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Witness stand after todays outburst, now, the defense attorney potentially put cowell on the stand so he can show his mental state. To the believe it is real . Or it is an act . We are hearing today that one of cowells family members sent some time on the stand today . Saying what . Reporter his aunt was on the stand is all trying to show and provide examples of his mental state, saying that, he had Mental Illness before this murder, but the prosecutor had a very good cross the cross examination, the prosecutor was trying to attack the ants credibility, saying that, hey, before when investigators actually interview you, you did not talk much about the Mental Illness, you talked a lot more about the addiction. Thats how the prosecution attacked her credibility. Chief police a new tact is to crack down crime are working. Kpix 5 anchor Elizabeth Cook with the new data. Reporter alvarez started at the twoday meeting. He credited some of the systems newest Safety Initiatives for a drop in crime, bart says crime is down 18 systemwide when comparing january of 2019 to january 2020. Cell phone that shows a bedrock a big drop, versus 74 for the same time last year, the chief says the increase presence is paying off, we asked some passengers that they are noticing a difference. No. Havent seen it yet. I have heard of it and hopefully we will see more. I definitely would like to see some security. I dont know that ive seen any. Chief alvarez also spoke today about dedicating officers to high crime stations in the future as well as his plan to fully staff the department over the next five years and he said alameda, san mateo and santa clara counties are expected to join others in providing each year. As we look for ways for our system, our Outreach Team in addition to the 12 news sworn officers trolling train, 10 unarmed ambassadors have also been on duty. The work sharps continue tomorrow. Back to you. New video giving us our first look at a Police Shooting in san jose last month. This involved a suspect who was trying to ignite a gas pump, body cam video shows the officers repeatedly trying to get that man to step away and surrender. Stop it right now or you are going to get stand. Stop right now or you are going to get stunned bank. Shots fired. The incident happened january fourth attestation in east san jose, police say they first tried the nonlethal force but then were forced to fire on 32yearold suspect jose de la santos when he charged the two officers with a metal rod. He is recovering from his injuries, now faces charges of assault with a Deadly Weapon on an officer and attempted larceny. A massive fire engulfed in home in the Santa Cruz Mountains this morning it broke down in boulder creek, when firefighters arrived, flames had completely engulfed this twostory home, you could see the flames shooting through every part of it. Fire crews were able to prevent the intense flames from moving into the nearby woods, all of the residents made it out safely but the home was a complete loss. New information on a police chase that ended in this deadly crash, the Coroners Office is identified the suspect as 28 yearold adrian mcgee of vallejo, during yesterdays highspeed pursuit, the vehicle flipped into a ditch, was heavily damaged, officers try to save the driver but he was pronounced dead at the scene. He was wanted in a smash and grab robbery. Meanwhile, stolen car suspect who led police on a highspeed pursuit to berkeley was arrested with the help of a chp helicopter. The dramatic chase was caught on camera it happened yesterday when officers got a call about a stolen car, Police Spotted this in vallejo, but they stopped their pursuit on the ground and a chp helicopter took over following the vehicle to berkeley where the suspect parked the car and took off on foot, short time later, officers found the suspect hiding in the backyard and arrested him. A dramatic moment of justice in El Dorado County, man who spent 15 years in prison for murder walked away a free man, his conviction . Overturned. He was released. And dna evidence played a big part in the story. Reporter thats right, veronica. Huge part actually and it certainly was an emotional reunion right here inside the El Dorado County jail just a few hours ago we watched ricky davis walk out a free man. Along his family did says he did not do it and police have the wrong guy. A first hug from mom. Its been a long time waiting. Reporter 55yearold ricky davis reunited with family for the first time in 15 years. And the team from the Northern California Innocence Project that helped make him a free man. Davis walking far away from the El Dorado County jail, his first trip, grabbing pizza and fresh clothes. Davis was handed a 16 year to life sentence for seconddegree murder, or murder we now know he did not commit. Spending years in jail for the fatal stabbing of jane helton, who he lived with in el dorado hills, but always maintaining his innocence. He said to me, i didnt do it. And i said ricky, i have to tell you with all sincerity, i believe you. Reporter but in april of last year with help from the Northern California Innocence Project a newly tested evidence pointed to another mans dna on the victims nightgown and under her fingernails. The gentleman who is linked to the dna profile was still alive and we could compare the dna. Reporter the dna linked to one of three teen boys, the victims daughter was spending time with at a park the night the murder happened. The genealogy in this case has been a gift. Reporter ms. Melissa oconnell with the Innocence Project has been working on davidsons case for years. I think the only thing is seeing it on your face. You can express what it means to see an innocent man walk out of prison and go on with his life from here. Reporter we are told davis will be entitled to compensation through the state about 51,000 for every year that he served here. Marissa perlman, kpix five. You can find news anytime of the day on your favorite devices. We love the weather, but a significantly dry winter has brought a drop back to california. Meteorologist derek peck joining us now with just how dry we are. If you want to be technical about it, according to the latest Drought Monitor, 10 of the state of california is now in a drought and if you look over my shoulder you can see that is the area that is shaded in the tan color, the smaller patch of brown, basically that is like the central southern sierra but if you look at the bay area, we are included in the area on this map that is shaded in yellow and vicki over here shows you that means we are abnormally dry. Now, that is a change