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Second time. Floodwaters are rising and rescue operations are still underway. Here is a look from above that shows homes are completely submerged and roads have turned into rivers. Right now, thousands of people are out of their homes. They have only what they could carry, including their pets. This evening, emergency shelters are packed beyond capacity. Houston officials are asking for help, opening more shelters. Some areas of the city have seen up to 50 inches of rain breaking the record for the most extreme rainfall in the united states. The storm is being blamed for as many as nine deaths including a Houston Police officer, who drowned in his car on his way to work. But there is no time to mourn. Cbs reporter ted craig on emergency workers still scrambling to get people out. Reporter good evening. I am standing outside the Convention Center, which has been serving as the main Shelter Center and has been open since the storm but many are desperate for relief. Harvey is still not finished with texas. Rescue crews are working around theclock to bring more evacuees to safety. There is no way in or out of our neighborhood. There is no electricity. Reporter volunteers and First Responders have plucked more than 6000 people from rising floodwaters. A levee near houston sent more water into neighborhoods. A boat got to these people, stranded on top of a pickup truck, in the nick of time. The death toll from harvey is rising. Sergeant steve perez, a Houston Police officer, was killed, when he became trapped in floodwaters on his way to work. We couldnt find him. Once we got there, it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. Reporter thousands of storm evacuees are crowding into houstons Downtown Convention center. It will be an extended period of time but we will be here for folks as long as they need us. Reporter more than 9000 have showed up to the Convention Center. It was only supposed to hold 5000. The owner is asking fema to host another 10,000 evacuees. We are not turning anyone away, but it does mean we need to expand our capabilities and our capacity. Reporter the Tropical Storm is back over the gulf and is expected to make a second landfall tomorrow just east of houston. And i just got an update a few minutes ago, there are at least 10,000 people inside the Convention Center here. Officials are opening up another major swelter just shelter just down the road, at the toyota basketball center. You are standing in front of some pretty heavy traffic. Our people able to get around easier at this point . Reporter it is still very difficult. Many of the major highways here in the city are still either flooded or shut down completely. Mass transit has been brought to a halt since this came to a halt and the airport is also shut down until further notice. Thank you. President trump traveled to texas. He met with state and local officials and surveyed the Disaster Relief efforts firsthand. The president waved a texas flag after his visit to a Corpus Christi firehouse. Mr. Trump says he hopes that the efforts happening in texas right now will become a model for future Disaster Relief efforts. We want to do it better than ever before. We want to be look at looked at in five or 10 years about this is the way to do it. The president then made his way to austin, where he toward the state Emergency Operation center. He praised coordination and said the recovery will be long and costly. Probably there has never been anything so expensive in our countrys history. There has never been anything in terms of damage. The president plans to return to the area on saturday and Vice President mike pence says he plans to visit southeastern texas later this week. Bay areabased search and rescue crews are in the flood zone around houston, and more may be on the way. Kpix 5 maria medina is live in menlo park with that part of the story. Reporter some of the most skilled and trained firefighters left the bay area on sunday. They just arrived in texas a few hours ago. This is just one of Many Missions theyve been on. The huge risk in these events, someone has to take. Reporter 18 helped the victims and the loma prieta earthquake and hurricane katrina. Thats finding people, rescuing people, doing what they were trained to do. Reporter now the California Task force three rescue team made up of 14 firefighters from menlo park and other bay area departments like san jose and palo alto are out in texas, helping Hurricane Harvey victims. Everyone is telling every resource available to help these people. Reporter his group is one of the 16 search and rescue teams spread out across the country who just got the call to head to texas. From the private sector like apple, amazon, google, the coast guard and the amazon oakland fire department, the bay area is helping from hundreds of miles away. We left new orleans after 16 days. Our team was pretty beat up with broken bones. Reporter the police chief says he has experienced members on his team who have seen the worst, including himself but he says this is what they are trained to do and this is just the beginning of their search and rescue efforts. We