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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon April 22, 2016

They are investigating what caused it in the first place. They typically occur when theres space and air in the ground where it shouldnt exist and there is pressure and it collapses. And it causes the sink hole. We will be looking to see if the sink hole or the sewer main break, how they are related and of course, make a determination and of course fix it. Reporter the sink hole opened up yesterday and it started as a depression in the street. We spoke to a woman who said she saw the depression and heard the cars rolling over it and called 311. They came out and we were on the scene as the sink hole gave way. Someone called in 8 30 this morning. Oh oh it just fell in reporter you can see just how big it really is. It will take crews about two or three days to repair the sewer line that runs underneath and then fill this hole to make it safe again for cars to travel over. In the meantime, there will be more traffic on nearby roads traveling east and west. In San Francisco, christien kafton, fox 2 news. Fire investigators are trying to determine what caused a two alarm fire that injured two firefighters. Started at 9 30 in the mission district. Crews reported two firefighters suffered minor injuries. No one else was hurt. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. It was a wet start across the day with rain in much of the bay area. And it did clear up for a bit. Rosemary orozco will tell us what to expect. It will keep coming. We have scattered showers out there. Though we have peeks of sunshine and clouds, the downpours continue. Lets take a look at a wet, wet east bay there. You can see the wind is blowing as well. Temperatures in the low 60s for most of us, but its a cool breezy cloudy damp day. Even though we again are seeing breaks in between, Storm Tracker 2 showing us it is fairly widespread with the scattered showers. You see a little bit closer now over portions of the south bay, over the diablo range. Some areas have picked up a half inch, maybe a little more than that in the last 24 hours. That is some great news. When i come back, we will take a look at the rainfall totals and what we can expect in the evening hours. We have the weekend upon us. All right. See you in a few. Sure. We are continuing to remember music legend prince. We want to show you live pictures outside of his paisley park home where fan haves been stopping by to pay tribute to the pop icon. As you can see, the memorial has been growing with flowers and balloons in the singers signature purple. Meanwhile, we are awaiting the toxicology results after the examiner completed his autopsy. The results are expected to take several weeks. Our alex savidge has more. Reporter as tributes to prince pour in, there are still many questions surrounding his sudden death. An autopsy was just completed today. Prince had reportedly been sick recently. Just a week ago, his private plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing for medical reasons. Representatives for the musician say he was suffering from the flu, but, tmz reports that prince was treated for a Drug Overdose at the hospital. Less than a week later, the 57 yearold singer was found dead in his paisley park complex outside of minneapolis. Fans in the bay area are celebrating his life and music. This was the scene in San Francisco last night as people gathered outside city hall for an inpromptu dance party. Fans gathered to remember the one of a kind artist. He speaks to people in San Francisco in a special way. He is just a force to be reckoned with. That is like an understatement. He is a musical genius. Reporter and in his hometown of minneapolis, thousands of people spent the night at a dance Party Outside a downtown nightclub where princes movie purple rain was filmed. The owners say the party gave fans a way to share their emotions. Prince was everything to me growing up. He got me through my middle school, my high school, my ups and downs. And like, 1999 came out when i was graduating from high school in 1989 and it is just like everything that i celebrate. Reporter though prince was reportedly quite sick, he was still seen out and about in minneapolis over the past few days. He even hosted a party for some of his fans at his compound this past weekend. An autopsy has been done to figure out what caused his death. But the results may not be made public for several days. Alex savidge, ktvu fox 2 news. We have so much more on princes death including tributes here and across the country on our website ktvu. Com. You can join the conversation, go to our Facebook Page and leave your own condolence message. Now to developing news on a horrific shooting in ohio that has left at least eight people dead. All believed to be members of one family. Officials in pike county 80 miles east of cincinnati say two of the victims are children. Those killed were all shot to death execution style and found in at least four different locations this morning. There are reports that four children including two babies were found alive. Authorities are trying to determine a motive. They say no suspect has been arrested and the killer may be among the dead. San Francisco Police now releasing some new detail ins the disappearance of twoyear old ariana and the killing her of mother nicole. Oakland is where her former babysitter live. She refused to let nicole see her own daughter in the weeks before her death. They also revealed a piece of spray painted plywood was found covering nicoles body on april 8. It has spray painted markings on it we hope someone may recognize. These markings may be construction related or even graffiti. But it is our hope someone will recognize them. Meanwhile friends and family are holding out hope that little ariana is still alive. The director of the fbi suggested they paid more than a Million Dollars to break into the iphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. James comey made the comment. They unlocked the phone with the help of an unidentified third party. Now the fbi can use the same software on other similar iphones. How much did you pay for this software . A lot. Really . Lets see. More than i will make in the remainder of this job which is seven years and four months for sure. Wow. And so, it is. But it was in my view worth it. The fbi director serves a tenyear term. According to public records, he makes 183,000 a year. That means he will make about 1. 