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Reporter good afternoon, tori. We just spoke to the superintendent here at the Alum Rock Union School District. He says hes very concerned about this arrest. We were told by a source that the suspect has been a substitute teacherred a every school in the district. I want to show you a letter that we were just given by the superintendent. This letter is gonna go home to parents today explaining the situation. Now, at this point, we dont know if any children from san jose are victims. Now, lets go to a picture of the suspect. This is 44yearold nathan forstell. San jose Police Arrested him yesterday for possession of child pornography. Officers served a search warrant at his home and found evidence of child pornography there. Nathan forstell is currently a teacher at Martin Luther king, Junior Elementary School in seaside. However, he was previously employed by the Alum Rock Union School District from 2009 to february of 2013 working at various schools as a substitute. Neighbors that we spoke to say forestell lives with a woman and a teenaged boy. One resident told us of a suspicious incident that she said happened over this past weekend involving forestell and a young girl. He started to videotape her and was telling her to work it, work your sufficient, you know, work it work your stuff. You know, work it. Thats something that an adult should not tell a child. Reporter what did you think . It didnt really dawn on me at the time but now yesterday morning reflecting back, it reflects back. I think wow. I heard of you all of this but i didnt i heard all of this but i didnt think he was that type of person. Reporter detectives are trying to determine the identity of the children from the evidence that they have collected. The alum rock School District says that forestell had been fingerprinted and his background was run through the department of justice but his record came back clean. This is a big concern for them. Im praying that this ends with he has possession of child pornography and nothing further occurred. Reporter we were in forestells neighborhood and a woman identified herself as his future sisterinlaw drove up looking for him. When we told her what he was arrested for, she drove off and didnt want to give a comment. In the next hour, San Jose Police will be holding a News Conference to reveal more information about this case. My colleague, robert honda, will be covering this story and will have more at 5 00 and 6 00. Reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, janine. The east side Union School District is reevaluating its policies and procedures after a registered sex offender was allowed to ride on a school bus during a field trip. Im not okay with sex offenders being on the bus. Ill not okay with Staff Members not following policy in terms of making sure that our volunteers are fingerprinted, making sure that they have preapproval to be on the trip, and in this case, theres a breach in that policy. This happened in february, when students from Andrew Hill Andrew Hill High School were on a field trip. The San Jose Police interviewed students and said to no Inappropriate Conduct took place. Security is heightened at schools today. Well have more on the direct threat left by graffiti. Find out what School Leaders are doing to keep students safe. Thats coming up. The new pope celebrated his first mass today as head of the Catholic Church. Hope francis led a special mass with pope francis led a special mass with the cardinals at the sistine chapel. He prayed and left flowers in front of the virgin mary. He wanted to get his luggage and his bagsle he left everything there bags he left everything there. He somed in the main office he stopped in the main office, greeted everyone and decided to pay for the bill for the room he had been occupying. He wanted to leave a good example of what priests and bishops should do. Now, during this mornings special mass in vatican city, pope francis delivered an off the cuff homily. It was in contrast to Pope Benedicts mass. Leland vitter joins us live from vatican city with more on Pope Franciss transition into his new role. Reporter gening, tori gening, tori. 24 good evening, tori. Theres a new sheriff in town. How would you like to be the clerk that the new pope walks up to and says i would like to check out number 216. And then he delivers a homily thats very focused on what the church should do going forward, it needs to return to serving the people, much more on what the church can do for others and what others can do for the church. This is the rain of the pope beginning the reign of the pope beginning and so many people here who enjoy this are probably realizing under pope francis they will be living a similar life following the example of this pope. Tori . All right. Leland vitter, joining us live from rome this afternoon. Thank you. And catholic institutions in the bay area are sharing in the excitement of a new leader of the church. Ktvus cara lui is live at st. Marys live in morago where students are learning more about the first pope from the emamericas from the americas. Reporter good afternoon. Many told us that pope francis is the first pope from latin america and that could signal progress. Its been about 24 hours since the world found out that pope francis will be the next leader