Transcripts For KTVU Mornings On 2 20140101

Thank you. Fog is there. Yesterday from san jose, to the peninsula. Now its on the sonoma and marin coast. San mateo coast and santa cruz coast. Fog is there but its favoring the coast. 20s, a few locations. Patchy fog, mainly near the coast, clear and cold. A lot of sun. A little warmer inland. Temperatures running above average. 27, napa. 28, santa rosa. Fairfield, 29. Livermore is 32. Im sure not far away you can find colder than that. Concord 33. Three dog night here. 19 up in tahoe. 32 sacramento. Colder air, very still, calm conditions except for the fog and maybe occasionally a higher fog. It will be warmer inland, especially Santa Clara Valley over toward santa cruz, upper 60s to near 70. Back to the desk. Thank you, steve. Developing news. A suspected drunk driver is accused of causing a serious crash in hayward. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us from the scene to show us the extensive damage. Good morning, tara. Reporter good morning. This looks like a deadly crash but miraculously it was not. The driver apparently allegedly drunk walked away with only a bloody nose. This car is the one he was driving. This is the silver car you can see here. Its completely mangled u underneath it, a classic 1966 mustang that the opener was keeping here for storage purposes. Let me show you exactly the path of this car. Were here on grove way. This is near western boulevard just south of the 238 580 split. If we kind of come over here, this all happened around 2 30 this morning. You can see that the tow truck is here on scene. They will be taking away several cars. Take a look at the damage. This is all of the glass and debris that the car hit on its way. It tore through this front yard here. Took out a couple of branches from the tree, tore up this whole all of the glass, everything. And this bmw thats sitting in the driveway over here, this also sustained some damage. And then if we walk over here, if we can kind of turn and walk the other direction, we can show you it actually hit a car parked at the end of the street. That is what the first car it hit. Over here is momam. Hes one of the neighbors to tell us exactly what happened. Did you hear the crash this morning . Yes. Yes, i hear big boom. Yeah. It looks like a reporter did you come running outside . Yeah. I looked through the window and yeah, i saw the car right on top of that mustang over there. Yeah. Reporter and then the driver, he appeared to be drunk . Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yes. Reporter all right. He was drunk and this gentleman, he was over there. I came out. Everything was quiet. You know, and then yeah, he was in the car, still in the car, yeah. Reporter okay. Well, thank you for joining us this morning. But you can see quite a bit of damage here all the way extending from down the block almost to the entire block actually that he sort of tore up here. So now, of course, the cleanup process has begun and they have to tow one, two, three cars away from this scene. So were gonna try to get an update with the chp. We havent been able to talk to them. Theyve been very busy since this happened. So thats the latest here live. Well bling you more coming up in bring you more coming up in our next hour. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, tara. Well, the chp is investigating a deadly new years day freeway crash in oakland. It happened hours ago on interstate 580 near park boulevard. The chp says a white suv veered off the highway and flipped over. A female passenger was killed. The male driver was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Its still not clear what caused the suv to go off the highway. And the chp is also trying to determine the cause of a deadly new years eve crash in a remote area of west marin county. The car you see ended up in the water after the rollover accident near tomales bay early yesterday evening. The chp says a passenger was killed when the car flipped over and landed on its roof near shoreline highway. Bystanders came to the rescue of the driver who was not seriously hurt. And San Francisco police have arrested a driver in a deadly new years eve accident that killed a 7yearold girl. Police say a mother and her two children were crossing polk when the driver of the car turned right and hit them. The mother and 4yearold boy are expected to recover. The 7yearold girl died from her injuries. Pedestrians were in the crosswalk with the light and the vehicle had the light as well. Because the vehicle was making a righthand turn and the vehicles are in the cross walk, the vehicle is obligated to yield to the passengers. The driver did stop and is cooperating with police. Police say at this point, it does not appear that drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident. The chp this morning will release the number of arrests it made during the new years eve drunk driving crackdown. Put your feet together. Arms down your side. Follow my finger with your eyes only. Dont move your head. This driver was among several pulled over while we were on a ride hey long with the chp ride along with the chp. The man took a field sobriety test but was not arrested. Officers arrested 208 people for drunk driving in the bay area. Gunfire marked new years eve in oakland. Around 9 30 a young person was shot on walnut creek street and 04th avenue 104th avenue. The victim was hit in the chest and rushed to the hospital in critical condition. There are no suspects at this time. There are at least two other shootings last night in oakland as well. The first happened just before 9 00 at 54th and Martin Luther king, junior way. A man was shot in the leg but he is expected to be okay. Around 9 10, a woman was also shot in the chest on the 1800 block of 22nd avenue. She was taken to the hospital where she was later pronounced dead. No arrests have been made in any cases so far. 7 07. People across the bay area celebrated the new year with fireworks. This is what it looked like at the stroke of midnight in oakland. Although there were no official works in the show, you can see illegal fireworks lit up the skies. There were extra patrols out looking for illegal fireworks. An estimated 200,000 people showed up to see the big new years eve Fireworks Show in San Francisco. [ cheers ] the crowd started showing up to the embarcadero early to get a good spot for the fireworks display. One woman already had her spot planned out before she got there. We just go to our own specific place we go to so theres not that many people there. There was a zerotolerance policy for drinking in public and open container. At ktvu. Com, you will find a special feature bidding farewell to 2013. Its the yearend review. Look for hot topics on the front page. 7 08. There are new laws in the new year. For teenagers, anyone driving under the age of 18 can no longer send or receive texts while behind the wheel, not even with handsfree technology. Teens had been allowed to use voice activation, handsfree devices but not anymore. Texting by hand while driving was outlawed back in 2009. Theres also a new law spelling out the rights of transgender students in school. The law states that students can participate in sports and use restrooms that reflect their gender identity, regardless of what is listed on their birth certificate. The law could be suspended in opponents collect enough signatures to place the issue on the november ballot. The boy scouts of america is beginning this new year with groundbreaking new policy. Starting today, openly gay boys can join the scouts for the first time in the organizations 103yearold history. The new policy is winning praise for many gay right supporters around the country. Bill harrison is from the richmond Gay Foundation in virginia. Man cannot be have high morals or be a Good American because he happens to be gay is based on ignorance. However, some gay rights advocates say the new policy does not go far enough. The boy scouts will continue its current ban on gay adult leaders. Its 7 09. Stanford is looking for its second straight rosebowl victory this afternoon. The number 5 cardinal faced Michigan State in the 100th rosebowl. Stanford is in pasadena for the second straight year. Its Michigan States first trip since 1988. Stanford is considered a slight favorite for todays game. Before the rosebowl, of course, is the tournament of roses parade. The 125th annual parade begins this morning at 8 00 in pasadena. Some people have been camping out for days to stake their spot along the a roid route and float designers say the wait will be well worth it. You look at this float ten times you will see Different Things every time you look at it. Its soy detailed. And Dole Food Company has had the winning float for the past three years. Floats are decorated with only natural materials, such as flowers, seeds, fruits and vegetables. You can watch the parade on our sister station. Live coverage is underway right now, it started at 7 00 this morning. And well replay the parade all day until 7 00. I heard its very warm down there. 125 years, its only rained once or wise. I think you are right or twice. I think you are right. A new years eve tragedy, two young women and an infant hit by a truck in fremont. What police are saying about who was at. Wellel you how the crew struck on a ship rang in the new year. Ive painted you a very pretty picture here. Look at that. For those of you listening but not watching, there you go. Well see how this plays into a warmer forecast or cooler. I think they are doing just fine. Thats the stranded crew of a Research Ship in antarctica. They rang in the new year with a special song as you saw there about being stuck in the ice. The 74 scientists, tourists and crew on the russian ship have been stranded there since christmas eve. They posted that video on youtube. The passengers say they are trying to keep their spirits high this new years day and when the weather gets a little bit better, a helicopter will eventually rescue them. A United Airlines flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing after the pilot started having heart problems midflight. The plane was on its way from iowa to colorado monday night when the copilot noticed the pilot was really sick. The copilot then decided to land in nebraska. 