Pg e has two crews working on projects, and they did not take the proper steps. That protective measures failed, so the power went out and caused an outage. Reporter so is more of a human error . Yes, it was internal with pg e. We really appreciate everybodys patients. Reporter the outage affected the sheriffs department. Typically you get 12 calls at this time. What was the case last night . They fielded 68 911 calls. Reporter they answered each and every call during the outage. Many of them were for alarms going off. And some of them were people that have medical equipment that needed electricity. Homeowners said that they learned a good lesson as well to know what to have on hand for potential upcoming outages. It definitely made me think i should have so much frozen food in my house. Reporter canned food maybe . Exactly. And to know were all of the shutoffs are. Reporter pg e says that it is a planned outage, you will get a notice about 48 hours ahead of time. If you have any questions about an outage call pg e or log onto the website, instead of calling 911 which happen a lot last night. Reporting live in nevada, kpix 5. Pg e is also putting the word about their new wildfire assistance program. This is part of their bankruptcy proceedings. Peoples whose homes were damaged or destroyed and they cannot afford living expenses, they can request a onetime payment of the thousand dollars. Later they may be over to gain more money. A couple that lost everything in the camp fire couldnt seem to lose at t. They called cbs curtis ming, the bills for the landmine service kept on coming. Long after the home burned down to the ground. Cooking to the toaster, this is what life is like living in a Sacramento Hotel room. They lost everything in novembers camp fire. This is their now level house. I am coping. Taking away energy from the dean their lives, these monthly bills for service. What service . There is nobody there. The phone is melted. She says after several calls to at t to the bills keep coming. It is beyond annoying. It is like what are you doing to us . In november we told you how at t as a campfire victim to return satellite equipment even though it was destroyed. At that time they told us that they could not be more sorry for this mistake. They should be in paris. That the fact that another fire victim is struggling, this is called appalling. They need to clean up their act and they need to do. There is competition out there. We contacted at t while we were in the hotel room kim got a call. At t erasing the outstanding bill. Do you want to help me with my next problem . But no apology this time. The company only telling us that they canceled the customers account when she counseled us in may. I will never use them again. At t says that they do not automatically suspend accounts, customers have to call. Kim said that she did several times. Curtis ming, kpix 5. Heres a look at our top stories at 5 30 pm. Things are returning to normal at sfo tonight. A nationwide computer outage hit the airport today. The computers are back online. This is bringing in fans to keep the classroom school. Some teachers are threatening to file a formal complaint. They say 7 the solution, what they need is central air condition. The district says they did not have the money. The Early Morning condo attacked the terrified San Francisco is starting a debate. Why the suspect was set free . The judge says that she only saw the video after she let todr ankle if she had watched kpix 5 she would have seen the video. Everybody in the world saw it. Going mile, the District Attorney is still pushing back tonight. Saying that the video was more proof than anything that he should not be released. Which is basically what the judge did on the condition that he where the ankle monitor and get treatment for Mental Health issues. Which had him thinking that the robots were taking over the world which apparently prompted the attack. The judge first rejected the call to lock him up and then she changed her mind. This is what she had to say today. I was out wednesday night at a restaurant. The tv was playing and i saw what was the incident involving him. I was frankly alarmed. At the level of violence that i saw in the video. They say that a picture is worth 1000 words. Indeed pictures are worth 1000 words and even more when they wind up going viral on tv like this. But the fact is, videos like this are rarely used in the first series. Police reports, individual employee evaluations are the yardsticks. In this course the independent report said do not release. We talked about this off the air a little bit. I think this is a watershed moment for the city. A lot of people are spending a lot of money to live in this town. There is ambivalence coming from the courts, city hall, and in some cases it is making people mad. Right, it also brings up the question of what you do with somebody that is possibly mentally ill and violently mentally all the same time. He put them in jail . Do you put them in treatment . Should they get treatment in jail . Or should they get and on the street . This is what we are going to see. In this case, the person is on the street. Will they take voluntary help . Will it take . What normally happens in a situation like this . Is it customary to put a suspect on a 72 