Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. A doctor declared this bay area girl brain dead. Six months ago, but her family says she is still alive. Tonight, we have exclusive new information about jahi mcmath. But first, more of our exclusive interview with the bay area teenager who stowed away on a flight to maui. Tonight, he describes just how easy it was. Our betty yu is the only reporter he is telling his story to. Reporter i have been talking with yahya for several weeks. Right now he is in a foster home in santa clara county. He says he feels misunderstood. He knows what he did when he hopped the fence at the san jose airport and it is a miracle he is alive. Reporter did you think you had any other options but to jump on a plane . No. Reporter yahya abdi stowed away on a plane to maui for fiveandahalf hours. He talks about that journey using google chat. He was sitting on the shell of the plane. He covered his ears as it took off. I could see the clouds through the little holes. Reporter you could see the holes, you could see the ocean and clouds below you . Yeah. Reporter was it scary . No. Reporter yahya abdi says he passed out shortly after. Moments after, he woke up and dropped to the tarmac. He was dizzy, hungry, and couldnt hear anything. Was your vision okay . Was it clear . I couldnt see. Reporter you couldnt see clearly . Everything was yellow. Reporter now he is doing okay physically. What do you want people to know about what you did why you did . I only did it because. I didnt want to live with my step mom. I wanted to find my mom. I havent seen her since i was young. Reporter he says he hasnt seen his birth mom since he was seven years old and desperately misses her. She is in a refugee camp in eat open ethiopia. So many people say why did he did that . Why did he jump on a plane, crawl into a wheel well . What do you say to those people . I would say it wasnt highly secured. Reporter he spent the night in the wheel well. It was the tsas fault, not mine. Reporter did you just hop the fence . Was it that easy . Yeah. They make it easy for me. Reporter these days, he is spending his time doing normal teenager things. I have been going to the Movie Theater and playing video games. Reporter he is also doing some packing. He plans to move to minnesota to live with a relative. Reporter how do you feel about leaving california, leaving your brother, your sisters . Your dad . I will miss them. Reporter well yahya abdi will be a junior in high school this fall. He wants to join the army after he graduates. There has been a lot of scrutiny over security as a result of this. It is interesting he blames the tsa. Reporter he does. He just says that it was way too easy. I talked to representative eric swallow tonight. He says there have been five major Security Breaches in the last six years and he is pushing for tougher standards and tougher technology at airports that would send alerts. And that is one airport of thousands in the United States. You have to believe not all of them are secure. Thats right. That is what he is hoping for that changes will happen at the san jose airport and around the bay area and country. Betty, thank you very much for that. Tonight, we have exclusive new information about the oakland ager at the center of a legal fight after doctors declared her brain dead. Joe . Reporter we are talking about jahi mcmath. We have learned her where abouts. Early on, there was a lot of talk about this. A lot of speculation on where she might be. She is in fact in a hospital at saint peters Childrens Hospital in new brunswick, new jersey. That is about 30 miles from new york in the pediatric intensive care unit receiving around the clock care. Back in january, jahi mcmaths family arranged to remove the 13yearold from the oakland Childrens Hospital where she was declared brain dead after a tonsil surgery. Her new location was undisclosed until now. This hospital is sponsored by the catholic church. I cant confirm anything. Reporter jahis family Attorney Says he cant confirm her location, but insists her condition has gotten better so much better that he says her family would now consider moving her out of the hospital icu. It has been a very compassionate facility. Whether or not this facility thinks it is the right facility for continued long term care, i would say that may be a discussion that i could see potentially happening because of jahis improvement. She may need a lower level of care. Jahi responds to cold stuff. In this video leased earlier this year, jahis foot reacts to an ice cube. Her improvement now is more advanced. He has watched her look in the direction of her mothers voice and even move specific parts of her body her mom asked her to use. Several experts looked at jahi before declaring her brain dead. They even issued her a death certificate. If they tested her now, it may show Something Different than when jahi was under the most acute stress of the swelling of her brain and the lack of food and nutrition. The family is confident that they have seen signs of jahi responding to voice commands and acting in a way much different than she did at oakland. Reporter she mentioned saint peters hospital, they would not confirm her presence either. Her family reached out to the media early on, but they did not respond to any request for comment. Joe, it is interesting she is in new jersey because the law is on the familys side there. Reporter exactly. New jersey is one of the few states that allows the family to reject the diagnosis of brain dead. You make a religious objection and say my loved one is not dead and they cant take you off life support. Thank you joe. A close call the night in san jose, all because of a barbecue. The back of this house on