Transcripts For KTVU Mornings On 2 20131114

Power outage. And back to the big rig problem. We are also following up a rat invasion, happening in parts of San Francisco. The project is aimed at improving the citys mass traces it network that may be Mass Transit Network that may be to blame for it. The bay area honors the victims of typhoon haiyan. New efforts beginning today to help the survivors. Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on2. Live pictures where a big rig crash is creating major commuting problems for folks in the east bay this morning. What caused this wreck and when drivers could see reefer. Good morning, welcome once again to mornings on2. I am tory campbell. And i am dave clark. We will check your weather and traffic. Steve knows the forecast. A lot of fog and reports coming in. Thank you for the twitter updates. Fog forming in livermore. The east bay was excluded earlier from the frost advisory, but i will throw it in there just because. A lot of high clouds. Not only here but all over. The big news is dense fog advisories until 9 00. Again, the fog is forming in the east bay. There is really thick fog from santa rosa to oakland to san jose. Some areas dont have any, but others it is like a wall of fog. We get a lot of areas with dense fog. Fog near the coast. Hazy skies today. A little cooler. 40s and 50s on these temps now. Some of the inland areas unseasonal warm yesterday will continue to warm up. Most location will be in the upper 60s to lower 70s today. You can see the bands of higher clouds. A beautiful sunrise. Mostly sunny here, partly cloudy to the north. Morning fog and the frost advisory until 9 00. 60s to low 70s, and low 60s closer to the water. Westbound 08 traffic will be busy. Lets start a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, backed one a 20 minute delay. The 880 ramp will give you a better approach if you are driving town the bay bridge and deciding which way to go, 880 is the best way. South bay, northbound 280 as you come up on winchester, there is a crash right here. Traffic has been very slow throughout 280 all the way through downtown san jose. Southbound 101 at the matilda avenue offramp, there is also an injury crash there with a couple of cars involved and injuries reported. An overturned big rig is slowing traffic for a piece of the morning commute. Claudia wong is live on the scene with results on the back pain. Reporter that is right. It is still a mess out here in. The last ten minutes or so we have seen two more tow trucks arrive on the scene to try to get this big rig flipped over. They are having difficulty now. It looks like 8 30 is still the estimated time as to when this will be all cleared up. I am here with the california highway patrol. Can you tell me what the difficulty is . We can see the stop of the truck bowed out. What is the problem getting this up right and out of here . Really, the challenge we have is the saddle tanks. One is completely disconnect from the rig itself. So, it is rubtured. We have some fuel leakage onto the soil and another tank that may have been ruptured. A refrigerant unit that has freon powered by more diesel fuel itself. We have to take that into consideration when we are trying to up right it so we dont cause anymore problems or spills. Reporter we have seen the contra costa fire out here. They have been out here because this is what you were preparing for. That is correct. We were prepared beforehand. We had county hazmat, caltrans and fire out as a precautionary to assist with the possible spill of the fuel. We are glad we prepared for that because of what we discovered happened in the last 20 minutes or so. Reporter and we are looking at the commute here. Will it continue with delays any further . It will, unfortunately. We are thinking will it be 8 30 before we have this truck up righted and the scene cleared. We will keep the number 5 lane closed until that time for the crews. We will ask everybody to be patient on the roadways. Keep their eyes in front of them and not look at the scene if they can. Be patient, and safety is the main focus for all the drivers on the road. Reporter thank you for the update and joining us this morning. Again, that is the situation out here. It will not get better any time soon. It happened before 4 00 when the big rig driver says someone cut him off and ended up on the side of the road, overturned in the embankment, but traffic has been a mess ever since. Claudia wong, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you, claudia. It is 7 06. An Early Morning car crash is expected to cause power problems in one hayward neighborhood all morning long. A van hit a power pole at a and hathaway shortly after 1 00 this morning. The crash at one point knocked out power to 5,700 homes and businesses in the area. The accident also caused tense moments payer feel living in the community. Moments for People Living in the community. I was just sitting in the house. I hear a loud boom and i see the van out here. I aint got no power. Number of homes and businesses without power is now up to 50. The power is hoped to be restored before noon. In the meantime the driver involved in the crash is facing drunk driving charges. Ten suspects accused in the Identity Theft of Cancer Patients in the east bay claim they are innocent. Police say bags full of stolen documents were found at the avatar hotel in santa clara. A hundred victims have been identified from all over the area, including 35 breast Cancer Patients. Investigators found a stolen patient list from a Breast Cancer center from the Summit Medical center in oakland. There was a ton of stolen mail. There were notebook, including peoples personal identifying information, names, date of birth, Social Security number, and credit card information. The prosecutor, jennifer dunn, said most of the patients said new credit cards were open in their name or a current credit card was used illegally. The suspects are identified as a 37yearold and 36yearold, both from san jose. Both entered not guilty pleas. If they are convicted they could get 8 years in jail. It is 7 08. The fbi has released a new report on bay area cities and their success in solving crime. San pablo had the most success, solving 92 of its homicide. San jose was 66 . San francisco was 44 . Oakland was 35 and richmond had the worst rate when it comes to tracking down killers with just 30 . The fbi says the big gap is due to many factor, including Police Staffing and city budgets. Oakland police are search for a man who stole a car and led them a chase last night. The driver of this acura is suspected of burglarizing several downtown cars and stealing laptops. He hit two cars while escape from police last night, then abandoned the stolen car around north oakland. At 9 00 p. M. Police chased him after seeing him and another suspect break into a car downtown. The other man was captured. Now to our continuing coverage of typhoon haiyan. The process of burying typhoon victim in a mass grave has good. It is happening in tack low baa where most of the city is just rubble. Many of the people there havent be food or clean water in a week and the Philippine Government is being criticized for its slow response. About 16 members of the south bay Filipino American Community Came together for the candlelight vigil for the victims of the typhoon. The people there have struggled to reach their loved ones after the storm knocked out phone and internet service. My hometown in the philippines is not okay. There is a lot of damage going on. I really wish i could be there. Now, the nations are being collected by survivors. One growth group is also working to organize a task force to pressure the Philippine Government to provide more aid and distribute it faster. It is 7 10. We are following developing news in Southern California where police are investigating the shooting death of the father of a california legislature. Police say joseph gotto may have been trying to interpret a burglary when he was shot at his home. This is scene in the los angeles silver lake neighborhood. He was the father of assemblyman, mike botto, who represents the states 46th district in los angeles. We have more as we track the story in the newsroom and we will have a live report at 7 30. Happening right now, a congressional hearing look into the deadly shooting of a transportation Security Officer at lax earlier last month. The House Sub Committee on transportation security wants to investigate how such a shooting could be prevented in the future. The 39yearold, girardo, hernandez, was the first tsa officer killed in the line of duty. At the same hearing this morning. Lawmakers will look into a tsa program to screen suspicious behavior of passengers at airports. A new report suggests it is not affected. In fact, the 7 year program called screening of passengers by observation techniques or spots, showed results that were no better than changes according to the Government Accountability office. Under the program tsa agents identified suspicious looking people and talked to them to determine whether they posed a threat. The program has cost almost 1 billion since 2007. All right. Get ready. The construction work on the new central subway tunnel in San Francisco has caused major problems with rats in one neighborhood. People living in the area say rats have been swarming that empty lot near the freeway off ramp at 4th and bryant. Rats come out at broad daylight and say it is worse at night. Construction jobs often cause rodents to scurry out into the surrounding areas. All right. Yuck. 7 12. A terrifying message from the cockpit on a southwest flight. Because we are going down. And everybody is looking around like is this a joke . Is this serious . Then we felt the nose dive. Find out what caused the emergency and the surprising ending. Plus, was it political payback . Find out why one state senator said the reason the fbi is investigating him for accepting bribes has nothing to do with actual wrong doing. Good morning. We have slow traffic all over the place, in the east bay especially. A lot of traffic coming out of pittsburg on the 4. And from hillsburg, san jose and livermore, the fog will be with us at least until 9 00. We will talk about how that will impact temperatures and more, coming up. Ck seat of myu is where she grew up. What . announcer the subaru forester. girl what . announcer motor trends two thousand fourteen Sport Utility of the year. