Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Breaking news, we know what happened. The missing plane was hijacked. The Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared a week ago tonight. But we dont know where the plane is or what happened to the 239 people on board. After so many theories, here is the latest one. At any minute, we expect the Prime Minister of malaysia to hold a News Conference. We first got word about 9 00 p. M. This evening. The Associated Press reported that investigators reported the plane has been hijacked. Investigators said they were increasingly certain someone who knew how to fly turned the plane back across the Malay Peninsula after losing communication and it flew toward the indian ocean. Tonight, the search for the wreckage has been expanded to the indian ocean. Here are two telltale signs. The data reporting system and the transponder shut down a few minutes apart. That means they did not suffer a sudden catastrophic event and it climbed to 49,000 feet. Way above the approved altitude of a boeing 777. After the plane turned away from its planned route to beijing. The malaysian government has lost a lot of credibility over the last week. China and vietnam accused of it withholding information and giving misinformation. No word from the u. S. Government at this late hour, but the conclusion is in line with what u. S. Officials have been leaning toward all day long. That foul play was to blame. In the meantime, the search for the plane continues. U. S. Navy is helping with that search as we have been telling you and we will keep you updated during this newscast. Other news tonight, a woman surfer drowned this evening at pacifica state beach. They used an all Terrain Vehicle to get to the body. Conditions were not great today. The only rip currents, the bad ones here are at the northern end of the beach near round house. It swirls through there when the tides are are like this. With the moon the way it was, the rip was probably working pretty well today. It is unclear what happened. The woman has not been identified. Today, students of city college of San Francisco have some powerful support. A city supervisor an a state assemblyman have joined a protest at city hall to demand a special trustee be thrown out. The students are not happy about a strict new payment policy which requires them to pay up front in full or make payments on a schedule. Something that auditors say has to happen so the school can crawl out of its deep financial haul. It just makes sure your students are paying. Well the issue with that is mostly that he implemented this policy almost overnight. We showed you the violence that broke out on campus yesterday. It was caught on camera. When students tried to enter conland hall, two students and several Police Officers were slightly injured. Tonight, a berkeley housing coop is about to make a drastic turn around. Coin court has had problems for years. Now they want to make it a sober living environment. All the rooms will be cleaned and painted and all the tenants will not be allowed to stay. All the students we talked to are less than thrilled. These policies encourage drug users to use alone because it is a culture of fear on using drugs. Not a culture of education and how to reduce harm and reduce an overdose. It is really sad. The end of an era. Four years ago, a family sued coin after a Drug Overdose gave their son brain damage. Christin ayers shows us things are so bad, people are being evacuated in a certain housing. Reporter rhonda leads us down the hall of richmonds hacienda complex. As you can see t windows are falling apart. Reporter the window wont budge and she worries about what would happen in a worst case scenario. If a fire breaks out, no way i can get out. Reporter and that is just the beginning. The complex is falling apart. There are holing in the ceilings and the place is rampant with cockroaches and mites. At a City Council Meeting during which one councilman walked out, the remaining Council Members voted to evacuate the hacienda. We wanted the know how these evacuations would happen. The director of the Housing Authority would not talk to us on camera, but said he is working on it. The city manager did not return our call. The city manager has put out an order that nobody in the city talks to the press. My question is why is the city manager wanting to hide. Reporter the city manager has suggested that money might be an issue. It would cost half a Million Dollars to relocate the residents. Though some have questions about the evacuations. Where are we going to go . Whats the next step. Reporter marshall says she is ready. It is time for the building to be evacuated. That is it. Reporter in richmond, christin ayers, kpix5. The city of richmond would wind up paying for the evacuations out of their general funds. Tonight, the acting chief of the Oakland Police department the doing all he can to keep a big Crime Fighting tool. Shop spotter helps lead police to shooting scenes. It cost a quarter of a Million Dollars a year so the Police Department grappled with the idea of suspending the technology. It may not be my top priority, but it is a tool we would get good use of of it. I have several competing things and we are trying to figure out how we fund all of these things going forward. Many people in oakland tell us they want the police to keep shot spotter. Fire investigators have picked up where firefighters have left off after the big inferno in San Franciscos mission bay. The firefighters wrapped up their hoses and left today. Crews are still demolishing the remnants of the apartments that