The proposal would require drivers training, background checks and insurance coverage. Rideshare operators are supporting the rules, by the way. Cab companies are opposed. Standardized tests as we know them may soon be out in California Public schools. Today, state schools chief Tom Torlakson and concord assemblywoman Susan Bonilla will discuss replacing the pencil and paper star tests. The new tests will be done on computers similar to common core programs used in 45 other states. President obama is now in russia where he will spend a couple of days in st. Petersburg at the group 20 economic summit. He just arrived there a short time ago. The white house says the president will not meet one on one with russian president vladimir putin. That personal meeting was canceled after russia granted temporary asylum for edward snowden. While the president is overseas, more lawmakers here at home are getting behind his plan for military action against the syrian government. More now from cbs news susan mcginnis. Reporter president obama is in st. Petersburg, russia, today with a message for g20 summit leaders support the u. S. In its intention to launch a military strike against syria. My credibility is not on the line. The international communitys credibility is on the line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98 of the worlds population said the use of chemical weapons are abort and passed a treaty forbidding their use. Reporter support from World Leaders here would add to growing support at home. The resolution is agreed to and is ordered favorably reported by the complete. Reporter wednesday, a Senate Committee approved a resolution granting the president at least 60 days to carry out military strikes with the possibility of a onetime 30day extension and prohibits Ground Troops in syria. The full senate will vote on the resolution next week. The president stays will make it harder for syrias government to order any more chemical weapons attacks. We an change assads calculus about using them again. We can degrade his capabilities so he does not use them again. Reporter the u. S. Says it has proof syrian troops fired rockets with sarin gas into rebelheld territories killing more than 1400 people including hundreds of children. In new york, susan mcginnis, kpix 5. Russia says it does not believe the u. S. Evidence pinning the chemical weapons attacks on the syrian government. The Russian Foreign ministry warns that a military strike on syrias atomic facilities could lead to a nuclear catastrophe. An Alarming Number of children in the bay area say they dont feel safe at school. A survey says close to 20 meaning one out of five hayward 11th graders feels either unsafe or very unsafe on campus. San leandro follows closely at almost 18 . Oakland comes in at third. Fights and bullies are some reasons students feel unsafe at school and educators say its impacting academic success. My freshman year there was like six fights the first day, the first day. If they feel unsafe, its physically shuts down their ability to learn just in terms of Brain Research we know that emotionally making it impossible for them to take in new information. Hayward Unified School District says its aware of the problem. Its worked with police and implemented programs in recent years to improve safety. You can check how your School District did in the survey by going to kpix. Com, and click on links and numbers. Bart is still working to recover from a wicked hangover it suffered by staying up all night last weekend. Bart trains worked all weekend 24 7 meaning extra miles for the trains. They operated 7800 hours more than normal. Thursday was barts third busiest day ever with more than 475,000 trips nearly half a million. Friday the fourth busiest. With all the extra wear and tear, bart says more than a dozen cars are now out of service for maintenance, problems including doors that werent quite opening, cars overheating and windshield wipers sticking. It could take longer than a week to get all those problems fixed. A new kind of scam is spreading so fast across the bay area and california, police have a new name for it. Distraction burglaries. As kpix 5s joe vazquez tells us, the goal is to get you out of your house so thieves can get in. Reporter investigators have released new surveillance photos tonight of this woman believed to be part of a group of burglars hitting in the Cherry Guardino neighborhood in fremont. Police say the woman poses as an animal control officer looking for poisonous snakes. Fremont police say the scam artists told her elderly victims that she was investigating a case where snakes bit a little girl out here in the neighborhood. Eventually, police say the woman tells everybody they have to go in the backyard and help her look for the snake. Meanwhile, her accomplices go in the front door and steal cash and jewelry. Not cool. You know . Its not cool. Reporter thats just one example of several scams across the bay area. Police in napa have put out alerts warning people not to fall for the thieves on the phone pretending to raise money for a police dare program. In burlingame, two men in a white van drove up behind a woman telling her to pull over because they said her car had a flat tire. One of the suspects distracted the woman pretending to change her tire even though her tire was not even damaged in the first place. The other suspect reached into the car and stole her wallet out of a purse and ran away. Joe