Bay Area News Roundup

A roundup of Bay Area stories making news today.

Greenfield shooting

One person was killed and two more were seriously injured in a shooting in Greenfield Tuesday afternoon.

Monterey County sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers responded around 12:30 p.m. to reports of a shooting on U.S. Highway 101 near Teague Avenue, sheriff's officials said.

Deputies arriving on the scene found four people inside a GMC suburban SUV parked in a northbound lane of Highway 101 near an emergency call box just north of Teague Avenue, according to the sheriff's office.

One victim, a male, was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released.

Two other victims inside the car were suffering from serious wounds to the head, face and body and airlifted to hospitals in Santa Clara County, according to the sheriff's office.

Sheriff's officials said a fourth person in the SUV, who was uninjured, was removed from the area for questioning.

Investigators learned that the victims were heading north on Highway 101 when a dark-colored vehicle drove up alongside of their car and began shooting at them, according to the sheriff's office.

Sheriff's officials say a motive for the shooting has not been determined.

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BART trains running

BART service will be up and running today while negotiations continue between the transit agency's management and union leaders, a federal mediator overseeing the talks announced Tuesday night.

Bay Area commuters will be able to board BART trains starting at 4 a.m. today as normal, despite the looming threat of a strike over the past several days.

"Bargaining continues to take place...the parties have made some progress," federal mediator George Cohen told reporters in Oakland Tuesday night.

Cohen declined to answer any questions regarding ongoing contract negotiations with BART's two largest unions but said, "We are devoting all of our energies...for the parties to reach an agreement."

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Kids in stolen car

An infant and toddler were been found uninjured in the backseat of a car stolen from San Francisco's Mission District Tuesday evening.

Around 6:50 p.m., officers found the children in the vehicle, which had been abandoned in a driveway in the 200 block of Sweeny Street, police said.

Police said the driver, described only as a thin white woman with curly, short brown hair, abandoned the car with the children inside it and fled on foot.

The woman reportedly stole the car with the kids inside from 22nd and Shotwell streets a short time after 6 p.m., according to police.

Police had not located or identified the woman as of 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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Missing teen girls

A San Jose father is spreading the word about his two teenage daughters who disappeared Sunday evening.

Madeline, 16, and Emily Dorcich, 13, were last seen at San Jose's Del Mar High School campus around 7:30 p.m., according to their father Chuck Dorcich.

Dorcich said the girls were at a church event at the high school. They both attend Valley Christian High School located at 100 Skyway Drive in San Jose.

The father said he filed a missing persons' report with San Jose police on Sunday night.

Friends and other volunteers, including members of his church, Bethel Church of San Jose, are posting fliers throughout the South Bay.

"I think they are somewhere in the South Bay," he said. "I can't imagine anywhere else they would be."

The fliers going up around the Bay Area and online have photos of the girls and other information, including that the two were last seen on the high school's quad.

Madeline, who also goes by Maddie, is described as standing 5 feet 1 inches tall and weighs 105 pounds. She was last seen wearing black jeans, a dark hooded sweatshirt and a black bag.

Her sister, Emily, stands 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has blue eyes and shoulder-length brown hair that was in a ponytail. She was wearing dark jeans and a graphic T-shirt.

Both had cellphones on them but they have since been turned off, according to Dorcich.

He said his ex-wife, who lives in Pismo Beach, has since arrived in the San Jose area.

Neither of the girls has ever run away or gone missing before, he said.

Dorcich set up a Facebook page, "Finding Madeline and Emily" to assist in the search. Information about the search is available at facebook.com/missingdorcichgirls.

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49ers stadium death

As work resumed Tuesday following a death Monday at the construction site of the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium in Santa Clara, neighbors of the 60-year-old worker in Vacaville remembered him as friendly, helpful and handy.

Edward Erving Lake Jr. was killed after a piece of rebar fell on him as he was unloading materials from his delivery truck at the stadium site, located at Centennial Boulevard and Tasman Drive in Santa Clara.

According to Turner-Devcon, the project's general contractor, Lake was severely injured and taken to a hospital where he passed away.

He was working as an employee of subcontractor Gerdau Ameristeel, according to officials with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.

Jerry and Cheryl Coates, who lived down the street from Lake on Andrea Drive in Vacaville, said the neighborhood was shocked to hear of his death.

Lake had lived in the neighborhood for at least 30 years and was known for helping out with household projects.

"He's really going to be missed in the neighborhood," Cheryl Coates said. "If someone needed help with carpentry or anything, he'd always help."

She said, "This whole thing is unbelievable."

Jerry Coates said Lake, in fact, built cabinets for the couple's home in their garage.

He said Lake had a girlfriend and an adult daughter.

"Everybody knew him, he helped everybody out," he said. "It's a loss to the neighborhood."

Work resumed at the stadium site Tuesday after being halted on Monday following the death.

Turner-Devcon stadium project co-director Jonathan Harvey said on Monday that the company would meet with its employees to discuss the incident and that Cal/OSHA officials have deemed the site safe for work.

The death is the second in the past four-plus months at the site of the $1.3 billion stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2014 after the 49ers play their final season this year at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.

On June 11, worker Donald White, 63, was killed when he was struck in the head by a counterweight in an elevator shaft, Cal/OSHA officials said.

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Weather

A weak weather system slides to our east today. It will temporarily relax our warming trend and skirt our sky with high clouds today. The clouds roll east tonight and lows will be nearly the same as this morning.

Concord: 79/48
Fremont: 79/49
Oakland: 78/53
Redwood City: 77/47
San Francisco: 75/55
San Jose: 78/50
Santa Rosa: 80/39

Coast:
TODAY: Mostly Sunny
Highs: Middle 60s to Middle 70s
TONIGHT: Clear
Lows: Middle to Upper 40s
East Bay:
TODAY: Mostly Sunny
Highs: Upper 70s to 80 degrees
TONIGHT: Clear
Lows: Upper 40s to Middle 50s

East Bay Valleys:
TODAY: Mostly Sunny
Highs: Upper 70s to Lower 80s
TONIGHT: Clear
Lows: Lower 40s to Middle 50s

North Bay Valleys:
TODAY: Mostly Sunny
Highs: Upper 70s to Lower 80s
TONIGHT: Clear
Lows: Near 40 degrees to Upper 40s

Peninsula:
TODAY: Mostly Sunny
Highs: Middle to Upper 70s
TONIGHT: Clear
Lows: Middle 40s to Lower 50s

South Bay:
TODAY: Mostly Sunny
Highs: Middle to Upper 70s
TONIGHT: Clear
Lows: Middle to Upper 40s

Thursday:
Total sunshine with another slight drop in afternoon temperatures.

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