of the Catholic Church. He will deal with issues including gay marriage. Many students we talked to sat st. Marys says the choice gives them hope. I feel really proud of him, of anyone pope. But just the fact there was the first latinamerican pope, that means something. That means hope. That means change. Thats like the first of everything. Its just like really flies to see that theres nice to see that theres a diversity. We talk about how we want to make all of these changes, gay marriage, birth control. Its gonna take time. The Catholic Church is a really opened institution. I hate to see we probably wont see these changes within our lifetime. I think just starting from the basics and going very slowly. Slowly but surely were making changes. Reporter as you can imagine, there was celebration on campus when pope francis made his first appearance yesterday. And across the bay in San Francisco, a special mass of thanksgiving is slated to start any minute at st. Marys cathedral. Thats happening in San Francisco. For now were live in moraga, cara lui, ktvu channel 2 news. You know about the bridge tolls that change during the day. But police want to warn you about a safety issue thats come up. Mark tamayo is up soon to tell you if you will see any more 80degree temperatures today. And except for individual practices, the music has stopped for the San Francisco symphony. [ male announcer ] its a rule of nature. You dont decide when vegetables reach the peak of perfection. The vegetables do. At green giant we pick vegetables only when theyre perfect. Then freeze them fast so theyre are as nutritious as fresh. [ green giant ] ho ho ho. Green giant [ male announcer ] this is the opposite of subliminal advertising. Theres no subtext. Just tacos. Yeah, its our job to make you want it. But honestly. Its not that hard. Old el paso. When you gotta have mexican. The Highway Patrol is investigation a solo car crash on the highway 4 bypass in antioch. The driver lost control of a car just before 9 00 a. M. And hit a large pole near the lone tree way exit. The car trip flipped over and flipped over and trapped her inside. The firefighters used the jaws of life to get her out of the car. She was rushed to the hospital. Her condition is not known. The Highway Patrol is warning commuters to keep moving near the bay bridge toll plaza or face a pricey ticket. Officers are sting up patrols to make sure drivers dont wait on the shoulder for the toll price to drop. They say its becoming an increasing problem between 9 45 and 10 00 a. M. Thats when drivers are purling over and pulling over and waiting for the toll to drop down to 4, creating a dangerous situation just to save 2. Usually its two, three cars. But sometimes, especially thursdays and fridays, ive seen as much as 20, 25 cars pull over on the shoulder and try to save 2. Its an illegal move, one that cost drivers much more than they are trying to save. The fine is 200. Early this morning, the chp says the car of a Police Officer was rammed by a ford bronco in san jose. It sat there at 4 00 this morning. The driver of the bronco was taken to the hospital. Any time that you are involved in a collision where someone hits you, we dont know if its on purpose or an accident. So better safe than sorry. The Police Officers were not hurt and the chp investigation continues. Parents of some High School Students in pleasanton are keeping their kids home today. Its all because of threatening graffiti discovered in a girls bathroom that specifically mentions today, march 14th. Despite the threat, School District Officials Say overall attendance at footHill High School is high. Security is ramped up this week with four resource officers patrolling the campus. The threat is specifically for today. It reads i hate everyone at this school, watch me shoot everyone on march 14th. I swear to god. We spoke with parents this morning who say they are happy with the increased security. My daughter will be here and the way i look at it is im not gonna live my life in fear. School leaders say they are making progress investigating the graffiti and the people who perpetrated the threat. They talked to the students and they have talked to any student who posted the picture on facebook tries to ascertain how they got the picture. Police are on alert at four schools. Kimball high, tracy high, both in tracy, have responded to threats and the fremont School District put thornton high on lockdown because of a bomb threat. Police do not believe any incidents are connected. Well, the music has stopped at the San Francisco symphony. The musicians are on strike after contract negotiations stalled. Some more dodger caps to emphasize the higher salaries of their Southern California counterparts. Todays concert is canceled and the weekend performances are in doubt. The two sides are at odds over pay and benefits but the walkout is raising some eyebrows. Symphony musicians earn an average salary of 165,000 and get ten weeks paid vacation. Our proposal retains their status as the third highest paid orchestra in the country. We really think thats important. The idea of attracting Young Players to the symphony is something that were very concerned about. Thats our life blood. One symphony musician sent ktvu news an email. He says hes leaving the San Francisco symphony for the chicago symphony and thats due