matt keller is gathering information at the seen with a report coming up at 5:30. >> calls like this are prompting the hose city council to look at the way firefighters respond to emergencies. two years ago they started a squad car pilot program with a two person vehicle responding to medical calls 94 percent of the total calls are medical. the city needs to realize it no longer has a fire department that responds to medical emergencies but, rather, an emergency medical response department that responds to fires. >> public health researchers are trying to track the source of a mystery illness affecting children in california including five in the bay area. they are showing symptoms similar to polio. katie marzullo is in the newsroom. >> doctors are looking into 25 cases in all of california with the five confirmed cases in the bay area left five children paralyzed. one is a four-year-old, her left arm is paralyzed. she will probably not regain the use of the arm but they describe the case as "mile." other childrens ages two to 16 are paralyzed in more than one him. it is polio like s

the chp they were taking people off at dunn. >> we had to get off at tenant. are what happened is there is an arrow, telling you to get off. it's a little bit confusing to see what is on the other side because there are so many flashing lights. it looks like they are on the northbound lanes as well so. we did see a come of cars get back on but they seemed to be getting bushed off where they are. you can't get much farther. they have this area blocked off. there are phones and chp officer here. for us coming down we were in south san jose, this was about as far as we could get. >> probably if you could make your way to monterey highway could be the key. let's check in with mike. he's got a look. >> that is the key whether you are forced off at country or down to pennant you president can't get passed there. we'll look at our live shot here and then our map. the south bay, we have slicker roadways but not a major issue. we're looking at a smooth flow southbound 101 is the concern. the northbound commute is not a factor right now. lower the speeds. right here out

temperatures in the upper 50's at santa rosa, nap a-san rafael, 53 at fairfield, mid upper 50's at concord livermore one more live view at the beautiful sky line of downtown san francisco from exploring camera. these are forecast feature stormy overnight and stormy wet wind morning commute. if you out there rain showers continue into saturday morning. here's close close forecast animation beginning at 11:00 o'clock this evening watch the storm and the effect over the next day and a half or 2 day. wave after wave of heavy rain wind and even snow in the sierra inland over the next more than 24 hours into 8:00 o'clock tomorrow evening and then beyond that the storm dipping south ward into southern california stormy down around l.a. on saturday morning. we will see rain tapering off here saturday morning as storm begins to weaken and move away from us. but close close storm watch includes more than just rain. we have wind advice in effect until tomorrow morning at 10:00 o'clock winds gusting 45 to 55 miles per hour over the higher elevation out along the coast down tree power line certainly a

a look at sfo. you know of the horrible winter weather to the east and the south and it is having an impact on our airport in the bay area at sfo at 59 cancellations. check with your airline if you are flying. >> the cal community is celebrating the life of a football player who died on friday suddenly. a thousand people gathered to remember the 21-year-old ted agu who collapsed during a work out. they replayed his life in pictures and video and song on the wall of memorial stadium. >> we need you. we take over the word, man. it was just his embracing of life. >> he pushed all of us to become a better person outside of football. we don't want to be remembered just if football. >> it will take six to eight weeks to determine agu's cause of death. he will be remembered by a banner outside of memorial season. >> investigators are leading to electrical short as the cause of a fire when a man was found inside the door of an apartment at a building on 23rd last night but authorities have not released the

tipoff at 7:30. stanford hosts arizona state at maple pavilion at 1:00 p.m. last night the warriors were in utah trying to avoid a let-down following thursday's big win over the clippers. here's sports director larry beil with the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning, everybody. after beating the clippers on thursday night the warriors hopped a plane to utah, facing the jazz, but minus david lee. sitting out with shoulder and hip injuries. have no fear, steph curry is here! former jazz cochlearry sloan was honored at halftime. first quarter, steph curry, the deep three. he was just warming up. 14 at the half. andrew bogus, 16 points, 17 boards. the thunder from down under. utah's bench outscored them 48-12. alex with 26. jazz up by as many as 9. raymond green, vicious to the rack. golden state shot only 38% from the field. but curry wouldn't let the warriors lose. he had 8 threes, 14 of 26, shooting for 44 points and the warriors somehow, some way win, 95-90. >>> baseball, giants holding fan fest today at at&t park from ten to three. tim lince

