From sunny vale the Valley Transportation Authority says an individual was stabbed near the ream wood station on taszman driver this afternoon. That person was taken to the hospital for several stab wounds. And police say a suspect has been taken into custody. The vta tells us some southbound trains were delayed for some time. A 14yearold girl is on life support after being hit while crossing the street right outside of her high school. Its part of an alarming trend in the south bay. Patti lee is outside the Girls High School where counselors have been on hand for the past two days. Patti. Reporter today teachers here at james Lake High School have been told to keep an eye out for students who are acting strangely but have not asked for counseling. Thats because theres a lot of miss information circling about this accident that took place here sunday night and its causing some students to start mourning the death of Bianca Valdez while others are Still Holding out hope she will recover. Pray for bianca is the Campaign Friends of the 15yearold are circling privately on instagram. Shes a beautiful girl. I loved her. I just hope that her funeral is just the way she wanted it. Reporter but biancas boyfriend says he started mourning sunday night after bianca was declared brain dead at the hospital. Artiz was the last person to see bianca sunday night. She was hit by a mini van after he left his house. She got hit hard. She got hit right here. And ended up over there. Reporter bianca was thrown 100 feet and landed in front of her high school. The driver stopped and neighbors say he was visibly shaken so they called 911. It is upsetting to go and see an empty chair when youre used to seeing someone on the daily. Reporter the accident is devastating to students and administrators. A new crosswalk with flashing lights was installed just a few weeks ago to keep students safe. But bianca did not use it sunday night. Tonight her boyfriend blames himself for not driving her home. Just seeing her out there like that, you know, i just wish i could have told her the last thing that i really wanted to tell her. Reporter Bianca Valdez is the third person in san jose to be hit and killed in the past two days. Two of the three were not in crosswalks. So far this year in san jose 24 people have been killed. And i did talk to the city this afternoon, and these last three appear to be terrible accidents. Reporting live in san jose, patti lee, ktvu news. People have been sending their condolences to the girls family on our Facebook Page today. You can do the same, just search for ktvu channel 2. More details now a california report card on Pedestrian Safety that was updated last march shows a 3. 9 increase in the number of pedestrian deaths. In 2010, 601 pedestrians were killed. In 2011, that number was up to 625. As for the numbers of seniors who were killed it was just about the same. 150 seniors killed in 2010. 151 died in 2011. A teen who was set on fire on an ac transit bus is going home tomorrow. And today his accused attacker made another appearance before a judge. John sasaki has how the victim and the suspect agree on how this case should proceed in court. Reporter his attorney filed this motion to have the case moved to Juvenile Court. Richard Thomas Family lets an oakland courtroom today saying nothing. But his Attorney Says that the High School Student regrets setting sasma on fire. Hes extremely remorseful. Hes as remorseful as a kid can be under the circumstances. Reporter the skirt sasha was wearing was turned on fire. This morning sashas father gave us good news. Were expecting sasha to be home on wednesday. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, yeah. Reporter how does that feel to know that . It feels great. Were not quite ready. Weve been rearranging stuff to make it more comfortable for sasha. Reporter home in time for a small thanksgiving celebration. We have a friend whos coming over. And is bringing a precooked meal. Reporter back at the white house, Richard Thomas acknowledged responsibility for sashas injury. The security video from the bus make that is very clear. Theres no question about who is responsible in this case. The question is, under what circumstances and with what motivation he is responsible. Reporter skwraoud law make a mode to have the case tried in Juvenile Court instead of adult court. He was asked about sashas family supporting that move. Theyre correct. Theyre not the only members of the Gay Community who feel that way. Reporter later off camera, thomas aunt told me that sashas Parent Support for that move to Juvenile Court is quote beautiful and that their hearts go out to sasha and the family. The whole case will be in court on december 20th for this motion. Live in oakland, im john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. An update now on injured giants fan bryan stow who was badly beaten three years ago. Stows family tells tmz he needs to take 17 medications a day. His parents have been caring for him at their home in capitola as the family copes with his traumatic brain injuries. The dodgers are asking a judge to rule if the team is liable for his injuries before the court addresses the issue of damages. Crews recover the body of a 29 29yearold man from pittsburg out of the sacramento river. The accident happened as the victim was driving an excavator. The excavator was 16 feet under water and partially buried sways in silt. No word on why the excavator fell into the river but calosha is now investigating. Seven people shot. Investigators are looking into what motivated several men to open fire at a celebration. A Street Corner was sprayed with bullets and how an innocent bystander was just taking out trash. Ken pritchett. Reporter given that it happened in a dense neighborhood with children near by it is not unthinkable that more people could have been hurt. Where these three little girls are playing today, two gunmen stood