Hit the median crashing in to the bus. Five People Killed High School Students on a college tour. Ntsb investigators will look at what could have been done to stop the fire on 9n the bus and whether there should have been a barrier or median on that stretch of highway. Nbc bay area cheryl hurd is joining us live with an interview only on nbc bay area. This could be a game changer. Reporter it could indeed. This couple has quite a story to tell. It literally sent chills down my spine. They were heading down i5 when the fedex truck was heading their way. That truck sideswiped their car. Listen to their story. Lucky to be alive tonight. If it had been three inches over, i bet it would have ripped i probably wouldnt be here and even a little more and we would have been pushed in to that touring van right behind them. It was that close. Reporter joe and bonny were heading home to a small town south of seattle when they say they saw the fedex truck heading toward them. They say the truck was in flames before it sideswiped their rental cars. It was already in flames. It was already in flames, yeah. It wasnt coming from the front or engine but more behind the cab. Reporter they say the truck hit their car, they barely avoided a headon collision. It looked like a 3d movie. Like this thing was coming out of the movie at you. You think im dead. When it swiped us, it felt like we floated, we kind of floated off to the ditch over there, about 20 feet off. We looked at each other and literally at the same time we go were alive. Reporter he and his wife of 32 years climbed over the seat to get out of the car. Tay were both in shock but managed to take pictures of the crash that happened seconds before they were hit. We started to hear about the kids that didnt make it out of that thing and that thats bad. Thats just really bad. Why did we make it and they dont . I dont know. I believe theres a reason for that, but if we were gone, but were not so were going to make the most of it. I cant wait to see my kids. They tell me they have four children. Now bonny stayed overnight in the hospital. She thought she broke her thumb, but it just looked a little bruised tonight. This couple tells me they were in a horrible crash about 25 years ago. Tonight, they say, here we go again. Now, joe is a Real Estate Agent and a pastor. You can tell that tonight. The red cross is paying for their flight home to the seattle area. Reporting live in chico, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. Amazing stuff. Thank you very much. The news her family feared. Confirmation the missing twin on the burned bus is one of those killed. Devastating for the family who waited nearly a full day for confirmation. A coroner used dental records to identify them. They were rarely apart but on this trip they rode on separate buses. Both were accepted to several colleges but they wanted to go to the same school and skipped tonights prom to take a tour of the college together also on the bus a couple engaged to be married. They were on the trip as chaperons. Family and friends say they got engaged on Christmas Day in paris last december. Theres the picture. They were looking forward to starting a family together. She worked as a therapist for autistic children and he was a student in a program. Those who knew them described them as sweet, positive people who had a fairy tale romance. The fedex freight which is a division of fedex has been cited 600 times for unsafe driving in the past two years. Nearly half of the violations for speeding. The violations include failure to obey traffic signals, improper lane changing and found that drivers were cited for using a cell phone or texting while driving. In the past two years fedex has been involved in 700 crashes in the united states, 43 of those took place in california resulting in two deaths. Fedex released a Statement Today saying they are fully cooperating with investigators. Were inviting you to stay with nbc bay area news for continuing coverage of the developing story. If you want to know more go to nbc bay area. Com. We have raw video from the ntsb press conference and a lot of video from the accident and the latest updates, too. New at 11 00, the concord grandfather charged with playing a role in his grandsons death was found guilty today. He owned three pit bulls an they attacked his grandson killing him. They argue he should have seen the attack coming. They had acted aggressively toward the toddler. His sentencing is scheduled for june. Now to continuing coverage of the leland lee scandal. The case against the suspended state senator and others is about to get bigger. Prosecutors said today that more charges are looming and they plan to name more defendants. Among the possible new charges, racketeering that comes with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and hefty fines. It allows prosecutors to accuse gang leaders with crimes they ordered others to carry out. 29 people have been indicted in the case including suspended state senator yee. Follow up to a story we brought you on wednesday about a san jose day care now under state investigation. Parents who have already pulled