vazquez, kpix 5. And yet another case in san carlos scammers told an elderly man his roof needed work. While i was up on the ladder, two accomplices burglarized the home. Another milestone is being reached today for transportation around the bay area. Its the Transbay Transit Center here in San Francisco. Today politicians and project leaders will be on hand when they start pouring the concrete for the foundation. It is the First Permanent part of the facility that is scheduled to open in about four years. Environmental Protection Agency will hold an event in menlo park this morning to show off an effort to help save a threatened species of fish there. Crews will remove a concrete barrier from the san fransesquito creek at el palo alto park. Its expected to recover up to 40 miles of spawning habitat for the native steelhead trout. Who knew . Who knew . All right. Lets check the weather. Finally summer makes a return to the bay area. What a great day yesterday in the city. It was beautiful. The weekend timing is going to be perfect. Great weather coming our way, sunshine and temperatures really going to be heating up. Still some patchy fog to start the day around the bay area. Thick at the coastline. Look at the old bay bridge now. Yeah. The lights are out there right now. That is right. That is so yesterday that bridge is old compared to the new one. Temperatures around the bay area 50s and some 60s right now. The fog a little thick along skyline boulevard is this morning. You see it now into the bay as well so some patchy fog to begin the day but by the afternoon a whole lot of sunshine, temperatures in the 80s inland, 70s inside the bay and 60s out toward the coastline. More on that heatup in a few minutes. Right now lets check the roads with elizabeth. And the roads look pretty good. No big issues out there right now. So we like what we see. There are some of those usual lane closures up and down the nimitz freeway. This is in oakland, northbound and southbound today actually from 23rd to broadway. Southbound from fifth to high street three left lanes are blocked. All of this is scheduled to wrap up in the next 20 minutes by about 5 00 so as you can see it is causing a few delays to the drive time up and down the oakland area as you head towards hayward, as well. So heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Cruising all across the old and the new section of the bay bridge so no delay there. That is traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you, liz. It is 4 38 now. More than 1100 chickens are now in upstate new york after traveling on a charter flight believe it or not out of hayward. The hens are retiring at an Animal Sanctuary there. A much better fate than many of their colleagues, by the way, whose egg laying days are over. Kpix 5s kiet do explains how human generosity has made it all possible. Reporter they were doomed souls, hundreds of chickens headed for execution. These hens shouldnt even be alive let alone getting on an airplane. You see the irony in all this . Chickens can fly and here they are i do. We give flight to the flightless. Reporter they were on the way to be killed until a rescue group stepped in. The chickens have lived in cages like these all their lives skin rubbed raw, their beaks cut off. They typically lay 300 eggs a year but when it drops to 250 they are no longer Cost Effective to raise. They are killing them. They gas them to death. They literally bring out a big garbage bin the kind you put out for Curbside Pickup and they stuff 50 to 60 in each bag and gas them. Some suffocate, some survive the gassing and then workers manually break their necks. Reporter they could only rescue 1800 chickens for adoption in the bay area but then an anonymous donor chartered the cargo flight to a sanctuary in upstate new york for another 1150 chickens. The cost of the flight is about 50,000. With 1150 chickens that comes out to about 43 a bird. We have someone who said, i love chickens and i want to help. So why would we say no to that . Reporter every year, millions of older egg laying hens are put to death and dumped in a landfills. Saving a few thousand is bitter sweep. Its a drop in the bucket but its meaningful for these hen, animal place and our supporters. It gives them a chance to live out their lives which they wouldnt have been able to. Reporter in hayward, kiet do, kpix 5. The rescued chickens remaining here in the bay area are available for adoption. And they are a little cheaper, too, just 10 a bird. Time now is 4 41. Parts of a jewish camp bumped in the rim fire near yosemite but one prized possession was spared. Why the timing is pretty significant. And the president raised millions for the democrats last spring but someone paid. How one community ended up learning a very expensive lesson. Eye couple of wealthy homeowners on the peninsula are off the hook but taxpayers are not. Linda yee tills the people of atherton are linda yee tells us the people of atherton are paying for parties they didnt attend. Reporter the president raised 3 million in atherton last spring in two fundraisers. Atherton wanted someone to pay the bill. We sent invoices to the white house. The secret service. To the dnc and the residents. Reporter those residences were owned by levi strauss heir and another resident. Atherton considered a lien. They caved. We fall on the sword. Reporter because it turns out the city failed to tell the party hosts they are liable for the costs of