cuerco court went up just before 7 00 this evening. It started on the grill, but it quickly spread to the attic doing Severe Damage to the roof. Because it was placed, under the eves, that is right into the attic. Nobody was hurt, the fire also damaged the back of the house as well. We spotted something unusual flying over San Francisco tonight. Take a look at this. Five black hawk helicopters. The faa is not commenting on branch of military they are from, but a big exercise is underway at camp roberts. It may have something to do with that, but we dont know for sure. Tonight, militants have seized the biggest oil refinery. Iraq is asking the United States for help and they are talking about air strikes. U. S. Military aircraft including war planes from the uss bush are now flying around the clock Surveillance Missions over iraq. At the same time, joint chiefs chairman general Martin Dempsey says they asked for air strikes against the insurgence that control much of northern and western iraq. We have request from the iraq government for air power. Reporter but air strikes have been put on hold due to a lack of good enough intelligence to target them without harming innocent civilians or iraq troops. It is not as easy as looking at an iphone video of a convoy and striking it. Reporter to get better intelligence, the feint gone is sending about 100 Army Green Berets into iraq. David martin, cbs news, the pentagon. The president has promised not to send u. S. Troops back into combat, but they will be armed and they will be at risk. Back here at home, if you think gas prices are bad right now, just wait. They could spike much higher and not just because of what is going on in iraq. Theres a proposal in the u. S. Senate to raise the federal gas tax 12 cents a gallon. That is on top of an extra 15 cents a gallon that we will be paying next year when a Global Warming law goes into effect. One driver we spoke to tonight says it is not just gas that will be more expensive. The price of food would go up. It costs more money to get the food to the stores. The truckers. Everything. Everything will go up. All the clothes. Pretty much, it will put a tariff on everything. Another driver said he wouldnt mind because the federal tax money would help fix the roads. Tonight, this has to be one of the worst parking jobs we have ever seen. A car was left hanging out of a garage in los angeles after it crashed through the barrier. The driver wasnt hurt, but he is probably pretty embarrassed. Well tonight, the bay areas best kept secret revealed. Where homes are selling 50 over the asking price and they are still a bargain. The house was on fire, but this bay area guy had no fear. 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I forced them to water my side. I said you wart water my house or i am not coming down. The house was spared. The man was able to save his guide dogs. He is blind in his right eye. A neighbors cell phone video shows the moments just after the fire broke out on lantana drive this morning. The men in orange shirts you see are part of a tree trimming crew that happen to be working nearby. They knocked on doors and alerted the people inside. I woke them up. They said wheres the fire at . The fire is inside the house. Please gut the house. We have to go, we have to go. That was on fire. She wouldnt listen to me. She was going back and forth, back and forth. The Tree Trimmers rescued a toddler from one of the burning homes. No one was hurt. If you think house prices are going up like crazy in San Francisco, look at what is happening in oakland. According to zip realty, the median home price has shot up 23 compared to 14 in San Francisco. And our cate caugurian found one neighborhood where prices have really gone through the roof. Its a great feeling. Houses are selling like pancakes. Reporter the cat is out of the bag. We worked on this neighborhood for a long time to make it oaklands best kept secret and we want to keep it a secret. Reporter it is not a secret anymore in the real estate market. The durant area of east oakland is the place to buy. Homes here are selling for 50 more than last year. There were holmes a year ago selling for 100,000. Reporter this house is on the market for two days. Got about 15 bids. One nearly 40,000 above the asking price. At an asking price of 199,000, 40 grand is a pretty big profit. You want to see that, you want to see, you know, after coming out of that big old slump in the economy, something positive is happening. Offers came like this. Within an hour or two of people looking at it. They came back with their contractors. They came back with, you know, hey, i want it. No, i want it. Reporter brenda dixon lives across the street and has lived here at least 50 years. She says Family Oriented Community is the big draw. We all look out for each other, we all feel safe here. People are buying there and living there and fixing it up. You are starting to see the neighborhood change. Reporter he says he doesnt expect this jump to last so sellers should embrace it now while they can. Cate caugurian, kpix5. And zip realty says the price spike is because many people are looking to buy in San Francisco, simply can no longer afford to. A special art project has gained a lot of fans and tonight, theres a push to save it. We are talking about the bay bridge lights. There they are. Theres a big Fund Raising Campaign to keep the lights on. People handed over 150 a piece for the party on pier 5. It brings together community in the spirit of love in the way no other have. The goal is to raise 1. 