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Welcome back. Happening right now, janet yellen, the woman president obama nominated to take over the leadership reserve is at a Senate Confirmation hearing this morning. There she is. She is currently the vice chair of the Federal Reserve board, due to replace ben bernanke, whose second term will end january 31st. She would be the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve in its 100 year history in confirmed. Jpmorgan chase was forced to cancel a questionandanswer session on twitter after being flooded with insulting comments. Twothirds of the 0,000 tweets sent to the askjtm had a negative comment, some making fun of the banks attempts to use social media and many were critical in the banks role in the forecast and economic downturn. And ron calderon says he is being investigated by fbi because he refused to take part in an fbi sting against Senate Leader darryl steinberg. According to fbi documents calderon took 88,000 from an fbi agent posing as a movie producer. But now calderon has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the fbi is retaliating against him. Calderon says that is because he refused an fbi request to record conversations with steinberg using a hidden microphone. The state senate recently stripped calderon of miscommittee assignments because of the fbi investigation. Calderon denies any wrong doing. The u. S. Government distributed a list of nearly 5,000 americans to federal agency, including the Internal Revenue service, the cia, National Security agency and food drug administration. The names came from the customer records of two men who were under criminal investigation for reportly teaching people how to pass lie detector tests. Authorities de a authorities de a uthorities hope to find federal ploys who try to use information to lie for security clearances. Critiques say it is a breech of privacy. Today, police in walnut creek plan to take down three homeless encampments located near a creek in the area of south california boulevard and newwell avenue, south main street even lilac drive. All together will are a dozen people in three sites. Police received 70 complaints about the camps. Major safety improvements will soon be made to a dangerous crosswalk in cloverdale in sonoma county. Last night the City Council Approved a plan to install flashing light on each side of the crosswalk and a new overhead street light. In the past year police say there have been at least five pedestrian accident on south cloverdale boulevard and heelsburg avenue. The latest happened on halloween night when a car hit and injured two boys. In july a woman was killed at the same intersection. All right, tory. Time now 7 18. We have been hearing about morning traffic problems all morning long. Sal, what have you heard . That is right, tory and dave. There has been an overturned truck causing problems here. The traffic is slow back to the car key has bridge as they work to clear this crash. The rest of Costa Concordia bridge is slow. Some contra costa bridge is slow. More people on the road than usual. 808 zero between heyburg and free front is better. San jose southbound 101 at the matilda offramp has an injury accident. Bart the back on time after much earlier delays. And more pictures. The bay bridge is backed up for a 10 to 15 minute delay. Not that bad get into San Francisco. The fog, steve and i have been talking about it all morning. You can see how foggy it is on the golden gate bridge. Steve . Lets talk weather. Some locations in inland, although fog has been drift into part office the east bay, a couple of reports from livermore, blossom hill is beautiful. Thick fog here. Maybe where you are. If that is the case tweet me. I appreciate the info. A lot of high clouds to the north. Mendocino county and other areas there. A dense frost advisory. Beautiful sunrise in lake county. Thank you to chloe for sending me the picture. The coast and valley locations except for the east bay has awful visibility until 9 00 with the dense fog advisor. 40s and 50s on the temps. Some location will be on the mild to warm side, antioch being one. 73 for a high after a low of 51. By 5 00 if you are sitting out yesterday, the temps around 5 00 or 6 00 drop fast. It will be warm for a few and cooler at the coast and bay because of the higher clouds. Hazy sunshine and cooler, mild. The fog meets upper 50s, low 60s. Misty conditions in pacifica. A couple reports in the bay area. High pressure winds out today slowly. A low coming in from the north and east mainly. It will pick up the breeze. I dont think will it be that windy but a cold, dynamic system to the north and east of us. Breezy and the temperatures will be cooler from friday to saturday. Higher elevations in the north and east bay hills. Not only that the fire danger goes up in november. A lot of morning fog. Once that punishes off a little cooler on the once that burns off, a little cooler on the highs. Oakland 66 right now. 68 in san jose. 67 santa cruz. Cupertino upper 60s to near 70. A lot of 60s on the peninsula, mid to upper and 50s and 60s on the coast. Lows in the 30s saturday and sunday morning inland. Thank you, steve. 7 22. San francisco Cycling Community mourns a cyclist hit and killed by a muni bus. The public memorial in two minutes. Plus, tracking a thief stealing packages in the east bay. The video that may lead to an arrest. Welcome back. This morning 3 suspects have been arrested in the robbery of two uc Berkeley Students at gunpoint. It happened monday night on ban croft way near the reactional sports facility. One of the students robbed is a Staff Photographer for the student paper, the daily californian. He says his wallet, phone and backpack containing his laptop were taken. Police have recovered most of the stolen items. And bowling can boeing can move some its Training Operations to napa. The Napa County Airport stopped outing the facility after claiming bankruptcy three years ago. Now boeing which has a close relationship with them expressed interest in using the crass rooms, hangars and simulators. Napa county officials have not seen a written proposal for a deal yet. 7 25. A woman on a southwest Airline Flight said the pilot scared everybody by saying we are going down over the loud speaker. She says it happened tuesday night on a florida from tampa, florida to raleigh, north carolina. The woman says the announcement came after the plane nose dived as they were approaching the airport. The plane landed safely but the woman said everybody was scared. I thought i was going to do i doo and that is what everybody on that plane thought that, we were all going to die. By one word from the captain. Southwest Airlines Says the pilot may have accidental turned on the pa system while talking to the flight attendants as plane was descending. It was in turbulence, too. The f. A. A. Is investigating. 7 26. There could soon be fewer places to light up in the south bay. The city that is considering widening its ban on smoking. And he didnt hear from his pregnant wife and daughter for four days when typhoon haiyan hit the island. Now he is heading over there and how he plans to help others, next. Good morning. The traffic will be busy this morning on 280 in san jose because of earlier problems. Now we are getting word of a new problem in the east bay. Fog is a big story for most, not all of us. Thick fog advisories until 9 00 but inland temps may be on the warm side again. We will take another look, coming up. Tn it is 7 30. Live pictures from the sfo where a man is leaving, on his way to the philippines where his pregnant wife is in the middle of the typhoon devastation there. More on his visit in a live report. I am tori campbell. And good morning, i am dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve, i ducked outside and it is cloudy outside the studio yes, it is cloudy. Reports from across the area here. A lot of higher clouds are to the north, but a few make it down to gilroy. A foggy morning for many until 9 00. The dense frost advisory is out. It does not include the east bay even though we are getting signs of east bay fog forming. Poor visibility is awful, as you know. For the morning, dense fog and high clouds. Hazy and a little cooler. Still mild inland. Not as warm as yesterday. Some of the temperatures here, 50s for some. A lot of 40s here. Redwood city is 51 degrees. I think we will see them hit about 68. I will tell you it drops fast, as you know. Once we get to 5 00 the temperatures take the tumble even though it was really nice yesterday. Cloud cover and cloudty the north. Partly cloudy later on here. Hazy sunshine. That fog is the huge story this morning. A little cooler on the afternoon highs. Too much fog in the area. The big story is a cooler pattern tomorrow and saturday we will get more on that. 60s and low 70s for most of today. Here is sal. Good morning. We are looking at traffic in the east bay that probably cant get much worse on interstate 80, westbound 80. We have been talking about the big rig and we are looking at the toll plaza here. The traffic is going to be busy. If you are coming in on 880, it should be very nice, a much nicer drive trying to get through because the 880 ramp is lighter than usual. Lets talk about 880. Traffic in oakland is moving well in both directions. We dont have the big back up we have sometimes at this hour. The east shore freeway, claudia has been at the scene of the overturned truck. There is a small grass fire, now, as well near cummings, so the whole area of the bay is going to be rough right there as a result of that overturned truck. I also want to mention 680 is slow from 242, backed up from highway 4. A lot of people on that freeway, as well. 7 32. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you. Now to our continuing coverage of typhoon haiyan. International aid starting to get to the philippine, a including a u. S. Navy Aircraft Carrier with 5,000 sailors. More than a half Million People there have been displaced by the typhoon disaster. Many of them have not had food, water and medicine for a week. Well, for four day as man with local ties to the bay area didnt hear from his pregnant wife and daughter, caught in the middle of typhoon haiyan. Just yesterday he heard they are safe and sound and now he is on his way to see them. Ktvu brian flores is live right now. You talked to him on the phone . Reporter i sure did, dave. Steven carpenter lives in oregon but has bay area ties. He grew up in berkeley and has his masters degree from uc berkeley. He is here at sfi to go see his pregnant wife. She is nine months pregnant, days away from giving birth. There was obvious concern from steven when the typhoon hit the islands. He didnt hear from his family for four agonizing days. His family lives in tacloban where the typhoon did most of the damage. He was happy to hear his family was able to head to safety. They are doing just fine. We spoke withstein over the phone. He described the situation from what his wife was see from the ground. There is no food, water, medicine, they willero clothes. The people are literally starving. Dead bodies are all over the streets and people are dying on a daily basis. Reporter steven was able to confirm his wife was okay after getting a phone call and hearing his wifes voice yesterday. He posted a message through social media and a website to raise money for other victims there, as well. His first priority, obviously, is to see his wife and daughter, and to bring supply, Fire Department aid kids and Water Purification pacts for those suffering. Supplies are slowly trickling in but it is a slow process. Benz able to raise 2,000 through his website to buy the supplies. Again, he hopes to bring his wife and daughter home in the coming days. He is expected to arrive around 8 00. We hope to speak with him then. Live at sfo, brian flores. Thank you, brian. More than a thousand nurses have volunteered to go to the philippines and help with the relief efforts, including a Bay Area Group of nurses. They are scheduled to leave sfo at 5 00 this evening. More than 1,005 money nurses from all 50 states and 12 nations have volunteered for the relief effort. This is the last day of the threeday donation drive at the san jose university, where students are working with the Nonprofit Group project pearls, collecting items including canned goods and baby foods. If you want to help out, log on to www. Ktvu. Com. We post at list of all the Additional Resources for sending help to the philippines. Check it out and look for the hot topics section. It is 7 36. Police in San Francisco are on the lookout for a Sexual Assault suspect. They released this sketch of the visible. He is described individual. He is described as white, 25 to 28 years old, 58 and 170 pounds. The assault happened on july 30th but it was not reported until last month. The victim was walking in the Richmond District when a man drove up and asked for directions. He convinced her to get in his car and direct him to the legion of honor. Police say he drove to el Camino Del Mar and Sexual Assaulted her then. A memorial will be held tonight for a cyclist hit and killed by a muni bus last month. The 70yearold of San Francisco was hit at 11th and bryant street on october 18th. The Bicycle Coalition says le was the 4th person to be killed biking in the city this year. It starts at 6 00 at the 6th Street Community room at 6th and mission. Muni is now investigating an incredible incident, a run away train in San Francisco. A metro train loaded with passengers pulled away from a station without its operator. Surveillance video shows the train at the castro station yesterday morning. The driver gets out to check a jammed door. The door then closes and the single car train operating an automatic mode pulls out of the station with 30 people on board and the driver is still on the platform i think had the emergency brake been applied then the train would not have moved. Had there not been an intervention with the emergency stop, the train would have gone to forest hills serviced the platform and opened the doors. It was a passenger who finally stopped the train by pulling the emergency brake. Ktvu has learned the passenger is a contractor for the clipper card service used by many bay area commuters. Time now 7 38. Tesla stock shares are down slightly this morning, one day after three employees were hurt in an industrial accident at the tesla factory. It happened around noontime yesterday. Hot metal spilled onto the workers. They were treated at santa clara Medical Center in san jose. They had an industrial accident involving pressurized equipment and it resulted in 300 employees being treated for burns. One worker is released to the hospital and two others are admitted to the burn unit. A tesla ceo, elon musk, visited them and said two workers should make full recoveries. The third was badly burned on his hands. Cal osha is investigating what happened. Tesla released this statement yesterday. If you smoke and live in palo alto, you may have to be more careful where you do it, that is if city leaders get that way. City Council Members want to expand the current outdoor pan. Now more live from palo alto to tell us what is being prosed and more. Jean . Reporter good morning, tori. We are here on University Avenue where we spotted several cigarettes butts here on the ground even though you are not supposed to smoke here because it is within 25 feet of a Public Entrance. City leaders want to take the ordinance even further. They want to go beyond the 25 feet and prohibit people from smoking downtown and on side streets and california avenue business districts, saying it will eliminate the small pockets outside the 25foot buffer zone and make enforcing the ban easier. We spoke to a man whose 38year old sister is suffering from lung cancer, stage 4, she got from Secondhand Smoke. She has to walk around palo alto with a mask on her face because it is that bad. And people dont know what 25 feet is. They just think i am outside, i can smoke. They are not out there with a tape measure actually measuring 25 feet w. The wind is blowing, 25 feet is nothing. Reporter city leaders noted the dangers of Secondhand Smoke for customers shopping or dining outdoors. They hope it stops, as well, the littering of cigarette butts in the area. The committee will look at the issue further coming up. We tried to stop people on the street who think this is not a good idea and talk to smokers, but so far havent run into anybody who are veemently opposed to this idea, but we will keep trying to find somebody who currently smokes and what they have to say about this idea. Live from palo alto, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you, jeanine. A two part ktvu donation uncovers donated food meant for tafood bank stolen and on sale at a flea market. I think people deserve an answer. This was supposed to go to needy people. Ktvu goes undercover to get answers tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 5 00 to investigate how donations got to this flea market. On the 10 00 new wes follow the food trail to a warehouse filled with items. 2 investigates tonight at 5 00 and 10 00. Criminals target Cancer Patients by stealing some vital information. Name, date of birth, Social Security number, credit card information. Where the criminals got this data and how they were busted in a south bay hotel room. And find out what is happening at the caldecott tunnel starting tonight to prepare for the accepted opening of the new 4th quarter. Good morning. Traffic will be slow in the south bay as you drive into the valley. We will tell you why it is extra slow get into sunnyvale. The forecast for the 4th bore is smooth sailing, but fog, a lot of it this morning. We will talk about the dense fog advisory and how it impacts temps, coming up. You look like me. O thats it . No little debbie . Thats because i am you. Or who you used to be. Back when you ate little debbie. Ive got some tasty things. Not like these. Remember . Donuts. Aisle four. Your love for little debbie is something you never outgrow. Youre gonna pay for that, right . U. S. Stocks, little change with the nomination of janet yellen. They are hoping for easing of the fed economic stimulus program. All the major indexes and cisco has stock down over 12 . Take a live at the big board. The dow is up 19. The nasdaq is down 2. The s p 500 is up 3. 