take a look at live pictures at central kiev, ukraine right now. you can see the smoke and the flag. thousands of protesters standing in defiance of the strong police presence. the protesters are angry at the government that it took a bailout from russia instead of dealing with the european union. for the very latest on the developing story, let's go to peggy bunker, joining us in studio this morning. >> it's a developing situation. as we looks at picture, every time we check back and see what's going on there, it's a different situation. it was aglow in orange from fire and fighting earlier this morning. it's a war zone. the situation in kiev watched internationally as a terrible wave of violence erupted yesterday and overnight in the ukrainian capital. this, after ukrainian government turned its back on an alliance with the european union. death toll climbed to 26, with 250 injuries. nine police officers killed in fighting. police are taking background from protesters fighting with guns, molotov cocktails, anything they can get their hands on in

>> i can't say at this point. >> at this point we're saying 20-30 minutes. that's what we are anticipating. >> that's correct. all trained in bound and out and may experience 20-30 minute delays. >> thank you for taking the time to give us an update. hopefully we can check in later this morning. >>there's more to come in our next half-hour. --we are *live with the latest on the cleanup after yesterday's snow storm. and -- we're getting a look at a united nations report detailing north korea's crimes against humanity. plus -- we'll hear from the husband of the woman who claims to have killed dozens of men lured on craigslist. and -- jimmy fallon debuted last night as host of the tonight show. we'll see how he did. stay with us. and learned for a train derailment blocking metro trains on the southwest side. >> jury selection for the man accused of killing his wife as she slept. >>a rare thunder snowstorm blanketed our area and set a new record. we are *live with the latest. good morning, i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy. let's go to demetrius ivory for a ch

at bart we are in the low-to-mid 40's with concord at 42 and lafayette at 43 and pittsburg is 48 and san landrieu, too, and 44 in union city and fremont. sfo is 45. it will be dry this morning. we will rebound to the mid-60's along the coast and money 60's around the bay shore and upper 60's to near 70 inland valleys. tonight the fog is more widespread but not a big issue. temperatures hang out in the lower 40's inland to upper 40's around the bay and 50 in san francisco. two areas of high pressure are holding the clouds and the storm track away from us so we will have sunshine. the next two storms show they are coming in with quit a punch of rain and wind unlike the last storm we did not have winds. tuesday, you can see the clouds have increased and wednesday morning we have light rain possible on the coast into the not bay which is where it stays. and light-to-moderate rain controlling across the neighbors at noon through the rush hour where it will be heaviest in the east bay and scattered showers take over for wednesday evening through thursday before the next storm on friday. th

cars, it happened at least 4 times on highway 12 in the past week. just yesterday a side mirror of a school bus was hit and shattered by a bottle. another driver says his car was hit and at first he did not know what had happened. >> i took a look at my daughter, what is that and then i looked back and that is when i saw the pickup truck that was heading the other way. >> the chp is now locking for a mid-2000s white pickup truck they say they may have been involved in the crimes. >> another round of full sunshine across the entire bay area, yesterday we had the high clouds, today nothing but blue skies out there and a warming trend as well, already felt it if you went for a walk, temperatures for the 60s for the 12:00 hour. here is the cameras and temperatures on track close to reach the 70 degree mark later, you can see our storm tracker 2, once again a dry weather forecast today through the weekend, our doppler sweeps will try to detect rainfall for next week, a week from now we could be tracking rainfall so could be a busy timeframe at left a week