2 million to keep the lights on past march. It will take another 11 million to keep the show going another decade. You sometimes cant see the bridge this time of the night because of the fog. But we have not had that a couple of days now. Every weather month is not. [ standby, technical difficulties ] one of the least amount of dark nights we have, we are coming up on the summer solstice sunday morning. You may have noticed a dry streak. It has not rained in a while. 41 days the last widespread rainfall. Nowhere close to a record. The record is 194 days from may to november back in the 1950s. Big Time Temperature spread today. Antioch, 94, 43 miles away, it was 35 degrees away. Fort funston, 59 degrees. One was close to 100 and one didnt it is 60. Sonoma, a big weekend for you. Thursday, thunderstorm, 79 with sunshine. Morning cloud cover, high of 77. Big nascar race coming up at sonoma this weekend. What happened today versus the past couple of days, ridge of High Pressure got closer. All we have to do is have the ridge move closer. We went from the 70s to the 90s away from the water. We went from the 50s , the 70s , or 80s. Tomorrow will not be as warm as what we had today because the ridge will retreat over the pacific. Just enough to cool off the air, but not Strong Enough we are stuck in the fog where we cant see the bay bridge. So pleasant weather, sunshine, temperatures that are not too hot. That will last all the way through the weekend tonight and then fog right along the coastline late tonight. It will be nice tomorrow. Not aswarm courtesy of the on shore flow and the weekend looks awesome. San hoe a, 81 degrees with sunshine. Looking at 80 for melpedas. Lots of 80s for pittsburgh and walnut creek. Dublin, 82. 65 in San Francisco. San rafael, 78. 90 in clover dale. Extended forecast next week, we say hello summer on saturday. Beautiful summer weekend. 80s inland. Upper 60s near the bay. In an attempt to find fault with the forecast. I got nothing. I got nothing. This is perfect. [ laughter ] hello summer. It is an odd year. Hello summer. [ laughter ] thank you paul. Hello ghost. A tourist snaps a photo of something spooky at alcatraz. What do you see . ,,,,,,,, the wonder of summer is that i never know what kind of adventure awaits. The days are longer, and the breeze feels a little sweeter. And, thanks to volvo, ill pay nothing for repairs or maintenance for 5 years, nothing. They even cover my first months payment. So, ill be happy wherever the summer takes me. The wonder of summer event. The 2015 volvo xc60 crossover with complimentary first months payment. Starting at 439 a month. Some to be one of the mo haunted places in america. Now brian webb shows us alcatraz, the rock. Considered by some to be one of the most haunted places in america. Now a couple of tourists say they have proof. Reporter more than a million tourists visit alcatraz every year. A lucky few claim they see something extra special. A ghost. I did not see a ghost. I heard rumor, but didnt see any. Reporter a british couple looks like they see a ghostly turn of the century woman staring straight at the camera. They believe it was a spirit. Other tourists say, well maybe. Possibly. I dont know how many 1900s women were on allstar quatres. But i dont know. Reporter that picture was taken in the old visitation visitation area of the prison. So was there actually a ghost lurking on the other side or is the explanation much more down to earth . What do you think it is . Shadows. [ laughter ] we caught up to former alcatraz prison guard for the inside scoop. He worked on the rock eight years during the late 1950s. In your experience, where there any ghost out there . No. Personally, i dont believe in ghosts. But that is such a great place for a ghost story. I imagine. In the 29 years as a federal prison, there were eight murders on alcatraz, zero executions and nobody was buried there, but it is rich with ghost stories. It is possible, but how do we know for sure . Brian webb, kpix5. The official response from spokesperson . What ghost . We dont see anything. Do you think it is real . Of course. Absolutely. [ laughter ] well be right back. ,,,,,,,,,, birthday girl. 103 year o francis pairanon, shes 103. Tod out the first pitch. Before baseball up tops, giants fans are not going to like the next few months. First, birthday girl, 101 years old, tossed out the opening pitch. Gray struck out seven. Brandon moss helped him out. Here comes yoenis cespedes. To beat the tag. As with the best record in baseball now. They beat the rangers, a final of 42. At any point in time of the season you can say you have the best record in baseball, it is satisfying. There is a lot of baseball yet to be played. You take that confidence in where you are right now and apply it to games tomorrow, the next day, the next daytime at least for the time being, it feels good. Whats up with the giants . Worst start as a giant for tim hudson. How he gave up seven runs, that had just about enough. Giants were down 72. They cut into one in the 9th inning. And got no further. The giants have lost five in a row. Their lead in the west is just four and we will tell you who is in second place. Defending world cup, eduardo vargas. No grass burns. Off the round of 16. 20, the final. Spain, eliminated. They outscored 71 in their two matches. So, what does it mean . Well, you heard the buzzer. Three country it is eliminated from the world cup. Man, we had a lot of our times between newst casts. Preproduction. [ laughter ] australia, cameroon, 29 countries left. Spain, australia, cameroon are out. To the wednesday nights top five. Number 5, a tribute to tony gwynn. Padres first home game since he passed away monday. A classic san diego ceremony for number 19. Number 4, lets see how fast Bartolo Colon can run. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. He also scored a run. 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