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KTVU Mornings On 2 September 12, 2013

Now. And a bit of drizzle this morning in some parts of the bay area. You are looking live at San Francisco and the american flag. Not much wind. Zooming out to the bay bridge. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Did you have your windshield wipers going. Yes. So did i. So did steve. Tell us about the weather. Some measurable amounts of rain around. Oakland airport reporting light rain in the last hour. Were caught in between two lows, one there, one there. A little bit warmer today as High Pressure builds in. The higher clouds came in yesterday, that will not happen today. Overcast conditions, a big fog bank out there and a lot of low clouds and drizzle. 60s on the temperatures for almost everybody unless you are up towards lake county or mendocino county. Then theres a few 50s. San francisco on the mild side. When you start off in the 60s, it doesnt take much to go up to 70. Well go 71. Low clouds, fog, then sun, but morning drizzle. A little bit warmer today just by the fact that well lose the higher clouds. Temperatures inland. A lot more 80s than 70s. A lot 70s around the bay. Lets go to sal. Traffic is moderate. Some areas are getting busy. With the bay bridge, we had earlier issues. Pretty minor ones. Theres a backup to the foot of the macarthur maze. 20, 25minute delay. No problems on the bridge. If you are driving onto the upper deck of the bay bridge, a little bit slow coming up to treasure island. I see slow traffic coming around the curve. Wondering whats going on. Livermore valley, slow after some earlier problems. If you are driving to Castro Valley, the traffic very slow. And 880 is super slow. Its backing up into san she andro all the way down to from mant because of earlier fremont because of earlier issues. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. An oakland store is robbed. The suspects were caught on camera. Claudine wong is live at a store on grand avenue with exclusive video with the robbery and why this is a troubling trend. Claudine . Reporter it all happened quickly. Man we saw on video, walks through here, goes through the door and in seconds is out. Take a look at this store. It has surveillance cameras. A couple of them. So all of this was caught on video. Take a look at the surveillance video. You can see a man in a white shirt walking casualty up to the door. The owner of the store was in the back. He says the date and time on the Surveillance System was incorrect. This was last night around 7 30. I was in the back straightening up clothes and, you flow, doing my you know, doing my normal chores close to the closing do you. Reporter the man came up, grabbed the laptop and hes gone. I looked up and i saw someone dashing out of the door. When someone bolts out of the door that fast, its not because their pizza is running in an oven somewhere. Its you know, they are stealing something. Reporter he gets out the door and thats when you can see it appears hes not alone. Another man walking up, watches the first man, run off runs off with him and then you see the owner racing out the door trying to get his laptop back. After he made a lot of noise leaving this business, i rushed out after them and they made a bolted straight across into a getaway car that they had parked waiting at the corner over there on the freeway ramp to go onto 580 westbound. Reporter he says they got into a newer model gold cad look. It took nine minutes, from the first time we see the suspect to when it is over. The owner it still hoping the two are caught, hoping to get the laptop back. Thankfully for the camera, hopefully it will shake some, you know, leaves out of the tree and so we can get these guys and, you know, report them so because these little crimes like this turn into bigger crimes. Reporter Oakland Police agree and since the summer have been trying to crack down on an increase of robberies. They states its in the they say its in the double digits from last year. Theres the entrance to 580. We want over here. Here is where we pan over here. Here is where the store is open. Claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. 7 05. Emergency Radio Communications revealing how fast that big fire on mt. Diablo changed from being a manageable grass fire to an outofcontrol wildfire. Quarter acre mostly contained. Firefighters first believed the fire was almost out. They canceled calls for extra engines. Then, though, the firefighters got called about a second fire burning up the hill. Calfire chief martin says the first firefighters on the scene acted appropriately based on the information they had. The wildfire on mt. Diablo is also raising some concerns now about erosion of the land. Geologists say the ground and fire zone will be at risk for landslides when it finally starts raining since there are no plant Roots Holding the soil in place. Tara moriarty is out there. She will tell us how homeowners are being urged to prepare themselves at 7 30. The National Weather service says theres been a major flash flooding problems in a burn area near boulder, colorado. We just showed you. These are live pictures from boulder, colorado. Incredible picture. At least two people have died already, blamed on the flash flooding there. That car fell off a bridge that had collapsed. The driver was rescued but this is an incredible scene. Classes have been canceled at the university. Some of the students at the university of colorado took this video you are looking at now. You can hear some of them of laking but they were still scared, too. The National Weather service says about between 4 to 7 inches of rain fell in boulder between 7 00 p. M. Yesterday and 4 00 this morning. How high the creek was, how fast it was, how muddy it was and how dangerous it was, it freaked us out. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue people. Even a dog. Heavy rain is still coming down. Theres concerns of more flash flooding. The National Weather service now warning of an extremely dangerous and lifethreatening situation throughout that region. 7 07. Happening today contract talks in the b. A. R. T. Labor dispute are set to resume at 10 00 this morning. The two sides are still far apart with the new strike deadline, one month away. Union leaders are now accusing management of fighting safety citations instead of fixing safety problems. The unions deny they are raising safety issues as a ploy to deflect attention away from their pay and benefit deed demands. I believe that issue, iists exists. We have lost two coworkers. In 2001 and 2008. A spokesperson says management has addressed you all safety issues brought up in these negotiations. B. A. R. T. Workers could walk off the job again if theres no agreement before october 10th. Thats when the coolingoff period ends. Construction problems with the bike path are adding millions of dollars to the already enormous bill for the new eastern span of the bay bridge. Caltrans documents push libbed in the chronicle show design flaws, snap bolts have added up. The estimated cost to fix problems with just the handrailings is nearly 4 million. Currently the bike path only runs a few miles. It will not be linked to Yerba Buena Island until 2016 after the old eastern span is torn down. About a dozen protesters claiming they represent occupy San Francisco theyve settled outside of city hall. The examiner reports they are targeting ed lee claiming he turned his back on the homeless. The protesters say they will say at Civic Center Plaza for at least two weeks. They are being watched by the police. So far no, sign of any problems. The city of richmonds plan to seize underwater mortgages will held to federal court today. This plan would help restructure loans. Wells fargo and Deutsche Bank have sued to block the plan. Facebook may in trouble with the federal trade commission. Theres a government investigation into the companys news privacy policies. The government is trying to find out if facebook violated a 2011 settlement with regulators. The deal called for facebook to get the explicit consent of its users before exposing private information. Facebook plans to update policies with new language in a couple of days. And facebooks stock is going up. Mark zuckerberg says taking the Company Public made it stronger. Yesterday at a conference in San Francisco, zuckerberg said the Lessons Learned during the ipo has led him to run the company differently. Shares were 40 a share since the ipo. A new hightech way to track sexual predators. How it works and what you need to use it. And tread very carefully. That warning issued by russias president Vladimir Putin was in a message in the New York Times. If you are looking at driving in san jose, northbound 101 is slow and so is northbound 280 gets up to the cupertino area. Well tell you why this commute is off to a rough start. San jose had some clear skies yesterday. But the low clouds are in. A lot of 60s. Very damp for many around the coast and bay because of the drizzle. Well talk about that and fine tune your forecast. [ female announcer ] its time healthy gets a dose of happy. New yoplait greek. Byebye, stir. So long, sour. Hello, happy. Its time to lick the lid again. Developing news. Syrias president says hes willing to turn over his chemical weapons. As ktvus Kyla Campbell reports from our washington, d. C. Newsroom, the syrian president says its not because of u. S. Military threats. Kyla . Reporter he says hes willing to give up his chemical weapons because of the of russias proposed plan. This comes as secretary of state john kerry is in swissertland to meet with russian leaders coming up with a game plan to get International Leaders in charge of those chemical weapons stockpiles. The goal, to get the gas out of syria and to a place where it can be destroyed safely. I spoke to several bay area members of congress about the talks. Mr. Putin, now its your credibility at stake. You said you can do this, go do it. Reporter also new this morning weve learned the cia is already giving the Syrian Rebels antitank weaponry like rocketpropelled grenades on top of guns. I did reach out to the white house about assad talking about only getting involved because of russias help and not because of u. S. Threats. Im working on that for 8 15. Kyla campbell. Ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 7 14. Russian president Vladimir Putin in an opinion piece in the New York Times warns americans that a military strike by the u. S. On syria would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. President putin addresses his opinion piece to the American People and their political leaders. He calls on the u. S. To work through the United Nations for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in syria. Vladimir putin writes its alarming that intervention and conflict in Foreign Countries has become commonplace for the united states. A former Airport Security screener at l. A. X. Was arrested on charges he made threats that referred to something worse than 9 11. Heres photos of the 29year old. It was taken from a religious website. The fbi arrested him on the eve of 9 11. Now, agents say he called l. A. X. , warned that the terminals should be evacuated. Well, nothing was found. Later, a bomb squad checked a suspicious package near his apartment in riverside. They say they found a letter saying how much he dislikes the united states. A Church Pastor in florida is facing charges now. Police say that he was caught trying to burn up thousands of copies of the koran. He and the associate pastor were arrested during a traffic stop in mullberry. He was driving with 3,000 copies of the koran soaked in kerosene. He announced plans to burn co rans on the anniversary of korans on the anniversary of 9 11 but decided not to in the past. Reportedly employees of trader joes are being told they will need to