allie rasmus is live with us with a prayer service to kick off the morning demonstration. it will begin in the next hour. allie? >> reporter: we are less than a mile from levi stadium and we can turn the camera around and show you in relation to where we are. we are here at the park. group organizing this protest is holding a prayer service here before they march to levi stadium. the goal to change the name of the washington dc nfl team and the mascot. and they are playing against the 49ers today. this not the first protest that a group like this has staged against the washington nfl franchise. this is a similar rally and protests when the washington team played the minnesota vikings. the group organizing today's event is against racism in sports. they describe themselves as grass roots organization in california. i spoke to the organizer of today's rally. she is not certain how many people will show up. it could be anywhere from 25 to hundreds of people later today. she did hear some people traveling and driving in as far away as nevada. we will meet with hup with her and

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >> mark ibanez is here now. you just got off the phone with jeremy newberry. what did he tell you? >> we were talking, i mean, this is ubprecedented for the -- unprecedentedprecedented for the nfl to be investigated like this. talking to jeremy newberry, i tell you what, i have known him for 20 years, he is a stand up guy, and he is a high profile plaintiff but he wanted to make it clear, he is not in it to get a check. he would not be getting involved if he wasn't promised that they were going to do something to change the way drugs are administered to players, not only now but going way off into the future because he is now a player agent and he has a responsible to young players to make sure their long term health is not at risk and now he has stage three kidney failure. i remember talking to him during the pre-game show and he said in one nfl game he sustained a any injury and to get -- knee injury and to get him on the field he took 7 vicodin and that includes a shot that is a pain killer. i think anybody w

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live in napa, allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. >>> thanks unbelievable. must be tough on those residents there. >>> some people in florida are already camped out for black friday. this is derek deer man's third year camping outside of best buy. he wants to be first in line to get a 50-inch tv for $199. he says it's more about the adrenaline rush than the deal. he gets mixed reaction from shoppers who pass right by his tent. >> i see him standing there and i says are you waiting for black friday or black thursday, and he says yes, and i i says are you crazy. >> you guys are crazy. god bless you. i couldn't do that. is it really worth it. get a job. we've heard everything. >> well, deerman actually says he does have a job, and that a friend holds his place in line when he needs to go off to work. >> that's a good friend. he better get a black friday deal if he's holding his place in line for him. >>> the identity of a man who purchased a winning lottery ticket worth more than $600,000 has been released. chris northcot bought the ticket last month in alameda

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a former cub saud leader was sentenced to -- scout leader was sentenced for child molestation. he pleaded no contest to sexually molesting a family friend when the boy was 12 and continuing to four years. police say some of the encounters were recorded on video. he is expected to serve 85% of his 14-year-old and register as a sex offender. >>> police say a woman suspected in a blessing scam has been arrested in new york. according it the new york post the woman in this photo was detained by boarder patrol as she was on a plane last week. police say she convinced people that their valuables needed blessing and shes has been swapping the -- she has been swapping the items. >>> the issue of public safety was front and center at a forum today for some of the candidates running for oakland mayor. >> that is the most urgent need, more police to do better policing. i have studied other cities like los angeles that reduced violent crime by 80%. if they could do it so can oakland. >> for me that is the issue in the race. it is the thing that has it great

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. back to you. >> thank you. >>> police are searching for a 14-year-old boy who was kidnapped today near his high school. they issued a amber alert for sergio vazquez. he was taken by two men who may have been driving a white van. sergio vazquez is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. he was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and black snow-type boots. he was last seen at 10:00 a.m. east of stockton. anyone with information is asked to call 911. >>> officials are trying to determine how much of a 100- year-old san jose church can be saved after it was damaged by fire. it broke out yesterday about an hour after the 1:00 p.m. mass. crews were on scene throughout the day monitoring for flair ups. you see the fire yesterday. the fire spread rappedly and then to the -- rapidly and then to the roof which collapsed. >> we have 5 crews battling for 40 minutes. unfortunately we were forced back by the fire. >> the official cause has yet to be

and ktvu's allie rasmus explains why. >> reporter: this is a picture of joseph martin. now the former elementary school teacher is in court again on trial for many of the same charges. he is accused of rubbing the chests of male students. in august a jury acquitted him of 21 charges. the jury was hung on 95 counts. >> when it is a kung jury -- hung jury it is common you will get a retrial. >> reporter: usually when a trial ends with a hung jury the attorneys will interview the jurors afterwards. >> you learn something from talking to the jurors that allows you to reshape the case. >> reporter: he is facing 24 counts of molestation and this time around the prosecutor struck a lighter tone in his opening marks. saying there is no real debate here. he set an example on how much energy it takes into being a teacher. his attorney told the jury there was no sexual intent. he seemed optimistic about the outcome of the retrial. >> my heart was in the right place and there was no sexual intent and i believe i will be acquitted. >> reporter: there is no new evidence. many of the

