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Crashes, especially one near the 580 24 interchange. Its making a mess of the commute, mornings on 2 starts now. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu mornings on 2. 7 00, youre looking live at the bay bridge, and next week at this time, this will be completely empty, no cars going across the bridge and well have more on the shut down in just a moment. Good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. And im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Were going to steve first. Good morning, lots of low clouds in place. Breaks here and there. Most of the forecast area has low clouds or you can see it. We have get a couple holes in the fog bank. The low which gave us wild weather this week has accelerated up to oregon. A little system which will enhance the fog tomorrow and tonight. And 52 to 62, a lot of low clouds, some sun and mostly sunny, partly cloudy skies by noon, 5 to 78 and 60 to 90. Mostly sunny. Most will be in the 60s 70s and 80s. 56, 57, 58, a couple low 60s toward san jose, thats about it. San franciscos high temp has been quiet this week. 67 today just because. It will be close. Right about average though, for this time of year. The one system moves out and another one will be in here a little bit later. But overall, it looks like a quiet pattern here. Warmer inland, not a lot. The delta breeze seems to be less today than it was yesterday. That allows for 60s, 70s and 80s. Heres sal. Steve, we have had a heck of a problem with some of these maps and commutes, i should say. I look at them as maps. Northbound 101 right here. You can see all the red coming up because of an earlier crash near fully road. Now that crash has been cleared, but traffic is going to be very slow. The accident was there. But the traffic as you can see is still very slow as you drive on northbound 101, and i also want to mention in the east bay, we also had some slow traffic on 24 and 580. Fortunately they did clear the crash and the back up went away rather quickly. Thats the good news on 580. 8880 is slow getting into downtown oakland. Westbound 80 at the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up. Thats lighter than usual and the commute on interstate 880 near the coliseum and that traffic moves well. 7 03. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you sal, and we begin with new information on the huge wildfire thats just raging out of control just outside of yosemite. Ktvus Claudine Wong joins us now to explain the fire continues to grow despite overnight efforts to get ahead of it. Reporter we have some new information coming out of base camp now as firefighters continue to try to get ahead of the rim fire or really just keep up with it at this point. We have new video to toe show you as well that we to show you as well that we just got into the news room. You can see how smoky it is as daylight has broken and people are gathering to get the plan of attack for today. Theme of this morning seems to be growing numbers. The fire has almost doubled in size in just 24 hours. We are now at more than 105,000 acres, about this time yesterday was about 54. Then it moved to 63 last night, and then it really just took off overnight. The number of firefighters, though, has also grown from 1300 to 1800 on that line, and theres just no way to get folks around this entire fire. Basically what theyre doing is picking their battles right now. On the west side theyre fighting to keep it from moving from the Pine Mountain lake area. They have been able to save homes. Thats good news, but theyre now also putting up an out post in the area of tarwalaome city. Burning unchecked, inside the park boundary and just a couple miles from hetche. Its burning in steep and difficult terrain. Its in the trees and the weather hasnt been great. It worked against them yesterday allowing the fire to just kind oaf take off, and they are expecting a similar day today weather wise. So thats not giving them much hope for trying to get ahead of all of this, but they are hanging out there for the day, getting a look at the fire and trying to keep it from moving. We have our own ktvu robert at base camp and well hear from him in 40 minutes. Were getting a birds eye view of the fast moving fire. Take a look at this video, from the cockpit of an Air National Guard plane. It can release 3000gallons of fire retardant in a matter of seconds. Our time is now 7 05. Within the last 30 minutes, all lanes reopened on interstate 580 in oakland after a multicar crash. Sal has been telling you traffic is very slow in that area. A motorcyclist in very serious condition after being thrown off that bike. Now, the crash happened a couple hours ago on westbound interstate 580 near highway 24. The cycle may have cut in front of a truck. Thats when the truck hit the motorcycle. That triggered a multicar crash. The motorcyclist was found about 50 yards from where his bike landed. He was rushed to the hospital. No one else was hurt. In san rafael, the chp says it appears sleepy driving may be to blame for a van, this van crashed into a power pole. This happened about 3 00 this morning on southbound highway 101 near the south parkway off ramp. Police think the driver fell asleep, lost control of his van and hit the power pole head on. He was taken to the hospital. We dont know his injuries. Pg e is out there repairing the damage. And all lanes of northbound highway 101 in san mateo, they are back open again this morning after a deadly overnight crash. This one happened shortly before midnight on highway 101 near key hole boulevard. The chp says a pedestrian was on the road when he was hit and killed. Its not clear why that person was on the highway. Police sate driver is cooperating with investigators. It is 7 07. The search continues for a gunman after a man was rushed to the hospital after being shot several times. Ktvus Tara Moriarty is in marin city with more on why investigators are now asking for the publics help. Good morning tara. Reporter good morning, were here at the sheriffs substation, one of several agencies that launched a massive man hunt for the gunman last night, but he did get away. They did, however, investigators found a gun in the bushes near the scene of the crime that may provide some clues. Now, all of this unfolded last night around 7 30 in a parking lot off of drake avenue. Bullets flew near a group of 20 people including some children, a 21yearold vallejo man was wounded as he sat in his car. Authorities say he had been shot several times, at least twice in the chest. He was rushed to marin general to undergo surgery. Meanwhile, a sheriffs deputyies Tiburon Police as well as the chp conducted a massive search for the suspect but he did get away. The only suspect information we have is a black male. He was wearing a black nit cap, a black hooded sweatshirt. Dark blue jeans and turquoise shoes and possibly using a silver handgun. Reporter investigators were able to speak with the victim before he went into surgery. So far we have no motive in the shooting. Deputies here are hoping anyone with information on this shooting will step forward. Live from marin city, im Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. 7 08. He is innocent, thats according to the man at the center of an investigation into the disappearance and death of sandra coke. 56yearold randy alana has been in jail for more than two weeks on a parole violation. He has not been charged in the death of his one time girlfriend who was a federal investigator from oakland. Alana says he went to church with coke the day she disappeared. Her body was found in vacaville a few days later. Even though they havent named me a suspect, they treated me like one. We reached out to cokes family about the comments, in a written statement they said why would we or anyone else believe what he has to say. Time is 7 09, the Hayward School district plans to open five more tutoring centers due to rise test scores. The centers will be at three middle schools including Martin Luther king junior and two elementary schools. Contingent tornadoes are telling the daily educators are telling the daily review students are benefiting by spending extra time after class with volunteer tutors in subjects like english and math. The first center opened in 2011. Test scores in some subjects jumped by 10 . On our web site, ktvu. Com, we have an entire section dedicated to heading back to school. It includes the start date for school and how you can save money on back to school shopping. It is 7 10. Are you ready for next weeks bay bridge closure. Well break down the trouble spots and how an out of state company is helping local drivers avoid gridlock. While the firefighters are struggling to contain the rim fire, theres grim news from washington d. C. , with the National Forest service has to do to find enough money to fight all the fires now burning across the country. Well, the traffic started off not doing very well. There ever been some improvements, well tell you where those are and how the bridges look. Gray skies out there, and Cool Temperatures to mild temps, we cooled down yesterday. Will we find a little bit warmer forecast. Well have that for you when we come back. Good morning, welcome back, time 7 13. More than a third of the House Republicans in washington say theyd rather cause a government shut down than pay for president obamaS Health Care law. As ktvus Kyla Campbell reports from our washington d. C. News room, these lawmakers are preparing for fiscal fights this fall. Reporter House Republicans signed this letter sent to House Speaker, john boehner, they say obama care is the reason workers around the country are seeing their hours get cut. Mostly tea party backed conservatives want boehner to avoid a budget plan that would help implement the president S Health Care law. Congress is on recess this month. Several republican lawmakers at home are Holding Town Halls to put obama care in the spotlight. If the republican party, republican lawmakers go out and make a case to the American People that obama care is hurting them, its costing jobs, having hours cut back on their work, we can go out and win this fight. Reporter a new budget is needed by september 30th and october 1st, the Health Care Exchange is open, so people can start shopping for insurance through obama care. This could become a high stakes political game of chicken. Lawmakers have an option to buy more time and avoid a government shut down. Im working on that story for you at 8 15. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. President obama continues his two day bus tour today talking about making College Affordable for middle class students. The president will speak this afternoon first at Binghamton University in new york, then later at lacawana in scranton pennsylvania. As fbi director Robert Muller plans to leave office, he shares his concerns about security threats. He says terrorism has migrated from afghanistan to pack stan, to places like yemen, egypt, and syria and points to the current conflict as a particular concern. Fighters from all over the world, including the United States are going there. Hes concerned people will develop terrorism expertise that they will then bring back to the u. S. That huge fire near yosemite is one of many burning across the country and theres now word from washington d. C. That the federal government has run out of money to fight them. The National Forest service and other federal agencies are now scrambling to find the money needed to respond to what has been a disastrous fire season. The feds say more than 30,000 fires have burned more than 3 million acres across the u. S. This year. Meanwhile, firefighters in Northern California are getting some hightech help as they gain ground on a wildfire burning in placer county. The american fire has burned nearly 18,000 acres since it started two weeks ago, and the success is due in part to this, modern technology. They have been using smart phones, ipads and gps devices to monitor the flames and monitor the weather and help coordinate the Fire Fighting effort. Stay with ktvu news all morning among for complete coverage. Ktvus robert handa will have a live report from the fire lines at 7 30. Time is 7 16. Theres a nationwide movement now to ban saggy pants. The chronicle reports st. Lewis, and sub burdens outside of detroit and new orleans and even parts of georgia, some of the areas considering banning saggy pants. Supporters of the bill call the style vulgar and disrespectful and others call it a fashion statement and a teenage trend. The aclu says any law that bans saggy pants pants is unconstitutional. A bill allowing noncitizens to serve on a jury if theyre in this country legally is headed to governor browns desk. Freemont assemblyman, bob rikowski wrote the bill and said it would widen the poll of propertyive jurors. And prospective jurors. 7 17. Sal is very proficient in traffic. Hes telling us about a bad situation in oakland. Its better now. As a matter of fact it has become a lot better and the traffic is doing better on 880 and 580 in oakland, there was a crash on 580 at 24. That was there for 40 minutes. They cleared it. Once that accident was cleared, the traffic recovered nicely. Lets move along and take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Some people who were caught behind the back up at the accident are now showing up at the toll plaza. That is delay here of about 15 minutes before you make it onto the bridge. I want to mention the south bay, the traffic in the south bay is going to be moving along slowly because of an early truck crash on 101 getting out to tully. The crash is gone, but the accident did cause some damage. As we mentioned, 580 is better. 24 is better coming down. We also checked in with Public Transit and we have no delays with b. A. R. T. , call caltrans and muni. Bewe get started a nice e mail from james house. Ive lived here 27 years, and never seen so much smoke. It burns the eyes and a couple reports reports of ash falling in areas. And up in tahoe, theres a ton of smoke. Ill give you a look on visible satellite. You can only see it in the day. Ill have to go back 18 hours to show you. Theres plenty of smoke and continues to go south of tahoe, truckee, it is close enough that theyre getting plenty of it. For us we have a calmer, quieter pattern. Temperatures will warm up a little bit today. I wrestled with this, but i do these temps at 2 30 in the morning. 77 concord. 77 san jose, and 79 today in palo alto. And the reason why im warming up a little bit. The sea breeze is cut in half. Still a breeze, 50s, 60s. Yesterday is much much stronger. It being fair field. Anything less than 20, usually a sign that theres a little bit of a warm up in place. Theres still a lot of low clouds around. A slight warm up inland. I dont think well see a change in bay. Low cloud deck up and down the coast and santa cruz to monterey. And las vegas, travel plans there, the next couple days or even into the weekend and early next week. It looks a little better today. Theres a lot of moisture coming up from mexico that might play into a wet forecast for las vegas. Highs in the 80s and 90s. And our low in the pacific northwest. Whats the red, the highlighted areas for lightning and possible fire danger. Thats where our low has gone. Hazy in thehazyhazy tahoe. Low has gone. Hazy in tahoe. And truckee, and also areas toward reno. Our system right there, a little tenuous rope, kind of work its way in tonight, tomorrow give us a cool down. Temperatures inland come up a few degrees. Maybe somebody in weather might notice. 60s, 70s and 80s. And it looks like for the next, probably 5, 7 days, things are quiet. If anything i would lean on cooler than normal. Thank you steve. It is 7 20. A new report today that Safety Experts think pilots are using automated flight controls so much they may be lured into a falls sense of security. A usa today report says problems with monitoring equipment may have been a factor in the crash of the Asiana Airlines flight last month at sfo, and a crash of a ups car go plane last week in alabama. Safety experts recommend that Pilot Training should focus more on monitoring complex cockpit technology. The ntsb has not determined the cause of either the asiana or ups crash. Emergency dispatchers are threatening to go on strike to protest mandatory overtime. The days patchers say they are forced to work hundreds of hours of overtime a month because of understaffing. Right now there are 61 dispatchers to cover 73 full time positions. County Officials Say they are trying to hire more dispatchers, but the qualified candidates are hard to find. In the meantime, county Officials Say they will seek a Court Injunction against a strike by the dispatchers. Time now 7 216789 theyre 7 216789 theyre mar a 7 21. Theyre marshal artists. Wait until you see what happened last night. And a canadian dentist, what he plans to do with one of john lennons teeth. Youre on timeout leo some things wont last 25 years. Ah woof. Some things will. Save up to 20 on an ikea kitchen. [ male announcer ] wouldnt it be great if all devices had backup power . The Chevrolet Volt does. Its ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. No wonder volt is americas bestselling plugin. Thats American Ingenuity to find new roads. Right now, get a 2013 Chevrolet Volt for around 269 per month. [ hero mom ] oh, yeah. Were gettin cereal. cause over 40 General Mills cereals are 130 calories or less per serving. 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Just last week, a german tourist was attacked while snorkeling off the shores of maui. She later died at the hospital. 7 other people were hurt by sharks since january off the hawaiian islands. State officials have not been able to identify any particular pattern in the attacks. They say they all happen at different types of day and different conditions. Time 7 25. George clooney, michael keyton, value kilner, christian vail. Now ben affleck, the latest actor to play batman. Warner brothers announced yesterday Afflecks Batman will appear in the sequel to this summers superman movie, man of steel. The new movie will shoot next year and will be released in the summer of 2015. A dentist in canada has said he sent one of john lennons teeth to a lab. He wants to see if they can extract dna. He says his ultimate goal is to clone john lennon. He bought the tooth for 31,000 two years ago. And with researchers working on ways to clone mammoths, that same Technology May one day make human cloning a reality. Thats just kind of weird. Im a big lennon fan,. Its 7 26. Counting down the next wednesdays bay bridge closure, the parts of the bay area where you can expect gridlock. We are in groveland, Near Yosemite National Park where firefighters are gearing up for another day to fight the rim fight. The latest or not fire fight and whats happening with evacuees. Good morning, traffic is doing pretty well. When you get to the toll plaza, youll see a little bit of a back up, though, especially in the middle lanes. We have a lot of low clouds, some breaks, it does look like temperatures will warm up a wee bit today, what about the weekend and early next week. Well have the forecast coming up in oh, about 5 minutes. 7 29, good morning, the fire near yosemite continues to burn out of control. You are looking at a live picture from the command center in groverland. Theres the map of the fire, and this is where evacuees are anxiously awaiting word about their homes. Well have more on this coming up shortly. Good morning, welcome back to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. And im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic again. A little cool yesterday, what about today. About the same. A little bit warmer, and people have been sending twitter pictures, if you have pictures of the smoke, i know its also up in the Sierra Nevada lots and smoke and haze there. Our observer tom said we might have to have nature help us out on this fire and i said tend to agree. It wont be today, and 60s on this fire, and i tend to agree. It wont be today. 