hour psychiatric hold . That is really interesting. What happens is, if youre on the streets of San Francisco having a psychotic break they will take you for a psychiatric evaluation. But, if you are on a criminal charge your to spend your time in jail and go in front of a judge and then they can make a psychiatric evaluation. They only have 48 hours to do so. Thank you. Thank you. Flowers or be left this afternoon on peter fondas star. At the hollywood walk of fame. The actor died today in los angeles of lung cancer. He was the only son of a movie legend, henry fonda and the younger brother of jane fonda. He carved his own map as a nonconformist. He wrote and acted in some Counter Culture films ricky was nominated for a oscar twice. He played a freewheeling motorcycle riding rubble in easy rider. Peter fonda was 79 years old. President trump it may be planning a landgrab for greenland. What residents of the icy island have to say about that. Why the tesla ceo says that he wants to drop a bomb on mars. And some of the most cool and costly cars will be in the monterey peninsula this weekend. We will have a preview of some of the four wheel attractions that are drawing thousands. One of the most important things you can do is to make sure you call 811 before you dig. Calling 811 can get your lines marked. Its free, its easy, we come out and mark your lines. We provide you the information so you will dig safely. Leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. All right, we have some wild new video to show you. A shark fights a boat captain for his catch. He just took it out of my hand take a look, the man had just took this massive fish in florida when this hammerhead shark sweeps in and grabs it. The captain said the shark was about 14 feet long. He just did not see coming. The shark try to take off, but the fish was still hooked. This shark proceeded to circle the boat, waiting for the captain to release that fish. Once he cut the line, the shark swim away with its price. Will tesla the coast guard found 43 bales of pot floating on one of californias channel islands, southwest of los angeles. 1300 pounds of marijuana. This was handed over to customs and Border Protection. It is still unclear who it belongs to. Chances are that they dumped it. It is getting to be a habit. The coast guard had said that they have scraped up straight pot from the ocean 10 times this year. Investigators are saying a few feet may have saved a nascar stars life. We have new details on the investigation. Reporter ntsb investigators surveyed the burnedout records of the private plane that crashed thursday curing deal earnhardt junior and his family. The airplane basically bounced at least twice before coming down hard on the runway landing gear. Reporter Officials Say that it slammed into a fence that wrapped around the plane. Everybody was able to get out alive. Paramedics were seen attending to earnhardt. This was just after it hit the ground. Reporter witnesses captured the aftermath of the fiery crash. Is everybody okay . Did everybody come out all right . Reporter access will continue to burn. Investigators are recovering the cockpit voice recorder and Surveillance Video from buildings in the area. We are not drawing any conclusions at this time. Reporter the earnhardt family is no stranger to tragedy. In 2001 earnhardts father, dale senior died in the final lap of the daytona 500. The son retired from racing in 2017. The ntsb says that they plan to release a preliminary report on its investigation in one week. Buying your next car could be as easy as purchasing a candy bar. Where you can find this vehicle vending machine. Z33kxz zi0z y33kxy yi0y its tsleep numberbiggest sale360 smart bed. N the you can adjust your comfort on both sides your sleep number setting. Can it help us fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet. But can it help keep us asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. So you can really promise better sleep. Not promise. Prove. And now, all beds are on sale save 50 on the 360 sleep Number Limited Edition smart bed. Plus 0 interest for 24 months on all beds. Only for a limited time. President trump reportedly has his eye on an unusual real estate purchase. The World Largest island. The wall street journal is reporting that the white house has inquired about purchasing greenland. The danish government. The big draw, the islands Early Warning system that can detect intercontinental ballistic missiles. The president has reportedly raised the issue with aids multiple times, weighing the advantages of the u. S. Owning the icy island. Greenland says that they are not for sales. They say that greenland cannot be for so, but they are open for trade and cooperation with other countries. Including the u. S. He could buy anything, i guess. He thinks he can. But, you cannot. This must be a joke of the american president. This is 2019, we dont sell islands or countries. The ministry of Foreign Affairs says that greenland is rich in natural resources. It is not for sale. How about nuking mars . The spacex ceo wants to bomb the red planet. Elon thinks that it could be a place for human life with some radical intervention. Eventually you can transform mars. How would you do that . Give me the fast way . The fast way is dropping a