last night. At 96th and auburn evidence is everywhere. A bullet passed through this trucks windshield. Another shattered a window on an suv. And a mini market with one, two, three bullet holes where slugs passed from the outside and ended up inside. Seven people were shot here just after dark. Most of them gathered together at a street bbq celebrating a birthday. We didnt know where it was coming from. We just knew it was close. Once everybody drops on the floor everybody gets down. Reporter most neighbors were too scared to talk on camera after what happened here last night. Despite what we saw today, patrol cars. One of the victims a man named raul was simply taking the trash out when he was shot in the neck. One of the shooters had a handgun the other a rifle. Reporter the two gunmen were standing here on the corner of 96 and olive. They fired toward the group of men. You can see a bullet hole in that truck. Then there was a fan of fire moveing to the right hitting the man taking out his garbage and ending up here. Seven people shot at once unusual. But shootings in this part of east oakland are not. As of november 15, there were 171 shootings in east oakland up 6 over last year. It is not hard to imagine why neighbors are scared. I feel like its not fair. The reporter the man the neighbors say was taking out his garbage, police say he had his children near by. All of them are in stable condition however. One of them remains in Critical Condition at the hospital. In oakland, ken pritchett, ktvu news. Hayward police tonight are hunting for a gunman who they say used a weapon to steal valuables from an apartment. An argument broke out between a man visiting the apartment and the couple. The man left but came back and opened fire. No one has been arrested. Santa cruz police are investigating the suspicious death of man found partially naked in his driveway. A woman who was walking her dog found the body of a 57yearold man about 7 00 this morning on cypress avenue. Police say the man had suffered several stab wounds and that evidence at the scene suggests a struggle of some sort. Theyve been talking to a person of interest. They plan to serve several warrants in searchover that evidence in search of that evidence. The incident is also unleashing harsh public opinion. It may be generating a second look at a previous race study. Reporter thats right san jose state is still dealing with a hate crime situation. But many student leaders told us today that the incident and the trouble that it brings also exposed a bigger troubled picture of the way the university is run. Much of the talk on the san jose campus was not just about the racial conflict but what it revealed about long simmering anger between University Leaders saying they just dont listen. This hate crime is systematic of a larger issue going on in san jose state in regards to our campus missgovernance. Reporter students consider the campus ripe with racial stereo types and some felt animosity against them. They felt the administration showed little interest. I was very disappointed in the reaction and the response. I mean i felt like its a very useful tool for us taking this to a deeper level. Reporter University Spokeswoman pat lobe harris points out three Task Force Groups are formed to help blacks, latinos and over all diversity. We do have these three efforts under way right now in addition to a number of new measures that the president has announced in the wake of what we learned in the past week. And that includes an independent commission. Reporter daniels is skeptical. Its essentially a pr stunt. Because students tried to take our concerns to the task force, the task force doesnt listen. Reporter on the hate crime itself, no decision has been made yet concerning other student who is may have seen the alleged racial incidents but never reported them. Live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu news. San jose is hoping to curb its homicide rate with a gun buy back. The Police Department will hold the buy back on december 13th at our lady of guadalupe church. Police are offering gift cards for weapons. Most of the weapons will come from legal gun owners but they also say gang members who want to turn in a gun they can do so anonymously. 44 people have been killed so far this year in san jose. President obama wrapped up a three day visit to the west coast today with an upbeat message for the entertainment industry. The president spoke before a crowd of 3,000 people at the dream Works Animation studio. Chief executive is one of the president s biggest supporters. Financial disclosure reports show that he gave 3 million to the Political Organization that supports president obama. But the president said he was there because of the studios track record in creating jobs. Ive come here today because this is one of the americas economic engines. Not just dream works but this whole cluster of companies that generations have grown up knowing. Disney and warner and universal and others. Reporter the president was in california to raise money for congressional candidates he also spoke about Immigration Reform in San Francisco and paid a visit to the family of a tsa agent in los angeles who was killed earlier this month. San franciscos mayor is facing some tough questions tonight about the sky high cost of housing in the city. New at 5 00, ktvus Christien Kafton is in the Mission District where neighbors are speaking out about all the evictions going on. Christien. Reporter this mural behind me protesting evictions is a testimony to the frustration that many people here and throughout the city feel about the ever increasing rent and the fact that people are being forced out of their their homes so the owner can turn a profit. The Richmond District as a whole has had 79 evictions and 202 no fault evictions placing my district among the highest of all neighborhoods. Reporter he also addressed those eviction where is