7 45. For the fifth week in a row, the number of americans making first time claims for jobless benefits is down. 339,000 people filed for Unemployment Insurance for the first time last week. That is 2,000 fewer than the week before. And the numbers are now pre recession levels again. The steady decline is a indication that companies are laying off or firing very few workers. If you have one of the new chrome books, do not use the charger that came with it. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has received several complaint that is the charger can overheat. Google, hewlettpackard, amazon and best buy wont sell anymore croak books 11s until google can figure out how to fix the problem. The chrome books went on high less than two months ago. This could be the year of gift cards. Four of every five americans plan to buy at least one gift card this year. The highest in the past 11 years the National Association has kept record on gift cards. Time now, 7 46. New this morning mob boss James Whitey Bulger was sentenced this morning. Two life prison sentences, plus five years, for his crimes in boston in the 1970s and 1980s. The sentencing came after the 84yearold mob boss was arrested by the fbi in santa monica in 2011 after being on the run for 16 years. Bulger refused to even look at his victims during his innocencing hearing and called his trial a sham. He was convicted in august of the 19 killings he was charged with. Shot and killed in his home. The victim, a california lawmakers father. More about the possible motive. Yes, the father of state assemblyman, mike got toe, was found shot to death in los angeles. Police say it looks like a home invasion. The body of joseph gotto was found at 8 15 last night by the daughter who went to the home to check on him. It is in the silver lake area, part of his sons district which includes burbank and glendale. Police say the home was ransacked and joseph gotto may have been trying to interrupt a burglary when he was shot. The l. A. Times says his son was in sacramento at the time and was going to catch a flight this morning to los angeles. I just spoke with one of the assemblymen representatives in his office in the burbank area who says they will send us any updated information as well as a statement from the assemblyman. Pam cook, live from the newsroom. Thank you, pam. 7 48. We are learning about a new scandal involving the Secretary Service agents, two of them investigated and being removed from president obamas security detail after an incident at the haze adams hotel in washington, d. C. Reportly one of the agents tried to get back into the room of a woman he met at the hotel bar after he realized he left a bullet behind. The post say as routine search of the agents blackberry uncovered sexually suggestive emails the anxiety and supervisor sent to a female co worker. New, east bay driver, be prepared for traffic delays at the caldecott tunnel, putting the finishing touches on the new 4th bore. Only one bore will be opened in each direction between 10 00 p. M. And 4 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The final leg will continue friday night through at least saturday morning. Drivers should expect 30 minute delays. The new bore is due to open some time between saturday and monday morning. In the meantime, First Responders will hold another fire drill inside the new bore. This is the final phase of the project. Look at the drill from earlier this week. The goal is to make sure the new tunnel is safe in case there is a fire or any other emergency. In 1992 the caldecott was the scene of one of the deadliest tunnel fires in American History. Seven people were killed after a Chain Reaction crash involving a gas tanker. Right. Well, all of us in the studio drive through caldecott every gallon yes. We are looking forward to the fourth bore opening. Yes. Sal what, is going on in the traffic studio . It is hard to say which area has been worse today. We will start in the south bay where an earlier accident on 280 to winchester is now gone, but the traffic is still super heavy. I put up the maps. All the south bay freeways are slow. You can see a lot of red on the road sensors. See that, impressive . Well, not very impressive because that is a lot of slow traffic you see here in san jose. Southbound 80 is backed up to the fremont. Of course bound 80 car the cartinas bridge they are still clearing an accident involving a big rig. We will tell you more about that in a live report coming up. The bay bridge toll plaza westbound backed up for 15 to 20 minutes before you make it into San Francisco. Now, here is steve. Good morning. Under clear skies for some. Very, very foggy for others. Mark central, san rafael is extremely foggy. There are so many reports this morning i cant give all the shoutouts. From santa rosa all the way to gilroy, high clouds. Some areas see sun already but others are still very cloudy. The fog is big story here. A dense frost advisory until 9 00. It excluded the east bay accept livermore. Pockets of fog, low clouds and very thick. 40s and 50s on the temps. Some of the areas like antioch which have been really, really warm will not be as warm today, but still in the mild to warm category. 73 on a high in antioch. That temp drops fast once you get to 6 00 or 7 00. Starting off, though, at 51 this morning. Now 52 degrees. Areas of fog give way to mostly sunny skies or partly cloudy skies to the north. 24 in tahoe. Sacramento is 49. Fresno is 49. 67 in los angeles. You can see the higher cloud band over the north bay that will give out cloudy morning. High pressure and winds out a little bit today, weakening. A low moving in to the north and east, a cold system. Morning fog, high clouds and a cooler, breezy pattern. Temperatures will drop 10 degrees inland areas toward friday to especially saturday where it will be near 60 degrees. The wind probably wont be a big deal, but we will mention it on the Higher Elevations and coast. Mostly sunny and partly cloudy. Especially to the north bay, partly cloudy. A lot of the higher clouds made for a beautiful sunrise. A little cooler, 60s and 70s on the temps. 70s for some. San jose 68. 66 in san mateo. 68 in palo alto, menlo park and redwood city. We have a little cooler pattern. The wind picks up on friday. In the morning inland areas in the 30s. Highs will be low, low 60s. All right well, the time now 7 53. The fbi is issuing a report card on the bay area homicide investigations are 70 of the murders are not being solved. Plus, meet paul the bear. A lovable 400pound animal with a popular twitter page. How the effort to save meatball has turned to a bitter feud over his name. I love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Pediatrician,. Well, this 400pound bear in glendale called meatball was caught diving into trash cans and dump sites. Well that, is how he got his name. A woman started a twitter page for meatball, copy righted the name and planned to write a childrens book. Now there is a legal battle over who owns the rights to the name. I have to sign over everything, otherwise i can never see him again. I am like what is this, a ran some note . Well ransom note . Well, both sides want to raise money to take care of meatball. It costs 10,000 to take care of the bear every year. Well, scientist will be trapping mountain lions in the east bay starting this month, the goal the bay area puma project to tag the big cats with radio collars and take samples to find out how they are and how they share their territory. The study cover as big area between Mount Hamilton and the carquinez straights. The meeting will be held at the Sustainable Living place in oakland. The San Francisco Planning Commission is expected to approve an agreement today to turn the masonic auditorium into a yearround entertainment venue. The city plan inner charge of the project says the planner in charge of the project says the proposal addresses the knob hill area where bands tour. People in the area express concerns about loud music, alcohol and the bands tour buses. A big crash this morning knocked out power in an east bay neighborhood. We are there live. How long the power could be out and what we now know about the driver, coming up. And crews still trying to figure out how to get rid of this overturned big rig along interstate 80. Coming up we will show you the new tactics they are trying to get this out of the way and how much longer they think this will all take. And after all these reports of fog, north bay, east bay, south bay, and the coast, the big clouds will hang to the north. We will take a look at that and how the temperatures shake out today. [ male announcer ] you can change your tomorrow if you do something today. And theres never been a better time because this year, Devry University has 45 Million Dollars in need and meritbased scholarships and grants available to those who qualify. And this degree can make a difference. In 2012, 90 of Devry University grads actively seeking employment had careers in their field within 6 months. Now is your time. Apply by january 6th and find your career