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KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 6am June 22, 2024

Rain down toward the monterey peninsula. That is a sign of some things to come. 60s on the temps. Almost everywhere. Maybe a few 50s but a lot of 60s. The breeze has cranked up big time out of the west. Cooler out to the sacramento valley. A lot of cloud cover today and tomorrow. Low and high clouds, some sun. The cooling continues not only today but into next week. 70s and 80s for most. All right sal. Youre on a role with your duets. Thank you, steve i appreciate that. We have to give credit top the viewers. Lets take a look at what we have with the morning commute. Traffic is going to get busier especially driving into San Francisco. I can tell you it already looks like a lighter than usual friday. There is a little delay but its not that bad get into San Francisco. Also looking at a commute on the san mateo bridge. That looks good heading out to the highrise. As we take a look at the south bay commute northbound 101 and 280 are doing very well. And there are no problems on highway 17 coming down to the bottom of the hill. There will be no bart service between San Francisco and the east bay this weekend. Transbay tube will be closed for a major maintenance. Christien kafton is live to tell us how that work will be done. Reporter things looking good on the bay area freeways right now. Right . So that might not necessarily be the case this weekend. That is what a lot of bart passengers are looking like. We are inside the west oakland bart station. Right now open for business. Bart passengers making their way on the trains but this station will be closed along with the transbay tube this weekend as passengers try to figure out how they will get around. Bart is asking anyone to make their way to the east bay to start planning now. Bart has been notifying passengers of this major closure for weeks now trying to get the word out. It means there will be no bart Service Starting at 6 00 saturday morning. Bart has set up a bus pass. But part is asking passengers to restrict their trips as much as possible so not to strain the system. Riders say they understand the need for the repairs but they are still worried about potential traffic this weekend. I hate sitting in traffic and i work nights so it comes back at midnight and i worry about the traffic being bad. Reporter you can see the concern even about traffic at midnight. Bart will be repairing an interlocking cross system. That will allow trains to switch to a parallel track. Now about 80,000 to 100,000 passengers take bart each weekend. Many are stepping up to take care of as many passiers as possible. There will be increased Ferry Service and ac transit will be running transbay buses as well. Coming back out to our live shot, you can see the rider alert here. This is posted at the bart station notifying passengers that bart station will be closed this weekend. Keep in mind this is the first of two closures. The other one coming on labor day weekend. Anyone needing to ride bart keep in mind the transbay tube and the west oakland bart station closed this weekend and it will be closed again on labor day weekend. For those drivers out there, you can anticipate possibly some heavier than usual traffic on the bridges just people trying to get back and forth. Definitely. Thank you. 6 04 is the time. You should also know tonight San Francisco muni will temporarily suspend late night subway service. Trains will stop running below martin street as work crews install a new communication system. Service should be back to normal at 5 00 tomorrow morning but the friday night shut down will continue for the next six months. Muni will run buses aboveground on the effected route. Back to developing news on that major wild fire. The rocky fire has burned more than 13,000 acres and more homes and communities may be threatened. Brian flores is back here in the studio. What is the latest . It is simply incredible how this fire has spread. Yesterday at this time it was around 5,000 acres. It has now more than doubled in size. They have charred more than 13,500 acres and its only 5 contained. Crews are having time putting a line around this fire. More than 600 people have been evacuated. So far three homes were destroyed and this fire is destroying more. The people that live within these areas enunfortunately the fire is move song moving so fast they cant keep up with it. Reporter the fire was traveling in a northerly direction. The concern is it may force more evacuations. An evacuation advisory not an order has been issued for the double eagle ranch area and homes along the highway 20 corridor and the concern is if it jumps highway 20, it could threaten the community of clear lake oaks. For residents again an Evacuation Center remains at middletown high school. For those with animals you can drop them off at the social Services Parking lot. Dave, back to you. A grass fire tore through a mobile home facility. Both homes and cars were destroyed. It starts in an area known as pirates layer marina. The fire started in brush and trees behind the Mobile Home Park right next to the marina and the winds fanned the flames. No one was hurt as people quickly escaped. A 96yearold man has died after being badly beaten. His caretaker 57yearold fialomoni is accused of beating him. He died in the custody of police. Authorities say after he beat 96yearold solomon cohen he drove a van to San Francisco where he hit a bmw. He acted aggressively toward that driver, tried to gain access to an ihop. When officers arrived they wrestled him to the ground and put him in handcuffs. That is when he had trouble breathing and died. Time is 6 08. An Alameda County judge issued a tentative ruling. 