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KTVU Mornings On 2 June 3, 2014

In San Francisco. Thats where ktvus Tara Moriarty is. In two minutes well have more information, Important Information for commuters. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. I im tori campbell. Im brian flores. Lets get your day started with weather and traffic. Steve. A lot of low clouds. No doubt about it. Temperatures will stay on the cool side, especially away from the coast. Only 70s for many. Local drizzle. I know we have some on the san mateo coast and a lot of low clouds and fog in place that wont get chewed you. Temperatures coast, bay staying in the 50s and 60s, including downtown oakland. 66 for a high. Thats only one warmer than yesterday. All of these temperatures will be below average. Really on the cool side. 50s here. You combine that with a west wind gusting to 30 out of travis which it has been doing all night long. That will keep temperatures inland nms you are in lake county. You will get 80s. Otherwise, 50, 60s, 70s. Fog, sun, breezy, windy. Below normal temperatures. Dont see much of a change until later in the week. Today, temperatures on the cool side for many. Heres sal. We have a sleart on highway 4. I have a map westbound highway 4 as you come up on bailey road. A motorcycle crash and traffic is backing up into pittsburg and antioch. Watch out for slow traffic in this area. I want to switch to the eastshore freeway here between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. You can see traffic is backing up for a 26minute drive time. Your average speed is 45 miles an hour. Bay bridge toll plaza, 25 minute drive time as you drive through there. There are no major problems. You will see a lot of slow traffic in the area. Livermore valley, 580 westbound, we have another one of those commutes, thats becoming kind of the norm with the drive time up near an hour between grant line road and the 580 680 interchange. Its 7 02. Back to the desk. We begin with developing news this morning. Day two of the muni sickout. Another day of delays for thousands of commuters. Weve learned that only about half of munis 600 buses and trains will be out on the streets today. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us live from San Franciscos west portal neighborhood. Tara, good morning. Reporter well, good morning. Yeah, buses and street cars are gonna be stopping at every stop today. They wont skip any. All of the buses are very full. Behind me you can see the west portal station. They have a sign that tells you when the next train will be coming in. A lot of people have been sprinting this morning. They know if they dont catch the train, it will be a while before the next one comes. Joining me live is a muni spokesperson, paul rose, to tell us more about whats going on this morning. I know theres no Cable Car Service this morning. Thats correct. Theres no Cable Car Service this morning. We certainly apologize for the inconvenience to the riders. Its something that we are working hard to address. Reporter about half capacity right now . About half capacity. Normally about 600 runs that go out in the mornings. We have 300. We have about 100 more vehicles on the street than yesterday. But thats still only half capacity. Reporter youve been tweeting. I notice every couple of minutes you are putting out advice about no walking or biking. We want to make sure the customers are getting information. This is important to our riders. Its important to the city of San Francisco. We want to make sure that people are getting this information. Reporter as far as the contract goes, are you commenting on that at all or whats going on . Have you heard anything about tomorrow . Were doing everything we can to get the operators back to work. We hope that they get back soon so we can provide the service to our customers. Reporter thank you for joining us live, paul rose. Basically, the mta, you know, has this new contract on the table and muni is the workers are saying they are unhappy with that because even though it gives them a pay raise, it any gates the pension they get anythingate negates the pension. We know that muni workers are among the highest paid in the nation earning 32. They say with the high cost of living and Everything Else its just not enough. So it will be interesting to see exactly where the negotiations go from here and what tomorrow holds as for as our evening and morning commute. Well keep an eye on your commute. You can see another train pulling in. This one does no the appear to be too packed. So far, not too crazy. It was pretty much mobbed yesterday. I dont know if the word has gotten out and people are preparing better. Well stay with you throughout the morning. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you for the update. If you plan to take muni this morning, we tant to hear about your commute. Tweet us or message us on facebook and follow us both places for the latest on this developing story. 