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KTVU News At 5pm June 11, 2014

Californias tenure laws are unconstitutional. Ken wayne is live now, this really could change how California Teachers are hired and feared. Reporter when its finally resolved gasia, todays ruling in los angeles isnt the final say on teacher tenure in california. But it has no doubt boosted critics of a system they say has unfairly rewarded bad teachers. Do you want to play . I need to see some magic fingers. Reporter barred from the court, children continue their education oblivious to a judges ruling that could affect their futures. Nice. But their teachers know. If you dont do your job, youre going to have a problem. Its the same with the students. Youre not doing your job, then we need to talk. Reporter California Teacher tenure laws protect ineffective teachers and lead to poor education particularly in low income communities. Im thankful that the court elected to hear this case and im exstatic for the decision they came down with to represent the childrens rights and access to an education deserves their attention and deserves our priority. Reporter ralph true wrote theres no dispute that there are a significant number of grossly ineffective teachers currently active in california classrooms. One study shows over a five year period on the 91 teachers in california have been fired. This levels the playing field. Reporter west contra costa president says that the new law will help fire teachers. You have to have that flexibility if we dont were going to constantly see the same results over and over again. Reporter the principal said he agreed with the judges ruling. Here with us what concerns me is we have people who want to be here at dr. King elementary. Whether the teacher is tenured or not i want teachers that are committed to our children. Reporter this is not the end of this battle in many ways its just the beginning. The ruling is already being appealed by the states two Major Teachers Union and the state. But it has gained National Attention and it could be a Ripple Effect on teacher tenure across the country. Live in the newsroom, ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. New at 5 00, the search is on for this man. Police say he attacked and carjacked an 89yearold woman. This is a picture of 28year old Terrance James hardey. He has a distinctive skin tag on the left side of his head. You can see it on this picture. He approached a victim as she came out of a cvs car. She was already in her car when he punched her and took her out of her vehicle and took off with her vehicle. Police do not believe that hardey is armed bud they do consider him to be dangerous. A bitter custody fight may have led to a shooting death of a san pablo father of three. Oscar anguano was found shot to death in his backyard. Anguano and cortez fought over who should keep the kids. Cortez and a male companion are now in jail being held on suspicion of committing murder. Reporter a man is under arrest accused of starting a fire. The fire started around 10 00 last night in the eastern foothills outside of san jose. It ended up burning two acres. Santa clara sheriffs depao deputies found tran. He was having trouble breathing and needed medical attention. Authorities are looking into whether he had an illegal grow operation. Livermore police say a 17 yearold boy has admitted to starting a string of suspicious fires. He was arrested yesterday at the scene of the latest fire which was in a vacant lot at elm and k streets. There were five other fires over the weekend all set in dry brush. The teenager is now facing eight counts of arson. A well known livermore coach accused of molesting and planing to kill some of his students was in court today. Nisbeth appeared in court to claim he was not responsibility for trying to hire a hit man. Hes been held without bail and is set to return to court july 9th. New developments tonight in a deadly shooting at a high school near Portland Oregon the day before Summer Vacation was set to begin. The teenage gunman killed one person before apparently committing suicide. Law enforcement sources say now the gunman and victims were students. Students say it all began just as classes were starting. Everybody was freaking out. We all ran into the weight room and hid and locked the doors. There was a bunch of gunshots everywhere. Reporter one male student was killed, a teacher was grazed by a bullet. Police used a robot and eventually found the gunmans body in a school bathroom. The high school went on lock down as s. W. A. T. Teamed moved through the school room by room to make sure that the threat was over. We just saw people running everywhere. Like people screaming. We didnt know what was going on. We just all went to the back of the classroom. We were all scared. Reporter and we have just learned moments ago that that Shooter Police say was only 14 years old. A freshman there at that school. Reporter hundreds of anxious parents gathered in the parking lot at a near by supermarket waiting to be reunited with their children. Many students say they used their cell phones to send Text Messages so their parents would know that they were okay. Police used the hash tag rh shooting to get information to parents and others in realtime on social media. They also say a recent active Shooter Training drill at that school probably helped save lives. Defense officials are saying it could be one of the worse friendly fire incidents of the war in afghanistan. The u. S. Led International Coalition say Nine American soldiers along with one afghan officer were killed. The Defense Department has not confirmed that account. The Defense Department is