success in the bay area. Visit devry. Edu. Welcome back to ktvu fox 2 news. Lets start with a look at the temperatures today. Fog all around the area. Hazy sunshine and cooler today. At the bay, low to mid 60s. Here is sal. Good morning. Traffic is going to be pretty busy if you are driving in the east bay. Getting into San Francisco on the bay bridge is getting a little better, though. Westbound bay bridge is backed up for about a 10 to 15 minute delay. If you are approach from 880, it should be okay. It should be the best bet for to you get through quickly if you have fast track. Looking at the south bay, very, very slow. 101 to 80, 85, a series of crashes. You can see most of the roadways are slow. Traffic remains backed up for mile on westbound 80 off the carquinez bridge, all stemming from a big rig crash that happened more than four hours ago. Ktvu channel 2 reporter claudia wong is live in pinole where she has been since 4 30. She has details on the progress so far and the work that still lies ahead. Reporter it looks like it will be another couple of hours before they can get this big rig out of the way. Let me show what you they just started doing in the last couple of minutes. This is a refrigerated truck carrying food to the trader joes just down the street from where we are. The truck driver was in the exit lane when this accident happened. What you are looking at is some of what make this is truck 25,000pounds. They still need to flip it over. They are hoping by offloading some of the product inside it will ease the weight and that will make it easier to flip it over. Come back here because i want to show you something about where all this food is. You can see it is resting toward the top end of this truck. They are trying to flip this back over. On the other side of the truck, from the underside, you can see the other problems they were having this morning. Under here you can actually see there are fuel tanks on the sides. There are several of them. One of them actually came off the vehicle and you can see in the dirt there it spilled diesel. Hazmat is on the scene to make sure once the truck is out of the way they can clean up the diesel fuel and get it out of the way. County hazmat people are here as well as caltrans. If you come down here you can see what all the drivers have been dealing with this morning. That is the large amount of traffic backed up on i80, since this all happened before 4 00 this morning. It is a mess out here. They have one lane closed, but really, everyone is slowing down to take a look at all the activity here. It is basically a parking lot all the way back to the carquinez bridge. It is slow going. One driver came by and took a picture. Not something the chp would recommend. They want everybody to keep their hands on the wheel and eyes forward. Another couple of hours before this is all cleaned up. They are hoping to get this done as soon as possible. Take a look at the toll plaza top of the truck, beaud out from all the food bowed out from all the food spilling forward. Fortunately in all this, no one is hurt. That is good news. The truck driver said someone cut him off to get off the freeway and get to his destination at trader joes. Obviously he never made it. All the food never made it, either. Thank you, claudine. An Early Morning car crash is expected to cause power problems all morning long in one hayward neighborhood. Police say a van hit a power pole at hayward street. Now with more information on the driver, the crash and the blackout. Good morning, paul. Reporter good morning. I want to you take a look yourself. You can see it much better now in the daylight. The pole right there is basically dangling, hanging by the top wires. It is split in half there. On the other ground you can see the other parts laying right there. The truck took it out and split it right there in half. Now, police say this all happened just after 1 00 this morning. The van crashed into the pole, hitting it so hard it left part of the pole dangling and the transformer came crashing down to the ground. A pga worker told me the pole should be 15 to 20 feet higher than what it is now. We spoke with one man this morning who said he heard the collision. It was a loud boom, i thought like a plane had crashed or something. I came outside and then i see this van parked over there and thinking what is going on . My power went out and everything in the house shut off. Reporter pg e reported the power outage impacted 5,700 customers and the number is now down to less than 50 at this hour. Crews have a lot of work cut out for them because they have to repair two poles that will last until at least noon. The driver is being held on suspicion of dwi. Come back here live now. Right there you can see the lights out here in this area. Use this as a four way stop since they are out. Cars are going through but they should be stopping. It is dangerous at this time. If you are in this area, have that extra caution in this area. The cars should be stopping as a fourway stop but it looks as if they continually buzz right through. Hopefully things will get better later this morning. Paul chambers, ktvu fox 2 news. Time now 8 07. Two south bay women accuseed in an Identity Theft targeting more than a hundred victims, according to police, including Cancer Patients. Police found bags full of stolen documents at the avatar hotel in st. Clair last week. Officials called the police saying they needed help evicting the women. They had been staying there and tried to use a fake credit card. Authorities say the victims include 35 breast Cancer Patients. Investigators say they found a stolen patient list from the Cancer Center in oakland. It is horrifying that these people who are in such a tough time in their lives are getting victimized by random strangers who dont care. It is still not clear how the women allegedly got ahold of the patient list, but the investigation goes on. The suspects are identified as a 37yearold and 36yearold of san jose. Both have entered not guilty pleas. They are due back in court later this month. If convicted they could get eight years in jail. It is 8 08. The fbi has released a new report on bay area cities and their success in solving crime. San pablo had the most success, solving 92 of its homicides. San jose was 66 . San francisco 44 . Oakland 35 . And richmond had the worst rate when it came to tracking down killers with just 30 of those crimes solved. The fbi says this big gap is due to many factor, including Police Staffing and city budgets. Oakland police are searching for a man who stole a car and led them on a chase last night. The driver of the acura is suspected of burglarizizing several downtown cars and stealing lap tons. He hit two laptops. He hit two cars while escaping last night, then abandoned the car in north oakland. Police started chasing him after 9 30 p. M. Seeing him and another suspect trying to break into another car downtown. The other man was captured. Now to our continuing coverage of typhoon haiyan. The process of burying typhoon victim in a mass grave is starting, in tacloba, where most of the city is rubble. Food and water is now just starting to reach the half Million People displaced. Emhave not had food or clean water in a week. The Philippine Government is being criticized for its slow response. I once was lost but now i am found. About 60 members of the south bay Filipino Community gathered in south bay for a candlelight vigil for the typhoon victims. People there have struggled to reach loved ones after the typhoon knocked out phone and internet service. Any town is not okay. There is a lot of damage going on. I really wish i could be there. Donations are being gathered. One youth group is working to organize a task force to pressure the Philippine Government to provide more aid and hand it out faster. 8 10. Happening right now, a congressional hearing looking into the deadly shooting of a transportation Security Agency officer at lax earlier this month. The House Sub Committee on transportation security wants to investigate how to prevent such a shooting in the future. 