Have 612 officers. Reporter they set to graduate 41 new officers after recession era cutbacks. We dont think you can ignore the fact when you have reduction in staff youre going to see crime rise. Reporter san joses Police Department is fighting recent layoffs and attrition to get back to a fully staffed force. We need every warm body that we can, but thats only addressing half the problem. If you hire all of them and even if all hit the streets if youre still dealing with a retention problem you have a problem on your hands. Reporter it includes officers who left smaller departments in search of a bigger challenge. Nadia muhammad is a former police officer. You can immerse yourself in the assignment. Reporter they are set to graduate from the academy in San Francisco in july. Reporting live in San FranciscoDavid Stevenson ktvu channel 2 news. More details now. Heres a sample of entry level salaries for new bay area officers and deputies. San Francisco Police start at about 88,000 a year. L Contra Costa CountySheriffs Department is 72 to 80,000. Police say a 16yearold girl just arrested told them that she had been selling herself on the street since she was 11 years old. It iss one example that makes up the world of Human Trafficking in the south bay. Robert handa live in san jose how investigators are working to stop it. Reporter we are in an area near downtown san jose that police say is under constant watch for prostitution. Yelled we reported on a police sting operation here and the arrest of some prostitutes and alleged customers but historically the problem will return. So what is the big picture in finding a solution. Police call the area at monterey road south first street the monterey corridor a site of ongoing prostitution problems. Residents said they are relieved by the police sting but. Its become really bad. I never saw so many prostitutes out here and ive lived in this area most of my life. Reporter however, police in and some Community Groups point out one of the prostitutes point to an overall problem many are minors. In this case the victim a 16 yearold girl. She was from the east bay and very sad in the interview afterwards she basically said shield been doing this since 11 years old. Reporter she is not the exception its Human Trafficking task force in the past year andahalf it has reassures cued 51 minors with san jose connections from prostitution. The children are the most important people to rescue. We want to get them out of that situation. We truly want to get the offender off the streets. Reporter many people in the monterey corridor agree. Most of the girls are young. I see them out here all the time but they are not alone. They always have a guy in the back in the scenery. Reporter coming up at 6 00 more on how police track down those offenders and what is being done for the young victims. Live in san jose, robert handa ktvu channel 2 nice. The Postal Service is backtracking how much money it could earn in an upcoming conference in San Francisco. The financial think strapped agency is spend go Million Dollars for executives to attend includes a Golf Tournament dance and dinner. The Postal Service had said that it earned 73,000 for every dollar it spent at a similar event in orlando last year, but now they say those numbers were wrong. It was actually only 73 per dollar spent. Lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the Postal Service. Hayward police say they have captured a man suspected of getting into a fight with a San Leandro Police officer last week. That came about 3 00 this afternoon. They arrested 22yearold solomon cruz is espinosa. Their officer suffered minor scrapes when he tried to arrest espinosa for a traffic stop e. Has outstanding warrants for assault, Domestic Violence and vandalism. Pg e he crews spent the day repairing a gas leak that evacuated four buildings. They dropped a big rock on a gas pipeline 24th and bryant in the mission district. Damage happened where several pipes joined together at 10 40 this morning. Crews had to dig in three locations to pinch off three pipes. Evacuations were lifted at 12 30. It customers went without gas until 2 15. Pg e plans to send a bill to that backhoe contractor. For the next two weeks drivers heading into play rain county can expect delays on the san rafael. They will install a new toll collection system. The closures and delays are scheduled to last through march 5th. The Golden Gate Bridge is getting ready for a switch over next month to automatic tolls with no more human toll takers. Drivers crossing did bridge will have a choice of paying 5 for fast track or you can register your license plate, give a valid credit card number and then pay of dollars based on a video recording of your plate. Well in addition to improving customer convenience with all the choices were saving money. We have a of 6 milliondollar shortfall for the coming five years then well be saving about 16 million over the next 8 years. The change will result in 28 toll takers jobs being eliminated. About half have found other jobs with the golden gate transit district. Officials hope to find jobs for the rest but will give them severance packages if they cant. Richard dunn died of meningitis. Occupation safety and Health Administration say they didnt supervise or protect him while working on a developing vaccine for the strain of meningitis that killed him. Osha cant fine other federal agencies. Investigators in Sonoma County are looking for two persons of interest linked to a man who has been arrest flood the forestville triple homicide. Three men were shot and killed