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KICU 10 OClock News July 27, 2013

Negotiator are also a negotiator. That new deadline is set for august 4th. We get tonights developments from ktvus jana katsuyama. Shes live in oakland with the documents the union says proved the conflict of interest. Jana julie, we talked with Union Members right here about four hours ago and they gave us these invoices which they say show that b. A. R. T. s lead negotiators company is set to benefit as a result of these strikes. But he says there is no conflict of business. Union leaders say that talks have stalled. And they say that b. A. R. T. Has reasons for talks to stall. Thomas hall b. A. R. T. s lead negotiator is also lead president of the ola transportation. And tape said last night they obtained these copies of invoices. Were calling upon the board of directors to investigate the conflict of interest and to remove him from negotiations. Reporter the district has violated his own conflict of interest, laws and rules. Reporter the union says b. A. R. T. s code of conduct state that is theres a conflict of interest when the contractor is unable or potentially unable to provide impartial and assistant due to other activities, relationships, contracts or circumstances. We dont feel this created a conflict. Reporter b. A. R. T. Spokesperson rick rice says theres no conflict just a coincidence. He says that for the last year, tom has been providing only he doesnt believe theres a conflict of interest but say it is board will need to talk with their attorneys. Reporting live in oakland tonight, jana katsuyama, ktvu channel 2 news. More details now, we learned the b. A. R. T. Unions are trying to accomplish a picket line tomorrow. A Homeowners Association is informing residents at harbor bay island that b. A. R. T. Workers plan to picket where grace cunnican has her home. That suspicious device that prompted a total closure of the bay bridge this afternoon was a small gray colored pipe and as it turns out it was harmless. Deborah villalon tells us the bridge was only closed for 10 minutes and that was long enough to create a huge traffic mess, deborah. Reporter Law Enforcement doesnt want to tell us about the object. But they tell us possibly someone tried to make it look like an explosive and the response was immediate. From news chopper 2, the Treasure Island off ramp where a passer by found a suspicious object and called 911 this afternoon. Chp couldnt tell what it was. So San Francisco Police Responded with their bomb squad. It was something that looked very suspiciously of an explosive dice. Device. It looked very suspicious. Reporter gray and about the size of a nerf football. Laying on the side of the road. Fearing the worse, chp ordered ramps in both directions closed tpaers then the entire bridge for about 20 minutes closed first then the entire bridge for about 20 minutes. 20 long minutes. The back up to San Francisco spanned for miles. And those people on the freeway could do nothing else but sit. I took it from two blocks, like fremont, it took me like an hour to get to here. Reporter the bomb detecting robot was able to determine it was not a threat. They rendered it safe. And it was apparent after we were able to investigate further that it was not anything that would be harmful. Reporter it wasnt anything immediately identifiable like a car part either. Chp will look at the chance that it was a prank. The response was a classic case of better safe than sorry. Were going to take every step we can to make sure theres no threat to the bridge and there is no threat to the public. Reporter because of the bomb square, some members of the l. A. Angels playing the as tonight had to take b. A. R. T. To the coliseum to make their game. Reporting live on Treasure Island, deborah villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. There have been other unscheduled bridge closures over the years. In october 2009, a 5,000pound beam and two steel tie rods came crashing down on the upper deck of the eastern span. Three vehicles were damaged but no one was seriously hurt. Caltrans repairs took longer than expected and the bridge was closed for 51 2 days. Perhaps the best remembered mess was a publicity stunt staged during the morning commute. Man cow was convicted of creating a public nuisance and told not to do it again. Coming up at 10 30, a packed house at candle stick park. The big jay z and Justin Timberlake concert is set to cause traffic. Cody hill faces vehicle manslaughter and reckless driving. Police have been investigating the deadly collision since last month. Thats when the car struck and killed diana heselbrook and her husband. Calfire says the flames broke out about 1 45 this afternoon. The fire burned 158 acres before crews were able to put it out. No injuries were reported. Authorities say it started away from the road on property belonging to pegasus ranch. Members of the are angry after someone spray painted racist graffiti in their neighborhood. Police already have some good leads in what theyre treating as a hate crime. Lexington court is a picture of suburbia where problems are rare. Real quiet, neighbors speak to each other. Reporter yesterday morning around 10 45, police were alerted to something that shattered the peace. One was the n word spray painted on the driveway, the other was another racial slur, they spray painted the word monkey on the garage door. Reporter that wasnt all, there was also a a swastika and the letters kkk. Their neighbors are still in shock. Theres never been no racial anything over here. Ive been here three years and my neighbors have been here 2 1 2. Reporter at the near by walnut park, a bench was spray painted with a swastika and whites only