their kids out from that school were outside of the school today urging other moms and dads to pull their kids, too. Nanete miranda has the latest and they say their children were neglected. Reporter thats right. Thats one of the accusations. The mothers handed out a flyer like this to parents as they came to pick up their children this evening. They say the health and safety of the remaining children are in jeopardy. A group of concerned mothers are picketing the Child Care Center in south san jose. They are upset over what they describe a as abusive care. Some say aggressive handling of kids resulted in bruising. Others claim their kids are forced to sit on the toilet until they go. They have all pulled their children out of the facility and hope other parents do, too. I have been stressed out of this and i want the kids out and want the place shut down and i will do whatever i can until it is done. Mary doesnt want us to show her face but shes crying because the former teacher at the day care is worried about the children there. During her seven months there she never witnessed physical abuse but talks about withholding food from kids as punishment and hardly giving them water. Given water they will have to pee and have more work and changing diapers. Amanda lipscomb always wondered why little riley would come home thirsty. She would down a whole sippy of water. They found Violations Including unqualified staff working with infants and too many kids for the amount of staff on duty. They said our students safety and education remain paramount. We have working with the licensing board to meet all requirements. Other parents are concerned but never experienced any problems. I have two kids. One is almost 4. Shes been here since she was 10 months old and my other daughter is 16 months. They have been here and never had any issues. Reporter an open house is set up for monday. Parents can ask questions and bring up concerns. Nannette miranda, nbc news. Thank you very much nannette. New video may shed light on an arson at oakland childrens hospital. They released Video Surveillance of a man who they describe as a person of interest. According to investigators this shows the man walking in to the area where the fire started last friday morning. That fire burned part of an Administration Building on 53rd street. Firefighters have not released who started it but say 150,000 in damage was caused by it. No injuries were reported. Hitting the brakes on illegal street racing. An operation to stop what they are calling a dangerous situation. Officers issued 178 tickets in north heyward last night. According to police, racing accelerates when the weather warms up. Its not only the drivers at risk. Officers say drivers lose control and veer in to crowds. According to police, trash by the side of the road is also a problem and of evidence last night in thankful. Definitely thankful they are protecting everyone. There we gochl perfect example. Officers say illegal street racing fines can cost can up to 1,000 good evening. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri. We are tracking storms across the central and southern sierra. We will let you know how it could impact our forecast tomorrow morning coming up in just a few minutes. Plus a quake rating system. This one would not measure the size of the earthquake but hear how it could help to save your life. More questions tonight for the president of the states Public Utilities commission. In the wake of our investigation, a state senator wants changes in ethics laws. Questions centering on peddling during a quarter Million Dollars of free travel. And the math problem that cu that could be the cure to the condition. The nsa is in the lean of fire again. This time its accused of failing to warn the public about the heartbleed bug. You saw the story on the nbc bay area the other night. It allows hackers to steal passwords and access information like your bank account and email. The nsa may have known about heartbleed the last two years but did nothing because federal agents wanted to use it to gather intelligence. Tonight the nsa and the white house are denying that report. For nearly a quarter Million Dollars in free travel has the president of the state Public Utilities commission back in the news sglont uncovered tonights about his travel that raised questions about his objectivity when regulating utilities in california. Nbc bay area investigate i have unit has more. Reporter Michael Peevey finds himself in the center of controversy and the bulls eye of one lawmaker. He wants tougher ethics rules that would prevent the puc president from accepting large amounts of free gifts and travel abroad. A story of influence, money and power. No better example than puc president michael peefry. On the steps of the public utility commission, he took aim at the man in charge. During his tenure, he has received 230,000 worth of international trips, gifts from nonprofits. Reporter our investigation last year questioned globe trotting trips by president peevey to exotic destinations like hong kong, sweden, germany, spain and israel paid for by special Interest Groups. Groups