154 passengers were on board at the time, including two nurses, who rushed to help. It was chaotic at the front. They extradited him out of the cockpit and then laid him on the floor right up there in the first class area and they got an id on him. The pilot was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to recover. 7 14. Former First Lady Barbara Bush remains in the hospital this morning. The 88yearold is being treated for early signs of pneumonia. She was admitted to Methodist Hospital in houston last night. Friends and family are sending her well wishes for a quick recovery. Well, shes a tough gal who will outlive us all but our love is with her because shes not just the former first lady of america, shes at the first lady of our hearts. The hospital says mrs. Bush is in great spirits. There has been an outpouring for support for a little girl fighting brain cancer and her family is giving back. Her family held a blood drive at the church of the jesus christ latter day of saints in livermore. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor three months ago. Her family says the blood drive is their way of helping others going through the same thing. People have been there to help us. This is the only way we know to give back is to is good. Shes already had 14plus transfusions. Hundreds of people have been showing their support for delaney on facebook. Her father says delaney will have to go through more transfusions and chemotherapy as part of the ongoing treatment. Today is the day the new healthcare reforms under the Affordable Care act kick in. So far, more than 2 Million People have signed up for insurance through state and federal healthcare exchanges. In california, 400,000 people signed up through the covered california exchange. Under the law, all americans must have healthcare coverage by march 31st or face a fine. The law guarantees no one can be denied coverage for preexisting coverage. Late yesterday, hours before the Affordable Care act took effect, Supreme Court justice sonya so toe mayer so toe mayer sotomayer granted a temporarily exemption for contraceptive coverage. Pope francis has a new years day message for the 1. 2 billion catholics. He expressed his hope for peace at the vatican. He also urged catholics to help the hungry and poor around the world. 7 17. Both the San Francisco police and Fire Departments have put up help wanted signs. There are currently 1450 firefighters but the Department Tells the examiner it needs up to 600 more firefighters to handle the citys population growth. By the year 2040, San Franciscos projected to grow by a third to 1. 8 Million People. The Police Department says it will need 300 to 500 additional officers. Starting today, some workers in the bay area will be getting paid more. The minimum wage is going up in san jose because of an ordinance passed by voters last year. It goes up from 10 an hour to 10. 15. San francisco will also see a rise the minimum wage in that city goes up to 10. 74 an hour. Also taking affect today is an extension of the green sticker program. That means plugin hybrid drivers can use carpool lanes without meeting the minimum occupancy requirements until 2019. The law is one of eight authored by San Francisco state senator leland yee. Most places are closed on this new years day. All federal, county, state offices are closed. Banks and post offices are also closed. Most bay area transit agencies will be running on a sunday schedule and parking meters in San Francisco will not be enforced today. All right. 7 18. We want to check in with steve to see whats happening with the weather. Look at this. Yeah. Colder this morning. We have just a few high clouds. Yesterday, we had more. That held up the lows. It was still cold. Fog is on the coast, parts of it from San Francisco north. South its mainly clear. Some patchy fog. We are ending well, we ended the driest year ever for many. I try to there was so many occidental into the Russian River usually gets a lot of rain. 57 inches. They had 15. 45. Driest ever. Kentfield, marin county, also what can be a wet spot, 48 inches is average. 7. 80. Thats just abysmal. Los gatos, they should have over 23 inches of rain. These were all records. Calistoga was in there, st. Helena, i could go on and on and on. For december, San Francisco had. 039. December is usually one of our wettest months over 4. 56. The maximum temperature for those of you living in the city, 57. Thats normal but the minimum was 2. 2 degrees below average. December was cold. It was also very dry. 27 napa, 29 fairfield. 44 in the city. I know theres colder readings than that. Concord, 33. Even 30s on the coast. Novato, 35. Theres a lot of 20s and 30s. Much more than we saw yesterday. 19 in tahoe. 23 reno. Nationally, if its quiet here, there must be things going on. Some of that tropical air will come together. Chicago, snow lining up to omaha and back to denver. This is all looking like it wants to come together. For boston and new york, there are blizzard warnings out. Its quiet now, but they expect all of this to come together. If you have travel plans, right now would be a good time to go. For us, sunny, hazy. It will be nice and a little warmer. Some patchy fog favoring those by the coast. Afternoon temperatures, continue to be above average. We should be 56 to 61. Were way above that. Sausalito, 60. Conkeerd, 64 on cord. 64. Oakland concord, 64. Oakland, 65. Gilroy and santa cruz, 70 nice degrees. Cupertino, 68. Upper 50s, low 60s on the coast and then low to mid60s on the peninsula with woodside, 64. Warmer weather thursday into friday. The weekend dry, just a little cooler the. All right, steve. Thank you very much. Colorado makes history with a new law that goes into effect today. Plus the mysterious crop circle in monterey we told you about yesterday. Its now gone. What happened to it after it started to get too much attention . A new year means a new mayor for new yorkers. He took the oath of office in front of his brooklyn home alongside his wife and two children. Outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg there doing the honors on the left. Deblassio is the 109th mayor but first democrat in two decades. He will take part in 90 minutes in a larger ceremony that will be provided oef presided over by former president , bill clinton. And you can see barely see Michael Bloomberg last night. He ended his 12 years as mayor walking down the steps of city hall. He hosted a breakfast at the library. The billionaire businessman says he plans to speak a low profile. New yorks mayor is already taking a controversial position that could hurt the Tourism Industry by banning horse and carriage rides. He calls the treatments of horses inhumane. While Animal Rights decisions are applauding the decision, many tourists say an important part of the city would be gone. As long as its not cruel, i think its a good idea. Carriage rides have been offered since central park opened back in 18 a 8. Carriage riders are opposing the decision fearing they will be out of a job. San Francisco Police have identified the man they say led officers on a chase through the city. Police say 29yearold jack samuel started the pursuit before 9 00 on monday night in the bayview district. The chase went onto interstate 280, 19th avenue and into golden gate park. It ended when he crashed into a concrete barrier. One officer was hit by samuels car who was treated and released. Another officer opened fire hitting the suspects car. Police in gilroy are asking for the publics help searching for a bank robber. Was captured on a surveillance camera as he robbed a union bank at santa teresa boulevard yesterday afternoon. Hes described as white, in his mid20s without facial hair. He was wearing a black bearable cap, a black hooded wet shirt and white tennis shoes. If you live in contra costa county, you may hear emergency sirens later this morning but its just a test. [ sirens ] they sound like that. The sirens are tested every month but since its happening on new years day and more people will be at home, county officials want to make sure everyone knows its just a test. It starts at 11 00 this morning. Well, that mysterious crop circle in Monterey County has been mowed down. The Property Owner says all of the attention had become a nuisance so he decided to get rid of it. Hundreds of people flocked to see the elaborate design which looked like a computer chip. It sparked a lot of talk about aliens after someone posted a Youtube Video showing what looks like green flashes of light coming from the field. Well, so far, no one has taken credit for the crop circle. Its now gone. Its gone. 7 26. A place for jahi. The new york facility thats willing to accept the 13year old girl declared brain dead. And the latest battle between the girls family and oakland Childrens Hospital. A car rams into a group of people. One woman is dead and an infant is in the hospital. Coming up, well have an update on the crash investigation. Some fog there. But it looks like its more toward the coast and not inland. Its a colder one. Well see the if the colder lows equal colder afternoon temps. Good morning. Happy new year. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Happy new year, good morning. Im brian flores. Dave clark has the day off. Lets get your day started with steve. Brine, tori brian, tori, thank you. Its cold. A lot of twebt, 30s. Today will be sunny, nis, warm nice, warm. Heydy, warmer hazy, warmer. Occasionally higher clouds come through. Less than we had yesterday. Thats for sure. More 20s. 20s, 30s. Noticeably cooler. 20s, fairfield is in there. 30s all over the place or 40s. 32 sacramento. Same for redding. 