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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon August 5, 2016

Footage. They say the video does show evidence of the officers involved acting against department policy. Today a memorial for 43 yearold San Diego Police officer jonathan deguzman. Hundreds of Law Enforcement vehicles and motorcycles escorted the hearse carrying his body. He was shot and killed last thursday while sitting in the drivers seat of his patrol car. His partner was injured but survived. The suspected shooter is in custody. This marks day three of picketing by Santa Clara County court clerks who say they havent had a raise in eight years. Today they are hoping to draw attention to a new 2,440,000,000 courthouse built during that eightyear period. Ann rubens is live in san jose. Reporter this was originally planned as a oneday work stoppage. As you can see, it continues and stretches on. So Santa Clara County courts are preparing for limited service into next week. This has meant headaches for those trying to take care of court business. Court workers say its important to drive home their point. They say their average salary is 52,000 a year. In addition to not getting raises for last eight years, they have been forced to take furlough days and lost some holidays. A new courthouse has been constructed. Union members believe if there was money for that, there should have been money for them. The Court Administration chose to spend its money on this extravagance instead of these workers you see here today. They chose funding, a trip to a quarry outside rome, italy, and imported travertine over paying Court Workers a living wage. Its shameful. Reporter a spokesman for the superior court says its not true, that the courthouse project was underway well before the contract dispute began. He said its safer, more convenient and by consolidating Court Functions under one roof it saves the county money in the long run. While the court is operating with limited services, he says all essential Court Services will go on as planned. Thank you. A 54yearold cyclist was killed trying to cross some train tracks in san jose this morning at 8 00 at the virginia street crossing in san jose. Law enforcement sources say the man went past the crossing gates to get to the other side when he was hit by train number 329. He was taken to a hospital where he later died. No other injuries were reported. A vta bus bridge was put in place to move passengers. This is caltrains eighth fatality this year. An accident claimed the life of a motorcycle in milpitas. It happened around 50 30 a. M. On calaveras boulevard between milpitas boulevard and able street. The rider died at the scene. Calaveras boulevard was closed while police investigated. The name of the rider is being withheld pending notification of family. Fears over the zika virus hit close to home after a baby born at an east bay hospital has birth defects connected to the virus. The baby was born at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center within the past six months. The babys mother recently traveled to a zika infected areaof guatemala. Her baby was born with an abnormally small head. Zika virus can affect the nerve cells early on in development and cause damage. State officials stress there is no evidence that zika is being spread in california. So for the state has identified 114 cases, all of whom contracted the virus in other countries. Meanwhile, florida is the only u. S. State so far that has reported homegrown zika transition by mosquitoes. Yesterday in miami aerial spraying was conducted where 15 people have been infected with the virus. It appears the aerial spraying has significantly reduced the mosquito population there. Floridas governor says the state is taking this seriously and is prepared to handle zika and the fight against it. More information on zebulon at ktvu. Com. It is our top story right now on our home page. Now to San Francisco where the outside lands Music Festival is getting underway in Golden Gate Park. Gates opened up an hour ago for a threeday festival. Its expected to draw more than 200,000 people. And ktvus Tara Moriarty is just outside the park and joins us live. Tara. Reporter yeah, we found some of those people headed inside. They are here with their blankets and backpacks and banana sticks, i guess. Are you guys excited . [ cheers and applause ]. Reporter who are you here to see . Jake the rapper. Reporter this girl needs a blanket for sure. She is from new york. She doesnt understand how San Francisco works. They will be headed in. Whitney is the band that is going to be kicking off first. Now, we are not allowed actually inside the event just now. We will show you some footage from last years event. We know that tickets for this year sold out within 45 minutes. Thats the sixth sellout in a row. There are only two other festivals that can make the same flame. Coachella and lal la palooza. Duran duran performing tonight. All right. Other big names include radiohead, lionel richie, third eye blind. One up and coming bay area band is set to perform tomorrow. Here is a clip from their very first music video. T music video. You might notice the backdrop of their video. Much of it was shot on the streets of oakland. Most of the album was inspired by the death of the singers foster. He was killed by texas police two years ago. They will be here. J cole. Lcd sound system. Event organizers are encouraging folks to