Frazier was a standout on the Richmond High School basketball team. His death has left teammates reeling with the start of the basketball season less than two weeks away. No arrests have been made in the death. A federal judge today fast tracked leland yees trial on corruption charges. He is set to be tried along with his former fundraiser keith jackson. Raymond shrimp boy chow would be tried separately. He was suspended from the state senate after his arrest on a slew of bribery and racketeering charges. His trial could start next year. Tonight it is a waiting game. A robot landed on a comet for the first time. It wasnt without some speed bumps. Reporter amazing story. Its not science fiction. This is really happening. Its a lander called filially and it is already transmitting Scientific Data back home. But were not sure if it was stable. The harpoon that would have anchored it to the surface didnt fire off so theres a chance it could fall over. Now, all scientists can do is wait and see what it sends back. Commerges and hugs as they celebrated the cheers and hugs as they celebrated the 220 pound lander that dropped for a dramatic 7 hours before attaching to a comet. This is a big step for civilization. Reporter its the final stretch of a 4 billionmile journey of. Europe peep space agency had been chasing the comet since the launch of rosetta in 2004 catching up to a comet traveling at up to 84,000 miles an hour. It meant using the gravity of the earth and mars as a slingshot building up speed by swinging around both planets before slinging off toward its target. It finally reached the comet in august, the comet is 2. 5 miles wide and weighs 10 billion tons. It resembles the shape of a rubber duck which made finding the suitable landing spot tricky. They hope to take samples from the surface and shed light on how the solar system began. Scientists think the probe may have lifted off from the comets surface and landed again. They should know more tomorrow about its exact position and its expected to ride on that comet for the next year. What a wild ride. Sending back stuff already. Thank you. All right. Lets take a live look at coit tower in San Francisco. No sign of the storm clouds yet but rain is headed our way. It is november the 12th. 12th day of the month. One of our wetter months on the calendar and we have gone 0 for november thus far but oh, how that will change coming up tonight. Kpix 5 hidef doppler is not much yet. But its going to rush in and rush out of here. Most of the rain falling while were sleeping. Right now the drive home may be slow on the roads but its not because of the weather. We are cloudy but we are rain free on kpix 5 hidef doppler. Let me take you into the future. Yes, we have a computer that can do that. 8 00 a few showers up toward lake and mendocino counties, perhaps northern sonoma county. There it is the rain arriving quickly around midnight everywhere north of the golden gate picking up some showers. And scattered showers will continue for the morning commute 8 00 in the morning still some green there. So what to expect. Rain arriving in the north bay by 11 00 tonight if not sooner. The majority of the rainfall is going to fall overnight like the past 2 or 3 systems but that will lead to wet roads and obviously a slow morning commute coming up tomorrow. We have been talking about a more significant system moving in next week. Pretty major changes on the timing of that. Details on that coming up in about 10 minutes. Well, a bay area fire chiefs salary is under scrutiny tonight and get this. The chief himself told our da lin even he thinks he makes too much. Reporter rodeo hercules Fire District chief Charles Hanley makes about 177,000 a year. But including retirement benefits, his total compensation comes out to roughly 380,000. By comparison, thats more than san jose and livermores fire chiefs but less than San Franciscos. Critics argue inflated pay packages are one reason cities like hercules struggle financially. In my book its wrong. Reporter last month the district even gave hanley an 8,000 raise. I think our board of directors of the district gave away our money. Reporter even the chief himself admits the total costs of his employment is outrageous. A pay cut doesnt solve the problem. Reporter but the chief blames it on retirement costs. His alone costs taxpayers close to 130,000. Its way too expensive. Reporter i asked if he would take a pay cut. A pay cut doesnt solve the problem. Me recommendation was eliminate of the fire chief and administration altogether. Reporter thats right. The chief says he and other bosses should get fired and contract out fire service for rodeo and hercules. Its important to note this Fire Department only has 21 firefighters. Thats compared to san jose with about 670 firefighters down in the south bay. By the way, some frustrated folks will be attending a meeting here tonight to sound off their frustration regarding that recent pay raise. Live in hercules, im da lin, kpix 5. A tense rescue on the tallest skyscraper in the u. S. Two window washers dangling 68 floors up on the world trade center. How crews got around a major hurdle