still looking into what exactly happened. Itll be their responsibility to determine what actually led to their death. Reporter the five americans and one afghan were reportedly killed during an allied air strike in southern afghanistan. If confirmed it would be one of the worse friendly fire incidents involving friendly troops since the start of the war nearly 14 years ago. New information on a story we first reported yesterday. Technicians are trying to figure out what caused signal interference on Police Radios in berkeley over the weekend. On saturday, the Berkeley Police department reported that there were repeated drop outs and garbled audio on their police radio. The Authority Commission said officials are working today to determine the source of that signal interference and whether it was accidental or intentional. More than 40 agents used the same radio system but another this point only Berkeley Police have reported problems. Environmentalists rang the bell warning unless we make major changes soon you may not have walter coming out of your tap. John fowler live now in livermore with how we can all make a difference here, john. Reporter gasia, you can think of the Livermore Valley as like southern california. Its hot, its dry, and much of its water comes from the delta. Reporter environmentalists warned that were up against the wall. Using much more water than nature provides. Yet were still not taking our water problem seriously. Its going to come back to bite us. Reporter the Pacific Institute and the natural defense layed out a program for improved homeowner efficiency and water reuse. The good news is theres things that should be done by a lot of different actors, the bad news is we havent gotten together to do those things. Reporter millions of the gallons a day are washed out to sea. The livermore plant recycles 3 1 2 million gallons of water day. Thats about half the waste water produced in the city. But recycling does have its draw backs. Citizens that dont have recycled water or in areas that we dont have recycled main the water is not doing any good. Reporter livermore is now selling recycled water to their neighbor. We found half of Household Water goes to landscaping. Environmentalists say lawns should go. You can still have a yard. Not, just get the right grass for the area. Reporter homeowner joe bower showed us her low water dishwasher. And says hes catching gray water for plants. His water shows declining use but at 240gallons per day its seven times higher than what environmentalists say is achievable and now becoming necessary. Some day were going to turn on the tap and the water snot going to be available to us. Then its going to be too late. Were going to be past the point of opportunity to fix these things. Reporter back live, environmentalists are asking that people replace their grass for drought tolerant plants. And they say, we are all in this together and we need to wake up to a new water reality in livermore, john fowler, ktvu news. On ktvu. Com we created a special drought section where you can check out the water restrictions in your area. San francisco voters will decide this november if they want to raise the citys minimum wage to 15 an hour. In a News Conference at city hall, major ed lee says its the right time to ask people in San Francisco to increase the minimum wage. Backers say the current minimum at 10. 74 an hour isnt enough for working families to make ends meet. In the last two years in particular weve been seeing a widening income gap between our lowest paid workers to our highest paid workers. No one should be left behind. Reporter the proposal on the November Ballot would raise the minimum wage in stages until it hits 15 in 2018. After that it would be pegged to Consumer Price index. Several other cities have moved to raise their minimum wage. And californias minimum wage is set to go up to 9 on july 1st. However, if a bill that has already passed a state senate goes on to become law, it would bump up the states minimum wage to 13 an hour by 2017. Gunned down on the way home from a boys and girls club. I still cant get it through my head that youre gone. Reporter the donation thats honoring the eighth graders memory and helping to keep kid safe. Were until cooling trend. Wind temperatures will begin warming up once again and how high they can climb by your weekend. Next a 10yearold boy find a tab of fireworks 10year old boy finds a stash of fireworks. I looked down and there was no hand. His hand was gone. The charges his father is now facing. A broken fire hydrant kept fire crews busy in berkeley. You can see here water was surging several feed into the air. It flooded the street and hurt a worker as he tried to cap the hydrant. Officials say theyre not sure what caused the hydrant to gush but it may have been a car that damaged it. A 10yearold boy nearly blew off his hand with fireworks he found inside his house now his father is under arrest. Ktvus katie utehs is live with a neighbor who rushed to help the boy and what he saw was horrible. Help my brother, help my brother, help my brother. Reporter a 10yearold boy had ignited fireworks inside his home in a Mobile Home Park along lewis road in san jose. First thing i did i took my shirt off. I looked, at first i thought he cut himself with a knife. No i looked there was no hand. The hand had been blown off. Blown off. Blown off. And then there was a fire in the house. The father of the victim had stored a large amount of fireworks inside the residence which the child got access to. Reporter Police Arrested the father on possession of illegal fireworks. They say he had four pounds of fireworks. It looked like a war zone. Like