later in the day. There has never been anything like this. This is a family community. This is a serious crime. This isnt just kids out spray painting and vandalizing. When we catch these people, were going to seek felony charges. Reporter they add that they recovered good evidence at the scene. This is a hate crime. Absolutely, defined as a hate crime. Reporter police are asking anyone with information about this case to give them a call. John sasaki. This hate Crime Investigation is prompting a discussion on our website. You can join the discussion on facebook. An infamous hacker who used his computer skills to expose security weakens has died in San Francisco. Okay so count your mission. Reporter barnaby jacks demonstration of hacking atms. He was found dead last night in his knob hill apartment. Police ruled out foul play. An autopsy will be conducted. Jack was just 35 years old. Wall street closed out the week with small gains, the Dow Jones Industrial average edged three points higher after being down for most of the day. Nasdaq gained seven. Starbucks was one of the days top performers up more than 7 . Shares of zynga dropped 18 today. Thats its biggest 1 drop of the year. The San Francisco social Network Gaming company dropped plans to get into the gambling business. Instead, zynga plans a top to bottom redesign. The 25 stick plugs into a tv and allows users to download videos straight to their television. Chrome cast is expected to hit the shelves on sunday. You can also buy it in the Google Play Store but itll be three to four weeks before it ships. Jay z. And Justin Timberlake bring sexy back to candle stick. Ill show you the cool down on the way for your area and if Surveillance Footage may help catch a cat burglar who was caught on video smashing a car window to steal a cat. Amber lee is in San Francisco to tell us what else was in the car that the thief didnt take. Reporter well leaving smart phones, laptops, purses inside cars is something weve all been warned about. Now theres a new cautionary tail about a different kind of valuable being left out in plain sight. Carolyn adamson drove all over the city to find her beloved pet roxy. I feel like im her mother, im supposed to keep her safe and i didnt. Reporter the cat was stolen at 9 30 last night at polk and broadway and it was all caught on surveillance tape. You can see the thief break adamsons car window. Then waited for an opportune time to make out off with the cat. I know that bad things can happen with animals and cars but i had no idea that people would steal a cat. We dont get too many calls for service of people who claim that their cats were stolen. Reporter San Francisco police say a cat napping is a rare occurrence to say the least. Its not unheard of for pets to be stolen in the city but the targets are usually dogs. What police find strange is that the thieves would ignore a backseat full of luggage, a laptop bag with a laptop in it and steal a cat. Adamson says that she brought her cat only because she had a family dinner and was going to leave out of town after that. I was going on a camping trip. But i cancelled that to look for my cat. Reporter the Department Hopes to postit online to see if someone could identify the thief who made out with the one thing in the car adamson cant replace. Adamson told me tonight that shes offering a 500 reward to anyone who returns the cat safely, no questions asked. Patti lee, ktvu. The boycott of russian vodka and all things russian is spreading around the world. We told you about the bars in the Castro District refusing to serve a russian vodka. Now were hearing gay bars from new york to chicago, Great Britain and australia are joining the boycott. In moscow the anti gay sediment, some russians is clear in this video. A man attacked a gay rights rights activist and police took both of them away. Russias new bar bars propaganda for nontradition sexual relations to minors. Attacks on activists have become frequent. The first Republican Central Committee in the u. S. To support samesex marriage. The 23 Member Committee cast their ballots last night during its monthly meeting. Members also voted in support of developing a two to three year strategy that will breathe new life into the Republican Party in marin. A military court judge is now deciding the fate of Army Private Bradley manning. Manning is accused of sending military secrets to wikileaks. The most serious charge is aiding the enemy. The defense argued that he was naive and just wanted the world to know the atrocities of war. A Los Angeles County District Attorney is asking the court to keep 62yearold Christopher Hubbart in a State Hospital until legal issues over where he will live are resolved. Hes due to be released in Los Angeles County in november. But the District Attorney says he should be released in Santa Clara County where he lived when he admitted to raping and sexually assaulting 38 women across the state. Neighbors stood side by side with oakland city leaders to declare theyre fed up with violent crime. As cara liu reports a recent set of attacks is pushing these citizens to step up and take action. Enough is enough, and that oakland is not going to live like this anymore. We live here and were not going to stay in our houses and hide from them and let them take over. Reporter expressing outrage over recent violence, city and Community Leaders took a stand saying oakland needs help. The county has offered. We were too proud and we said no to them. Reporter Council Member noel gallo says he will ask the city to declare a state of emergency making it easy to get help from the federal and state government. Were at a point, it takes four votes. I think i have three. Im working on another one to be able to do