. stay with ktvu. we'll find out more about this fire and -- if anyone was injured. that's coming up. thank you, sal. a new report says more partial remains of u.s. troops were sent to a landfill than the military previously acknowledged. the ashes of at least 274 troops were dumped at a virginia landfill. that's more than the military originally revealed, according to "the washington po post." -- "the washington post." >> reporter: the plan aims to bring in more partners from around the country to try to identify radicals bent on violence, from the deadly shooting at a military recruiting station in arkansas, to the massacre at fort hood, officials say homegrown terrorism is a growing threat. we're still trying to get details on the threat but npr is reporting that the obama administration will intensify efforts to teach local officialles even at schools and community groups to recognize radicals and prevent attacks. at a hearing yesterday, we learned that terrorists are increasingly targeting u.s. military bases. >> this threat is persistent and enduring. more than five islamic terror plots have been disrupted involving u.s. military insiders in the past decade. >> reporter: new, there are concerns that counterterrorism training in communities could lead to more scrutiny of muslim americans and more about this. we'll see more on the approach today. alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. today a court in thailand sentenced a u.s. citizen to two and a half years in prison for defaming the country's royal family. 55-year-old joe gordon was born in thailand. he's accused of transcribing excerpts of the biography when that was banned. 7:18. in russia, prime minister vladimir putin accused secretary of state hillary clinton of encouraging and supporting election protesters. thousands of drasters filled the streets of moscow -- demonstrators filled the streets of moscow. widespread ballot box stuffing and vote count man inlation has been reported -- manipulation has been reported. back here at home, guards at fulsom prison searching an considers guard for --s exz yard -- exercise yard. nine prisoners were hurt. animal control officers are investigating reports that pets have been poisoned. one family said their cat and dog became sick with seizures. both dogs were rushed to an animal hospital. they died. traces of methadone was found in one of the dogs. meth that you don't is -- meth that you don't is -- methadone is sometimes used for heroin addiction. 7:19. recovery crews in nevada will go back to the scene of a deadly plane crash yesterday. the plane is no an area not easily accessible. the pilot and the four passengers were taking a site- seeing tour of the las vegas strip and the hoover dam. still not clear what went wrng -- went wrong. emergency crews got a call from a 48-year-old woman yesterday morning. she said she was stuck in an elevator between floors. firefighters say she tried to crawl out of the elevator on her own, when the elevator suddenly shifted down and crushed here. this was in long beach. several investigations are underway. 7:20. a big payday for muni operators is on the way. still very cold. another freezing morning. if you are tired of the cold, wait. smoke rising from a fairfax neighborhood. we'll tell you what is burning and if anyone has been injured. . san francisco's transportation agency is reporting that management has agreed to disburse millions of dollars for a special trust fund. that fund was set up to help cover health costs. this may be a peace offering that is linked to the upcoming vote coming up for the vote on new union leaders. all right. a lot happening in oakland, sal. a fire. police are busy. >> that's right. we're starting off with the fire on renwick street. it looks like the deck is involved, near fairfax and oakland. this is somewhat near maxwell park. we see the firefighters here in the back of the house. we also see a lot of people standing around in front. we're not sure if anyone has been injured but there's been a significant response from oakland fires. it looks like they are doing the over all operation. newschopper2, can you pull out a little bit? i want to see a -- overall operation. newschopper2, can you pull out a little bit? i want to see the -- you can ethe neighborhood, hyde street and fairfax in oakland. let's take a look at the westbound bay bridge. that's blocked up to the maze. those metering lights are on. this morning if you are driving on 5 0 in oakland, it's really slow approaching park because of a crash on the shoulder. let's go to steve. thank you, sal. it was brought to my attention by steve and our executive producer, bobby, a little beep comes on in your car, it's a sensor, and it was 32. there's 20s and 30s. napa, 27 degrees. fairfield, 29. when you add the fog that just -- that's a double whammy. 30s and 40s, even the oakland airport is at 36. it will be sunny once we get going. the nights are so long now. we're approaching the shortest day of the year. it will be sunny, hazy skies, patchy fog. upper 50s to a few low 60s. the fog is on the increase. so the pattern has changed a little bit. we've gone from fog to wind. there's no rain. i don't see anything for five to seven days. the extended outlook which has your weekend in view, not and morning fog and hazy sunshine. a news conference today will reveal more about the sudden death of a college athlete in oregon. he's an act let who grew up -- athlete who grew up here in the bay area. and breaking news from oakland. a big police search underway in two locations. also, the effort to recall oakland's mayor. how recall organizers are one step closer to their goal. keurig has over 200 varieties from 20 leading brands, including tully's. it's the way to brew everyone's favorite cup in under a minute. way to brew. . we have breaking news in oakland with a house fire on renwing street -- renwick street near fairfax and hyde street. it looks like the house in the back was fully involved here. we're not sure if anyone is injured. it looks likes right now they are trying to knock down the fire and it look likes they are doing overall operations here. this is in a neighborhood near maxwell park. you can see it from hyde street and the nearby neighborhoods in oakland. the white stoke is -- smoke is still rising in the oakland sky. back to the desk. >> okay. there is a develop story at this hour in oakland. police are conducting two searches for a suspect. one of the searches is near the nimitz and the other is near san leandro. tara moriarty just arrived at the first scene and will have a live report coming up in a few minutes. oregon state state university plans to have a news conference regarding the sudden death of a football player from the bay area. fred thompson was playing a pickup game last night when he collapsed and died. his family is on the i -- is on their way to oregon. 