Kpix 5s anne makovec has the details from the groundbreaking ceremony. Reporter this is going to change the face of this part of downtown oakland. Instead of a spraypainted fence here behind me, if all goes as planned, within two years ago there will be an 18 story office building. The key at 12th will include 334,000 feet of office space and a rooftop deck with views of downtown oakland. This idea of a blending of oaklands beautiful past and our inspirational and innovative future is embodied in this project. Reporter the plan also calls for the refurbishing of the historic key system building next door. It was build in 1911 and closed because of damage from the loma prieta earthquake in 1989. It was once the headquarters of transportation between the east bay and San Francisco. Now its over a bart station. For decades, plans to develop this plot have fallen through, but city leaders expressed confidence in this vision. Im so glad that after30 years, this site will finally be activated and will be an anchor building blending our past and oaklands future together. Reporter its a joint partnership between Ellis Partners and intercontinental and they have already started acquiring tenants including the offices of the uc system. The new system will be finished in late 2019 and ready for tenants. In oakland, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Several families in san jose are without their home today after a fire ripped through their apartment complex. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores shows us what saved victims lives. Reporter the fire destroyed everything in its path. You can see how tragic this could have been. It happened in the middle of the night. And families were fast asleep. But they made it out just in time. Just after midnight, the flames ripped through the twostory building. Thick smoke came pouring out and about 80 san jose firefighters descended on the apartment complex on rancho road racing to save lives. Horrifying. Like two seconds really flaming big fire coming out. Reporter the family was asleep inside when the for started. I hear some noises from, um, the bedroom, hear some noise, i wake up, i walk out, i saw fires and, you know, i tell them get out. Reporter the flames tore through the building, damaging five units. 16 residents including children are now displaced. San jose firefighters knocked out the fire within an hour. We went to a defensive operation from fire attack and rescue ensuring everybody was evacuated. Reporter no one was hurt partly because smoke detectors went off and fellow residents helped people get out. The banging on doors, getting other people out that saved lives. Reporter investigators are still working to determine how and where the fire started. In san jose, im Jessica Flores, kpix 5. A proposal by San Franciscos police chief could change the departments body camera policy. Currently, when an officer is involved in an incident thats under investigation, that officer has a chance to look at his body cam footage and the footage of any officers on scene before being interviewed. But theres concern that studying multiple viewpoints could skew an officers story of what happened. So the chief wants officers to only view their own body cam footage before speaking with investigators. New details on a Deadly Police shooting at a san jose power plant. The two officers involved are identified as adam hudson and timothy fay. Investigators say the intruder they shot and killed at Metcalf Energy Center on tuesday was armed with two axes, six throwing knives, and a 6foot pipe. They found a large sword in his car. They say he ignored nearly two dozen commands to drop his weapons before the officers opened fire. His name hasnt been released. Housing for the homeless in San Francisco got a boost, the federal government giving 9 million more than last year for homeless programs. In all San Francisco will get 41. 5 million in homelessness grants. Programs in Alameda County got the second biggest amount in the bay area and Santa Clara County coming in third. The president is denying reports that he used profanity when describing some countries that send immigrants to the united states. Kpix 5s jackie ward joins us now with the latest. Reporter some politicians are skeptical on whether he actually said an extremely offensive word but the majority of politicians whom were hearing from are furious and calling the president a racist. Heres why. The president made a racially charged comment allegedly during a meeting on immigration with lawmakers yesterday. A source briefed on the meeting claims President Trump used a expletive to refer to some countries saying, why are we having these people from shaahole countries come here . He suggested the u. S. Admit more people to the country like norway. I cant defending it. No surprise, the president started tweeting this morning denying he used that word. It is not true. He said these hate filled things. Reporter here are those tweets. Age used by me at the daca meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough outlandish proposal made a big setback for daca he went on to say never said anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said e them out. M he also said never saiding in derogatory about haitians other than haiti is obviously a very poor and troubled country. Never said take them out. Made up by dems. I have a wonderful relationship with haitians, probably should record future meetings. Unfortunately, no trust. The haitian government has summoned the top ranking u. S. Diplomat there to explain the president s comments. Michelle . President trump has called off his trip to london. He was supposed to go there next month to unveil a new u. S. Embassy. The Ribbon Cutting for the 1 billion building will still go forward. The president said his reason for not going is because it was a bad real estate deal. But some people