were being constructed when they went up in flames. The mayor is praising their actions. Thank goodness it was under control. Here is another look at the burned out shell. An early working theory of what caused the fire . Welling. Highway patrol seeing how welding problems have been on the span of the bay bridge. The Highway Patrol says this investigation is administrative, not criminal. One focus is the way that cal trans transferred a Quality Control contract from one private company to another one. And the bicycle and pedestrian path on the new bay bridge will be temporarily closed. It will take a week for workers to install a new ramp on the oakland end. The closure will start sunday night night. Secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart discuss the crisis for hours. They agreed on nothing. On sunday, the people of crimea will vote on whether to become part of russia. Now most everyone thinking they will vote yes. To ratify that vote officially would in fact be a back door annexation of crimea and that it would be against international law. The u. S. Says it will place economic sanctions on russia starting monday if russia does not back off. We are hearing from two cal grads who were imprisoned in iran four years ago after actuallily crossing the border from iraq on a hiking strip. This is northern iraq. Im an adventurous person. I have traveled to a lot of places that are more risky than northern iraq. We didnt expect that anything bad would happen. You can watch the entire interview with all three of the hikers on cbs sunday morning starting at 9 00. Tonight, there are a lot of nervous kid ins the bay area. Some might still be up cramming for tomorrows final local round of the big Scripts National spelling bee. We are proud sponsors of the bee. Linda yee is in our north studio tonight which has been transformed for the big event tomorrow. Linda, what is the spellers strategy the night before . Reporter you know, that is the big question. So it is going to be a tough competition. That is why i checked with at least two of the 49 kids who will be here tomorrow. They have already gone through two of their preliminary rounds so we know they have what it takes. Whoever wins the round here tomorrow, they have to go to the finals. They are definitely double working. Im pretty nervous. Reporter 13yearold harry reads a lot. Combing through the webster website and practices by using flash cards with a little help from mom to prepare. I have been studying gradually over the past week or so. When i come across the word in a book or a newspaper or something, i will test myself on it or write it down and that helps. Reporter 12yearold elaine chin is studying hard tonight for the big spelling bee that could take her all the way to washington dc. Normally, i would flip through the dictionary. Definitely flip through the pact of spelling words i get and study like the tips of the origins and the pronunciations. Reporter tomorrow, they and 47 others will be challenged with words like. [ unintelligible ] words that these words have never heard. Reporter can you pronounce some of those. A couple of them are really weird and you cannot find all line. Are you going to cram all night . No, i need sleep. Can you spell. [ unintelligible ] seraphine . Do you know what it means . No. Reporter oh, she messed up by one, but i have kpix5s best speeler me. Meteorologist paul deanno. I we will let you try it. No pressure. This is the winning word. Can you use it in a sentence . Reporter the surgeon asked his nurse to bring him the. [ unintelligible ] before he started the surgeon. Seraphyne. Reporter you just wanted to be weird. Is that right . [ laughter ] reporter no. No. I tried. Reporter totally off. Totally off. [ laughter ] it is either wrong or right. You dont have to rub it in. Reporter it was a valiant try. Thank you. Thank you. Thats a tough one. [ laughter ] maybe his workouts will be better. These kids have to know these words. That is a really tough one. Some of them are so tricky. All over the bay area, kids are going to sleep reading the dictionary and you can watch all the kids spell their hearts out. We will be streaming the spelling bee live tomorrow starting at 10 00 a. M. This is the superbowl for spellers. Go to kpix. Com bee. Still ahead, even his wife had no idea. The feds tracked down a convicted killer 30 years later. And we continue to monitor that breaking news from malaysia. Officials are now saying that missing plane was in fact hijacked. Thats what happened to a mn san le well imagine plugging your name into google only to find your name on a most wanted list. That is what happened to a man in san leandro when christopher vatafa saw his name on a most wanted list. He quickly turned himself in. A convicted killer is behind bars after living an unassuming life in florida. How u. S. Marshalls caught the guy almost four decades after he escaped prison. You cant hide forever. Reporter the law finally caught up with military fugitive james jones. The convicted killer escaped prison in kansas back in 1977. Authorities say when they rearrested him thursday, jones knew the jig was up. The first words out of his mouth were i knew it would catch up to me one day. Reporter 59yearold jones has been living in a well kept home in deerfield beach, florida calling himself bruce keith. Even his wife of 30 years had no idea about his real identity. I think hes a nice man. I keep thinking you have the wrong man. Reporter but authorities knew they had the right man. They used facial Recognition Technology comparing an old military photo of his with his id with a fake name. His