in the towers design. New life for an historic bay area lake but first, they have to bring up the dead. Thats a 3yearold girl sitting in a jail cell with her mom. Why police are defending their decision to lock up a toddler. ,,,, two window washers are trapd on this scaf a heartstopping rescue halfway up the new world trade center. Two window washers are trapped on this scaffolding. Its dangling almost vertically at the 68th floor of the freedom tower. This is the moment rescue workers broke through a window bring the men to safety. Reporter Alison Harmelin takes us through the rescue that captivated new yorkers. Reporter tense moments for two window washers working on the nations tallest skyscraper. A table on the scaffold malfunctioned standing the workers more than halfway up the building stranding the workers more than halfway up the building. It went slack putting them in that position. Reporter a second scaffold was lowered while new york city firefighters worked to remain a window from the 68th floor. The wind was blowing as well so it must have been terrifying for those men. Reporter about 90 minutes into the ordeal, firefighters were able to pull the window washers to safety very slowly one at a time. Visitors to the september 11th museum and memorial were moved back in case glass or debris fell. When i see Something Like that, i wouldnt want to be them. Reporter one world trade just opened for business last week. The four billiondollar tower is 1,776 feet high. Its made with steel reinforced concrete and dense fireproofing. The window washers are said to be in good condition. Investigators plan to examine the scaffold to find out what went wrong. Alison harmelin for cbs news, new york. At first rescue crews didnt know if they could safely cut through the glass. The windows on the brandnew building are three layers thick and crews had to use diamond saws to cut through two of those glass layers. The pilot who survived the breakup of Virgin Galactic spaceship says he didnt know the copilot prematurely unlocked the braking system. The unscripted move may have been part of the reason that the spacecraft tore apart midair over the mojave desert. The system is not supposed to be engaged until the craft reaches 1,000 Miles Per Hour. The ntsb says in flight video shows copilot mike alsbury unlocking those brakes before that speed was reached. Alsbury died in the crash. The family of a missing stanford graduate student thinks that his body was the one pulled from the San Francisco bay yesterday. This afternoon, the parents and siblings of dan ha hugged each other in tears. The coast guard found the body near the golden gate bridge. The family saysities. Probably him based on the clothing and wallet. The family says its probably him based on the clothing and wallet. He had been missing since halloween. He is someone i look up to a lot like a younger brother. He loved life and had a lot of different interests. The family says theres no reason to believe that this was a suicide. But they are still waiting for the medical examiners report confirming the identity and the manner of death. In san mateo county, the Coroners Office identified 52 yearold Jerry Matheny as the burglary suspect who was shot and killed by police. Menlo park police found matheny burglarizing a building on willow place. Police say that they used a taser gun on him when he tried to run. When matheny pulled out a gun, police shot him. It could have been a big waste but theres a bright spot to this mess. How its going to make a huge difference for bay area families. Plus, they saw a man drive into the water. They had just minutes to act. The big surprise for a group of men when they broke that trucks window. ,,,,,, crews are taking drastic action to stop alien invaders in a San Francisco lake. They are trying to restore Mountain Lake in the presidio. But to do that, they will kill off every living thing in the water kpix 5s don ford on what will be a fresh start. Reporter the presidio pond poisoning started this morning nearly 50 gallons of the pesticide rotinone being dumped into mound lake to kill every, singl fish. We want to restore the native system to not lake and to do that we need to get all the fish out. Reporter for decades the lake has been a dumping ground for pet goldfish, bass, carp. These Invasive Species have overrun the lake. The native species will be introduced. Well put in native fish and mussels to keep the lake clean. Reporter dead and diving fish are floating up by the hundreds. Small boats scoop them up, others netting and tossing them on the shore. Scientists want to the study the dna of the carp. These carp are bottom feeding just muck feeding fish that disturb the habitat and make it impossible for the native fish to survive here. Reporter theres no debate the carp got to go. You can tell by examining the genetics of these carp that some came from a different area probably europe maybe asia who knows. Reporter those that arent studied will serve another purpose. The castaway carp will be used as fertilizer in other parts of the park. The work is part of a restoration project costing nearly 12 million. The Presidio