getting burned came in at number 10. at number 9, look-alike tubes. alicia coleman is born three months premature. a disease all but destroys her intestines. to keep her alive doctors insert a feeding tube into her stomach and a central line tube into her vein. one day alicia's mom drops her off at a medical daycare center and heads to work. >> i handed her over on saturday at 8:17, and i got the call at 9:20 that her medication had been administered wrong. >> a central line tube and a feeding tube look a lot alike. the daycare center pumps medicine meant for alicia's stomach into her vein. the medicine stops this toddler's heart, and she dies. >> i've never got -- she had to go through it alone. and i wasn't there. >> is it easy to confuse tubes? >> we should be very cautious. unfortunately, people get rushed. people cut corners. and when that happens tragic things can happen. >> 16% of doctors and nurses in a survey says tube mix-ups happen at their hospitals. so the lesson here is when you have tubes in you ask the staff to trace the tubes back to

no one was at the store at the time because it was closed. officers believe that the two got inside through a second floor door that was left unlocked accidentally. investigators are trying to figure out if the two might be involved with any other burglaries in the area. welcome back to the kron4 morning else at 940 still tracking delays here through the south bay 01 and the northbound direction which is still back of beyond the 28680 interchange and the 39 minute nearly 40 minute drive time 0101 north bound is about twice what it should be at this hour. of in fairfield. a memorial now stands at the scene of what police say was either a street race or road rage crash, which ended up killing a 31-year old father. ron brackett was turning onto lopes road, from canyon hills drive when an infinity smashed into his mazda sunday evening. witnesses tell police, the driver of a black, toyota tundra managed to avoid the wreckage and kept on going. a resident in the area says, the intersection is dangerous and desperately needs a stoplight. ".they go f

at 7:14, let's take a look at the roads. hey, george. >> we're looking at a light ride on this holiday monday. no metering lights at the bay bridge toll traffic. the golden gate bridge completely clear in both directions as is 92, the san mateo bridge. drive times are 11 minutes, not just eastbound but eastbound. and for your ride to the rich man san raphael bridge, no delays over towards san raphael. looking at the traffic maps, there is a minor incident on 24 in the westbound direction here around pleasant hill road. an accident cleared to the shoulder. so it's slow traffic from the 680 interchange but not enough to worry about. it won't cost you much in the way of time. the rest of your east bay rides look great. even 580 through the pass look at this, no slowing at all. south bay freeways are grand with no problems out to cupertino and the marine ride is still under 25 minutes to the golden game bridge. >> thank you, george. >>> 7:15. we have new video in this morning of a plane that was hijacked. it was hijacked by the

with lowest visibility at novato at one. one at half moon bay and san jose. santa rose has nothing, and a little around livermore. the clouds are not so low downtown as yesterday with sunshine coming out quicker today and above-average temperatures from low-to-upper 60's around the bay and 60 at the coast. have a great day. >> this is the bay bridge toll plaza which is empty. metering lights never turned on because it is friday lite. only a couple of hiccups in the commute. from berkeley to the maze westbound 80, those are the taillights moving along fine. as we look at the san mateo bridge, the fog is cleared but waiting for you on the other side, on the peninsula. >> abc7 news continues now online and on twitter and facebook and all your local devices. see you in 25 minutes. ♪ ♪ so you can get cash back on all your purchases. so you can use your cash back... to so you...ur can save the day. chase freedom. so you can. >>> good morning, america. thrills and spills at the olympics. figure skating shockers, one of the bigg

look at it now. there is no snow at all. of course, we are expecting some snow to come out of these storms, but right now it's raining. in our trip to the summit, and back, all we saw this afternoon was rain. at 5,000 feet, there was no snow to be keen, that's unusual for february. even at donner's, a sign that should be half covered snow. >> rain, sprinkles all over the place and the snow that was here a week ago, was way down because of the warm weather and the rain. >> much of it, the remnants of one significant storm earlier this month. >> it's getting to where the likelihood of any reasonable recovery is pretty close to zero. >> reporter: director of california cooperative snow survey's, frank gurke. we started the month with a snowpack just 19% of normal. a big storm followed, and boosted the snowpack to 36%. but since then, we've seen a slide. with central sierra snowpack now at 29% of normal for this date. even when this rain turns to snow, and boosts our snowpack in the coming days, it won't make much of a dent, and

