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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm September 1, 2015

Not with what happened with that driver. I think it was one bad apple. I would say 99. 9 of the bicyclists in San Francisco dont do that. This is unfortunate. I think my reaction was outrage. The incident happened in his district. That type of behavior cant be tolerated in San Francisco. That being said, we want to make sure we dont condemn [ audio difficulties ] reporter zip car issued a statement saying we are aware of the incident. With any incident the well being of anyone involved is our top concern. We are unable to comment further on any investigation that is ongoing. No report has been filed by the driver yet. Meanwhile bicycless say it is possible bicyclists say the zip car driver was from out of town. They say they hope agencies will continue to make road improvement ands so bikes and cars improvements so bikes and cars can share the road. A controversial topic made more so by the death of a woman killed by a illegal immigrant in San Francisco. Now several counties are reanalyzing their relationship between Law Enforcement and u. S. Immigration and customs enforcement. Ktvus ann rubin has more on a public hearing to discuss that additional cooperation. Reporter twice before Santa Clara County has rejected the idea of cooperating with i. C. E. But this time might be different. Reporter the fight is personal. Collaborating with u. S. Immigration and customs enforcement. Till now santa clara has not but that may soon change. A committee took Public Comment today. Prompted by the death of kate steinle in San Francisco. Doesnt make any sense to let violent criminals on our streets if we have a choice. Do what is right immediately and stop the policy before another innocent american citizen gets killed. Reporter and there were those who say a change in policy will do more change than good. Singling out immigrants to be punished due to sates is inect status is in effective. Reporter Officials Say they might support notifying i. C. E. But only when the most serious offenders are about to leave custody and they will not detain those people on i. C. E. s behalf. The county should notify i. C. E. When they are being released so they dont go back into communities and further victimize future people. We will not hold people a minute longer than they are normally scheduled. Reporter the committee will now pass a report on to the board of supervisors. But there was no recommended course of action. Any steps the board takes will have to be measured with making sure we are creating the safest environment and doing it in a way [ indiscernible ] reporter the board of supervisors will take up the matter september 15. Thank you very much. There are questions about the death of an inmate at A Santa Clara jail and why three officers were placed on leave. Officials say 31 inmate was found unresponsive in his jail in san jose thursday. They say three Correctional Officers and paramedics were unable to revive him. The Sheriffs Department is waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine how the man died. It is uncommon that three officers would be placed on leave but no conclusions would be drawn till an investigation is complete. The Sheriffs Office is doing a thorough investigation and when that investigation comes out, if there are those allegations they will be held accountable. It is not clear at this pointt if the officers on leave point if the officer on leave were the same three who tried to save the man. Three inmates at san quentin diagnosed with legionnaires disease. The first inmate was diagnosed with legionnaires disease on thursday. 5 mother inmates are being treated. They are confining inmates to expels cancellation visitation to help reduce the spread of the disease. Court is considering a challenge to californias Death Penalty. The argument involves the delays in carrying out an execution. There are 750 inmates on death row and none of them have been put to death since 2006. Last year a judge over turned the Death Penalty for a murderer saying the delays unpredictable. An attorney argued california laws requires a thorough review. We would acknowledge the pace of the review process varies. A defense attorney argued the delays can only be solved by an infusion of cash. Not clear when they will rule. The Death Penalty has been on hold for 9 years. Police are investigating the shooting death of a 65year old man. It happened around 2 00 a. M. This morning. Police say they found him on the curve suffering from multiple gun shot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. This homicide the most recent in richmond over the past two months. While the city has seen a decrease in homicides over the past several years, this marks the 13th homicide in richmond this year. Compared to 11 in 2014. The times reports police are attributing the spike to a dispute between two gangs. An idea of the number of. [ music ] cases in Human Trafficking cases in San Francisco. Over the last six months in 2014 the city identified 291 known or suspected survivors of Human Trafficking and 78 were involved in sex trafficking. The majority were minors or young adults. The report include information for programs and recommendations for future Task Force Data collection efforts. It marks the first attemptt to track Human Trafficking attempt to track Human Trafficking in San Francisco. The man shooting and killing a sheriffs deputy in houston over the