29 in ukiah. A lot of 30s up into lake county as well. Everything goes up and over the ridge of high pressure. Whats new . Weve seen that for six months now. Sunny and nice. Patchy fog. Again, mainly about San Francisco north. Marin headlunds up to the coast. 60s for some. Low, mid upper, gilroy, santa cruz. Back to the desk. We begin this halfhour with a new years eve accident thats claimed the life of a little girl in San Francisco. She was walking with with her mother and brother with her mother and brother when a car turned into them. Claudine wong is live with more. Reporter well, the driver involved in the crash is facing vehicular manslaughter charges. It happened at this intersection at polk and ellis in San Francisco. The 7yearold was in the crosswalk with her mother and brother. This all happened around 8 00 last night. Police say a mother and her children were crossing polk when the driver of the car turned right and hit them. The 4yearold boy is expected to recover. The 7yearolded died and the the 7yearold died. Pedestrians were in the crosswalk with the light and the vehicle had the light as well. Because the vehicle is making a righthand turn and the pedestrians are in a crosswalk, the vehicle is obligated to yield to pedestrians. Reporter the driver did stop and is cooperating with Police Police say it does not appear that drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident. If we come back out here live, you can see the scene is clear. But at this point, all eyes are at the hospital where the mother continues to fight for her life. Claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. In fremont, a car slammed into a group of people killing one woman and leaving a baby in critical condition. Police say a 19yearold woman and a 17yearold girl were walking across paseo padre parkway and mowry avenue before 10 00 last night. The 19yearold was carrying a 3monthold baby. Investigators say a truck hit them. Half an hour ago, we learned that the 19yearold died from her injuries while the baby boy remains in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Were still investigating the collision, we havent determined if any laws are broken, if there was any impairment or anything else of that nature. Police continue to investigate to see who if anyone is at fault. The 17yearold woman was also hurt but her injuries are not lifethreatening. The 64yearold driver did remain at the scene. The roadway was blocked for about five hours overnight as officers investigated the crash. 7 33. A medical facility in new york says it is willing to accept 13 yearold jahi mcmath if her family can get her there. Jahis family wants breathing and feeding tubes surgically implanted to allow her to be transferred. But oakland Childrens Hospital which considers the girl to be dead says it is ethically wrong to perform surgery on a body. You are setting up road blocks at every road that we try to go down to save jahi. Because imagine this if jahi does come back as we hope, imagine what childrens is gonna have to face. The court and three physicians have ruled this young lady dead. Shes not coming back under any circumstances and thats sad, sad thats the sad, sad truth. A judge ordered Childrens Hospital to maintain jahi aventilater until at jahis ventilator at least until next tuesday. A spokesperson for the terry shiavo says they are working with the jahi family. After a long battle, her feeding tube was removed in 2005 and she died. The facility in new york where jahi may be transferred is called new beginnings and is dedicated to terry she shiavo. Jahis uncle says i will fight for you forever, jahi. The Rocky Mountain state is making history on this new years day in 2014. Colorado is now the first state in the nation to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use. Retail pot sales officially began. Starting today, anyone over the age of 21 can buy up to an ounce of marijuana. This is something that the nation is watching us for and the city and a lot of other entities have been working hard to make sure that everything is done in a presis manner that accommodates everybodys needs. Now, there are posters and fliers posted across the state spelling out the new rules in colorado. They include you cannot smoke pot in public. You cant drive under the influence of pot. You cant give the marijuana to anyone under 21 and you cannot take the pot out of the state. Happening today protesters in oakland plan a vgeil to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of oscar grant. Bart police officer, johannes mehserle, shot and killed him at the fruitvale b. A. R. T. Station on new years day 2009. Todays vigil is set to begin at noon at the fruitvale station. Members of oscar grants family are expected to attend along with the director of fruitvale station. Thats the movie based on oscar grants life and death. There was a Large Police Presence around Oakland City Hall last night. Officers were called in after occupy oakland called for a demonstration protesting the shooting as well as other issues. Police were on alert all night. But the demonstration never took place. A brentwood man has been charged on suspicion of lying to police about the deaths of two dogs. Prosecutors accuse 32yearold jonathan crisp of protecting his father who shot and killed the neighbors dogs in september because they broke into his chicken coop and killed about 20 chickens. He told animal control he had killed the dogs. He faces a misdemeanor obstruction count. His father will not be charged because its legal to kill dogs in california while protecting poultry. Despite last nights shootings we mentioned earlier, oakland along with richmond showed significant drops in deadly violence in 2013. A church in oakland held the annual memorial for homicide victims. There were 89 crosses on display, signifying all of those killed in oakland last year up until yesterday afternoon. 125 people were killed in 2012. Thats nearly 30 decline but still, some say its too many. I got more loved ones up here, people i know, people i grew up with, i know they are like family. Its hard. When is it gonna stop . The city of richmond has experienced a large drop in violent crime. There were 43 homicides in 2009. 18 in 2012 and 16 last year. Police credit more resources including several dozen detectives working in specialized units from homicide to narcotics. Vallejo was one bay area city where the homicide rate went up. There were 25 homicides in 2013. Thats compared to 16 the previous year. In san jose, they saw a slight improvement in 2013. There were 43 homicides compared to 46 in 2012. A number of new gun control laws hit the books in california today. One law requires the state to collect specific information about shot gun and rifle purchases. That information would then be stored on a computer base. In the past, only handgun purchases were permanently recorded in california. This new gun law and others led to a lastminute rush on gun and ammunition sales at gun Stores Across the state. Starting this weeks. Ged test will be completely different. The test will focus on Critical Thinking schools and use more standards that could make it harder to pass. Test takers will be required to use a computer instead of a pencil and paper and it will also cost more to take the test. It is the first update to the test in more than a decade. 7 39. And were now getting word of the first bay area babies born in 2013 2014. I should say. The baby girl was born two seconds past midnight at kaiser permanent san jose Medical Center. And a baby boy was born at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center about eight seconds past midnight. The annual parade in london, england just wrapped up. Two local bands represented the bay area well. This years parade had 8500 participants from 20 countries. This is video of some of the marching bands braving the cold and the rain there. One of them performing was from Pittsburgh High School. Oakgrove high also in san jose took part in todays parade. Now, the kids from oakgrove celebrated the new years eve night before getting ready before the parade. The boosters posted this photo online of the students. They are at a new years eve disco party. The post read, new years disco, happy new year, london. Bring on 2014. The new year is getting off to a bad start on bay area roadways. These are live pictures from hayward. Whats left of a beautiful classic car destroyed in a suspected drunk driving crash with Christmas Decorations behind it. But it was not car responsible for the damage. Details are coming up. From the balldrop in new york to recordbreaking fireworks in dubai, how people rang in 2014. The new forecast starting off like the old one. That is dry. 7 43. In business news, threat flicks is doing some early Spring Cleaning starting today. More than 80 movies and a handful of tv shows will no longer be available for streaming through the site. Netflix is cutting such movie favorites as brave heart, do the right thing, flash dance, ploo toon and war games. No specific reason was given for the cuts in the netflix catalogue. Apple is denying any knowledge of a National Security Agency Program that can snoop on iphone users. A german newspaper reports the nsa developed a system to hack into iphones and view personal information such as Text Messages and contact lists. In response, apple says it has never worked with the nsa to create backdoor channels in the products that would allow spying. A West Sacramento Cheese Company is recalling all flavors. Cashew cheese because the possible salmonella contamination. The cultured Kitchen Company says the cheese was sold in eightounce containers at Natural Food Stores and farmers markets in the bay area, sacramento and reno. Seven flavors are involved. The recalled containers have, pieration dates through april 19th. President put be made a visit to volgograd. He added flowers to a memorial growing at the site of one of two suicide bombings. In his new years eve address on sunday, he said russia will continue to fight terrorists