Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm 20160905 : vimar

Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm 20160905

Check into this hotel here, the marriott in fishermens wharf. He discovered there was no vacancy and thats when things went downhill. Just hours before the alleged assault, 49ers fullback bruce miller posted an Instagram Photo from the palm house bar in the marina district. Sundays are for boys, he wrote. A restaurant worker told ktvu the 29yearold came into the bar with his buddies three separate times that night and was, quote, hammered. He was like kind of wasted. Really intoxicated. Reporter fast forward to 3 00 this morning. This is Surveillance Video from the travel lodge on columbus where a clerk says miller sat on some steps and threw up. He had a little bit of blood on his face. Reporter police say he had tried to get a room at the marriott but it was full. When he tried to enter a room belonging to a sentyearold man, the mans 29yearold son in an adjoining room told miller he had the wrong room. Miller allegedly charged at the son. Officers say miller punched him out cold. Thats when miller ran to the travel lodge. The suspect on the run is bruce miller. He was bleeding so i thought it was better to call nine one one. Reporter police were able to track down miller. Reporter the clerk said he had no idea that miller was a famous football player. He had a chance and he blew it. What was he thinking before did he that . Its kind of it makes the Organization Look bad. They need to be setting an example. If you cant set a positive example it is time to go, find Something Else to do. Reporter now, the 49ers agreed miller was released from the team today. Surveillance video shows him in handcuffs being questioned by emergency crews. He did suffer minor injuries and was tweeted at the hospital but the damage to his reputation and to his career will obviously take much longer to heal. Live in San Francisco, im tara more i will arrest team. Back to you. Tear remarks given the fact that this victim is 70 years old, does than hans any charges that miller could face in this case . Reporter it definitely does heather. Thats considered elder abuse and it carries a much stiffer penalty. If this were to happen and somebody, say the victim was younger than 70, you are looking at a possible state prison sentence of three years. But now with 70 years or older, you are looking at five years. So it definitely makes a difference. Tear remarks thank you. This is not the first time hes been in trouble with the law. Miller has been charged now with assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of making criminal threats and battery. Remember last year miller was arrested on spousal battery charges in santa clara. He was accused of smashing his then fiances cell phone during a heated argument. He later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. Our sports anchor joe fonzi is here. You said that you know miller and these allegations do surprise you. Its one of those head scratching incidents that maybe you just say as much as you think you know somebody, maybe you never really know that person. I would characterize bruce miller as a guy who was always in the locker room willing to talk. Hes one of those guys that you would go to win, lose, or draw and know that he would always meet that media obligation and do so with a smile on his face. I think the way everything went down last year you kind of say, okay, theres one strike and now you are going to be on your best behavior. You didnt hurt anybody. You hurt an inanimate object. You served your penalty and went to the classes. So obviously he knew that he was on a no tolerance policy there this point moving forward. It really is surprising. He is one of the kind of guys that you kind of rooted for because of the chip kelly offense his position at fullback was not something that was used in this offense. So he had to change positions and be a tight end this year. Did he make the team. And as i said, he was probably in the locker room one of the considered one of the leaders. When the Colin Kaepernick thing went down he was one of the people who stood up and talked to the media. He was someone that i think despite the fact that he wasnt considered a star of the team was considered kind of one of the leaders in the locker room. So for me hes one of those guys you kind of rooted for. It is very shocking and very surprising but given the history and given the problems that the 49ers have faced on the Police Blotters in recent months it is no surprise that they had to let him go. Theres no other way to approach it. Was he kind of lucky to make the team out of the gate . Not so much lucky but they had eliminated his position in the chip kelly offense. He was listed as the number three tight end. So he switched, had to learn a new position. He learned a new position when he came to the pros in the first place to be a fullback. Sew was kind of one of those survivor kind of guys. Key play on special teams, do a lot of things. As i said he was seen as a locker room leader, so it is surprising to me that this went down. But as i said given the history of the things that had happened on the 49ers in recent years, two strikes, he had to go, no question. And the opener is coming up monday night. Were talking about something other than football when it comes to the 49ers. All right, joe. In Fremont Police there are looking for one of two thieves who broke into a dealership, stole a couple of cars, then crashed during their get away. Investigators say the thieves stole keys at the auto dealership and sped away in two stolen cars. One of the suspects crashed causing a threevehicle collision on northbound 880. That suspect were told got out and interest the second stolen car. That vehicle later crashed near tennison road and hayward. Police were able to arrest one of the thieves but the other got away. It is important to note they werent in pursuit of any Law Enforcement agencies. None of us were involved yet. It sounds like they may have been chased by either a Security Guard or an employee of the car dealership at the time. All northbound lanes of northbound 880 were closed to clear the wrecks. Police say the victims had minor injuries. Chp