Berkeley. We learn that University Officials blame cooper thieves. And the damage is extensive. Ken wayne is now live at the campus, where hes been getting updates from Campus Police, ken. Reporter the campus is still closed. You can see behind me Campus Police are t parked right in between the campus plaza to keep people from coming on campus and using loud speakers to tell people to turn around. And the area is dark. This all started with a power outage around 4 30 this afternoon. About two hours later a tremendous explosion. Reporter heavy smoke and some flames sparked from an underground vent. One man said he was walking by when he heard a tremendous explosion. I turned around and i saw this unbelievable fire ball. It was huge. Reporter the blast caused several injuries and at least one person was taken to the hospital. And uc Officials Say all of the injuries are minor. Officials say that they believe cooper vandals are responsible for the explosion. The explosion knocked out power to many of the campus with many buildings in the dark. They believe vandals are responsible for the outage. It appears that unknown individuals were stealing cooper grounding wire from the universitys electrical system. Literally using heavy equipment to pull it out of the ground. Reporter the outage cut power to off campus dorms that are served by the bridge. Classes are cancelled tonight and its not known if they will resume tomorrow. I have midterms tomorrow as many students on campus. A lot of students dont have power to turn their laptops on, everything like that. Reporter some carrying the students downstairs on their backs. People came together and nobody had to organize. People just stepped into gear and we were helping each other out and checking all the buildings and being really organized because theyre Berkeley Students and theyre very smart. Reporter a lot of people were stranded on elevators that did not have power. Weve been told in the last half hour that those people have been rescued. We have another update, several people suffered minor injuries because of this fire and explosion. One person was taken to the hospital with live injuries. Were also being told that power will slowly be restored in stages here on campus. But as you can see it is still dark and that hasn t happened yet. Ken wayne. Have the vandals been caught and have they said anything about the cooper thefts . Reporter they did tell us that the thefts were discovered last week and they did a Damage Assessment and fixed the problem they thought yesterday. They said this fire explosion showed them that the damage was far more extensive than they had thought. Theyre still reviewing that. The vandals have not been caught but theyre saying theyre looking for them. Ken wayne, tonight, thank you ken. The campus emergency came on the same tka that Janet Napolitano started her job as the president of the university of california. She did sent a note to parents and students tonight. Critics have suggested the 55 yearold napolitano doesnt have enough education background. Sources telling ktvu news that Oakland Police have made several arrests in connection with the killing of 8yearold alicia. It was a shooting that stunned people. Alacia was known to her friends as lady bug. She was at a sleep over, there was a knock at the door, she answered it and she was killed after the suspect shot into the door. Weve learned separately that police are trying to make an announcement. Major developments from the Nations Capital tonight as the federal government shut down takes effect for the first time in 17 years. Just a few minutes hour, the federal government was ordered to shut its doors. Heather holmes is here with the last minute offer that did not bring a deal. Reporter harry reid was blunt today. Saying we are no, maam walking in with a gun to our head. Well into the night spending legislation vollied back and forth the gop controlled house repeatedly pushed to stopgap spending bill to stop the government and defund the president S Health Care law. The motion on the table is approved. Reporter a motion the democratic control senate rejected twice tonight and sent back to the house. House minority leading nancy pelosi expressed frustration minutes before the deadline. You do not use the threat of shutting down government to try to advance your policy agenda. Thats just not the way it works. And thats what is called irresponsible. Reporter earlier today president obama blasted the gops attempt to weaken hiS Health Care law that takes effect tomorrow. The shut down will negatively impact the fragile economy. The shut down will have a real Economic Impact on real people right away. Reporter the president blamed the extreme right wing referring to the tea party for the closure. One faction, of one party in one house of congress in one branch of government doesnt get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election. Reporter House Republicans have voted more than 40 times to repeal all or parts of the president s Affordable Care act and insist they wont fund the government until changes are made. Its time for the senate to listen to the American People just like the houses listen to the house has listened to the American People and pass a delay of obama care. Reporter the one thing republicans were fighting to stop the Health Care Law does move forward. It is the law not the shut down that the president hopes hopes history will remember. Does history give us any indication of how long this shut down will last. The government was shut down for a combined period of 28 days between president clinton and the republican congress. Well have to see how long it takes for the two sides to work out their differences. Lets hope its soon. The shut