13yearold oakland girl was declared brain dead after a tonsil surgery that went wrong in oakland of december of 2013. Her family moved her to new jersey where she remains on organ support machines. If the teenager is considered to be alive she could sue her surgeon and hospital for millions of dollars. But if she is declared dead she could sue for a medical malpractice wrongful death. Shuttle bus drivers will vote on a Union Contract tomorrow. If approved, the drivers would get a pay rise and improved benefits. Right now the drivers do not get any paid holidays or overtime pay. He always says dieing is part of life and the only thing we can do is enjoy every day that we get. Up next the very emotional speeches honoring Sergeant Scott lunger. Vietnam veteran killed in san jose. The help police need as they search for leads in the case. We are looking at the east bay commute and right now it looks okay if you are driving on highway 4 coming up to concord. Not only low clouds but tropical clouds are moving in from the south and east. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Our time is 6 12. Thousands gathered at oracles arena saying thousands of goodbyes to police Sergeant Scott lunger. He was described as a friend, a mentor, and warrior. Sergeant lungers father described the day his son decided to become a police officer. We talked about my concern for your safety a lot and you always said dad, dont worry. When its your time to go, you cant do a thing about it. Its in gods hands. Sergeant lungers younger daughter said she was lucky to have him in their lives. His oldest daughter talked about the moments he wont be there to enjoy. I dont know who is going to walk me down the aisle or love all of my kids who will be too cute to put down. After the ceremony this took place. An honor guard folded the American Flag draped across his casket and Hayward Police chief dianne urban presented his to his family. Besides friends and family yesterday, services attended by Law Enforcement from across the country as ktvu noel walker found out people who had never met Sergeant Lunger came out to pay their respects. Reporter on his final ride Sergeant Scott lunger was not alone. Many lined the streets. Some for hours. Departments from the bay area and beyond marched into oracle arena. A thin blue line stretched as far as the eye could see. This is a show of strength, a show of numbers that were all with him. It brings back memories. They were very fresh definitely for me and members of my department. We were doing this last year. Reporter seen so many Law Enforcement gathered in one place for this somber reason is a stark reminder. The uniform comes with inherit danger. The badge sometimes a target. The job sometimes the ultimate sacrifice. Its a dangerous job. Its a dangerous job. Reporter you dont need to wear a budge and a blue uniform to know that. I know personally. Ive had butterflies in my stomach for days and days. Reporter Sergeant Lungers Baseball Team is mourning his sacrifice too. They are here to protect us, basically. There is just way too much violence. Reporter when we honor, sacrifice we are bound together by uniform, by family. And by community. Its a sense of gratitude toward them for every day they put their life on the line for our freedom, our safety. Reporter one last fly over, one last tribute and one last goodbye. I pay my respects, i salute him. Hes a hero. Reporter in Oakland Noel Walker ktvu fox 2 news. Our coverage continues online as well with more video and photos and we have posted clips of the service on our ktvu youtube channel. Time is 6 16. A jury says sinbads restaurant in San Francisco has to close its doors. The port of San Francisco sued the restaurant after the owner refused to leave pier 2 back in march to make way for an expanded ferry terminal. They also approved the request that sinbad has to pay 70,000 in back rent. Sinbad has been located at the pier for 40 years now. Right now it is 6 17. We want to check back in with sal who is keeping an eye on the friday commute. How does it look . Not too bad. Weve had a little bit of slow traffic but things are getting a little nicer. Look at highway 24 it looks good between walnut creek and oakland. Its nice and light. Definitely a little bit better today than it has been. Lets move along to the bay bridge toll plaza, there is a little bit of a delay here. Its about a 15 minute delay before you make it into San Francisco. Were also looking at the south bay. You can see traffic is looking good. Normally this time of morning we see a little bit of red. A little bit of. We will start off with the low clouds. There is a fog bank out there. A lot of cloud cover is moving up. There is a line of rain over to salinas. I think its heading to the Santa Clara Valley and even toward lake county. There is some signs of that happening already. Maybe they all get a break here. The forecast is tough because of the cloud cover. If that moves in, it may not be that hot. Winds turning more westerly, south westerly but it will still be warm to hot. Just not as hot as the past couple of days. North wind. I dont like that a little bit but i think it will turn a little bit. Look at the cloud cover screaming in here already. Look at this line forming from thunderstorm activity down south of holly store. So its heading pretty close to gilroy here. We also have a hurricane. Hurricane guillermo its moving northwest at 16 miles an hour. Its still days away but the track almost all the tracks take it toward the Hawaiian Islands but not until next wednesday. Probably will. Waters are pretty warm. 50s and 60s on your temps but a lot of identifys here due to the cloud cover and the clouds coming in. The breeze is out of the west or southwest and its roaring. You can see the moisture streaming up there. That will really play into our weather. Give us a huge cooling trend. In the meantime its spinning in a lot of cloud cover. Low clouds and high clouds. You can see that line. Not a big deal but for early in the morning. A lot of monsoon clouds coming in. This will mean possible showers. Maybe some thundershowers. Probably later today, tonight and into tomorrow. There is plenty going on. Cooling continues. 