nuclear bomb. [ laughter ] you are a super villain. That is what the super villain does. [ laughter ] elon musk says that he believes nuking the polar ice caps on mars would free them of co2 which would fasttrack them to warming. His company spacex is developing a rocket that he hopes will take humans to mars and someday and colonize mars. It is unclear whether he is serious. In any case, he also tweeted in two words that he is printing nuke mars tshirts for anybody who wants to get on boards. That is probably what is really going on here. He doesnt make enough money already. Wasnt there an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie about this . Back here on earth it is starting to cool down. We are trying not to have Global Warming here. Temperatures around here are in the triple digits. We had 101 in livermore. Vallejo, 98. Santa rosa, 95. Set as a, 95. Oakland, 70 degrees. San francisco, here comes the fog, only 72 degrees. Fremont, 60 tonight. It is like a water slide. Look at this. 104, 106, 101, and then down to 86 degrees. Down to 81 degrees. 7 degrees below average on sunday. Heres some good news about the breeze coming from the ocean, cleaning air. The air quality is good. Top to bottom. The breezes coming from the ocean. It is very efficient to cool us off. Why . The water is about 50 degrees. Typically the temperature above the water is within a degree or two. What the airconditioning does in your house as it takes cold air and blues it blows it. There is the cool air, now it is back. The largest airconditioning that i have seen on planet earth and mars is now pushing that chilly air into the bay area and cooling us down significantly. Cloud cover only along the coast. Watch the change on sunday. That cloud cover was pushed all the way in, all the way along toilro ta, alonthe as we go towards next week, this is a nice pattern. We are warmer, but not hot. This is conducive for near normal temperatures. It will be a breezy weekend. It is going to be a cooler weekend. Temperatures will no more lies next week. Santa clara much cooler, down to 82 degrees. Palo alto, 79. Mid 60s and cloudy at the coast. Antioch, down to 86. Kentfield, 78. Richmond barely making it to 70 degrees. Lakeport, 94. Windsor, 86 degrees. The cloudier day will be on sunday. Monday we get more sunshine. And when we warm up will be back to average for most places. This is your tgif kpix forecast. Next, update on delays at sfo after a computer outage. Plus, there are major delays expected this weekend. A look at the construction project that is going to be an obstacle to get around. How riders are preparing. A bakery change is putting up a closed sign for good after nearly 4 decades. With the owners say was the missing ingredient in their continued success. Driving away in a new car can mean hours at the dealership. A Company Called carb anna wants to make it as easy as dropping a coin in a slot. The latest vehicle dispensing vending machine opened up in orange county. Cars are stacked in a glass tower along the 405 freeway. They take online orders for lightly used cars. And then they are sent to this eight story glass tower to be claim. Entered the coin into the music scene the machine. It is fully automated. It grabs the car on the seventh floor and brings it all the way down. Escorts it down and puts it into a bay. At that point the doors open. You walk around and you see your new car. You get the keys in your seven day return policy begins. I would go for the range rover. They now have 20 of these vending machines scattered throughout the united states. The Company Claims that what out without salespeople and a car lot they can undercut bluebook prices. That would do it for the news at 5 pm. The news at 6 pm begins right now. Gridlock like a week date commute feared for the weekend. A major project expected to slow cars and trains saturday and sunday. Bay area baby pulled from a hot car and just the nick of time. Thanks to an alert passerby. The case there is just so good they are amazing. The popular bay area bakery chain closing its doors forever. Why the owners say Tech Companies played a part in their demise. Good evening. We start with a chaotic afternoon for air travelers. Live look at sfo where things are beginning to return to normal now that u. S. Customs computers are back online. A nationwide glitch this afternoon caused major delays for international passengers. Trying to clear customs. Long lines formed around processing checkpoints for arriving passengers. Those delays lasted several hours. Travelers had no choice but to wait as custom officers had to manually process them. Wait until. We were all the way in the back. It was so long. Im so tired. They gave us. Customs and Border Protection said they are now looking into what caused the disruption. They dont believe it was caused by anything malicious. The tracks on the busiest liner getting a muchneeded makeover. The project is so big it is spilling over on the highway 24. Andrea is live in lafayette where riders and drivers are bracing for this big weekend backup. Two nights at 11 on the last bart trains are running through. That is when normal service in until they hope monday nor morning at 5 am on this bart ride next to me to lafayette station. Reporter you will not be hearing that sound tw