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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon May 16, 2017

About to get underway. Reporter we should hear from attorneys from the victims family shortly. Those attorneys are saying that the ghost ship warehouse was unsafe and not up to firecode. We will give you a live look outside the Alameda County courthouse in oakland where attorneys just filed a 50 page lawsuit against the owner and manager of that building and oaklands fruitvale district. We are expecting attorneys and families to be speaking soon. Several lawyers representing the families of more than a dozen victims are filing this master complaint citing unsafe conditions in the building he will remember 36 people were killed last december when this fire started inside the ghost ship collect where an unlicensed concert was taking place. The building manager organized the event and charged an entry fee. He was also renting larvae workspaces to other artists even though people were not supposed to be living in the workhouse. He is named in the lawsuit and so is the owner of the building. Essentially the idea is that these people knew how poorly designed, how poorly maintained, how ramshackle this place was put together. There were not adequate electrical supplies. There were not adequate consideration given to the safety of people who were paying money to come attend events there. Reporter there have been other lawsuits already filed by individual families who lost loved ones in the fire. Other plaintiffs will be able to join this master lawsuit which will make it easier in the end for the defendants to respond. That will be the next step in the process. The defendants named in the suit must respond to the allegations. We did reach out to an attorney representing the building manager for a comment but we were told that attorney only is representing him and criminal matters, not this particular civil case. As you heard a short time ago, the News Conference is happening outside the courthouse in oakland were attorneys for more than a dozen families of victims from the ghost ship fire have now filed this master lawsuit alleging unsafe conditions inside the building. Is one attorney put it to me, they believe the people who were profiting off that building knew the dangers inside and ignored them. Thank you. In santa clara county, jurors are deciding whether to sentence antolin garciatorres to death. He was convicted last week of kidnapping and killing sierra lamar. Allie rasmus live to explain what was said during the Opening Statements during this phase of the trial. Reporter there are just two options the jury has to choose from life in prison without the possibility of parole or they could sentence Garcia Torres to the Death Penalty. Antolin garciatorres kept his head down and face expressionless during Opening Statements this morning. The Deputy District Attorney began making his case that garciatorres should get the Death Penalty for the kidnapping and murder of sierra lamar. Her body was never found. He asked the jury, is it fair and just that he extinguished not just her life but also her body . Is it fair he gets to live his life . The the attorney explained they will hear testimony from sierras friends, a former teacher and parents. He explained some of these people are changed forever and they have a hard time articulate in what sierra meant to them. In some ways they are dead inside. This is the legacy of this crime. Was quote there will be some very emotional testimony coming forward from her family about what its like to allow your daughter to walk to a school bus and never see them again. That is the kind of testimony thats going to be gut wrenching for this jury. Two garciatorres attorneys are trying to convince the jury he deserves life in prison, not death. The defense attorney told the jury they will hear from their witnesses including Garcia Torres exgirlfriend and the mother of his daughters and his former boss at a landscaping company. He said garciatorres mom and sister will testify about his violent childhood living in poverty just poverty with a physically abusive debt. This evidence is not an excuse or justification for the crime. Because you hold and tellings life in your hands, you need to know something about him. We are more than one or two events in our lives. The defense is stressing that we accept the verdict but now we want to tell you how we got to this point. Those questions will also weigh heavily on the street. Reporter he reminded the jury that no matter what they decide, garciatorres will never set foot outside a prison again. It isnt about where he will die, rather it is how he will die. Will be. A percent death when his time comes . Over the government and his life on the a day it chooses . The choices in your hands. Labarres friends and family have held out hope that Garcia Torres may provide more information on the location of her remains as a bargaining tool to avoid the Death Penalty. Legal analyst say at this point it does not seem likely. If there were negotiations to be had a, it would likely be occurring prior to or during this penalty phase as opposed to after the verdict having been rented. Reporter so far on the stand this morning, two of the prosecution witnesses have testified that they were former classmates of sierra lamar who talked about their sadness and what happened to her and how they were forever changed by. My colleague will have more on this story coming up an hour later newscast. The penalty phase of this trial is expected to last two weeks. Back to you. Now for the latest at the white house. President trump is fighting back against accusations he shared classified information with russian diplomat been the New York