have already been contacted by the state. There is more coming down. I am not at liberty to say what it is. I will let them do that but we are already preparing to send out more people. Reporter its unknown exactly when they will be able to return home. The chief says it could be anywhere from 10 days to 2 weeks. He says theres just a lot of uncertainty out there right now. Lays . Thank you. Apparently the heat wave at home is impacting the effects of harvey . A lot of folks might be wondering how a tropical system as big as harvey could literally stop and make landfall. It hit a wall in the atmosphere. The eastern flank of a huge average huge ridge of High Pressure. Thats why you didnt move for 3 days. On the western flank of that ridge, that is what is causing heat in california even though we are 1500 miles away. The ridge giving us that heat is the exact reason why houston that hit so hard by that rainfall. The heat will return. It wasnt here today or yesterday. A new excessive heat warning is in effect tomorrow. Highs above 100 degrees. We have not hit 80 degrees in San Francisco for 72 days. The last time we did it was on june 18. There is a reason i am showing you that graphic. Its possible this week San Francisco will hit 80 degrees. Details coming up. Thank you for that. We know many of you want to help the flood victims in texas and we have a way for you to do that. The red cross. They are accepting donations via phone, email, or text. Just text harvey to 90999 to make a 10 donation, and we have compiled a list of other charities that have rushed in to help as well. That information at the very top at www. Cbssanfrancisco. Com. New at 5 00, some parents are pushing to carve up an east bay school district. They want to take walnut acres, bancroft, and elevated elementary, and northgate high out of mount diablo unified and form a new district. A meeting is going on in Pleasant Hill and kpix 5 reporter Juliette Goodrich there. Reporter the contra costa board of education is holdising this public hearing right now. It could go on for hours into the night. Its a very divisive issue. Its very passionate and emotional, very heated. Tonight, the board must make a just the board must make a decision. On one side, parents who want to break away and form their own district, allowing five mount diablo schools to create the northgate unified school district. I feel that the students in this community could be better served by a smaller district. Reporter on the other side, parents say its segregation. Its building a wall between northgate and ignacio high. Thats the most and least diverse high schools in our district. We see a move in exclusivity that is totally contrary to us. Reporter parents dressed in orange tshirts live in the affluent attendance area of walnut creek. They say with 32,000 students in the Mount Diablo Unified School district, its too big and they want out. Im fighting for kids that cant move into the neighborhood. Reporter a school succession site that gets personal. My sons who are gifted and talented our board. Has it been divisive . Absolutely. Reporter parents disagreeing. We have seen young people discounted. If the decision is to approve northgate northgates attempts to secede from the district it will go to the voters. Reporter the board of education will debate after hours of testimony. Even if its us even if its a split vote, that will go to the board of education. If they approve it, it will definitely come down to the voters. Juliette goodrich, kpix 5. A call tonight to try to help solvay brutal murder. Bay area investigators want to know why a mother was found dead far from home. An airport official blowing the whistle. What he says are troubling Security Issues at San Jose International. Coming up, President Trumps arriving in texas as residents battle harveys rising floodwaters. We are live from houston where shelters are overflowing. Coming up on the cbs evening news. In byron. Has been identified. One of the people arrested during the berkeley demonstrations. Video just in. Shows yasenia mendez wiping aways tears as she was led into court this closed captioning is sponsored by living spaces. The das office has filed the first charges against one of the people arrested during the berkeley demonstrations. Video just in shows your sam hammond as wiping away yosenia mendez wiping away tears. We saw her screaming and wiping running away from officers on sunday. She didnt get very far before they took her back into custody. She is now charged with battery for throwing an apple at an officer. Her bail is set at 5000. The 12 other demonstrators were either cited and released, bailed out, or were never charged. They were arrested when violence broke out at Civic Center Park on thursday. It started as a peaceful protest but turned rowdy when anarchists and antifa members showed up. Lawyers say their clients were just advancing progressive ideals. Many of these arrests were baseless and they arrested people who were participating in a rally that was intended to confront active hate groups in our presence. The antifa group outnumbered from supporters that day. The Berkeley Police chief called a troubling to