is still investigating a freeway crash that claimed the lives of two union city teens. It happened early yesterday morning over the Holiday Weekend on interstate 880 near the 8th street offramp. A 16yearold was in the car at the time and later died. A third passenger and two people in the truck were also injured, all taken to the hospital. It is not clear what caused the crash. Coming up on ktvu news at 5 00 were going to hear from the victims, friends of those two victims. Police in oakley are investigating an act that claimed the life of a 14year old boy. Officers were called to big break road around 8 15 last night. Investigators say the 14year old was riding his bike northbound on big break when he veered into oncoming traffic and was hit by a pickup truck. The boy was rushed to the hospital where he died this morning. The driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating with the police. Two people are on alert after police are searching for a sex offender. Investigators say last monday the 56yearold grabbed the young female in the willow glenn neighborhood, covered her mouth and tried to drag her to his car. The victim managed to fight him off and got away. Police say three days later russell assaulted and tried to kidnap another young woman. On the meg gains law website on the megans law website it lists russell for his crimes. Its scary in a neighborhood that is not known for that sort of crime. Especially when it happens within a week, twice in a week, thats just its frightening. Police say russell is a known transient. Hes 5 10, 200 pounds with gray salt and pepper hair. Investigators believe that hes driving a newer model white nissan rogue with no plates. President obama wrapped up his final g20 summit in china, the commander in chief touching on topics such as global trade. Heres the latest now from washington. Reporter after nearly eight years in office, president obamas 10th and final g20 summit is finished. During his time in china the president met with Vladimir Putin huddling on the sidelines of the conference. Typically the tone of our meetings are candid, blunt, businesslike, and this one was no different. Reporter earlier this year the u. S. And russia brokered a now failed cease fire in syrias bloody civil war. Talks vending the fighting have yet to pres a political solution. As the situation in the country remains dangerous with a series of deadly bombings hitting mostly government controlled areas today. Were back into a situation in which assads regime is bombing with impunity. That in turn we think is actually strengthening the capacity to recruit. Reporter next up a trip to laos. He is the first sitting president to visit the communist nation. U. S. Forces heavily bombed laos during the vietnam war, a topic president obama is expected to address in remarks on the sidelines of the summit. A lot of work can be done around war legacy issues for the laos people that involved dealing with unexploded ordnance which is still plaguing big chunks of the countryside. Reporter president obama says the u. S. Has a commitment to account for those missing in action. In washington, rich edson, fox news. A little bit of good news and bad news for u. S. Workers on this labor day. We crunch the numbers and look at whats on the horizon for the workforce. Next, we are going to speak with our tech expert on the release of the newest iphone plus a social media scam will you want to be aware of. In this Holiday Weekend it has been pretty cool so far but things are starting to heat up in time for your work week. I will have the specifics on a bay area warmup. Always on the sunny side keep on the sunny side of life i take pzero heartburn h morning for my frequent heartburn because you cant beat prilosec otc the 1 doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for ten straight years. One pill each morning. 24 hours. Zero heartburn. Keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side keep on the sunny side of life our desire for companionship is making people vulnerable to a new crime. Ryan this is really scary stuff. The Brookings Institute is reporting that nearly 70 of these cases involve children and minors. Let me give you an example. You are on social media, you get a friendq you look at their profile and go hey, they have a lot of friends, maybe they work at the same company or went to the same school and you think its okay. Maybe the person is slightly attractive. Sure enough they start chatting with you, then things start getting steamy. They want videos, pictures. Then all of a sudden you find yourself in compromising position and all of a sudden the video chat ends and they send you a notice saying, hey, you are going to need to send me some money or im going to send this to your friends and everyone you know. This has turned into a lucrative crime. What they do is they take young women in poor countries like the philippines is a hot bed for this. They recruit them to send these messages to men, get them to do . Kind of lure them in. But theres other ways, too. Stolen hardware or hacked accounts, hacked emails. They steal these pictures, then they go out and find the people, the victim, and then ultimately extort them for money or more pictures. In some cases, in fact, amanda todd, in british columbia, one of the most famous cases, flashed her breasts online, the person took the photo and said, now you need to send money. It is either going to be everywhere or you pay up. And daniel perry in ireland committed suicide after the scam hit him. And there was another young 17 yearold girl in new york who was sent a video of a man choking a kit ten and was told that if she didnt show her breasts, he would kill the cat. Of course, she did and he said he would send all the photos to her friends and family. What we need to know, when were online, weve all got cameras in front of our pcs that camera can get hacked. If you are in a compromising position someone can easily record that date that. Make sure you dont do anything in front of a camera that you dont want released to the world. Certainly make sure you keep your social media accounts private. We are going to switch gears and talk about apple and the latest iphone. Were all hearing that it is going to be thinner, faster, but