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KTVU Mornings On 2 March 8, 2013

The big news from berkeley. A fire at one of the bay areas best known restaurants. This happening right now in oakland. A major crime sweep involving federal agents and local police. A live report coming up. Overnight news froms. The victim of a horrible Home Invasion robbery is now telling his story. More than 100 people have been living in a homeless camp in san jose. They are supposed to clear out this morning but many are still here. What is going to happen. Mornings on 2 starts now. Complete, bay area News Coverage starts right now this is ktvu mornings on 2. Good morning. Welcome to mornings onto. Im dave clark. Im tori campbell. Happening now, in oakland, federal agents and local police are teaming up for a major crime sweep. Brian flores is live from oakland with new information on this developing story. Reporter good morning to you. What we are learning is that this police raid involving Oakland Police as well as United States marshalls, they arrested several people this morning starting at around two on people involved in Violent Crime. This was confirmed when we pulled up about six a large group of officers and some heavy Tactical Gear and armored vehicles. The Police Station served as a regrouping point for the operation which included opd and United States marshalls. Attorneys also involved here as well. They have a command unit based in front of the station also. Its still not clear in terms of the details on this operation but we just confirmed there was a large group of people arrested this morning. We believe the operation continues on for at least right now. Several people involved in Violent Crimes. We are expected to hear from police chief Howard Jordon, he just camen. He is being briefed from Oakland Police on the operation. I did speak with the United States Marshalls Service earlier this morning. They say that the operation should be done earlier this morning. We are expecting video as well, as well as a press conference at 11 30. Again, police chief Howard Jordon just arrived here in oakland. We are expected to hear from him in a moment. Soon as we do we will check back with you here and get more details. One person is dead after being hit by a car while trying to run across highway 273 in san jose. It happened about 8 40 when the victim was crossing the highway near north first street. Authorities sate driver of the car dropped immediately after the accident and called police. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Eastbound lanes of the highway were closed for about three hours. Two lanes of interstate 880 were shut down after a big rig went up in flames. It happened last night just north of 66th avenue. The back of a fully load cisco food truck caught on fire. The driver acted quickly unlooking the burning trailer and pulling forward out of harms way. Time now 7 03, be careful on eastbound interstate 880. Yesterday a box of nails spilled across the American Canyon road onramp. The police dont know how it happened. It took crews 30 minutes to clean up all the nails but be careful. They say at least 20 vehicles were damaged. They need to get new tires. That can cost. Lets check in with sal and see what other traffic problems we are seeing. Just a lot of little things. Today has been a slightly bit better than usual day. Lets go take a look at the good news. This is the bay bridge. Normally we have a big back up, right now its minimal and i have been checking the chp list. We dont have a lot of crashes on the major roads. We have had a couple of side road crashes and an earlier one on 80. Thats been cleared. Lets move to the drive here in San Francisco along northbound 101. There is still a scene at b street, vermont, Castro Valley with an injury crash. Lets go to rosemary. Sunnier skies for friday. Temperatures will warm up slightly over yesterday. Our weather is drying out. That system that brought us the rain finally moving to the south. A live look at the current temperatures, a band of clouds stretching from San Francisco sort of up the i80 corridor at this time. Napa still checking in right at 36 degrees for you. Santa rosa 35, fairfield 35, just a few degrees above freezing. Thats a chilly start. Widespread 40s, we are cleared out but the central and southern portions of the bay area were under mostly cloudy skies, take a look at the time l aps e. Its just been the last hour or two since the system has pulled far enough south to help with the clearing. As i move farther out we have the system out off the coast. Just the north eedge of the wrap around moisture into parts of the valley, san luis ob isp o. We are looking good for today. Temperatures will be up a few degrees over yesterdays high. Upper 50s. Here is the thing. Ridge of High Pressure will start to build in. The difference over the low thats moved out. Will kick up the winds. Itll feel like a cool, breezy day. We will see low 70s with mostly sunny skies as we get into monday and tuesday. Thank you. New this morning, a fire at an iconic restaurant. It happened at chez panisse early this morning while most the damage is to the outside of the building the restaurant will likely be closed for some time. We are on the scene and just finished talking to the owner of chez panisse. Reporter she is very shaken by what happened. She was kind enough to toccatas. I know you just toured the vehicle. I know it was difficult. Tell us how your restaurant looks this morning. I think we are very lucky that it happened in the middle of the night and nobody was there and nobody was hurt. The front porch of the restaurant is completely gone. I mean its completely burned. It happened under the porch somehow. They dont know how. I think it it can be rebuilt. I think its [inaudible] thank you. I