7:30. the parents of a toddler critically injured in last month's shooting are making an emotional request. the boy was shot in the head while in the arms of his father. doctors in oakland say he's brain dead and should be taken off life support because he probably won't survive. however, his parents want a second opinion and more time. >> i think if he had more time to come out of shock that i can make it. >> so far the hospital has made no comment on the family's request. he was critically wounded among the seven outside of a liquor store two weeks ago. police in sacramento they moved in on a group of occupy san francisco protesters. they were arrested after refusing to -- after refusing to leave the area at curfew. oakland police want to show they did not use excessive force on the occupy protesters. coming up for you at 7:45, pam cook's coming back and she will show us more on these clips as oakland police defend themselves on brutality charges. organizers have until may 14th to gather the nearly 20,000 signatures needed to qualify for the measure por the ballot to recall mayor june quan. complicating things, a second group has filed the painter work. the city attorney will determine whether there can be two recall drives at the same time. today, a federal appeals court in san francisco will hear arguments on two of the legal issues surrounding proposition h. supporters of the same-sex marriage band want the court to set aside that ruling from last year because the judge who thad ma ruling -- judge who made that ruling did not disclose he was in a long- term gay relationship. your time now, 7:33. well, the decision to convert claytop valley high school in a at -- to a charter school is now in the hands of the education. more than 60 people signed up to speak about this. charter supporters are vowing to take their case to the state board of education if the county trustees deny their appeal. well, five conservation groups are working together. they are trying to preserve an oceanfront open space that's almost as big as the city of san francisco. the property is eight miles long. it centers on the old cement plant in the santa cruz county town of davenport. that plant was closed last year. the land being deserved will -- preserved will link open space between big basin redwood park and one other park. conservationists say the property is priceless. 7:34. a rite aid pharmacy in vallejo is trying to figure out how it lost track of thousands of prescription files for patients. rite aid said the missing files did not contain social security or credit card numbers. the company does have electronic copies of the document. lucky super math says it's received more than 500 calls from customers affected bide tampered credit card readers. someone tarperred with 23 self- check out machines. the discovery was made on december 11th -- november 11th, but not disclosed until the 23rd. >> i think it's horrible, especially the week before, you know -- a few weeks before christmas, you know, people have had money withdrawn from their account. now i don't feel safe using my debit card anywhere now really. lucky says anyone affected by this should contact their banks and close the accounts. a hurdle may be cleared in the plans to bring b.a.r.t. to san jose. valley transportation authority is supposed -- scheduled to vote a $770 million construction contract. thousands of jobs will be created and they will be transporting 70,000 riders every day. the vta suspects work will be finished by 2013, meaning the first b.a.r.t. trains would roll in well ahead of the 2 -- on the 2018 schedule. more on the house fire in oakland that started at 7:00 a.m. sal? >> that's right. we were on it with newschopper2 almost immediately. in fact, we were up almost immediately. this is in oakland's maxwell park neighborhood. this is on renwick, somewhere near hyde. you can see firefighters are on the roof of the house. the fire seems to be -- just from our looking at it, seems to be dissipating -- or calming down, i guess i should say, i don't know what the correct terminology is there. but it seems to be more under the firefighters' control. we're knot sure how many are injured. and we did see people arounding -- people standing around. let's go to the freeways. they've not been that great in oakland. 508 is a mess from 13 heading out to park street because of an earlier crash. contra costa county, highway 4, antioch slow, slow again in bay point, 680 is backed under from 242 and walnut creek. moving it to the south bay, this morning's heavy freeway has been northbound 280 that's pretty slow. whengy to steve, i want to mention, steve, that the twitter nation is all 0 other -- all oifer this -- all over. albert pujols signed a deal with the anaheim. >> i think there's a no trade in there. >> so he will be 42 when this deal is receiver. >> young like you and me. >> i know. it's cold out there. i've had a couple of people tweet me. more fog. remember, we have to go back about two and a half weeks. we had a lot of fog, then we had the wind. now we're pea getting back in the fog -- we're getting back in the fog. we start off with frosty, foggy, cold here this morning. 20s, 30s and 40s. there's a lot of 20s and 30s. by noon, 50, 56. not bad in the sun. the rain -- i know some of you like the sunshine but it's december. we need the rain. there's no snow up in the mountains. we need it. we need it. we saw it a almost bit of time here. there's no sign of anything. maybe as we head towards christmas there's some hints there of the forecast models trying to bring some stuff back in. i need to see the whites of its eyes first. i just don't buy it right now -- right now. it's just stuck. 