Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Morning News Early Edition 2012120

KTVU KTVU Morning News Early Edition December 3, 2012

880. We have no delays as we drive past the oakland coliseum. And last but not least we have a look at the san mateo bridge. You can see traffic flowing nicely. 5 00 on the nose lets head back to the desk. We are following breaking news out of livermore. We have been talking about it where a chp patrol car flipped over during a high speed chase. Allie rasmus just arrived on the scene. She will join us a live report on the very latest in just a few minutes. Time now 5 00. We are still on that storm watch and the bay area is still recovering from that big weekend storm that left a lot of neighborhoods reeling and picking up the pieces. That includes lafayette where a big sink in now that is big. A sink hole opened up on Mountain View drive. This is a 20foot sink hole. The road just collapsed after the culvert that diverts creek water under the road clogged up with debris. Cracked the sidewalk and then the road collapsed. And then making matters worse water, sewage, and gas lines are all under that collapsed road. Repair crews will be working to fix it all today. Then the culvert has to be replaced. Reportedly a new bridge will not be built until next spring. This morning people who live in napa county are still keeping a close eye on the napa river but there is good news. The river is expected to stay below flood stage. Still several feet of water are covering a Peach Orchard on deer park road. It looks like we got off pretty easy. We have some flooded vineyards and things like that. And just some washed out driveways. Mount st. Helena was one of the hardest hit areas with four inches of rain in 24 hours. 2200 people still dont have power in the greater bay area. Here are some of the litest numbers from pg e. Now the north bay and east bay have more than 600 customers still without power. South bay outages effecting 595 customers. In the Santa Cruz Mountains 250 are still in the dark. Peninsula and San Francisco have no more than 50 outages each. Time now 5 02. Less than a month to go now. It look Like Congress is no closer to keeping the nation from going over. Timothy indict never says the geithner says the ball is now in the republicans court. Think about this. If we gave the president 1. 6 trillion of new money what do you think hed do with it . Hes going to spend it. What were not going to do is extend the tax cuts to the wealthiest americans. There is no possibility that were going to find a way to get our fiscal house in order without the tax rates going back up. If congress doesnt act by the end of this year, tax rates will go up for almost everybody and across the board spending cuts will take effect. That could plunge the u. S. Economy into another recession. People on both sides of the controversial same sex marriage issue will be closely watching the u. S. Supreme court this morning. Just an hour and a half from right now the high court is due to release another list of cases. Coming up at 5 15 what it will mean if californias proposition 8 is on that list and what it means if its not. Muni and other agencies are thinking about a controversial plan when it comes to their fair rates. Muni is considering basing how much people pay on how much money they earn. According to the examiner some people dont think its fair that people who are struggling to pay their bills have to pay 64 for a monthly pass while Senior Citizens who have more money are only paying 22 for the same fair. Now this newest plan was triggered by the debate over providing free muni passes to low income youth. 5 04 is the time. We are still talking about that accident in livermore. Lets go to tara. This is on 580 eastbound. It happened at flin road. We had a high speed chase involving two chp patrol cars. One ended up flipping over. We saw the officer get out and walk around. Now the pursuit kept going and this reached speeds of more than 100 miles an hour. So allie rasmus is live at the scene and she will let us know how it all ended. Right now we will take a live look at the folden gate bridge. You can see a little mist out there this morning. Very nice commute into San Francisco. 880 near the oakland coliseum. A lot of folks on the road. You can see that traffic is flowing very nicely. Finally in the south bay 237 milpitas traffic again looking good in both directions. Here is steve. Tara, thank you. Impressive totals coming in. I tried to find the heaviest amounts. 15 and three quarters wednesday to sunday. Cazadero 13. Mt. Diablo 10. 25. If you have a total you can always email me or tweet me. There was r there were totals that were impressive from north to south. We get a little bit of a break today. A lot of high clouds coming in. Its a dry monday. Rain returns tuesday afternoon. Then for everybody wednesday but this is not a system that stop the presses or anything. This will be a normal system. One more front and then the pattern will change. Its going to get colder by the upcoming weekend. 40s on the temps. Fog forming. You really need clear skies. Its moving north this system but its still going to drag across us. Partly sunny today though. A lot of high clouds. Overall mostly sunny and partly cloudy skies. Maybe a little bit more cloud cover to the north. 