the homeowner can force tenants out of a rental property. The mayor said he is working with state lawmakers to change the ellis act. The ellis act is being abused by real estate specklators so we need to go to the state and change that law. Reporter mean while the city is looking at how to proceed with the inlaw units. They are looking to streamlining the property. We are live in San Francisco, Christien Kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. Home prices when 6 news the prices continue to go up here in the bay area. But more slowly than in past months. According to the standard and poors case schiller home prices were up 25 from november to september. In all, price gains slowed in 19 of the 20 cities tracked. The index showed prices in San Francisco were up 9 . Las vegas saw the biggest increase at nearly 3 . On wall street the markets posted gains on positive news in the housing industry. The dow edged up a fraction. The nasdaq added 23 points and closed above the 14,000 mark. Developing news now Many Americans are preparing to travel this week and there could be some rough weather ahead of them. A cold and wet early winter storm continues to move across the country. Its bringing cold arctic air and dropping snow and freezing rain in the midwest and parts of the northeast. For drivers it has been slow and in many areas dangerous. At least a dozen deaths are being blamed on winter related crashes. The weather is threatening to disrupt travel plans. Right now there are no major delays or cancellations to report. That could change later however even for people not traveling to the northeast. Thats because their plane may be coming from the east and could be delayed getting into the bay area. We talk with travelers at sfo today who say they are happy to be flying out ahead of the storm. Im very glad im traveling today and not tomorrow. I dont even want to imagine what itll be like tomorrow. Thats why were traveling now. You cant avoid the storm. I scurried away. Reporter the main part of the storm expected to hit the northern part of the east coast tomorrow. Im so glad im not going to be any where near an airport over the next coming days. It sounds like its going to be crazy out there. This weather system is massive ape covers cover and covers some ground. Ill show it to you. Youre talking about 12 or 1,300 miles that are being rained on and snowed on. You have washington, new york, atlanta. So major stuff going on in the east coast. Things are going to get better on thanksgiving day in the morning. But in the next 24 hours traveling out there will be dicey. Here are the clouds that we saw today. And right over us right here. Heres the next weather system. Thats the thanksgiving day system. Sadly its going to kind of go right by us. Itll bring a lot of clouds like you see here. Its going to be a very cloudy day as we head into tomorrow and maybe a chance of a sprinkle on thanksgiving. Ill get to that. The current numbers is 53 in fairfield, 53 in concord. 59 in san jose. Temperatures are kind of mild. Overnight lows about where they were last night maybe a little warmer because of the cloud cover. Youre still dealing with cool overnight lows. Youre going to be in the upper 30s, mid40s. Tonight weve got clouds and cold again. Just like last night. Its beautiful out there. The embarcadero is lit up but cloudy. Often times the clouds warm us up but thats not really going to happen this time. The clouds well they warm us up but its still going to be pretty chilly. Forecast highs then for tomorrow under a mostly cloudy sky. 64 in san helena. 61 in salsalito. Mostly cloudy all day tomorrow. More clouds as we head into thursday. 63 in pittsburg, 63 in brentwood. So temperatures mostly in the low to mid60s. No spare the air day tomorrow. Cloudy day, plenty of mild temperatures. No real cold ones during the day. The five day forecast then with the bay area weekend in view. The clouds start to thicken up here. As we head into thursday more clouds and maybe just maybe especially down toward monterey bay, santa cruz, maybe a few sprinkles will fall out here as we head into friday. Which for many the rest of your Holiday Weekend things start to clear up a little bit. And temperatures hover in the same zone. Mid60s through the bay area. We could use the snow. We could use the rain. But right flow that thursday system which was promising about four or five days ago is not very promising at all. Staying home is better than heading out this year. Yeah you dont want to be traveling. Well be right here. Calfire say it is wildfire burning in Sonoma County is 95 contained. The mccain fire broke out saturday morning when the winds were really howling. The fire is burning in the geo thermal area and a cooling tower has been destroyed. So far the mccain fire has burned 2,500 acres. Its the largest of the fires that broke out last week. Five firefighters were taken to the hospital but all injuries are considered minor. He was sprinting at me. He was really trying to hit me hard. Reporter but he didnt get knocked out. The surprising reaction that sent his attacker running. Now to julie haener in the newsroom with what were working on for 6 00. Using the holidays as an excuse to abandon their pets. We had at least a couple of litters of puppies that were dropped off. We explore the sad trend overwhelming family shelters and the efforts to stop it. And new details about the motorcyclists hit by the fire truck and his legal fight for justice. These stories and much more coming up new at 6 00. Unsuspecting people targeted then knocked out cold with one big punch. Thats part of a dangerous so called game that is now apparently making its way across country and is in california as well. It felt like a brick coming to the back of my head because he was like sprinting at me. He was really trying to hit me hard. Reporter this knock out game involves people randomly targeting unsuspecting strangers