20s, 30s and one 45, that's in san francisco. golden gate park is colder than that. that's a moffet, 42. across town, it's 36. there's a lot of upper 20, including danville, kenwood, 28. bethel island, 27. that's cold for them. anything out there? anything -- no, nothing. quiet. >> cold morning, fog on the increase, high pressure, though. i say that because there's some haze around the edges. temperatures, 50s to near 60. although we have a low cloud deck around. once that burns off, there will be a lot of sunshine. the extend the forecast, except for night and morning -- the extended forecast except for night and morning fog, we're in a holing dash holding a earn -- holding pattern. ♪ [ female announcer ] during the holidays, there's a lot to get done. and safeway select appetizers help you rise to every occasion. ♪ from delectable to amazing. there are over 20 affordable safeway select appetizers ♪ to make all of your gatherings just as merry as can be. ♪ only at safeway. ingredients for life. ktvu still on the scene via newschopper2 of this developing situation where a house fire is in oakland's maxwell park neighborhood. right near fairfax and hyde street. this house fire started at 7 cll. we just -- 7:00. we spotted it before that. a two-alarm response. we're not sure if anyone's been hurt. the fire seems to be out, from looking at the pictures. >> firefighters are on the roof. it looks like the back of the -- one person was getting their car out of the way, that kind of thing. 7:436789 let's go back to the desk. thank you, sal. there's also a developing story in oakland at this hour, it's connected to the walmart black friday shooting. tara moriarty just arriving on the scene where police are looking for a suspect. tara? >> reporter: police are still here on the scene with their guns drawn. they believe the suspect may be riding in the at tick. the police have asked us not to give the exact address. they are here. they are waiting for this person to to come out. we're told san diego has taken over the scene. we're told this is in connection with the black friday incident that happened. a was in san lee -- that was in san leandro. it looks like three people were arrested. if you will recall, around it -- around 2:00, a man was shot. the family wrestled the suspect to the ground. the family says they he tried to steal what they just bought. so the family held onto him. he's been identified as tony phillips of oakland. police were searching for accomplices. and that's what we believe this raid is about. we're gonna stay here on the scene and we'll be here when they take that person in custody, hopefully, back to you. >> thank you. taking a live look at the big board on wall street. stocks are down. s & p is down over 1% after the european central bank took other steps to shore up the system. the dow is down 5. the nasdaq is down 14. s&p is dunn 10. there's -- dash there's -- the s & p is down 10. there's some good news. 381,000 people filed initial claims. that's down 23,000 from the week before. the number of new claims is at its lowest level since january. the leaders are trying to rally other european leaders around the plan to save the euro currency. angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy want all eurozone cups to tighten debt limits. sar co day says if there is not an agreement by tomorrow, there may not be a seak chance to safe the europe row. the standard & poor's announced it could lower the rating. 7:46. the observe police department has been coming under fire during the occupy movement. they are being accused of using excessive force. pam cook is in the studios to find out how the department is fight fighting back. >> well. oakland police department has posted video and a message on its website saying our goal was to facilitate free peace during the occupy protests and raids. what you are looking at is video. you can see that he's surrounded by pretty rowdy protesters, the officer is. officers say they were pushed around by protesters and they were hit by flying objects and paint. this has been uploaded to show the events as they happened. now, this is in response of those accusing officers to use excessive force to end the demonstrations. the department conducting a review into the response. fewer than half of all california families qualify as middle class, according to a new report. the public policy institute of california defines middle class as families earning at least $44,000 but no more than 15,000 -- $15 -- $155,000 a year. the maker of the yaz birth control pill will be the focus of the hearing by the fda today. a panel will consider -- will consider whether to add new warning levels to yaz or several other contraceptives. researchers suggest those are more likely to caught blood clots than the older drugs. a woman is expected to tell the panel about hr daughter who died in 2008 from a blood clot after taking the yaz for -- yaz. . 7:48. police in berkeley say they are getting more reports of teenaged prostitution in that city. police say several reports are coming from berkeley high school. officers say the high school gives them regular updates about suspected student prostitution. a city commission met last night on how to find a solution to that problem. we're helping they will support us in the creation of a task force. in now, that -- >> that task force will be designed to help those girls being trafficked and exploited. hecklers interrupt chris christie. >> we're used to dealing with jokers like this all of the time in new jersey. >> the reason christie blames president obama for the behavior there. and we'll tell you what mythbusters said during this tour, days after a stunt went terribly wrong. how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? 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[ male announcer ] get to a better state. state farm. . you think it's cold here. 36 runners from all over the word are back in their home countries dash -- dash all over the world are back in their home countries. the race took place last week. these athletes were required to have their scun completely covered -- skin completely covered. the winner, a banker from france. he finnerred in 3:47. back here at home hecklers interrutted chris christie -- chris christie. >> there's governor christie, he says those protesters are showing anger because president obama didn't deliver on his campaign promises. christie was there to endorse mitt romney's run. those protesters were taken out by the police. netflix subscribers in the u.s. may soon be able to share their favorite movie picks on facebook. the house passed legislation. netflix developed a sharing tool that's already available to international customers. it allows subscribers to automatically share what they are watching with facebook friends. two days after a cannonball smashed into a dublin neighborhood during a tv experiment. there's still no answer -- experiment, there's still no answer as to why it happened. adam and jamie say some of their assistants were conducting operations when the cannonball misfired and flew about 700 yards from the alameda county bomb range. they say they are embarrassed and won't try to public the accident -- publish the accident. >> we haven't spoke about it. my assumption is -- absolutely not. i wouldn't try to make entertainment television out of something like this, this grave. >> and luckily, nobody was hurt. >> i guess they were trying to see if a can noon ball could go through a castle wall. obviously, it could. >> it could. let's check in with sal. you have a lot going on this morning. >> it's been an eventful morning. wife's had fires, police activity, and the freeways are not that good either. san jose, quietly becoming a little traffic problem here on 208. look at all of -- look at all of those fender-benders. they are not that serious. most of them are just fender- bender type things and watch for slow traffic on 5 and also on -- on 85, 17, 880, 280 coming into the santa clara county. let's take a look now at some live pictures. 