certainly, fiercely, and consistently. The attacks come weeks before the Winter Olympics begin in sochi. People in a small town in north dakota are back home after a train explosion forced them to evacuate. The fire is now 90 out. Investigators say a train carrying grain derailed and knocked several cars from a separate train off its tracks. That train was hauling crude oil. The accident sent a giant fireball and plumes of smoke about a mile high. The 2400 people in the town of castleton were asked to voluntarily evacuate. Ntsb is investigating the crash by examining the trains data recorder. You cant show up at a town hall meeting when you dont have a car, you cannot send in a fema car application when you dont have computer access. Angry survivors that tore through illinois back in november disrupted a News Conference yesterday that was set to announce disaster relief. Storm victims blame state leaders for communication breakdowns and the slow response in assistance. About two dozen tornadoes touched down in one Central Illinois community. The new year is bringing a hike in natural gas and electricity costs across the bay area. Pg e says average residential natural gas bills will increase about 7 , more than 3 a month. As for electric rates, the company says those rates will increase a little more than. 5 . That will add 23 sents more to a customers monthly bill. And theres fare changes. On average, b. A. R. T. Passengers will pay an extra 19 cents per ride. Fares will be going up again in 2016, 2018 and 2020. As part of a program to generate 325 million to be spent on upgrading the system. Muni prices will increase to 15 for a oneday pass, 23 for three days and 29 for seven days. 7 46. And the new year rang in with style around the world. Ktvus pam cook is here. She has a lot of style as well and takes us around the world to show us some of the spectacular celebrations. The fireworks displays were phenomenal. The crowds were huge. [ cheers ] very loud. More than a Million People came to new yorks times square for the annual balldrop. Sonya sonya so toe sonya Sonya Sotomayer did the countdown. They got to see miley cyrus. And remember blondie . They were all performing. Thousands gathered in moscow to ring in 2014. Literally ringing it in with a bell. But unfortunately, the fessive spirit has been overshadowed by the two suicide bombings. Russians there trying to improve the mood and the security before the Winter Olympics in russia in february. Nothing comes close to that. The party in dubai. The new years eve Fireworks Show set a new world record. 400,000 fireworks lit up the sky in six minutes. Some of them shooting right there from around the worlds tallest building. According to the guinness book of world records, thats the largest fireworks display ever. Weve seen the famous Waterford Crystal ball drop in times square for years, but there are unique other symbols here in the u. S. You might not know about. Im gonna show you some of those in our next hour of mornings on 2. All right, pam. Thank you. At ktvu. Com, you can find a special feature bidding farewell to 2013. Its thierend review the yearend review. Look for hot topics on the front page. All right. 7 48. We want to check in with steve, see the weather and nice and clear and sunny but no rain, right . Back to you, tori. [laughter] thats pretty much sums it up. It is colder. Was this joe johnson back there . Is that you . Very nice. Well done, well done. I believe. I dont know. Yes, thank you. A few high clouds. We had a lot more yesterday. Its colder this morning. By the way, this is the day if you want to shout out, i can probably do four minutes and not do a rap. Perry said, its 35 in crescent city. Could you give us a shot out . No, i cannot do that. But yes, cret thent city crescent city, 35. Vallejo, is 35. Thats william tweety and casey in concord, 32. The rainfall in 2013 was the driest ever. I mean, you know about San Francisco but there were a bunch. Some very, very usually wet areas occidental in the Russian River should get 57 inches. They had under 15point a. The kentfield and marin county also one thats usually up there with the rainfall, normal is about 48 inches. They had 7. 80. Los gatos, 3. 75. They should have over 23. You could do a page and a half of all of the record dry. Fresno, you name it. Sacramento, amazing. San francisco for december usually gets 4. 56 inches of rain. We had. 39. 6th driest ever. The maximum temperature was ever. The minimum was 2. 2 below. It was definitely colder. But were used to that. Weve had a lot of cold reads. 27 napa, 29 fairfield. Santa rosa, 28. 30s all over the place. Low, mid. Pretty cold here this morning. Its also cold also up in mendocino county, lake county, sacramento, 32. Monterey, 39. 36 up in eureka. A lot of tropical clouds continue to stream into the south and snow was lining up from denver. Omaha back to chicago and for the winter classic at the bighouse in michigan, a lot of snow there. Bigtime snow and blizzard could be falling in boston and new york for tomorrow. Fon us for us, very quiet. Patchy fog mainly on the coast. Marin coast and on the sonoma coast. It will be warmer today. Highs today, 60s, low, mid, upper. Warmest locations will be definitely away from the coast. By the coast and more upper 50s and low 60s. Except santa cruz, i will go 70 down there. But a lot of low 60s. Mid60sen the peninsula mid 60s on the peninsula. Theres no changes. All right, steve. Thank you. Well, coming up a new era for the boy scouts of america begins today. The historic change that some critics say does not go far enough. One of the busiest travel times of the year but people heading to one theme park are not getting the warm welcome they expected. [ superfan ] were hitting the road to help america discover the new helper. Youve got to try this sweet sour chicken helper. I didnt know they made chicken. Crunchy taco or four cheese lasagna . Can i get another one of those actually . [ superfan ] hey, america, were here to help. This is the creamy chicken corn chowder. I mean, look at it. So indulgent. Did i tell you i am on the. [ both ] Chicken Pot Pie diet me too [ male announcer ] so indulgent, youll never believe theyre light. 100calorie progresso light soups. A dispute between starbucks and a small brewery in missouri. Exit 6 pub and brewery is located in a st. Louis suburb. And there were postings on social media about breweries selling an alcoholic beverage called the frappuccino which was spelled differently than starbucks. However, starbucks still sends a cease and deep sis letter to the cease and desist letter who in turn sarcastically sent a check for 6. Im a little tiny shop in a town making little patches of beer. Starbucks says its just protecting the brand and trademark and wants all breweries to stop using the terms to avoid any confusion with customers. Some unemployed customers are waiting on backlogged benefit checks even though the state fixed a computer problem. A Computer System upgrade over Labor Day Weekend caused delays in benefit payments. One unemployed man told us hes still waiting for money owed to him. I still have a chance with them. Its about 1650. Im sure i will never see it. The e. D. D. Says it has solved the vast majority of the problems but acknowledges that some issues do remain affecting less than 1 of claims. Well, hewlettpackard sr announcing that job cuts at the Palo Alto Company will go deeper than first thought. Another 5,000 workers will be laid off because of what the Company Called market and business pressures. The job cuts are part of a Restructuring Plan first announced back in 2012. The number of layoffs was expected to be around 27,000. That figure has grown to about 34,000. Facebooks ceo, mark zukeringberg and his wife made the largest philanthropic donation in the u. S. In 2013. In december, they gave 18 million shares of Facebook Stock to the solly convalley Silicon Valley foundation. That was worth 992 million. They donated the same number last year. But that just put them in second on the chronicle of thrill philanthropic lists. They are the first under the age of 30 to top the list of donors. A Michigan University is releasing its 39th annual list of words that should be banished. This year, the words that people hope will leave with 2013 include selfie, a term that describes a selftaken photo, twerking, the phrase made famous by miley cyrus. Other words include obamacare, mr. Mom and twitterssphere. Have to sell sal about that last one. The holidays are bringing so many people to floridas disney world its turning away visitors. The park was turning away people because it was filled to capacity. For people who got inside, there were reports of lines up to five hours long to get on a ride. Others say they waited in line to buy tickets to the park only to be told it wasnt possible. I cant tell you tickets because its closed. Too many people. Well, the mark website says disney reimbursed people for parking and offered half price dining to anyone that was turned away. Five hours in line. I mean, thats fun. Oh, my goodness. Well, huge crowds around the world ring in the new year. [ cheers ] how people in the bay area said goodbye to 2013. Were live in hayward where a suspected drunk driver slams into two parked cars and walks away with barely a scratch. Well show you the destruction. I just had a tweet from brian who said steve, whens our next rain . If i knew that, i would be doing cartwheels down the studio. I dont see any sign of that. I do see signs of warmer temperatures. Well take a look at that coming up. Welcome back to mornings on 2. These are live pictures from hayward this morning where, as you can see, a classic mustang has been mangled after a suspected drunk driving crash. How another car landed on top of this car, that story coming up in a live report. Good morning. Happy new year. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Im tori campbell. A quick look at weather. Steve, a little chilly this morning. No doubt about it. Much colder. More upper 20s, low 30s, patchy fog kind of favoring the marin and sonoma coast. Its not solid. Santa rosa, 27. Napa, 27. Fairfield was 29. 