67 and san jose at 68. thickest clouds are across the north bay where the sprinkles will fall with a better chance of measurable rain tonight across the north bay account rest of us have patchy fog and drizzle, maybe. most of this will stay in the north bay. temperatures are mild. mid-40's to low 50's. over the weekend it is building and headed to the north and that will keep us close with the sprinkles. this morning, you can see the best chance of rain in the afternoon mainly to the north and overnight there could be drizzle. tomorrow, you can see the best chance of rain is to the north. even friday, a lingering sprinkle to the not. in the mount tapes of the north bay, up to .1" or quarter of an inch and maybe in the bay only . 01". seven-day forecast shows temperatures mostly in the 50's along the coast and low-to-mid 60's and best chance of rain is saturday night and sunday. leyla gulen? >> on wednesday morning, we have a serious accident in san francisco over the altamont pass westbound 580 at greenvill

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said we wanted him to look at. if there is no confusion later on that he's done something, if you will that we didn't ask him to do. so this is belts and suspenders type of an approach. all right? >> well said. first we are going to review the ibnr fund status and any changes to the policy. so you have before you the -- >> and would you please clarify what i b.bnr is >> for any self funded plan which is now why you # your flex funded program with blue shield and city plan, you hold the liability so at the time of terminating the contract, any claims that are paid after the date of termination that happened at the date of termination or earlier you will have on your balance sheet as a liability and you are fully funded without paying any further assessment. any on going -- on the program is required to do this. you do an excellent job. an additional caveat is that this gets approved, i don't set it as your independent actuary. you have an audit june 30th and the auditors also approved these numbers. it's doubly appr

it is thickest in santa rosa at quarter-mile visibility and half mile at half moon bay. the ground is have saturate asked we will have fog for many of the morning commutes especially in those two areas and we will see if the winds will steer fog into the east bay. i don't think twit happen right now. today, it is mild. low-to-mid 50's. drying trend by noon. breaks in the cloud cover and mid-to-upper 50's. we will hang out there through 4:00 and mild in the evening with low-to-mid 50's. that is the day planner this monday. how about the commute? leyla gulen? >> nothing to look forward to here. everyone is starting to see a fair share of citizens and as we look at albany, berkeley, westbound 80 at gilman street, it is spoiling the commute with all the red coming from before the hoffman split. it is bumper-to-bumper traffic. at saratoga, highway nine, a tree fell because of the saturate ground. check out the power lines, we had areas of green indicating drizzle that could make it way across 580, and if you are headed out be careful. a look at walnut creek southbound 680 it

it said, at least you look good. >> nice. >> 11:50 at night. the temperature is 45 degrees at reagan national airport. no wind chill to worry about. 53 degrees was the high earlier. the average for this time of year is 44 degrees. the record is 77 setback and 20,002 -- 2002. a high earlier of 52 and made it up to 50 degrees. wind just around three mile per hour. 43 at silver spring. looking at the water view, 36 in winchester. we are not going to drop a whole go through the night. clouds will continue to increase for the day tomorrow. the cold front moves our way and stalls just to the south and will get aspressure big chance for rain. it changes over to snow tomorrow night and into tomorrow morning -- monday morning. just in time for the rush-hour commute. nothing out there like that tonight. tomorrow will be a good deal of sunshine and and the clouds continue to increase. the national weather service has .xtended the winter storm watch it starts at 11:00 tomorrow night and extends through the overnight hours into early monday. it is from char