take mass transit to weekend. Apparently the food is going to be amazing. Gourmet all the way. Delectables from 80 different restaurants. There is a raspberry sorbet in honor of prince. Can you guys twerk . [ cheers and applause ]. Reporter i dont know if we will do that now. Are you guys excited . I can twerk. Reporter i dont doubt that you can. Are you going to be here all day . All weekend. Reporter are you from out of town . We live up the street. Reporter all right. A couple usf folks here. We will send it back to you. Still ahead at noon, we are learning more about the felony arrest of the mayor of stockton. The allegations that the mayor secretly taped himself playing strip poke we are a 16yearold boy. And heavy drizzle around parts of the bay area today. Ktvu meteorologist Rosemary Orozco will be here to tell you what we can except for the weekend. Plus, trying to reduce senseless shootings. What one bay area rapper is doing to draw attention to gun violence. Now to rio where protesters are taking to the streets just hours ahead of the summer games opening ceremonies. They are demonstrating against what they call the wide corruption and financial mismanagement of the government. Among other things, brazil has double dij i had inflation and unemployment rates. Billions of dollars in relief funds have gone missing and its president was impeached late last year. Organizers are getting help from 1,000 spies. This information is coming from a classified report that outlines the security operation in rio involving u. S. Intelligence agencies. The report indicates that u. S. Resources including spy satellites, electronic eavesdropping devices and social Media Monitoring software are being used to help brazilian Counter Terror officials. You could call them the hometown favorites. The u. S. Womens water polo team. A good portion of the team comes from here in the bay area. Joe fonzi talked to two of the players. Reporter the bay area was a stopover for a couple of u. S. Olympic teams last week. The Mens Basketball Team took china apart on tuesday. One night later the Womens Water Polo Team did the same to russia. It was appropriate that the u. S. Russia match was played at stanford. Five members of the u. S. Team played for the cardinals, and a sixth went to high school in menlo park. Two of those stanford players, Maggie Steffens and melissa sideman went to bay area high schools and won olympic gold four years ago in london choosing to go through that training again. Definitely a tough process. We are in the water five to six hours a day. We are lifting weights. You are sacrificing friends, family, whatever it may be to dedicate yourself to this team and this process. How many people get to say that they represent the United States of america and how many people get to call themselves an olympian . Its not just my dream. Its a collective dream. Thats the important piece that the fans and the people at home dont necessarily get to feel. Its a collective dream. Winning a gold medal is something you do tore your teammates, your coach, its something you do together. Thats the most important part when you are up on the podium knowing you put it on the line for that person next to you. Reporter the coach is also a local story. He went to high school in Mountain View and has an outstanding player and coach at ucla was involved in 14 ncaa championships. He, too, experienced olympic gold four years ago. He also knows what happened in london is no indicator of what will happen in rio. Every Olympic Games is its own. We are going to attack it like it is our first. We have always kind of gone by the mantra that you are only as good as your next game. Getting a chance to be at the olympics to represent your country, to feel the energy and enthusiasm from the crowd and the americans that are there, but then the millions that are watching at home, there is nothing like it. Reporter there may not technically be such a thing as the defending gold medal champions, but the u. S. Team will be favored and that comes with a big target on your back. The team starts play on tuesday against another highly favored team. Spain. At stanford, joe fonzi, ktvu fox 2. We are five, even ten degrees below the seasonal average today. We are looking at temperatures in the upper 50s at the coast. Low 80s for some of our warmest locations and a live view there at all of that gray. We are still dealing with it around the bay area. The coast and into San Francisco, a lot of drizzle this morning. It was a sonny soggy start to friday. Our bayside communities in San Francisco along the peninsula and into the east bay, hayward, oakland, richmond all the communities in between still dealing with the gray skies. If we go to the north bay we still have a little bit of cloud cover from healdsburg to santa rosa, petaluma, novato stretching across american canyon. This will continue to burn away. For the afternoon we will have partly cloudy skies away from the coast. Mostly cloudy at the coast. It has to do with this low that will continue to track across our area into the next few hours before it begins to shift out of our area by tomorrow. But it is not going to change the pattern. We will remain with this cool pattern at least through the start of your weekend and then things will change up as we get into sunday. A deeper marine layer in place about 3,000 feet today. The onshore breeze continues. 57 degrees at half moon bay. 56 in San Francisco. Getting to the east bay lowto mid 60s oakland, hayward. 