think its because he is trying to avoid potential protests against him. Its the worlds most expensive embassy. Now to the mudslides. Four children were among the 17 dead. That number is expected to rise with 43 people still missing. Officials say they tried to give People Living in the area ample warning the weekend before the storm but when it hit an alert went out that flash flooding was imminent. Some say that alert came too late. The walls just burst open. The mud came in and shot us both out of the house. I dont think could have ever saw this coming but i think if they had said everybody should leave we wouldnt have seen as many people in this situation right now. The office of Emergency Management said that its looking at ways to improve the alert system. In your bay area watch, east bay bart commuters will soon be able to reserve Parking Spaces before taking a train. Starting tuesday bart will accept online requests for about 100 permits. Those will guarantee riders at an ebart station a parking stall until 10 a. M. On weekdays. Go to selectaspot. Com and they will cost 105 a month. Bart is not offering reserved parking at the Pittsburg Center station. The ebart trains will run from antioch and pittsburg in may. A San Francisco park may be named after ed lee. Its portsmouth square in chinatown. It might be brought up in a meeting to update the community on renovation plans for the square. Mayor lee died last month. Lunch plans this weekend . A unique restaurant just opened up on treasure island. Its called mersea. Its made up of a dozen repurposed shipping containers which circle a courtyard and theres a bocce court and views of the skyline. Doors just opened. General motors is taking selfdriving cars to the next level. The carmaker plans to get rid of essential parts of the vehicle but are americans really ready for this car of the future . Plus, a new social media fad is worrying authorities. Teens taking laundry detergent pods into their mouths. Fog in the bay well look at the visibility after a foggy start to your friday. And whats ahead for the week is coming up. A tesla model3 went on display this morning in palo alto. The Tesla Dealership at teslas hot selling car is making its public debut today in the bay area. A tesla model 3 went on display this morning in palo alto. The dealership at the stanford mall is one of only two locations in the state that will have a model 3 on the showroom floor. The other location is in los angeles. The model 3 is the companys most affordable car priced at 35,000. General motors is taking a major step in selfdriving cars. The company now has plans of getting rid of Steering Wheels but kris van cleave explains that not everyone is on board. Reporter something is missing from this car a sneak peek of what the future may look like a selfdriving smart car without a wheel or brake pedal. General motors says its ready to Start Building them now. Its buzzworthy. Reporter ed low from motor trend. When you start taking away fundamental controls like the pedal, brakes, Steering Wheel it makes the prospect of Driverless Cars more real. Reporter to get it on the road by 2019, gm has filed a position with the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration to waive some federal standards pertaining to humandriven cars. Selfdriving cars and even this selfflying volo copter were big players at this yearss Consumer Electronics show. An electric carmaker sees the car of the future as a mobile lounge, Movie Theater on wheels. But a new survey out this morning by the advocates for highway and auto safety found americans are not ready to let go of the wheel. Advocates president kathy chase. We were surprised with how concerned the American Public is. Reporter 64 expressed concern about sharing the road with Driverless Cars and a full 75 are not comfortable with disconnecting vehicle equipment like that Steering Wheel. What do you think it is about the concern people have about the Steering Wheel going away . They have had it the entire history of the car so taking away an essential car component is a shift. Reporter assuming General Motors can get the approval from the federal government it believes it can Start Testing these vehicles in 2019 in at least 7 states and hopes to work with other states to adjust some laws like ones that require having one hand on the wheel when theres no Steering Wheel. That law isnt necessary. In the latest social media fad teenagers are putting laundry detergent pods in their mouths. Oh, my god [ choking ] they are recording themselves and putting the videos online for clicks and internet fame. A 19yearold did it on a dare. He said he knew better but did it anyway. A lot of people are saying how stupid i was or how why would i be willing to do that . No one should be putting anything like that in their mouths, you know . Thats true. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission says ingesting any of the liquid carries a deadly risk. At least 10 deaths have been linked to ingesting the pods. In case you didnt notice it was a foggy friday. This is what it looked like on the bay bridge around 7 a. M. Dark. Cant even see the bay on either side because the fog was so thick this morning. Of course it is beginning to burn off a little now. Were you talking to karl the fog on social media. I felt like i was talking to a celebrity. Carl is famous. We love him. Its hovering around the bay. So lets take you through a few camera shots. This is our transamerica camera looking east. This one looking north. Look at that, you can see coit tower now. We can see that this morning. Our sutro camera though is a gorgeous shot. So heres what we can expect for the rest of the day. You can expect to see sunnier conditions of course through a lot of areas as the fog burns off warming up for the afternoon and we do have two storms to talk about this next weekend. So usually this next week. But first well get through a nice weekend. The weekend is on my mind get ready for it. The most of the fog is hanging right around the bay, Oakland Airport half mile visibility, sfo 8mile visibility but i just checked flight view there are delays at the airport. So keep that in mind. Livermore one mile visibility. So there is still some concern out there if you are hitting the roads row. A lot of the fog hasnt moved out because of light winds. North winds in San Francisco, Half Moon Bay also north winds, eastnortheast for novato. So we are getting a bit of that valley fog to snake its way around the valleys. Thats what we saw a lot of this morning. Heres our vaca camera. 