Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20160803

North bay. It will be one of the warmest days of the week in the north bay. 88 in the zhou bay. The trivalley up to 91 degrees. The peninsula is at 77. As we go into the next several days a cooling trend kicks in so ill detail that coming up in the microclimate forecast. Lets head over to mike already starting out with a major crash in the south bay. There is an issue in oakland. Overnight construction. Minor crash on highway 101. This is the issue in. Not a major commute spot but highway 9 completely crossed. Big basin way here in the saratoga hills. Deadly crash here. Again, this is not the major commute spot but it is a major crash for the details on what happened im going to hand it over to laura because that is our breaking news. Laura . The south bay this morningsh sadly 19yearold woman is dead, 15yearold girl in serious condition right now as the vehicle they were in mike just described it, it just went off a cliff right there on the highway 9 and into a tree. 29yearold man also in the car is missing. The chp believes he may be trapped underneath that car. The crash happened on highway 9 near big basin way about a mile north of Redwood Gulch road just after 1 00 this morning. Right now the highway is closed in both directions with no word on when it will reopen. S more breaking news. This from across the world. An emirates jet crash landed in dubai. In the mideast you see the plane. Someone at the airport was recording this video of the boeing 777 as it grounded to a halt. Passengers say the pilot spoke to them as the plane was approaching dubai saying there was a problem with the landing gear and he would make an emergency landing. This is the aftermath. So far, all the airline is saying about this is that theres been an accident. As you see the entire top part of the plane engulfed in flames. It was burning. But crews got that situation under control within 20 minutes and amazingly, despite how bad that looks, there were no injuries to report. There are about 300 people onboard that plane that had just flown in from southern india. We are also learning there were six people on the plane from the united states. Back home now, developing right now a wildfire is growing in yolo county already forced hundreds of evacuations. Some evacuees spent the night at a Public Safety center north of vacaville. It started at 5 00 p. M. Last night. It quickly expanded to 1700 acres. Nowing with called the cold fire because its right now keeld springs canyon. Evacuations are in effect for the canyon creek resort and g d golden bear estates. More than 500 new hampshires from napa, solana counties are on the lines right now. Mike will have a live update for us in 30 minutes. It is 4 33. Happening today Santa Clara County superior Court Workers are plaping to walk off the job in just a couple of hours. Weve got video of them picketing on monday. The 330 members of the supervisor your Court Professional Employees Association authorized the strike for today after contract talks broke down. Clerks say they havent gotten a raise in years. The court is offering clerks a 4 raise in the first year of a twoyear contract. The many clerks say that is just not enough. What cautioned a charter bus to veer into a pole. The video speaks to the seriousness of the crash. The bus driver survived but with major injuries. Now investigators may be able to interview him later today. He was just a few miles away from livingston where a fresh driver was due to take over the bus. The conditions of the 18 injured are all said to be improving. Thats the good news. The bus was, as you see, almost sliced down the middle by that sign pole at 3 30 in the morning when the bus hit a pole on northbound highway 99. The right seats because of the post, taking them out was on the right side were not there anymore. The driver has been identified as 57yearold mario vasquez. Chp Officials Say he has major injuries and at this point is unable to talk. New this morning, an argument between roommates turns deadly in the east bay. 47yearold pittsburg man called police early yesterday morning. They told him that he had shot and killed his roommate following a dispute. When Police Arrived at the home on trident drive they found the 23yearold roommate dead and the gun used in the shooting. The 47yearold is in custody and awaiting his first Court Appearance. Former San Mateo Police officer is pleaded goilt not guilty to rape and sexual assault. He is accused of raping and assaulting four women and a 17yearold girl. All aft assaults happened happened while he was on duty. Winchester worked for the San Mateo Police department for ten months last year before submitting his resignation. He entered his plea yoed. It is a stunning turn in the criminal trial against pg e over pipeline safety. The judge agreed to a request from federal prosecutors reduce their maximum fine to 5. 