at times, the rain may be coming at you from the side. we do not have any advisories in place for the wind. in general, we typically get wind, and i'm seeing the gusts at 30 miles per hour in some areas this morning. it's definitely a gloomy, soggy start to the day. giving you a live look over bay point and some areas definitely seeing more rain than other areas. the north bay favored for today, and mount tam has already recorded 7 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. our coastal hills definitely going to see the most out of this weekend storm, but you can see, it is enough to go around. we've got some light to moderate rain falling over parts of the bay area, shifting in and along the peninsula. we have heavier cells from the coast, crossing over the peninsula a little bit earlier. let's head east and see what's happening here. moderate rain falling over areas like san leandro. on the east side near hayward and into oakland. these yellow cell, the possibility of 1 to 2 tenths per hour. moderate rain. over the north bay, moderate, even he

no major problems at the maze. 580 at 980 reports of a crash. the car's off the road but in the report it says they lost control. that possibly could be because of slicker roadways, i've been warning about that. keep that in mind. pretty typical according to your friday commute. over here, livermore, west 580 not a big deal. slowing into central livermore toward the isabelle interchange. westbound to the dublin interchange no problems south through pleasanton and into pleasanton and livermore showing lighter volume. the south bay has your slowing northbound 101 from 680 to 880, the second for this area. 87 shows more volume. 17, much smoother than it was yesterday. it's drier but watch those slick roadways. watching for the speeds. we'll show you the peninsula speed. we're in the green zone for all of this action. through the north bay we have a smooth drive as traffic flows southbound for the commute for 101, slowing for 37 to novato. that's the commute direction westbound. and the live look shows the volume holding steady. a light flow at the

he's at blue canyon. that is coming up at 6:15. here's a reminder you can down load our new weather app to help you get through this powerful storm. it has realtime radar and weather alerts to keep you up to date right on your android smart phone or your iphone. >>> new this morning the investigation continues into a deadly crash in the east bay city of pittsburg. police say a car hit a power pole shortly after 1:00 this morning. this was on west tenth street in pittsburg. officers have shut down the street after a lot of police activity out there. pg&e crews also working to restore power to that area. a number of big questions still surround this deadly crash. alex savidge has been out there on the scene all morning long. >>> time is 6:11. store owners fighting back in the bay area. the two attempted robberies caught on tape and the punches that clerk threw that put his life on the line. >> all i did was duck and slammed on the brakes. >> the target of an east bay freeway shooting describes his terrifying ordeal. and interview you

one at the college. it's very tough because the new mall is going to be upscale and the rent is going to be very expensive. >> broadway has always been special to walnut creek in terms of the way that they integrate with the city. it's part of the city. and there's a lot of activity that's go on there. no doubt for the short time, there's going to be issues. >> walnut creek says the redevelopment project will take about a year and a half. >>> there is still no sign of a missing man who may be mentally ill according to police. they say that donovan almost was last seen in the bayside center in santa cruz. he is six-one, brown hair and blue eyes. last seen wearing a blue shirt, blue shorts and a backpack. he's been known to frequent the capital mall, laurel street and the santa cruz beach board walk. >>> investigators have linked two men with stealing mail from more than 250,000 south bay residents. police say that san jose residents were arrested last month after the men were suspiciously loitering in the

we have seen over .06 of rain at santa rosa. .085 at sfo, .085 at half moon bay. rainfall deficit still severe. santa rose a needs almost 19 inches of rain get back to normal. san francisco needs 11. i'll show you when we might see the next rainfall later. >> the storm brought some light snow showers to tahoe today with a dusting to a few inches possible. this is our live camera from heavenly mountain resort, courtesy of lake tahoe tv. light snow showers are expected tomorrow and row sorts are excited about more significant snow possible next weekend. while today's rain bringing a little relief to the droughts conditions the troy weather is expected to impact the california unemployment rate. a third of the central valley farms are -- fields will remain unplanet, affecting workers and those two fertilize and provide farming equipment. the three months left in the rainy season are not likely to rescue the year from drought. >>> in developing news tonight. napa police now have in custody mother and her boyfriend, both suspected in the murder of a three-year-old girl