60 degrees in berkeley. Into the north bay cloudy and cool in santa rosa. 60 degrees for you right now. Our inland communities where were enjoying some sunshine, 71 livermore, and into the south bay of san jose 71 for your lunch hour. Here is a look at the afternoon highs expected in the north bay. Low 70s santa rosa, novato. We are looking at the east bay shoreline. Midtoupper 60s. Midtoupper 70s for the inland east bay. A Beautiful Day in pleasanton. 77 for you. Low 80s expected for antioch today. How about the south bay . Going to be mild here. 75 in san jose. Saratoga 75. On the peninsula for the afternoon 66 san bruno, 60 degrees for San Francisco, and at the coast upper 50s pacifica, daly city, and 60 degrees for half moon bay. Here is a view of your extended forecast. So getting out the door tomorrow morning a lot like today. We will have the clouds, perhaps the pretty much drizzle. Upper 70s, low 80s expected for our inland cities. 60s around the bay. 60 degrees at the coast. Outside lands will continue to be mostly cloudy and cool as well. Sunday things start to turn around. Temperatures come up some. Its a warm day inland. Around the bay mild conditions expected and temperatures will continue to climb monday into tuesday. For today unseasonably cool. I have had folks message me saying i had to pull out the jacket this morning, it was so cool. Back to you. All right. Thank you, rosemary. Hillary clinton is going after donald trump with the help of some republicans. This says the republican nominee finds himself having to correct the record when it comes to claims he made campaigning this week. The latest from the campaign trail. Reporter donald trump walks back a claim that he saw a secret video of an airplane that unloaded 400 million in cash to iran. The airplane coming in and the money coming off, i guess, right . That was given to us, has to be, by the iranians. You know why it was given to us . Because they want to embarrass our country. Reporter a 24 hour turnaround trump tweeting the plane i saw on television was the hostage plane from switzerland. Thats ridiculous. Reporter president obama meanwhile challenging another trump claim that the election might be rigged. And then in the same press conference yesterday went on to suggest trump start acting more president ial as the gop nominee prepares to receive classified briefings. Trumps campaign fired back. We are not using him as a role model. He is apologizing for everything the United States has done over the last 100 years. Reporter the clinton carm out with a new ad hoping to score points with republicans and independents. It features gop voices who are skeptical of a president ial trump. If you governs consistent with some of the things he has said as a candidate. I would be very frightened. Reporter while endorsing hillary clinton, the former cia director said trump pose as threat to national security. Donald trump pointed to Hillary Clintons home email server as possibly putting americas classified information at risk. In washington, fox news. We are learning more about an American Woman killed in a knife attack in london. She has been identified as 64 yearold Darlene Horton of tallahassee, florida. She was married to a Florida State University Professor who was teaching a summer class in london. They were hours away from returning back to the United States. The stabbing happened wednesday in russell square. Five other people were hurt, including another american. Police used a tasetory restrain the suspect as he continued taser to restrain the suspect as he continued to stab people on the street. Police say they believe he may have Mental Health issues. It is one of the most talked about propositions on the november ballot. The push to legalize marijuana in california. Coming up our Claudine Wong sits down with Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom as he explains why he is supporting this controversial measure. At at t, we believe in access. The opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, weve created access from at t. California households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Visit att. 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I think the war on drugs has been a failure over 40 years. Its a war on poor people, on people of color, and i think thats preposterous and outrage us. There are a Million People behind bars in this country. Its a Racial Justice issue. Its about morality. Newsom says he is parent. He hates marijuana himself and doesnt want to smoke it and doesnt want people smoking it in parks and he doesnt want children around it, but he believes the government can be the responsible regulators and he thinks it would reduce consumption of other things like tobacco. Opponents of prop 64 include a coalition of prosecutors, police and health groups. They fear that legalizing pot will lead to impaired drivers and not give existing regulations time to work. Take time to see how the medical regulations that we just put into place, that were just signed by the governor, that were just agreed to by all sides, how that plays out in california. This weekend see more on bay area people. Join us 6 30 a. M. And sunday on 9 a. M. We have it on ktvu. Com. A taped interview with Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom. Its ran on the 4. He talks about issues ranging from marijuana and gun control. O

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