Leland yees office before agents took him into federal custody. I heard a loud thump that woke me up. Now were asking how the raids senator lee and infamous Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow are connected. And good afternoon, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. We have Team Coverage on this breaking story. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is live at city hall with reaction from the mayor. But first we turn to our joe vazquez live at San Franciscos Federal Building with the very latest on these raids. Joe. Reporter frank, it was an extraordinary sight around 9 00 this morning, there he was, state senator leland yee one of our most prominent politicians, one of our longest serving politicians in the back of a police car, a federal agents car. Right now he is being booked and processed inside the federal courthouse. State senator leland yee sits silently in the back of a sedan driven by federal agents. He was arrested early this morning at his San Francisco home. I cant actually confirm at this time that the fbi is conducting multiple search warrants and arrest warrants throughout the San Francisco bay area, i can confirm that, yes. I can also confirm that state senator leland yee is also a part of the Ongoing Investigation thats taking place at this time. Reporter the fbi says it cant comment on charges as the operation is ongoing. Senator yees arrest comes as agents have fanned across the bay area and sacramento. This morning the fbi is executing multiple arrests and search warrants. Thats all i have at this time. I request that you allow us to conduct these operations. Reporter fbi spokesman pete lee says he cant elaborate and cant tell us what the charges are against senator yee. Agents are also searching yees Senate Office in sacramento. Also arrested today, raymond chow, also known as shrimp boy. Fbi agents spent hours at his office at the [ nonenglish language ] in chinatown. A house on high street was also searched by feds. It was a allow thumped that woke me up and i looked out and there was a guy leaned up against the apartment door with a [ indiscernible ] reporter fbi and irs agents are on the scene in the 600 block of 42nd avenue in san mateo. Senator yee is scheduled to face a federal judge this afternoon. We expect charges will be detailed. In fact this operation continues as we speak. It was in the predawn hours executing these search warrants. They are thing right now. We know of at least five locations where federal agents, michelle, have fanned out across the bay area and sacramento trying to get to the bottom of this and executing what are clearly warrants they have been working on for some time. Well, joe, as you were saying, talking about multiple locations across the bay area. What are your sources telling you about possible connections . Reporter you know, its very difficult in this snapshot in time, its noon, weve watched senator yee come in, that was our confirmation seeing him with our own eyes. They are not saying new but we understand that this afternoon at 1 30, both of those men that we labeled there, they will be going before a judge. They will lay out a mereiat of charges and well have a chance to look through them and try and understand how they are connected. It is our understanding that this man, shrimp boy chow a known organized crime convict, what he was arrested for is in fact very much related to what the state senator was arrested for. Certainly shocking all right, joe vazquez, live in San Francisco, thank you. And continuing our Team Coverage, kpix 5s anne makovec is outside city hall getting reaction from leland yees colleagues. Anne. Reporter i was a lot of people were very, very shocked to hear the news this morning. I was one of the first reporters to speak with mayor ed lee about it just before 9 00 and at that point, he didnt want to say much because nothing was even confirmed. Well, i told him that it was a done deal, leland yee was in federal custody. And heres what he said. Shocking news to me. Its its its many years of public service. So i dont know whats occurred there. Again, its the fbi doing their investigations and we dont have really much input in that. You know, i hope for the best. Reporter mayor lee reacting to the news that leland yee was arrested this morning. Yee has been in San Francisco politics as an assemblyman and supervisor. Current Supervisor John Avalos lowers the faith in government and institutions. Reporter the news came as a shock on all platforms many in social media questioning whats next. One asks is leland yee a fall guy or will there be a domino effect . It could go either way. Now says his entire voting record should be scrutinized. And since leland yee was running for secretary of state his opponents are ready to react, as well. Candidate derek cross man sent out a statement saying, we are clearly beyond the point of looking at one bad apple and instead looking at a corrupt institution in the california senate. The constant begging for Campaign Cash clearly has a corrosive effect on a persons soul and the only solution is to get big money out of politics once and for all. Senator yee is going to have due process and, you know, and due process is making sure he is not being tried in the media, as well. I hope he can that can happen for him. Reporter i spoke with a lot of politicians who just didnt want to touch this. They dont even want their name associated with what happened here. I think well see a lot of that in the future people trying to distance themselves from leland yee in the future and certainly from any of his past dealings, as well. Live in San Francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. Thank you. As we mentioned, notorious chinatown gangster Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow was also taken into custody this morning no stranger to bay area Law Enforcement and has a criminal record going back decades. Yeelinda yee reports. Reporter raymond chow has been also known as shrimp boy is one of the most notorious criminals in chinatown history. And he has been the target of a Murder Investigation since 2006. San francisco homicide investigators and at the time the Police Gang Task force suspected raymond chow had something to do with the murder of chinatown businessman alan the leader of two tongs, social