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KTVU Ten OClock News November 8, 2014

Give workers space. But the pay off comes later when a median barrier finally comes to the golden gate. Its always been one of the more unique and dangerous aspects of the bridge, oncoming cars whisk by with inches between them. No room for error. Plastic pylons soon to be replaced by a movable barrier. A foot across each section over 1,000 pounds. Production against a driver who drifts or is distracted. For people to look around. I think its a good idea. Reporter flexibility for commute. A tall and safer median. On the San Francisco on the bridge also had a history of head on crashes. It should have been a long time ago. Reporter some drivers wonder why with almost 40 People Killed in crashes, a barrier took so long. But the iconic bridge doesnt rush into change and it took time for the will, the money and engineering to merge. Im always in the center lane. I want to get there. I want to get fast. Reporter some bridge commuters awaiting the barrier will stay in whats called the suicide lane. Even seeing its risk. All they had to do is take a child or check something that fell off their seat and they would be lost. Reporter the district hasn t said what forced the barrier will with stand but it will take about 45 minutes to make its way across shifting across the lane. You have to weigh the inconvenience to life or death. So guess what, give me the inconvenience because the life is more valuable. Reporter were back live now at the construction. Expect possible delays on the wall this weekend. The Golden Gate Bridge closes completely for the first time for construction. Reporting live at vista point, debora villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. More details on that now, concerning the installation phase of the barrier. The golden gate will be closed to all vehicles for two days. Thats scheduled to happen on january 10 and january 11th. However the sidewalks on the bridge will remain open while that barrier is installed. B. A. R. T. Has announced that its long awaited connector between the coliseum station and the Oakland Airport will be up and running. Trains arrive every 10 minutes and riders can use a b. A. R. T. Ticket or ticker card to pay. He held out hope for three days but tonight kann conceded to honda. Honda is headed back to washington now for an eighth term. Honda declared victory this morning then at an event tonight, khaana congratulated honda and thanked his staff. He also thanked the districts voters, he called them fair. I think this is a place that i meet people who voted for me, who voted for mike honda and i want folks to come together. Despite these developments, workers are still counting votes. Mike honda has 3,300 more votes than khanna. Santa clara was slow to process ballots on Election Night in fact, it may have been the slowest county in the entire state. It also turns out that a long time it manager quit on november 3rd the day before the election. A spokeswoman at the Registrars Office say theres new information tonight about Robin Williams suicide. There was no alcohol in his system when he committed suicide and no Illegal Drugs. But the corners report does reenforce suggestions that Robin Williams was suffering from severe depression. Ktvus Cristina Rendon live in millvalely where cristina you spoke with a friend of williams. Reporter yeah, well first though, this is a copy of that coroners report. It talks about his behavior and said he only had typical amounts of prescribed drugs in his system. Its been three months since the world lost Robin Williams. But his memory lives on in the hearts of fans, friends and loved ones. Comedian mark pitta knew robin well and hung out with him regularly. When people light a candle for robin, i say light one of those candles that blow out and come back because to me hes an eternal flame. Reporter there was no indication from cell phone records or emails that he was suicidal. Williams died of asphyxiation he was also suffering from anxiety, paranoia. His wife also saw him on his i pad and told authorities she thought that was a good sign because williams had not watched tv or read anything in about six months. Before his body was removed from the house, williams wife asked to pray over his body. One of the things that seems to help people with depression is to talk to someone who will listen to them. Reporter myers the executive director of San Francisco depression says pain caused from depression is crippling but theres help. Someone who has gotten through this pain is a person who can save another person. And that is very invaluable. Reporter pitta hopes the foundation can be accomplished in williams name to help those struggling with depression. That would be a great way to keep things going and remind people that yeah we can talk about this, i know its taboo, but you know talking about it is the first step. Reporter there is help for those who are struggling with suicidal thoughts. You can call 1800273talk and that National Hot Line will rout you to your local area counsel. Friends searched for a Software Engineer whos been missing now for a week. Dan ha was last seen leaving his apartment on fourth and brannon hon halloween night. Today friends put up fliers, and scoured the area for any signs of him. His roommates thought when he didnt come home that night, thought he had gone out of town. A lot of people from work said he was quieter that week. We were hoping he went out to get a breath of fresh air and well see him soon. He was last seen wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. Were learning more tonight about a government crack down on Illegal Drugs and other contraband. Federal Authorities Say they shut down thousands of sites when they shut down silk road 2. 