weekend has a histre history of mental illness. Shannon miles has a criminal history dating back to 2005. Deputy Darren Goforth was shot in the back 15 times in an unprovoked attack. He was a target because he wore a uniform. We found no other motive or indication it was anything other than that. This year 23 members of Law Enforcement have been shot and killed in the u. S. And 7 shootings happened in the past month. Many in the policing Community Say it is a tough time to be an officer. Ktvus john sasaki talked to Law Enforcement about the anti Police Attitude in a story new at 6 00 p. M. Reporter Police Officers are there to serve and protect. They want to help save lives. They want to help people to have a quality of life. Reporter he worked for 30 years for the Oakland Police department and retired. He is concerned about current officers. They dont sign up to get killed. The killing on deputy Darren Goforth on friday in texas has officers watching their backs. To be attacked for no reason other than the fact you are wearing a uniform is scary stuff. Reporter he says San Francisco Police Officer a point where i told people, my son indicated he wants to be a Police Officer, i am trying to talk him out of it. I dont think it is a great time to enter the profession. Reporter in oakland last week a female officer was attacked by a man armed with a chain. She shot and killed him after he truck her in the head multiple times and yet some people blame the officer saying she did about need to open didnt need to to open fire need to open fire. [ indiscernible ] interesting that when we have a ferguson or a new york, all we hear is antipolice rhetoric. When cops are murdered the silence is deafening. Reporter officers who make mistakes should be held accountable but a few bad apples shouldnt ruin everyones reputation. We dont see those case wheres the officers help people, save lives. Reporter officers know most people support what they do. John sasaki, ktvu fox 2 news. Still ahead, a bay area battle board has border paddle boarder has a closedies border has a close in Close Encounter with a whale. Tracking a cool down. Heated up today but temperatures go the other way the next couple, i will let you know what to expect and a shot of drizzle in your neighborhood. Interstate 80 in berkeley. Traffic backed up as it normally is at this time. Bills got a very tough 13lie here. Looks like we have some sort of sea monster in the water hazard here. I believe thats a kraken, bruce. It looks like hes going to go with a nine iron. That may not be enough club. Well hes definitely going to lose a stroke on this hole. If youre a golf commentator, you whisper. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. This golf course is electric. The city of san jose is ready to cut ties one of the largest construction firms because of a hospital project that is two years behind schedule. Ktvus Azenith Smith explains the next steps for the Medical Center campus. Reporter in 2008 voters approved a bond measure to build a bed building on the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus. A project that broke ground in 2009 and was supposed to be done in 2013. Two years behind schedule a tour shows it is far from finished. We had multiple delays. Multiple unmet promises. Reporter he blames the general contractor Turner Construction for not living up to its responsibilities. It gave the company one week to remedy a construction disaster. If they dont the county says it has no choice but to sever ties. Turner construction lacked staffing for the project. Setting its sights on another project, levi stadium. Levi stadium project offered an incentive for early completion. Turner who is the general contractor pulled many of its subcontractors in our project. Nonsense. Turner builds thousands of projects a year. It knows how to build two projects at the same time. Reporter turner says the real reason for the delays mismanagement from the county. The company says the county gave hundreds of confusing change orders and failed to respond to thousands of requests for information. County knows why the project is delayed and it is finding excuses for the delay. The county need look no further than itself and its management team. I asked about the allegations and he says it is not true. He says the county has an obligation to recoup taxpayer money. Azenith smith, ktvu fox 2 news. Federal and state water officials have taken the first steps in moving forward with the delta tunnel plan. Water agencies filed the first permit applications. The project is backed by governor jerry brown. It proposes building 30mile long tunnels in the delta to transport water to southern california. We are reviewing that petition, that request right now and all the documents. Once we digest that we will put out a notice that will allow other parties to let us know how they feel about the project. Farmers and environmental groups say it could harm wildlife. The first hearings are expected to begin this spring. Paddle border got amazing video of a humpback whale swimming underneath her board. She posted this on youtube yesterday. She goes out paddle boring several times a boarding several times a week. Pretty cool to see that. You have been surfing for 30 years, what have you seen . Lots of stuff. Sharks and things like that but never a humpback whale. They are giant. Most of you see the gray whales. They are big humpback whales are massive [ talking at the same time ] i cant imagine being that close. Interesting year. Climate change and warmer oceans. Saying we have seen more whales and more wildlife sea life than i can remember in 35 years of surfing. There is a lot happening in the ocean right now. Climate change, global warming, maybe el nino. Something is going on. More whales than we have seen, dolphins too. Never used to see dolphins, now they are a regular occurrence. The high temperatures today. 