39yearold Girardo Hernandez was the first tsa officer killed in the line of duty. And at the same hearing this morning, lawmakers will also look into a tsa program to screen suspicious behavior of passengers at airports. A new report suggests it is not effective. The 7 year program, called screening of passengers by observation techniques, or spot, showed results that were no better than chance according to the Government Accountability office. Under the program tsa agents identify suspicious looking people and talk to them to determine whether they pose a threat. The program has cost almost 1 billion since 2007. Time now is 8 11. A possible fix for obama . The change president obama will be announcing in just a couple of minutes from now to make good on his promise to people who have Health Insurance plans they like can keep them. We have details on what the president will say come into the newsroom right now. And on twitter, how a social media chat turned into a Public Relations nightmare for jpmorgan chase. And right now the traffic is improving in some areas, but still very slow getting into the valley. We will run that down for you. And lots of fog out there. That seems to be the biggest story this morning. A frost advisory until 9 00. If you are above it, it is nice but a lot of high clouds in the north bay. Cooler today. We will have the temperatures coming up. Happening right now, genuinelet yellen, the woman who janet yellen, the woman who president obama nominated to take over the Federal Reserve is in a senate hearing. These are live pictures of the hearing. Yellen is currently vice chair of the Federal Reserve board. She is a professor at uc berkeleys Business School and served as the Federal Reserve president of San Francisco. She is said to replace ben bernanke whose second term ends january 31st. If confirmed, yellen would be the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve in its 100year history. Jpmorgan chase was forced to cancel a questionandanswer session on twitter after being flooded with insulting comments. Twothirds of the 80,000 tweets sent to the askjpm had some sort of negative comments. Some made fun of the banks attempt to use social media and many were harshly critical in the banks role in the foreclosure crisis and economic downturn. Google, facebook, microsoft, yahoo and linkedin sued for federal information they asked to be turned over. They lost and will asked to explain the decision they were given multipage reports with large sections cleared out. Even security was not allowed to see the report. The government is not commenting on the latest complaints. The coast guard is searching the Pacific Ocean for a woman who reportly intentionally went overboard on a cruise from San Francisco to hawaii. The coastguard helicopter is focusing on an area about 750 miles northeast of hawaiis big island. A cruise ship spokesperson says the grand princess has video showing the woman intentionally going overboard. San francisco is the home port of that familiar cruise ship. It was in the middle of a 15 more day round trip cruise to hawaii but changed court. Now they are looking for the missing woman. With in menlo park say they improved the Emergency Alert system after sundays big scrap metal fire in redwood city, prompted shelter warnings in three bay area counties. Menlo park police say a lot of people didnt get the Emergency Alert calls because the system was programmed to only call each number one time. The system has been changed now to make three calls. If people dont answer the first time. People are being asked to sign up for texts and email alerts. 8 17. So, a surprising confession from former heavyweight boxing champion mike tyson in his new book entitle undisputed truth. He claims he was strung out on cocaine during several fights. He said he first tried the drug at the age of 11. Tyson adds he continued to have sex while behind bars for raping a beauty queen. He has sex with female visitors three times a day during his three years in prison. Time now 8 18. Alameda county seeing a big jump in the number of Homeless People suffer from Mental Illness. The oakland review reports the number of Homeless People with severe Mental Illness has gone up 35 in two years. Close to 60 of the subjects in the survey are sleeping on the streets and not in shelters. Homeless advocates say cutting funding in Mental Health programs may be a big part of the blame. And there is a big dispute over Homeless People in the city of albany. The homeless are suing the city, hoping to block albany from removing people from living on a plot of land known as the albany bulb. Officials want a nocamping ordinance enforced to clean up the area. It is 8 18. Lets check in with sal. Quite oo few problems out there. Is south bay still slow . Northbound 101, 280 and 5 have been be slow. No major crashes. A couple of things happened but no significant crash, but it sure did slow traffic as you drive into the valley. 101, 280 and 85 and a lot of the other expressways are slow. Things are starting to get a little better finally. Look at the maps. You can see here highway 87 is slow as we push in. 880 southbound is slow from 238 tosteinson boulevard and fremont. Then we move to 80 westbound because of the truck still there on westbound 80 as we have been reporting all morning, the truck that overturned carrying frozen food on the shoulder. Traffic is not only slow on 80 but highway 4 approaching 80. The bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for a 10 minute delay. 8 19. Steve . Thank you, sal. We dont have fog, but high clouds toward the north bay. Dense frost advisories in other areas. It says until 9 00 but some of the thick fog will last until 10 then it dissipates. Most of the bay area locations have visibilities not good at all, less than a quarter mile. 40s and 50s on the temps. We have been focusing on the areas with the fog and clouds. They havent cooled off much. Redwood is 51. 58 by 11 00. 68 for a high around 2 00 to 5 00. The temperatures by 8 00 really starts to fall off the table because it gets cold around here. Today plenty of hazy sunshine. 27 in tahoe. Windy and cold in the mountains if you are heading up there friday and saturday. Breezy and cooler here but highs in the 70s to low 60s through the weekend. A cloudy morning right now though. High pressure weakening. This is a cold system to the north and east. For us the end result is too far west to get much. Cooler and breezy. Maybe windy Higher Elevations but more a breezy pattern than anything else. Partly cloudy and more clouds to the north. The fog will give way to hazy skies here. Some of the fog may be slow to burn off, though. Highs 60s and 70s. Upper 60s and low 720s. Low 60s. Walnut creek is 71. 65 alameda. Berkeley is 65. 68 in san jose. Santa cruz 67. 73 in gilroy. Upper 50s at the coach. Wind picks up on friday. The highs only in the 60s saturday and sunday. Lows 40s around the bay and 30s inland. Time now is 8 21. A creepy problem in downtown San Francisco blamed on a big construction project. Rats scaring around the new central subway project. It is a problem in the day and even worse at night. I thought i was going to die. That is what everybody on the plane thought. Panic on a Southwest Airlines flight. The frightening words the passengers heard over the loud speaker. [ female announcer ] welcome one and all to a tastier festive feast. So much to sip and savor, a feeding frenzy to say the least. A turkey from safeway is just what they crave. A hero of the table, so delicious theyll rave. Fresh, natural, frozen. Its the best selection around. Spend 30 and a frozen safeway turkey is just 59 cents a pound. So raise your glass, pull up a chair, grab a plate. This tastier thanksgiving is well worth the wait. Safeway. Ingredients for life. This tastier thanksgiving is well worth the wait. With holiday magic in both parks, the happiest place on earth, just got merrier. It is 8 24. A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight said a pilot scared everyone when a piled said we are going down over the speakers. The announcement plane after the plane briefly nose dived as they were approaching the airport. The plane landed safely, but the woman said everyone was scared. I was going to die. That is what everybody on plane thought, that we were all going to die. Just by one word of the captain. Southwest says during the final approach the pilot noticed a loss of cabin pressure, prompting him to make an earlier than usual decent and may have accidentally turned on the pa system while telling the flight attendants about the change in plans. The f. A. A. Is now investigating. Colorful ribbons will be placed on bus poles in the city of oakland after an 18yearold student was set on fire on a bus. He was set on fire last week, apparently because he was wearing a skirt. A 16yearold Oakland High School student is facing hate crime charges. Flashman is still recovering in a San Francisco burn center. He may be home later this month. His supporters will be meeting tonight at 5 30 at a park and macarthur Boulevard Center in oakland. The olympic torch for the winter games is now in russias far east. The relay race kicked off in moscow last month. Since then the torch has been carried to the north pole. It was even sent off to the International Space station. The torch will be carried around the country until the beginning of the olympics in february in sochi, russia. Now time is 8 26. Cracking down on Secondhand Smoke. Anywhere where people are likely to it is and stand around, it seems like they should not be exposed to Secondhand Smoke. Smokers in palo alto may have a hard time finding a place to light up, even outdoors. Reporter we are live at sfo where a man is on a mission to rescue his pregnant wife in the philippines and help others. You will hear his story, next. You are driving on highway 91 or 102 approaching the san mateyo bridge, traffic is busying, but it is okay otherwise. Temperatures will cool down, but what about the weekend . More coming up. Would you rather have spoons for hands or elbows for ears . Id rather have food. [gasp] lets make a late night foody call and get my munchie meal with the new hella peno burger. Its loaded with sliced and stuffed jalapenos, melting cheese, and spicy taco sauce. Ill eat it with my. Sppoooooonnnnn haaaaaands what . I cant hear you. Talk into my elbow . Good morning, the time now is just about 8 30. Live pictures from washington, d. C. Where in the white house any minute now we will be hearing from president obama who will come out, talk about health care and he is due to announce a fix to something he has heard a lot of complaints about, cancellations of Health Insurance policies that people want to keep. Now, again, we will be following this and bring it to you live with all the details coming up in just a couple of minutes. It is thursday morning, November November 14th. I am dave clark. We are now going to check weather and traffic. Steve is right here. Thank you, dave. A very good but foggy morning for many. There is a lot of fog and high clouds around. Some fog may linger until 9 30 or 10 00 before the fog lift and burns out. A mostly cloudy morning there. Are a few breaks. A lot of high clouds, dense fog from san jose, blossom hills thick fog and misty drizzle reports coming in from the coast and bay, as well. 40s and 50s in the temps. They havent budged at all. A warmer morning. San francisco mostly cloudy in the morning. 