earlier there month in what investigators say was a marijuana deal gone bad. Suspect Mark Cappello was arrested in alabama and now investigators are looking for these two men. They were seen with cappello at several gas stations between denver and Sonoma County in the days leading up to the homicide. The men were seen in this vehicle here. Its a gold early 70s ford ranger. Anyone with information is being asked to call the Sonoma CountySheriffs Department. An Apartment Fire today in an exclusive east bay neighborhood has left three people without a home. Firefighters were called to a home near danville about 4 45 this morning. That home is on Alameda Diablo inside the diablo country club. The two occupants of the caretaker apartment woke to you the smell of smoke and called 911. Another employee who lives in a room downstairs was also displaced. Everyone got out safely and there were no injuries. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. A congressional source says that boeing plans to impose a temporary fix to the faa this week for battery problems with its 787 dream lineserss the fleet has been grounded worldwide since a battery caught on fire in boston more than a month ago. Boeing ceo will proper pose a fix to the led of the faa at a meeting later this week. Japans Safety Ministry concluded the battery on the 787 there overheated because it was improperly wired. More than 100 passengers are part of a Class Action Lawsuit against carnival following their trip on the triumph. Thats the ship that drifted for days in the gulf of mexico after a fire in the engine room knocked out power. The lawsuit filed monday claims that carnival was negligent for allowing triumph to embark on the cruise when the company knew the ship was prone to mechanical and english us. The lawsuit states conditions on the ship created a severe risk of injury and disease. We have new details about the gunman in Southern California who went on a deadly rampage. Investigators have found no signs of any Illegal Drugs inside the home where 20year old ally syed lived with his parents. He committed three carjackings in the city of tustin and sand zahn take an a. He killed two other people and wounded several more before killing himself. Crews are cleaning up after a snowstorm. Of inches of snowstorm causing Power Outages and dozens of accidents. Janet is in sonora with a look at the conditions. Reporter you can see the roads are clear and dry, but and even early this morning. On that was one problem area leading up to the huge mess out here and in the foothills. South of olderville and march posta county a school bus slid off the road on highway 49. This morning a pair of tow trucks tried to haul the bus away. Angela let me gos who was driving a another school bus came to the rescue. Chp says 16 kids including the driver made it out safely only a few bumps and bruises. It could have been a lot worse. We were very, very lucky. Reporter on highway 108 this big rig hauling gasoline overturned when the driver lit a patch of ice. As a result the road was closed all afternoon. But the problem started yesterday afternoon. A lot of people didnt expect the snow this low and it created some problems for us last night and this morning. Reporter this was the scene last night a few miles away from where up to a hundred cars were piled up because of spinouts and crashes. The biggest thing i think a lot of the people didnt want to put the chains on and kind of created the issue for everyone else in the area. Reporter nicks towing has been working around the clock but crews say the day is far from over. How many cars have you towed . About 30. Thats counting all day yesterday and up to right now. You still have more . Yes. Reporter things are finally getting back to normal, but because of the aisles erode conditions all of the schools were closed and more than 200 people lost power because of downed power lines and downed poles. We have confirmed with pg e that most of the customers have power back as of this afternoon. Reporting live janet o ktvu channel 2 news. Theres word Obama Administration will join the fight to overturn the ban on samesex marriage. He said gays and lesbians should be treated the same under the law. The Justice Department may file a friend of the court brief. The deadline for filing such a brief is the end of this month. The reason some tax returns are being delayed and what it means for those trying to file right now. Snow on mount diablo yesterday it was there this morning its gone now. Temperatures warmed up as much as 10 degrees today. How much warmer will it get for the rest of the week, ill have the specifics. Mom, i invited justin over for lunch. Good. No, not good. Hes a vegetarian and hes going to be here in 20 minutes [ mom ] dont stress. We can figure this out. [ male announcer ] get the speed to make a great first impression. Call today to get uverse high Speed Internet for as little as 14. 