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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm March 24, 2016

Cristina rendon has our report. Reporter frank that manhunt is well underway right now for that suspect. And several other suspects possibly linked to these attacks even though it is the middle of the night in belgium. It has been a sad day as new details emerged about the suicide bombers. The treats of belgium are shared by heavily Armed Security and mourners one day after terror attacks at the Brussels Airport and city subway. Some people returning to daily life. I chose to come to work because its a working day. We were given the choice to telework, but i thought, its a working day, and if i stay at home, theyve worntion and theyre not going to. Reporter officials saying these brothers are part of the suicide bombers. Khalid was the terrorist who blew himself up at the airport. Officials say they arrested ibrahim last summer and deported him to the netherlands. Turkey warned both belgium and the netherlands that he was a foreign terrorist fighter, but authorities released him because they couldnt find any ties to terrorism. The two that dade had substantial criminal records unrelated to terrorism. Reporter Najim Laachraoui is the same man who made the suicide vests used in paris. The manhunt for the third suspect you can see in this picture continues. As crowds gather to remember victims. Vice President Biden and his wife paid respects at the belgian embassy. That we are prepared to provide any and all information, capability, technology, anything we have that can be value added to their fight. Reporter the taxi driver who took the three suspects to the airport tipped off authorities to the house where he picked him up. That is where investigators found 33 pounds of tatp explosives and a will of one of the suicide bombers that said that he no longer felt safe. Talk more about the Americans Still missing. Reporter we know there is a man and a woman. Theyre siblings from new york who are still missing. They were at the airport when the explosions happened. Were hearing they were actually talking to their mother on the cell phone when she heard that explosion go off and then the line went dead. The search continues for them. Another couple from the United States had been missing but they were later found today. Cristina rendon, thank you. A California Republican congressman says americans may have been the targets in the airport attacks. One bomb went off near the counters for u. S. Carriers united, american, and delta air lines. He said if you were to pick locations in brussels to hit americans, they might be the ones. He also noted the subway blast was close to the u. S. Embassy no. Other officials have suggested that americans were the target. In sacramento the flags at the capitol are being flown at half staff in honor of the victims of the brussels terrorist attacks. The leading democratic candidate for president was in the bay area today outlining her ideas to defeat isis. Coming up in 30 minutes jesse gary tells us Hillary Clinton targeted more than the terror group with her criticism. Now to a bizarre story from San Francisco. A mother left her two little girls with someone who was only an acquaintance, and police were searching for the girls but just about 20 minutes ago we learned those two little girls have been found. Ktvu Crime Reporter henry lee is here. Where were the girls and are they okay . Reporter sounds like these two girls are fine. About 3 45 police learned that the woman who was with theme, woman showed up at st. Francis hospital with both kids. And right now they need to find out how is she related or known to the mother who is now under arrest fowrn related drug charges and who will now take care of the kids. Dwrin world would someone leave their two kids with an acquaintance . And from what i understand, they had agreed to meet a couple hours later, then the mother couldnt do that so she said well keep them overnight and meet tomorrow. Really . Reporter we understand from police that the mother of these two girls has known the woman for only two months, yet she somehow happened her own kids to this woman who weve seen on surveillance. You couldnt think of a better resolution. So right now police are interviewing this woman trying to figure out what happened and what now will take care of these little girls. The little girls were handed over about two months ago, and then the mother went back to tray to get the girls . No, the mother has known the acquaintance for only two months but the handoff happened just two days ago. So what we dont know, the police are unclear exactly why did this woman, ms. Jones, leave her children in the acquaintance. We have no idea why. So the mother is now in custody. What happens . Where do the little girls go now . Reporter Child Protective Services has been called in. They will analyze who will now take care of these kids. Great news that the little girls were found safe and sound. Henry, thank you. We have a developing story out of hercules where the Police Department headquarters has been evacuated. Police say someone walked in and said they had a fake bomb in a bag at 3 00 this afternoon. An officer looked in the bag and saw what looked like a real explosive device. From skyfox we have seen a truck from the walnut creek Police Department which has a bomb squad. People at two senior apartment complexes nearby have also been told to shelter in place. At this time authorities have not determined exactly what is in the bag. Fremont police are warning people about an irs scam making the rounds. Police say they have received multiple reports of residents receiving calls from irs impersonators. The scammer calls the victim and tells them they owe money to the irs and it must be paid with a prepaid debit card. If the victim refuses the caller threat tones call the police to have the victim arrested. In many cases the caller id on the phone indicated that the call is coming from the irs but the irs says only contacts individuals through the mail and not by the phone. While bart riders are dealing with crowded cars, delays, and electrical issues, bart workers are getting a bonus of 1,000 each. Ktvus tom vacar live at the lafayette bart station with the controversy over these bonuses. Tom. Reporter well, they got one. The next one is on the way. Bart sewed the seeds of this controversy when it settled a nasty labor dispute and strike almost three years ago. The 2013 labor deal obligates bart to pay each and every one of its 3357 employees 1,000 for a 2 rise in ridership in any given year. Last year each employee got 1,000. 