7 05. Happening today its election day here in california. Polls have just opened for voters to cast ballots including the governors race. Christien kafton is live in oakland where Governor Brown is set to cast his vote in the next 15 minutes. Good morning, christian. Reporter good morning. Were here at oakland fire station 6. As you said, the polls just opened here. This is our first voter of the morning. She just arrived here in the last couple of minutes. Jerry brown set to cast his ballot later on this morning. Election workers ready for the primary. Now, we have new video of the election workers getting this site ready but there are concerns that without a major issue on the lott, voter on the ballot voter turnout might be low. For the first time, voters will be using a primary election system that ignores Party Affiliation and sends the top two voters to the ballot regardless of their party. The Sacramento Bee says whoever faces brown will have a formidable challenge, hes leading in every poll. Has a 99 chance of being re elected this fall. Todays election will determine who he will be facing. Tim donnelly says hes cautiously optimistic that he will come ahead of neil kashkari. The two republican front runners are in a dead heat. Voters in the south bay will be setting the stage for the san jose mayors race. The top two vote getters will face off in noefern. Sam liccardo and dave core tease are leading in the poll. Madison nguyen is in the running and could be the first vietnamese mayor if elected. This is the American Dream im living in. The current direction of city hall where weve lost lost 450 Police Officers and crime has been up. Reporter the polls open here in oakland. This voter getting ready to drop off her ballot. Were expecting Governor Brown within the next 15 minutes or so. Were hoping to talk to him about the voter turnout and who his possible opponent could be in november. Well monitor the results. For now were live in oakland, Christien Kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. One of the most closely watched races in the bay area is the primary race for the 17th congressional district. An attorney who served on president Obamas Administration is challenging mike honda for his seat in silicon valley. He has the support of many tech executives including Sheryl Sandburg and marissa mayer. Honda has strong support from labor groups. Were talking the race for californias secretary of state. Seven candidates are in the race, including Pete Peterson and alex padilla of van nuys. Leland yees name is still on the ballot, but the suspended state senator dropped out of the race after being indicted on bribery and illegal weapons charges. Polling places opened a few minutes ago at 7 00 and will stay open until 8 00 tonight. Anyone in line by 8 00 p. M. Will be able to cast a vote. If you received a ballot in the mail, its too late to mail it in but you can drop them off. We have a complete section at ktvu. Com. Federal monitors will be stationed in two bay area counties for todays election. The Justice Department says monitors will be at polling stations in alameda and napa counties to check for compliance with the Voting Rights act which prohibits discrimination based on race or language. Monitors have observed elections in Alameda County since 2011 to make sure those voters who have trouble speaking english can still cast a ballot. The coast guard is searching for a missing voter whose boat sank near the Golden Gate Bridge. The boat was discovered on the north side of the bridge near sausalito. They have been searching kirby cove since yesterday. The man left from alameda yesterday morning and was headed for hawaii. His trip was cut short when his boat sank for unknown reasons near the Golden Gate Bridge around 4 00 yesterday morning. Divers were able to confirm the name of the boat but the search continues for the man on board. We have no plans of discontinuing or putting the search on hold. The coast guard has not we leased the name of released the name of the boater. Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will introduce new gun control legislation. Its in response to last months dead lay massacre in isla vista. This bill would allow a family to go to court to obtain a temporary restraining order to prevent someone from buying a gun if theres concern about that persons mental health. The pause for safety act would allow police to temporarily confiscate any firearms the person may already own. The killer of Elliott Rodger had concern about his mental sta bill till for the rampage. That stability for the rampage. That led to a welfare chauch check at his apartment. A. A San Francisco political consultant is behind bars. The suspect is in custody. Forced to stake a pregnancy test. The controversy policy at a bay area jail thats prompted a lawsuit. Good morning. Right now, traffic is going to be a little bit slow in some areas. As you drive on 237, you can see its slowing down at zanker road. Well tell you about some of the drive times in the east bay. Sunny for some. But a lot of low clouds and fog out there. Well keep temperatures by low normal. I will show you how much below normal coming up. Ahhh, hmmm, awww hi georgia. Hey georgia. Man this is hot try jacks hottest sandwich yet. His new blazin chicken sandwich has spicy crispy chicken, ghost pepper ranch sauce, and sliced jalapenos. Owww, thats hot you better be holdin a sandwich. Teacher layoffs. And a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. Thats what john perez faced when he became speaker of the california assembly. So he partnered with Governor Brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. For the first time in thirty years. Today, the deficits are gone and weve invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. Now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. Democrat john perez for controller. It is 7 13. The American Civil Liberties union has filed a lawsuit against the Alameda County Sheriffs Office. The suit targets a Sheriffs Department policy requiring that every woman under 60 in its custody take a pregnancy test. Susan harman is one of three women claiming an invasion of privacy in the aclu suit. She was forced to take a pregnancy test after being arrested of the oscar grant protest four years ago. We all had to pee in a cup. Did you know why you were doing that . They said it was a pregnancy test. I said im 69 years old. Im pretty sure im not pregnant. A Department Spokesman tells ktvu the Sheriffs Office has not yet been served the lawsuit and declined to comment. 