avoid amador plaza road. it affects a couple car dealerships in the area. the shopping mall with the target, toys "r" us and c chipolte. 580 is moving smoothly through caster valley. it's early for the east bay. thank you. >> thank you. an unexpected bonus for crowds lining the streets of london. a dress rehearsal for the royal wedding. wendy is in london with it all. plus, one bay area woman who says she wouldn't miss it for anything. >> reporter: even buckingham ballas has to haul out the hoover when guests arrive. all indication that is this big fat royal wedding is galloping our way. as the sun rose in london, horses hit the streets for a dress rehearsal of the royal procession from the palace to westminster abbey. the abbey has become camp westminster. dozens of people pitch tents and get comfy. >> the tents are going to come in handy on wedding day. it's supposed to rain. it could be a gully washer. >> i'm watching, i don't care. >> reporter: she did this for the queen's jubilee. >> come early, bring everything. >> reporter: wendy and her mom both fro

it happened at a car drip near amador plaza road -- at a car dealership near amador plaza road. that area shut down until 7 a.m. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 5:07. a cluster of killer storms slamming the south. >> a state of the emergency declared in alabama as the death toll there skyrockets. what a photographer saw when he came face to face with one of those twisters. plus... >> i think this is really reaching the point of ridiculousness. >> the birth certificate is out but the mudslinging isn't over just yet. the new questions about president obama's college credentials when we come back. hey marcel, watch this! hey marcel, watch this! [ buzzer sounds ] [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hey marcel, watch this! yeah, marcel! -marcel! -hey marcel! are you listening to me? marcel! [ male announcer ] only at&t u-verse lets you follow your favorite channels on one screen. just $29 a month for the first six months -- dvr included. you got a state-of-the-art man-cave, but the savings account of a cave-man! hey sports fans check this out. [ beep ] oops, my bad. earn more with interestplu

mike has been talking act closures near amador closures. avoid this area, this investigation is going to be going on into the morning commute. reporting live in dublin, christie smith, today in the bay. >> thank you. >>> the coroners office is investigating a bizarre case. a 63 year-old man is in custody after he has the body of a 30-year-old woman in his apartment several days. he was arrested after police responded to reports of a foul stench. when they got there, they found the body of a woman that appears to have been decomposing for at least a week. he's on parole for burglary and is a person of interest in the case. they are working to identify the woman. they are treating the case as a homicide. we'll have a live report cominging up later this morning. >>> a dog with a history of violent behavior will be put down after ripping the ear off a 5-year-old girl. the dog snapped when she tried to pet the german shepherd. the dog bit through the tip of her right ear. they are not planning to press charges. >>> move over fake police badges.

it happened at amador plaza road and dublin boulevard. christie smith joins us live with the latest. >> reporter: good morning to you. we have been watching this all morning. they are being very thorough collecting evidence in the shooting. it happened across the street at the dealership. the coroner isn't there yet. deputies heard from the sergeant involved in this. she thought this man was trying to kill her by hitting her head into the cement. again, this is near the car dealership. she fired at him. this started at 1:30 in the morning when the sergeant noticed a man walking near the stores and the correspond lot. she thought it seemed odd. she phoned in and tried to contact the man about what he was doing out here. she says he attacked her and she didn't know why. sergeant j.d. nelson with the sheriff's department is saying the dublin police department had run ins with this man before. >> he's familiar to the dublin police. he's been arrested on numerous occasions. he's had violence in his past and been arrested for fighting and those