3. 3 million in all. This year ridership figures are on track for another 1,000 bonus. Bart insists this is aside and apart from aging infrastructure issues, out of service bart cars, bus bridges and delays. I dont care about it. I just want these trains running back and forth. If i cant get to work, i cant pay my bills. You are going to get the money regardless. You already know. They should be patrolling, putting cameras that really work and making these 80, 100 cars that have been out of service, they need to make them a lot better. Reporter others think a compromise is in order. With the compromise its better for them to get a raise although there should be an allotment for maintenance. Reporter bart says a deal is a deal and that workers deserve the bonuses. So the more people that ride bart, the more maintenance we have, the more workers are working longer hours and harder than before. Reporter certainly steve glazer is not buying it, blaming barts governing board. This is an agency that doesnt have any money. Yet theyre now giving 1,000 bonuses to all of their employees. Reporter bart says bonuses come out of the day to day praying budget, not the long term Capital Budget needed to buy new bart cars, controls, and tracks. Were talking apples and oranges. Reporter but say bart critics, all of those apples and oranges are coming out of the same rider and taxpayer funded bowl. Bart is going to be coming to us asking for millions and millions of dollars in new taxes. Sales taxes and property taxes on the ballot. Reporter so what can you do . You can do one of two things. It you can either not vote, or you can vote. For the bond issues and for the directors. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Tom, thank you. The bart commute between North Concord and the pittsburg bay point line should be faster right now. Barlt replaced a bus bridge at 3 00 with two trains. It did the same thing this morning. There is one running in each direction with 10minute wait times. At 8 00 tonight service will be reduced to one train. Officials are still blacking for the source of voltage spiefntle repairs are ongoing. Bart says put 36 cars back into service over the weekend. Police closed a stretch of mission boulevard in fremont today because of an overturned taco truck. The truck flipped over about 1 00 this afternoon near the Mission Valley shopping center. Mission boulevard was closed between las palmas avenue and delgo road while they uprighted the truck. The driver was injured but were told those injuries are not considered life threatening. No word from police on what caused that accident. Authorities are looking for two carjacking suspects who took a car from a woman in walnut creek near the Pleasant Hill bart station. It happened on treat boulevard in the parking lot of an apartment complex. Deputies say the woman had just parked her acura, and thats when the men demanded her keys. As they tried to take the keys one of the men pepper sprayed her. The missing car is a gray 2000 acura tl with four doors. Wild video out of an outof control bus smashing through barriers and eventually crashing in San Franciscos union square. New at 5 30, we have an update on the investigation about who police are blaming. Expensive bikes stolen from apartments in the south bay, and heres video of the suspects. The warning tonight from one bike store manager about how social media can make you a target. Plus, they cant afford to live in the cities they teach in so one bay area district is discussing a plan to fix. That how teacher house hag become a priority even if the district has to build it itself. Today, springlike. Its going to continue that wisconsin tomorrow, and warmer. Ill let you know how much warmer it is going to be for your bay area thursday. It is a growing problem, teachers unable to afford housing in the city where they work. Earlier this week San Francisco came up with a plan to keep teachers from being evict. Now the city of Mountain View has come up with a plan of their own. Ktvus ann rubin tells us how it would work, new at 5 00. Reporter fifth grade teacher angela kerry has worked in the district three years. This may be her last. The main barrier to working here is the cost of living. Reporter she says she tried living in Mountain View where the average rent is more than 2800, but on her teachers salary she couldnt make ends meet. I shared a bathroom, and this is 10 years into my career, i shared a bathroom with two other women because thats what i could afford in this area. And then living in that house for two years my rent actually increased 42 . Reporter shes not alone. The School District has been battling high turnover so this week the board decided to take action making teacher housing a priority even if they have to build it. Its not going to solve the problem for every teacher butt can be a solution for a lot of teachers, depending on the scale and the magnitude of it. Reporter one possibility, build an Apartment Building for teachers on district property. Theres land that could be used. Its the reason why it would be potentially doable for us, is that we have some land that we could use to put housing on. Reporter so its early in the pros and the district will explore all options. Parents Say Something needs to be done. I think we should go for it. Definitely housing that would be closer to schools and more affordable for the teachers, should be a perk that we offer, if