39 in half moon bay. I mean, 30 thats in mofette moffett. Look at all of the tropical move to the deep south. Some of this will all come together over boston and new york maybe give them blizzard warns late tonight into tomorrow. Its a sunny, dry forecast and highs will be in the 60s to near 70. Theres no sign of any rain right now. Back to the desk. All right. Thank you, steve. 8 01. We begin our 8 00 hour with developing news. The chp is investigating a suspected drunk driving crash in hayward. It happened two hours ago on grove way. Tara moriarty joins us live from the scene to show us the extent of damage. And you mentioned it runs the length of a football field. Reporter thats right. When you look at the damage, its really amazing that no one was killed. Take a look at this mustang. The car that the drunk driver was driving landed on top of this car, this is a classic 64 mustang. The driver walked away with barely a scratch. Only a bloody nose. Officers say it happened around 5 30 this morning on grove way near western boulevard just south of 238 580 split. The chp says the driver was speeding over Railroad Tracks and went airborne, slammed into a parked car, a speed limit sign, plowed through two front yards, fences, damaged a bmw and then landed on top of the mustang. Neighbors say they heard the twisting of metal and ran outside. The driver was in the back seat of the car. Reporter he didnt have his seat belt on . No. Reporter and i understand he had a bloody nose . He had a bloody nose, kind of out of it. You could smell alcohol. He was drunk. He said he wasnt but you could tell he was drunk. Reporter officers say the driver was taken to the hospital an will be charged with dui. The tow truck has taken two of the three trucks away. You can see this empty beer bottle here that actually you can tell its been split open and theres beer laying on the sidewalk. Thats what fell out of the car according to witnesses. Weve discovered that this mustangs owner is actually out of the country. He brought this car to his friends house to keep it safe while he was away. Unfortunately, that did not turn out to be the case. Luckily, no one was killed which spans about an hour football field. Were live in hayward, Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Such a sad site. Thank you, tara. The chp is investigating a deadly new years day freeway crash in oakland. It happened hours ago on interstate 580 near park boulevard. The chp says a white suv veered off the highway and flipped over. Female passenger was killed. The male driver was transpored to the transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Its still not clear what caused the suv to go off the highway. The chp is trying to determine the cause of a deadly new years eve crash in a remote area of west marin county. You can see the car ended up in the water after the rollover accident near tamales bayer iy yesterday evening. A passenger was killed when the car flipped over and landed on the roof near shore line highway. Bystanders came to the rescue of the driver who was not seriously hurt. This morning, the chp will release the number of arrests it made during the new years eve drunk driving crackdown. Put your feet together, arms down your side. Follow my fin finger finger with our eyes only. Dont move your head. This vehicle was pulled over while we were on a ride along. The man took a test but was not arrested. Last year, arrests arrested 2 officers arrested 208 people. People across the bay area celebrated the new year with fireworks. This is what it looked like at the stroke of midnight in oakland. Although there were no official Fireworks Shows in the city, as you can see, illegal fireworks lit up the skies. Police there were extra patrols owl looking for those out looking for those. An extra 200,000 people showed you to see the big new years eve Fireworks Show in San Francisco. [ cheers ] the crowd started to show up early to the embarcadero to get a good spot. One woman had her spot planned out before she got there. We go to our own same specific place that we go to so there wont be that many people where were at. Police were out last night to make sure things stayed safe. There was a zerotolerance policy for drinking in public and open containers. At ktvu. Com, you will find a special feature bidding fare well to 2013. Its the yearend review including topics, side slows and videos. Time now is 8 05. There are new laws for the new year for teenagers. Anyone driving under the age of 18 can no longer send or receive texts while behind the wheel not even with handsfree technology. Teens were able to use the handsfree devices but not anymore. Texting by hand was outlawed in 2009. Theres a new law spelling out the rights of transgender students in schools. The law states students can participate in sports and use restrooms that reflect their gender identity regardless of whats listed on their birth certificate. The law could soon be suspended if opponents collect enough signatures to place the issue on the november ballot. The boy scouts is beginning with in a groundbreaking pollcy. Starting today, openly gay boys can join the scouts for the first time in the organizes 103yearold history. This is winning praise from many gay rights supporters around the country. Bill harrison is one of them. Hes from the richmond Gay Foundation. Cannot have high morals or be a Good American because he happens to be gay is based on ignorance. How many advocates say the new policy does not go far enough. The boy scouts will continue its current ban on gay adult leaders. It is 8 06. Stanford is looking for its second straight rosebowl victory this afternoon. The number 5 cardinal faces number 4. Stanford is in pasadena. Its Michigan States first trip since 1988. Stanford is considered a slight favorite and kickoff is at 2 30. Before the rosebowl, the tournament of roses parade. The 125th annual parade begins in just under an hour. 8 00 this morning in pasadena. Some people have been camping out for days to stake their spot along the parade route and float designers say the wait will be well worth it. You look at this float ten times, you see ten different times every time you look at it. Dole food company has had the winning float for the the past three years. Floats are decorated only with natural materials such as flowers, seeds, fruits and vegetables. You can watch the rose parade on our sister. Station. It began over an hour ago. Well replay the parade all day, basically, until 7 00 tonight. So you can turn it on and watch it any time. Coming up a young girl crossing the street with her family is hit and killed in San Francisco at the bottom of the hour, we examine how the accident happened plus the prognosis of the childs mother and younger brother. Former First Lady Barbara Bush spending the first day of the year in the hospital. How shes holding up with medical care. Temperatures cooled off a little bit yesterday. Today looks warmer. Well see if the trend continues an how much warmer. Quite the positive attitude there. Stranded crew of a Research Ship in antarctica rake in the new year with a rang in the new year with a special song. The 74 scientists, tourists and crew on the russian ship have been stranded since christmas eve. They posted that video on youtube. The passengers say they are trying to keep their spirits high this new years day. When the weather does get a little bit better, a helicopter will eventually rescue them. Well, a United Airlines flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing after the pilot started having heart problems midflight. The plane was on its way from iowa to colorado monday night when the copilot noticed the pilot was really sick. The copilot decided to land in nebraska. 154 passengers were on board at the time including two nurses who were there to help. It was chaotic at the front. They extradited him out of the cockpit and laid him on the floor right up there in the first class area and got an id on him. The pilot was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to recover. 8 12. Former First Lady Barbara Bush remains in the hospital this morning. The 88yearold is being treated for early signs of pneumonia. She was admitted to Methodist Hospital in houston last night. Friends and family are sending her well wishes for a quick recovery. Well, barbara bush is a tough old gal who will outlive us all. But our love is with her because shes not just a former first lady of america, shes the flade of our first lady of our hearts. The hospital says shes in great spirits and is being visited by her husband and family members. There has been an outpouring of support for a little girl from livermore who is fighting brain cancer. Now her family is giving back. Yesterday, the parents of 2 yearold Delaney Newton held a blood drive at the church of jesus christ of latterday saints in livermore. Delaney was diagnosed with a brain tumor three months ago. Her family says the blood drive is their way of helping other children and families going through the same thing. People have been there to help us. This is the only way we know to give back is to is blood. You know, shes already had 14 plus transfusions. Hundreds of people have been showing support on facebook. Her father says she will have to go through more transfukeses and chemotherapy as part of her ongoing treatment. Today is the day the new healthcare reforms under the new Affordable Care act kick in. So far, more than 2 Million People have signed up through insurance through the state and federal healthcare exchanges. Here in california, 400,000 people signed up through the covered california exchange. Under the law, all americans must have coverage by march 31st or face a fine. No one can be tee mid coverage for pristing coverage preexisting coverage. Late yesterday, hours before the Affordable Care act took effect. Sonia sotomayor granted an extension to a group of nuns in colorado who object to the provision in the new healthcare law requiring contraceptive coverage. She gave the government until friday to file a response in the case. Pope francis has a new years day message for the worlds 1. 