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open in a half hour so you can still drive up and down dublin, you can't take the exit that goes to amador plaza. >> they will have that cleared up shortly? >> reporter: yeah, just about 30 minutes or so is what we're hearing. >> very good. kiet do life in dublin this morning. thank you. >>> the death toll keeps climbing from tornadoes that roared across several southern states. at least 178 people are dead in five states. alabama was hit the hardest with 128 killed. and check out this video. a camera rolling as a massive tornado moved across the campus at the university of alabama in tuscaloosa. national weather service had reports of 137 tornadoes in the south yesterday. here's some of the damage it left behind. pies and piles of debris, cars flipped over. the red cross tells cnn in some parts of alabama there are as many ambulances on the street as there are taxis in new york city. wow. >>> a call for new pipeline tests and a new federal investigation following the deadly blast on the peninsula. anne makovec is in san bruno with what documents will have to be handed over. anne, good mor

by amador cortez mesa, the convicted ringleader of one of the largest international sex trafficking cases ever prosecuted here. authorities say these victims were held as slaves in nearby houses. the windows boarded. there was no way out. the women we spoke with asked us not to use their real names or show their faces. >> translator: he beat me with a broomstick and with a closet bar. it's just not right what he did. he promised he would marry me. >> reporter: that's one way authorities say cortez mesa would trick his victims, at least ten in this case, and there may be more. authorities don't know if they are connected, but nbc news has found reports of similar types of brothels in at least 25 states. >> hello, national human trafficking resource center. >> reporter: anti-trafficking group polaris calls this phenomenon latino residential brothels. >> the whole network spans all across the country really, and it's something i don't think many people realize. >> the johns would come in here. the girls -- >> reporter: in the cortez mesa case authorities say dozens of johns would arrive at t

the sergeant approached the transient along amador plaza road near the jeep chrysler car deeper ship. the a-- dealership. the attack was sudden and severe. only three minutes passed between the time the sergeant radioed in that she spotted a suspicious person and when she reported shooting him. >> she is bloody. she had multiple head injuries and fatally shot the suspect. >> reporter: the man was pronounced dead at the scene. the sergeant was rushed to eden medical center with severe head wounds. the transient was known to officers and had previous arrests for public drunkenness and violence. but many recall him as a known fixture roaming around town who kept to himself and never caused trouble. >> always seemed like a nice guy. >> i hear the cop is hurt and i'm worried about that. so really worried about that. i hope she's okay. >> reporter: the homeless man shot and killed has been identified. he is 53-year-old darrell podbornie. the sergeant's name is not released but she has been released from eden medical center. she is at home now recovering from her injuries. in dublin, juliett

the sergeant responded to a report of suspicious activity in the parking lot of a car dealership on amador plaza road not far from the west dublin bart station. she radioed the dispatchers that she was about to confront the man. >> that contact turned violent very quickly and very suddenly because within three minutes she had advised our radio that she had a shots fired situation. >> sheriff's investigators say the man had kicked and punched the sergeant, whose head was covered in blood when backup arrived. the sergeant is on paid administrative leave until the investigation is concluded. >>> a gruesome discovery in santa cruz, officially a murder investigation tonight. a santa cruz parolee accused of killing a woman whose body police say was found decomposing in his apartment and had been there for more than a week. 63-year-old john cloeer was arrested tuesday night after neighbors complained of a foul odor coming from his upstairs studio apartment. police say inside they found the body of 30-year-old heather sterns. an autopsy determined she was murdered. neighbors say they often saw her

dead after getting into a scuffle with an alameda county sheriff's deputy near a car dealership on amador plaza road. kiet do is on the scene but streets are blockedded off in the area. the southbound 680 ramp to dublin boulevard completely shut down and has been since about 2 a.m. elsewhere, we'll go out live take a live look at conditions across the golden gate bridge. looks great here. no issues through marin. traffic nice and light all the way across the span. in fact, it's a quick trip from novato down into san francisco. now, if you are traveling along the coast we have learned they are doing roadwork in pacifica. one way traffic control is in effect since late last night. highway 1 at linda mar again only 1 lane getting by at a time 7:00. so expect delays. to the south bay we go and there is some roadwork it sounds like southbound 101 ongoing roadwork for most of the week between story road and capitol expressway. the guadalupe parkway, 280, traffic crews great through these areas and you can see just a couple of headlights. traffic is light at this time of the morning. typically g