5 million. Thats down from the previous 562 million. Now, jurors are still deliberating in this case. The utility is accuse of violating pipeline Record Keeping and testing requirements before and after the 2010 san bruno pipeline explosion. In their brief prosecutors did not explain why they reequest a massive reduction fines. Lets check in with kari this morning. Cooler temperatures this morning. It is cooler this morning but it will be hotter this afternoon. Especially for those inland areas. Ill detail that and well take a look ahead to the weekend coming up in the microclimate forecast. And overnight crews were hard at work on the nimitz freeway. Traffic flows smoothly past the coliseum. That closure was between 29th and 23rd. A little farther north picking up the cones. Well check the sensor, coming up. Plus, a peninsula teacher in court for the first time after graphic video leads to charges of sex with a student. Youre watching today in the bay. Palo alto police are still on the lookout this morning for a suspected bank robber. Heres a photo of the map. The woman is accuse of robbing a credit union on ventura avenue. Thats the woman police are looking for. She wrote a note to a teller demanding money and then walked out. Anyone who can identify her is asked to please contact palo alto police. Redwood city, a high schoolteacher aide makes is a teacher in redwood city making a Court Appearance today after being charged with having sex with a student. Police arrested 22yearold rodriguez after investigators say an anonymous tipster sent graphic video of rodriguez and the student to the schools vice principal. He approached the 15yearold student and two began a relationship last spring. Rodriguez is accused of having sex with a teen multiple times. They started out just as a friendly relationship and it turned into a sexual relationship. The vick tell was never forced into it but it is a crime to engage in copulation with a minor. Rodriguez worked part time with the school for two years. Its 4 41 on your wednesday. More than 5,000 firefighters continue to battle tsoberanes fire. A team of San Francisco firefighters returned to station number 7 on to sum street yesterday afternoon. They were gone for 11 days in total. Strike team 2250 focused on neighborhoods and protecting peoples homes. At times they were surrounded by walls of fire. As the fire is coming, you know, your adrenaline kicks in and you dig deep and you just do the job you got to do to get it done. That fire is now burned through more than 44,000 acres of land, destroying 57 homes in the process. On the whole the fire is now about a quarter contained. Coming up, unexpected endorsement for Hillary Clinton from hp Ceo Meg Whitman. Why she will vote for clinton over trump. Youre watching today in the bay. My name is jamir dixon and im a locate and Mark Fieldman for pg e. Most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg e. My truck is something new. Its an 811 truck. When you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you dont hit them when youre digging. 811 is a free service. Im passionate about it because every time i go on the street i think about my own kids. Theyre the reason that i want to protect our community and our environment, and if me driving a that truck means that somebody gets to go home safer, then ill drive it every day of the week. Together, were building a better california. From the looks of it it might resemble a backyard swimming pool. Something a lot more worrisome, however, for the owners of this home in australia. A sinkhole quickly expanded to more than 25 feet south of brisbane. The homeowners say they first noticed the hole yesterday morning. On old mine shafts sits nearby and the locals believe it caused the ground to xleeply give way. Almost a complete circle. A mud bath more than a pool. A dip briefly in the temperatures . And then things scoot right back up again. Then a dip in the pool later. Not that one. Kari hall joins us now. Good morning. Good morning, sam and laura. You will want to take a dip in the pool. This will be the warmest date of the week. The temperatures starting to climb. It will be nice and comfortable in San Francisco. We start out at 58 degrees. Mostly clear skies up to 67 degrees. And we will have a comfortable finish to the day as well. And then we get ready for a cooldown for the rest of the week. Fog builds at the coastline. This weekend near. A temperatures, no major changes as we continue on in the 60s. Right now its 57 degrees in oakland. 