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san francisco right now at 51. santa rosa, 57. san jose in the upper 50s, at 59 degrees. for tonight, mostly clear skies, coastal fog already pushing back into the bay. here is our live camera looking toward the transamerica pyramid, just already dark out there. but the fog, i've noticed a few patches sneaking back into the camera frame. for tomorrow, morning fog, skies becoming partly to mostly sunny. more sunshine inland, but this is the key headline developing with rain making a comeback on the five-day forecast. in fact, multiple storms paying us a visit. overnight lows tomorrow morning, upper 30s to low 40s. no rain drops for your sunday. some patchy fog out there and temperatures will come down a few degrees from today's high, starting out the day on the cooler side. as i mentioned, tomorrow will be dry. skies becoming partly sunny. for monday, basically the same deal, but then we thicken up the clouds by tuesday, wednesday and into thursday. next week, the storm track paying us a visit. multiple storms out there. first one is scheduled to move into the region on we

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this is a live look at the medals plaza at olympic park. of course that olympic flame, that is just awesome to see. >>> austrian ski jumper and gay rights advocate daniellea stolz said the public reaction has been exaggerated. the 30-year-old athlete is an outspoken gay rights advocates and one of the few athletes to come out as gay. she married her partner last year and took her partner's last name. she was asked about the gay propaganda law and she says she thinks it has been blown out of proportion. she is also an advocate for her sport, women's ski jumping. she was one of 15 jumpers who unsuccessfully sued the organizers of the 2010 vancouver games to be allowed to compete. >>> and now meteorologist rob mayeda is here with a look at a forecast. though we'd like to say inside and watch the olympics all day long, there are softball clinics, we have a swim meet today. >> at least it's not cold outside. that's about the positive spin for your outdoor plans. we do need the rain and we're seeing plenty of it in the north bay. almost too much

ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo will return with a live update at 10:30 tonight. >>> a at human rights conference u.s. attorney general eric holder announced a new federal policy for the treatment of same-sex married couple. >> on monday, i will issue a new policy memorandum that will for the first time in history formerly instruct all joist department employees to give laughl, same-sex marriages full and equal recognition to the greatest extent possible under the law. [ applause ]. >> attorney general holder called the strug struggle for gay marriage "the defining civil rights challenge of our time." the new policy applies regardless of where where the couple's home state recognizes their marriage. today's announcement expands federal rights october the heels of the supreme court decision that struck down the defense of marriage act. >> a rainy day in san francisco's castro district may have been brightened from news from the federal government. >> they are going to recognize gay marriage had that way at the federal level, those aspects of it, it's about time and i'm happy to see it.

here is just last week at this time, only at 13%. we jumped 23% over the weekend up to 36% of normal out there the central sierra. that's really great. that's what one whopping storm system can do to our totals. we'll keep tracking that. at this point, looking much better, 36% of normal for the central sierra. for the bay area today looking good as well. 44 degrees in the east bay now. 46 degrees in san francisco with a blanket of clouds overhead. likely the case until lunchtime today. our next weathermaker is moving in quickly. it's going to arrive in son moment na county by 5:00 p.m. tonight. showers spread to the south throughout thursday into valentine's day. promised you this valentine's day forecast. take a look at what we can expect for all of the lovers out there. love is in the air. showers in san francisco for thursday. by valentine's day, low clouds to start. lovely finish. and then we bring in that widespread rainfall and potential for a half of an inch of rain on the valley floor get into the weekend. i'll time that out

at about 9:00 a.m. on wednesday, mostly cloudy, the clouds all get out of here by about with 3:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. and then that warming trend begins. we're talking about a return of the 70s. so, if you want to get up to tahoe, that snow is pretty good. a nice solid base. upwards of six feet in some resorts. sierra at tahoe, 5 1/2 feet, looking good at kirkwood, squaw and heavenly. like i said before a little more snowfall, then the warming trend. so if you want to get this yes, today and tomorrow you'll have the best conditions. we'll keep you updated all morning long. i want to tell you about when we could see the heavy rainfall return to the bay area so. stay tuned for that f. you got to leave mike is going to help you out on the traffic tuesday. >> good morning. it's traffic tuesday. we expect the heaviest on tuesday, alert folks. looking at the south bay we have south bay school districts off for the most part. looking at a slowdown so we haven't seen changes yet. we might see a shorter liv