880 northbound, i think it's better than 580. 580 is clearing up after some earlier problems, and at the bay bridge, it's backed up for about a 20-minute delay. we have an increase in our low clouds and fog. it's frosty cold, a lot of 20s and 30s. the fog, just a little weak system. but not only inland fog, but patchy on the coast. 20s and 30s cold for many. you add the dampness and that cuts right through you. temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s. mostly sunny. i say that because there's haze around. cold frosty morning, 50s to near 60. it looks like this pattern is on cold -- hold. temperatures will be -- i think kind of leveling off as we head to the weekend. developing news from oakland. crews are putting out hot spots from a big fire. what we learned just minutes ago. and police are keeping a close eye on justin herman plaza it morning as cleanup crews move in to do their work. facebook is expanding in menlo park out here. it will cause some traffic delays, according to a new environmental report. i'll tell you about it. . good morning. welcome back. i'm tori campbell. >> good morning. i'm dave clark. we have to go right back to sal. what's happening? >> a fire on renwick near hyde and fairfax, just a little bit east of foothill boulevard. this is new video we gist got turned around here from -- just got turned around here. as firefighters suppressed the fire, they started their overall operations. we did not receive any word of injuries. it looks like the residents or at least someone was out there in front of the house. a couple of people out there. firefighters are still on the scene. this is on renwick street in oakland. if you saw smoke rising through the east oakland area, that's what that was all about. it's in the blocking any streets but it's visible from hyde street. at 7:59 let's go back to the desk. there's new developments to tell you about on the occupy sf protest. a short time ago cleanup crews arrived at justin herman plaza. claudine wong has been out there all morning and is back to el tell is what's going on -- back to tell us what's going on -- the san francisco police department -- protesters were reluctant to leave but they did without any issues. a short time later, the crews arrived to begin their work. police say they will continue to keep this area clear the area down the way, it's getting pretty crowded. tear were 10 people there. now there's about 60. >> at this point, i don't have any information about the federal reserve bank. tents, not allowed, no matter what. people tried to put them up and then they had to take them down. the park here is technically closed. no word on when it will be technically back open. as far as gathering here, sfpd says -- if someone says they are coming down here to exercise their freedom of speech, they will try to make allowances to allow people to do that. if you are -- if you are coming down here to sit an sleep, that's where they will have issues. strong presence down here. live here in san francisco, claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. 8:02. we're also watching ocpry protesters in new york. the protest started months ago at a park near wall street. today, they have a new location, coming up at 8:15, where the original yong piers are now and why they think their movement will continue to grow. two minutes at -- after 8:00. sunnyvale police are searching for the woman who robbed the subway on east camino real shot -- and shot an employee. police only have a vague description of the suspect. she's described as hispanic or pacific islander in her early 20s. san jose's police union tentativety agreed to -- tentatively agood to ex-- agreed to extend the pay cut. police officers still have to vote on the agreement and the city council has to approve it. the pay cuts are expected to prevent police layoffs next year. today a review board will give its recommendations on plans to install cell phone antennas in palo alto. at&t wants to install about 80 cell phone antennas on existing utility polls to boost coverage in the city -- in the city. the some -- some people are concerned that will be an eyesore. the review board reviewed the wire company's plan in august. today, at&t is expected to reveal alternative designs they've developed since the meeting. dog owners in san carlos want a new place for their pets to roam free. more than two dozen gathered last night. the daily news says the group screamed at officials as the city plants to crackdown on -- crack down on aggressive dogs. the pet owners say it's too small and harmful for the dogs. well, santa clara county's ban on fast food toys apparently has not maked fast food menu foss for kids healthier. that's -- menu for kids healthier. the ban affects those chains in unincorporated parts of the county. researchers say some restaurants did do things like take down posters that market directly to kids. well, next month, students at five san francisco schools will be given their own reusable water bottles. this is a pilot program designed to ply with federal and state -- to comply with federal and state laws. the schools are ortega, chin, tenderloin community and sutro elementary schools as well as wattonberg -- wallenburg high school. they will install filling stations in place of regular drinking fountains. apple has updated the plans to the new spaceship campus. the new plan, the roof will be kov earned in solar panels. that -- covered in solar panels. apple also says 80% of the entire 150-acre campus will be landscaping and not buildings. well, facebook's expansion plans, it's good news for the economy. but it's a different story for commuters. lorraine blanco joins us from menlo park, where the company's new campus is creating traffic concerns, especially since the building sat empty for a while. >> reporter: