To be shut down, thankfully First Responders were able to talk him down. How is the traffic now . Reporter they are still feeling the effects from that earlier incident. Its slow going across the bay bridge, many drivers did not know what was trying up traffic. When they found out that the man was thinking about jumping, they were worried but it causes questions of security. California Highway Patrol shut down two lanes and First Responders tried for two hours to get him down. The man, driving a red truck had run out of gas, a bridge worker spotted his vehicle and pulled over to help. The driver climbed up a ladder and was sitting on top of the anchorage. Reporter california Highway Patrol called in crisis negotiators who were able to convince him to surrender but the impact on traffic was devastating. The commute from the east bay into San Francisco took forever. This man drove from pittsburg. It was brutal. Reporter the commute from oakland, one hour, danville, two and a half hours. I left at 11 00 for my 12 00 meeting and i am late. Reporter the incident highlights security concerns for some bay area drivers, last may, two people slipped away and got out on the bridge. It causes people to wonder. I would think that the Security Threat would be higher after what happened in england. Reporter california Highway Patrol assures the public that the bridge is monitored around the clock and outfitted with security cameras, the man was taken to San FranciscoGeneral Hospital for a mental evaluation and drug testing. Glad they were able to negotiate with him and get him to come down. We have more traffic troubles to tell you about in the east bay. A big rig overturned on the connector ramp on 880, the connector is still shut down four hours later. Thats causing major traffic back ups in the north bound direction of 880. A nearby kal transbuilding has been evacuated because of the chemical leak. Jasmine abuslin, the woman at the center of the Police Section exploitation scandals spoke out hours after oakland leaders agreed to pay her a Million Dollars to settle her claim against the city. Reporter she said she wants to move ahead with her life and put the past behind her. She spoke about being exploited by Police Officers, earlier this morning, the Oakland City Council agreed to pay her 989,000 to settle her claim. She was a former teen prostitute who went by the name of celeste guap. Today she expressed relief. She said she wants to go back back to school. I am happy that i can close this chapter and move on with my life, its taken its toll on me. Reporter Police Officers have been charged with crimes and earlier this month she testified against former Oakland Police officer brian bunton and he was ordered to stand trial. She said that the police chief knew about the abuse and did nothing. He and two other chiefs stepped down. Jasmine abuslin has also filed claims against the cities of roich monday and livermore and San Francisco for miscontact by deputies there. Those claims are still pending. Its going to be interesting to see how those claims are settled. We are joined by jasmine abuslins attorney. Originally the lawsuit was seeking 66 million. How did you get to the 1 million mark. Its part of the negotiations, which are privileged but i never thought at the beginning that this was a 66 million case, i thought that was overstatement. But from my point of view, when we got into the case and started to look at the various facts and issues, we developed a more realistic approach as to what the case was, what the liabilities and the potential damages were. Why is this a Million Dollars case. Its a Million Dollars case because we settled for a Million Dollars. But in terms of oakland, our point of view was, these were oakland officers, some of whom were onduty when they engaged in the conduct with her and the department had a responsibility for its officers when they engaged in this conduct on the job. Some of it was in the department. There was a ses pool that existed within the department in terms of other officers being involved. When you pull the covers off this thing, there was a number of oakland officers involved in this. It was not in the best interest of policing, its terrible policing that you have officers sworn to uphold the law breaking the lay, it seems with immunitily. Part of this issue is being able to look and hold officers accountable became central to this question. Talk to me about the other cases, the pending legal claims, where do those stand and how are negotiations going on that and do you expect this to set a precedent. We have a number of claims that have been filed. They were filed by the previous lawyer, in my view, they are Different Cases and Different Levels of involvement by the officers, they have to be evaluated based upon the facts and the evidence in those cases, this case nafts in and of itself presented a certain level of facts. Thats the function of each individual case and the level of involvement with the officers in the department. I wanted to talk to you about some of the criticism. There are two versions of jasmine abuslin, the one that comes before the media and the other on social media. What do you say to those people that say, shes laughing all the way to the bank on this. Shes not laughing all the way to the bank, she had a difficult childhood. I think that this helps her get started in a positive life. But i do not believe in any way that shes laughing towards the bank, i have had a chance to get to know her, shes a nice young lady but she has work to do in terms of putting herself on the right track and developing skills, she loves animals, we want to get her into