fingerprinted confirmed it. Mr. Jones, you have a parole violation for murder charge. Reporter he is being held without bond. Im going to mark on here escape risk. Reporter this time, they are not taking any chances. When he escaped, jones was serving time for premeditated murder and aggravated assault for the death of a fellow army private. Uber has announced a new insurance policy that covers drivers that get in an accident while working but dont have a passenger. This change comes after an uber driver hit a family on polk street in San Francisco on new years eve. A sixyearold girl was killed in that accident. They said the driver did not have a fare at the time. The new policy has liability coverage up to 50,000 per person for injuries. Paul, a lot of folks in the city today are here to enjoy the glorious weekend we are going to have. What a nice weekend. Folks are visiting town just for this weekend. They picked a good one. This is as good as it gets. We are talking 80 degrees away from the water. The last full weekend of winter. 80s away from the water. San francisco hits the 70s coming up this weekend. This is where we were today. A nice little kick off to the weekend in brentwood. Saratoga, 75. Windsor, the warm spot. North bay, 83 today. Check out bodega bay. 58 degrees, fog, chilly. So we had a 25degree temperature spread today. But things even out over night. Fremont, 47, San Francisco, 52. Chilly in the north bay, napa, 45. You saw that story from pacifica where a surfer lost her life today. All area beaches sunday, a High Surf Advisory in effect. West swells will be building 12 to 14 feet. Use extreme caution and play it safe on the area beaches this weekend. Morgan hill, south bay, 80 degrees tomorrow with sunshine. Even warmer on sunday with a high of 83. So we are getting warmer than where we were because High Pressure is getting closer and stronger than where it has been. This morning, you woke up with fog and cloud cover. We had a light on shore flow dragging in some of the chilly ocean influence. It is not going to be the case tomorrow. High pressure will be right over the top of us and the sinking air. That is warm weather, sunny conditions, sunny and warm coming up this weekend. And we are talking High Pressure moving down to the south. Next week bringing back the on shore flow. A zone flow miens dry weather continues. The warmest days will be over the weekend. So, little or no fog and low cloud cover. Record highs, possible not likely, but you will get a record high or two this weekend. As for rainfall which we need, there is no solid rain chance in sight. Concord tomorrow, 78 degrees. 12 degrees above average. We will hit 80 in campbell. 80 in lo s altos. Vallejoless. Petaluma, 76. We are looking at highs in the far north bay, 78. Sunshine on sunday as well. Warmer. Next week, cooler, highs in the 70s , but no rainfall all the way through next friday and that is your kpix5 forecast. We want to go live back to kuala lumpur where a News Conference has begun. This is the latest on Malaysia Airline flight 370. We will listen in. At such a crucial time. Since day one, the malaysian authorities have worked hand in hand with our International Partners including neighboring countries, the aviation authorities, and the multinational search force. Many of whom have been here on the ground since sunday. We have shared information in realtime with authorities who have the necessary experience to intercept the data. We have been working nonstop to assist the investigation. And we have put our National Security second to the search for the missing plane. It is widely understood that this has been a situation without precedent. We have conducted Search Operations over land, in the South China Sea, the straits of malacca, and the indian ocean. At every stage, we acted on the basis of verified information and we followed every credible lead. Sometimes, these leads have led nowhere. There has been intense speculation. We understand the desperate need for information. On behalf of the families and those watching around the world. But, we have a responsibility to the investigation and the families who have only released information that has been corroborated. And our primary motivation has always been to find the plane. In the first phase of the search operation, we searched near the last known position of 370 in the South China Sea. At the same time, it was brought to our attention by the air force that based on their primary radar, an aircraft, the identity of which could not be confirmed made a turn back. The radar showed the aircraft proceeding on a flight path which took it to an area north of the strait of malacca. Given this Credible Data which was subsequently corroborated with the international authorities, we extended the area of source to include the straits of malacca. Earlier this morning, i was briefed by the Investigation Team which includes the faa, ntsb, the aaib,aviation authorities and the acting minister of transport on new information that shed further light on what happened. Based on new satellite communication, we can say with a high degree of certainty, that the Aircraft Communications addressing and reporting systems was stable just before the aircraft reached the east coast of the peninsula. Shortly afterwards near the border between malaysia and Vietnamese Air traffic control, the aircrafts transponder was switched off. From this point onward, the radar showed that an aircraft which was believed but not confirmed to be mh370 did indeed turn back. It then flew in a westerly direction back over the peninsula before turning northwest. Up until the