53 for a low to start. 63 for a high today. Temperatures in the coast and bay are upper 50s, low 60s. Inland temps have low to mid 70s, but more likely upper 60s to low 07s. Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. The higher clouds should thin out after the Morning Hours and then head off. 60s and very low 70s for many. Here is sal. We start with following the overturned truck on 80 at pinole valley road. That is the incident there. The traffic is backed up to the carquinez bridge and highway 4. It is a mess. Ways push down to the south bay, northbound 101 and 28085 is very, very slow. Steve and i have been talking about the fog. As you look at the bay bridge toll plaza, it is not low here and the back up here is not severe. A 5 to 10 minute delay. 8 32. Back to the desk. Now to our continuing coverage of typhoon haiyan. International aid arriving in the philippine, including a u. S. Aircraft navy Aircraft Carrier with about 5,000 sailors on board. A half Million People have been displaced by the disaster. Many have not had food, water and medicine for a week. And for four days a man with local ties to the bay area did not hear from his pregnant wife and daughter. They were caught in the middle of the typhoon. But just yesterday he heard they were safe and sound. Now he is on his way to see them. Ktvu brine is live at brian flores is live at sfo. You saw him . Reporter yes. Steven carpenter grew up in berkeley. His family lives in tacloba, where they were hit hard, as you know, by typhoon haiyan. He just yesterday talked to his wife, eva, who is eight months pregnant. He is very excited to see her now, obviously. He wants to bring her, along with nieces and feoff fews, baa to the United States and nephews back to the United States. There is a small window for airlines to allow women in full pregnancy the opportunity to fly. His family was able to leave on a c130 plane to another area where they are safe. He obviously cant wait to see them. It was late sunday night. I have been on facebook 24 7 in contact with a lot of people. I simultaneously received messages from two people who said eva and amelia are out and safe. She was eight months pregnant so they prioritized her. I was like thank you, hallelujah. Reporter will this is also a humanitarian mission for carpenter. He was able to raise 2,000 in supplies. He is bringing ointment packs, Fire Department aid kits, Water Purification pacts and glow sticks because obviously there is no electricity on the island. His first priority, obviously, is to be with his wife and daughter. He will be there for at least ten days. Live at sfo, brian flores, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you, brian. More than a thousand bay area nurses and others have been volunteering to go to the philippines and help relief effort there is. 200 nurses from all 50 states and 12 nations have volunteered with the relief effort. If you want to help us, go to www. Ktvu. Com. We posted a list of Additional Resources for sending help there. Look for the hot topics section. If you smoke in live in palo alto, you may have to be more careful where you do it, if city leaders get their way. Some city leaders want to expand the current outdoor ban. Now, more about what is being prosed and where. Reporter right now i am standing in a nosmoking area because i am on University Avenue, too close to the Public Entrance to the restaurant here. You can still see people have left their cigarette butts here on the ground. City want to eliminate litter like this completely by tightening the current ban. Currently people are not allowed to smoke in parks and within 25 feet of Public Entrances. City leaders want to go beyond that and prohibit people from smoking outdoors, downtown and side street california avenue business districts, saying it would eliminate the small pockets outside the 25foot buffer zone and make enforcing the ban easier. We spoke with a man who says his sister is fighting stage 4 lung cancer she got from Secondhand Smoke. Just walking up and down here on University Avenue, 25 feet is not enough. The smoke carries. You can smell it from more than 25 feet away. If you can smell it, you are breathing it in. Reporter city leaders note of the dangers of Secondhand Smoke and infringements on those dining or shopping outdoors. Here is what one smoking said this morning. I took a little cruise down university once or twice a day. I can do it with or without a smoke. It is just a few minutes of my day, you know. Not something that is going to make me twitch, twitter and not function. Reporter so, that smoker you just heard from says it is the prerogative of palo alto city leaders to decide whether or not to do that. He is wasnt really for or against it, but the city council will be deciding on monday whether or not to have the policy and Services Committee explore the issue further. Reporting live from palo alto, ktvu fox 2 news. 8 37. We are following developing news out of washington, d. C. Just minutes from now president obama is going to announce a fix to the Affordable Health care act to make good on his promise that people who are happy with their current Health Insurance plan can keep it. What you are looking at now is a live picture from inside the white house where reporters are standing by, waiting for the president to come out and make that announcement. The timing is quite interesting because president obama has been under significant pressure to do something about the people receiving these cancellation notices from their Insurance Companies. And that include as lot of big name democrats, like california senator Diane Feinstein and former president bill clinton. They were among those encouraging the president to extend the grandfather claws to agreed anyone who currently has a policy they want to keep even if it doesnt meet all the requirements of the Affordable Health care act. So, basically, the president will keep a promise he had been making repeatedly for the last few years. Here are more details we are learning about. Insurance company will be allowed to offer consumers the option to renew their 2013 policies for another year, even if the policies dont comply with the Affordable Health care act. However, the Insurance Companies will have to notify the consumers of exactly which protections these policies do not include, and they will have to tell their policyholders that there are Better Options out there. Now, as soon as president obama arrives at the white house to make that announcement, we will bring that to you live. All right. Tori. The time is 8 39. New details from police in Santa Cruz County where a rental dispute led to the first homicide of the year. The body of 63yearold gordon smith was found last saturday at one of his businesses. He was in the process of evicting 58yearold diana cohen and his 28yearold son, daniel, from his apartment complex in santa cruz. Bail is set at 1 million for the cohens each. A memorial will be held tonight for a cyclist hit and killed by a muni bus last month. The 78yearold of San Francisco was hit at 11th and bryant street on october 18th. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition says he was the fourth person to be killed while biking in the city this year. It will begin at 6 00 at the 6th Street Community room at 6th and mission. 8 39. The construction work on the new central subway tunnel has caused a really big rat problem in one San Francisco neighborhood. People living in the area say rats have been swarming the empty lot near the freeway offramp at 4th and bryant street. The rats are bold enough to come out in broad bailout but the rat problem is really bad at night residents say. The Construction Projects cause rodents to flee into surrounding areas. The time is 8 40. Oakland residents are calling on a city to shut down a neighborhood bar. I dont know what more we can do. The growing concerns about crime outside one particular bar and what police say they are dog about it. Shot and killed in his home. The victim, a state assemblymans father. Up next what, police are saying about the attack in the victims home and a possible motive. Good morning. Right now westbound 80 will be slow. So is northbound 280 and 101 in the south bay. And some sun breaks out there. The fog should start to lift here pretty soon but not before we have really thick fog and a lot of high clouds. We will have the temps for you, coming right up. Well, an optimistic outlook for holiday spending. Disappointing earnings, however, from cisco, sending the stocks down almost to 12 this morning. And all eyes still on the janet yellen conversation hearing where she has been nominated to be the next Federal Reserve president s. The dow currently up 25. The nasdaq down 2 and the s p 500 up 5. The california assemblymans father shot and killed. Ktvu karen cook is in the newsroom to tell us what the police are saying about the possible