in san francisco, dan kerman kron 4 news. we reached out to safeway and they issued this statement: quote - "the concerns raised at the diamond heights store, centered on two areas: proper equipment operating temperature, and employees following our policies and procedures. both areas were addressed immediately by our food safety and store operations teams. we found an equipment malfunction, which has been repaired. warm holding and cold display cases have been recalibrated and repaired. to appropriate operating temperatures. any products in question were immediately removed and discarded." safeway also says, "we are providing additional training to all store employees who work in food preparation. and we will continue to provide ongoing training as well. " this story is hugely popular on our website. you can check into it. at the top of the homepage at kron 4 dot com. we have posted the full health department inspection report. also. related coverage. a series of exclusive stories dan kerman has done. exposing issues with ma

there is also a series of exclusive stories dan kerman whole foods. and health concerns at this diamond heights safeway all that and more on kron4.com. president obama is in the is bay area. and this morning he is visiting a wal-mart in mountain view. mr.obama touched down at moffett federal airfield yesterday afternoon and attended democratic fundraisers. is his scheduled visit to a mountain view walmart this morning is drawing fire from some bay area unions and wal-mart workers. labor unions claim that the visit will send a terrible message to workers across america. . obama will be speaking is at around 10 this morning. we have a live crew already at that walmart and will bring you a live report later this morning. thatnew this morning. a man is suspected of using a fake equipment. and now, petaluma identify him. the case. investigators say the man rented a flatbed trailer and generator from cal west rentals last saturday. equipment and police later found out he used someone else's name for the rental. other companies reported similar incidents. th

dan kerman kron 4 news u.c. berkeley is on a list of schools now being investigated by the federal government. for how it handles sexual abuse allegations by students. the report by the education department. lists cal as one of 55-schools facing a federal investigation. the government says, the list is strictly about investigations of complaints, and cal's inclusion. does not mean the school violated any laws. still, this does not sit well with students. u-c berkeley put out this statement: "sexual assault on college campuses is a critical issue. and we will cooperate fully with the investigation." the statement goes on to say. "sexual assault will not be tolerated in our community. much has been done to strengthen the campus' handling of these issues, but we understand that there is always room for improvement." here are some of the other notable schools being investigated. they include, u-s-c, princeton, dartmouth and harvard law school. we've posted the complete list. on our website. kron 4.com. a san jose st

now, kron 4's dan kerman reports, one day after a safeway store claims. they've cleaned up their act, the health department finds more disturbing high risk practices. it's a story you'll see only on kron 4. a follow up inspection of this safeway in san francisco's diamond heights finds high risk health violations persist it was late last month when the health department first discovered the violations during a routine inspection: employees picking food labels off the floor, putting them on cooked meat and then touching raw meat without washing their hands. inspectors also found unclean or improper sanitizing of food surfaces and utensils. and hot and cold food being kept at unsafe temperatures. sot richard lee/ san francisco department of public health: the violations are high risk and therefore there's a higher chance of food born illness. when the inspection was completed this safeway got a score of only 66 out of a possible 100 sot richard lee/ san francisco department of public health: this is probably in the lower 5% of the food facilities we inspect

dan kerman kron 4 news straight ahead: a mountain view man is accused of kidnapping two women. he did not know. both managed to escape. but police say. there may be more victims. kenneth middlebrook is now in santa clara county jail's psychiatric ward. police say, he kidnapped a woman in alviso on sunday, and forced her to drive his car on highway- 101. she intentionally crashed the car to get away. police say, middlebrook then ran to a mobile home park. kidnapped another woman. and drove around for hours before she escaped. kron 4 spoke to middlebrook's father, who described his iraq war veteran son, as a ticking time bomb. police tracked down middlebrook in ione , that's a small town in the gold country foothills, northeast of lodi. neither kidnap victim was hurt. now in place. new protection for those bad bolts on the new span of the bay bridge. cal-trans sent us this photo of the new "grease caps." the steel caps are the size of paint cans. and filled with special grease. they are in place near the area where the 192- bolts started to crack last year. the caps will act as a