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here is a look at at the bay bridge from emeryville camera with a look at the toll plaza traffic is looking thinned. but the metering lights are not turn on and we will let you know when they do. >>> a heads up for parents, with the recall of a child safety device that could pose a serious danger. >> a stunning sight in the heart of hollywood: a man smashes the windows of a police car. he didn't get very far. >>> it is 5:44. we have video from new york city, sadly, one person is dead after a bus and a truck collided this morning. four people were hurt. two suffered serious injuries. both vehicles plowed into scaffolding that surrounds the building at 7th avenue and 15th. two people are also injured. the building inspectors must determine how to remove the vehicles so the scaffolding doesn't collapse. no word on how many people were on board the bus. >> new this morning a man is in custody after smashing the ones of an lapd patrol car on a hollywood boulevard and snatching a laptop. what is more unusual is he did it right if front of darth vader and superman. neither intervened. it happened

look at that. the race may have a modified format as well if they do with the qualifiers were suppose today happen today but because those are canceled the raises are going to be bracketed on their world ranking, start -- that is also pushed back until tomorrow because of that fog. >>> all right. bay area weather and traffic right now. let's start with the forecast. erica with details. reporter: mark no fog right now, valley fog start to form over the next couple of hours. right now we are seeing mainly clear skies and temperatures in the 40s and 30s. so these numbers could continue to drop over the next couple of hours really until we hit sunrise. san francisco you are leaving to 48-degrees, 42 in san jose. afternoon expect 60ss in the bay. very similar conditions in the east bay under mainly sunny skies. 64 your high in fairfield, 61 for castro valley, temperatures along the coast staying in upper as and 64 in oakland. looking ahead around the bay forecast, slight chance for port bay showers tomo

at that >> pam: developing tonight. in san francisco. >> pam: a man hit and killed while >> reporter: and kidnapping suspect certain suddenly approached the up saatchi the little girl. snatching the little girl >> she was able to get the daughter back from the suspect and he tried to flee the area off foot. >> reporter: followed the suspect of his property. >> during the investigation later on it was learned that the suspect had made previous statements they he intended to sexually assault children. >> reporter: a man may suffer from an mental condition is subject to flood psychiatric hold connected to a previous the incident and every bill.merysvie >> reporter: heyman hit and killed crossing sunset boulevard late this morning. the victim was near yorba street not far from the zoo in the outer sunset. a toyota corolla hit the man, whose body crashed through the front windshield. three women in the corolla were hospitalized with non- life threatening injuries. there is a crosswalk at that intersection that has blinking y

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in their honor, flags at the capitol are being flown at half staff. you can also join hundreds of ktvu viewers who have posted their condolences on our facebook page at ktvu chnl 2 an fies book. >>> now, a 53-year-old woman confessed to killing her own mother. she killed 74-year-old. officers say she called them yesterday to turn hearst in. when police arrived at the home on asail yeah avenue, they found the elderly woman's body inside. they gathered more evidence today but wouldn't release details yet about how the killing happened. neighbors say they often heard arguments. >> used to be a deck over there. one time around #1shg in -- 1:00 in the morning, she was just tearing that thing apart. i mean, it was really bizarre. >> south wick is being held in contra costa county jail. san jose police are urging witnesses to come forward with information about a fight at a flea market that ended with a killing of one man. today homicide detectives investigated the scene at snow avenue and capital expressway. last night the victim was stab and had hit by a c