that. Is it going to set an embarrassment to oakland . Were already embarrassed by allowing what happened to happen. Reporter this comes after a pet sitter was killed while picking up animals. We used to go to her house and have dinner together, share bread together. I feel sad because i know her, i miss her, shes my friend. Reporter Business Owners say theyre fed up with the robbers and crime. Theyre meeting to see if they can hire private security. We have in mind to do it. Were starting to talk about it. Because i think its really important for our area. It will make a big difference. Reporter merchants worry about the cost but say they certainly cant afford to do nothing. In oakland, cara liu, ktvu news. More details now in an effort to avoid a repeat of violent protests two weeks ago in oakland. Law enforcement is stepping up patrols. The Oakland Police Department Says it is aware of several protests planned for tomorrow. The Department Says it is prepared and will be ready should any of the demonstrations turn violent. One of the oldest bison at San Francisco golden state park was put down today. Her health had deteriorated on monday. They usually live about 25 years. Veterinarians said they had been watching closely the female for eight months. Eight other bison remain in the park. Weather pattern is changing for the past few days. Weve been talking about this a shallow marine layer keeping the cop right near the immediate coastline. The marine layer is thickening. As a result that coupled with an on shore breeze the net results is cooler temperatures. Heres the forecast model at 8 00, coast side right around the bay. I suspect we will have a few patches well inland as well. Partly to mostly cloudy skies to start up your saturday. And drizzles as well. Especially coast side. Temperatures will be in the low to mid50s. 50degrees san jose 56, livermore 57. We will also highlight the coolest day of the weekend. Part of the San Francisco will be fogged for phos key mosquitoes in a little less than 30 minutes. Ground fogging will start at 11 00 tonight and last for several hours. The area to be fogged is east of interstate 680 and north of beriesta old. The fog is not toxic to humans or animals. A National Monument vandalized. The campaign to get you involved in the clean up effort. We will go live to candle stick park. Whats serving as a reminder that the a u. S. Army soldier from antioch is to be awarded the nations highest military award next month. The medal of honor. Staff sergeant ty carter distinguished himself in one of the costliest battles in the afghan war. Bravery against overwhelming odds amidst withering enemy fire. Reporter it was a devastating taliban attack. Captured in this insurgent made video. Launched on an eastern afghanistan outpost. Designed so poorly it was nearly indefensible. Up to 400 insurgents used the ground to stage an assault on 53 u. S. Troops. Every kind of weapon they could get their hands on they were throwing at us and we had not seen that before. Reporter eight u. S. Soldiers were killed that day. The deadliest day for the u. S. That year. But there were heart stopping heroics to defend the base. One, Staff Sergeant thomas hiroway has already been given the medal of honor. The now there are a second memorial for carter. That morning carter had been risking his life running ammo to troops when a sniper pinned down him and four others in this humvee. They had no more ammo left. They were getting him from every which way. Reporter Sergeant Hart led to over soldiers to try to provide cover with their trapped comrades with their own humvee. It was a suicide mission. Hart came upon it and they said, they have an rpg pointed right at me. And that was the last we heard from hart. Reporter bad went to worse. Rounds began penetrating the humvee. The enemy was now inside the base. The five men trapped inside decided they needed to get out of there. Three tried to make a run for it while carter and Sergeant Brad larson provided cover. But they killed sergeant gallegos. Carter sprung into action, rescuing mays bringing him back to the humvee. Mays ultimately would not survive. But carters bravery among the brave now deserving the medal of honor. And more details now. According to the medal of Honor Society the nations highest military honor has been awarded to more than 3,400 people since 1863. More than half the medals awarded since world war ii have been posthumous, four medals have been awarded for the iraq war and four in afghanistan so far. Vandals splattered green paint all over the base of the washington memorial. It was closed while crews cleaned up the mess but has since reopened. Those places are often subject to vandalism. You can help by texting the word parks to 90999 a one time donation of 10 will be added to your phone bill. Bay bridge boths pushed to the limit. We get a look at the stress test being used to make sure these bolts dont fail like the ones theyre replacing. We can still hear the concert going on right now. And every now and then we see a laser light show too. Why jz and jt are not just part of the concert of the summer theyre part of candle stick history. A reminder you can get ktvu news happening now, one of the hottest tickets in town is at candle stick park where two top ar at top artists are performing right now. Thats where Noelle Walker joins us to tell us how the jz, jt show will go down in San Francisco history, noell,. Reporter easily two of the biggest names in music right now. We watched a woman wake out early, i asked her how it was and she said awesome but shes leaving to try to beat the traffic. Look at all the cars as far as the eye can see. Getting here was definitel

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