good morning. you know those people that like to vent on their status updates. >> now people in menlo park might be venting on their own. this new facebook balding -- building here could cause a major traffic jam. people are already hard at work. the company planned to complete the transfer to this new east campus by the end of the year, moving the 2,000 employees to the sun microcampus on willow road and bay front expressway. the megasite wants to have a lot more workers in its predecessors. it's asking the employees -- the city to move it so they can employ more people. we talked with one area commuter who says that's not an issue considering the bigger picture. >> i would assume there's gonna be some traffic. but you gotta do what you gotta do. we need the jobs. >> reporter: the city comducted the $748 -- 748-came worst because -- 748-page report because facebook wants to employ nearly 9400 people at this campus and a smaller one on the bay front expressway. there will be an informational meeting tonight about the expansion. it's at 7:00 p.m. at the belle haven senior center. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. today is another spare the air day in the bay area. the alert means you are not allowed to burn wood. anyone violating the burning ban could face fans up to $400. very steep. you don't mind cold weather? >> no. just add another sweater, try to stay warm. hey, sal, are you still watching problems in the south bay? >> yeah, we've been watching the south bay. it's pretty slow, dave. we've watched traffic also on the east bay commute getting to the south bay. now we're looking at traffic on 237 getting into the valley from the east side. it's very slow into the santa clara valley. we are watching slow traffic all over the south bay, especially here and also on 101. let's take a look at 880 in oakland, it's getting slow past the coliseum. as you pass 880. 580 is recovering from some earlier mob ble. it's still -- earlier problems. it's still slow. and highway 4, antioch, there's slow traffic at somersville road. highway 4 also slow at 242. 80 westbound is gonna be a little slow from the richmond exit and marin county, southbound 101 slows near roland boulevard and slows all the way down past terra linda and gets better at san faf -- better at san rafael. here's heave. >> thank you, sal. the daily double here. it's not only cold. it's cold and damp because of the fog. we've been fog-free for seven, ten days. the wind, now, the wind dies down. the system in the morning will clear the area. we have frosty cool conditions. a lot of upper 20s and 30s. and by the afternoon, hazy sunshine, 50 to near 60 degrees. calm conditions it's that -- it's that dry pattern. fog's the bigger story here this morning. there wasn't much when i came in. it's really increased. so inland and fog, some of it pga. most of the visibility is okay -- of it patchy. you can be in the 40s and for some locations, it's cold. for others, not too bad. 30, 20s. our system system is -- there's nothing going on on the west coast. it's too quiet. reneed some rain -- we need some rain. we need some snow. mostly sunny, cold. 50s to near 60 but temperatures, i think kind of held right in check here. we're just running out of daylight here. the days are getting, much much shorter. the lows should be coming up because of the increase in the fog. days and nights, cold and foggy. >> thank you, steve. they began the occupy movement in the u.s. they now have a new home in new york city. we'll show it to you. also, the growing threat of homegrown terrorism. the white house says they have a new plan to make america safer. hey guys, what can i get for you? i would like a decaf 360 calories please. and for you? i'll have a triple iced 410 calories please. you want the 40 whipped calories on that? uh, you know what... i'll have this instead. 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"the washington post" says the ashes of at least 274 american troops were dumped in a landfill in virginia. that's more than the military revealed. those landfill disposals, which were never authorized, ended in 2008. today a court in thailand sentenced an american citizen to two and a half years in prison for defailing thailand's royal family. 55-year-old joe gourd was born in thailand. he was convicted of translating excerpts of the biography of a king in thailand which is banned in thailand and then posted the excerpts online. 8:16. in russia, prime minister vladimir putin accused hillary clinton of encouraging and supporting election protesters. thousands of demonstrators have filled the streets of moscow, protesting reports of fraud in sunday's parliamentary election. widespread ballot box stuffing and vote count manipulation have been reported. secretary clinton says russian voters deserve a full investigation. this morning fulsom prison guards will continue to search for weapons used in yesterday's riot. the riot involved at least 50 prisons. guards fired pepper spray to get the inmates under control. but it still took them about ten minutes to do that. nine were injured. four of them are out of the hospital and back behind bars. just a couple of minutes ago, former penn state coach jersey sandusky was released from jail. he posted $250,000 bail. he was arrested and arraigned yesterday on child molestation charges. two more men have come forward accusing them of being abused. there are now more than ten alleged victims. sandusky faces 50 counts of child molestation. in the meantime, the charity is expected to close down very soon. 8:18. this morning, uty till -- utility crews are going door to door in the san gabriel valley. they are checking on the last home still without stris after last week's massive power outage. southern california edison is confident the lights will be back on for everybody by the end of today. last week hurricane force winds knocked out power to hundreds of thousands -- hundreds of thousands of people. by this time next year, there will be a lot fewer stores for the teen retailer, pacific sun wear. the clothing chain plans to close up to 200 of its worse performing stores. pacific sun ware says it will focus its aticks on the remaining 600 stores. the company posted a $17 million loss in the last quarter. if you are looking for a job this morning, wells fargo is hiring. the company is hosting a career fair today in santa clara. wells fargo says it wants to hire more than 70 people for jobs all over the bay area. today's event will be held at wells fargo's el camino and scott plan of. the -- scott branch. the first session starts at 9:00 and will go