58 to 78, a little bit warmer on the inland temple. Just amaze slue stuck on the temps due to the cloud cover and a westerly breeze. However that breeze seems to be decreases a little bit, especially out toward the delta. Gust 24 to 25. Stronger yesterday. San francisco, High Temperature seems to be 66 or 67. Today, 67 degrees, not much change there. All the tropical clouds are gone for us. Theres a ton of them down towards lag having las vegas, that may play into the weather. A little warmer inland and coast and bay area are right about where theyre going to be and thats in the 60s, 70s and 80s for those in the coast. Heres sal. Good morning to you, right now, traffic is recovering a little bit from kind of a rough start. We are looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, some people were caught up in earlier traffic and theyre just arriving at the toll plaza. This is a 10 minute delay. Curious that some of the left lanes are not crowded and a lot of people in the fast track lanes there. Also this morning, were looking at northbound interstate 880. The traffic here looks good getting up into the downtown oakland area with no major problems. We have been looking at the south bay and it is still slow on 101. It hasnt recovered after an earlier truck accident and the traffic is slow now, all the way from blossom hill road almost to the San Jose International airport, not quite the whole way, but you get the picture, and then when we move to oakland, the traffic here looks pretty good on 880. And also on 580 where we had an earlier crash. This commute looks good. You see the road sensors are green there. Now lets go back to the desk. All right. Thank you sal. It is 7 32. We have new information on the huge wildfire raging out of control just outside of yosemite, a map at the command center shows the rim fire had jumped in size since just yesterday. Ktvus robert handa joins us live from the fire lines in tuolumne county. Reporter we are at the Incident Command Center in groveland where people are assembling to start coordinating the Fire Fighting operation. The map you mention Second Degree right here which shows the fires progress which you heard map you mentioned is right here which shows the fires progress which is over 105,000 acres. And next as briefings go on for hundreds of frights, one is taking place a base camp nearby. Whatever decisions are made will definitely impact some of the people we just talked to who were told they should leave their homes last night. All this was already packed. So it took me about 15 minutes to check everything and then we left. Its just down right scary, you know,. Optimistic that your house will be okay. God, thats a good question. Every time we see the white smoke, we know its the water hitting the fire, you know, and its working. But a little bit further over, theres more fire. Reporter in fact, as we reported, containment is still only at around 2 . Coming up at 8 00. Claudine wong will have an update on the attempts to gain some ground on the rim fire. Live in groveland, robert handa ktvu channel 2 news. 7 33. Santa Clara University is alerting students about a Sexual Assault near its campus. It happened on franklin and sherman streets just after midnight on wednesday. Police say the woman was knocked to the ground and sexually assaulted. She eventually managed to fight her attacker off and the man ran away. Here is a sketch of the suspect. He is described as 6 feet tall. Weighing 200 pounds. Light brown or hazel eyes, dirty blond hair and wearing a white tshirt and blue jeans. This is the third attack on women in that area in the past month. Police do not believe the other two cases are connected to wednesday nights. There are new allegations this morning against a Santa Cruz Surf School instructor accused of child molestation. 38yearold dylan greener was charged with having a sexual relationship with one 14year old girl and secretly recording other young girls. Now police are also saying that he took inappropriate photos at the santa cruz boys and girls club. He had been a volunteer there for the past 6 months. The clubs director says he underwent a full background check. Uc Berkeley Police are looking for a man who escaped from an Alameda County facility. Police arrested 53yearold george davis last week after a strong Armed Robbery on campus. The next day police say he got away from a county facility. Davis is described as 5 feet 9 inches tall weighing 165 pounds. If you have seen him, youre asked to Call University police. And last night, a suspect in a stand off gave Vallejo Police the slip. It started when officers confronted two men inside a parked car. Officers arrested one person but the other escaped into a nearby house. A s. W. A. T Team Surrounded home, and eventually went inside but the man was gone. Time is 7 35. A San Francisco martial arts studio will have a lot of cleaning up to do today after a terrifying car crash. Last night, an suv slammed right into the studio, barely missing the students inside. This happened at the corner of balboa and 22nd avenue just as the class was about to begin. My student was leaning down right on the window, and i just called him, come over here, check out something on the computer, so he went over there and good thing i just called him, and boom, the impact happened. Luckily no one was hurt. Witnesses say the suv hit another car before smashing into the building. They say thats a pretty dangerous intersection because its on a hill. An alleged tree vandal has been caught in the act again. 65yearold ken was arrested in San Francisco. He was arrested for a similar incident last month. There ever been several recent tree vandalisms in golden gate park. In a more serious case, someone cut down 200 young trees. Police say frisch is not a suspect in that case. Oakland police say the latest crack down on gangs is just beginning. Investigators served 10 warrants yesterday as part of operation cease fire. 7 people were arrested. Police say the suspects are part of a gang that committed a crime a day. Many were violent robberies in oakland, contra costa and santa clara counties and the san joaquin valley. You see a heavy Law Enforcement presence, you have everything from s. W. A. T to our hostage negotiation team. You look out your window, you see a lot of cops. 17 people suspected in a rival gang were arrested in a Similar Police sweep last march. Some oakland Business Owners are asking the city to help fund outdoor security cameras. Many businesses on telegraph avenue already have the devices, but they say they just dont have the money to operate them. Business owners say the cameras can be an important tool to help fight crime. They have now started a crowd funding account to try to raise needed money. Time now 7 37. Were continuing our coverage of the big Labor Day Weekend bay bridge shut down. Were 5 days and a little less than 12 1 2 hours from next wednesday nights closure. The transition from the current bay bridge to the eastern span should be finished this Labor Day Weekend. Brian flores is live now near the bay bridge toll plaza, and youre going to tell us about some extra help for commuters, brian. Yeah, dave, well, certainly information is the key when it comes to this transition from the old span to the new span, as you take a look behind me, you can see what commuters are facing today and probably what theyll be facing the tuesday after labor day. One of the things will be the infamous s curve and track the traffic conditions in the bay area and theyre making it easier and more precise to figure out what it will look like come the Labor Day Weekend. They are working with a washington based company to deliver precise traffic when the bay bridge closes. Along with 511 say they will be using crowd sourcing technology to deliver traffic information and theyll get that from car, fleet vehicles, taxi drivers and mobile phones. Despite that, some commuters we spoke with this morning say they are not looking forward to whats ahead. Its going to be very bad for commuters, the people that go every day in cars. We dont have a choice. Reporter now, you have alternatives to get to the city. You can take the golden gate bridge, the Richmond San Rafael bridge, the san mateo bridge as well as the dunbarton bridge, and Officials Say traffic during the closure will be like a monday morning commute and they say the most congestion will be on thursday and f riy afternoon. Now, commuters that we spoke with again, say that theyre getting used to all these changes, especially dealing with the b. A. R. T. Strike. Theyre getting used to the alternatives, coming up in the next hour well hear what commuters are going to be doing tuesday after labor day. Live near the bay bridge, brian flores ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you brian, and at ktvu. Com youll find an extensive section on the bay bridge and routes to get around the closure. Look for the link under hot topics. It is 7 40. Well have wall streets reaction to this mornings big news from microsoft. And where we are hearing of more reports of false pg e workers burglarizing bay area homes. And bob filner could be out of a job today, what pushed him to finally leaf. Good morning, we do have a lot of slow traffic still on a friday. Here at the toll plaza, not that bad. Theres another commute thats much worse than this. Plenty of fog to go around, temperatures which cooled down yesterday will bump up a little bit today. What about the weekend, also take a look at some of that smoke from the visible satellite at the rim fire. Look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. 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Well, new this morning, investors are also reacting to a big announcement from microsoft. Ceo steve balmer revealed that he will be retiring from his post within the next year. He took the helm of microsoft from founder bill gates 13 years ago. No word yet on a replacement but a Search Committee is being formed that will include gates, former windows founder, steves name has been thrown out as a possibility. Microsofts stock is up 6. 