extra security when they sponsor an event. Its law in atherton. We cant go after the federal government. They have a supremacy to us. They dont have to pay us. But we can go off the resident and say you live here, you invited, you have the event, you owe us for the costs. Reporter we tried to ask one of the party hosts. This is linda yee from channel 5. They declined comment. The city did personally ask the goldmans and the other resident for payments. No response. Reporter atherton taxpayers are stuck with the 8,000 bill. But atherton leaders say they have learned an expensive lesson. From now on, anyone who throws an event that requires extra Police Services or any city services, that person will be stuck with the bill. They will have to pay up. In atherton, linda yee, kpix 5. The federal government never pays cities for fundraising visits. It would be nice to have a little summer heat around the bay area, even upper 90s on the weekend. Triple digits. Close. Im not going to push this it that far, mallicoat. [ laughter ] well keep things cooler at the coastline. Out the door right now we have patchy fog to begin with, temperatures in the 50s and the 60s. I think as we head in toward the afternoon, a lot of sunshine. 70s inside the bay a little breezy, some 80s into the valleys, fairly mild this time of year 60s at the coastline. That trough of low pressure continuing along the coast moving a little bit further to the east. So as it slowly is moving eventually going to head out of town and then High Pressure going to build in. But today one more fairly mild day warm inland. So beautiful afternoon. Numbers mild 87 in sacramento. 96 and hot in fresno 90 and smoke in yosemite at the fire. Around the bay temperatures soaring into the 70s and 80s in the south bay sixes toward the coastline. East bay numbers up in the 80s in many spots then inside the bay very comfortable this afternoon, 75 in oakland and 70 degrees in San Francisco. Next couple of days we start to heat things up starting tomorrow. And then on saturday and sunday getting hot in spots. Slowly cooling as we head toward the middle of next week. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. Because its not quite 5 00 yet, 5 a. M. , we are still seeing a lot of lanes blocked because of all the overnight roadwork that hasnt wrapped up yet, westbound 80 lanes blocked from hercules into albany. Once you get into richmond traffic flows nicely. This is a live look approaching carlson and even with the overnight roadwork we are still seeing the speeds moving okay about 18 or 19 minutes on westbound 80 from the carquinez bridge to the maze. More roadwork this morning. This is on north and southbound 880. It looks like from 23rd to broadway youll find three of the left lanes blocked once again until about 5 00 this morning. So you can see maybe a touch of slowing as you approach high street just north of the oakland coliseum. Southbound looks good if you are heading towards oakland airport, quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza, no delays. We have seen those delays though move into later on in the morning commute. So right now is the time to go. No problems across the span into San Francisco. Thats traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. Federal investigators have ruled out a couple of possible causes for the rim fire near yosemite. They say it was not started by an illegal marijuana growing operation as one local fire official said. Lightning also has been ruled out as a cause. It could take months to determine the cause of the fire. And it could take at least two more weeks to get it fully contained. That fire burned part of a jewish camp but a piece of that camps history dating back to world war ii was saved as campers kicked off rosh hashana. The jewish new year. Kpix 5s Christin Ayers tells us why this new beginning means so much more. We really treasure this torah. Reporter no one knows exactly how old thank you only that the jewish holy book dates back to world war ii and a small town called [ nonenglish language ] , czechoslovakia. Very sadly that community was wiped out by the germans. Reporter 400 people killed. Yet the torah survived. The torah quite literally has history written all over it. If you look here you can actually see numbers etched into it by the nazis. They had plans to catalog the torana museum of vanquished people. But the torah was destined for another place. The scroll was somehow salvaged and taken to england. In the 1980s it came to camp tawonga a jewish camp just outside yosemite. Little did the staff there know that the torah would have another close call three decades later. This time with the flames of the rim fire. It burned like right up the canyon, the valley that the camp sits in and the surrounding fire. Reporter the rim fire took out three buildings at the campsite forcing everyone to evacuate but not before the workers retrieved the torah. Its incredibly meaningful and, you know, the fact that it could have burned up and we could have lost it in the fire would have been very traumatizing for all of us in the camp community. So were very glad we were able to get it out. Reporter its presence at this rosh hashana ceremony in berkeleys tilden park a quiet testament to faith and survival. [ music ] reporter Christin Ayers, kpix 5. That torah will stay at camp tawongas San Francisco office until it can be returned to the camp in the sierra in the spring. An International Airline