0. He now faces the possibility of life in prison. A new version claiming to be silk road 3. 0 has already surfaced. The California Attorney general has gotten involved in the questionable relationship between regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission and pg e. Agents working for state attorney general Camela Harris served warrants. And as a top cop in the state of california takes this issue seriously. Investigators are looking into whether any laws were broken when the cpuc assigned a judge to a rate set in case. Emails already released by pg e revealed back Channel Communication with regulators and suggest pg e was judge shopping. The future of the Oakland Raiders is up for discussion. Today representatives from san san antonio reportedly met with Team Management here in the bay area to try to convince them to move to texas. John sasaki talked to oaklands new mayor elect and gives us her take on things. Reporter outside raider headquarters it seemed like business as usual as players stopped to sign autographs. Some where postlikely inside the facility, officials were talking to san antonio officials about moving south. Libby says she will fight to keep the team here while using no city money to build a new stadium. I love our sports team. I love anything that lifts up oakland and gives us r. N. To be proud of this city. Reporter raider nation signs adorn the windows. Im not worried about san antonio being here. The raiders are looking at their options. Reporter the idea under consideration is for the raiders to play at the alamodome where the university of the texas san antonio plays their football games. I think as it relates to any move down in san antonio. Jerry jones owned the dallas cowboys, i think the whole state of texas is his territory. Reporter Charles Woodson says a he doubts a move will happen. Its the Oakland Raiders. Where else would we be. Reporter we tried to contact Team Officials but we never heard back so its unknown what if anything came out of todays meeting. John sasaki. Tonight at 10 30 we learn more about oaklands new mayor. Libby schaaf is from oakland. What she tells us about her past that prepared her for the job. And a toy drive scrambling to raise 20,000. And next thousands evacuated and businesses disrupted all because of a gas leak. Shut down, wide open, no sales. The mistake that triggered fear and frustration in downtown san jose. Female announcer through tuesday at sleep train save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic. Choose 300 in free gifts with tempurpedic. Even choose 48 months interestfree financing on the new tempurchoice. The triple choice sale ends tuesday, veterans day. 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Reporter around the corner other restaurants had to shut down. Pg e shut off service to 50 businesses. A danger people could hear and smell. I began to smell gas. Quite noticeably. I dont smell very well so i really smelled gas. Reporter pg e says a construction crew was digging releasing flammable gas into the Downtown Business district for about six hours. Fire and police crews evacuated the area forcing about 2,500 people to leave. Thousands more had to shelter in place. Pg e had to reach two under ground valves. We dont have any complaints of injuries or potential gas inhalation. Reporter as crews work to repair the damage tonight, businesses in the area are suffering on what is usually a busy friday night. If it was a monday or tuesday night for a restaurant it might be a different story. But friday, saturday night im sure its affecting the heck of them. They depend on the sharks team, on the weekend to be able to pay their bills and stay open. So this gas leak is affecting everybody. Reporter tonight pg e is telling us they hope to have the gas fully restored and the streets reopened by 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Some of the businesses said to me off camera and told some of our crews that they are so angry about this they want a full investigation and they are considering some possibility of legal action against the Construction Company to recoop some of the losses theyre suffering tonight. Reporting live in san jose, jana katsuyama, ktvu channel 2 news. Police officers were out patrolling 11 schools in novato today after a threatening message online. There were several police cars outside Novato High School and were told half of the students went home early. Late last night a parent alerted police to the threatening poston the social media site yikyak it has since been removed. Today we talked to a mom who sent her kids to school even though she got too calls warning about the threat. I didnt tell the girls before they left school because i knew that the police were involved. And there was a really heavy Police Presence and they contacted all the right people in order to take care of the children. Reporter detectives in novato are working with the social media site now to try to identify the person who made that post. Now the the fight over berkeleys historic postoffice. Its now off the market at least for the time being. The city of berkeley has gotten a restraining order that prohibits the Postal Service from selling the building. The ruling means the Postal Service cannot sell the building until a full meeting is conducted december 10th. Thousands of troops will be deploying to iraq. Their mission to train forces to fight in their mission. Reporter the president approved the Defense Department request to send up to 1,500 additional u. S. Troops to iraq. Nearly doubling the amount of u. S. Troops on the ground there currently at approximately 1,400 troops. The authorization will expand the mission to train and assist Iraqi Security forces. 