until about noon. a second session will be held from 4:00 p.m. to about 8:00. the oldest living dog in the -- in the world has died. the guinness book says this dog was born april 1st, 1985. the dog's owner says he became sick on monday and died after refusing to heat -- refusing to eat. he was recognized as the oldest living dog last december. >> look at that face. >> i know. cute face. >> you know it's cold an foggy. >> steve is coming back. look how it looks outside. steve will tell you what you can expect this weekend. >> new hope in the battle against breast cancer. it involved two new treatments. . health experts are cheering what could be a major advance in breast cancer treat. studies show that two new medicines can significantly delay the development of the disease. one is an experimental drug from genetic. it's held cancer at bay for an average of 18 months compared to only 12 months with the usual treatment. the other drug is afinnator which seems to especially work on women who stop responding to hormone treatments. if you need a gift for the holidays and want to help san francisco cans r patients -- cancer patients at the same time. glassybaby will have these glass creations on sale at the log cabin in the presidio. 10% of the revenue goes to cancer patients at ucsf. >> they're beautiful. >> yeah, they are. hey, sal, you can take care of the toll plaza? >> we're trying to right now, dave and tori. right now traffic is going to be busy at the bay bridge toll plaza. if you are driving into san francisco. the traffic gets better once on the bridge. if you are on the lower deck of the bay bridge, it also looks good in oakland but you can see that traffic is still pretty muff a big wait here at the toll plaza. san mateo bridge, westbound 92, that looks good if you are driving on westbound 4, the dumbarton bridge also moves well. >> when you get to the pill, there's slow traffic for you on highway 101. concord to pleasant hill and walnut creek, stop-and-go traffic, we had an earlier crash in danville. 680 is a little bit slow. as we move the maps to dag dag -- maps to -- san jose has the slowest traffic heading north up to cupertino. let's go to steve. >> thank you, sal. for tomorrow it's sunny. temperatures are beginning to warm up a little bit. we've had a lot of 20s, upper 20, 30s now. more 30s. it's cold out there. 44 in the city. san jose was 37. now they are 40 42 you but -- they are 42. very quiet. just not much going on. there will be a system approaching us sunday and monday. i think it will give us an increase in the low clouds and maybe some partly cloudy skies but today and tomorrow, cold mornings. fog is on the increase. patterns are changing a little bit. mild days, hazy sun. dry pattern continues through sunday. could be a hint of something early next weekend. your extended forecast has an increase in the fog, if anything we might warm up a little bit on friday. after that we cool it off. time now is 8:26. theafrt's been a -- there's been a settlement in the pepper spray case. >> reporter: we're live in oakland, where police storm a house and make three arrests. we'll tell you how it's connected at a robbery -- to a robbery at a shopping mall on back friday. ♪ it's easy to see what subaru owners care about. that's why we created the share the love event. get a great deal on a new subaru and $250 goes to your choice of 5 charities. with your help, we can reach $20 million dollars by the end of this, our fourth year. we have developing news. police with their guns drawn are still sur rowmpding a house in the east bay. officers are searching for suspects involved in a shooting at a walmart store on black friday. -- black friday. ktvu's tara moriarty is in oakland now where this standoff is still going on. what's happening, tara? >> reporter: well, police are still here and they are staking out a house off 106th and foothill boulevard. they believe their suspect is hiding in the attic. but we're not gonna show you where the house is because if he's watching television, we don't want him to know where police are stationed. around 7:15 this morning, a s.w.a.t. team stormed into this gray house, one of two homes police were targeting this morning. they took out five people. one was carrying a baby. it tooking -- it looked like three people were arrested. a source within the oakland police department tells us it's all in connection with the black friday that happened at the san leandro walmart the day after thanksgiving. if you are recall around 2:00 in the morning, november 25th, a man in his -- and his cousins had finished shopping when a group of people blocked their car and tried to rob them. they tried to grab the merchandise that was just bought. now, a suspect wrestled another suspect to the ground. the other suspect ran off. the family held the suspect until police arrived. the police are searching for one of those accomplices. that's what we believe this raid is about. san leandro is on the scene here. apparently, oakland s.w.a.t. was tied up last night -- tied up, they were out until about 1:00 in the morning. so they will bring in another tale. and opd will be holding a press conference with the media and updating us. we're also told at 85th and g that three suspects were taken into custody over there. we'll be learning how all of this is connected -- coming up a little bit later. we will have a live report at noon. back to you. an earthquake shook sonoma county last night. it was centered near the geysers. it hit just before 2:00 a.m. it was followed by a series of eight aftershocks -- eight aftershocks. hours earlier, a bigger quake hit off the coast of the humboldt county. >> the usgs says the magnitude 4.0 quake hit shortly after 9:00 last night, about 85 miles southwest of eureka. eureka police dispatcher said police did not receive any calls reporting. earthquake and that it was not felt at police headquarters. 