see the group mix10 with peaceful counterprotesters. A San Francisco woman found dead in the town of byron has been found dead. This is lilia vela. Police are still trying to find out what happened. Her body was found dumped in Contra Costa County last week. Kpix 5 reporter jackie ward joins us now with the latest on this investigation. Jackie . Reporter the Contra Costa Sheriffs Department tells me they have reached a point in this investigation where now they are relying heavily on the public for help. Her name is lilia vela, from San Francisco. Her body was found dumped on the side of the dirt road in byron last week. She is a wellliked person in San Francisco in her community. We are reaching out to find more people who knew her. Reporter her friends last saw her on friday, august 18. Her friends told investigators that she was traveling from San Francisco to Contra Costa County but investigators still dont know the route she may have taken and that route may provide muchneeded answers. What we are looking for from our partners in the community is more investigative leads. Something more about her if she was seen, leaving the San Francisco area and coming into Contra Costa County. Or she may have been associated with who she may have been associated associated with. Reporter if you know anything, you are asked to call the Sheriffs Department tip line at 95 3131166. In martinez, jackie ward kpix five. Recent Security Breaches at San Jose International are unacceptable to one employee. Some changes have been made but Sandra Osborne reports, he says its still not enough. Flight crews have to go through screening. At san jose you have to go through a back door and they never go through security. Reporter calls for change forum from dan conley. Today hes speaking out as a concerned citizen. Reporter someone needs oversight. Reporter he told us some employees walked in and out without screening. The Deputy Director of operations explains thats standard for some employees. Thats common at our airports. People who are badge holders have the ability to go in and out certain doors and gates. We limit them as to where their work areas are but they have gone a gone through a full fingerprint and background check. Reporter this airport has been under fire in the past because of Security Breaches like stowaway Marilyn Hartman and the shocking day yaya abde stowed away in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines flight. There have been security upgrades since then. This sense used to only be 6 feet high but its much higher now. Theyve also added barbed wire and cameras. Still, connolly says he wants to see more. Its nice that we meet minimum standards but thats not good enough today. Reporter lockhart says there is more but they dont plan to share security measures with the public. A lot of things commissioner conley and the public is aware of, we are doing things behind the scene public is unaware of, we are doing behind the scene. Reporter in san jose, Sandra Osborne, kpix 5. Other bay area headlines. An assault south of Market Street has landed a woman in the hospital with life threatening injuries. San Francisco Police say three people tried to grab the 69 yearold victims purse. It happened on lansing street near first. There was a struggle but the suspects took off emptyhanded. A teacher at a private Elementary School in vallejo is facing drug charges. The 53yearold was arrested at an apartment friday. While being booked, detectives found bags of heroin in her possession. San jose is trying to salvage its plan to build tiny houses for the homeless. Public resistance to tiny homes villages has left the city with just two potential sites. City council talked about how to get the project back on track. San jose voters approved spending 700 million to build housing for the homeless. The mayor says this would be a good start. Here is something you dont see every day. A pair of Armed Bank Robbers dressed as nuns. The fbi says this woman pulled a gun on a teller near philadelphia and demanded money. The woman behind her was the lookout. According to police, the two took off without cash when the teller pulled the alarm. Some colorado construction workers dug up a lot more than dirt today. They stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil. Check it out. Thats part of it. The crew was working on a new Police Station when they stumbled upon this patch of earth that seemed a bit suspicious. Experts came by. They took a look and confirmed this is a triceratops fossil. The Denver Museum of nature and science says the fossil could be as much as 66 million years old. Coming up all new at 6 00 only on 5, dozens of female students accuse a Bay Area High School teacher of inappropriate behavior. Why it took the district years to launch an investigation. But first, the markets closed today. Here is a look at the closing numbers from wall street. County. Video just in shows structures burning. This is happeneing about 16 miles east of oroville. Evacuations are being ordered we are following breaking news. A new wildfire is burning in butte county. You can see structures are burning. This is happening about 16 miles east of the town of oroville. Evacuations are being ordered for the community of feather falls. Cal fire estimates the fire is covered about has covered about 200 acres so far. Those hot, dry temperatures are not helping. We are coming up to a Holiday Weekend where people will be outside. Camping, barbecuing. We will see a spike in the fires. We got a two day reprieve. We get one tomorrow as well and then it gets hot again. Lets show you whats happening. Current temperatures. Warm and concord, 91 degrees is not chilly. 