59 in concord. And in napa, it is 58 degrees. In san jose, the Daily Planner starts us out with some low 60s, a few clouds but mostly sunny skies. Lunchtime temperature, 77. As you get ready to head home from work it will be in the mid 80s. Make sure you have the air conditioner on. We will have more of a breeze though. And thats the reason why we will have some warmer air. It will be hot and for the inland spots and also pretty gusty, too. Coming in from the west at about 15 to maybe even 20 miles an hour at times. We will see Even Stronger winds tomorrow as we get ready for a slight cooler trend and fog starting to roll farther inland, especially between thursday night and early friday morning. Highs today reaching 90 in los gatos and spacifica. And santa rosa at 86. Walnut creek, 89. Low 90s for the trivalley. That will be one of the spots well be watching for a little bit of mild warmup for today and tomorrow. As High Pressure starts to move off to the east we will have way for an area of low pressure to move in from the north. Temperatures will be backing off for the weekend into the 70s and 80s. It looks like a really nice one ahead. In San Francisco, high of 67 degrees. Mid 60s for the weekend. Times of sun and morning fog. And up to 90 today but well have some lower 80s starting tomorrow. And into the weekend. Expect it to top out in the mid 80s. As we head over to mike, he says they closed the nimitz freeway overnight again. Yes, kari, the overnight road work. Replacing that over crossing at 23rd. They have to close the entire freeway. No delays. Sensors are green through oakland. In fact, most of the rest of the bay in the south bay, the activity here. North 101, earlier crash looks like everything is clear without any slowing. No problems. Light traffic flow. This blip just showed up southbound 280 right around lawrence. Typically thats just a sensor read that will update and then well check that no incidents reported through that portion of san jose. Its over here the hills outside of saratoga and cupertino. Breaking news from this morning. Deadly crash at big basin way. Thats closed all morning. So well follow that. Not a major commute spot, a major crash. End with the bay bridge toll plaza shot. We see no traffic flow problems here from oakland in towards San Francisco. Clear span. Back to you. Decision 2016 and a surprise endorsement for Hillary Clinton from a highprofile Silicon Valley republican. Hewlettpackard Ceo Meg Whitman says shes vote for clinton and even donating to her campaign. Wittman is worth 2 billion and in the thick of this campaign she has accused donald trump of being dishonest. Meg whitman ran as republican candidate for governor in california in 2010 losing to jerry brown and served as ceo of ebay. 4 48. President barack obama making headlines with his blistering remarks about donald trump. I think the republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week and he keeps on proving it. The president s remarks were made during a joint News Conference with singapores meeting yesterday. He compared trump to past republican rival. Mitt romney and john mccain were wrong on certain policy issues but i never thought that they couldnt do the job. Donald trump made headlines of his own as well saying he is not supporting House Speaker paul ryan or senator john mccain in their upcoming primary election battles. In Business News this morning, wall street taking a big hit yesterday. Can enveinvestors turn things around today . The rest of the news before the bell turn to landon dowdy live at cnbcs world headquarters. Good morning, landon. Hi. Good morning to you both. Wall street could extend losing streak today after stocks fell tuesday. Futures are lower this morning. The dow dropping for the seventh straight session. That is the first time thats happened in nearly a area. Earnings reports and Economic Data on the consumer. Look for data on hiring in the private sector and nations servicing sector. The dow falling 90 points. The nasdaq down 46 to 5137. Toyota is the launch of plugin prius hybrid from the fall to winter. The automaker wont say whats behind the delay but the sales have been sluggish since it went on sale in february. Lower gas prices have boosted demands for suvs an pickup trucks. Instagram undergoes a make over to look like snapchat. Lets people use stories and videos from their day that will disappear after 24 hours and it will be pieced together in a slide show and you can add texts and doodles. Thats good because we want to know what you were having for lunch. Landon dowdy, thank youer very much. The olympics just two days away. There is a delay here as well but not long. Opening ceremony is taking place on friday for the olympics but preliminary round soccer matches get under way today. U. S. Mens and Womens Basketball teams are making their way to bra skil. Team photo from tlt plane. Klay thompson posted this picture with the kpgs rio bound with the squad questforgold. The women play on sunday. Staying in rio, san jose state grad marty what lloyd gearing up to compete in her second games. It was the first