motive. The father of state assemblyman mike ga toe was shot to gatto was shot to death. The body was found at 8 15 last night. Police say it looked like a home invasion. The daughter had gone to the house to check on him. It is part of the the silver lake area, part of his sons district that includes burbank and glendale. Assemblyman gatto was told about his fathers death over the home. He is absolutely devastated. He said his father was a retired art teacher and jewelry craftsman. They tell us the Los Angeles Police department is investigating and officers say the home had been ransacked and Police Believe joseph gatto may have been trying to interrupt the burglary when he was shot and killed. Thank you, pam. New this morning mob boss James Whitey Bulger was just sentenced this morning to two life prison sentences plus five years for his crimes in boston in the 1970s and 80s. The sentencing came after the 84yearold mob boss was arrested by the fbi in santa monica in 2011 after 16 years on the run. Bulger refused to look at his victims during the sentencing hearing and called his trial a sham. He was convicted for 11 of is 19 murders he was charged. A 17yearold cupertino girl reported missing for two days has been found. The Sheriffs Department says emma pick kit was found last night in a rural part of san mateyo county. They found her car, then they found her. Now she is back home. The Sheriff Department gave no details about her disappearance or return. Caltrans is warning drivers to be prepared for traffic delays at the caldecott tunnel where they are finishing touches on the new fourth bore. Tonight only one bore in each direction will be opened between 10 00 p. M. And 4 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The final work will start friday night and continue into late saturday morning. Drivers on highway 24 should expect 30 minute delays. The new bore is due to open some time between saturday and monday morning. In the meantime First Responders will again hold another fire drill today inside the new bore. This is the final phase of the problem. You are looking at what they did in a drill earlier this week. The goal is to make sure the new tunnel is safe in case of a fire or anior emergency. Back in 198 or any other emergency. In 1982 the caldecott was the scene of one of the deadliest fires in American History where seven people were killed after a deadly crash involving a gas tanker. Lets check what is happening on the roads on this thursday morning. Sal . I got a tweet saying morin county is a mess on 36 to in a have a doe. It will be slow. The san mateyo traffic is busy heading out to the highrise with no major problems but busy there and also on the dumbarton bridge. The morning commute also has been very slow in the last half hour on 880 northbound trying to get into downtown oakland. The south bay has been very slow, as well. 101 is a mess trying to get into sunny veil from san jose sunnyvale from san jose. Worse than usual. Now here is steve. Thank you. A lot of fog out there. Dense, dark, wet fog here at ocean beach, or as we like to say, partly sunny. Yes, numerous reports of not only thick fog but a little mist and drizzle here. Not only that, the fog took a while to get going. The east bay finally got in on it. In some locations it will start to burn off fast. A lot of high clouds up above, too. A cool are day. Higher clouds drift out of the area later on. Hazy sunshine, and cooler. The temperatures a combination of low and high clouds have a dense frost advisory until 9 00. 40s and 50s on the temps. Held up cloud cover and really much warmer than yesterday. If you are in the fog it can be cold. You can see the band of high cloud that is want to stay town the north. Mostly sunny to a partly cloudy day here. Hazy and cooler after the morning fog can which can be very thick. 60s and 70s. If we can get the higher clouds out fast enough, maybe 73 or 74 for some, but a foggy, cold morning for many then hazy sunshine for many. Highs of the low 60s over the weekend. The strangest sight on a highway in texas. What happened after a kangaroo came hopping by in front of a car i love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Colgate optic white dual action shines and whitens over 2 shades more than a leading whitening toothpaste. And whiten even more, with optic white mouthwash and the whole colgate optic white line. Welcome back now. Time 8 50 2. Well, take a listen to this story. A kangaroo jumping down on the high. This is dash cam video. The man who saw it called the cops. The 911 dispatchers didnt believe him, but they decided to check deputies to check it out. They were questioning the call. A kangaroo . There are no kangaroos down here. Sure it has to be something different. It turns out it was a kangaroo. It goes loose from the owner. The person had been trying to find it. Deputies say the owner will not be fined. Scientists there start trapping mountain lions on the east bay this month. The goal of the bay area puma project is to tag the big cats with radio collars and take samples to learn how many they are and how they share the territory. They cover a big area between hamilton and the car can is in straights. There will be machine about it at the place for Sustainable Living in oakland. The entire town of milford, texas, has been evacuated after a pipeline explosion. You can see here the huge flames and black smoke. First responders are being brought in from neighboring cities. It is not known if anyone is hurt. We will bring you more on the story. A pipeline explosion in milford, texas, as we get it. A group of people in oakland say their neighborhood bar is a magnet for crime and now they want to shut it down. It has been on the corner of Piedmont Avenue and west macarthur boulevard since 1968. Neighbors are concerned because there have been violent incidents outside the bar recently. There have been three shootings in the past six months outside the bar, the third happening less than two weeks ago. They should make a greater effort to provide additional police. We have Social Security at night now. I dont know what more we can do. Police are working with the bar owners to adding and surveillance. They hired more Security Guard and now the bar closes at midnight instead of 2 00 a. M. The San Francisco Planning Commission is expected to approve a deal to convert the masonic auditorium into a year round entertainment venue. The city in charge of the project says the latest idea addresses the concern of the auditoriums nod hill promoters. It could be made a regular stop for touring bands. However residents in the area have expressed concerns about loud music, alcohol and the tour buses on the fans. University of california president Janet Napolitano wants to freeze tuition for the next school year. She proposed the identity to the board of regents yesterday. She said the freeze would give her enough time to create a new tuition policy. The tuition now is more than 12,000 a year, up about 145 from ten years ago. And here is a comparison of ucs tuition with other state schools across the country. Penn states tuition is one of the highest at 15,984. Oklahoma State University is one of the lowest at 2,500 for the Oklahoma City campus. The department of education says the National Average for tuition at a fouryear Public College is 7,135. Lets check in now with sal. Have you been able to fix things on the san mateyo bridge . Not really, actually. It has been slow. It is still at a standstill heading out through the high rise. Traffic improve there is sometimes and then gets worse again. If you are taking that bridge, be warned it will be this bad. Also looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, that is a better route with a small delay getting across in San Francisco. The morning commute is still slow at the scene of the truck that has been overturned for the entire morning commute west 80 near pinole valley off the shoulder. Traffic is slow coming off the carquinez bridge. Steve . Thank you. A lot of fog this morning. The frost advisory goes a couple more minutes but it may linger to 9 30. Wind picks up on friday. Cooler on the weekend with highs only near 60. All right. That is our report for this morning. We thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. We will continue to monitor president obama who is expected to make a big announcement any moment. This is a live picture from the White House Press room where the president will be talking about making big change for the Affordable Health care act. People losing Health Insurance under the signature law and complaints as millions of people have gotten cancellation notices despite pledge that is people what like their insurance plans could keep them. We will stream the president s speech live on our website at www. Ktvu. Com. It is supposed to begin about 20 minutes ago, obviously running a little late. Yes. Much more coming up on ktvu news at noon, as well. Thank you for joining us. Avo the volkswagen sign then drive sales event is back. Which means its never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. It gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. And right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. Sign. Then drive. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on any new 2014 volkswagen. Hurry, this offer ends december 2nd. For details, visit vwdealer. Com today. Hello, everybody. Im beth troutman. 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