no headphone jack. No headphone jack. Theyre saying theyre going to take away the headphone jack to make room some really great stuff. They are saying they are going to waterproof the home button. It is to longer going to be clickable. So they can finally compete with samsung that has had the waterproof phone for awhile now. Faster and thinner but always dual camera on the back so you can get some longer focusing so you dont need an adapter. But you are going to need some sort of connector, right . The headphones are going to be inside the box. They are going to give you a connector so you can use your legacy headphones, but i dont think thats going to be all that great. It is going to be nice not to have two jacks at the back of my phone, but its not so cool. One of the basic functions for me of my phone, i dont know, im going to have to get used to that. Its kind of a money grab for apple because now the only way is to buy an apple licensed headphone. I suspect a money grab here. Looking forward to it. Comes out wednesday . 10 00 a. M. Everybody get glued to your computers. Really important information, ryan. Thanks for joining us. Youre welcome. Thank you, gang. Storm hermine is putting a damper or labor Day Celebration back east. Beaches along the coast are shut down due to high waves. For those who did make it to the beach they couldnt jump in the water because of rip currents. Lets check in with meteorologist bill martin with a look at our labor day forecast. Nice to be here. You spent some time in boston. I did. You are a local boy from boston, but what are your friends saying there . All i saw on facebook was all the weather guys on tv. Freaking out. Its almost like a noreaster. It had the vibe, the sandy vibe. Yes. So people were worried it was going to become a noreaster. It is an extratropical cyclone, wind speeds up to 60 miles per hour. So its really got wind speeds above a Tropical Storm, but its extratropical now. It has lost its Tropical Storm characteristics. Its not gaining energy from the heat of the water. So as we come a little closer we can track it out here. You see this is the motion the next two days. It just kind of hangs off the eastern seaboard. What it really is doing, the big concern, it is bumping up big surf. I saw some numbers like 5, 10, 15foot waves. Theyre seeing big surf, and a storm surge of three feet, even though it is no longer a hurricane. Thats the story. Labor day weekend, a big weekend, and youve got this bad boy moving up through the carolinas, dropping up to two feet of reign parts of florida. It definitely put some kinks in peoples plans. For us its been great. Its been a cool, bay area weekend. Temperatures were below the average. So we can start warming up. It did warm up a little bit today. Here are the numbers from right now, 87 in fairfield, and then five degrees warmer right now in concord than it was yesterday at this time. Temperatures today are on the increase. Im getting a little smaller but temperatures are increasing. As we go into the rest of this week were going to see perhaps a spare the air. Were going to see the fire danger increase and some real heat packing the inland bay valleys. When i come back we will tell you all about it. All right, thank you very much, bill. Of well, another shooting to tell you about on a bay area tree way. Coming up next we are going to update the investigation into that shooting and the car crash that followed. That is next when the four on 2 returns on this labor day. Narrator it wasnt that long ago. Years of devastating cutbacks to our schools. 30,000 teachers laid off. Class sizes increased. Art and music programs cut. We cant ever go back. Ryan ruelas so vote yes on proposition 55. Reagan duncan prop 55 prevents 4 billion in new cuts to our schools. Letty munozgonzalez simply by maintaining the current tax rate on the wealthiest californians. Ryan ruelas no new education cuts, and no new taxes. Reagan duncan vote yes on 55. Sarah morgan to help our children thrive. Oakland police are searching for the person who fired shots at a driver on interstate 880 yesterday. It happened just before 5 00 in the northbound lanes at the high street offramp. Investigators say the suspect was speeding trying to pass traffic when they hit a minivan and a is he dan. Rate after the crash investigators say the suspect got out of the car, fired shots at a driver near the offramp, and then took off. Two people in the crash have minor injuries but no one was injured in the shooting. We did get in contact with some witnesses so they were kind enough to provide information helping us with the investigation. There is a person of interest that were looking for. This is the latest in a string of freeway shootings. Since last october there have been at least 20 confirmed shootings on bay area freeways. Oaklands police chief picked up a major endorsement. The San Francisco Police Officers association is supporting acting chief tony chaplain to become the departments permanent chief saying that he is the right leader at the right time. Chaplain was appear. To the interim post after former chief greg suhr resigned. The commission has been Holding Public meetings to get community input. That commission will select three finalists. Labor day is a great time to take stock of where we are as a society. Tom vacar interviewed a labor expert to help shed some light on labor day. Reporter since last labor day the u. S. Has gained 2. 5 million jobs. Thats brought the Unemployment Rate down from 5. 1 then to 4. 9 now. In terms of joblessness, it is better than last year and far better than it was in 2010. Reporter Michael Burnick says since last labor day californias hot labor market has gained 375,000 new jobs. State unemployment is now at 5. 5 as compared to 6 last labor day, a far cry from the worst of the recession. On labor day 2010 that we were over 10 , and at one point earlier that year over 12 . Reporter he adds, employment has increased steadily since early 2010, the longest employment recovery in three to four decades. Nonetheless i dont know anyone who feels good about the economy here in california, even in the bay area, outside of the tech outside of the tech oligarchy. Thes

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