find their own Health Insurance last year. Trader joes issued a member saying parttimers will need to use obama care. The company promised to issue a 500 check to those employees to help with the transition. The state of california is selling whole foods claiming they are selling products with pesticide not registered with the state. The California Department of pesticide regulations says to tell a pesticide product in stores, a company must register it with the state to be tested and approved for safe use. The agency says whole foods has not done that. Whole foods say they cannot comment on pending legal issues. Sal, the toll plaza, everybody behaving for you . Well, its backed up there, dave and tori, as it normally is. Its backed up to the maze. Although its Getting Better from the opening of the bridge what has been ten days , Something Like that. Its still a little bit slower. We can add another factor. That would be fall. More people going to school and work. Summer vacations for many are over. You can see how the bridge traffic is itself is slow heading into San Francisco and no major problems. I want to mention the Livermore Valley has had just a bunch of problems. 580 has been slow all the way through. And then were looking at probably one of the slowest commutes in the bay area. That would be 238 and then leading onto 880. Its solid slow traffic all the way to fremont. Were checking on marin county, a crash 101 at ignacio. Clearing. Weve had a lot of problems there. B. A. R. T. , uniand caltran are good options for you. Not reporting any delays. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. A lot of low clouds in place. A few breaks in the clouds. But the big news has been the drizzle. Society jim on twitter said i could hear the drip, drip, drip from the drizzle. Brandon from pacifica said theres a lot of damp conditions. Coast and also the bay. Theres a big fog bank out there. Oakland now starting off, almost everybody in the 60s. Theres a fewer upper 50s. Well go 72 at noon. Tropical i keep saying tropical but associated with the low in nevada brought in this mid and high clouds and that brought a screech to the temperatures warming up. We do not expect the higher clouds today. We have the low clouds up around 2200 feet. They are flying inland. Almost everybody says cloudy conditions or mostly cloudy skies. 60s, 70s and 80s. Well see a warmup today. It looks like by the weekend, especially sunday, another system will move in and that will allow the clouds and fog to regroup. Were kind of stuck in a pattern here. 44 up in tahoe. But 60s almost everywhere you look. Half moon bay 59. Novato 63. 64 livermore, san jose is in there and not much of a breeze. There is a hint, the delta breeze, not nearly as strong as yesterday. There are a few hints there with the loss of the higher clouds. The gray skies mean it will be a mild morning for some. Sierra nevada will deal with the rain. The rain that fell in denver, you did see why right there you can see right there. You can see how it goes, and goes. There is a lot coming up. This is a classic situation for coles. You get a low for colorado. You get a low coming in from new mexico and it wraps around. I spent two years in denver. We have these higher clouds. They will stay up in the Sierra Nevada. Fog, sun, morning drizzle. Muggy. Warmer today by default here because well have more sunshine. Temperatures right on the money yesterday up in clearlake at 90. My source up there, chloe, we try to keep things as accurate as we. Kentfield, 75. Fairfield, 82. Walnut creek at 80. Warmer out towards antioch, berkeley, 71. 78, san jose. 79 santa clara. 60s on the coast. Very mild. I mean it wouldnt take much to warm up a little bit. 70s on the peninsula. And if you can get the sun to breakthrough it might be warmer. It will be on friday. Transition day on saturday. Cooler sunday monday. Were following developing news we first reported less than an hour ago, two teenagers have been gunned down in East Palo Alto. Ktvus janine de la vega is on the scene. Janine, you just talked to one of the shooting victims. Reporter yes. 16yearold boy that lives in this house on farrington way. Im just sort of surprised right now because he was hes on crutches. He was shot in the leg. The bullet went right through it. But he just about two minutes ago left to go to school. He goes to Beacon High School in san jose, an alternative high school. He says that somebody opened fire here on the house that he was standing outside with his 17yearold brother. Police say a shot spotter actually activated and picked up multiple gunshots here in the area. When they arrived, they found the 16yearold and the 17year old brothers inside the bedroom suffering from gunshot wounds. The brother, were told, was hit twice. They are just nonlife threatening injuries. But investigators say it appears that a silver newer model honda is the suspect car and stopped at the house. A latino man then stepped out of the car and started shooting. Heres what the victim had to say he didnt want his face shown, though. We were actually smoking a cigarette and the car stopped where your guys truck is. As soon as we looked and said who is that, we looked over there and he started shooting at us. Reporter what did he do after that . He just left. Reporter at this point, police are trying to track down the suspect. Most likely, they will reinterview both of those shooting victims. Again, nonlifethreatening injuries. I want to show you what happened here. There was another shooting here Labor Day Weekend where the back of this car parked in the driveway was shot at. They say there was also two other shootings on the street. Dont know if they are related. We spoke to the teenagers mother a short time ago. She doesnt know whats going on. Police think this stemmed from a road rage incident. Family members are not sure why police are saying that. Well try

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