95 a month for 12 months with a oneyear price guarantee. This is delicious. [ male announcer ] save the day in an instant. At t. Even though its less than 2 months the tax filing deadline there are still 29 forms not yet ready for taxpayers and preparers to fill out. Tom vacar is in the newsroom who can and cannot file right now. Reporter experts say dont blame the irs blame the gridlock Indecisive Congress shooting you all of us in the foot by delaying this years tax season. The final tax law for last year wasnt even passed until early this year. Certified public accountant Leslie Dawson says that forced the irs and tax preparers to play catch up with new forms and processing software. Thats very difficult for the irs to change all their forms for all of our tax processing programs to get their updates in. Reporter the overwhelming majority of people can file their taxes now in fact its been that way since january 30th. There was a delay but weve got our systems up and running. As of now e fileers can expect a refund within 3 weeks of feeling four weeks for those who mail them in. Today all but 29 rarely used forms are ready to go. Economic Development Credit those are not credits we run into every day. We very rarely run into them. Those will be ready the first week in march the vast majority of those forms are filed by people who file late in the tax season, have more complex returns. Reporter the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants have petitions the irs for waiver of failure to file or pay fines waiver of estimated tax penalties and plea to get next years forms out in reasonable time. We inquired with the irs what we can do they suggested its just a matter of filing for extension. Reporter coming up at 6 00 why the irs is emploreing taxpayers to cool it. Paying credit card dead in the final month of last year, according to tans union it says credit card payments that were at least 90 days overdue jumped 1 in the 4th quarter of 2012. Thats up 9 from the last quarter of the previous year. Trans union says its Holiday Spending may be a factor and it says banks are issuing more cards to people with shaky credit. The Commerce Department reported mixed news today about Home Construction and sales. New Home Construction fell 8. 5 last month. But the number of houses built last year was actually the highest in four years. And the number of Building Permits is on the rise as well. Economists say the bottom line here is that more people are buying. The overall trend is up. The trend in permits which will be the future sales and future starts is up. Single family homes are up. The National Association of realtors points to positive numbers in the bay area. The average sale prices of existing homes in San Francisco and oakland have gone up 3. 5 since 2010. On wall street today stocks retreated after reports the Federal Reserve is having doubts about its economic stimulus efforts. The dow dropped 108 points the nasdaq was off 49 and the s p 500 was 18 points lower at the close. That is its biggest decline so far this year. Crews have been working all day on a water main break in San Francisco say they hope to have things back to normal within the hour. 12inch cast iron pipe broke its about 85 years old. Ruptured about 3 this morning. Workers had to replace a 20 foot section of that pine and muni had to stop Cable Car Service for a time on powell mason line. The city of san jose is moving to clean up a homeless encampment. Direct or of housing sent a letter to the mayor and city council this week. She estimates more than 100 people live there and fires and drug use have prompted a need for action. The city plans to clear out the embankment the week of march 4th. There are now just 9 days before automatic spending cuts are set to take place and the pentagon is issuing a dire warning. Military Officials Say almost 800,000 civilian workers could be forced to take a day of unpaid leave each week. Thats the equivalent of a 20 pay cut. The furlough which starts in the last week of april and continue for at least 22 weeks. These critical members of our workforce work in our depos they maintain our tanks, aircraft, ships. They teach our kids. The order also doesnt differentiate between essential and nonessential personnel however the pentagon could approve waivers if congress doesnt strike a deficit reduction deal by the march sst dealt line affected workers would get at least 30 days advance notice. The opening rounds of pga match play championship will resume tomorrow after a snow delay in arizona. This is what it looked like this morning at Dove Mountain north of tucson. The pros got in over 3 hours of golf before play had to be stopped. After that the only thing happening on the green was a snowball fight. It was the second time in three years snow has forced a delay at duff mountain. Thats pretty flies video there. Lets talk about our weather and our snow is all gone just like that. Well their snow was our snow is our snow thats the system that rolled through here yesterday and put snow on bay area peaks and some areas even lower down 800 feet in some spots yesterday. A very cold weather system. Its out of here. Lets illustrate that, right there. Theres that system moving into the phoenix area. We are high and dry right now. We got no fog along the coast to speak of. Got the radars going nothing happening in terms of precipitation. Plenty of snow in the mountains. Not another 8 inches to a foot of snow. Rain in our buckets we got a little bit of rain. It wasnt a lot. It wasnt what you want in a winter storm. Two tenths five tenths that were it. This time of year when i see a storm coming off the pacific you expect an inch. You like to see an inch to half inch especially when were at it 2 of average santa rosa. Its really just illustrates how wet december was because january third dry effort in San Francisco history. Those records go way back. February pretty dry thus far. Were still at it 2 of average. Cold tonight you knew that because the air is clear. The clouds, the sky is clear. The air is still, the winds are down and were going to see temperatures drop below freeze in the fort bay valley. Youre going to find temperatures that are going to be below freezing by about or 4 de