24 million kids saw ads for e cigarettes during the last two years. And that could lead to the kids trying the Electronic Devices according to a study published in the medical journal. The art kearl says many ads were seen on cable tv but others were shown during Popular Network shows, including big brother, the survivor and the bachelor. Ads from traditional cigarettes have been banned from tv since 1971. A new report finds that 16 of teachers in some of the Largest School districts missed nearly a month of school each year. The National Council on teacher quality says this could hurt progress and cause the districts money. There are nine districts in the country with more than 50 of teachers frequently absent. In San Francisco, 41 of teachers are frequently absent. San jose, that number is 45 . A move is underway to make San Francisco the first city in california to require the private schools undergo earthquake safety tests. City supervisors are expected to vote on the long debated proposal sometime this summer. This would require San Franciscos private schools join Public Schools in undergoing regular tests to make sure the buildings could withstand a big quake. Some private schools have expressed concern about the cost of the tests and the retrofitting that could follow. The csu system is set to hire 700 new faculty members across all of its universities next year. This comes after the passage of prop 30 and a 125 million hike in state funding. Each Cal State University school will decide how best too use the money. The chancellor in san jose state says hes making hiring full time a priority. During the recession, most were forced to furlough classes and cut classes. Drivers in eastern Contra Costa County will face a new obstacle to overcome during the overnight nice. Westbound highway 4 will be lowed from laurel to hillcrest in antioch. It will be shut down for construction between 10 00 at night until 4 00 in the morning. Tonight and tomorrow night. The closure is part of a project to create a new connector ramp between highway 4 and highway 160. There will be another freeway closure in brentwood at san creek road tomorrow night through thus morning. 7 16. Speaking of highway 4, there was an accident that happened just a few minutes ago. Sal, whats going on . A motorcycle crash. The chp has issued a sigalert for highway 4 westbound at bailey road. Theres also slow traffic there as well. So its not just the one crash. It is going to be still clearing and there was a crash at loveridge road. We have a messed up commute here. Now the sigalert, they have updated it at they are making some progress but the traffic, the damage is already done, i should say. Now as we move over to 680 southbound, its backed up from 242 as you head to walnut creek and then we look at 580, we have quite a drive time this morning of almost an hour coming in from the grant line road exit to the 580 680 interchange. Thats some significant slow traffic there. Lets take a look at the san mateo bridge. We have a lot of slow traffic here heading out to the high rise. Bay bridge toll plaza, about a 25 to 30minute drive time between oakland and the San Francisco side of the bridge. Now lets go to steve. All right, sal. Thank you a lot of low clouds. A big fog bank in place. A strong westerly breeze for some. Its a very chilly morning. Yesterday, the wind was howling. I had a facebook message from rick. Took their back yard table and sent it flying. I believe that. The normal high low for june 3rd. Today will be about 60 51. They will be running near average for the low. If you dont have the fog and low clouds, you probably have a cool morning and a decent breeze. The fog is not going anywhere except it heads back to the coast. It came roaring back in yesterday. San francisco, 51. Close to the average for the lee. But 60 on the low. But 60 on the high side. I know theres a lot of fog even some drizzle. Daly city down to el granada, half moon bay, daly city, drizzle there. El granada, drizzle there. 50s on the temperatures there. Still getting gusts to 30 at travis. Thats a sure sign. Its a sea breeze. You can see the fog. A little bit of clearing maybe off the mendocino coast. Except for lake county and mendocino county, inland temperatures in the 70s. Too hard to get the 80s in lake county. 88 yesterday. But the front kind of cooled those areas down this time of year. Other locations. 70s. Local drizzle, below normal temperatures. Temperatures will stay on the cool side except towards areas that are far inland and dont have much in the way of fog. Vacaville, 59. Kentfield, 72. Walnut creek, 76. 67 hayward. Very cool 70s. Morgan hill, gilroy, santa clara, 75. 60s or very low 70s on the peninsula and the extended outlook has more fog but getting less and less burning off sooner. As we head towards friday saturday and temperatures inland will warm up. All right. Thank you, steven. 7 20. Using an indoor atm after hours may not be as secure as you think. In 20 minutes 2 investigates looks at the loophole that makes it easier for criminals to get inside. From your health to your home security. The cool new features announced at appless Worldwide Developers conference. Thank you thank you dedicated bankers born to go the extra mile. Youve been such a big help. Its what i like to do. So you can choose a bank where helping people comes first. Chase. So you can. 7 22. Director oliver stone is bringing the story of Edward Snowden to the big screen. The movie is faced on the book the snowden files, the inside story of the worlds most wanted man. It will explore how snowden found his values at odds with the government and went on to release documents detailing the nsas domestic spying efforts. The movie is scheduled to start shooting before th

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