3 million while he remains the director and breaking into that iphone totaled more than that number. The head coach of the mens crew team at uc berkeley is accused of failing to report a Sexual Assault claim against one of his rowers. A female february of the team told coach mike teti she had been sexually assaulted at a crew team party but instead of reporting the incident, the coach told her to stop crying and asked her about her sexual relationships with other rowers. She told the mercury news the allegations are false. This is the latest in a string of Sexual Misconduct allegations, jackie spear announced new legislation that would make it easier to prosecute Energy Companies for pipeline problems. Pg e is facing criminal prosecution for alleged violations of federal law in the san bruno blast. But was just granted another postponement in that trial. The city of oakland is preparing to mark the legacy of the black Panther Party with the 50th Anniversary Commemoration at the Oakland Museum of california. Former panther members are among those planning three days of events. They were founded to oppose Police Brutality and provided food, healthcare, and education to the community. The theme of the Anniversary Event is where do we go from here . The black Panther Party stahist looms as a vision of hope. We commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the party for all those who find their way to oakland. Organizers say 50 years later, communities continue to wrestle with the same issues including income inquality, and access to healthcare. The Oakland Museum says it will offer a new Exhibit Opening october 8 called all power to the people. Black panthers at 50. On this earth day, online retailer amazon is taking steps to reduce waste. Amazon has launched what it calls frustrationfree packaging. The company says when ever possible, products ship in their original packaging eliminating the need for additional shipping box. Paper and cardboard make up a huge amount of bay area waste. The recycling plant alone receives 100 tons of paper and cardboard every day. New york, 900 tons a day. When you buy things online, they can show up in two or three boxes within a box. Box within a box. Kind of a russian doll of boxes. That is really bad packaging. And we encourage people not to support that. An estimated 90 of packaging is recycled but critics say that process has its own cost such as pollution from shipping. And still ahead, we are profiling a local group doing its part this earth day and every day. We will look at seed to table producers. Plus, incredible video of of china where a child was lifted off the ground by a whirlwind. And the clock is ticking down to another round of primaries meaning next tuesdays votes could set the political stage ahead of the summer convention. That story and more after a break. Take a look at your screen, we circled it for you. Scary moments in china on camera. A dust devil lifting the child off the ground. He fell to the ground seconds later. Here is the whirlwind in action. The little boy was taken to the hospital with minor head injuries, but what a chaotic scene. Students gathering for a sporting event wednesday. Three dust devils tore through the area. The last one lifted that little boy right into the air. The cuban government has lifted a ban on cubans and cuban americans traveling in and out of the country by commercial vessels. It including Carnival Cruise lines. The move clear it is way for carnival and other cruise lines to add the island to their list of destinations. They hope to start sailing to cuba by may 1. Now to politics. Shaping up to be a mini super tuesday as hundreds of delegates are up for grabs in five states next week. Voters in connecticut, delaware, maryland, rhode island, and pennsylvania who traditionally vote so late their choices are limited may finally have a shot at picking their respective partys nominee. Reporter with the first of the president ial conventions less than three months away, neither republicans nor the democrats have a firm candidate with enough delegates to secure the nomination. These states will have more sway than in previous elections. If there is a large voter turnout, i believe we will win. Reporter front runners donald trump and Hillary Clinton are leading the most recent polls in all five states in both campaigns are hoping a clean sweep for their candidate will be enough to force their rivals to drop out of the race. Most republicans have realized donald trump is the best thing we have going in the Republican Party because we have grown the base, we are winning elections and he is the only candidate who can fight Hillary Clinton. Reporter for republicans, 172 delegates are up for grabs in the five states. The same number as delegate rich california which has its primary in june. While donald trump is agreeing to play nice with the rnc and calling on the party to unify behind him, texas senator ted cruz maintains the nomination is still up for grabs. Now it is easy to talk about making America Great again. But the real question is do you understand the principles and values that made America Great in the first place . Reporter pennsylvania is the biggest of the states. So