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he was arrested at the workplace last week and is held without bay at the santa clara county jail. he has worked for the fire department for 20 years and was also a volunteer at a south bay church. >> a poll this morning shows how expensive it is to live and work in san francisco. the pinch is a top concern for voters. this morning, san francisco chamber of commerce unveiled the results of 2014 dignity health city poll and a thousand people gathered for the event at the marriott. the cost of owning a home is the number one worry for more than a third of san francisco residents compared to 20 percent last year. other concerns are homelessness and represent cost and affordability. >> hundreds in san francisco affected by lying rent are rallying at the state capital at this hour over the bill that allows landlords to evict tenants to if they take the property off the market. they are showing support if a bill that would help build housing for low and middle income residents. >> san francisco muni riders can sound off about a series proposed fare increases, one proposal raises the sing

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, the oldest man at d-day, the only father-son team to be at d-day. a bloody nose at harvard. i don't know if that habit waited him to what he would experience later in life but there's some benefits to the game of football. the president that i more interested in his interest in football is woodrow wilson. a guy that theodore roosevelt ran against later and lost. and woodrow wilson, before he was president, a lot of people don't know he was actually a football coach. he helped coach the team at wesleyan and princeton, and this controversy over football today, the war on football, didn't start the day before yesterday in the 19th century, woodrow wilson debated the subject to big audiences, should we encourage the game of football and he took the affirmative position. and his reason was that -- let me but get my trusty notes hereo not misquote president wilson. he said he thought football developed more moral qualities than any other game of athletics and pointed to decisiveness, endurance, presence of mind. a lot of sports encourage those qualities b

winds are fastest along the coast at 20 but still 18 miles per hour at napa with the fat of the winds around 1,000'. you can see it is raining on the embarcadero and you can see the streams with ponding on the roads. not so breezy this afternoon. showers tomorrow morning, mostly dry on sunday, a slight chance of a shower late in the afternoon and we will have on-and-off light rain chances next week. the storm is moving in and has the poe toible for wind damage and beach hazard with a small stream advisory with creek flooding minimal but it could be out there. right now, all the way through 3:00 we have a chance of showers and we get a break from 4:00 to 7:00 and then another batch of showers moves in and hangs around law saturday morning. by saturday afternoon it is scattered if nature and gone by saturday evening. rainfall amounts hit half an imto an inch by saturday evening and 1" to 2" 2349 north bay mountains and 2" to 4" in the santa santa cruz mountains. as we look at the seven-day forecast, nickel and dime for monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday with temperatures back to av

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westbound at 24/580. it has effected traffic on 24 coming out of the tunnel and coming down the hill into downtown oakland. the fire was there. so give yourself plenty of extra time taken. let's go out and take a look at the westbound bay bridge. a live picture. 25 minute delay. 10 minutes into san francisco. drive time 25 minutes plus into san francisco. bridges have a little bit of fog. if you go to the peninsula, it's slow on 101 but 280 is a good drive. 7:03. let's go back to the desk. >> thank you. former child star shirle temple has passed away at the age 85. she spent most of her adult life here in the bay area. >> she died last night shortly before 11:00 surrounded by family. america's sweetheart dazzled audiences world wide with her grand singing, dancing and acting by the time she was three years old. she starred in several films. she had a nonalcoholic drink named after her and her image spun all kinds of merchandise from dolls to clothing. she's the youngest person to win an academy award at a

we saw brandon bell taking balls at first and hunter pence taking ground balls at third base. they are ready to go, jerrod, but pitchers and catchers will go tomorrow here at scottsdale stadium. >> very good. thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> all right. one unfortunate baseball note to pass along, former major league player jim who prepped at sarah hay scho high school passed away today after suffering multiple strokes. >>> in the big easy, they are gearing up for all-star hoops down on bourbon street. step curry ready to up his game against the best. >> i know the caliber of player that's in here, not only that the all star jersey, to be one of them in that group is definitely a dream come true. >> raj and jessica, curry is the favorite to win the three-point shootout tomorrow. they have odds in vegas for the competition. >> they have odds in vegas for everything. >> will they actually make it to the shoot out if they are on bourbon street all night? >> that's a good question. there could be delays. >> thanks, jerrod. for a full half hour of local sports coverage, watch