an environment where she can take care of herself. The responsibility here lies with the Police Officers, they all engaged in illegal acts. She was not the bad person, they were the bad people. Thats the reason why oakland is paying. Thank you, john. Today was the first day of deliberations for antolin garciatorres. He was convicted of murder even though sierra lamars body was never found. Prosecutors said her disappearance points to the horrible nature of the crime. Defense attorneys say he should not be put to death if there is no body. This is not a complicated factual question but its a complex moral question that the jury has to decide. If the jury returns a Death Penalty verdict, the judge can overrule them and give a life sentence. Jury deliberations continue in the murder case for the beating of michael tyree, his body was discovered in a jail cell. If convicted, three deputies could spend the rest of their lives in prison. Investigators say a man shot and killed by officers in vacaville monday was not armed. The shooting happened after a vehicle pursuit. The car that the man was driving was reported stolen, investigators are reviewing video interest dash mounted cameras to see what led to the shooting. Police said a san jose state student who reported building kidnapped admitted that she made up the story. She said she was taken from her apartment in san jose and forced to drive hundreds of miles to oregon. She said she managed to escape after the car ran out of gas, yesterday she recanted her story, there is no word on why she made it up. A tweet from President Donald Trump has a lot of people asking what a word is. But the White House Press secretary said, while most of us were confused, the president knows exactly what that means. A lithium battery in a laptop catches fire, we have details coming up. Right now we are tracking another round of fog, the inland areas could be approaching the mid 80s we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break. Welcome back to ktvu news, all of the news, weather and information you need to know throughout your day. Frightening moments on a jet blue flight bound for San Francisco. It was heading from new york city to sfo but it was forced to make an unscheduled landing after a passengers laptop caught fire. The plane arrived in the bay area three hours late. Reporter the plane made an unscheduled landing in michigan. We have video of the plane on the tarmac in michigan. It was scheduled to go from new york to San Francisco but an hour into the flight, passengers saw and smelled smoke. A battery for a laptop computer was smoking. Fire crews responded to the fire on board the plane and it was extinguished by the time the plane landed. Then the passengers were on their way, passengers said that the flight crew handled the incident professionally. It was scary to see smoke on the plane at 35,000 feet. We heard an announcement and looked back and people were standing up. There was smoke. We have guidelines to pass on from the faa regarding those batteries, they are okay to bring on board in computers and Electronic Devices in your carry on luggage. Its also okay to accepted them in your checked luggage if they are in a device but the faa has a ban on spare batteries in checked luggage. The passengers said they were tired but in good spirits. It was a long trip from jfk to sfo. Thank you. The bay area air Quality Management district took a step towards becoming the first board in the nation to cap Green House Gases from oil refineries, the new rules may be needed to prevent a increase in pollution if refineries switch to dirtier sources. Your decision today will effect our health for a generation or more, crucially the mortality impact will be severe for lower income families of color. Oil industry representatives and refinery workers oppose the cap, they said it could hurt them financially and limit production at the plant. The gray skies have given away to sunshine. Mark is in the weather center. We could thank a weak system that moved in overnight producing a few sprinkles and light showers. This is our san jose camera, its amazing how quickly those hills are drying up. On the satellite and radar, we have green from this morning. Going back 12 hours, you see the system moving across the bay area and heading out to the east. The fog is ails coming in, there is a fog bank near the coast surging into the bay, thats going to be a factor tomorrow morning for the commute. Lets check in on the current numbers. 59 in half moon bay, 70s in napa, walnut creek and livermore. Heres our live camera looking towards the bay bridge towards San Francisco. We have a bit of an onshore breeze. What will happen, we are going to have warming air above our heads that is going to squash the marine layer near the coast line, temperatures inland, we are expecting a nice warm up towards the weekend. Overnight lows, 50s and clear skies towards livermore and antioch. Some fog around the bay. Thursday morning, the temperature range is going to be 60 coast side and inland back up to the 80s. Eventually we have mid 80s in the fiveday forecast, we have more in a few minutes. More than 150 education advocates wept to the capitol to talk about education funding. They took three buses, one of the main issues that they plan to address is the outdated formula that the state ices to allocate money, students are hoping to get more resources at their schools. The expansion of the elective programs, at our school, we have electives like band and art but i feel like we can add things like language, like spanish or french. The trip is organized organized by the Silicon Valley education foundation. Ubers