50s and 60s on the temps. High clouds today. Rain starts in the north bay and moves south. But we will still get rain out of it. Clearing on thursday. Looks good friday. The pattern turns cooler on saturday. Time now 5 06. We are going back to this mornings breaking news out of livermore where a chp patrol car flipped over during a High Speed Pursuit that topped speeds of 100 miles an hour. This all happened just after 3 00 this morning on 580 eastbound near flynn road. We have been told two chp patrol cars were chasing a driver when one of the officers lost control and the car the patrol car flipped over. That officer was taken to the hospital to be examined. Allie rasmus is there. Shes been there since 4 30. She will bring us a live update on everything. Right now its 5 07. The south bay woman was viciously attacked. How she managed to turn the tables on her attacker. More controversy surrounding comedian pat williams. Well tell you what happened at a bar in seattle and why she is also in trouble for something that happened in the sacramento area. Heres a look at 101 through San Francisco. Traffic flowing nicely. We will let you know if there are any problems coming up. More problems for cat williams. He was arrested yesterday in seattle. He got into a dispute with a work earn at a bar in seattle. That arrest comes a day after williams was caught on tape slap anglo at a target store near sacramento. Days before that Katt Williams also had a run in with police in downtown sacramento after he almost hit five pedestrians. He was also arrested recently in oakland and had a very public meltdown on stage last month. New this morning secretary of state hillary of clinton warning there is a red line for the United States if syria uses chemical weapons from its several war. Im not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people. Secretary clinton delivered that warning to a visit to a the czech republic. This all follows intelligence reports that the Syrian Military has been moving chemical weapons. The victim of a purse snatching attempt fought off her attacker and chased her down the street. A man attacked the woman as she walked down homer avenue listening to head phones at about 1 00 a. M. Yesterday. He pushed her down and tried to steal her purse. The woman held on even as the man punched her in the face. She kicked him he ran off. The man got away without the purse. San franciscos board of supervisors may be close to a deal to extend the lease of a gun club for up to two years. The compromise comes after efforts to evict the gun club this summer. It could cost as much as 10. 5 million to clean up soil at the site which the club has occupied for almost 80 years. Time is 5 12. Residents living on the peninsula still complaining about the noise from commercial jets landing at sfo. Retired pilots say that probably wont change in the near future despite agreements between lawmakers and the faa. The pilots say they followed the instructions of air Traffic Controllers whos top priority is safety which means keeping the planes specified distances apart. The pilots are adding sfo wasnt built to handle the large amount of traffic it does have on a daily basis. A bike lane a battle is heating up in Golden Gate Park. Coming up at 5 23 why daylight activist want to shut that bike lane down. Same sex couples are eagerly awaiting news from the u. S. Supreme court this morning. Alison burns is in our washington, d. C. Newsroom with what is at stake and when we could hear from the court. Reporter pam within the next few hours we expect to get word from the u. S. Supreme court about more of the cases it will consider this term. The justices met friday to talk about a number of challenges to gay marriage laws. Among them californias ban on same sex marriage proposition 8. Supporters of same sex marriage are hoping the court will decide not to review prop 8. That would mean the Lower Court Ruling would take hold legalizing same sex marriage in california. San Francisco City officials tell us they are ready to perform marriages as soon as tomorrow. We will be ready with volunteers that we already have in place and volunteers who are being trained today. Well have a onestop shop for anyone who wants to get married. Reporter and we are waiting for word from the court. Well bring it for you here on channel 2. Reporting live from washington, d. C. Alison burns ktvu channel 2 news. Last night president obama congratulates zone people honored for seven people honored for their lifetime culture. Among the honorees ballerina natal yeah. David letterman. Dust tin hoff man. And the surviving members of led zeppelin. Time now 5 14. Lets check in with tara. We have that big accident in livermore that looks like that scene has been moved over to the shoulder. Eastbound traffic should be flowing okay on 580. Allie rasmus will have an update on the high speed chp pursuit. Now lets head outside. We can take a live look at sf. This is 101. You can see there are no delays on the left hand side there as you make your way toward downtown. And we have a look at highway 4. This is is through the bay point area. The headlights there are folks heading westbound toward concord no delays. And finally 280 in san jose you can see traffic flowing well in both directions. Here is steve. Thank you, tara. Very good morning. Things are quiet today. Rain returns tomorrow. Sergio up in rom picot 13. 50. And oakmont 9. 25. The next system will spread rain in tomorrow. Again the air is very saturated. Dry monday. Fog forming. North bay mainly. Rain returns tuesday. Then tuesday night into wednesday it will move south. It will make it all the way to san jose but its a weaker system. But still any rain on top of what we had is not good. Much, much cooler air mass. I think after you noticed it yesterday. 2 00, 3 00 hey man these are warm systems. Napa 39. There is a lot of 40s around. Temperatures noticeably cooler than what we had. These are mid pacific systems. These are warmer systems though. But again they are not coming out of the gulf of alaska. So they hold more moisture. Partly sunny today patchy fog. Partly sunny and partly cloudy. 