buying access to the power of the Public Utilities commission. You were supposed to speak to senators today about the safety of the puc. Instead you spent the day here in napa. Reporter they questioned the decision to ignore the request to talk to state senators last year and instead spend the day in napa with one of the special Interest Groups that fund one of many of his trips outside of the country. You spent time with the utilities you are paid to regular sglat theres no utilities that i know of. Pg e. Maybe one person, i dont know. Reporter the question center on buying influence, california taxpayers pay him to regulate. It aims to refocus Public Officials on their jobs, not their frequent flyer accounts. Reporter senator hill was supported by utility watch dog and calling for limits on the amount of gifts and travel elected and state officials can receive from special Interest Groups. Records show since 2003, mr. Peevey accepted 230,000 in trips and gifts and traveled out of his office more than 200 days. Theres one thing to throw a dog a bone and another thing to throw a fillet mignon. Thats what is happening with this trip. It is an arrogance and the feeling that certainly hes comfortable in his job but the job ends at the end of the year. Reporter mr. Peevey was not available to comment on the proposed change in the ethics law. His spokesperson said the trips and travel allow the exchange of knowledge and are in full compliance with state rules. Rules senator hill wants changed. Now the question will the senators elected colleagues in sacramento approve a change in ethics laws that will limit trips they are accepting . Nbc bay area news. Guess we will have to wait and see. If you have a tip for our investigator unit call 888996tips or send an email to the unit ath ath nbcbayarea. Com. How safe are the buildings you live and work in when it comes to earthquakes . A look at the video from last months strong earthquake in los angeles. The mayor garcetti called for the buildings to be graded for safety. It would be the first system in the country and a huge undertaking to agree on standards and procedures. All right. It is friday night. We have made it to the weekend. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is joining us now. I heard you say earlier today tgif. I think i was saying earlier, tgiaf on thursday. We are tracking cloud cover on the corner of the screen. Thats associated with some storm activity. Thats now across the central and southern sierra. What you should know about this, not any chance of rainfall for the bay area. We may get a few showers down to monterrey in the overnight hours. If you are planning a trip there watch out for wet roadways. Otherwise lets look right now. The fog is widespread from the north bay all the way to the east bay. The Santa Cruz Mountains and cloud cover in the santa clara valley. It is no surprise theres cloud cover on each one of these grids in the south bay peninsula, east bay, San Francisco and north bay. A few areas of drizzle in San Francisco, also up against the immediate coastline and also seeing visibility reduced to five miles in the north bay. The interesting thing to note, its overcast in the south bay but not shrouding the visibility of downtown too much because it is high fog across the santa clara valley. The most important thing, when will we finally start to see the cloud cover move out . We have had a day and a half of thick clouds across the bay. What you will find for tomorrow morning, again, is areas of low clouds and stratus hanging out across the bay area. Theres not anyone that wont be affected by that. As we head throughout 10 00 and 11 00 in the morning it starts to clear out and by 2 00 we should have widespread sunshine from the north bay down to san jose. Next question youen probably want answered is there any hope of rainfall . Lets look. What you will find is the rain belt is way up to canada were not actually seeing that change over the next three to five days. High pressure stays off shore. Thats going to continue to block any storm system moving in to the pay area. Bad news for the drought, but great news if you have any plans this weechblgd look at the microclimate forecast. Some of the best weather by far in the south bay. San jose 73 and sunny skies. Possibly one of the warmest will be morgan hill and close to 80 degrees as we head throughout saturday. For the peninsula, 66. Palo alto low 70s and San Francisco should be locked in to the 60s except for the marina. That could be colder with the westerly wind with temperatures in the upper 50s. We will take you to the north bay, east bay and tri valley and napa 73 degrees. And much cooler with ocean breeze. Oakland 67 and close to 80 in the tri valley and livermore. Awesome saturday coming our way. Also more baseball. The giants took it home tonight against the rockies. As we head throughout saturdays forecast we will keep the cloud cover. Temperatures will stay cool. 60 degrees for the game at 1 05. Some of the best weather in the series of the game as we head throughout sunday. Temperatures in the low 60s and mainly sunny skies. As far as our trend