8 . The nasdaq opened this morning, it is currently up as i mentioned about 12 points s. Far all the trades are going through unlike the major break down yesterday. The nasdaq froze trading for three hours after a computer glitch. Companies that trade under nasdaq include microsoft, apple and facebook. And called the problem a connectivity issue. The sec says it will finalize rules requiring exchanges have tighter oversight of automated trading. Time is 7 44. Its a scary trend, thieves posing as pg e workers taking advantage of trusting homeowners. Pam cook is in the news room now to tell us about the crime popping up all over the bay area. Pretty scary, the most recent robbery involving pg e impersonators had v to adjust in the middle of the afternoon. This is new video just into the news room this morning. It was about 12 00 yesterday on upland drive in san carlos. Police say a person dressed as a pg e employee approached a house, talked with the person who lives there, then the two walked to the backyard. Investigators say during that distraction, another suspect went into the house, and took some cash and this is looking like an alarming trend. Two weeks ago, a home in valet toe ho robbed by two men posing as governor vallejo robbed vallejo robbed by two men posing as workers. Just this week, Police Say Two men went to a home on sunny hills road and hillwood place. The two men, apparently told the victims that they needed to check a utility easement and asked for access to the backyard, then someone went in and robbed the house. Now, in our next hour of mornings on 2, were going to hear more about what pg e has to say and the warnings that some people received that made them believe these were actual workers. Reporting live in the news room, pam cook ktvu channel 2 news. There was a similar situation in haywood with robbery suspects dressed up as a tree trimmer the suspect offered to show an elderly lady the work he could do. When the two of them went into the backyard, someone else went into the womans house and stole 17,000 in cash and jewelry. It is 7 46. Two people suspected of domestic terrorism are under arrest in las vegas. 67yearold Devon Campbell newman, and 42yearold david bruche are accused of plotting to kidnap, torture and kill Police Officers. The suspects belong to an extremist antigovernment group. In a jailhouse interview, newman says shes innocent. I have never been arrested in my life. I have never done anything for which i could be arrested. An undercover officer discover discovered the alleged plot. The suspects planned to hold a mock trial and execute officers for violations of the constitution. Ktvu has learned that a San Francisco Police Officer was arrested in concord on tuesday in connection with to a molestation case. The officer has not been identified. The special victims unit is investigating the matter. The San Francisco Police Department will only say the officer has been suspended pending an investigation. Time now 7 47. San diego mayor, bob filner may agree to resign today if the City Council Accepts the terms of a deal to settle a Sexual Harassment lawsuit against him. Thats according to several sources familiar with the negotiations. 18 women have accused mayor filner of inappropriate behavior and unwanted sexual advances. Reportedly under the terms of the deal, the city will pay some or all of mayor filners share of damages in the lawsuit against him. The city council is due to meet in a closed session around 1 00 this afternoon. All right, 7 48. Want to check with sal, see whats happening on the roads. Everything running smoothly sal. Its Getting Better anyway. We have had rough ones for friday. I think people sometimes expect friday light. Lets go out and look at what we have. Livermore valley and Castro Valley have been heavy. Its been pretty busy on the freeway here in caster valley and i want to, you know, one of the things i want to tell you if youre driving on 580. You might want to stay on 580 and not try and do 880. 580 looks good into oakland. Lets go and take a look at some of the other commutes. 880 northbound, one of the reasons i told you to stay away from that. Its a little bit busy from san leandro into oakland. Busier than 580. And the morning commute is going to be moderately heavy at the bay bridge toll plaza. I want to remind you that 101 in san jose is no picnic either. Lets go to steve. Thank you sal, and a very good morning, a happy friday, a lot of gray over the bay as we say. Captain cahuna tweeted me and said a little cool. Its mainly cloudy. Theres a couple little breaks in the fog pattern. We have gone from hot early this week inland, then the thunderstorms and the cool down and the fog. Temperatures will rebound just slightly today. Really very quiet into the weekend and early next week and i would lean on the below normal temperatures. Theres a lot going on. Our low is up visiting the pacific northwest. Theres just a little bit of tiny front coming in, Ronald Coleman in crescent city, how come you didnt forecast the front up here. Thats a little far north for me. It will increase your fog and give you a little bit more drizzle. And lots going on near las vegas and points south. More on that in just a second. More fog, the low cloud deck has made a strong push. The low we can say goodbye to that, and an interests weather week. Cooler after today. And keep it there 3 or 5 days. 50s, 60s on the temps. Really nobody has budged on any of these due to the cloud cover. They havent had a chance, lots of low clouds, make ago strong surge inland, from santa cruz to monterey. Santasanta cruz will be one of the warmest on the coast. Travel plans to las vegas, things lit up. Thunderstorms activity should be better today. But heres what theyre concerned about. Look whats coming up from cabo san lucas. Southern california, and 50 through the interior or 60s. The smoke from the rim fire shows up on the visible, right there. I have had reports from tahoe, so bad, the worst they have seen in 27 years. James house reported that. John in reno said man its bad up here. You can tweet me or email me. Sp weather on twitter. You can see the smoke going over tahoe, truckee and over towards reno. Our situation is kind of quiet here, after we had that crazy week, but a little bit warmer, not a lot, but the sea breeze, delta breeze seems to be cut in half, and reservoir, around 1100 feet. Still good gusts out there. 60s, 70s and 80s on these temps and i think after today, temperatures will settle in the 60s, 70s and mid80s and not change for a while. Time now, 7 51, a bottle battle in San Francisco, why city supervisors may be ready to crack down on plastics. He lost his two daughters over a holiday weekend, the charges a pal low father is facing in connection with with with this crash. Time 7 53. A bay area father has been charged with vehicular manslaughter for a crash that killed two of his daughters. 48yearold harvin tandel of san bruno fell asleep while driving on highway 101. It happened while he was driving his family home after an all night black friday shopping trip. His suv hit a chp car parked on the side of the freeway. Tandels 21yearold and 24 yearold daughters were both killed in that crash. The Oakland Fire Department call. The firefighters sent a video, on the estuary yesterday, firefighters teamed up with the coast card and the chp for this drill. It simulated the collision of two boats and the response by air and land. The agencies say that drill gave them a rare chance to train together. We have an update to a story we first brought to you yesterday on mornings on 2 involving two robberies in the east bay. Police say they have arrested two people in connection with a robbery of the pet food express and a ups store on clayton road in concord. Days before, a Beauty Supply store and a yogurt shack were held up in the same Shopping Center as pet food express. The gun used in those robberies was also found in the suspects home. A south bay veteran is mourning the loss of his beloved service dog this morning. We told you yesterday about this veteran on mornings on 2. We talked live with iraq war veteran jeff wilson about how much lobo meant to him. He recent had knee surgery and is in a wheelchair. His dog ran off. Later yesterday, he was found dead after being hit by a car on a san jose freeway. That lifeline, once its severed, especially for a veteran is another loss. Its another trauma. And it will cause flash backs and grief. The founder of operation freedom paw has now asked wilson to temporarily foster and train this 1yearold yellow lab named sela and he has agreed to do so. Time is 7 56. New this morning, Milwaukee Brewers ryan braun admits he took performance enhancing drugs in 2007. He issued a public apology after admitting he took a cream and lozenge after recovering from an injury. Last month he would admit he made mistakes while accepting his 65 day suspension. Congress threatening to intervene against the nfl if the nfl does not adopt the new policy against performance enhancing drugs. In fact, one lawmaker accuses the layers union of purposely delaying the test for human growth hormones. Some lawmakers say the Players Union is breaking its promise to start hdh testing. It is coming up on 7 57. Happening today, Golden State Warrior fans will have the chance to show their team spirit and get a chance to appear in a new commercial. An open casting call will be held at 2 00 this afternoon for the we are warriors campaign. Its taking place at the warriors practice facility at the Convention Center in downtown oakland and warriors guard tony douglas will be there to great fans. Time is 7 57. Keeping an eye on the big fire. More bad news on the fire outside Yosemite National park. What a new map of the fire command postis showing us this morning. Post is showing us this morning. Authorities are searching for the man who shot another man while sitting in his car. We just got off the phone with sheriffs deputies. We have word of a new crash in San Francisco, in a bad spot. Doesnt sound like injuries. Well tell you about that and take a look at the east bay traffic. Plentyover low clouds to go around, looks like plenty of low clouds to go around. Looks like a cool pattern. The reports of smoke are about as bad as its been. Well take a look at that. [ male announcer ] wouldnt it be great if all devices had backup power . The Chevrolet Volt does. Its ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. No wonder volt is americas bestselling plugin. Thats American Ingenuity to find new roads. The 2013 volt. Charge ahead of the rest in the hov lane. Well, good morning, welcome back, youre looking live at the bay bridge. Next week, can you believer next week at this time, it will be empty. Well tell you about the shut down and what to expect. Welcome back, good morning to you, welcome to mornings on 2. Im dave clark. And good morning, im tori campbell. Lets look at weather and traffic. A nice weekend. Low clouds and 60s and 70s and 80s, the consensus, a little system that will continue to keep the fog in place. Yesterday i had a cool down. Lots of 70s. San rosa. And today upper 70s or low 80s. Just a slight warm up. I dont think there will be too much change over by the coast, and all morning long, 50s, 60s, these have not changed one bit due to the cloud cover, and you can see things are pretty quiet here, not to the north, not to the south. More on the weather segment in 10 minutes. More fog today, warmer end land not by much and starting tomorrow, another cool down, takes us into most of next week. And temperatures look below normal, a little breezy, although the breeze is not as strong today as it has been yesterday. At least for most location. 