down forced the stocks lower today. Analysts say markets do not like uncertainty. On the local level the effects of a partial government shut down could be far reaching and intensify if the shut down stretches on. Our Team Coverage picks up now with ktvus deborah villalon, shes live at oaklands Federal Building which may be looking like a ghost town tonight, deborah. Reporter more than 2,000 people work at these two towers as they went home for today, many wondered when they would be back. Yeah, im scared. What are you going to do. Reporter some are full of dread, others curiosity. I have not been through a shut down. Itll be a new experience for me. Reporter workers put in their time on this monday. But could stay out starting tuesday without federal funds to issue their paycheck. Im a single mother of three so automatically even a day missing work is going to impact my entire family. Reporter and impact local businesses. Especially the flower shop down the way. Without the workers and public at the Federal Building dollars dont come downtown to be spent. This has been a good summer. Its been increasing sales. We all talk about it looks better and then stuff like this happens. Its like you never get ahead. Reporter also facing slow downs, home shoppers whos lenders are getting them preapproved for a federally backed mortgage. There are times when they need to actually get on the phone and talk to someone at fha. Reporter with no one processing applications, those would be home buyers lose out. Reporter sellers arent going to wait indefinitely for you to provide them with the approvals that you will need. When people talk the Internal Revenue service theyre going to want someone to talk to and were not going to be there. Reporter federal workers heading home tonight without answers hoping that they wake up to a breakthrough in the morning. Well just have to wait and see how it goes. But if anything changes, i will be here tomorrow to do my job. Reporter 140 million federal employees on the same boat. So will the lights stay on we apologize. We seem to have lost deborahs audio there. We have late word the faa is furloughing 3,000 aviation safety inspectors. Also the program known as wic would shut down. Thats the women and infant care program. And about half the Defense Department civilian workers are expected to be furloughed. President obama and the republican lawmakers are not getting a good mark. 56 dont like the way democrats are dealing with the budget. And 57 dont approve of the way president obama is handling the shut down. Stay with ktvu news. We will bring you updates. Someone opened fire on an ac transit bus injuring an elderly passenger and shattering windows. Near tenth avenue, police are not confirming that report. At the time of the shooting the area was very busy and there were a lot of witnesses. I was coming home with my brother. I heard like five shots. Another witness said he saw two people running from the scene. Police say the person hit by the bullet did not suffer life threatening injuries. A spokesperson for ac transit says the passenger was very shaken up but not injured. The Union Representing ac transit drivers has struck a tentative contract agreement that could be approved within days. The atu negotiating economy announced the deal over the weekend. The union held an informational meeting for drivers and other workers yesterday and today. A ratification work is scheduled for tomorrow. Tomorrow you can start shopping for Health Insurance under the Affordable Care act. But coming up, we investigate reports of fraud. I just have a few questions about your website. We had some wet roadways this morning. Ill break down what you can nice car. Sure is. Make a deal with me, kid, and you can have the car and everything that goes along with it. [ thunder crashes, tires squeal ] so, what do you say . Thanks. But i think i got this. [ male announcer ] the allnew cla. Starting at 29,900. Noxious fumes at a hotel in San Francisco left more than a dozen people complaining of burning eyes, throats and breathing problems. The problems started on fishermans wharf. The manager called for an evacuation of the hotel. Firefighters ended uptaking about five people to the hospital as a precaution. The Hotel Manager says the trouble stemmed from a canister of bear repellent that was set off apparently by a worker who was trying to throw it away. The canister was left behind by a guest. Bear repellent is actually pepper spray. Tonight the manager says things are now back to normal at that hotel. His teenage son died in a horrific crash and tonight the father is speaking publicly for the first time about the loss of his son and safety. Were live at the intersection where that accident first happened. Noell walker has the story. Reporter across the street over there is a glowing memorial. A stark reminder of the consequences. There are no words for the loss of someone so young who died so suddenly. But friends and family are trying to find them here at the corner memorial near the intersection where kevin sam died. Kevins father chokes back tears talk about the horrific crash that killed his son, injured his daughter and has his wife clinging to life. She was driving her silver mercedes suv at 80 miles per hour. A spokesperson told ktvu sue has a clean driving record. Tonight shes out on bail. No one answered her home at her sunset district home. Her curtains were shut tight. A neighbor said she never saw sue speeding. At Abraham Lincoln high school, fellow students held a memorial. The loom here hangs as thick as the fog. You can tell everybody is missing him. He feels so angry about her killing him. Reporter his father says this could have been anyones son. Kevin suns family is still making