Celebration is underway. Claudine wong and misteaching town San Francisco 2015 take us on a tour of the historical neighborhood. Plus, greeting cards with a twist. We are talking to the creators of bald guy greetings about putting some humor in your next celebration. Nowhere prettier, guys. A gorgeous, very warm monday. President s day holiday. I am guessing a lot of you are relaxing at home instead of trying to beat the clock getting to work and school, et cetera. We are so thankful you chose to spend your morning with us on ktvu mornings on 2 the 9. I am Gasia Mikaelian alongside mike mibach and sal castaneda. Twin peaks. Yeah, to see the sunrise. Yeah. After a long night. They are like transit parking, see the meter park. The active part. No, no, no. We will talk about that later. Maybe not. Welcome back. Mornings on 2 the 9 starts on a gorgeous monday morning. No rain for the next couple of days. This quick break in the rain is all right by me. Today is president s day. So bart and muni are on holiday sorry, saturday schedules. Ac transit on a sunday schedule. So most transit systems are just a little different. San trans on a regular schedule today. The news that came up over the weekend. The unexpected death of antonin scalia. It touched off a political war in washington as who to who will replace him. His death is a shock. Mourners are leaving candles, flowers and cards at the steps of the Supreme Court with questions about what happens next. President obama promised to appoint a replacement in his third selection for the court. That requires approval from the Gopcontrolled Senate where republicans say they will not sign off during a president ial election year. I believe that the next president should fill this vacancy. President makes the appointment. Senate confirms. Lets get on with that business. The court meantime will continue to function, but with just eight justices a tie could leave important decisions in limbo where they would revert to lower court rulings. California attorney general Kamala Harris is a number of people being floated as potential Supreme Court tomorrow knees. Harris is running for the u. S. Senate seat of retiring senator barbara boxer. She previously served two terms as San Franciscos district attorney. Among the other potential nominees are two federal Appeals Court judges from california. Jacqueline nguyen and paul watford. Nguyen sits on the u. S. Court of appeals for the 9th circuit. She would be the first Asian American on the Supreme Court. Watford was once a federal prosecutor who served as a clerk for Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg and u. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch may be on the list. Of course, this is causing a big political controversy, i guess you could say. Who the next person is going to be. Who gets to nominate. Lets bring in brian, who is our political expert. Already a fight as to whether or not president obama will, you know, do this, and if the senate will block it. Isnt it interesting that the modern state of things is that somebody passes away and within hours there is already a debate or a fight over who is going to be appointed and then go through the nomination process . We heard from marco rubio saturday night referring to 80 years of precedent that president obama here should not pick who is going to be on the Supreme Court before he leaves office. There have been several instances since 1900 in which a president in his last year has appointed someone in this position. There is no precedent that says obama should sit on his hands. Something else. If you are the president and youre leaving office, do you not want to put your imprint on the court . I mean, he has two justices that were appointed or nominated and appointed during or confirm, i should say, during his time. Of course, he is going to put somebody forward. But will the senate be able to effectively block it . Probably. Oh, yes. Cruz says he is going to filibuster. Yeah, its going to be a tough fight. It depends on who is appointed by the president and whether they can make it through the confirmation process. Thats going to be drawn out for quite some time. And they are going to play the clock out if they can. How about a little History Lesson for me . Have patients always appointed someone who could achieve their political ends . The question is, has the Supreme Court really ever been impartial . These days it seems it swings one way or the other. Its been made up of conservatives and liberals for many, many years. In this case, mike, if the president wants to get somebody through the senate, he has to find a consensus candidate. Otherwise we will run the clock out before the president leaves type scenario. Saying that, the court can make rulings with four or eight justices . Absolutely. A lot of topics to talk about. But then they are likely in a deadlock. Yeah. It would flip back. But the thing to remember is that it isnt always four against four or, you know, some justices and many over the years have taken positions that would be considered counter to what they were confirmed for or confirmed with their judicial philosophy. So you dont always know. It comes down to the issue. What kind of appointment do you expect the president to make . You know, he has been hes pushed diversity. So you may find that its a person of color. Could be another woman that would be nominated by the president. Well see. Come november, i have a question with regards to this thing extends to the election and the gop or whoever the nominee is for the Republican Party fights this. Could this hurt them in the election come november fighting the nomination if president obama doesnt depending on who and what their judicial philosophy is. That will be interesting to watch, mike. It can become a part of the president