ambitious plan, coming up we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break to take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. To take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, voand exceptional customerity preownservice,les. Head t to your neiborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Flip your thinking about buying your next one. Welcome back to ktvu news, all of the news, weather and information you need to know throughout your day. Yesterday uber fired the engineer at the center of its legal battle with another self driving car company. Uber said that he failed to cooperate in a lawsuit. Its complicated. For more i am joined by tim higgins. What do we know about the firing that took place. Uber was under pressure from the judge, saying, you have to push this guy to talk, he cannot hide behind the fifth amendment. You need to pressure him to quit or make him talk. Uber had its own internal investigation as to what he may have brought over from the other company. They allege that he took records on his way out. But uber is saying, we do not know, he will not share it with us, i have seen the deposition, he invoked his fifth amendment 400 times. This internal investigation by uber, does that indicate that maybe he did take the information from the other company. They are separating from him so you judge will not come down hard on uber. The judge said, you need to get this guy to talk. So does this clear uber from this lawsuit now that he is gone and does it shift the focus over to him. Google has been arguing that there is been a scheme to use the information that he took. Uber will have to defend itself, its going to trial in october. They have to defend themselves against the idea that they enticed him to come with the information he stole, to build out their selfdriving unit. So the information that he may have taken from google to uber, what do they think he might have taken. He was an expert in the hardware needed for self driving cars, the laser sensor. He spent a lot of years developing that for google and google has accused uber of jump starting its program with that information. Uber has denied it saying that they are developing their own technology. When you have a employee going from a company like google to uber, who owns the technology. Typically, if you are an employee of the company, the company owns what is going on there. One of the nuances is that the employee had a number of sued businesses while he was at google and he was developing some Technology Alongside of that. It would appear that google allowed him to do that, they bought some of the things he created. Enriching him that way, so its an example of how he started other companies, those companies, they alleged, were the guts of a Company Called otto which uber brawts to start their selfdriving dis bought to start their selfdriving business. Could there be any criminal charges in this . Its unusual for a judge in this thing to say, i think that the Attorney Generals Office should look into it but thats what happened, he has suggested to the doj that they should look at what is going on here. Thank you, tim, we appreciate it. We are going to talk about what is going on in the world of President Donald Trump, when we come back we have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break t afte. Welcome back to ktvu news, all of the news, weather and information you need to know throughout your day. The United States is many other governments are condemning a suicide bombing that killed 80 people in afghanistan. The truck bomb was so powerful it left a crater 16 feet deep. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast, both isis and the taliban have launched attacks in afghanistan. The taliban own more territory in afghanistan since 2001 when we got there. The United States began drawing down fourses there during the obama administration. Former fbi director james comey is set to testify next week in front of the Senate Intelligence committee about accusations that President Donald Trump tried to get him to stop investigating the russia collusion. Joel has more from washington. Reporter President Donald Trump welcomed the Prime Minister of vietnam to the white house as his administration tries to figure out what to do about north korea. The talks came a day after the United States military said they successfully intercepting a mock intercontinental ballistic missile. President donald trump clearly was looking to our ally in asia to help with north korea. Also on the president s agenda, a troubling domestic issue, the secretary of Veterans Affairs said his agency is in critical condition. The secretary also asked if veterans can be allowed to get treatment from private sector doctors and hospitals. What he has told me is that its important that we be open and candid and transparent about where the problems are. Reporter in the meantime, the white house responded to President Donald Trumps cryptic tweet. Should we worry that the president posted an incoherent tweet . No. Why did it stay up for so long. The president and a small group of people know what he meant. Reporter senior United States officials indicated that President Donald Trump is set to pull out of the paris climate agreement. Thank you, joel. Cnn announced today that it has fired Kathy Griffin after she posted this photo with a fake head that looks like President Donald Trump. She has hosted a news show on new years eve for several years on the network. The secret service also responded and posted that they have a division to evaluate social media threats. All right, for more on the political ramifications