Times is reporting the intelligence disclosed was provided by israel. The disclosure could damage the relationship between the countries. Joe waldman has more. Reporter President Trump resorting to his damage control weapon of choice this morning, twitter. As president i wanted to share with russia and an openly scheduled white house meeting which i had the absolute right to do facts pertaining to terrorism Airline Flight safety. The premise of the article is false that in any way the president had a conversation i was inappropriate or that resulted in any kind of lapse a national security. Reporter according to the post report, the meeting last week with the Russian Foreign minister and the Russian Ambassador to the united states, the president revealed covert information related to a threat from isis provided by original ally. That information considered so sensitive it had not even been provided to u. S. Allies. If this report is true, it would mean that the president may have badly damaged our national security. Reporter Congressional Democrats already up in arms about the president s decision to fire james comey who was investigating ties between trump members and russian agents, they are now calling the white house to release transcripts of last weeks meeting to the intelligence committees. People was a pretty clearances on the intelligence committees, people on capitol hill will be finding out the actual specifics of what happened and then people will hear their collective judgment on whether this was a big deal or maybe not as big a deal. Reporter all this is the president is scheduled to meet with turkeys later today at the white house. What are the major topics of discussion the threat from isis. Joe waldman, ktvu fox 2 news. President trump ignored questions about the russians. He was asked about classified information after delivering statements on to. He said he had a great meeting with the Russian Foreign minister and the u. S. Wants to get as much help to fight isis and terrorism as possible. We had a very successful meeting with the foreign minister of russia. Our fight is against isis is general mcmaster said. I thought, and i know he feels we had a great meeting. With the foreign minister. We will have a lot of Great Success over the next coming years and we want to get as many to help fight terrorism as possible. During meetings this afternoon, the turkish president is expected to address his concerns over the was plan to start arming Kurdish Forces to battle isis in syria. To considers the kurdish fighters terrace. The u. S. Senate is scheduled to get a classified briefing about the firing of director combs he the search for the next director continues with President Trump saying he intends to name someone quickly. Some democrats say they will not consider a replacement unless a special prosecutor is in place to look into allegations of russian interference in the election. A white house Spokesman Says at this point the president sees no need for a special prosecutor under any circumstances. There is no need for a special prosecutor. You have two Senate Committees that are looking into this and i think if you look at what the acting director said. He made it very clear they have the resources they need and the work continues. Spicer refused questions about the existence of any tape recordings from the Oval Office Following a tweet from the president referring to tapes of his conversations with james comey. Still had, a nationwide outage affecting people trying to get their morning coffee. What starbucks has to say about that massive morning outage and with the Company Believes caused it. Officer down. It was a call that changed a teenagers life. The story of how tragedy for one Police Department later became an inspiration for a young Police Explorer. A windy and cloudy start to the day but he warm up is on the way. We will bring in meteorologist Rosemary Orozco with more. This is violet. Shes been waiting for this moment for awhile. A moment other kids wouldnt think twice about. Her first bowl of cheerios. Because now that cheerios are gluten free, violet, and many others are enjoying their first bowl today. The computer problem hit a number of starbucks around the bay area. Starbucks is assuring customers it was not hack. Leigh martinez has the story. Reporter this store in danville locked its doors for about an hour during the morning busy coffee rush leaving some regular customers confused as to why they could not get their coffee. A quick check on twitter and you will find other customers at other locations experiencing the same let down. Although a few locations such as one store offered will free coffee outside the store. The official word from starbucks was that a regularly scheduled Technology Update caused some locations in the usa and canada to go offline. Its pretty important. We come here almost every day to get starbucks before we go to school. Yes. I guess we will have to go somewhere instead. Reporter employees at this danville store say that this morning they ended up using an older version of the Technology Update they had to do. Thats how they were able to get the registers running. And getting coffee served to the regular customers again. Starbucks says that not every location has the same login. Some locations will be down longer than others. Leigh martinez, ktvu fox 2 news. There could be a few connection between Global Ransomware attacks and north korea. Investigators say hackers are using leak software from the nsa to lock up computers and then ask for a ransom. One Security Company says some parts of the ransomware called wannacry, the hackers are using, contains the same code as the group behind the sony hacked three years ago that was blamed on north