ial race. Over the weekend there was a heated republican debate. Coming up voters head to the polls. That as the president candidates doubling down in states. Republicans recovering from the raucous debate saturday night. Donald trump and jeb bush went at it again and again. Bush said he was pleased with his performance. Trump complained the audience, wife booed him several times, was stacked with bush supporters. The two Democratic Candidates campaigned in las vegas over the weekend. I want you to understand that i am running for president because i believe with all my heart that our nation can be just as filled with opportunity for my granddaughter and yours as it ever was for any of us. How we gonna pay for this proposal to make public colleges and universities tuition free and to lower student debt . Ill tell you how. We are gonna impose a tax on wall street speculation. The democrats and republicans switched states after saturday. Nevadas Republican Caucus is february 23rd. South carolina democrats head to the polls for their primary february 27. One. Things that surprised me in the debate on saturday, from what i saw, i didnt watch the entire thing, but was basically what we saw there. That split screen of trump and bush. It seemed like donald trump spent a lot of energy going after jeb bush. A guy who in the pos, look at it, he is destroying him. Why spend so much energy on jeb bush there . It appears to me though dont like each other. But the bush family has always done well in South Carolina. And i think this is trump trying to drive the nail into the proverbial coffin of jeb bush. If he doesnt win South Carolina, he is on the bubble. Is the Republican Party going to change . In other words, the bush people, the far right are being attacked by one of their own potential nominees. Is this a sign that the party is actually going to move a little bit more to the middle at some point . They have to. And thats also true on the democratic side as well. You can be hard left, hard right. But eventually you have to come back to the middle because you have to grab independence. The people from the other start party that may put you over the top, you have to come to the middle eventually. What you say in a primary is often held against you in the general election. Thats why you see clips from the debate in the primary, because you have had to attack a certain way to attract voters. I dont see cruz coming back to the middle. Cruz is not an example of that. But you may see others doing that. But saturday night though was a good compare and contrast debate. Less people on the stage. Pretty meaty, when you think about it. And the guy that continues to impress, you know, probably wont end up in the mix, is john kasich. He is brilliant. He knows everything. Hes been there. He has balanced budgets. Nice showing in new hampshire. Yeah, great showing in new hampshire. He does have some support . Absolutely. And as he pointed out, he did 106 town halls in new hampshire. And he is doing more town halls. Problem is he does not have a ground game in South Carolina right now to speak of and lacks money and other things. Politics is such a momentum business. Maybe he catches fire at the last decision. Cold last week. Hot next week. Exactly. All right. Brian, thanks very much. Appreciate the conversation. Yep. This week is random acts of kindness week. It turns out there are a lot of people who are getting ready with the program. Maybe already doing it. I bought a cup of coffee for a guy in line today. His name is dave. Okay. Anyways. In fact, 65 of people surveyed say they could a random act of kindness every day. 83 say they do so at least once a week. And 93 say they have been kind to a random stranger at some point. The app makers say their survey found the most meaningful acts of kindness are leaving a generous tip, paying someone elses bill, or taking flowers to a nursing home. In honor of acts of kindness week we wanted to know have you been on the giving end or maybe the receiving end of a random act of kindness . Dave got a cup of coffee at peerless coffee today. Have you received Something Like that . Or do you choose to do gestures like that in your everyday life . Use the hashtag ktvuthe9. Remember when we used to rewind vhs movies . I dont know if that counts. All right. Coming up on rewind. Coming up on mornings on 2 the 9, right now family and friends are searching for missing man from alameda. Up next the grammy clues that is giving them renewed hope. I hear that Sports Illustrated has photographed some of the most beautiful women in the world. Now its releasing a first of its kind cover. The first for the magazines 50 plus year history. We will look at that cover coming up a bit later on. all with worryfree ownership. Colors in your neighborhood. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Shift your thinking about buying your next one. Family and friends of a missing man from alameda have resumed their search for him this morning. Its a days thats complicated by the fact the man owes a huge sum of money, 100 million plus. Janine de la vega with the new clue that has given the family a little bit of hope here. Janine. Reporter well, mike, they are hopeful. They just really dont know what happened. They are not sure if their father, john beck, reached a breaking point. They know that he had legal troubles. His Adult Children said they were willing to support him. So all theyre doing right now is theyre passing out this flyer with his picture on it here at lands end park. This is near the scutaro pass area near point lobos. They say he was last spotted here. And its because this Instagram Photo was the latest clue the family received last night. They say it shows 73yearold john beck wearing the floppy hat that he often wears walking along the coastal