kron 4's dan kerman speaks with missing child advocate marc klaas. who runs the klass kids foundation. and he minces no words, when it comes to john webb. klaas on webb suicide 050514b advocate missing child advocate marc klaas with the klaas kids foundation says john webb was a suspect's in his daughter's disappearance for good reason sot the story really never add about--up. she went to extremes to avoid answering and cameras--surveillance. i think the big guilt that fro--the guio him. the reason for webb's suicide is unknown at this time. but klaas says the real tragedy, is that now the family will likely never know what happened to daphne sot dan kerman two men -- found shot and killed in a san jose home. kron 4's jeff bush has details on what police know about them. and the large piece of potential evidence that officers rolled off the property. san jose police were called to the 1500 block of marlene court. when they arrived they found the bodies of two men inside the house. according to police, the two men knew each other. they were both found

dan kerman kron 4 news a san jose state university football player. critically burned in a fire. kron 4's maureen kelly spoke to the young man's family at their home in martinez, where they remain hopeful for his full recovery. so far there is good news about the latest surgery so good so dr galvez says that everything went well? erin hall is getting the good news from his wife about his stepson.20 year jared leaf's latest surgery. this was jared's second operation since last wednesday's fire burned his san jose apartment. it's believed an unattended candle sparked that blaze. jared.who is a linebacker for the san jose state spartans.was awoken from a back bedroom and ran thru the flames to get to safety.but as a result he suffered second degree burns over 60 percent of his body. his family and friends say he's been on a ventilator and under sedation to deal with all of the pain that he's in. bite doctors normally say that with wounds like this in, it burns even once this field. jared is a double major in communications and drama.with dreams of playing professional sports, and po

with kron 4's dan kerman. tonight, he speaks with missing child advocate marc klaas. with the klass kids foundation. as dan found out, klaas minces no words when it comes to john webb. >> reporter: klaas with the klaas kids foundation says john webb was a suspect's in his daughter's disappearance for good reason >> reporter:the reason for webb's suicide is unknown at this time. but klaas says the real tragedy, is that now the family will likely never know what happened to daphne >> reporter: >> my costs are that the guilt got to him over what he had done to his daughter. the rich >> reporter: tragedy is that bell family will likely know what happened to daphne. >> i imagine that they would never know what happened to baby daphne and they deserve those in answers most assuredly >> reporter: says his heart goes out to baby daphne's family and they were committed to finding her. dan kerman >> reporter:missing toddler daphne webb vanished july 10th of last year. daphne's father -- john webb -- claims, she was kidnapped from his car in east oakland. he says she was taken o

kron 4's dan kerman has tonight's story. that you will only see on kron4. >> reporter:a routine health department inspection of this safeway in san francisco's diamond heights has uncovered several high risk violations >>-richard lee/s.f. dept of public health: high risk violations are violations that are more likely to cause a food born illness >> reporter:as customers shopped on april 22nd an inspector observed several shocking revelations among them. contaminated or adulterated food >> one of the employees dropped those food labels and then picked it up and put it on top of the food directly, the meat directly, which is not good >> reporter:and this happened in front of an inspector that same inspector also observed employees with unclean hands or improperly using gloves >> all the employees should know that basic hand washing they should be doing. >> reporter:inspectors also found unclean or improper sanitizing of food surfaces and utensilsand she found hot and cold food being kept at unsafe temperatures >> we saw temper

kerman has the story now you see only a kron4. >>dan: routine health department inspection of this is a flight and san francisco's die heights has not covered by risk violations. is not high risk of violence are violations that are more likely to cause food borne illness >>: as customer shopped on april 22nd an inspector observed several shopped at elevations. among now contaminated or adulterated food. >>: of one of the employees the food labels and then beaten up and put it on top of the food directly. the me directly. which is not good. >>: and this happened in front of the suspect or thrift that's an inspector also observed employees would, hands or improperly using gloves. >>: all employees should know that that basic hand washing it is what they should be don't >>: inspectors also found on a clean our the improper sanitizing of food services and utensils and she found hot and cold food being kept at unsafe temperatures. memo we sought interest or between 41135 which are set temperatures for food to be held that that all was