60s 70s and 80s. We have some problems this morning in San Francisco. Looks like a noninjury crash northbound 101 at Caesar Chavez is blocking the fast lane. Now, if you are driving in to San Francisco, it is a pretty good drive. The accident is right about here, or getting this way, Caesar Chavez. The traffic is going to be a little bit slow as you drive on northbound 101 on just before 280 up to the downtown area. As we move down to the south way, i want to show the traffic hack a little bit slow all morning long. And as i look at the traffic here on 101, that is the slowest over here on 101, as you drive to the south valley, so northbound 101, lets cyclopping up past lets see see, coming up past blossom hill. I think 85 is a decent alternate route. Lets see move to live pictures. Bay bridge toll plaza backed up in some of the fast fast track lanes. And drive in oakland, that commute is slowest on 880 northbound, i would say 580 is a better bit. 8 02. Lets go back to the desk. New information of the huge wildfire raging out of control outside of yosemite, and how the firefighters plan to get ahead of it. Claudine wong is in the studio with more on where its headed and what firefighters are saying about the challenges on this. Well, dave, it is going to be a long day, one of apparently many to come as this fire burns out of control. One veteran firefighter saying this morning is what is happening down there is unheard of. Lets show you video of base camp this morning, check out how smoky it is as daylight broke and everything has grown. The fire has almost doubled in size in just the last 24 hours. This morning, the fire area grew to more than 105,000 acres. Keep in mind about this time yesterday it was at 54. Last night moves to 63 and then overnight took off. The number of firefighters has also grown from 1300 to 1800 on the line. But they are getting beat up out there. Its our second year drought, our fuels are tender dry, and i think that everythings a line in with the weather and whats going on in california, that i dont know if the weathers changing globally. But in california, things are getting more extreme each year. Lets talk about strategy, now. Now on the west side of this fire. Fire crews have been able to save structures near the Pine Mountain lake area. Evacuation advisories are still in place with a couple thousands homes in danger. Now, new this morning, we also learned an outpost is going occupy in Tuolumne City area as fire crews try to keep flames from moving in that direction. We have to talk about the east side of this fire, towards Yosemite National park. It is inside park boundaries and it is in large part burning and checked on the east side. The fire is now just about 2 miles from the hetch hetchy reservoir, and we want to talk about that reservoir because it does supply 85 of San Franciscos water. Yesterday Officials Say the water supply should be fine because the firefighters were diverting the fire away. The reservoir and those have been protected, but that was yesterday. The fire is twice the size now. Crews are stretched thin. I did just get off the phone with a spokesperson, asked if concern was growing. They says there is a meeting this morning to talk about the situation and also said people should know theyre constantly watching Water Quality sensors, making sure nothing changes. Dave. Thank you. Now, you can get more information on the rim fire by going to our channel 2 web site, ktvu. Com. There you can see unedited video from the fire lines outside of yosemite. A motorcyclist is in serious condition after being thrown off his bike in oakland. The crash happened a few hours ago on westbound interstate 580 right near highway 24. The chp says it appears the motorcycle may have driven in front of a truck and thats when the truck hit the motorcycle, triggering a multicar crash. The motorcyclist was found about 50 yards from where his bike landed. He was transported to the hospital. No one else was hurt. In san rafael, the chp says it appears Drowsy Driving may be to blame for a van crashing into a power pole. It happened around 3 this morning on southbound highway 101 near the south fratus parkway off ramp. Officers think the driver fell asleep, lost control of his van and hit a pourie pole head on. He was rushed to the hospital with unknown injuries. All lanes of northbound highway 101 in san mateo are open again this morning after a deadly overnate crash. It happened shortly before overnight crash. It happened shortly before midnight. The chp says a pedestrian was on the roadway when he was hit and killed. Its not clear why the person was on the highway. Officers say the driver is cooperating with investigators. Time is now 8 06. A surge goes on for a gunman after a man was shot several times. Tara moriarty is in marin city, and you have new information about the shooting. We just got off the phone with the sheriffs deputies who says theyre going to be having a briefing at 10 00 this morning. An investigative briefing. Hopefully we will learn more about how they are tracking the gunman or any sort of progress. All this happened last night around 7 30 off drake avenue near donahue, bullets flew near a group of 20 people including children. A 21yearold vallejo man was wounded as he sat in his car. A neighbor says that the victim was bleeding and limped toward her begging for help. Deputies arrived on scene, and located a gunshot victim. He had received at least two shots to the chest. Reporter now, the victim was rushed to marin general to undergo surgery. We have underlearned that he is still in critical condition. Meanwhile, sheriffs deputies sausalito and Tiburon Police as well as the chp conducted a massive massive search for the suspect. He did get away. Africanamerican male, turquoise shoes, carrying a silver handgun. So far we have no motive in this shooting, and deputies hoping anyone with information will come forward. Im Tara Moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. Time is 8 07. A nap pa county man is fighting for his life this morning after being attacked with a pitch fork. It happened a week ago on wood haven court. The Jennifer Powell says she and her husband were trying to put their two daughters to bed when their neighbor was having a party and would not turn down the music. After an argument, jennifer says one of the men came after her husband. The attacker, came outside with a pitch fork. His main reason was to kill my husband. He said he was going to kill him. Now, their neighbor identified as Steven Belmont is channeled with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Police also arrested Timothy Anderson on battery charges. Both are now out on bail. It is 8 08. One San Francisco nightclub is using a new tactic to deal with a growing crime problem. Club owners took a close look at the Surveillance Video from a nightclub in florida. You could see a man getting close to a woman and grabbing a cell phone out of her purse. He then gives it to another woman who appears to be his accomplice. So last weekend, the grand nightclub in San Francisco sent a decoy out onto the dance floor, carrying a special cell phone. The phone had been rubbed with a special fluorescent glow in the dark gel. The Security Guard grabbed one suspect whose hands were growing green. San mateo county investigators need help identifying a woman who was found dead in brisbane earlier this year. These are facial reconstruction images of what she may have looked like. She is said to be between 33 and 46 years old and somewhere between 5 feet 1 inch and 5 feet 9 inches tall. Investigators found the womans body partially buried on San Bruno Mountain in january. They say she had likely been dead for more than five years. Time is 8 09 this morning. A Ground Breaking ceremony will be held in richmond for a project named after a Police Officer who died nearby when his parole car crashed five years ago. 29yearold richmond Police Officer brad moody died on a rainy night in 2008 when he lost control of his parole car while responding to a call. Several people who received donated organs from moody will be at this mornings ceremony. The officer bradly a moody memorial underpass will go beneath Railroad Tracks across marina bay parkway. The number of lawsuits are growing now in connection with with a deadly fire that destroyed a redwood city Apartment Building in july. 22 losses have been filed against the owners of the hallmark House Apartments and there may be more lawsuits. One man was killed. 