goes across san jose, next several days taken out any possibility of rainfall next week. That will keep temperatures in the mid70s as we head throughout tuesday and wednesday of next week. Unusual warming and no beach weather. San francisco right where with we should be in the mid60s. Going to need the sweater. Still ahead, amazon plans to shake up the smartphone game and a hightech way to deal with jet lag. And we have jimmy. Nicolas cage is my guest tonight. It is a great show. You have to watch. Were on next. Really. So our business can be on at ts network for 175 dollars a month . Yup. All five of you for 175. Our clients need a lot of attention. Theres unlimited talk and text. Were working deals all day. You get 10 gigabytes of data to share. What about expansion potential . Add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. Low dues great terms lets close. Our best ever value plans for business just got even better. Now with free broadband for a whole year. Ever get jet lagged . Theres an app for that. Researchers in michigan say they have worked out a mathematical formula to cope with jet lag and put it to a new app to tell people when they should try to get outside in the sunlight. It tells travelers when to get out of the sunlight. Its believed fach ral light is deeply connected to peoples circadian rhythm. It is called entrain. It is only available for iphones right now. Amazon is preparing to step in to another huge market. There are reports the company will unveil the long rumored smartphone. It is supposed to be on the market in time for the Holiday Shopping season. There are rumors it will include a special screen that will display 3d images would you glasses. That would make it a stand out in the crowd of smartphones. A grand night for baumgartner ,e and. Great night to be a sports fan in the bay area. The sharks, warriors, giants, as and we have geraud moncure. Tell us about it. Fireworks at the yard tonight. There were fireworks definitely. With the giants and rockies matched up, two of the high itself scoring teams in the national league. We expected a slug fest. We dont know who would deliver the biggest blow. Carlos gonzalez in the house. Top of the third and that ball is water bound. Two runs splash hit in to the cove. 30 rockies. Second splash down of his career. Last off of zito. Bases loaded and three outs. Madison baumgartner almost hit one out at his last at bat and doesnt miss here. Grand slam. First by a giants pitcher since es stes in 2,000. Now two down in the ninth. Troy is pinch hitting. Sergio catches him looking. Giants hold on 65. The final. Quite a night. Five rbis and he wasnt as sharp but he found a way to win that game and did it with the bat tonight. Good for him. I know the pitchers have been working hard to improve their hitting and try to help themselves. He certainly did tonight. As and mariners safeco field. Tommy malones season debut. Bottom of the 4th, as get sloppy. One on two out. The grounder to third. Joshs throw gets past barton. Justin scores for second. Abraham lowrie cant make the play and 30 ms through four. Top of the seventh. 60 seattle. Hernandez strikes out the king. O mariners win 64. To the staple center, playoff clincher in tinseltown. David lee active for the first time in seven games. Lee misses the tip in. Curry gets the ball back and rings the three ball. Warriors up six. To the third, behind the back to blake and thats the former laker at staples. Warriors clinch the playoff spot again. Says a lot. Coach jackson has done a great job to put us in position to make that happen. Were trying to do something the franchise hadnt done in a long time and become a perennial playoff team and these are check points along the way. Sharks know they are playing the kings in the postseason. Martin stole the show. Right place, right time. His tenth of the year. Minutes later, on the break away. Off of his rebouchbd he scores and he rips a hat trick to the empty net. His first since 2005. Sharks win 51. Talking masters. Bubba watson is the leader after day two at seven under. Mickelson finished five over and missed the cut. More news after the break. Bragging rights for ladies at sea. The duchess of cambridge won two yacht races today against her husband. Prince william in new zealand. The royal fans showed up to greet the royal couple on the waterfront. Todays wins helped the former Kate Middleton make up for her loss to the prince during a race back in canada in 2011. See, motherhood has only made her stronger. Tranquility. She looks at home on that boat. She does. They are getting rain. We dont have a chance. Fog is the best chance of moisture here. A little driz thaelt coastline and it is widespread so you have permission tomorrow to sleep in. By the afternoon when you decide to get up after i have let you sleep in, you will see temperatures will warm up with plenty of sunshine on saturday. Best day on sunday. Thank you so much for joining us. Have a great weekend. Stay safe. Byebye. Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests nicholas cage Emily Vancamp musical guest, kiss. And
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