870 troops will train iraqi forces at four new sites. The rest will serve as advisors and force protection at new bases north of baghdad. Admiral kirby explained why new troops are needed now. Its being done quite frankly because the iraqis have demonstrated the willingness and the skill to go after isil. So they reached a point where they need additional help and guidance. Particularly in areas like ambar. Reporter the white house will seek 5. 6 billion for congress for the iraq advising mission. General lloyd austin and defense secretary chuck hagel were invited to the white house if for lunch to brief a bipartisan congressional group. He hinted at more troops last week. Thats why we need to expand the train and assist mission. But the precondition for that is that the government of iraq is willing to arm the tribe. Reporter the pentagon reiterated that the u. S. Troops will not be engaged in combat. At the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. The Labor Department released a new job report. It Shows Unemployment is lower but left wall street mostly flat. Nasdaq fell by six points. The labor report shows employered added 214,000 jobs in october. That sent the unemployment down to 1. 8 . By compareson one year ago comparison one year ago, the number of hours worked is up. The bay area weather today looked like a typical summer day out there. This was the scene looking out toward sutro tower at noon. As a result we have reduced visibility coast side especially down to monterey bay. I suspect over the next few hours this will gradually reform near the golden gate and near the bay itself first thing tomorrow morning. As far as current numbers out there well take a look at those. San jose 57 degrees. Santa rosa cooling off to 53. Napa 50 and San Francisco downtown in the upper 50s. Right now looking out toward the bay bridge we are in the clear. Just partly crowd cloudy skies out there. Fair skies this evening. Itll be a warmer weekend and look what happens next week. We will be talking about rain chances on the long range model maps. First thing tomorrow morning well be starts out the day. Low to mid30s in napa. San jose 52 degrees. Heres our forecast model, trying to generate some clouds. I think more fog hanging out near the Golden Gate Bridge. Partly cloudy skies at the coast. Tomorrow will be warmer than today. Coming up at 10 45, we will take a look at the forecast highs in your neighborhood. And we will highlight the one day we could be seeing rain chances here in the bay area. Theres not a lot of real snow, but thanks to manmade snow ski lifts are open. This year marks a special anniversary for the donner pass ski area. This is its 50th season that its been in operation. Boreal marked the occasion by painting every 50th chair gold. They hope to stay open seven days a week right on through the end of the season. She says her heart has always been in oakland. I remember my mother bringing me to my First City Council meeting to save the paramount theater. Tonight at 10 30, we sit down with oaklands next mayor on the challenges ahead. Up next the skate park closed and padlocked just days after it opened. The reason that has teenagers looking in from the outside. So its supposed to be a safe place for kids to gather and have fun. A skate park in marin county is now padlocked just days after it opened and ktvus rob roth tells us why. Most residents seem to agree there isnt much to do in marin city and Unincorporated Community in sausalito especially for kids. Most of the times its boring because you cant really do anything. Reporter thats why many folks were excited about this new skate park in town. Built by volunteers with almost all the material donated. The skate park was really a good idea. Bring some different type of culture of sports for them to do in the community. Reporter lovely day. Reporter the park had its grand opening last weekend. This is cell phone video of teenagers testing it out. But that was then, this is now. The skate park has been padlocked ever since. The park sits on Marin Housing Authority land but will be run by the Marin Community city district. Right now its closed because liability hasn t been worked out. Sometimes it takes longer than we expect. Reporter that leaves young skate boarders caught in the middle. I think they should unlock it and let the skaters skate. Do our own thing. Reporter those involved with the park say they expect to have the insurance issue resolved perhaps within a week. Until then though, the skate park will remains closed. In marin city, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. A motorcycle officer from its Dublin Office remains hospitalized. A car changing lanes hit car around 10 30. The veteran chp officer was not able to stop his motorcycle on time and slammed into the van. The officer suffered serious injuries but is expected to recover. Union city police say they need your help finding an at risk man missing since yesterday morning. Hes 18yearold john alam. He

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