50s and 60s on the temps. The days are oh so short now. Well have rain returning to the north bay. Tuesday night into wednesday. Clears out thursday looks good friday. And to me it looks like a cold windy pattern. Pam. Thank you, steve. In Business News european markets are up after a positive report out of china. It shows manufacturing is expanding in china for the first time in more than a year. Despite that China Shanghai composite index fell more than 1 . Hong kongs market fell more than 1 . But taiwan, coke, and jay south korea and japan finished strong. For here as you can see pretty small moves on friday. Auto makers report their november sales today and analysts are mixed with con qum consumers say they are getting stingier with their spending. Time now 5 17. There was an attack by a dolphin at sea world. Well tell you what happened to a child and why there is a demand for sea world to make changes. Has john mcafee been captured . The latest on the millionaires run from police. You can wake up with ktvu every morning. Get the top stories that developed while you were sleeping sent straight to your cell phone every weekday morning at 6 00 a. M. Get your wake up call by texting the word wakeup to 70123. E these fancy wireless receivers. Blah blah blah. If i had a sleepover, i couldnt just move the tv into the playroom. No. We had to watch movies in the den because thats where the tv outlet was. And if dad was snoring on the couch, we muscled through it. Is she for real . Your generation has it made. [ male announcer ] the wireless receiver only from at t uverse. Get uverse tv for 29 a month for six months. Rethink possible. At sea world in florida a dolphin bit an eightyearold girls hand. The girls father was running a video caught it all on video. Posted it on youtube. Right there. Now the dolphin bit the little girl while she was feeding it a piece of fish. She was not seriously hurt but the girls parents say they posted that video online because they want sea world to make some changes. A couple things one maybe have a different way to feed the dolphins because the dolphins on a ledge that have a different type of container that is as alluring. And increase the minimum age requirement. While sea world released a statement. Educators and animal care staff are always there on site monitoring all of their exhibits. A bike lane here at Golden Gate Park are style cyclist ride between parked cars and the sidewalk along 1. 5 miles of john f. Kennedy drive. The speeds of both the cars and bikes have dropped more than two miles an hour. But disability activists say it cuts off their access to the sidewalk. So now they are thinking about taking legal action to completely shut down that bike lane. The weekend storm brought major problems to the south bay and that had utility workers and Law Enforcement working overtime. Several trees came down on to power lines and there was also major flooding at several parks. A man, woman, and child were stuck in their car because of flooding on east capital expressway in milpitas. Many people now say they are stocking up on sandbags to prepare for the next storm. Well, i was cooking and look out on the street and there was flood on the park. And it reminds us many years ago in the mid 1990s and we got flooded there. In Mountain View a try also went down on to an apartment with one limb poking right through the roof. Rain is predicted to hit the south bay tomorrow night and wednesday. Our time now 5 23. Despite reports he was arrested it appears that tech mogul john mcafee is out there on the run. Police in belize reportedly told the daily mail mcafee is still nowhere to be found. Police called mcafee a person of interest in the murder of his neighbor. Mcafee says he fears the police want to kill him. Back here at home an Oakland Company as won the right to provide School Lunches to students in 114 schools in San Francisco. Revolution foods won the competitive process. Its a 9 million deal that still requires school board approval. Revolution foods builds itself as a healthier, fresh food alternative but costs more than other providers. Students in five states will be spending more time in school. Select schools in colorado, connecticut, massachusetts, new york, and tennessee they are all scheduled to announce today they are adding 300 hours of class time to the school calendar. They have not said if they plan to make the School Day Longer or extend the school year. Supporters of the extra class time say it will help those students that are struggling and allow for a more well rounded curriculum. Time now 5 24. Tara is back. What happened on the Altamont Pass . We had that earlier accident weve been talking about. A high speed chp chase where a patrol car flipped over allie rasmus will be live on the scene in a few minutes. Right now lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. There is very little backup. It will change within the hour. And in oakland a shot of 880 the headlights are those heading southbound toward hayward. And 680 near the sunol grade southbound traffic on the right hand side there again same story. No delays to report. 5 25 here is steve. We have a little quieter pattern. I think its well deserved. We dont get out of this pattern completely yet there will be one more system coming in late tuesday and into wednesday. But a lot of high clouds today overall highs 50s and 60s. Watch out for patchy fog. Especially toward santa rosa and napa. Otherwise a break today and well have more coming up in our sevenday including a pattern change. Time now 5 25. The special guests today in sacramento as state lawmakers open a new session why one of their first actions will be to honor a bay area boy scout. And repair work will continue later this morning out here in lafayette at the scene of a huge sink hole that opened up as result of heavy rain. Well tell you how long it will likely take to rebuild this roadway. Very latest on this developing story. A chp cruiser flips over. It happened during a high speed chase in the east bay just hours ago. And quite weekend. I would agree. That was very impressive. Were getting a little bit of a break. There is one more system that has to come in. It will be a weaker system. Highs 50s and 60s. More on the impressive totals we had and more of the system. Down in the south bay 280 at the 880 split. The headlights are 280 northbound traffic. No delays. 5 29 lets head back to the desk. Chp patrol car that flippedover and crashed. Allie rasmus is out there. You have new information about what happened. Good morning, ali. This happened on eastbound 580 a couple of hours ago. Right between the greenville road exit and north anyone road exit. Right in the middle of the Altamont Pass. Chp officer ended up crashing his patrol car. Preliminary information we have is that the officers injuries were minor.

© 2025 Vimarsana