50 degrees in livermore. Concord 52. Our temperatures will warm up nicely ahead of that sunset tonight. 5 11 its happening. Sunrise tomorrow 7 24. You should get a better view of that sunrise tomorrow because were not expecting foggy conditions the way we had today. 50s and 60s for highs today. High pressure is on california. Its going to stay here through sunday so that means warmer weather sunny skies and any storms are staying up in the Pacific Northwest through the weekend and then look at this monday night into tuesday we are expecting a storm to arrive and then another one wednesday night into thursday and that one will be a cooler one. So that means sierra snow levels will be dropping. We could see them down to about 4,000 or 5,000 feet so next weekend will be a great weekend to ski. Thank you. Lets take a look at the big board now. See how the markets are doing. Dow is up about 182 points all right. It is friday which means our pet expert dr. Jill chase is here to answer your pertinent pet questions. Furry friends. Todays topi every friday we check in with our pet expert to tackle issues that pet owners may be facing with their friends. Todays topic, pet peeves. Dr. Jill chase joins with us brutus. I have buttercup. These are the cutist little dogs i have ever seen. They are siblings. So lets talk, dr. Jill, what are your main pet peeves when it comes to pets . Well, this segment was prompt by the fact that we had a viewer write in talking about the fact that she was concerned about when people drive in a car with their small dogs in their lapse so i thought, okay, well talk about my pet peeves. My pet peeves there are four of them. I listed three but four of them are, first of all, if you are going to ride your bike with your dog, try to remember that if the dog is not staying with you, you need to slow way down. Nothing drives me crazy more than watching somebody ride their bike and the dog is struggling to keep up. The other thing is owners dont think about it but when youre in the crosswalk and walking the dogs, the drivers will see you but not see you dog so if you have and expando leash and the dogs are ahead or behind, you run the risk of a driver running over your dog. So be careful with that. The viewer had mentioned about is it safe to drive with your small dogs in your lap . No, its really not because most of the time when youre driving, nothing happens but if something does it is dangerous for you, your pet and other drivers. And the last one that i forgot to write on the list was Pay Attention when youre walking your dog especially when theyre older. If theyre lagging behind, slow down for them. Thats a good idea. Small dogs in a car. Whats the best way to secure them . My favorite thing is to have them in the way back where my dogs are and they are usually tethered so if theres a slamming on the brakes they dont go flying through the windshield. Sometimes if i have them in the front with me ill take the leash and wrap it around the head rest so they have a way of restraint and they are dog seats that are pretty good. So thats something to look into. Theyre so cute. Thank you so much for bringing them. Youre welcome. Well have a lot of people in the studio wanting to see these dogs. If you have a question, we want to hear from you. Ust email us at pets kpix. Com and well have our pet exp ert give you an answer every friday right here at noon. Well be right back. Today is tip of the day is my pocket square i put this in, red butter lettuce. It would be a pocket square red butter lettuce is great. It has the wonderful silkiness of butter lettuce but the beautiful red color to it. Its great in many salads, its great in so many different ways. Its so versatile. Selection and storage is very important. When you buy them, use the beautiful color all the way around. They have to feel fresh and silky at the same time. When you bring them home, what i like to do, if theres moisture on there i like to wipe it off before putting it in the refrigerator. They stay fresher. Open up the bag, put it in the refrigerator and then enjoy it quickly because butter lettuce decays quickly so enjoy it within 2 or 3 days at the most. Red butter lettuce, i love it. Mixed with other greens, its beautiful. m tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. Nd always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. Station. Right in front of a memorial to Oakland Hills fire victims. A big debate in oakland over the landing spot for a new bike sharing station in front of a memorial to Oakland Hills fire victims. That story and much more coming up at 5 00. Tonys thing that did he . So for our wedding, all of my husband now and my uncles and everybody that were in the wedding we gave them kale and it looked really good. It was a nice little boutonniere. Maybe ill get one for mondays show. [ laughter ] then we ate them. [ laughter ] it works. Have a good weekend. Have a g ernoon. Steffy decisions . What do you mean . Liam i think we have to talk about what happens next. Steffy im just glad youre home. I was worried about you. Liam [ sighs ] please understand, i couldnt steffy no. No, i know. I know. I know. I understand. You needed some time. I get that. What are you thinking