8:32. grief counselors are working with students at oakland tech this morning as the word is spreading -- as the word is spreading about last night's sudden death of a recent garage witt. fred thompson was a freshman tackle at oregon university. last night he was playing a pickup basketball game when he suddenly collapsed and died. he attended oakland tech. he was originally from richmond. his family is on its way to oregon this morning. just a short time ago, we talked to his football coach at oakland tech. >> everybody looked at him like a big brother. he apparently died of a heart attack. he would have been 21 this saturday. . a covert criminal investigation has led to the arrest of at least two dozen suspected gang members. they face multiple charges, witness intimidation and drug violations. the arrests come after a seven- month long investigation involving multiple agencies including state and federal officials. investigators say the suspects are all gilroy residents but part of the investigation took place in morgan hill, hollister and san jose. 8:33. well, this morning, police in sacramento moved in on a group of occupy sacramento protesters. they were arrested after refusing to leave cesar chavez plaza after the city's 11:00 p.m. curfew. protesters claim their right to assemble should not be limited by a curfew. oakland police officers were criticized for the way they handled several occupy protest and protesters. that resulted in violence and severe injuries. the city has now posted these videos of some of the confrontations. coming up for you at 8:45, pam cook is coming back here. she'll show us more of these clips as oakland police defend themselves against allegations of -- allegations of using excessive force. well, the oakland city clerk has given organizers for the recall of jean quan to go ahead and start gathering signatures. they have until may 14 the to gather the almost 20,000 signatures -- may 14th to gather the almost 20,000 signatures needed. what's complicating things a little bit, is a second group has filed the paperwork to recall the mayor as well. a family says their cat and dog suddenly became sick and had seizures on sunday. both pets were rushed to an animal hospital but died within hours. doctors say dayses -- traces in meth that you don't was found -- methadone was found in one of the blood streams. >> she started running frantically, it was like the exorcist. >> the animals were in good health. 8:35. well, today a federal appeals court in san francisco will hear the arguments on two of the legal issues surrounding proposition 8. supporters of the same-sex marriage ban want to set aside the ruling that declared prop 8 uncon city actualsal. they say the ruling should -- unconstitutional. they say the ruling should not stand because the judge did not disclose he was in a long-term same-sex relationship. a rite aid pharmacy in vallejo is trying to figure out how it lost track of prescription files. they lost some 3,000 files in august. the company says there is a transthe -- chance the files were transferred to one store and thrown away. light aid said the files did not contain social security fund and credit card numbers. numbers and credit card numbers. the valley transportation authority will vote to approve a $772 million construction contract. the vta says thousands of jobs will be created and transport 46,000 riders daily. vt d.a. experts work will be -- v.t.a. experts work will be created -- completed in 2013, rolling ahead well of the 2018 date. in the meantime, we still rely on sal. he will get you to where you need to go. >> that's right. we're trying to remind drivers that it's a little foggy out there as well. leaves house, you might run into some of that. let's take a look at the commute on highway 4. you can see some slow traffic here on highway 4. i want to move the maps to the east shore freeway where traffic has recovered. just looking at the south bay or the -- or the east bay commute heading to the south bay. some slow traffic southbound from 92 to fremont. live pictures. you are looking -- you are look ack the westbound bay bridge. >> the metering lights are gonna be on. and this morning's commute in san jose has cleared up a little bit downtown heading north into the valley. >> a little change here in our pattern. fog has come back now. that was there for a while. then it disappeared when they had the back-to-back-to-back wind events. now we're getting a southerly breeze. a few high clouds are above us. they will thin out later. it's cold out there. 30s. we had some 20s. the foog kind of stopped things. everything is quiet today, tomorrow and saturday. it looks like a weak system will approach us on sunday/monday. that will probably not only enhance more fog but also give us some partly cloudy, mostly cloudy skies? i won't buy in the rain yet but it looks like something is churning. we'll see 50s to near 60. friday, saturday, a little warmup but then we'll start to -- start to warm things up. all right. thank you, steve. 8:39. in morning, recovery crews in nevada plan to return to the wreckage of a deadly helicopter crash that killed five people. their job is especially difficult because the crash site is in a remote area that's not accessible by car. the 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[ male announcer ] classes start january 3. learn more at devry.edu . u.s. stocks are sliding this morning after the head of the european central bank said there was no existing plan for large-scale government bond purchases as many of the markets hoped. right now, the dow is down 137. nasdaq is down 28. s&p is down 19. also this morning, it's the start of the two-day summit of european union financial leaders. french president nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel are trying to downplay global expectations of this meeting and are trying to encourage more cooperation among european union leaders. today, the s&p 500 warned it could downgrade the credit for the entire union. it made a similar to the 13 of the 17 individual eurozone countries earlier this week. the white house is announcing new steps to help smalls about startup. the small business administration is moving ahead for plans for $1 billion in matching capital for early- stage businesses. in a accept vit move, a private sector partnership is promising to provide 100,000 new small businesses with free consulting and legal fees as well as software. that program will run until the end of 2014. let's brick you up to date on some -- let's bring you up to date on some of the -- of the top stories. police think there is a suspect in the black friday robbery hiding. this house fire here is under investigation. it started just -- just before 7:00 a.m. in the maxwell park area. that house was heavily damaged. but so far there's no word of any injuries. a small group of occupy protesters spent the night at the justin herman plaza. this morning police as you see here cleared them out, so cleanup crew kos move in. claudine wong has been there -- crews could move in. claudine wong has been there all morning and is here with an update. as you can see, they've put up signs letting people know the park is closed for renovation. behind you can see that they are clearing out what used to be the grassy area here. they are trying to