think the cafe is intact. The big beams over the building have been saved and so im i feel very like we are very lucky. Reporter i know you said when you walked through it was emotional. Its been here since 1971, a long time. You have been through a fire before and maybe those experiences made you survive this one better. Absolutely. Absolutely. But it brings back all the memories of the fire in 1982. The restaurant [inaudible] 42 years so i know itll rebuild itself. Something is going to change, i dont know what itll be yet but im im just just you know its a reporter its hard. A part of me has burned down but im glad that Beautiful Tree is there. We probably lot of the wisteria on the front of the building. The roses on the side. Reporter but you are not going away. No. We arent. I want people to know that that they just will have to bear with us a little bit but i think i think itll. Reporter i think they will be patient. I hope so. Reporter you have had a lot of support out here. That is alice waters who is the founder, executive chef and author and well known around the world for her work in the kitchen and for this restaurant. Kind enough to join us this morning as she goes over and talks to the many who showed up for work today. Obviously a very emotional. Part of her feels like it burned down but look agent the silver lining, thinking it may be sooner than later that she reopens at least the cafe portion. She said she may make the front porch a little bigger now that she has the opportunity to do that but emotional for her as she surveys the damage and thinks about whats next. Live in berkeley. All right. The clock is ticking in san jose for dozens of Homeless People. The city plans to clear out a homeless camp and force the people out. We are live at the camp on spring street. Reporter there is a lot of movement out here. A man just walked up. Homeless man. He packed up all of his stuff in this grocery cart. You can see also, in this tent and camp behind me they have their tent up but they are packing up all their belongings. Even if we move over to another cluster of trees here you can see a couch, looks like its been abandoned. There used to be a tent here when i was here a few weeks ago and now thats gone. City workers are supposed to arrive with a team of people to clean up about 120 have been living here. Its a very visible to passing cars and the city is worried about sanitation and public safety. They say a lot of trash and debris is collecting. They have been sending outreach workers to help connect the homeless with resources but admit the resources are limited. The project manager of this clean up effort said its better that the homeless move from this particular location even if it is to another camp somewhere else in the city. Want to help people move along. Even if they move to another camp for a shorter period of time we are dispersing the larger camps and breaking down some of the more serious problems. We will track them where they go. We need to try to help them into housing situations that work for them. Reporter workers from the conservation core will be here to start tearing down the tents and the man made structure. The property that they have will be stored for 90 days and then they will be able to claim it. We have seen several dogs out here. A lot of people have pets. They say thats the only friend they have and thats why a lot of them are hesitating to go into shelters and thats why animal control will be out here to make sure, to see if anyone wants to give up their animals. Coming up, we will update you on this situation. Still no sign of the city but when they arrive we will definitely let you know and bring it to you to see if there is a sort of confrontation because when i was speaking to the project manager yesterday he said this is a lot like people feel that they are being evicted because it was their home. Reporting live from san jose. Ktvu chop el 2news. Thank you. Coming up a channel 2 exinclusive. The amount of guns at airports over the past year. And a big change in fighting wildfires. Why the Forest Agency has a new policy to stay away from many fire lines. Theres this island and its got supercute kangaroos. Barrow island has got rare kangaroos. Chevron has been developing energy here for decades. We need to protect their environment. We have a strict quarantine system to protect the integrity of the environment. Forty years on, its still a classa nature reserve. Its our job to look after them. Its my job to look after it. Stocks open higher on wall street this morning with the dow continuing to climb into record territory. Right now its up nine at 14, 33 the. The nasdaq and s and p are basically flat. One of the reasons the dow is higher, new indications that more companies are hiring. Thats the news from the jobs report. The Unemployment Rate dropped to its lowest level in four years. Thats better than economists predicted. About 80,000 more jobs than expected were added last month. That suggests the economy has enough momentum to with stand the blow from higher taxes and deep Government Spending cuts. Thousands of family members, friends, other Police Officers have now paid their last respects to those two fallen Police Officers from santa cruz. More than 8,000 people were at san joses hp pavilion for the public memorial for Sergeant Butch baker and elizabeth butler. Detective butlers partner took the stage. Their oldest son wore his mothers hat. She will live on in spirit through people she had known and touched. The life and the time i spent with her will not be in vain. The sergeants daughter red a her father audi poem she wrote as a little girl. Her brother adam a Police Officer stood by her. If i had to speak one word for you it would be integrity. Though its difficult to sometimes stand against th norm, you do. The governor, state attorney general and former secretary of defense, were among the vips who were there. We have posted much more of the memorial on the channel 2 website. Go to it and you will find video, slide shows, and also information on the scholarship funds that have been set up for the Police Officers children. New this morning, north korea adding more fuel to the tension in the pacific rim. A military rally, north korea also announced its disconnecting a hotline and canceling a nonaggression treaty with south korea. They are furious over tougher sanctions. 