from the last time the Drought Monitor was issued a month ago and of course theres no surprise why we are talking about this. Look at the next map. This is the rain fell rainfall from october first up today. It is colorcoded, theres a lot over here on the key, but all you have to do is look at the shades of deep orange and over here, it shows you most of those places in orange, which includes the bay area. Ive only got about 40 of the amount of rainfall we shouldve got and weve been showing you rainfall totals here for the last several weeks. This is not necessarily news, the one other thing to think about would be snow in the sierra. We are looking at about 56 of average in the central sierra which is where much of our water comes from and if you look from the statewide as a whole there, numbers are not good. Lets hope we start getting that storm track back here. I will be back with our complete forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Back over your. Pg e is offering local clean energy providers, it does sound like a fabulous deal. Millions of dollars of electricity at no cost. But, there is a catch. Kpix 5s john ramos tells us that that is a dealbreaker for many. Reporter some bay area communities are learning that even when something is free, it may come with a price tag you are not willing to pay. Community Choice Energy companies called ccas have been taking business away from pg e for a few years now, so it was a surprise to alameda countys east Bay Community energy when the utility offered up to 11 million of carbon free energy. The catch . It comes from the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant. That is a problem for a nuclear free zone, like berkeley. The Nuclear Energy is known for having waste, which is for hundreds of thousands of years. Even if you could get it for free, you wouldnt want to . That is correct. Reporter the mayor agrees, he sits on the board of east Bay Community and says if they accept the offer, customers will question the very purpose of the agency. I think if they look at the power content, that is going to be a real black mark for the agency. But it is not really free at all. Under the rules, ccas have to pay pg e and annual exit fee to reimburse the utility for its Energy Production cost. Including Diablo Canyon. So, the agencies would be refusing the energy even though the customers will still be paying for it. The Nuclear Plant is scheduled to close in 2025 and clean Energy Activists suspected as an effort to keep that from happening. They are pulling on the greedy strings of Community Choice programs. If they take this, that will justify keeping Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerpoint open and we dont want to do that. Community choice providers are facing the same dilemma. Protect their bottom line or stay true to their philosophical mission. Do we want to be cleaner and greener and more affordable or do we want to adopt pg es same approach . Reporter in berkeley, general miss john ramos, kpix 5. Still ahead on kpix 5 , the uber ride turned nightmare. The driver wont let us out what happened moments before an uber driver sped through red lights and refused to let passengers out of his car. Plus Colin Kaepernick with new plans to tell his story. Why he wont just let anyone publish his book. 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The live news desk, police asking for the Publics Health help in trying to track down an assault suspect, they released some surveillance images, this was taken shortly after 6 00 pm on tuesday, that is the guy they are looking for. They say the suspect boarded a train at the coliseum station and then started talking with a female passenger. At the next stop, fruitvale, another man got on board the train and started talking to both of them. Then, the suspect allegedly punched him in the face and hit him with a chain, before leaving the train. The injured man was treated at a hospital and then released, he is expected to be okay, but that is a suspect that they are looking for tonight. The live news desk, back to you. It was a chase scene the fit for a movie, but this happened in real life in real time on facebook five. A virginia couple live streamed there uber ride as he sped after another driver who just hit him. He kept going. He kept going. That was the scariest moment of my life. I have never been that scared in my life. John murray and tamika swan held each other close after a violent uber ride through the city. I was begging that man to please stop. 911, where is your emergency . She began to record the trip on facebook life. We were driving and a car rearended us, the car didnt stop behind us, they went around us and then sped off and that is when our uber sped off behind him. The video shows the drivers speed down the street. Oh, my god. Oh, my god we made it through so many lives, we made it without getting hit and finally, we went through another light. Spirit they plead for the driver to stop before getting hit. Oh, my god Somebody Just hit us i wasnt about to grab this guy because theres a pensive possibility of hitting other pedestrians. The driver wont let us out hes trying to catch the guy that hit us. They say the uber driver finally stopped. I think god that we are still here. I send my kids an uber sometimes, you know. I send my kids to school in uber sometimes, but never again. The driver was later arrested and faces arrest kidnapping and reckless driving charges. The company is also reaching out to those passengers. A new adventure for former 49ers back, Colin Kaepernick. He starting a Publishing Company and plans to release a memoir. He said he plans to share the Life Experiences that led him to protest systemic oppression and risk his nfl career. He remains a freeagent. Kaepernick says hes waiting for the right publisher, so no title yet, or release date for that book. Senator Bernie Sanders is out with a new video that takes aim at pg e just a few weeks before california primary. Decades of negligence, pg e has a long, long history of really messing up the people that they are supposed to be taking care of. The three minute video on Sanders Youtube channel features members of an activist group called lets own pg e. Talk over images of devastation from the wildfires that are blamed on pg e equipment. Sanders does not speak in his video, but, in the clip, he appears to be endorsing governor Gavin Newsoms call to turn the utility into a publicly owned entity. Now pg e did respond in a statement saying, quote, we are committed to doing right by the communities impacted by wildfires and to doing everything we can to reduce the risk of wildfires in the