is headed to oakland bringing dreamliners, dollars and dirt cheap deals to europe. Oakland International Airport just signed a deal with budget carrier Norwegian Airlines flying dreamliners to oslo and stockholm at 240 each way. It expects the flights to draw 40,000 tourists to the bay area each year. Five flights weiner oslo and stockholm will create 77 million in Economic Impacts for the region. The thing that we have expected with the dreamliner is really opening up International Markets to add a more affordable price. Right now there are no bay area nonstops to oslo or stockholm. The introductory flights are already on sale. 4 50. Its like something out of a james bond movie. What you can expect out of samsungs newest gadget and one thing it doesnt do. Fantasy football is more than just fun and games. How it translates into big business. Plus one bay area legends high tech strategy. Lets check your microclimate microclimate today. Well take you to walnut creek. Sunshine and temperatures looking very nice. Mid80s but by tomorrow thats all about to change. Going to get hotter back into the 90s on friday. Even hotter over the weekend. Bart, muni, caltrain and ace are all on time. Towards 680, 14 minutes now with no brake lights yet out of tracy off 205. Looks good towards pleasanton and if you havent checked out the new eastern span of the bay bridge here it is that live look westbound 80 flows at the limit from oakland all the way into San Francisco. Well have more timesaver traffic coming up. Liz, thank you. Well, millions of people are making their picks for their fantasy football teams. Sumi das with a famous bay area player saying fans are using the same stats reserved for head coaches. Reporter it may be called fantasy football but players take it very seriously and its big business. Generating over 1 billion in revenue annually. At a recent event in San Francisco an expert Panel Including famed 49er jerry rice explained how data and technology are changing the way fantasy football is played. The 1500 catches that i had reporter for many, fantasy football is a good morning of numbers. Lots of numbers. Sports Technology Company stats calculates 92 data points during each play of a football game. That information has actually been available for a while but its been cost prohibitive to make it available to the average fantasy Football Player because the technology was so expensive so intels role is to drive down the cost of the technology, increase the capability of the technology so its accessible to everybody. Reporter its the same data that head coaches use to manage their offense and defense. For new buys who are feeling a little lost as they make their draft picks, heres a little professional advice. Productivity. I want to see a receiver, the yardage after catch also how many catches, how many yards, all of that and the same thing with quarterbacks. Reporter and in case you were wondering, rice is picking the 49ers to go all the way. In San Francisco, im sumi das, cnet. Com for cbs news. According to the Fantasy Sports trade association, the average Fantasy Sports player spends about 3 hours per week managing their teams and an average of 467 per year playing Fantasy Sports. I have my lineup set so frank, get on it. Who have you got quarterbacking . Flacco and eli manning. There you go. Very good. 4 56 now. Samsungs new Technology Turns your watch into a spylike gadget. The galaxy gear smartwatch features a large touchscreen with a builtin camera that can shoot video. You can use it to check emails, set alarms, check the weather. Its not a phone but acts like one. Here its seamlessly connected to the galaxy smartphone in your pocket. When i receive a phone calm, all i have to do is raise my hand to my ear. There you go. The announcement comes just days before apple is set to unveil its latest offerings. The rumored iwatch isnt expected until sometime next year. The gear goes on sale next month for 300. It is 4 57 right now. Next an eyeopening look at what its like inside some bay area schools. Why many students are afraid to go to school. Reporter and bart has a bit of a hangover. Coming up, well tell you about the toll taken on the train system after running 24 hours during the bay bridge closure. yww . Investigating a case where snakes bit a little girl. Its the newest bay area scam distraction burglaries. The thieves Say Something to get you out of the house so they can get in. You have the advantage. Private fundraisers at private homes cost the city of atherton thousands of dollars and it looks like taxpayers are stuck footing the bill. We give flight not flightless. Every year, millions of older egg laying hens are put to death. The cost of the flight is about 50,000. That comes out to about 43 a bird. Alarming statistics about safety in some bay area schools. And i am not going to sit here and be told by you that i dont have a sense of what the judgment is. The u. S. Is one step closer to a military strike on syria and the debate rages on. From across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner linda marie macdonald. Good morning, its thursday, september 5. Im michelle griego. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. 5 00 straight up now. Time for a look at weather and well kick it over to lawrence. Summer returning to the bay area. We have a transigicianal day. Low clouds out the door and fog a little thick coastside
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