21 others were hurt. And almost a hundred people were displaced by the fire. The tenants are claiming the owners were negligent and should have installed sprinklers even though theyre not required by law. It is 8 10. Frmay soon have one of the toughest bans on plastic Water Bottles in the country. Next month, city supervisors will consider a proposal designed to get people to reduce their use of disposable plastic Water Bottles. Environmentalists point out the plastic bottles produce tons of plastic waste. Among other things, the proposal would ban the bottles at large street festivals. It would prevent food trucks and Street Vendors from selling that. Time is 8 11. He still says hes innocent. What randy alana told us in his latest jailhouse interview about the death of sandra woke coke and how her sandra coke, and how her family is reacting. How far republicans say they are willing to go to stop obama care. Good morning, traffic is getting a little better around the bay area. You can see 680 commute heading toward danville looked good here. Well tell you more about the morning commute. A lot owe low clouds here, sun breaks, our temperatures look quiet, kind of cool, maybe a little warmer for some. I tell you, that smoke from the rim fire causing all sorts of sorts of replies on email and twitter. More on that coming up. [ mald the wrong flea killer. But then why is he the one in the doghouse . Dont blame him. Instead, rely on the number one choice of vets for their pets, frontline plus. The killing force of frontline plus uses two ingredients. One to kill adult fleas and ticks, plus another to kill flea eggs and larvae, destroying the future generations of fleas. And it keeps fighting for a full 30 days. Ask your vet about frontline plus. Accept nothing less. Alana. Time is 8 14. New this morning, president obama calling a possible chemical weapons attack in syria, a big event of grave concern. The president says the u. S. Is still trying to get confirmation that chemical weapons were used in an attack on rebels in syria early this week. In comments this morning on cnn president obama called such actions very troublesome. He said they would require americas attention. However, the president also said the idea that the u. S. Can solve syrias civil war is overstated. Syrian americans here in the bay area are holding vigils honoring the victims of the latest purported chemical weapons attack in the war there. Tonight there will be a vigil at 8 00 at santa that row in santana row, and tomorrow a vigil will be held at San Franciscos union square. That starts at noon. New this morning, explosions outside two mosques in lebanon killed at least 29 people and injured more than 350. I want to show you new video. This is coming out of triple e. You can see the explosions caused a lot of damage. These attacks come amid rising tensions in lebanon as a result of syrias civil war. Lebanon is sharply divided between supporters and critics of the syrian government. It is 8 15. Theres a new effort by republicans in congress to put a stop to president barack obamaS Health Care law. In fact, theyre pushing for a government shut down this fall. Ktvus Kyla Campbell is in our washington d. C. News room with a letter signed by 80 House Republicans. Kyla. Reporter more than 1 3 of House Republicans signed this letter and sent it to House Speaker john boehner, they tell him they would support a government shut down before dget that would help implement obama care. This is setting up a fiscal fight for fall. The new budget is due september 30th. The next day Health Care Exchanges open so people can shop for insurance under the Affordable Care act. And all people must prover they are insured. Its all but certain a democratic controlled senate wont sign on. Neither will president obama. Its doubtful lawmakers will come up with a longterm budget in cement. Theyre scheduled to work september. Theyre scheduled to work in washington for two weeks. Leaders hint at a temporary extension of the current budget. That would give a few extra months to come up with a long term spending plan while avoiding a government shut down. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell ktvu channel 2 news. 8 17. Today, president obama continues his two day bus tour talking about making College Affordable for middle class students. The president speaks at bingham to have university in new york, and lackawanna in scranton pennsylvania. The army is saying no to private Bradley Mannings desire to change his gender while in prison. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking government documents to wikileaks. He said in a statement he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman named chelsea. He plans to request hormone therapy in prison. The military prison official says they do provide psychiatric counseling but do not offer hormone therapy or sex reassign reassignment surgery. We have new details about the shooting death of an Australian College student in oklahoma. Investigators want to know if that murder was racially motivated. Three teenage boys have been arrested for the crime. Just a couple months ago, police believed one of the suspects wrote hateful comments about white people on his twitter page. They want to know if his death, the death of that College Student may be connected to a gang initiation. We have new information about the deadly beating of a world war ii hero in spokane washington. We just found out Police Arrested one of two teenagers wanted in connection with that crime. The attack on 88yearold dell bert bellton happened wednesday night in the eagles lodge parking lot. He suffered very serious head injuries. He died at the hospital the very next day. That other teenager suspected in the case is still out there on the loose. It is 8 18. We want to check in with sal and the roads and how is the bay bridge toll plaza looking. It looks all right. Its Getting Better for sure sure. Things are Getting Better in the 8 00 hour. Lets move along and take a look at the commute. It is backed up far little bit here. The back up is about to the end of the parking lot. Thats about a 5 minute delay with no major problems getting into the commute. Also, the morning commute is looking good if you are driving on the san mateo contributory negligence heading out to the bridge heading out to the peninsula. And i want to remind you that the giants play at 7 15 and the traffic of course is going to be a little bit busy in that area. And the raiders play tonight at the o dot coliseum. They play at 7 00 p. M. , and you can expect people to be showing up for that. The best way to get there in my opinion would be b. A. R. T. 8 19, lets go to steve. Good morning here, before i get started, a good observer in crescent city, ronald thompson, i guess i called him Ronald Coleman 45 minutes. Its ronald thompson. A great actor, that will be the talk of the town up there. Im done. Im done. Anyway, thank you. He was very good about it. We have low clouds in place. My goodness, a couple reports from nevada, said the smoke up here is so thick i cant see across the street. Theres ash lying around and report ifs tahoe confirming the same thing. Biel reports in tahoe confirming the same thing. And satellite pictures, a tiny system will play into a cool down as we go into the weekend. Slight arely warmer. Slightly warmer. Change things up a bit. May not notice itment temperatures will continue to be notice it. Temperatures will continue to be near average today. It will be slightly warmer today but then settle right back in. Maybe for a while here, the extended outlook looks on the cool side, below on temps, 50s, 60s, none of these really that much of a difference because theres a big fog bank out there and extends to santa cruz and monterey. A cool pattern there. A lot of talk in las vegas about not only thunderstorms but a lot of rain may be coming in. The remains of the tropical depression, and this really bears watching for next week. Its still a couple days away. But that could play into the weather and maybe even up toward the sierra, too soon to say for sure. 48 up in tahoe. Visibility is awful there. 58 in sacramento. You can see some of the smoke right there from the rim fires and moves right over the Sierra Nevada and its only going to get worse today. For us, temperatures starting off 50s, 60s. End up 60s on the coast. 70s near santa cruz and a few degrees warmer endland. Theres enough of a low cloud deck. 60s, 70s and 80s. Not much change here as we go into the weekend. In fact, early next week looks to be very quiet here. Steve, thank you. Time is 8 21. As sal told you a minute ago, the roads are jammed this morning, may get a lot worse after wednesday night when the bay bridge will close. Well show you some of the problem areas where they may be and new technology to help you avoid gridlock. And how adherished painted made and how a cherished painting made it back on the wall of a San Francisco hotel. [ female announcer ] its time healthy gets a dose of happy. New yoplait greek. Byebye, stir. So long, sour. Hello, happy. Its time to lick the lid again. Plaza. Welcome back, time is 8 24. Former new England Patriots tight end, Aaron Hernandez accused of murder. Hell be back in Court Next Week in massachusetts. He was indicted yesterday for the murder of a friend in june. Hernandez did not speak but he mouthed the words i love you to his mother. She was there at the court hearing. Hernandez is being held without bail in solitary confinement. The man suspected in the series of Bank Robberies in marin county may have struck again. Now, Police Released this surveillance photo from wednesday mornings robbery at the wells fargo at the town center. They say the man gave a teller a note demanding money and he escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police say the mans brown knit hat with the ear flaps is similar to the ones worn at recent Bank Robberies in mill valley, and green bray. It is 8 25. A famous painting back on the wall of its name sake bar in San Francisco. After being sent to new york to be cleaned and reed, the pied piper returned to the hotel on market street. Five months ago the hotel removed the painting and planned to sell it at auction. But after a public out cry, the decision was reversed. Everybody loved the painting. And it was good to get back the painting and everything takes time, and to be looking beautiful the way it looks, it took a few months to get it back. Here we are today coming back with the painting. Famed artist, maxfield parish painted the paid piper for the palace hotel in 1909. Time is 8 26. Students and faculty are being warned, watch your surroundings, the warning after a Sexual Assault near the campus. Good morning, if youre driving in san jose, its been a little slow. Things are improving a little bit on northbound 101. I want to tell you where the back up begins at this hour. Plenty of gray skies out there. Temperatures kind of cooler, a little warmer as we go into the weekend and also, how about early next week. Well have the extended outlook. Look at em. Living on cloud nine with that uverse wireless receiver. You see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldnt just set up a tv in the basement. I mean, come on nope. We could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. Yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, wed have to go to my aunt sallys. Have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch . [ kids cheering ] youre missing a good game over here. Those kids wouldnt have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] switch and add a wireless receiver. Get uverse tv for 19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles rethink possible. Good morning, boy, that fire near yosemite is still burning out of control right now. These are live pictures. This is a command center in groveland. Look at that screen there. That has all the information, the map and how big this fire is and evacuees are anxiously awaiting for word about their homes. We wish them well. And well say good morning to you. Im dave clark. Lets check our weather and traffic right here. Steve how is the weather. Pretty quite, although the reports are coming in about how bad the air quality is. Visibility is about a mile, mile and a half at best and people are reporting ash falling around some of the area, so its really bad from the rim fire. Back at bait area, though, we have low clouds and 50s and 60s on the temps. Looks like a quiet pattern going forward, maybe a slight warm up today, not a big one. Overall, we have lost all the lull, thunderstorm moved off. And more fog tonight and late tomorrow into tomorrow. A week little system comes in. Just a tiny bit of a warm up. And sunday could go partly to mostly cloudy with the fog. And lots of sunshine today, a slight bump up in the inland temps, maybe 80s in areas and the upper 70s yesterday. 