to his frustration with management. Computer, smartphone and tablet users can look forward to a big freebie in one sill loy concity. They are silicon city. They are launching one of the fastest wifi connections in the country and it will be free. The new network will help drivers by improving the speed of transactions at paytopark meters. Tonight, samsung will introduce its latest smartphone at radio city music hall. Samsung will live stream the debut of the galaxy s4 on video screens in times square. The update from the 3 could feature eyetracking technology that scrolls through pages based on where users are viewing the screen. Its also expected to have a 5 inch screen and a 13 megapixel camera. Well, the key headlines, temperatures cooling off today. A good five to ten degrees. No more 8 no more 80s. A lot of high clouds and also some dense fog was a factor this morning. It still is across the bare coastline. You can see all of the cloud cover moving into northern california. The bay area, essentially just covered with at least partly cloudy even a few mostly cloudy observations across the region. No raindrops expected. So the dry weather pattern continues and the update continues. San francisco 53. Yesterday, they were in the lower 70s. Today, lucky to make it to the lower 63. Walnut creek, 73 and san jose currently reporting 63 degrees and partly cloudy skies. Forecast headlines for today, high clouds and some coastal fog. Tomorrow, partly sunny, the weekend a dry weather pattern and the cool down will continue into the bay area weekend. Thats the key headline. This area of High Pressure really warmed us up yesterday but its scooting out to the east and as a result, temperatures are the in upper 50s. Warmest locations inland on track to reach the lower 70s and then the high clouds, partly sunny skies and still some patchy fog a big factor near the immediate coastline. Heres our forecast model showing you this, it will increase the high clouds through the afternoon hours. Tomorrow morning, pretty much the same deal, another batch of high clouds moving in. No raindrops expected just yet. Our next chance of some rain, that could resurface in our forecast maps lie late tuesday and wednesday until next week. It will take its time to get here. But thats what it is looking like. San francisco own lynn in the lower 60s. 61. Ocean beach, probably in the upper 50s all day today. San jose, well go with 72. San mateo, 65. Redwood city right at 70. Your fiveday forecast, with your weekend always in view, well bring in a few extra clouds for your friday. Maybe a touch higher tomorrow. Sunday, mild for partly cloudy skies. The cooldown continues next week. Were tracking rain chances next week. Tuesday night into wednesday. The latest models continue with that idea. Today, you will notice the change. No more 80s in the forecast. A little bit cooler. Well, b. A. R. T. Wants to install more new vinyl seats on train. They are on track to replace the cloth seats. But the seats are so popular, b. A. R. T. Was considering putting them on additional cars. The company doing the work says they wet be able to do the job. So wont be able to do the job. So b. A. R. T. Must consider another bidding proposal. And a video regarding a bay area theme park has them answering tough questions. Encouraging news from the job market sending the stock market toward two milestones. A record high close with standard and poors and the longest winning streak in more than 16 years. The dow is up at 14,000. The main reason for todays rise on wall street, the Labor Department says the number of new claims hit a low last week. The claims fell to 332,000. Thats down 10,000 from the week before. Its also down almost 13 since november. The drop shows fewer layoffs are creating new strengths in the job market. And the web hosting site godaddy is hiring. Its looking for talent in the bay area. The arizonabased company was part of a tech job fair at uc berkeley yesterday. A godaddy representative said she traveled 700 miles to be there. Last month, the Company Opened a new Silicon Valley office. They plan to double the size of the south bay work force in the coming months. Were hiring in sunnyvale, denver, were hiring in arizona, which is where were headquartered, were looking at other locations as well, including international. The new sunnyvale Office Opened with about 40 employees and the company is still looking to fill 300 jobs. Six flags discovery kingdom in vallejo is doing damage control. Thats following this video thats making the rounds on the internet. It shows an animal trainer repeatedly punching a white tiger in the face. The tape has prompted a lot of angry phone calls since it surfaced this week. The owners of six flags point out that video was taken ten years ago and the trainer was fired shortly after the incident. Today on ktvu channel 2 news as 5 00, a walkout and rally is set for this afternoon in an effort to save the city college of San Franciscos accreditation. Ccsf serves tens of thousands of students and has until tomorrow to prove its financially stable. If not, it could be forced to make huge cuts or even close. Thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. Well see you the next time news breaks. Well always here for you at ktvu. Com and mobile ktvu. Com. 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