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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm May 19, 2017

Height or weight of the infant. You can see in this photo he has curly brown hair. Officials believe this man, 30yearold jason lamb took the five child hes 53 tall, 145 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. You can see him wearing glasses. Were told the suspect may be suicidal did she not be approached. He was last seen driving a 2010 Toyota Corolla with a california license plate you see there. We are speaking with investigators and we will have more information as it becomes available. Of course you can get the very latest online tran01. Com. To our top story. Police in danville are on the hunt for three spots suspects after the cosco warehouse store was hit by harbor armed robbers. Its the second time this month it has been targeted. Rob, what are you learning out there . This cosco has since reopened up we spent the afternoon talking to witnesses and employees and are hoping that Surveillance Video could lead to an arrest. Sky fox was over the scene at danville as Danville Police converged on the cosco store. The store disrupted by gunfire at 12 15 pm this afternoon. I was inside the store and heard the shots fired. One shop that i heard and then everything got really quiet. This woman was inside the store when according to Danville Police two men wearing mask and hoodies went straight to the jewelry counter. One suspect using a hammer to smash the jewelry case. When an employee tried to intervene the second suspect fired his gun. People were hiding behind things because we did not know what was going on. Everyone was pretty calm. Police say the two men ran through the store to a third suspect waiting in a silver toyota camry with dealer paper plates. Shoppers, employees ran to safety and rose deas was doing a demo inside the store. I saw them when they came out and they passed by the people screaming. As rose was ushered out she recalls what one shopper told her. She was driving up and saw this man with a mask on leaving and he had a gun in his hand. There were no injuries but one customer was treated for shock and taken to a nearby hospital. As i mentioned, this is the second and grab robbery at this cosco danville location. We asked police if they think the two robberies were connected. They say its too early to tell. Police are holding a press conference at 4 15 pm we will head over there and try to get any up dated information if there is any. Rob, with all those people there i would imagine they got a pretty good description of these two suspects, right . What we heard a lot of people were ducking and diving for cover. But as we talked to Danville Police this afternoon as part of their investigation it will be asking people to submit any cell phone video and descriptions if they have that information available. The streets of San Francisco will be packed this weekend with thousands of runners. 50,000 people are taking part in the day to breakers race. The streets from downtown San Francisco to ocean beach will be locked out for the annual fun run. Reparations for bay to breakers 2017 are already underway. If you take a look you can see the barricades are already in place ready to be laid out to make sure the runners route is safe if you look over here you can also see there are signs posted. There will be no parking along fell from saturday night into sunday. Come sunday, the stretch of road will be filled with runners, levelers and plenty of costumes and fun seekers often the annual a breakers run. As you probably already know the 12 km run kicks off near the embarcadero and finishes that open ocean beach and has a reputation for being one of the wildest runs in the country with crazy costumes and runners who often substitute news for water in their water bottles. This year police say they are cracking down. No alcohol and no wheeled vehicles. That includes the floats that he still company runners through the city. The race kicks off at 8 am sunday morning and ends with a big finish line festival near ocean beach. We caught up with one runner this morning he says he will definitely be out on sunday. Ive done in the past at the super fun race its going to be a lot of people out. Its gonna be a good time. The runners expo kicks off today meeting runners can pick up the race supplies appear 35. It is not too late to register, you can still register appear 35 and we run the 2017 data breakers. That race turns 106 on sunday much has changed over the years including security. Tens of thousands of runners will invade the city and sf 80 will be on high alert to ensure everyone has a safe experience. Grace, good to have you with us. Has a going . Thank you. Good to have you on board. Tell us, what can runners and spectators expect security wise in the lineup on sunday . Security wise we are not allowing any colored that hat everything has to be clear. As you mentioned earlier this is an alcohol free event. While we do expect there will be a number of people entering the race, consuming alcohol there are various medical tents along the way. So if you are under the influence and unable to take care of yourself we will ask you step into the medical tent and get some attention and get some hydrating water and then go on your way. Essentially it is a family event. We have had this event as you said for 100 we have had this event as you said for 106 years. So we want to keep it safe and fun and also to be fun for everyone, not just people who were drinking. Is it all hands on deck for the sf beauty . We officers will be on hand . As this is something that happens every year all of the stations plan accordingly we will have multiple personnel on scene as well as undercover so you may not know when you are encountering an officer. We will facilitate as many people as we can so come to the event we are where compared to handle anything that comes our way. Its a pretty unique event it