future. Larry ellison is making it known that he supports president trumps reelection bid. The founder will host a Trump Victory fundraiser next week at allisons estate near sport near palm springs. Contributors can pay 100,000 to play golf and have a photo taken with the president , or they can pay 250,000 and also take part in a roundtable discussion. In a very unusual move, the u. S. Attorney general is openly criticizing his boss, president trump. It all stems from the president s tweets lasting blasting the recommended sentence for his longtime friend, roger stone. Stone is awaiting punishment for lying to congress. The president complained on twitter about a possible prison sentence for stone of 79 years. The department and recommended a lighter sentence, overruling case prosecutors who resigned and protested. To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases , make it impossible for me to do my job. The Justice Department insists there was no coronation of the lighthouse on reducing the recommended prison time. Left another check of the letter. Darren peck is in the Weather Center peer darren, it was definitely a lot chillier this morning. Yes it was. You can see part of that change that shows up when you take a look at the live view for camera, this, looking off toward the west and sure enough, it almost looks like a summer pattern here, where you pulled in the blanket that is the low clouds and the marine layer, not only looking west, but also looking east across the bay bridge and if we go to our camera that sits on treasure island, you see theres plenty. These numbers went so far down, that they actually went down to average. This is where we shouldve been all along. And many of these numbers, or at least some of them, are 20 degrees colder than we were just two days ago. So, that is why it felt cool out there this morning and if you look at the difference, heres the 24 hour change, how much cooler are we right now than we were yesterday at this time . Santa rosa, 16 degrees cooler. 14 degrees cooler in palo alto. And we are able to see those clouds showing up in the forecast model. Heres the future cast. It picks up with plenty of gray. Mainly this point just for the coast and into the bay. Maybe some of the low spots like sonoma county. Coming down across the peninsula. And then tomorrow morning, they are back. So, youre going to wake up friday morning with another shower like this with the gray skies that stick around but by the middle of the day tomorrow, stronger offshore flow picks up, gets rid of the clouds and that will allow tomorrows daytime highs to be noticeably warmer than today. We are not staying as cool and gray as we were today for long. At least not for tomorrow. But before we get into tomorrow, here are the morning lows we are going to go back down to the low to mid 40s for most places, daytime highs pretty much on the mark for average. Big number in the middle shows you where we are going for daytime highs. Over here shows you what the average would be an than the number over there on the far side shows you how far off that mark we are. We are really not far off at all. Well start off down in the south bay. Campbells going at 66. Numbers in the east bay doing a similar story here in the mid 60s. We will check out the temperatures in and around the bay, notice that is cooler as we get closer toward the actual golden gate. We will be up in the upper 50s and will top out in the mid to upper 60s. Sevenday forecast does not have any rain on it and amateurs are going to stay right here through the weekend, maybe a few clouds on sunday and then sunshine going into much of next week. Back over to you. Coming up, by actress Lori Laughlin is pushing to have her trial in the College Admission scheme pushback. Growing up in a family that struggled economically powerfully influenced my values. Bernie sanders hes fighting to raise wages. And guarantee health care for all. Now, our country is at a turning point. Hard working people, betrayed by trump, struggling to survive. In this moment, we need a fighter. Bernie sanders. We know hell fight for us as president because he always has. Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. Harvey weinsteins lawyer finished closing arguments in the rape trial. Hes accused of raping a woman in 2013 and forcibly performing a sex act on another woman in 2006. Today his attorneys sought so remind jurors of his presumption of innocence. Prosecutors will deliver their closing arguments tomorrow and the jury will begin deliberating next week. Actress Lori Loughlin and her husbands lawyers say they wont be ready to go to trial until next year, but prosecutors want the trials to start later this year. The couple is accused of paying half a Million Dollars to get their daughters into usc as crew recruits, even though neither played the sport. The judge will ultimately decide when the trials begin. A bay area photographer is making it her mission to help the memoless. Coming up, how her talents provided new hope for those that need it most. Students take to the streets at the university of california in santa cruz. Why they say the school owes them more than just an education. And with food delivery apps becoming more and more popular, why you might not know exactly where your food is being prepared. Laws, or gun safey to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. Obama at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions. Bloomberg im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. [car[clicking of ignition]rt] uh wha woof eeh woof wuh [silence] [engine roars to life] [dog howls] dramatic opera music swells from radio [howling continues] putting term limits on congress, about washington insiders went crazy. They said term limits are bad, that theyll break government. What a joke congress is working fine for politicians and corporations, but its not doing anything for real people on climate, health care or gun safety. The only way we get new ideas is electing new people, including a president willing to shakeup washington. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a look at our top stories at 5 30. A dramatic day in court in the trial of a man accused of stabbing nia wilson on a bart platform. A profanity laced tirade from the suspect forced the judge to cut the suspects testimony short. The defense team put cowell on the stand to show the jurors his mental state, but wilsons family and friends believe he was putting on a performance. Were getting our first look at a Police Shooting in san jose last month. Police were called after a suspect tried to ignite a gas pump. Officers first tried nonlethal force, but