coach of the u. S. Olympic team. Malloy won the bronze medal in london in 2012 but this year she has another chance of winning the gold and may have the chance to beat the same competitor she lost two four years ago. All of those losses weigh on me so heavy and i try to come back and kill them and push myself as hard as i can. Shes a competitor but a sweetie as well. Malloy competes next monday. If she wins gold she is going to carry it to twice the redeemer statue. She wants to kill people. Only in a competitive really sweet though. Nbc bay area is your home for all things olympics. Website is is a great guide to track bay area athletes and there are many of them. To check out the top events happening each day. Find out all that and much more on nbcbayarea. Com. Also our very own Jessica Aguirre is live from rio. She will start it every single day starting tomorrow morning. Tough to have that competitive spirit, you know . Win or go home. 4 52. Speaking of going home, goodbye gunny, saying so long to a member of the San Francisco Police Department after nearly 20 years in service gunny can run free. First, happening right now, tweeting out updates on breaking news in dubai. Have you seen this video where a passenger jet is burning on the runway of dubais international airport. Nobody is hurt but the images coming in are intense. Plus, more than four decades ago william kahn was assassinated by a spipers bullet. That was a long time ago the tight knit community is still working to rebuild relationships. You can see the story, all the pictures from last night on our facebook page. Graduation day academy. Almost 20 Bay High School students are going to show off the asp they created. This group of students was the first to learn coding at the sixweek Internship Program at company headquarters. Facebook also says the Program Gives underprivileged incoming juniors a chance to work with a variety of the companys top professionals. Later today San Franciscos mounted police will send one of their own off into the sunset. Goodbye, gunny the horse. They will coral the 19yearold horse and sf giants fan. Talk about being put out to pasture but not before the department throws him a Retirement Department at lefty oh dools in union square. It starts at 11 00 a. M. Gunny started riding with the sfpd in 2009. The horse is going to be a stable mate for another now retired police horse. If youve had the chance would you swim with the bears . Oh, my goodness. Some people at lake tahoe got very close. This is the video of the day. I think its amazing. This is video that was captured by a viewer on her phone. A family of bears playing in the water on lake tahoes beach. You can see people close by enjoying the water next to them. This is southlake tahoe. Amazing to see the mama bear and the cubs just right there in lake tahoe. I love how much you love that story. I do love that story. Not swimming with the bears. All right. We will want to take a dip somewhere later this afternoon though, kari. Yes, we will because it will be warm even though its nice and cool out there now. Well talk about the warmup coming up in the microclimate forecast. And were looking over here. A live look 580 shows you typical volume of traffic through the trivalley. We have however in the south bay, a deadly crash that were tracking. And also an incident over in berkeley coming up. On Santa Clara County superior Court Workers may walk off the job and on to the picket line today. Im kris sanchez with how that could impact your business at the courthouse whether youre talking about a traffic ticket or youre fighting foreclosure. Breaking news overnight. A deadly crash. A car goes over a cliff in saratoga and at least one person is killed with a teenager in Critical Condition this morning. All of this as the search continues for possibly another victim. Plus, crash landing. New video just in capturing on a cellphone of smoke pouring out of a plane on a runway in dubai. There were about 300 people onboard. The entire top half of the plane ignited. Evacuations in the north bay. A state ravaged by flames see another wildfire break out. This time in yolo county. We have the latest information from yolo. Today in the bay starts right now. Very good wednesday morning to you. Halfway through your workweek. Im laura garciacannon. Im sam brock. We will not start out with sweltering conditions. That is the good news. Kari hall has a look at your forecast. It will be heating up in the inland spots again today but a nice cool coastline in places where you can go to cool off. It is now 58 degrees in the trivalley. 56 degrees in the peninsula. And 49 degrees in the north bay. Really cooled off there but were heading up to 87 degrees. 88 degrees in the south bay and. 77 in the peninsula. Hot spot will be in the trivalley today, up to 91 degrees. While we will have a