funeral arrangements. Noelle walker, ktvu news. New developments tonight in the case of a San Francisco couple fighting eviction from their home of 35 years. Governor brown signed a stay for the eviction order. The two share an apartment with their disabled adult daughter. A tenant advocate working with the lease to fight the eviction say the 10 day stay will give them time to figure out their next step. Two people are in custody. They have identified at 25year old alexis aresiga and andrea mcfall. The two are believed to have lured a plan to a bank of america. Thats where the victim was discovered last saturday morning at 4 30. He was unconscious in his car. He had been shot in the head. He died from his injuries yesterday afternoon. Authorities have not yet released his name. And its still unclear if he knew the suspects. A Police Officer on the wrong side of the law. The allegations stemming from his previous job. Now to the bart negotiations to the possibility of a b. A. R. T. Strike. B. A. R. T. And his union have just 10 days left before a possible walk out. B. A. R. T. Management held indirect talks with one of the unions. Both sides say they want to keep the training running. Today the topic was wage rules and benefits. One former member of the b. A. R. T. Board of directors told us today there is just a 60 chance of a last minute settlement. What started out as a rescue of a capsized boat in santa cruz today turned into the discovery of a drug smuggling operation. The crippled boat ran aground and authorities were there to seize the drugs on the boat. After the Santa Cruz CountySheriffs Department responded word spread quickly the situation was drug related. The people who were running from the boat. They confiscated 80 pounds of marijuana. Reporter it attracted the coast guard, state parks and department of homeland security. We saw agents loading marijuana on to a truck as well as half a dozen containers of boat fuel. The Sheriffs Department says it believes the boat came from mexico, docked off Four Mile Beach early this morning and that four 20pound bails of pot was all that was left when the boat capsized and the crew fled. Its where this marijuana 20 foot boat and capable of carrying a few thousand pounds of marijuana. Reporter looks like a foolish maneuver that went bad. Im not sure how often they try that. But apparently this time they didnt make it. Reporter ironically the coast guard has issued a warning about dangerous large waves all along the coast today. Some surfers we talked toe said that the waves were hard and this was not a good time to try this kind of operation. A short break like that it was a foolish idea. They found out the hard way. Reporter deputies combed the area and said they did not find any drugs. At this point no suspects have been identified. In Santa Cruz County, robert handa, ktvu news. A few light showers this morning. Just light rain for many of us. The temperatures tonight are going to get kind of chilly in the north bay. Upper 40s, maybe some mid40s way up north. Tomorrow morning Tuesday Morning you wake up theres lots of fog at the coast. Therell be coastal fog in and around the bay. Tomorrow is marked by more sunshine and slightly warmer. Yellows are 70s. So youre going to see lots of 70s tomorrow. Upper 60s around the bay. Low and mid70s with a lot of showers popping up at well. Were going to be looking at this warm up. He disappeared on a trip to the bay area four years ago. Coming up in two minutes the development giving his family closure tonight. Then at 10 30, ktvu investigates the Health Care Reform a rock slide today killed five people out for a slide in colorado on what was supposed to be an easy trail. Huge boulders rumbled down the slide. A 13yearold girl was pulled out alive but injured. Authorities say it had rained recent by but they still dont know what caused the rock slide. They cant attempt to recover the five bodies yet because the body is too instable. There is closure tonight for a man who disappeared on his way to work. Dna tests confirm remains found near bonny doon are those of alanis corsen. Shortly after he disappeared, his burned pickup was found. Three men were previously convicted of his murder. The robbery capital of the united states. The new statistic for oakland. The city is on pace to have 356 robberies. That is about 14 robberies every single day. Its also about 1,000 more than last year. We checked on several robberies reported today including four people robbed at gun point at a statuary story. And the owner of a martial arts studio said a shot came through his window and he said he was never able to get someone to come out. I called and they said i was incident 700. The Oakland Police department started a new Police Academy today. It had nearly 60 recruits including seven women and 14 spanish speakers. Another 36 joined last week. The city hopes to boost that number to 700 officers by the middle of 2015. San francisco is number one when it comes to the creation of new technology jobs. A report by the Bloomberg Technology summit shows San Franciscos tech employment grew nearly 20 from 2007 to 2004. Brooklyn new york was number two and wake county North Carolina was third. Santa clara came in fourth with a 25 increase. Business tenants signed up for 737,000 square feet more office space in the Third Quarter than they gave up. Much of the increase is due to the growth of yelp which moved. The coliseum is being prepared for game one on friday against the Detroit Tigers game two will be on saturday. Last year the as lost to the tigers in the best of five Division Series so theres a little extra motivation this time around. In order to make the change over from baseball to football this is important here if you