105 degrees yesterday. Oakland 66, San Francisco 62. Even with sunshine, you are still chilly. San jose 75, santa rosa 80 degrees. Spotty showers on the california side of the sierra. Showers around lake tahoe, showers on the nevada site east of reno, east of truckee and many moving away from a bay area. We will likely stay dry for the next several days. If youre heading down to levi stadium, thats the 7 00 temperature. 85 degrees for the charger psycho 49ers game. Upper 50s tonight, 60 in fremont, 60 in fremont oakland. Inland tonight will be cooler because you had a cooler afternoon. This is the blocking ridge of High Pressure. It also block tar before moving. We had cooler weather today and we will have cooler weather once again tomorrow. Its a new, different ridge of High Pressure sitting over the pacific thats going to move in and land in a different location. Coming up this friday, thats why we may not only be hot inland, we will likely be hot in San Francisco, oakland, alameda, maybe even the mid70s at the beach by the end of this week. Fog is spreading locally inland. This will be the cloudiest morning of the week tomorrow. Burning back to the coastline in the morning. Atypical, late august day. Notice the ridge of High Pressure friday and saturday centered to our north. This will induce more of an east wind. It that time of year. Ironically friday and saturday are the first 10 days of september. Here comes an offshore wind event which will likely last 2 days. One for everyone, hot for many folks. The Holiday Weekend will be toasty in the central valley. So one more day with temperatures close to our average and then we go hot inland starting thursday. Thats going to last for at least 4 to 6 days. Want to hot weather near the water is only 2 days. That will be friday and saturday but boy we could see 88 degrees even in San Francisco. Tomorrow in concord, 90 degrees, san jose 83 degrees, 70s for mountain view, fremont and oakland. 60 with with afternoon sunshine in San Francisco. Starting thursday, all the way through the Holiday Weekend, and beyond, triple digits. 80s near the bay, friday and saturday only and even the beach getting into the 70s on friday and saturday as well. Some of the warmest all summer in the beginning of september. We will be right back. My name is Cynthia Haynes and i am a senior Public Safety specialist for pg e. My job is to help educate our First Responders on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. Everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. I live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. Once i moved here i didnt want to live anywhere else. I love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other peoples lives. Together, were building a better california. At at t, we believe in access. The opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, weve created access from at t. California households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Visit att. Com accessnow to learn more. Headlights. On the bay bridge chp officers saw the doe this morning. In their facebook post, they say she was evasion. W making the rounds on social media, a deal literally caught in the headlights on the bay bridge. Chp officers saw the ego this morning and in their facebook post, they say she was stop for a toll evasion. Stopped for toll evasion. But today she was a buck short. Stop it. Cbs evening news is coming up next. We have preview with anthony. Im Norah Odonnell in houston where Natural Disaster is giving way to a tough situation for thousands of evacuees. We are here inside houstons largest shelter. Tonight, tough questions about why houston wasnt prepared. Thats tonight on the cbs evening news. Norah odonnell live in houston coming up. Thank you for watching at 5 00. At 6 00, dozens of female students accuse a bay area teacher of inappropriate behavior. Why it took the district years to investigate the behavior. Captioning spo ptioning sponsored by cbs odonnell as harvey rages, houstons response is called into question. Thousands are rescued with shelters bursting at the seams. We were here just 48 hours ago, and there were only 700 people. Now theres more than 9,000 people. Honestly, my baby slept on the floor. Odonnell the death toll rises with a Houston Police officer among the dead. We couldnt find him. It was too treacherous to go under and look for him. Odonnell President Trump visits the storm zone. This is historic, its epic, what happened. But you know what . It happened in texas, and texas can handle anything. Odonnell also tonight, the president says all options are on the table a n

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