60s and 70s by the coast and bay. Heres sal. Were looking at the traffic trying to recover. Its not quite getting there, but some areas have become better, for example, 101 northbound, still very slow as you come up from the south valley. You know, if you are looking at this commute, for example, it really is slow, coming into the area. Also going to see traffic thats slow on 880. Ill show you a live picture of that. The reason i mention 880 is because i think 580 is not that bad. Theres a little bit of slow traffic coming up from high street to grand avenue. Not too bad. Ill show you a live picture right now of 880 and look how slow it is. Northbound is very slow. Just to remind you again that tonight the raiders play a preseason game at the coliseum. And its going to be something for you to deal with there, if you want to get to the game, the best way is to use public transportation. 8 31 this is a look at the toll plaza. That is moderate. We have new information on that huge wildfire raging out c outside of yosemite. A map of the command center we showed you a second ago shows the rim fire just exploded in size, just since yesterday. Ktvus robert handa is there now at the fire lines in towalame county. Robert, whats the latest. Reporter we are starting to see activity ramp up here at the Incident Center in groveland for the rim fire and we have been watching them update the map you were talking about that shows the fires progress. You can see the dark area spreading out pretty far now that the rim fire has gone over 105,000 achier and acres and is still growing. At nighttime, you can see the redness, you know, where its burning. And then about 10 15 last night, the sheriffs deputy came by and told us we should leave. Reporter we saw you here at the park, did you spend the night here at the park. Yeah, i had just gotten up when you showed up. Reporter firefighters report they made little progress overnight in containing the fire. It creeps at night. Then when the sun hits in the daytime, the inversion layer, it takes off. It takes off big time. Reporter and right now, briefings are being held for the 1800 firefighters that will take on another day of this rim fire. As you heard earlier, containment is at 2 , which is a slight improvement from the 1 that was reported last night. But as you can see, they have their hands full in trying to get some containment and progress on this fire. Live in groveland, robert handa ktvu channel 2 news. Time is 8 33. Back here at home, police want your help this morning, trying to track down a man for attacka jane delaega joins us n where warnings were sent to students students and faculty. Reporter dave, in the last hour i spoke with a Police Captain who said they havent received any tips about the Sexual Assault that happened right here on franklin street. You can see on the edge of the campus or santa Clara University. A spokesperson told me the victim was not a student but that still prompted them to put out an alert to staff and students warning them. They along with police want this predator caught. Now, this is the man that Santa Clara Police are looking for. This sexual predator is described as being a white man who is 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall. Weighing 200 pounds with an athletic build. He has light brown hazel eyes and dirty blond hair that is styled in a fo hawk. He has a narrow pointed nose and is clean shaven. On wednesday morning, a woman was walking on franklin street near sherman when the suspect approached her and sexually assaulted her and then he ran away. She put up a great fight and was able to fight him off and run away, and summon the police. Reporter any idea where he left, in a car, walking, bicycle. Not from her and not from us due to the delay in reporting. Reporter , now this is the latest in a number of attacks on women in the past month and a half. On august 1st, a female student was grabbed from behind by a man and was able to fight him off a couple of blocks away. And in july, police say a woman was raped when a man climbed through her apartment window. That happened on homestead avenue quite a ways away from this scene. No one has been caught in any of the incidents, and they are not believed to be connected at all based on the suspect descriptions. In this latest case, police, again,ment your help, in getting any information or if you recognize the sketch of the man we showed you, give them a call. Reporting live flagra live from santa clara, janine de la vega. The man at the center of an investigation into the disappearance and death of sandra coke. Randy alain that has been in jail for more than two weeks on a parole violation. He has not been charged in the death of his one time girlfriend sandra coke who was a federal investigator from oakland. Alana says he went to church with her the day she disperiod. During an interview, alana says even though they havent named me a suspect, they have treated me like one. We contacted sandra cokes family about what alana said. In a written statement they said why would we or anyone else believe what he has to say. It is 8 36. We continue our coverage of the Labor Day Weekend bay bridge shut down. We are now just 5 days and a little more than eleven hours away from wednesday nights closure. As a precaution transportation officials are preparing drivers to expect the worst. Traffic problems are being predicted at most of the other bridges across the bay. Brian flores is live now near the bay bridge toll plaza with transit alternatives and how transit information could become more precise. Good morning brian. Good morning, if you are a sentimental person at all, you will know today is the last friday, youll be able to driver over the old span of the bay bridge. This time next week it will be closed and you wont have to deal with the s curve or accidents or stalls because theyll be pulled to the side. It will be different next wednesday august 28th until the following tuesday, september 3rd. Thats when the bay bridge will be closed socal trans can make the transition lanes on the eastern span. Information will be the key and the metropolitan Transit Commission is working with the washington based company, inrex. They say they will be used crowd sourcing technology to deliver the most precise traffic information and they will get that information from cars, fleet vehicles, taxi drivers and mobile phones. We spoke with commuters this morning who say they are getting prepped and ready. Its going to be very bad for commuters, you know, people that go every day in cars. We dont have a choice. Im looking forward to the new technology, nut view, the more people going across it, now able to ride a bike. Im looking bard to it. Forward to it. Reporter now, again, as we have been mentioning you have alternate mentioning, you have alternativings, you can take the san mateo bridge, and b. A. R. T. Running 24 Hours Service and i said up and downed service of the and expanded service of the bay as well. And its going to be similar to that of a monday morning commute. Were live here just west of the toll plaza, brian flores ktvu channel 2 news. And at ktvu. Com youll find an extensive section on the bay bridge and roots to get around the 5 day disclosure. Just look for the link under hot topics. Time is 8 38. San francisco now suing to keep city college open. An Accreditation Commission plans to yank because of the alleged mismanagement. The City Attorney accuses the Commission Members of carrying out a vendetta. The lawsuit claims the state should never have given the responsibility for accrediting schools to a private commission and that the commission unfairly targeted city college. The burning manifest value starts man festival starts monday, and they should expect a lot of police. Tens of thousands of people were expected for the Counter Culture art and music festival. Its held every year in nevadas black rock desert. A few people have arrived early, say the police are already out in force. Theyre handing out tickets for minor infractions. Police in union city investigating a snake scam. They say a woman impersonating a city workers duped two elderly woman. The imposter came to the door, told them she was checking out an inif he is station ovonic infestation of snakes in the area and an accomplice stole jewelries they were only able to give a vague description. An Environmental Group has a new proposal to keep birds alive during construction on highway 101. The group says many birds that nest under the Petaluma River bridge have died in loose netting that was installed during the highway 101 widening project. The netting was originally put there to keep the birds way to protect them. One proposal is to do the work outside of nesting season. Another is to create artificial nesting structures. The 130 million project is expected to last at least 2 more nesting seasons. South bay control officials have more mosquito fogging planned for tonight. This is part of the the battle to contain the spread of the west nile virus. It will take at 11 00 p. M. Around the san jose municipal golf course. They have one confirmed human case of west nile virus. 