it is no surprise that almost every candidate is Holding Events there today with kasich, trump, and clinton fanning out across rhode island and connecticut this weekend. In washington, im gary tenny, fox news. Rosemary orozco, rain all over today. Yes. Much needed rain and it feels good out there. We will continue to dry out as we get into the evening hours. Your weekend is looking dry. Breezy. We will talk about that in just a moment. All that gray. And it is breezy out there. Bundle up. Make it a waterproof jacket. You will be fine. Santa rosa, more than a half inch reported for you. Mount diablo, seven tenths of an inch of rain. Kentfield, a half inch. We almost have seven tenths reported. In san jose, just shy of a quarter inch. Could see anywhere from a few one hundred to maybe a quarter inch as we get into the afternoon and evening hours before it finally pulls out. Here is a look at Storm Tracker 2. A little more widespread over the diablo range. We will get a little closer. Take a look. The santa cruz mountains. Milpitas and san jose, looks like you have a little bit of light activity going on. The moderate to heavy rain over the higher elevations. Shifting into the inner east bay. Crossing into pleasanton. You will find some here as well. A pocket of moderate rain falling. The debate stretching into antioch, for the north bay and the east bay, we have some on the Richmond San Rafael bridge. And i80 and vallejo, over the north bay, just light scattered showers reported at this time. Snow in the sierra. All the way down to the pass. There is an advisory. If you are thinking of heading up. It lasts until 8 00. Several inches of new snow here. As this continues to push through and moves out of the area. Here is a view of what we are looking at. The entire state, at least Northern California down through Central California getting the brunt of this. Southern california dry at the moment. They are not likely to see much of any of this. But as we roll through our afternoon, here is 3 00, scattered showers. Here is 7 00, notice right there in San Francisco, mainly dry. But if you are going to see the giants game, it will be cool, it will be cloudy. And we will leave in a slight possibility of a little drizzle. A few sprinkles. It shouldnt be too bad. As we get into the evening hours we will be drying out. Temperatures in the 50s to low 60s. 59, sfo. Low to mid 50s over portions of the north bay. It is a cool one. As we get into the afternoon, we have low 60s pacifica, San Francisco, 63. Mid 60s in antioch. Temperatures will be slightly warmer as we get into your bay area weekend and we will be dry. Ill have a look at that as we get into your saturday as well as sunday. Coming up in the next half hour, but again, if you are planning on today, keep the umbrella handy. Back to you. Beautiful. Thank you rosemary. Bart is planning another weekend closure between two east bay stations. No Service Saturday and sunday between the san leandro and bay fair stations. A bus bridge is planned to get passengers where they need to be while they make repairs. The bus bridge is expected to cause delays of 30 minutes to an hour. The same work will continue during two weekends in may and is scheduled to be complete in mid june. Still ahead, several festivals and parades all across the bay area this weekend. We have details for you in this edition of weekend watch after a break. Stocks have turned mixed. Afternoon trading on wall street, the close just about 30 minutes away. The dow jones is slightly higher. The s p 500 is still flat. The nasdaq also down 45 points. Tonight at sun down, the jewish holiday of passover begins. It is one of the most important religious festivals of the jewish calendar, it commemorates the liberation of the people of israel led out of egypt by moses. It has been celebrated for thousands of years. For eight days, jews are not allowed to eat leavened bread. Today is earth day and celebrations are going on. Those are not the only events. There are also several parades and festivals as well. The details are in this edition of weekend watch. All over the bay area this weekend, earth Day Festivities and celebrations in addition to so many other events. In San Francisco, the International Film festival gets underway. The 59th Edition Features film makers from nearly 50 countries. They will be here with a list of documentaries and premiers. The annual festival features the parade of 11. This sunday is opening day on the bay. Your annual celebration includes the blessing of the fleet. A boat parade, and lots of sailing. You can watch from pier 39 to sausalito. In the north bay t butter and eggs parade is downtown petaluma. It is free. You can enjoy the fun from 10 00 to 5 00. In the south bay, a Cherry Blossom festival is happening in cupertino. The japanese festival is free and runs saturday and sunday from 10 00 to 5 00. In sports, warriors and as are on the road. Giants host the marlins. Sharks host the kings and quakes host sporting kc. Im Rosemary Orozco and that is your weekend watch. Still ahead, we are remembering prince. His fans honor him across the world. And we will have the investigation of his death as well as we will be joined by d. J. Davey to talk about the music icons legacy. And we will introduce you to a local Group Teaching children about seed to table produce. Having a baby, maybe. See it next right this minute. Today, fans are expressing their grief at the sudden death of music legend prince. So many people stopping by his home to pay tribute to the pop icon. We can see more people in this picture now than when we first checked in a half hour ago. More and more people. The balloons and the signature color of purple. It is not just in minnesota, but people all over the world are continuing to mourn the loss of prince. Now, there are

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