2 billion catholics. He expresses hope for world peace during the annual mass at the vatican. He urged catholics to help the hungry and poor around the world. A new year means a new mayor for new yorkers. Bill took the oath of office just two minutes after midnight in front of his oakland home alongside his wife and two children. Hes the citys 109th mayor but the first become in two decades. In 45 minutes, he will take part in a larger ceremony led by bill clinton. You can barely see outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg as he was surrounded by journalists and friends. He ended his 12 years as mayor by walking town the city hall steps. One of his last acts was hosting an interfaith breakfast. He plans to keep a lower profile from now on. 8 14. New yorks mayor is taking a controversial position that could hurt the Tourism Industry. Hes vowing to ban horse ride carriages. He calls the treatment of horses inhumane. Many tourists say an important part of the city would be gone. I ride horses back in new zealand. They love doing the work. As long as its not cruel, i think its a good idea. I heard they are iferm thissing of getting thinking of getting rid of them. I dont understand it. Carriage rides have been offered since the park opened back in 1888. Meantime, it could cost you less mor gas in for gas in 2014. You can expect to spend 5 cents a less per gallonnen. Thats because the United States is producing more of its crude oil. Nationwide output is up 19 in the last year. Most places are closed this new years day. All federal, state, county and city offices are closed. Banks and post offices are also closed. Most bay area transit agencies will be running on a sunday schedule. Parking meters in San Francisco will not be enforced today. You can park for free which is a good deal. We dont have sal around because not much traffic to talk about. But steve is here at 8 16. Nice picture there, steve. Thank you. Sunrise over the big city. A little bit of patchy fog. But mainly on the marin, sonoma coast. I had a lot of 20s showing up. More 20s than weve seen. 30s. Its a dry pattern. High pressure will flex its muscle and build northward which will drive some very, very cold air into the Northern Plains and the great lakes as we head towards the next five, seven days. Some of the rain totals coming in were the driest ever. I think you know about the usual suspects. Occidental. These are areas that are get a lot of rain when we get it. Russian river should get 57 inches of rain on average. They had 15. 45. Kentfield, also usually leading, should get 48 inches. They had 7. 80. Thats just awful. Los gatos, 3. 24. Should have over 23 inches. No matter where you go, it was the driest year almost for everybody. Even hout to the valley, fresno, sacramento, driest since 1877. San francisco had some rain in september. They should get 4. 56. It wasnt the case. Only 3. 39. The maximum temperature, 57. If you thought its colder, it was. It was 2. 2 degrees below the average at 43. 9. Its cold this morning, 44. I know theres coder readings than that. 27 napa, 27, santa rosa. Fairfield was 29. They had 30s on the coast. Half moon bay, 30s even in Mountain View and san jose. Mountain view is at moffett. 34 walnut creek, concord and also livermore. So temperatures cold this morning. 30 ukiah, 32 sacramento. Monterey at 39 degrees. 49 san diego and los angeles. All of the tropical moisture in the deep south and also starting to move into northern florida, that wont be the Sunshine State today. The snow is stacking you. Its 10 and snowing in chicago for the winter classic at the bighouse in michigan where the red wings are playing toronto. Its snowing there. That snow line goes back to omaha and dipping south back to colorado. The key though will be these ingredients coming together for new york and boston. They have blizzard warnings out. It looks quiet now. But things look like a cold air collision with some of the warm tropical air could be a huge shoir tomorrow. For ux, except for the clouds, its nice and hazy. 60s on the temperatures. Low, mid, upper. Clearlake well go 68. Sonoma, 64. Kentfield, 64. Vallejo, 62. They were 35 this morning. Walnut creek 6 a. Livermore is in there 65. Livermore is in there. Slld, martinez. Berkeley 62. 68 morgan hill. 67 san jose. Santa clara. And 66 for Mountain View, same for redwood city and 62 in the city. We do have sunshine and warmer temperatures thursday into friday. It will be okay dry. But just a little cooler on the weekend. Thank you, steve. Happening right now, the 125th annual tournament of roses parade in pasadena is underway. This is a live feed there this morning. A lot of bay area flavor, as we mentioned. We talked about the couple of bands in london this morning but a few bay area floats are there as well. One of them was mateos dream, remember yesterday pam talked about this. This was a mother from concord. She had a son with cerebral palsy. Their float will be there. That looks like hawaiian dancers. A hawaiian theme. All of the floatser we dont see the floats right now. But all of the floats are decorated only with natural material such as flowers, seeds, fruit and vegetables. The theme of this years parade is dreams come through and fame dodgers play by play broadcaster vince scully will be the grand marshal. Police and fire are stepping up security in wake of the tragedies like the boston bombing last spring. This will be followed by the rosebowl game featuring stanford taking on Michigan State. If you want so more of this parade were broadcasting it on kicu 36 right now. Well rerun it all day long until 7 00 this evening. You can watch it any time. Go, kear cardinal. Yes. And the new year means bigger paychecks for some local workers. The two bay area cities seeing an increase in their minimum wage. It is 8 24. Both the San Francisco police and Fire Departments have put up the help wanted sign. There are currently 1450 firefighters in the city but the Department Tells the examiner it needs up to 600 more firefighters to handle the citys population growth. By the year 2040, San Francisco is projected to grow by a third to nearly 1. 1 Million People. The Police Department says it will need 300 to 500 additional officers. Starting today, some workers in the bay area will be getting paid a little more. The minimum wage is going up in san jose because of an ordinance passed by voters last year. It goes up from 10 an hour to 10. 15. San francisco will also see a rise. The minimum wage in that city goes up from 10. 55 to 10. 74 an hour. Also taking effect today is an extension of the green sticker program. That means plugin hybrid drivers can use carpool lanes without meeting the minimum occupancy requirements at least until 2019. The law is one of eight authored by San Francisco state senator yee. San Francisco Police have identified the man they say led officers on a chase through the city. Police say 29yearold Jacques Samuel started the pursuit between 9 00 on monday night in the bayview district. The chase went on to interstate 80, 19th avenue and into golden gate park. It ended when he crashed into a concrete barrier. One officer was hit by sam ums car. He samuels car. He was treated and released. Another officer opened fire hitting the suspects car. Police in gilroy are asking fob the publics help in their sitch for a bank robber captured on a surveillance camera as he robbed a union bank at santa teresa boulevard and hecker road yesterday afternoon. Hes described as i white, mid 20 described as white, 20s, he was wearing a black baseball cap and white tennis shoes. If you live in contra costa county, you may hear emergency sirens later this morning, but keep in mind, its just a test. [ sirens ] the sirens are tested every month but since its happening on new years day and more people will be at home, county officials want to make sure everyone knows that it is just a test. It starts at 11 00 this morning. 8 26. A mysterious crop circle in Monterey County has been mowed down. The Property Owner said all of the attention had become a nuisance so he decided to get rid of it. Hundred of people flocked to see the design which lock looked looked like a computer chip. It sparked a lot of talk about aliens after someone posted a Youtube Video showing flashes the green light from the field. So far no one has taken credit for the crop circle. Another drunk driving crash in the bay area roadway but this one involves a Vallejo Police cruiser. How the officer is doing after another car slammed into his car. Reporter a 7yearold girl is killed after being run over by a car. Coming up, well tell you what one witness at the scene told us about what he saw and heard. Another beautiful morning. Its a colder morning. What about the afternoon highs if they warm up for how much longer and will we find any rain . Good morning everybody. Welcome back to mornings on 2. These are live pictures from San Francisco General Hospital where a woman and her son are recovering right now after being hit by a car on new years eve. The womans 7yearold daughter, however, was killed in the crash. Coming up, how it happened and what were learning at the hospital coming up in a live report. Good morning everybody. Dave clark has the morning off. Im brian flores. Lets go to steve paulson. Thank you very much. Clear skies. Patchy fog. Colder. A lot of 20s and 30s. A lot of people checking in saying its colder. Well start to warm up pretty soon. Fog is mainly hit and miss off the marin sonoma coast. This morning, 20s, 30s to 40s. Colder by the coast and bay than we saw yesterday. A lot of sun. A little warmer. Occasionally a high cloud. Upper 20s for some. Santa rosa is in there. Napa is in there. Already starting to bounce poof some of the lows. 30 in ukiah. They made it to the upper 20s. 32 in San Francisco. 