21 peace keepers held in syria are still in rebel custody. This amateur video shows them. The rebels had been expected to free them this morning but they refused to hand them over until syria troops pull back. Only on two, a ktvu news exclusive ono security at airports. Some travelers still try to sneak through with guns and other weapons. Scott mcfarland is live in the washington dc newsroom. Reporter take a look at creep. This is one of the guns, a 32 caliber in a carry on bag found by the tsa. Our numbers show at San Francisco Enter International 11 guns have been seized since the beginning of 2012. A tsa spokesman said passengers trying to bring guns through the airport all to frequently. They are banned in the terminal and pose a threat if smuggled on board but a lot of travelers say they forgot to remove them. Security consultants say its a reason why tsa does the screenings. The key is you have to keep the bad guy off his game and the way to do that is random. I have to reassess my whole way of how i will try to beat security. Reporter the reports have knives, grenades in San Francisco and san jose, stun guns, a tsa spokesman said often its just an accident but they turn the cases over to prosecutors. Live in washington. Scott mcfarland. The United States Forest Service has a new polly about fighting wildfires. They were 400 million over budget during last years busy fire season so now it may let more wildfires burn this summer instead of going in and fighting them. That follows criticism they were wasting money fighting fires in remote areas. Critics also say that battling all the fires put firefighters at risk. New, google announced a large number of layoffs in its motorola unit. They are cutting 1200 jobs. Thats more than 10 of its work force. The job cuts will affect workers here in the United States, in china and in india. Google laid off 4,000 employees last year. Months after buying the company. Stock in Pandora Media is up after a better than expected 4th quarter. The Music Service saw shares jump 19 in after hours trading. A ceo also made a surprise announcement. He said he plans to step down when a replacement is found. Raining, in some parts of the bay area. Up next, rosemary will tell us how the weekend forecast is shaping up. Also a new development involving the former lapd officer connected to four murders. Why a camp ranger is now taking center stage in this case. Good morning. Northbound 280 getting up to highway 17. Slow Traffic Building in Silicon Valley. Hello . The words are going this waytheres no way. Oh, the lights came on. Isnt technology supposed to make life easier . At chase were pioneering innovations that make banking simple. Deposit a check with a photo. Pay someone with an email. And bank seamlessly with our awardwinning mobile app. Take a step forward. And chase what matters. A camp ranger said he is entitled to the reward money in the Christopher Dorner case. The ranger was car jacked by the former los angeles Police Officer and later called the police. He said that, that call ended the manhunt and now he wants the entire 1. 2 million reward. Police say dorner killed four people before taking his own life. Vallejo firefighters battled a supermarket fire involving freon. It happened yesterday afternoon. There was a small explosion and a fire. Investigators say 250 pounds of gas from fridge units somehow was released into the air. It forced the store to be evacuated and several nearby businesses. No injuries but for a couple people feeling sick. Want to check in with sal. Keeping a close eye on the roads on friday morning. Some areas have been friday light and that means the bay bridge and you can look at it for yourself and the Golden Gate Bridge too. Southbound traffic looks good and it looks good in marin at the worlds most famous bridge. The slightly lesser known bay bridge at the toll plaza. You will see traffic thats not all that bad. We got a little bit of a delay in the middle lanes. Thats less than five minutes. I think you seeing this you will think i will take that any day of the week. Lets move to 80. Some are held up in slow traffic due to early problems. Its kind of a mess because of an earlier crash at cutting. We want to mention southbound 880 between haywood and fremont we are doing the drive time. Its 20 minutes, which is not all that bad and across the bay on highway 101 between 3840 and 92 its still eight minutes which is ideal time to go through. Our rain event just about over. Giving you a live look at Storm Tracker two, the showers have really diminished even before the sun rose we were watching the dry conditions fill into the bay area. Just a band of clouds from San Francisco, stretching across the bay and into areas like fairfield. I will show you where this system is, off the coast of california and itll make an easterly trek over the next several hours. That wrap around moisture may be clipping just the Northern Edge of the viewing area. Perhaps gilroy, most of us will dry out. Decreasing clouds, seeing it this morning. The winds will pick up. Little breezy for some today. Temperatures slightly warmer but that breeze just may counter balance what temperature difference we see. Expect

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