stepping on a mine. It freaked me out. It took me a few seconds to geez. Reporter San Jose Police say not only are fireworks incredibly dangerous theyre also illegal within the city. In san jose, katie uthes. The great Oyster Company made its final bid to survival. In a final reply brief, the Oyster Company say it is case has national significance. It says it concerns the amount of reach by the government. The wife of embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will be in Court Tomorrow to try to get approval to sell the team without his consent. This after sterling said he will not approve the sale of his team. He is upset because the nba said his lifetime ban will not be lifted after the sale of his team. Now his wife shelley wants to be able to authorize the sale of the team without his approval. Bay area, were definitely feeling the cool down that our chief meteorologist talked to us about yesterday. It really dropped off. We noticed it big time. It was a lot cooler around here. 10 to 20 degrees cooler today than yesterday at this time. And temperatures are much, well not in the 100s theyre in the 80s. Herself take a look at what happened outside. We have plenty of high clouds and low fog. That drops the temperatures off. The fog is going to continue to push in again tonight. That means were going to see another day tomorrow a lot like we saw today. Look at the drop off. Theres your big drop 106 in livermore to 86 degrees. San jose was 88. Thats down a little over 10 degrees. Hayward down by 10 degrees. Santa rosa down almost 20. Theyre going to stay on this kind of cooling trend theme for a little while now. As we go into the weekend or toward the weekend. You have thundershowers showing up here around yosemite. We had a few lightning strikes but that should be moving off pretty quickly. Along the coast we have fog to talk about. Especially in santa cruz. Take a look at the santa cruz area. We have plenty of fog and its not clearing off. The west side of town has been foggy all day. Fog and low clouds right now in the avenue. If youre in concord or livermore its hard to imagine. Folks out here in this area are wearing jackets and gloves and hoodies and just trying to stay warm out on john daly boulevard. The fog is here and here to stay. Tomorrow morning itll spread inland again but itll be another cool day tomorrow along the coast. Forecast highs tomorrow these are the current temperatures. Forecast highs tomorrow will be warmer. 10 to 12 today. Still 93 in antioch. That doesnt look right does it. Sometimes these automated sensors they might be off. Thats down a good 10 to 15 degrees than it was yesterday. The winds are there so you have that strong delta breeze. Thats why sacramento is cooling off. Its a 31mile an hour wind out of the southwest and thats pushing cooler moisture air into the central valley. Modesto is cooling to some degree. So its doing what its supposed to do. Gets real hot like that. Then the temperature grading becomes such that the moisture and the cool moist air has to flow inland. Then theres moist cool air which is a higher pressure system pushes inland. You didnt need that lesson. But it continues the breeze through the summer months. 83 in antioch. Thats it. Your bay area weekend always in view. Shapes up like this. Kind of cooler tomorrow. Kind of cooler on thursday. Friday starts to come up a little bit. So im good with it. Because i tell you i slept a heck of a lot better last night. I just did. I was grumpy yesterday. The car was hot. You wake up in the middle of night and its boiling. I think it messes with people. 105, 106 in livermore it messs with you. The search continues for a cal student missing. The important clues rescuers found today. This 10yearold is already finishing high school. How his brain works that he says makes him so ahead of the game. Way ahead. Now to julie haener in the newsroom with what were working on for 6 00. Paying more to use less. How much bills will be going up in one bay area Water District and where that water is going. Plus trains that respond before an earthquake happens. How b. A. R. T. s early system is being used as an example for the rest of the country. These stories and more coming up new at 6 00. Bulldog you dont need superpowers to help someone. Sometimes, all it takes is a warm heart and a cold nose. Thats why mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to Train Service dogs for people with disabilities. I would never imagine a life without an assistance dog ever again. I relied on people a lot. He helps me live a more independent life. Bulldog but this drive is ending soon. Give at mattressdiscountersdogs. 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With the uverse tv app, the uverse revolves around you the uverse revolves around you aaa says it appears that drivers are open to paying more for gas if it means smoother roads across the country. The study is coming out as the trust fund is about to reach critical low levels this summer. If congress doesnt take action, aaa says states may have to stave off future projects. Potholes that arent being filled. Its not just the mobility and a transit problem, its a safety problem. Aaa is endorsing a senate plan to increase the federal gas tax from 18cents to 30 cents a gallon over the next 30 years. Aaa says the average price for a gallon of regular is 4. 11 thats down 7cents from a month ago. Around the bay area the average is 4. 12. In San Francisco its 4. 23. Aaa says with ample supplies and no major refinery issues, prices should stay low. A man paying more than 2 million to eat lunch with warren buffet is calling him his inspi

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