korea. They say its possible the code was simply copied. Some of it is beyond anything weve seen before. That led to infections and potential damage. The software has paralyzed banks come Government Agencies in 150 countries. This started on friday. Hackers are reportedly holding the latest pirates of the carol brady movie for ransom. Disney said someones claiming they have access to a movie and threatening to release it unless the studio pays a ransom in bitcoin. Dizzy did not specifically name the movie but according to reports its the latest pirates movie which is set to open next week. The company said its working with investigators and refusing to pay. The heck is not believed to be related to the recent Ransomware Attack that spread across the world. Hopefully this will be out of here by the end of the day tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow. We are looking at cloudy conditions today. Temperatures are cooler. Here is a look outside our doors. We are dealing with a lot of gray. Its widespread. Even the possibility of a few sprinkles. Here is of you of the numbers. 63, santa rosa. Low 60s in oakland. 59, livermore. 61, san jose. Temperatures are down a few degrees in and around the bay. Livermore down by 5. Areas over concord, 6. Heres a look the system bringing us the cool down. Notice noling california picking up on rain. We may see a few sprinkles but it will not be a big deal. We will remain with the mostly cloudy skies and breezy conditions. Today is likely to be the coolest day. Picking up on some moisture over the north bay. That will slide a little closer. Most of this is not hitting the ground but we cant rule out the possibility of some patchy drizzle today. As we get into the sierra, a little bit of a rain snow mix over areas of donner pass. 12 inches is a possibility. There is a lake wind advisory that begins later today. Here is a look at your afternoon. Not a lot of change. A lot of cloud cover. You are if youre going to see the giants play, its going to be cool and breezy. Even into late tonight, picking up on a little bit of blue over higher elevations. Maybe the Santa Cruz Mountains and the diablo range. Outside of that it will be gray and temperatures will be well below average. Here the afternoon highs. 59, San Francisco. Low 60s in oakland. 66 in santa rosa. 65 expected in san jose. Now to the giants game. Make sure you bring a jacket. Mostly cloudy conditions with a west breeze. 25 miles an hour at times. The wind will let up over the evening but it will be windy getting in and out of the park. 56 degrees at game time. That will continue to call into the evening hours. Here is the extended forecast. Temperatures begin to rebound tomorrow. We will be off to a chilly start. Easy in the afternoon. Temperatures will rain from the low 60s at the coast to low 70s inland. Into the rest of the week, 80s back in the forecast. Mid to upper 80s for inland cities by the weekend. Mid to upper 70s around the bay. 60s expected at the coast. Today will be the coolest day but changes are on the way. And Contra Costa County, another car fire is under investigation following a string of fires in the past week. The most recent happened before 1 30 am on railroad avenue near third street. Chp said firefighters quickly put out the flames and the car was towed away. Investigators say there is no indication this incident is connected to the recent series of suspicious car fires and Contra Costa County where a 36 yearold man was arrested over the weekend and venetia. The developer of the building under construction on the Oakland Emeryville boundary thats burned two times says he believes both fires were deliberately set. Theres an arsonist who does not want this building built and we need to find out who it is and stop them. That is rick holliday. He owns the Development Company in charge of building 105 apartments and retail space. Saturday, a fire spread through the construction site. In july of last year, there was another big fire. The Alameda County Fire Department has not officially said if either case was arson. Investigators are starting at step one. To speak with neighbors and speak with First Arriving firefighters. Two since the july fire, 12 surveillance cameras have been set up. The hope is the cause of the weekend fire was caught on video. City leaders are meeting this week to discuss the flaring of the bolero refinery early this month after a power outage. They had to release chemical builders to prevent an explosion inside the refinery. This guy prompted a nearby evacuation. Officials tell ktvu the city council will hear a presentation about what happened including a timeline of events. Then there is a meeting expected on thursday with various agencies to go further into todays findings. A new bill could have california drivers paying different fines for the same violation. After the break, how your income it may determine how much you pay for a traffic ticket. The dream of owning a home is becoming elusive for many people in california. According to the California Association of realtors, only 1 in 3 can afford to buy a median priced home in the state. In the first quarter, a median priced singlefamily home cost more than 496,000. To make Monthly Payments including principal, interest and taxes on a 30 year mortgage, buyers have to make at least 102,000 a year. The situation Getting Better and Sacramento County were the same homewood cost just under 320,000. Many realtors have reported seeing people leave the competitive bay area Housing Market in search of larger, less expensive homes in more rural and suburban areas. Look at the market right now. Major u. S. Stock indexes wavering between small gains and

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