replace that grass. obviously, the occupy encampment did leave its park. they are trying to get things back to normallal. what you don't see are -- normal. what you don't see are protesters -- they were -- the police went up there and let them know they were in violation of section 302, the park code that does not allow them to stay in the park while the park's closed. there were no scuffles, no confrontation. protesters made it clear they were not happy about leaving but they did leave anyway. >> what are the rules? no tents -- >> no tents. they can't be sleeping in the park because it's technically closed and it's technically lodging overnight in the park. if they are here for first amendment right activities, we'll continue to facilitate that. >> reporter: and we did expect people out here to continue to protest for the occupy movement. up at the federal reserve there's about 60 people sleeping up there. we come back out here live to the foot of market street, you can see a strong police presence still out here. police have their riot gear with them but again, no scuffles, no problems out here, people did leave as they were asked to. we come back to the sign. i just want to show you. part of the sign says work should be completed by and then there is a space the there's nothing there. so as far as when this park could be back open, we still don't know. the city of san francisco says almost a million dollars has already been spent controlle and cleaning -- controlling and cleaning up the occupy sf camp. the number is gonna go high -- higher as the police make sure they don't reoccupy justin herman plaza. the oakland police department is inviting anyone and everything to see for themselves what happened during the raids on occupy protesters. pam cook is in the studio with the action the department is taking. >> if you go to the oakland police department website, you can see, read and hear what happened during the raids on occupy protesters in october and november. the department has uploaded dozens of video and you a yofiles -- audio -- and audio transcripts. take a look at that. this is video taken from an oakland police officer's camera. that's attached to the uniform. you can see it's pretty -- he's pretty much surrounded by rowdy protesters. officers say they were pushed around by protesters and they were hit by flying objects and you can see that in the video. but they have come under fire as some protesters claim officers used excessive force. the department's statement on its website says "our goal was to facilitate free speech and peaceful demonstration." not everyone agrees, the aclu and the national lawyers' gild have filed lawsuits again the oakland police department. the department is conducting reviews into the police department. berkeley police say they are getting more reports of teenaged prostitution in the city and police say several reports are coming from berkeley high school. officers say the high school gives them regular updates about suspected student prosty seuss. a -- prostitution. the city met last night about finding a solution to this problem. >> we're hoping they will support us in the creation of a task force. >> the task force would be made of city, police and school officials to hip provide services to the girls being traffic and exploited. 8:50. new this morning there's been an attack on -- on afghanistan. reportedly mor han 20 of the trucks were set on fire. the attack is the first one since pakistan closed the border for trucks, carrying aftergan war supplies. as a protest of that nato air strike that killed 24 pakistani troops. exwermen -- german authorities intercepted a mail bomb addressed to the -- addressed to the head of the deutsche bank in frankfurt, germany. it was a fully functional bomb, police say, containing a powder that could have exploded. the they -- they found the device before it went up. security has been beefed up at several branches around the world, including the branch in manhattan. we've just learned the pope will be making a trip to cuba. breaking news. he will head to havana next spring. his visit to the communist island will be the first visit by the pope since pope john paul ii's historic visit in 1998. that helped eat traffic between fidel traffic and cuba. . nato footage sparks talk of aliens. but scientists have an explanation. zñzñzñtgtgçwoç'c'cz . john boehner says they are aiming for a vote next week on the tax cuts and the extension on unemployment. there's been included a provision about a pipeline from canada. chris christie got heckled at an endorsement for mitt romney. >> christie says the protesters are showing anger that the hecklers have of president obama not follow following through -- not following through on his promises he made while he was campaigning. the mars rover "opportunity" found the mineral jipson on the surface. they think the piece of equipment crashed into a side and the gem sum came out -- gypsum came out. and these images were captured last week. it reportedly shows -- some say they see an alien spaceship in this footage. scientists say -- i'm not making this up -- okay. they say it's actually the image of mercury from a previous day but i don't know. >> who knows? all right. 8:56. my favorite expression, the surest sign that there's intelligent life out there is they've not tried to contact us. >> there you go. >> that makes sense. >> let's take a look at the east shore freeway. we'll see that traffic is pretty slow on 80 westbound coming out from richmond to pinole. we're looking at golden gate traffic. a little bit of traffic. i want to remind you in marin county through the construction zone. the speed little its has been slowerred -- has been lowered to 55 miles an hour. let's go to look at the bay bridge toll plaza. that's backed up for about a 15 to 20-minute delay with no trouble on the bridge. let's go to steve. >> all right, sal. thank you. we have a lot of fog back. we had the wind events there. that took care of the fog for a by. things have -- bit. things have returned. the days will be hazy, sunny, mild. about the same on friday. i think then we'll see an increase. but we need some rain. >> you were saying maybe -- >> maybe early next week. i'm not sold on that. no snow up in the sierra. >> and that's not good -- >> no. >> for the holidays. they are hoping to have a lot of skiers and snowboarders up there. hopefully that will happen. that's our report for this morning. thank you for trusting ktvu news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. ed a be sure to join -- and be sure to join us at noon. thank you for joining us.