39 in monterey. Its chilly for not just us but for a lot. Everything continues to ride over the ridge of high pressure. No sign of it breaking down any time soon. A couple of days we warm up. Thursday, friday. 60s, today, low, mid and a few upper. Vallejo police say a suspected drunk driver rammed into a patrol car injuring two officers. Now, the police sent us a photo of the accident. You see that right there. You can see the suspects damaged mini cooper along the patrol car as well. The crash happened around 2 15 this morning on georgia and monterey. The driver was arrested on dui charges while the officers suffered minor scrapes but nothing serious. In San Francisco, a 7year old girl was killed in a pedestrian cash crash on new years eve night. She was walking with her mother and younger brother when a car turned right into them. Claudine wong is live at San Francisco General Hospital where the mother and her other child are recovering this morning. We understand you just talked to the witness at the scene. Claudine . Reporter yeah, thats right. We talked to a witness over at the scene where this happened before we came to San Francisco general. As you said, this is where the mother remains. Shes in critical condition. Her 7yearold daughter was killed. Her 4yearold son suffered minor injuries. The accident happened about two miles from where we are at the intersection of polk and ellis. Police tell us the family was in the crosswalk at that intersection at about 8 00 last night when a driver making a right turn hit all three. Police say they are still piecing together everything that happened but tell us the driver stopped and is cooperating with police. In the last hour, we spoke to a man at the intersection about what he and his wife saw and heard. I was my wife got out. Walking down the street. The accident just occurred. Jumped out of his car. Screaming. I had a green light. And then somebody else i saw this car stop. I didnt think she was gonna step out in front of me. He said i had the green light. I had the rightofway. Reporter police say regardless of the light, pedestrians have the rightof way and told us during the investigation, police developed enough probable cause to arrest the driver on charges of vehicular manslaughter. If we come back out here live to sf general, this is where the 4yearold is recovering a as well as his mother. His mothers injuries are described as lifethreatening. Claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. In fremont, a car slammed into a group of people, killing one woman, and leaving a baby in critical condition. Police say a 19yearold woman and a 17yearold girl were walking across a sayia padre paseo padre parkway and mowry avenue. The 19 why was carrying a 3 monthold baby. Investigators say a truck hit them. Half an hour ago, we learned that the 19yearold died from her injuries while the baby boy remains in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Were still investigating the collision. We havent determined if any laws were broken, if theres any impairsment or anything else empairment or anything else of that nature. Police are still investigating to see who if anyone is at fault. The 17yearold woman was also hurt but her injuries are not lifethreatening. The 64yearold driver did remain at the scene and the roadway was blocked for about five hours overnight as officers investigated the crash. 8 34. Three separate shootings marred new years eve in oakland. Around 9 30 a young person was shot near 104th avenue and walnut creek street. The victim was hit in the chest and rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Police have not yet released the persons identity or age. There are no suspects at this time. And there were two other shootings in oeged. The first oakland. The first happened at 9 00 at 54th street and Martin Luther king, junior way. A man was shot in the leg but hes expected to be okay. Around 9 10 a woman was also shot in the chest in the 1800 block of 22nd avenue. She was taken to the hospital where she was later pronounced dead. No arrests have been made in any of the cases so far. The Rocky Mountain state is making history on this new years day. Colorado is the first state in the nation to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use. Retail pot sales began just a short time ago. This is new video of people lining up in the snow in denver to buy pot. Starting today, anyone over the age of 21 can buy up to an ounce of marijuana at a licensed store. This certainly is something that the nation is watching us for and the city and a lot of other entities have really been working hard to make sure that everything is done in a precise manner that accommodates everybodys needs. There are now posters and fliers put up across the state spilling out the spelling out the new rules in colorado. You cannot smoke pot in public, you cannot drive stoned. You cannot give marijuana to anyone under 21 and you cannot take the pot out of state. A number of new gun control laws hit the books today. One law requires the state to collect specific information about shot gun and rifle purchases. That information would then be stored on a computer database. In the past, only handgun purchases were permanently recorded in california. This new gun law and others led to a lastminute rush on gun and ammunition sales at gun Stores Across the state. Well, starting this week, the ged test will be completely different. The test will focus more on Critical Thinking skills and it will use new standards that could make it harder to pass. Test takers will be required to use a computer instead of a pencil and paper. It will also cost more to take the test. Its the first update to the test in more than a decade. 8 36. Happening today protesters in oakland plan a vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of oscar grant. B. A. R. T. Police officer, johannes mehserle, shot and killed the 22yearold man at the fruitvale b. A. R. T. Station early on new years day in 2009. Todays vigil is set to begin at noon at the fruitvale station. Members of oscar grants member are expected to attend along with the director of fruitvale station, the movie based on oscar grants life and death. There was a Large Police Presence around Oakland City Hall last night. Officers were called in after occupy oakland called for a new years eve demonstration protesting the grant shooting as well as other issues. Police were on alert all night long but the demonstration never took place. A medical facility in new york says it is willing to accept 13yearold jahi mcmath if her family can get her there. Jahis family wants breathing and feeding tubes surgically implanted to allow her to be transferred but oakland Childrens Hospital which considers the girl to be dead says it is etically wrong to perform surgery on a body. You are setting up road blocks at every road we try to go down to save jahi. Imagine this if jahi does come back as we hope, imagine what childrens is gonna have to face. The court and three physicians have ruled this young lady dead. Shes not coming back under any circumstances and thats the sad, sad truth. A judge ordered Childrens Hospital to maintain jahis ventilator at least until a federal Court Hearing next tuesday. An organization founded by the family of terri shiavo it is working with the mcmath family to find a plate for jahi mcmath. In 1990, shiavos husband wanted her feeding tube removed when she was diagnosed as being a vegetative state. After a long legal battle her feeding tube was removed and she died. The facility where jahi may be transferred is called new beginnings. New crime stats this morning as well as oakland a along with richmond showed significant drops of deadly violence in 2013. There were 89 crosses on display at this church signifying all of those killed in oakland last year up until yesterday afternoon. 125 people were killed in 2012. Thats a nearly 30 decline. Still, some say its too many. Ive got more loved ones up here, people i know, people i grew up with. And i know their families. Its hard. When is if gonna stop is it gonna stop in oakland . The city of richmond experienced a large drop in crime. There were 43 homicides in 2009. 18 in 2012 and 16 last year. Police credit more resources including several dozen detectives working in specialized units from homicide to narcotics. More details as vallejo was one bay area city where the homicide rate went up. There were 25 homicide in 2013 compared to 16 the previous year. Meantime, in san jose, that city saw a slight improvement in 2013. There, there were 43 homicides compared to 46 in 2012. 20 minute of before 9 00 were getting word of the first bay area babies born in 2014. A baby girl was born two seconds past midnight at Kaiser Permanente san jose Medical Center. A baby boy was born at kaiser San Francisco Medical Center at eight seconds past hid night. Welcome to the world. The parade in london just wrapped up there. Two local bands representing the bay area. This years parade had 8500 participants. This is video of those braving the cold and the rain. One of them performing was from Pittsburgh High School and oakgrove high in san jose also took part in todays parade. The kids celebrated before getting ready for the parade. The oakgrove band boosters posted this video online of students at a disco party. The post read, new years disco, happy new year from london, bring on 2014. Good time for them. Yep. More than a Million People jammed into times square to ring in the new year. The famous names who helped new yorkers welcome in 2014. Reporter were live in hayward where an alleged drunk driver slams into two cars, plows into a couple of front yards and walks away with only a bloody nose. We will show you the destruction that spans a football field. Theres all sorts of talk of bigtime snow events orbiterly cold temperatures. Not here orbiterly cold temperatures. Not here. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Well, the chp is investigating a suspected drunk driving crash in hayward. It happened about three hours ago on grove way. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us live from the scene to show us the extensive trail of damage left behind, tara . Reporter well, we want to show you what fell out of the car when the car stopped. It was this bottle of beer. The beer is fresh there on the ground. What happened was that the car that the alleged drunk driver was driving in, thats been since towed away landed on top of this classic mustang. The driver walked away with only a bloody nose. Officers say that it happened around 5 30 this morning on groveway near western boulevard just south of the 238 580 split. The chp says the driver was speeding over Railroad Tracks and went airborne, slammed into a parked car, a speed limit sign, plowed through two front yards, fences, damaged a bmw and landed on top of a classic 64 mistang. Neighbors say they heard the twisting of metal and ran outside. The driver was actually in the back seat of the car. Reporter so he didnt have his seat belt on . No. Reporter i understand he had a bloody nose . He had a bloody nose. Kind of out of it. You could smell alcohol. He was drunk. But he said he wasnt but you could tell he was drunk. Reporter officers say the driver was taken to the hospital and will be charged with dui. The tow truck has taken two of the three cars away. Back here live, those are the Railroad Trucks where the car went airborne. It landed near the silver car just to give you some perspective. This crash spans an entire football field. Weve discovered that the owners of the mustang is out of the country. He left his car here at his friends house so it would be safe while he was gone but sadly, that did not turn out to be the case. Live in hayward, Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. All right. Thank you. Its 8 46. The new years celebrations overnight were just spectacular. Pam cook joins us in the studio to show us some of the amazing video from some of the big parties, including one that broke a world record. Pam . Its amazing. According to the guinness book of world records, dubai had the largest fireworks display ever. The city of dubai set a world record by setting off roughly 400,000 fireworks to ring in the new year. Thats more than five times as many as the previous record holder. The recordbreaking display lit up the sky in six minutes. Some of those fireworks shooting right from that, the worlds tallest building. London opted for something unusual, a multisensory experience. In addition to some spectacular fireworks, crowds in london were greeted with fruit flavored minutes and man made snow cascading down. There was bananaflavored confetti thats biodegradable. How about these for some unique ways to mark the new year . In southwestern indiana, it was the big watermelon drop. Gallagher helped with that tradition, started back in 2008 to pay tribute to the countys many melon farms. In idaho, what else but a giant potato to ring in the new year in idaho. Brian and tori, im thinking for San Francisco, ghiradelli chocolate flavored confetti. That sounds good. I would go for that. Very creative. Happy new year. Happy new year. Thank you. And at ktvu. Com, you can find a special feature of bidding fare well to 2013. Its the yearend review of popular topics and video. 8 48. And steve has been doing the rain dance as best as he could. As best as he can. Cant bust a move anymore. Its not working. Wash your cars, whatever. Light some candles. We could use it. They are talking about all sorts of bitterly cold temperatures. Just not here. Its in the Northern Plains, great lakes. For us, it will be a very quiet week. Its cold. Bents, 30s 20s, 30s, 40s. Some areas are finally starting to warm up. Today looks warmer. A lot of tropical moisture to the south. A low developing right in there, coming out of the front range. Colorado is expected to sweep towards the northeast. Blizzard warnings for boston and new york. In a couple of days things could get dicey back there. For us, everything is going up and over. Sunny and nice. Hazy, bad air. Whats new . Patchy fog, mainly on the coast this time. Hardly any inland. 60s on the temperatures. Low, mid, upper could be a few upper 50s to the coast. Temperatures they are above average. We should be closer to 55, 62. These are definitely running above. They will continue to do so for the next couple of days. It looks really quiet here. Seeing projections out to the middle of january. Theres really no big changes. Warmer. Fair, cooler as we go into the weekend. Well, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife made the largest individual charitable donation in the u. S. In 2013. In december, the couple gave 18 million shares of Facebook Stock to the Silicon Valley community foundation. Its worth about 992 million. They donated the same number of shares to the Foundation Last year which put them actually in second place of the chronicle of philanthropy list. They are the first philanthropists under the age of 30 to top the list of donors. Holidays is bringing so many people to florida, its turning away visitors atdyny world. Look at the crowds there at disney world. Look at the crowds there. For people who got inside, there were reports of lines up to five hours long just to get on a ride. Others waited in line to buy tickets to the park only to be told it was not possible. I cannot tell you tickets because its closed. Too many people. The park website says disney reimbursed people for parking and offered halfprice dining to everyone who was turned away. But boy, that would be pretty disappointing. All of that trouble to get there and wait in long, long lines. Look at the arreyules aerials. A lot of people in line. Trouble brewing between starbucks and a microbrewery and a cease and desist letter that starbucks sent to the brewery. 8 54. New video of a massive Apartment Fire in minneapolis. So far, there are 13 people injured. Six of them critical. Firefighters say there are more tenants who are ununaccounted for. Efforts to put out the fire were hampered by subzero temperatures. There was an explosion before the fire began. This is an Apartment Fire in minneapolis. Some unemployed californians say they are still waiting on backdoing len fits. The backbog started in tease when a Computer System delayed. Apparent lit the problems are not over apicturely the problems apparently the problems are not over. One man is still waiting. Here i am struggling, not having work and not having not knowing where the next 20 will come from. The e. D. D. Says it has solved the vast majority of the problems but acknowledges that some issues remain affecting less than 1 of those waiting for a check. Hewlettpackard is abhownsing the job cuts at the Palo Alto Company will go deeper than thought. Another 5,000 workers will be laid off because of what the Company Called market and business pressures. The job cuts are part of a re structuring plan first announced in 2012. The total number of layoffs was expected to be around 27,000 but that figure has grown now to about 34,000. 8 55. Were learning new information about a shooting in East Palo Alto last night. Police say it appears that a man accidentally shot himself in the head while intoxicated on new years eve. Police responded to a home around 9 00 last night. That man was immediately taken to a hospital. But this Morning Police have not been able to give an update on the mans condition this morning. But they say the shooting does appear to be accidental. Netflix is doing some early Spring Cleaning. Starting today more than 80 movies and a handful of tv shows will no longer be available through the site. Netflix is cutting brave heart, do the right thing, flash dance, platoon, and war games. No specific reason was given for these cuts in the netflix catalogue. The new year is bringing a hike in natural gas and electricity costs for many people across the bay area. Pg e says average residential natural gas bills will increase about 7 . That means an increase of more than 3 a month. As for electric rates, the company says those rates will increase a little more than half a . That will half a percent. That will add 23 cents more to the monthly bill. On average, b. A. R. T. Passengers will pay an extra 19 cents per ride. Fares will also be going up again in 2016, 2018, and 2020. Part of a program to generate 325 million to be spent on upgrading the system. Muni prices will increase to 15 for a oneday pass. 23 for three days and 29 for seven days. A dispute is brewing between starbucks and a small prury in missouri. Exit six pub is located in a st. Louis suburb. Now, there are postings on social media about the brewing selling an alcoholic beverage called the frappuccino which is spelled differently than star bucks. Starbucks sent a sees and desift letter which in turn sent back a check for 6 sarcastically. Im a little tiny business in a tiny town making of bas the beer. Exit 6 does not even sell the frappuccino they say. Starbucks says they are protecting their brand and trademark. Thats our report for this morning. Thanks for making ktvu your choice for news. Be sure to watch the news at noon. You can always follow us on facebook and twitter. Ions last night. Make a good one this morning. Get two biscuit sandwiches, with your choice of country grilled sausage, and cheese, both on my new southern style biscuits. Youll save some cash cause right now theyre two for just three bucks. Cmon cody. Lets get some breakfast. You drive. I traded the car for the tattoo. Hi, everybody. Im beth troutman. Out with the old, in with the new. Weve got the best of both when it comes to viral videos. Its time to kick off 2014 right this minute. A driver comes up on a little road rage. Just when you think its over the chase is on. So what happens when the raid turns into a roadside show. Come on, baby, come on, baby the crowd is with him as firefighters try to save his life. And theyre working on a 58yearold