14 cases statewide including two that were deadly. California is the first state in the country to call for limits on certain types of chromium in drinking water. Chromium 6 was made famous in the movie earn brock virtual. It is a cancer erin brochvich. They have proposed a maximum level of ten parts per billion. Public hearings in northern and Southern California on this issue in october. Time is 8 441. Two suspected domestic terrorists are in jail. The jailhouse interview with one of the suspects and the horrifying plot against the police. Good morning, right now, traffic is improving just a little bit here as you look at the golden gate bridge. Its certainly not bad heading down to the toll plaza. Lots of low clouds in place. Not as much of a breeze. Some locations, out of the west, but a slight warm up today. However, weekend forecast looks cooler. Well get to that coming up. Stocks are up slightly this morning after the government reported new home sales plugged to the lowest level in 9 months. Microsoft is actually surging as much as 8 after ceo steve balmer said he will retire in the next year. Taking live look at the big board, the dow is up 12. The nasdaq is up 9. And s p is up 2. Time now 8 45. A military jury starts its second day of deliberationings this morning in the case of Army Major Nidal Hasan accused of a deadly shooting rampage four years ago. Now, the major acted as his own lawyer. He admitted to being the gunman and gave no defense during his trial. He said the killing of 13 people and the wounding of 30 more at fort hood in texas was necessary to protect muslim insurgents from american soldiers. A conviction on premeditated murder could lead to the death penalty. Two suspected domestic terrorists are underarrest in las vegas. 67yearold Devon Campbell newman and 42yearold David Brutsche are accused of plotting to kidnap, torture and kill Police Officers. They belong to an extremist antigovernment group. In a jailhouse interview, newman says shes innocent. I have never been arrest instead my life. I have never done anything for which i could be arrested. An undercover officer discovered the alleged plot. Investigators say the suspects planned to hold a mock trial, then execute Police Officers for violations of the constitution. It is 8 46. Want to check in with sal, and its been a little busier than the typical friday light, especially if r august. I thought it would be just a especially for august. I know, i thought it would be just a little bit better. I want to show the traffic at the toll plaza still busy, especially in the middle lanes. This is the last commute friday for the regular portion. Next friday will be closed and after that, on the new eastern span. No major problems if you are driving on northbound 101. It has improved. We had a much earlier truck accident. It took a while for the traffic to unwind. As we look at some of the traffic on the east bay commute, traffic on highway 4 is much better than it was. 680 also looks good. And we have check instead with b. A. R. T. B. A. R. T. Is doing very well without delays. Caltrans and muni are the same. 8 47. Lets go to steve. A happy morning, gray skies, big fog bank inland. Temperatures slow to recover for some. Coast and bay probably wont change and just a little rope of a system here. But decent system coming out of the gulf of alaska for this time of year. I still maintain things are about a month ahead of schedule. This feels more like september than august to me but well see. A lot of tropical clouds taking aim at Southern California and the nevada over the next few days. 60s on the temps. 50s, the cloud cover came in early enough, and didnt low most locations to get below 55 or 56. 58 to 61 in most locations. You can see plenty of the fog deck continuing to push in. There are breaks in there. Some of the o low clouds making a big surge there, all the way inland, and past holster. Thats a strong push. National Weather Service talking about the potential for heavy rain. Today looks quieter. 90s. Maybe 80s over the weekend. Whats coming up from mexico, and cabo. Theres a remain of a tropical depression down there. A lot of moisture and this bears watching for Southern California and i think maybe in the Sierra Nevada early next week. 54 in tahoe. The smoke haze reports have been unbelievable. You can barely see the air quality is horrible, awful, take your pick. Thank you to everyone who sent in pictures or also tweeted me or emailed me. 50s for many. Sacramento, the smoke right there, get a look at it. The visible satellite to pick it up. That was yesterday but its starting to pick up again today. Thats all heading right over tahoe, truckee, into nevada, reno. A little cool down here fog, sunny, thunderstorms or anything. Maybe next week, warmer inland, breezy at times. The breeze seems to be less today than it was yesterday for most of the surface. There are a few locations in the higher elevations. 60s, 70s and 80s after today, though, looks cooler saturday than mostly cloudy on sunday. The weak system comes in and keep it there for early next week. Steve, thank you. Time is 8 49. Lets bring you up to date on other top stories were following for you. New information on the huge out of control wildfire just outside of yosemite. A map at the Fire Command Center shows the rim fire has grown to 105,000 acres. A big jump from yesterday, containment was 5 . Now its just 2 . Authorities in marin city searching for whoever shot a vallejo man several times last night. This happened about 7 30 in a parking lot off drake avenue. If you have any information, call the marin county sheriffs office. And a scary trend, theres also a warning for neighborhoods around the bay area. There are thieves out there posing as p and e workers pam cook is in the news room to tell us what homeowners is saying is happening to them. They wore vests and hard hats to convince the homeowners that they are pg e workers. There are reports from all over the bay area, the most recent just yesterday right in the middle of the afternoon, on upland drive, in san carlos, police say a person dressed as a pg e employee, approached the house, talked with the person who live there had and they walked to the backyard. During that distraction, another suspect went into the house, and took some cash. We spoke to a neighbor this morning. It could happen anywhere, from what i understand, it happened the house behind me, and its an older gentleman, and he may have been targeted because of his age, and the fact that he lives alone. Now, two weeks ago, a home in vallejo was robbed by two men posing as pg e workers. They took similar actions. At this point, police do not know if the cases are related, but two elderly men were also the targets in oakland earlier this week. Police say two men went to a home on sunny hills road and hillwood place. They apparently told the victims that they needed to check a utility easement and asked for access to the backyard. 5000 worth of cash and jewelry were stolen from that home. Now, pg e advises people to check for proper identification and call the company if youre in doubt. However, the two victims in oakland say they didnt question the men who came to the door because they had recently received a notice about utility inspections in their neighborhood. Reporting live in the news room, pam cook ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you pam. 9 minutes before 9 00. It was a really scary scene for giants fans at at t park last night. What doctors are saying now about pitching ace matt cane. Time is 8 54. Scientists at nasa aims getting ready to take a new approach at studying the atmosphere of the moon. The 280 Million Mission called lunar atmosphere was unveiled yesterday in washington. Now, this is the first spacecraft built, design and tested at nasa aims in mountain view. Scientists say it will float through the thin envelope of the atmosphere surrounding the moon. Its expected to collect very Important Information for future noon explorers. 8 55. Giants star pitcher matt cain is recovering after being hit by a line drive in last nights game against the pirates. That ball hit him. Wow. And hopefully hes okay. Yeah, wow. Cain left the game after getting nailed on the forearm in the 4 4th inning. Luckily he did not break any bones, but he does have a really in this casety bruise. Giants manager says its too early to tell if cain will miss his next start. By the way, the pirates beat the giants 105. The Oakland Athletics have a familiar face back behind home plate. On thursday, the as acquired catcher curt suduki from the washington nationals. He spent his first six seasons in the major leagues with oakland. The as top two catchers, john jaso and derek north are both injured. And check it out, the beard is back with a twist. Yesterday, former giants pitcher brian wilson whos with the Los Angeles Dodgers returned to the majors majors having his second tomny john surgery. Wilsons trademark beard period longer than before, and this time he had to tie the bottom with a rubber band. Im not sure if you can see the beard with a little rubber band. Still effective pitcher. Sals effective, too, hes been taking us through the morning commute and done a good job. And im going to stay clean shaven. Good. Lets go out and take a look at the commute now. The traffic on 101 is still a little bit slow. Started off rough for us because of some earlier problems, but now its just kind of unwinding there as you drive through. Bay bridge toll plaza, that commute is not all that bad. Backed up for a 10 to 15 minute delay. Could be worse and for some reason, some of the left lanes are not being used. Speaking of baseball, the giants play tonight at 7 15, entertaining the Pittsburgh Pirates and across the bay, at the o dot coliseum, its the raiders, another preseason game tonight at 7 00 and you can expect a lot of people showing up right about the time for the afternoon commute. Plan ahead for that. 8 57. Lets go to steve. Did you build those great graphics, sal. I did. Very nice. 60s by the coast, 70s, see the fog heading back to the beaches, i think we all know what happens here. 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