possible. For teachers like angela kerry, the help will come too late. Still, shes glad the district is trying. We have a really Supportive Administration that wants to come to a solution that supports teachers. But i dont see what it is. Reporter the next step will be to survey staff about would they would like to see built and to take a look at other School Districts like santa clara. In Mountain View, ann rubin, ktvu fox 2 news. A near decadeslong mystery has been solved. Researchers say they have located wreckage of a navy tugboat. The u. S. S. Conestoga disappeared headed for pearl harbor in march 1921. The naval and noaa say they found the wreck cooling near some islands. The disappearance was one of the most tragic mysteries of u. S. Maritime history. Lets talk about our weather now, bring in our chief meteorologist. Another beautiful day. Sounds like more on the way. More on the way. All you have to do is look at julies dress. Isnt that nice. I should call you in the morning. Definitely spring like in the morning. Thank you. Senates going to continue spring like. No rain in this forecast as we move forward. Just dry. Were talking about temperatures that are in the 70s now, that made into it the low 70s today in some places and will make it into the low and mid70s tomorrow. Theres san jose. Beautiful air quality. Soften well get the warm weather in the surges even the late spring, but you wont have the air quality. When you look at that theres mission peak, and thats good visibility. Across the country now we do have significant weather to talk about for travelers. Right now at Denver Airport for a tame today they had some closures there. Big snow, blizzard conditions in denver, through rapid city, minneapolis, all the way up into wisconsin, and into chicago now were starting to see heavy snow, blizzardlike conditions. And right here, just south of omaha, weve got a tornado warning. Here weve got a severe thunderstorm watch outside of dallas. So we definitely are seeing some flight concerns. As we head into your bay area tomorrow, some of this is going to continue across the Northern Tier of states and into atlanta. So traveling tomorrow might be a little bit delayed. You are definitely finding delays this evening. Theres a system to the north of us. That system will not reach us. It will drop some rain and show in the cascades. Up around the canada up in the alberta area, but vancouver, you see showers showing up. A few up by ukiah and up towards y eureka. Beautiful afternoon. A little breezy. 15mileperhour winds in napa out of the west. Not as windy as yesterday but theres some breeze. 15 at hayward. Sfo, as you would expect in the spring months, is starting to fire up that west wind at up to 20 miles per hour, which is not unusual. Overnight low forecasts, there they are, low not, maybe upper 30s. Chilly last night. San francisco tomorrow morning, clouds to the north. Sprinkles way up there. San francisco downtown mid60s. So a nice looking day in San Francisco. Look at the afternoon. Beautiful, sunny conditions. As we come in close for tomorrow, the forecast, yellows are 70s. Look at all the 70s. Greens are 60s. Lots of 70s showing up in the bay area forecast for your bay area thursday. Thursday night the warmest day of the week. It appears were going to get into warmer temperatures on friday and saturday. As you head into sunday a little cooler. I guess thats easter for many, talking about a nice looking bay area week. Cooler but not cold. So nice looking weekend. Theres the fiveday forecast. A little more time to take a look at it. Maybe a sprinkle in the north bay, but just a dry period through this week. Bill, thank you. The warriors back at oracle arena playing one of their key rivals. Up next, steph curry answers questions about whether the warriors are still going after the record for most regular season wins in an nba season. ,new at 6 00, shes nearly 90 years old and still giving back. We will introduce to you a meals on wheels volunteer who is not letting her age keep her from helping others. It makes me feel good. So thats how come im still driving around delivering meals. Raiders other than mark davis possible interest in moving the raiders to las vegas seems to be getting qualified approval. We want to underline here qualified. Commissioner Roger Goodell says davis is rightly looking at all of his alternatives if he cant get a new stadium in oak land. Historically the nfl has opposed the idea of having a team in las vegas because of the gambling there, but now commissioner isnt completely shutting down the idea. The warriors are back home from their road trip that included a rare loss, in this case to the san antonio spurs. Tonight they take on the l. A. Clippers. Joe fonzi live at oracle arena. Despite some tired legs the team is still pushing for another record. Joe. Reporter yeah, guys, the records just pile up with this team, the warriors going through the pregame routine. Im going to let you have a look at harrison barnes, off to my right and camera left. But the warriors are going for their 51st consecutive home win tonight, and as you said, theyre coming off that three game road trip. Even the two games that they won against dallas and minnesota they looked to be a little bit tired legged, trouble getting their offensive rhythm going but theyre back home in their favorite place to play on the plan know. There are 12 regular season games left to play. If the warriors go 102 in those remaining 12 games they will have the best record in nba regular season history, beating the record of the 1996 chicago bulls. But i think most importantly the warriors would also nail down the number one playoff spot in the west, and that would mean that san antonio is number two and the warriors would have Home Court Advantage in any eventual matchup with the spurs in the western Conference Times if the went that far. But the records are something that the players are very aware of. Steph curry talked about that at practice

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