brings a lot of people, not just runners that spectators. Do you prepare for this a little differently than you do the other event city . This is not a new event for us. So we are expecting a lot of people to come as far as where costumes and not part of the fun and checking out the different costumes. As we said before, there are no floats allowed just because it is very dangerous with the close density of people running. So we will be encouraging people to get off the race and they will be escorted off the race with event staff. That does not mean you cannot have fun. Feel free address up, go out and have fun on the streets but make sure to stay safe with everyone. Also when you are out there make sure to have a contingency plan if you have children because it is very common in this event the people lose track of their children because there are so many things going on. Make sure you have a Meeting Point and you discuss that with your family prior to attending the event. Ive run it before if you run with a friend you never find them on the other end. So we hope you folks have a very quiet weekend and a great race. Grace, thank you. Thank you frank. The man accused of using his car to mow down pedestrians in the video you see here in times square is now charged with murder. 26yearold Richard Rojas was arraigned in a manhattan courtroom this morning. It was charged with one count of seconddegree murder for killing an 18yearold tourist from michigan. He also faces 20 counts of attempted firstdegree murder. Prosecutors say rojas, navy veteran at smoke marijuana laced with pcs pcp before driving the long wrong way down Seventh Avenue. Parts of his car, the side view mirror, license plate are falling off a few striking these pedestrians. April are being dragged, they are on top of the car. Finally, when he hits a security bollard on 45th st. And Seventh Avenue his car stops. Three of the survivors are in critical condition. Rojas did not enter a plea, hes being held without bond and is due in court on may 24. South Bay Middle School reopened after the threat of a possible explosive device caused the evacuation early this morning at the bridge County Academy this morning after custodian found a bottle of nitroglycerin inside of it back pack. Nitroglycerin is the active ingredient in dynamite it can also be used for medical treatment. Officials responded around 10 am this morning sending in a robot to check the container found inside the school. It was in school by the gymnasium so we will figure that out as we are going in there actually as i speak. And that is point will search the school and we will look at video and try to see what we can do. Students were able to return to class around 11 am, after the bomb squad safely remove the chemical. It will be tested to determine its exact content we learn the details in the attempted arson case at a dennys in hayward. The man who allegedly tried to set people on fire had been placed on the psychiatric hold until it has been determined whether or not he will be charged. The incident happened on wednesday after police say the 43yearold man doused several customers, including a small child with this flammable liquid. Police say other customers were able to detain the suspect. When officers arrived he was arrested without incident. Officials have not released his identity. President. Trump is on his way to saudi arabia to begin his first foreign trip as president. Questions are growing over his motives for firing fbi director james comey. The fbi reports that the president. Spoke about it to Russian Diplomats that after the firing. The present reportedly said quote i just by the have ei. He was crazy, real net job. I faced great pressure because of russia, that is taken off. The white house did not deny the report. Typically members of congress do not criticize the president while he is out of the country. But with controversies dogging this white house, customs may be out the window. We are in a quagmire. Again today Deputy Attorney general rock rosenstein meeting with lawmakers behind closed doors. This time briefing house members on the Ongoing Investigation into allegations members of president. Trumps 2016 campaign colluded with russian government agent in an effort to influence last years president ial race. I have said it before, and i will say it again. This is about the fight for the soul of our democracy. We cannot afford to lose this one. Rosensteins appointment of Robert Moeller as special counsel now makes it a criminal investigation. Leading some to question if the public hearings congress has been holding will now be bigfoot under the new designation. With any kind of investigation like this, if there comes a point where the special counsel feels that it might be running in an interfering way with his investigation, then that is a discussion will have to have later. Meanwhile and speculation present with name comey is resin replacement today did not pan out. Joe lieberman is widely considered to be the front runner although the president has interviewed three other. Others. We are going live to a press conference at the San Francisco District Attorneys Office on the amber alert with a oneyearold boy who has been missing from San Francisco. The suspect, jason lamb. Lets take a listen. This particular child auction, the mother and father are joint custody of the child. When the father did not come back with a child, the mother went and paid new custodial status from the coin and subsequently filed a Police Report late yesterday. We immediately worked on the case. And since working on the case, we actually were informed of some erratic have year. Thats why we immediately started the process of this amber alert. So please, if anyone has information, contact law enforcement. Unfortunately i cannot at this time. We do have a recent photograph of the father the chief rodriguez has. So if you see this person he was recently located in menlo park, or recently seen in