85 in santa rosa. 86 napa. I say you know, it is neat in a way, the things we see now, people talk about it, the environment, it is so much cleaner out there in the bay, in the ocean now than during the gold rush, during the 1950s. We are seeing more stuff. See bald eagles. Dolphins. Mountain lions. They were there but then we got rid of them and now they are going back. In my mind it is a healthy sign of the environment. Even more sharks. Seeing more stuff. 86 concord. 86 walnut creek. 85 livermore. When i was a kid, i grow up in the mountains, i never saw bald eagle in the mountains. North of chico. Now you see them all the time. Back them they were endangered. And now you see them. I am trying to be encouraging. Neat that there is more stuff. You remember the bay when there were the garbage yeah. [ talking at the same time ] what they have done to our environment, become a better place. Mudslide were a hole and now highs for tomorrow, and now all this stuff is beautiful, it is usable. Who would have thought we would have a better, cleaner bay environment than 1940 or 1950. I miss the stick figures yeah. Remember they fall apart. There is the fiveday forecast. My rant for the week. I am done. Thank you. Coming up here in sports, the raiders cut a high profile player. He was the third over all pick in the draft in 2012. And Serena Williams begins her bid for a grand slam that u. S. Open. Mark ibanez has it all in sports. Now to the news room, keba arnold is he re with a look at what we are working on for ktvu fox 2 news at 7 00 p. M. A sign the love of donald trump is now fading . Seems to be the case in iowa. Shoo shares the top spot along trump and what it says for the politicians in the race and kanye west announced today he plans to run for president. We will explain. E are working on these stories and more coming up tonight at 7 00 p. M. On tv 36. Today had Golden State Warriors released their 2015 preseason schedule. Begins in the south bay, the warriors host the raptors october 5. The first 10,000 fans receive, no, you are not imagining things, a San Jose Sharks edition bauble head wearing a sharks sweater. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. Today in oakland, the warriors unveiled a new Basketball Court in the town center and court yard. A lot of people were on hand for the dedication. The hope is it will give young people a safe place to play. The warriors renovated 50 Basketball Courts in the bay area all with the help from corterate and community members. Dodgers running into problems. Great time for the giants to play them. They are not hitting the baseball. This is i know players dont like it say this but this is a crucial three game series for the giants against the dodgers. Starts tonight in los angeles. Last night in los angeles second time in 10 days the dodgers were no hit. Jake arrieta. He wants it to happen. Chase huntleigh goes chase utley striking out to end it. He wins his 17th. Cubs lost 4 games in a row and the dodgers not hitting the baseball at all but they still lead the giants by 31 2 games. Can you imagine this, paying big pucks to see bucks to see Serena Williams at the u. S. Open and you get there, 27 minutes later the match is over. Wow it didnt last long. First set 6love. Not moving well at all. She might not have needed to be out there. Looked like she was having problems with her ankle. Concedes the match. 27 minutes and Serena Williams is moving on. I tell you what, the raiders part ways with trent richardson. You remember him. Once the number three back out of the draft out of alabama. Just couldnt ever get it together in the nfl. Averaging just over 3 yards per carry. Worse average in the nfl and he is officially cut by the raiders. Didnt much of a running game against the cardinals last night. Defense looked good in the first half. The offense had problems. The rushing game really a problem right now. Our running game, i didnt see anything from our run game. No, we didnt run it tonight very well. We expect to run it better. I told our team we are going to run the ball better than that. We have to. We will. Not a good night in the run game. I dont think they ran it very well either. Running game, what running game . Got to get a lot better than that. Shows you how bad richardson must have been. I like jack. Thank you. Coming up at 10 00 p. M. Easing crime concerns for tourists days after a shooting near one of San Franciscos most visited spots. On the 10 00 p. M. News, the new program sending [ indiscernible ] see you then. It took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master the way you bank. Vegas. Here you go, here you go. That was quick. You skip the line when youre on the excelsior level. Oh. Three rooms adjoining, top floor. Oh. Silver, pretty. Platinum, so dont wave that around everywhere. Peoplell get jealous. Maybe wave it around a little. [ laughter ] my friend burt tanner runs the hotel. He comped us a few rooms because we sold him some closets for his highroller suites. Zebrawood, heated sock drawer, the works. Hey, luxury bathroom, its me, lowly closet. 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