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. thank you. >>> over to our chief meteorologist bill martin now because we got some rain today and more rain is on the way. >> yeah. getting used to the umbrellas. keep them handy. you will need them. even jackets. into tomorrow and again saturday. so that is just how it goes. it is november. it is acting like it. rainfall accumulations. up in the hills up there, they get typically get the biggest rainfall. north, they got .7. most cities got 2/10, not a lot of rain for the city but good amounts of rain in the coastal hills. the system is dropping snow at the higher elevations. snow flurries at path level. rain falling right now. we will take a peak. concord. antioch. scattered showers. if you are waiting for folks to get home from work today, danville, walnut creek, it has been slow all night because of the earlier accident and? showers. the showers are moving out tonight and tomorrow they mauve back in -- move back in. tomorrow morning dry. around 10:00 a.m. showers develop again. af

allie rasmus, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> we have another 2 investigates story tomorrow night. it involves shop owners who signed a contract with the company payment systems after sales people told them their credit card processing service would save the businesses money. what the businesses didn't realize is that they were also signing on with a second company with a four year agreement to lease the credit card swiping equipment. when they tried to cancel, they were stuck paying for the equipment at a higher rate than what it actually costs. >> we were in the market for another credit card processing company. a guy came in here at the right time, and was offering us the world. we would get rates like the big chain stores like wal-mart, and target get. it didn't really sound like too good to be true, it sounded like here's our answer. >> 2 investigates examines the fine print in those contracts and also reveals why an attorney who tried to help says his hands are tied. >>> an oakland base flight attendant is dead after bringing her boyfriend to texas to meet her family. tonight

allie rasmus. >>> it's not just the cost of cleaning it up. >> these huge insulation that hogged up two lanes was rolling toward me. >> the impact and efforts to ensure driver safety. >>> after the break tracking more rain into the area as we head toward the holiday weekend. - ( helicopter whirring ) - ( roars ) ( siren wails ) ( pop music playing ) ♪ when you're ready ♪ ready, ready, ready ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it. >>> tonight a which -- tonight a closer look to the damage caused by debris on the highway after 2 investigates discovered the cost to california taxpayers is on the rise. last night we told you how the state is paying $60 million to clean trash that falls off of trucks. >> reporter: the big cause of the problem is drivers that don't cover up or tie down the things they are hauling. >> i was on my way to w

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a security guard was shot and wounded outside a starbucks in antioch. a man on a bike pointed a gun at two people. a security guard intervened and was shot in the arm. the shooter was arrested. on sunday a woman was hurt after getting hurt in cross fire of a shooting. >>> ktvu channel 2 news obtained surveillance video of a violent confrontation. the victim told ktvu channel 2 news she asked a mother to calm her screaming child inside the nordstrom rack monday afternoon. now watch the top of your screen. after the woman left the store the video shows a woman -- video show as woman punching the victim. the attacker got into a car and police are asking any witnesses to police come forward. >>> crews have been working to repair a water main break in the south bay. the was reported at 12:30 p.m. this afternoon near the villages in east san jose. it goes to a fire hydrant so water service was not effected but crews were still trying to stop the flow of watt outside the gate. -- water outside the gate. traffic in the area is being diverted. >>> company that

allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2news. >> nice technique, allie! i expect you to hit that obstacle course very hard. you need to represent out there. thanks for that live report. appreciate it, allie. >>> well, it just celebrated its grand opening. now a new skate park in marin county has been shut down temporarily. cell phone video shows some of the first skaters testing the park out at last weekend's grand opening. it appears details about how it will be run still immediate to be worked out. the park is on land owned by the marin housing authority, but the marin services city district will run it. what the agencies say they need to figure out is who will be responsible for someone gets hurt. >> right now, it's closed because liability hasn't been worked out. sometimes it takes a little bit longer than we expected. >> skateboarders say they are disappointed with the delay, but officials say they expect the insurance issues to be resolved within the next week or so. until then, however, the new skate park will stay closed. >>> friends and family of