it was a two alarm fire started at the naked fish restaurant near amador. they said the fire began in the kitchen of the restaurant. the hayward fire department so far as not given us -- has not given us additional information on injuries. >>> cal train has reported another fatality. a man was hit and killed about 1:00 this morning. there were 62 passengers onboard the southbound train. the tracks were closed down in both directions for about an hour. operations have returned to normal. >> el cerrito police are warning people about a rash of burglaries. many of the break-ins lap -- happened during the day. witnesses have described them has groups of two or three african-americans or hispanic males. >>> a road in american canyon is expected to reopen after a sewer line collapsed. it happened at highway 29 a and crawford way. here's how the intersection looked. the collapse shut off the water in american canyon for more than 12 hours. that forced city officials to bring out portable toilets. city officials also passed out bottled water. >>> well, a rare event

he attended amador high school. he was coming to the aid of a wounded soldier on tuesday when he was killed by enemy forces. his mother said he was a quiet soul who would never call himself a hero, but she says in her heart and in others, he is a genuine hero. >> always cared about right and wrong and what is fair and what's not fair and if there was an underdog, he stood up for the underdog and that is who he was. he would have been more concerned about the other soldiers who died with him, other than having all this attention on himself. >> jamison wanted to be a massage therapist, but decided to enlist in the economy when the economy was bad. he had been home in january for a little while before returning to afghanistan. jamison is the third soldier from the bay area to die in combat in iraq or afghanistan in the past month. the first from pleasanton. >> it was hard to get to know, but once you got past that wall he had up, he was a very kind, sensitive, gentle, sympathetic person. >> his plan was to become a mas

patrick way and amador parkway. in case you don't know this area, this is the 680 southbound onramp and offrap to dublin -- offramp to dublin boulevard. so if you are driving along 6 0 you may see -- 680, you may see a police car. they don't want anybody coming down -- coming down here. they are trying to notify next of kin of the transient. back to you. >>> three minutes after:00. an early-morning fire in oakland has left five people without a home. it happened on 68th avenue east of international boulevard shortly before 2:30 this morning. firefighters say appears a wiring problem may be to blame. it took almost three hours to clear the scene. firefighter explain what took so lodge -- took so long. >> they hold in a lot of heat and smoke and embers so we had to pretty much remove the area of that structure and pretty much most of the roof. >> no one was home when the fire started. no one was hurt. >>> the death toll is now more than00 after several storms yesterday ripped through the southern u.s. take a look at v

boulevard is closed t is because of a police investigation that's ongoing at the intersection of dublin and amadore. more on that as we move back to daria. >>> let's get more what happened. and we have the latest. you can see the crime tape, what is the rate prevent the investigators. >> reporter: the coroner, there here, that he looking to remove the body. let me show you where it started t started over there the unmarked car in the parking lot belongs to a sergeant with the police department. at 1:30 she was on patrol, notices a man in the area. calls back saying i want to check it out. then she calls said she fired a shot at the transient and ended over there at that white suv in the dealership. and a man in his 50s. they're not releasing his name he is well known, he has been in trouble before. they get into a scuffle here. and he stomped on her and punches her she is in the hospital with injuries. but you can see the area is shut down and it has been about six hours now they don't know when they will remove the seen. as we leave you let's give you the lay of the land. when we get information w

amador plaza is still closed but we're toldt should be opened back up around noon. >> it is 8:27 right now, weather and traffic after this. >>> welcome back, folks, we're looking at the approach to 589 , report of a goose in the road, honk if you see it. get it? we'll show you 880 past the coliseum. things are jamming up right at high street. not really that bad for a thursday and a live look at the san mateo bridge. a little slow off of the 80, but across the water, no major issues and a little slower near san mateo. >> once that fog lifts, temperatures in the 70s today, going to be gorgeous. i'll have another local news update for you in half an hour, "today" show returns in less than a minute. >>> 8:30 on a thursday morning, the 28th of april, 2011. that makes this the day before the big wedding right here in london. the kiss will take place on that balcony at buckingham palace just behind us. to the side here, the city is decked out. the crowds are building as the countdown enters its final hours. i just mentioned outside buckingham palace i'm matt lauer joined by meredith vee ieir