Trust says with the operation going this smoothly, by this weekend, they expect every fish in the lake to be dead. In San Francisco, don ford, kpix 5. There has to be a buffer zone. The native fish wont be put in the lake lake immediately. They will be put in next spring. This overturned truck was full of thousands of frozen turkeys. It tipped over this morning at the 680 alcosta boulevard off ramp in san ramon. The turkeys were meant for a costco delivery. But they are being rerouted to the Alameda County food bank. All 23,000 pounds of them. Health inspectors checked just to be sure. But then gave the frozen birds a clean bill of health. Ready for a thanksgiving meal. He took the temperature and he said they were fine. And they werent damaged at all. The turkeys remained in their packaging inside the boxes during the accident. The driver and passenger inside the big rig were treated for minor injuries. Other bay area headlines, Mountain View police are unraveling a burglary spree after arresting two men for a burglary in may. Investigators were led to the san jose home of this couple. They found all sorts of stolen items. They arrested them back in june. So now Mountain View police are trying to return the property to victims. And at least nine of them have come forward but there are a lot of unclaimed items. The photographs and descriptions are on pinterest. Belvidere police will have license plate scanning cameras to fight crime. The city council has approved four of them. They will be placed on the two main roads into the city. More cameras could be purchased in the future. The Surveillance System costs about 46,000. Well, the College Football bowl game to be played at levis stadium now has an official name. Its going to be called the foster farms bowl. The game is december 30. Not clear how long foster farms will be the sponsor but it replaces the bowl game that used to be played at at t park. The arctic blast hitting the rockies and upper midwest is breaking records. At only 6 degrees today, denver registered its coldest High Temperature in almost 100 years. Crews deiced planes at the airport this morning when temperatures dipped to negative 2. Snow has been hitting the area very hard creating blizzard conditions. The bitter cold not the only problem in colorado, though. Parts of the state had winds up to 50 Miles Per Hour wreaking havoc in some neighborhoods. These tumbleweeds trapped people inside their homes. Wow. They piled up almost reaching the rooftop [ laughter ] and covering the tops of fences. Tumbling tumbleweeds. Its like a fraternity prank. Open the door, 50 feet of tumbleweed. We are hoping for rain. Man, and everything is intertwined. This polar vortex you have heard so much about, we need that to move actually to get the significant rainfall in here. Im going to explain it coming up. Everything is intertwined but we have rain coming tonight. Its not going to be much but its more than nothing and well take it. It peek outdoors right now we are cloudy but not wet yet. Another day in the 60s. Dont want to call it cold. You just saw denver. Livermore 65. Oakland and san bruno currently at 63. And 61 in San Francisco, san jose and santa rosa. Where is that rainfall . It is just off the coastline up toward Crescent City and eureka. It has a lot of real estate to cover before it makes it here but it will be here before midnight tonight especially in the north bay. Its another not so strong system. Look at the direction with the low pressure area heading. Its moving away from us up to the north. The cold front will get us but the actual low is well to the north. When those two are displaced, often you dont have that much juice in the storm. So yes, we will see some rainfall. Well talk about rainfall totals coming up. But its not going to be terribly strong. That said, tonight for your drive to work or School Tomorrow morning, the front does move through. It will be raining overnight and continued showery throughout the day. I have to show you this map just to show you how everything is so intertwined. Back east, super cold and stuck. Off to our west, a building soaker and currently stuck. Right in between, were going to find this big ridge of High Pressure over the weekend because everything is not budging, nothing is moving. We want this to get here. All the folks east of denver want that to move. But right now, nothing will move. And longrange computer models say until something gives, which is likely not until next wednesday, we are going to be stuck in the pattern so theres a soaker waiting to move into the west coast. So the rain chance we were talking about from monday with moderate to heavy rainfall is now pushing back to wednesday and we may have to push it back farther because the pattern is stuck. We have the minneapolis and denver to warm up. Thats a sign things are moving again but right now i dont see it happening. Rainfall tonight. 3 for you in the north bay. Not that much east bay and south bay, tenth of an inch. San francisco and the peninsula. 