point at which it left military radar coverage, this movement is consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. Today, based on raw satellite data which was obtained from the Satellite Data Service provider, we can confirm that the aircraft shown in a primary radar data was flight 370. After much forensic work and deliberation, the faa, ntsb, aaib, and the malaysian authorities working separately on the same data concur. According to the new data, the last confirmed communication between the plane and the satellite was at 8 11 00 a. M. Malaysian time. On the eighth of march. The Investigation Team is making further calculations which will indicate how far the aircraft may have flown after the last point of contact. This will help us to refine the search. Due to the type of satellite data, we are unable to confirm the precise location of the plane when it last made contact with the satellite. However, based on this new data, the evasion authorities of malaysia and the International Counterparts determined that the last communication of the satellite was in one of two possible corridors. A northern corridor stretching approximately from the border of kazakhstan to northern thailand. Or, the southern corridor stretching approximately from indonesia to southern indian ocean. The Investigation Team is working to further refine their information. In view of this latest development, the malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation onto the crew and passengers on board. Despite previous reports, the plane was hijacked. I wish to be very clear. We are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused the plane to deviate from its original flight path. This new satellite information has Significant Impact on the nature and the scope of the Search Operations. We are ending our operations in the South China Sea and reassessing the redeployment of our assets. We are working with other countries to request all information relevant to the search including radar data. As of the two new corridors involve many countries, the relevant authorities have been invited to everything on the new information today by the Malaysian Foreign ministry and the technical experts. I have also instructed the Foreign Ministry to provide a full briefing to foreign governments which had information which had passengers on the plane. This morning, Malaysia Airline has been informing the families of the passengers and crew of this new development. Clearly, the search for mh370 has entered a new phase. Over the last seven days, we have followed every lead and looked into every possibility. For the families and the friends of those involved, we hope this new information brings us one step closer to finding the plane. So you have been watching a live News Conference from malaysia. That is the Prime Minister who had a lot to say corroborating a lot of the information that we have been hearing in media reports all day long including the fact that despite media reports, that it was a hijacking for sure, he is not denying that it was, but he is saying they are still investigating all other possibilities. That is right. They are saying talking about these different organizations that have been investigating this separately but talking about this together, there are two communications that they said were shut off including the transponder within a very short period of time and that they were deliberately shut off. That is an important point to bring out. Is that they believe there is a high degree of certainty in their words that somebody made a deliberate action to disable the planes Communications Systems and they believe that that was, you know, someone on the aircraft. So they dont believe that a catastrophic event happened. They believe that somebody is responsible for turning off the communication devices and they talked a lot about where the plane might be and the different corridors they have searching. It involves a lot of countries. But one of them is near kazakhstan. The other area is near indonesia or the south indian ocean. Originally, they were looking in the south of china sea. They are stopping that investigation and moving it somewhere else after looking at the data they have received to reevaluate where they are looking. And we are past day six now of this just amazing mystery. And of course, we are keeping you up to date as we get the information. We pass it on. You will have all the very latest if you keep it here to kpix5. We will have regular updates on kpix. Com and we want to just let you know that it is a fluid situation and the reports are continuing to change a little bit just to recap briefly. The malaysian Prime Minister is holding a live News Conference in kuala lumpur says there is a high degree of certainty that the transponder was disabled, other communication disabled by someone consistent of deliberate action of someone on the plane in his words. Not confirming or denying that it was indeed hijacked but they are looking at all possible scenarios and they are reevaluating where they are going to continue the search. We are going to stay on top of this story online on twitter, on facebook, also tomorrow morning on the morning show. All right, that is the very latest we have. We pass it onto you as soon as we get it. Have a great weekend, stay safe. Remember the spelling bee here tomorrow. band playing late show theme from the heart of broadway, broadcasting across the nation and around the world, its the late show with David Letterman. Tonight. Plus paul shaffer and the cbs orchestra. Im alan kalter. 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