trail at lands end park. It was taken last tuesday. The day he disappeared. The photo prompted the family to search the trails this morning looking for any sign of beck. Relatives also discovered that he had done a Google Search of scutaro bass and the beach area the day before he appeared. He was dropped off for meeting last week that he never went to. Soon after a photo surfaced of him about to board a bart train headed to San Francisco. The family is looking into using search dogs. Right now they are contacting different people who do search and rescue dog stuff. So we have a bunch of his clothes. We are gonna have the dogs as soon as we can get some dogs that were gonna have them come out and look along the trail and smell and see if they can get his scent anywhere. Reporter there is speculation that beck may be on the run because he owes 113 million. These infomercials show beck advertising his get rich real estate scheme. He was sued by the federal trade commission and filed bankruptcy, but the family says the case in the appeals process has been going on for four years, and they say that beck didnt seem despondent. They are very concerned because he had little money on him. He has not used his credit cards or cell phone since he disappeared. A missing persons case has been filed. They say they havent received too much information from police. A little while ago we did see some park police out here and they told the family that they would help out and pass some of the flyers out, too, to help as well. Janine, do you know who took that picture . Does the person who took the picture know anything else . Was it a random, inadvertent picture . Reporter they did a graham search for regions. Like putting in point lobos, and thats how the grammy picture, i guess it was hashtagged or Something Like that. They did contact the man who took the picture and he says that, yes, he remembers seeing a man that looks like this man in the flyer, john beck, and he said that he was going to give them the rest of the pictures that he had taken because the man who took the picture was taking a picture of the golden gate bridge. He says beck just happened to be walking through. They hope anybody who may have been out there that day last tuesday, maybe they took pictures. Thats why were walking the trail, talking to anybody on the trail, showing them the picture to see, hey, did you see that man. I talk about instagram. Along the social media platforms, the missing john beck community page, a lot of interest on facebook. I know they contacted me and a bunch of other reporters on twitter a week ago saying our dad is missing. Help get the word out. So social media already with that instagram picture, appears to be making a bit of a difference. Reporter yes. It definitely has. They set up that facebook page, missing john beck. They say they have been getting a huge response. More people have been telling them this morning they are going to come out and help do a search for him. But they just want to keep his name and his face out there just because they are at a loss and they are desperate. Janine de la vega live in San Francisco near lands end. We are also following other top stories around the bay area. Lets go to dave clark. Sal, thank you. Here is some of the other top stories we are following right now. Comcast cable has been hit with a major power outage. I want to show you a map showing you in red all of the outage reports starting about 7 a. M. Our time. You can see the bay area and Pacific Northwest have been hit. Also the east coast, the southeast, and the chicago area also affected. This outage appears to be affecting Television Service more than the internet service. We have been trying to get a comment from comcast. So far we have not reached anyone as yet. Meantime, a Memorial Service has been announced for Richmond Police officer Augustine Gus vegas. He was shot and killed last week during a domestic dispute at his home in vallejo. The Memorial Service will be friday at the richmond memorial oughttoriam 403 civic center plaza. It is open to the public. It starts at 10 00 a. M. Officer vegas was a 15year police veteran, a respected member of his community. Police arrested a 30yearold man who was the father of one of vegas grandchildren. The Police Department established a gofundme account. More than 15,000 has been raised so far. A strange incident at the golden gate bridge. Two people say they were hit by blow darts. Here is a photo of one of those darts. The victims say they were hit walking across the gold gate bridgewater. The chp says the first person said it hut his thigh and penetrated to two inches. A second victim walked up and said she had been hit by the dart in the kneecap. Both were treated at the scene. Investigators now are checking surveillance video. They say the darts were probably fired from a car heading northbound in the lane right next to the pedestrian sidewalk. Gasia, mike, sal, back to you. Thank you. Coming up on mornings on 2, a story i love. Perhaps your valentines day was full of heartbreak. How you can exact revenge on your ex while exception helping outargued store at the same time. That was a very is energetic read. You want to get back at somebody. Muni and a lane of traffic is taken away. Whats happening in the mission district. Is there a personal story here . I believe in clean breaks. 9 24. For the First Time EverSports Illustrated has featured a plus sized model on the cover of its annual swimsuit issue. Gorgeous Ashley Graham wears a size 16. The average American Woman wears a size 14. The issue features mixed martial artist ronda rousey and Haley Clausen on alternate covers. Heres what graham had to say after she learned she would be on the cover. I am i am so i am shaking. I am so honored. I am going to take it she went, posted a