clubs that are sometimes targeted by criminals. The year before he was gunned down in 2006, he told the fbi he feared for his life after his tong refused to pay 120,000 to raymond chow. Chow attended his funeral boldly dressing in white. He never talks publicly about his past crimes and the new murder suspicions until he spoke to kpix 5 at the time. Some would say he dressed in white to stand out in the crowd and to say, see, im a big shot here. Do you know who killed alan leung . No. Did you order it . No. Reporter chow had just finished serving a 20year federal prison term for gun running. He and his gang members were accused of racketeering, heroin smuggling and murderforhire. Chow says when he was 17, he admitted he had extorted 30,000 a week protection money that he demanded from illegal mah jong parlors. And if they didnt pay, what would you do . I got to do whatever i got to do. Reporter like what . I check them you know. Reporter you beat up the owners . Yeah. Reporter during this interview, chow said he was through with crime and going straight. Within wings of this interview chow then took over within weeks of this interview you took over as the head of the gang which was allen leungs position before he was killed. Police say they suspected chow recruited new gang members to continue their crimes. Thank you, linda yee. A recap once again what happened over the course of the last couple of hours, several fbi raids took place in the bay area and up in sacramento this morning including at state senator leland yees office and his home. Yee has been arrested on charges of bribery and public corruption. Yee is scheduled to be arraigned in about an hour at the Federal Building in San Francisco. Another big player arrested following the raids infamous chinatown gangster Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow. We have a team of reporters and photographers covering the story right now and more throughout the day and the kpix. Com and tonight at 5 00. Muchneeded rain hit San Francisco earlier today. We are not out of the clear just yet even though its slowing down. We are going to see more rain coming and the storm door is wide open now. Still our hidef Doppler Radar showing you that rain coming through early on today and yeah we have some heavy downpours reports of some hail and some thunderstorms outside. And still were not done. We have more rain continuing across the bay area just more widely scattered now and i think thats what were expecting to see showers continuing in toward milpitas but you can see some downpours as we head toward fremont and hayward. Seeing some heavier rainfall there. Out along the peninsula, half moon bay, you have a nice cell thats sliding in your direction there and in san bruno get ready you have another band of moisture thats just about to move onshore and more showers into San Francisco. Its going to be a very interesting afternoon today. We are going to see more scattered showers some rainbows and the possibility of isolated thunderstorms. Well have more on your weather coming up. Thank you. 6 people went to the hospital after a crash in San Francisco in the midnight hour. A car heading west on geary street slammed into a van on van ness avenue. The van rolled over and collided with a pole. Witnesses and police say the cars driver tried to run away. Police managed to catch the suspected driver who is in her 20s. Everyone involved is expected to survive. There is now some new hope in finding that missing malaysia airliner. They think they found parts of the wreckage. Officials released new Satellite Photos this morning showing more than 100 objects floating in the indian ocean. Also today, victims families sat behind australias preliminary as he pledged his government will do all it can to find out exactly what happened. Kpix 5 first uncovered illegal Adult Entertainment clubs masquerading as cafes. Coming up our kiet do finds out if the resulting Police Crackdown is actually working. Emergency workers in washington have resorted to using cadaver dogs to find more than 100 missing but the question stands, were local leaders aware of the risks of mud slides in the area . The conflicting response from Washington State officials. ,,,,,,,, washington, making the sear for victims of last weeken deadly mudslide even more complic cate cauguirai rain is expected straight through saturday in western washington making the search for victims of last weekends deadly mud slide more complicated. Cate caugiran has the latest. Reporter right now they are focused on the more than 100 people still missing as the families hold out hope theyre still alive. Meanwhile Washington State officials are giving conflicting answers as to whether or not they knew that area was at risk. Youre taking a look at new video from saturday. You can see a rescue team lifting a 4yearold boy to safety. Now, John Pennington the director of Snohomish CountyEmergency Management says they knew about the dangers and risks of this area. However, earlier this week, pennington said this was, quote, unforeseen and came out of nowhere. Pennington also claimed not to be aware of the u. S. Army corps of engineers report issued 15 years ago warning them of a potential catastrophe. Meanwhile, the desperate search continues. Now dogs specifically trained to search for bodies after disaster are making their way through the square mile of devastation as others use their bare hands to sift through the thick mud. You just have high water. We have a lot of clay, slippery clay and wood that from all the debris, from the mud slide, and the teams carefully work their way through that. We didnt have people getting injured. The number of people missing is at 176 although that tally hasnt been verified and could include duplicate names. Firefighters say the chances of finding anyone else alive are slim. The force of the mud slide turned neighborhoods into rubble and tore vehicles into pieces. It could take weeks to recover all the bodies in the mud slide. Cate caugiran, kpix 5. Its heartbreaking from the mud slide and they are getting more rain now. And the before and after shots, how much mud came down. They have a whole lot of rain up there this year. Eventually some of the ground gives way. This year we havent had that much rain in the bay area but today a nice little soaker. Things breaking up