. >> pam: kron 4 first reported on this last friday now, following another inspection, kron 4's dan kerman talks to the health department about how the grocer has responded to the situation. >> reporter:whole foods maggots thursday >> reporter:inspectors with the san francisco department of public health returned to the whole foods market in noe valley for a third time in less than a week, to reinspect the meat deparment this after maggots were discovered in the meat case two mondays ago. >>richard lee/s.f. dept of environmental health: whole foods has done everything we have asked them to do. >> reporter:richard lee, the acting director of the department of environmental health says that includes setting up new cleaning procedures including cleaning two floor drains that could be the source of the maggots >>richard lee/s.f. dept of environmental health: they're going to be doing deep cleaning every week which they weren't doing >> reporter:initially whole foods told the health department they had found only one dead maggot on that monday kron 4 began its investigation, whole foods admitte

dan kerman reports now. the depart the health department thought that wolfowitz was moving in the right direction. >> it was tuesday afternoon when public health inspectors arrived at this whole foods in the wee valley. expecting to find cleanup completed following -- following the april 21st discovery of life maggots in the me case. that's not what they found. in fact, deep cleaning of two floor drains which could be the source of the maggots had not had not been done. and the food inspection report the public health apartment told him foods it can't be an isolated maggots. if you see one, there's more somewhere. so there's an urgency to do all the department of public health recommendation that you have to be more proactive and take care of it immediately. on wednesday, the department of public health told kron4, whole foods dismantled the me case last night, this work addresses most of our concern regarding the possible source of maggots. not all of it, the health department is expecting whole foods to cl

dan kerman kron4 news 3 it >>: after all losing season mark jackson is there a good team and the right direction. as we all know he led for two of jackson's assistants were dismissed its unfavorable darman was fired for allegedly secretly recorded conversations during coaches' meetings three if this eye those distractions of the at what warriors did rally to of 51 games and make the playoffs again. this marked the first time since the early '90s the team in the postseason consecutive years. keep them at a chemical found in hundreds of popular shampoo's is now being linked to cancer. kron4 scott rates shows as the chemical and what's being done about it. >>: its shampoo find on store shelves in your shower. in fact you might have been using it for years and never have known the dangers tariffs and california's consumer protection law chemical called coca mines and the e a was added to the list of chemicals known to cause cancer stric. off cocamide dea. >>: caroline cox is a research director for the center of a fine, so health and oakland. if the company announced monday that it has rea

kron 4's dan kerman speaks with missing child advocate marc klaas. who runs the klass kids foundation. and he minces no words, when it comes to john webb. a driver who may have had a death wish plowed through a red light in santa rosa last night and sends three people to the hospital. c-h-p says the incident happened on highway 12 just before 7pm. despite attempts by officers offs to make a traffic stop, the driver continued on highway 12 until getting off at the fulton road offramp, running a red light and ending up in a three car collision. the extent of the injuries are unknown at this time. coming up on the kron 4 morning news- pet owners in san francisco told to be on high alert after suspicious meatballs are found again in one popular park. plus--a shocking story of survival: a mother found-- five days after her disappearance in an overturned car off a colorado highway. how she was found, coming up. new developments with that deadly air show crash in fairfield. on monday, the n-t-s-b started examining the wreckage and the ground where it crashe

kron 4 first reported on this last friday now, following another inspection, kron 4's dan kerman talks to the health department about how the grocer has responded to the situation. heading into the five o'clock hour we have some amazing video we wanted to show you. take a look at this video of that landslide along a maryland road.caught onit happened wednesday after hours of heavy rain pounded the city of baltimore. at least ten cars slipped down a steep bank onto railroad tracks. from the air you can really see the damage. it looks like someone just broke off the asphalt. those cars just tumbled together.as several feet of earth gave way. luckily no one was hurt. a florida man has to give up suggestiongrown alligators. apparently the man raised them from hatchlings. and had a whole set up in his backyard for them. asphaltbut wildlife police say it's too small for the gators. reptiles.and gave them to a sphene but he can still get what says the man has a week to find a new place to keep them. this a trumpeter swan named gordon needed some help after getting a fish hook stuck in his mou