60s and 70s and 80s. I did hold on to some 90s. It looks like that cloud cover will give us some rain. Clouds mostly cloudy into saturday and pushes off toward the sierra. 6 20 is the time right now. A surfer seriously hurt as he tries to fight off a shark in australia. I probably jailed out there is a shark heading back in. And a second or two later he went under the water. Coming up in 23 minutes how witnesses helped save that mans life. But up next the first major piece of bruce genre memorabilia to be auctioned before she became caitlyn jenner. Feget up to 48 months righinterestfree financing on tempurpedic. Save hundreds on beautyrest. Or choose 300 in free gifts with Stearns Foster. The triple choice sale is on now at sleep train. [ music ] who is is this . Run dmc. Exactly. Run dmc. They are playing an aerosmith song with help from aerosmith. These guys going off. Super popular duet. That is the theme for this week. Traffic jam. You know you have people dancing in their bedrooms this morning. Requested by john rodriguez. If there is a special song you want to hear, let us know i will play your request every friday morning. Ktvu on twitter, facebook, or instagram. I like starting fridays with that. So do i. A little music. Its good to start with this beautiful sight in the sky. Since you wouldnt sing to me dave. Thereblue moon. It arrived early this morning. It is expected to stick around through tonight. Blue moon usually only happened every two or three years. So what is the blue moon as steve has been talking about . Its the second full moon in a calendar month. It only happens every once in awhile. It does look a little blue never that shot any way. A little more blue than a typical full moon. 6 25 is the time. The summer olympic torch that bruce jenner carried through lake tahoe sold for 24,000 at auction. It was the first piece to go to auction since the olympian became caitlyn jenner. It was purchased by an anonymous midwest collector. The Sacramento Kings have hired a female assistant coach. The great nancy lieberman. Now back in 2009 with the texas legends of the nbas dleague nancy became the first woman to coach a mens team under the nbas umbrella. Nancy lieberman herself is a former olympian, college star, and a member of the Basketball Hall of fame. Most recently she had been working at fox sports oklahoma as a pregame and post game analysis covering the Oklahoma City thunder. A badger that spent two months at a san rafael Animal Hospital will be released back into the wild. The badger was brought in june 6th after being found in bolinas. It was semi conscious. They had to hand feed it back to life. It will be released on sunday on to a 300acre ranch. That is probably at wild care then in san rafael. We go there all the time to visit. Yeah they do a lot of good work. Its a fun place. 6 26 is the time. Authorities in zimbabwe plan to seek extradition for the american hunter who killed a protective lion. The petition here in the u. S. That could receive a response from the obama administration. We are live at levi stadium where Training Camp is about to start for the 49ers. A lot of popular players gone. A lot of new faces including a new head coach. Well have a preview coming up. All right. Right now traffic is actually doing very well if you are driving on 280 northbound. Getting up to highway 17. So please go this way. Steve. Well if you want cooler weather you can walk this way because that is what we have. Cooler weather and also some rain. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us here for mornings on 2 friday, july 31st im dave clark. Good morning, im pam cook. Thank you for joining us. Its 6 30. I caught dave doing a little dancing. I heard steve doing a little singing. Its friday. I dont know if that is considered dancing. Yes, it is. Control room is always lucky. I know. Youve got to be careful but its friday. We have a picture of one of our viewers. Its not weather related. Its interesting. Well get to it in a second. We do have conditions that will be better today for the fire. Also much, much cooler here. There is a lot going on even a line of rain along holster. Mountain lion weather. There he is right there. Ran into this guy leaving the ranch watched him for 15 minutes. 30 feet from my car. That is in the santa cruz mountains. I would watch from the car too. Upper 70s and mid 70s. They have more of a westerly breeze. Look at the cloud cover. Its really moving fast here. There is even rain down around south of gilroy. Moving in Santa Clara Valley. Look at that line. I think that is heading north or toward us. Santa cruz mountains and Santa Clara Valley. He is going to do very well here. I know. Good morning everybody. Lets take a look at the commute now. And starting off with the mccarthur maze in the east shore freeway 80 looks good from the carr sees in bridge to carquinez bridge to the maze. And then you get to the bay bridge toll plaza and you will see a backup of 1015 minutes before you make it on to the span. As we look at the east bay 580 is a dream for those that drive livermore to Castro Valley every day. There is a little bit of slow traffic on to the pass. Lets go back to the desk. We are going back to developing news that major wild fire up in lake county. The rocky fire it has now burned more than 13,000 acres. More homes, more communities may be threatened. Brian flores is in our newsroom now. So what is the latest and were hearing its only 5 contained. Reporter yeah. I just got off the phone with cal fire. The amount of acreage burned is about the same. The fire is moving in a northwest direction toward the cash creek wildlife preserve. At this point the socalled rocky fire has burned about 13,500 acres and what is making this fire difficult is the amount of dry over grown vegetation. This is a an area that hasnt seen fire for years. I looked up and said i think there is smoke. She said it is a f

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