a little bit but still some good downpours in spots. Our hidef Doppler Radar showing you things more widely scattered now as compared to widespread rain this morning. Look at this cell thats sliding on through near hayward and fremont. Youre seeing some rain there. In livermore about to start dumping on you very shortly and then theres more rain scattered showers into the afternoon but rainfall totals so far almost an inch of rain at st. Helena. San francisco you had over a half inch. Over half inch in petaluma. Dublin over a third. Just about a third in redwood city. And just over. 10 of rain in san jose. So we are continuing to see some showers into the afternoon and probably a couple of rainbows, too. Theres still a slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm. Tonight you will see a lot of clouds, the possibility of a few more showers and another storm coming our way for the weekend. That storm door is open now that trough continues along the west coast so we have a lot of moisture off the coastline that we are bringing in more showers as we head in toward tonight and probably into tomorrow, as well. Around the state if you are traveling, completely different day today with the showers showing up outside. Lots of snow in the high country maybe one to two feet of snow by the time we add things up by tomorrow afternoon. Snow level running at about 5,000 feet. So yeah, you could see two to four inches of snow down to lake level. Lets time it out into the afternoon. The showers becoming more widely scattered outside. A couple of breaks in between with some sunshine. And then as we look toward tomorrow morning, maybe a few more showers early on for the commute tomorrow. And then the middle of the day we have another system sliding on through. So going to keep things a little bit unsettled not a big storm coming our way but still, a little bit wet. Temperatures going to be in the 50s and some low 60s for highs today. Your sunset time is 7 27. Sunrise 7 02. Unsettled weather the next couple of days. That rain probably going to shift a little further to the north on friday. Then another storm for everybody on saturday. Dry on sunday. More rain coming our way it looks like on monday into tuesday. How about that . Its okay. We need it. Thanks. Thank you, lawrence. And a reminder before we go to break, if you have a Consumer Problem or question, call our hotline at, 8885helpsu. Volunteers are there right now. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,, south bay. Since we first reported the er. There has only on kpix 5, cracking down n bikini bars in the south bay since we first reported the problem in november theres been a general decrease in businesses breaking the rules. Still, as kpix 5 reporter kiet do tells us, illegal businesses continue to pop up and we must warn you, some of the images you are about to see are explicit. [ music ] reporter the last time we showed you galaxy bar and restaurant, it was the lap dance capital of the south bay. All that bumping and grinding cost just 20 bucks. Galaxy raked in thousands of dollars a night turning san jose into a mecca of illegal Adult Entertainment. But after our november report, the state department of alcoholic Beverage Control and San Jose Police turned up the pressure. Galaxy was suspended for 30 days and shut down. How much did our story influence you . Your story really brought to light that its happening in more frequency than we see. Reporter four months ago when we showed councilmember Javier Campos our hidden camera footage he had no idea his district was homing to some of he had no idea his district was home to some of the worst offenders. Shocked you know, that looks like a strip club. Reporter san joses scantily clad waitresses have gotten increasingly raunchy over the years. Lingerie was followed by nudity and the crime wasnt far behind. Two people have been shot and killed at vietnamese cafes, the most recent victim a well liked engineer last summer. Campos has now made it a priority to investigate citizen complaints. His main weapon . Code enforcement officers who make surprise visits and cite establishments for smoking, gambling, tinted windows and nude servers. When the twin palms cafe opened up along capitol expressway in east san jose, advertising good looking waitresses and restricted customers to 18 and over, neighbors complained. Code enforcement officers stopped by and shortly after twin palms closed its doors for good. My message to them is, you know, dont do it in san jose. If you are going to open a cafe, open a cafe. But we dont want businesses that masquerade themselves and really theyre fronts for gogo nightclubs. Reporter San Jose Police say its unrealistic to completely eliminate nudity and illegal lap dances in the city. And its just something that were going to have to continually be on the lookout for and manage as it appears. Reporter and the management at galaxy did not return my phone calls. That was kiet do reporting. The business has reopened under the name paradise. Police will monitor it now for illegal activity. Listen up, bridestobe. You have your wedding planner and caterer but what about your social media expert . How one New York Hotel wants to make sure your wedding is pictureperfect and twitterperfect. ,,,,,,,,,, wedding concierge. Wedding season is right around the corner and a new expense is popping up just in time. A social media wedding concierge. Making the rounds on twitter today, a unique Media Service being offered by a New York Hotel company. It includes a wedding hashtag, live tweets throughout the night, a wedding blog and more. The cost, 3,000. And to recap our breaking news at the top of the hour, several fbi raids took place in the bay area and in sacramento this morning including raids at state senator leland yees office and home. Yee has been arrested on charges of bribery and public corruption. Yee is scheduled to be arraigned at 1 30 at the Federal Building in San Francisco. And also arrested the infamous chinatown gang. Raymond shrimp boy chow. Well have Team Coverage starting at 5 p. M. And throughout the day. Check for updates on our website, kpix. Com. A little rain, too. When is that leaving . Scattered showers through the weekend and beginning the next week. All right. Have a great day. 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