2. Its more than nothing but we are happy for that. Rain moving in late this evening, a wet morning commute. Think about leaving a few minutes early. And lingering showers on and off more off than on throughout the day tomorrow. Another day in the 60s. Concord 67. Exactly where you should be for this time of year. San jose 68. Palo alto 68. Hayward your high 66. Mid to upper 60s out in the delta. Pittsburg, antioch, bay point. Livermore 68. Pleasant hill 67 degrees. Rain tomorrow morning in San Francisco. Maybe enough for an umbrella. You might be able to scoot around if you run quickly. 67 the high. Novato 68. Heavy rain toward ukraine your high tomorrow 61. So look at what this stuck pattern does. It gives us a completely dry weekend. No rain saturday. No rain sunday. No rain monday or tuesday. It is next wednesday before the rain finally moves back in. But now that we are getting stormier out here, weather on the go, you can pick up the cbs bay area weather app, check conditions in your area realtime radar, plan your day. You can download it now available for both iphone and android. A brandnew updated weather app. Now, you want the weather, were not on it right now, one click away on your phone or tablet or computer, everything. Love seeing that rain in the forecast. You know, its nice and even though we may have to wait it looks like its still there just a matter of timing. As long as its coming. Thank you, paul. Got some new video for you tonight. Looks like that baby sea otter they found abandoned and crying near santa cruz is recovering quite well. Pup 681 enjoying the new home in the Shedd Aquarium in chicago. The fiveweekold cute fur ball splashing around as she learns how to survive on her own event live. I could watch that all day. Cute. Well, disney is now responding to an antioch family that has started a petition challenging the studio to include princesses with disabilities. On monday, we introduced to you 15month delaney. She has down syndrome. Her older sister and her mom both say there are no disney characters kids like delaney can relate to. And not to make a movie thats about down syndrome but just to make it incidental that a character a hero or heroine has down syndrome. Keston started an online petition that grabbed 67,000 signatures. And that got the attention of disney execs. She says disney told her it is committed to create characters that are accessible and relatable to all children. But mom isnt giving up there. She says she still plans to hand deliver her petition to disney headquarters later on this month. What did a toddler do to deserve jail time . Tonight a Police Department is defending this video. The reason for locking a little girl up. Shoplifting. But she wasnt the only one taken to jail. Latonya bass an ohio mother arrested for shoplifting but she wasnt the only one taken to jail. La tanya bass was booked in cleveland but thats her 3year old daughter. Bass was actually booked with her child in her arms. Bass called the father to pick their daughter up and police said it was better for the girl to wait with her mom. Now, it all started because of this. Security cameras at walmart caught la tanya bass shoplifting. Her daughter was there with 500 worth of merchandise. Bass has pleaded not guilty to the charges. One mans very lucky to be alive tonight thanks to his quick thinking coworkers. He was driving a truck when it went into a frigid lake near dallas. Two men saw that truck sinking and they knew they had to act fast. They smashed the window there on the passenger side. Only then did they realize, the driver was their coworker and they were saving him. More help arrived. They were able to pry open the drivers side door use a rope to pull the man to safety. 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Mattress discounters 6 00 tonight im veronica de la cruz in the kpix 5 newsroom. Heres whats new at 6 00 tonight. Millions of dollars just to study a potential bay bridge bike path on the western span. And this isnt the first time they have looked at the idea. We break down the money and ask again, why . And think your vote doesnt count . We look to the bay area races still being tallied and some of the differences are in the single digits. Those digits. Back to you. See you in 30 minutes. Were watching for the rain coming in. Tonight. Yeah. A little bit. You know, its a start. I think were going to transition to a little bit of a weather pattern between now and thanksgiving. Thank you. The cbs evening news with scott pelley is next. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com pelley tonight, history is made 3 iles away. Mankind lands a spacecraft on a comet. Charlie dagata on how it was done and the secrets that may be uncovered. A relentless arctic blast is taking over more of the country. Barry petersen reports from ground subzero. American sailors in plain clothes are attacked in a country that claims to be an ally. Go home yankee pelley david martin reports. Dr. Jon lapook investigates a price spike for generic drugs. How did her prescription go from 98 to 1,200 . And Jericka Duncan with high drama high above new york as window washers are stranded outside the new world trade center. Captioning sponsored by cbs
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