menlo park. If anyone sees this individual, sees the vehicle, sees this child please contact 911. When was that picture taken . This is part of the investigation. But here is what is important. This is early on. This came to our attention to a Police Report that was filed at that Police Station here in San Francisco. Working jointly with the San Francisco Police Department we started to conduct our investigation. Sometime today we found out disturbing information regarding the father that really gave us concern, at which time we initiated an amber alert, which most of you have already gotten the information. So this is a very quickly unfolding scenario. We are concerned, we would like to get the child back to his mother and we are asking for the publics help. The father was seen recently at a business in menlo. So we want to get that information out. We are using all of our available resources, oliver social Media Connections to be able to get the information out so the week brings child back safely to the mother. And specific reason for the delay in amber alert for something that happened a day ago . So what we have here is a father who has the child, the mother brought us information that the time child was not delivered back to the mother. We always take those very serious. But you can understand that it is not the same scenario when you have some constraints for the safety of the child. And that is what happened today, as we continued our investigation, we realized this was one of those and we need an amber alert. Which we used judiciously, and this is the case. When was he supposed to deliver the child . To the mother i wont get into any specific locations or addresses. I want to urge you all, while we need your help, we need to get this information out. The investigation is at its very early stages. So the importance of this, as you can understand is our concern for the child. We have a mother who is also very concerned. We would like to get the child back to the father as quickly as possible. But a lot of the information, a lot of the questions that you have, we still have as well. And we wont have many of those answers until we speak to the father. If you could look at the picture here, you can see the little boy next to what appears to be mr. Lamb. Very recent. In menlo. That is still being confirmed. I dont want to put anything out, this is not recent. I want the public to be aware that this gentleman and this child could be anywhere right now. If this is helpful the amber alert currently is for the entire bay area. So please, if anyone has information. If anyone sees this person, this child immediately contact 911. How long had he had the child before he was due back . I will tell you what we do know. Those are part of the questions i told you we were still trying to answer. The mother came to the Police Department last night thing that the child had not been returned. Part of our investigation is to determine exactly when the child was supposed to be back. Right now our main concern is the safety of the child. All of those details we will gather once we secure the safety of the child. We are wrapping up that press coverage happening at the same San Francisco District Attorneys Office in regard to that amber alert we told you about earlier today around 3 pm. We receive that from San Francisco police. The mother of a 21monthold baby the mother went to San Francisco Police Last Night and said that the child had not been returned from the childs father, who saw moments ago in a picture there, 30yearold jason lam. We are now learning the jason lam was last seen in the menlo park area. Recently seen. It took a day to issue the amber alert because they got some disturbing news and some erratic you have your for this little boys father, jason lam, who presumably still has the child. It was last seen in a business in menlo park. They did not say if it was yesterday or today. But theres chain jason lam , black eyes, black hair 53 tall. Theres the car. Make sure you keep an eye out for that license plate. The 21monthold baby theme with his father in the menlo park area. We will have all of this information tran01. Com. Of course any updates on the latest information we will bring to you right here on air. Oaklands newest cop celebrating her first Police Academy graduation. Per warm welcome to opds newest family members. A new court ruling for drone owners. We will speak with an expert who says that it will increase safety concerns. A wonderful day around the bay area with a continued trend in the upper direction for your saturday. More on this and the numbers, coming up. Taking look outside a Beautiful Day, it is going to be a beautiful and very warm maybe even hot weekend depending on where you live. For a preview lets head over to rosemary with the details for the weekend forecast. Its too nice of a data work area. It is a bit warm for some. If you like mid to upper 80s this is right up your alley. For folks to find that a bit toasty thats what you have in our inland communities this afternoon. 86 in santa rosa, 88 in livermore and 87 in san jose. San francisco is a very comfortable 73, oakland 79. And we have a light breeze with mostly clear skies. Heres a look at the 24hour temperature change where we had a notable warmup in the bay area. 50 in oakland, nine in hayward, eight in san jose, 60 warmer than where you were 24 hours ago. We have unbearable wind out there generally like reporting 40 miles an hour but notice the wind bars coming from the northeast and that only helps to drive up the temperatures. As you get into the evening hours its going to be a beautiful night in oakland. If youre going to see the as played gametime 630, 730 and the west breeze about 3 miles an hour delmac an hour under mostly clear skies. Tomorrow we will wake up under mostly Clear Conditions and possibly patchy fog along the coast. 52 in San Francisco, 54 in oakland to start

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