allie rasmus with an inside look at the new oakland airport connector on its first day of service. >> wheels up, doors shut, all aboard the brand-new bart director. >> it's quiet and well-lit and clean. >> reporter: was the first time paying passengers could take the 3- mile long ride between the coliseum bart station and oakland airport and the shuttle buses that used to transport people are now a thing of the past and passenger s from the coliseum bart never have to leave the station, coming up the escalator and to the platform and on their way. connector train costs $6 each way, twice the price of old shuttle. >> it's okay with me, because it was easy to get here, straight walk down the platform. >> taking a look inside the train you will see a lot of seats and open space, but one thing you won't find is a conductor's cab. these trains are driver else. these trains have no drivers. it's pull bay cable. the trains are monitored 24 hours a day by bart employees in a control room. >> if there is any form of emergency they are trained what to could. >> reporter: the connector trains ru

ktvu's allie rasmus has more. >> reporter: an emotionally difficult case toinvestigate. a man walked oo -- to investigate. a man walked into the police station and told had sergeant he killed his wife. >> whenever i would see them it would restore my faith in married people. >> reporter: their neighbor said she suffered from dementia. when thediase took the turn for the worse -- >> she had been at the nursing home for a month. and the day she came back i saw her at the bottom of the stairs. she didn't know who i was. she has known me for a long time. >> the day after that, october 26, he walked into the police station and told them he wanted to confess to killing his wife. >> he said he shot his wife. he said he sought her to end -- shot her to end her suffering. >> officers found her dead with a dozen red roses. police interviewed her husband, he was emotional as he explained what he did and why. it was difficult case for investigators but the law is cut and dry about ending

ktvu's allie rasmus checked in with some business owners, and coming up in just about a minute we'll have more on the deals you can find around the bay area. really the big story is the weather. rain expected across the bay area today and tomorrow. for more on that let's head over to rosemary who has that weekend forecast. >> you said people in the south bay, i heard the rain last night. then i walked out. i'm like, oh, not so bad. >> right! just breaks here and there right? >> yes. and getting out this morning, not bad at all. you can get out for a run, maybe you're going to do holiday shopping. we've got a nice break in the pattern at this point. giving you a live look there over across oakland into alameda and the east bay hills where we have mostly cloudy skies, a few breaks in the sky with sunshine pulling through for the afternoon. storm tracker still working but not too hard. it has led up quite a bit. in the overnight hours we had the rain falling over the north bay. we woke up this morning with rain falling quite heavy at times over parts of the south bay, and right here the

ktvu's allie rasmus was at the courthouse in martinez, and tells us, a plea deal may be in the works. >> reporter: he didn't answer questions as he rushed out of contra costa county court. his attorney spoke for him instead and said his client is sorry. >> i want to make this clear, his apologies extend to all of the members of law enforcement who's reputations are potentially tarnished. >> reporter: harrington faces two felony counts for illegally searching the cell phones of two women he'd arrested for dui. he's accused of forwarding semi nude pictures to himself, and other chp officers. >> did he give any indication about why he did it? >> his statement to the authorities was that this was a joke. he thought it was humorous at the time. >> you go into somebody's cell phone, and you take their nude selfies without their permission, that's a crime. >> reporter: harrington resigned from the chp. as an officer for the agency, he patrolled both contra costa and alameda counties. barry grove says other dui cases harrington had been involved in, are now underreview, and could be dismissed

all right joining us now is allie rasmus when is live on board the train, which just pulled out of the airport headed to the oakland coliseum. >> we are on board that new way to get to the airport. this is the airport, the bart connector, the inside of it in route with a lot of passengers on board, so get ready to get to the station. including john newhouse who you came out of the airport and they didn't know if that was running. >> yes, absolutely. and they would make it over there and that it is a halfway surprise, following the crowd on up to the connector. i was with the family. what do you think of it so far? >> nice, comfortable, much better ride. >> not so much, just much quicker, not a problem and people will be waiting for the bus to leave as quickly as possible. >> this is the view inside, pretty spacious for those people. you can get a little view. coming up here you can see the coliseum off to the left u which means that we have made it to the oakland coliseum station as we'll talk to alicia who will tell us how this all works. that there will be no drivers, that these will