Right now at 6, the former off duty bay area pilot accused of trying to cut off the engines of Alaska Airlines jet midflight between Washington State and francisco has pleaded not guilty to 83 counts of seconddegree attempted murder. Good evening, everybody. Im vicki liviakis. Im ken wayne. Were learning more tonight about what went on during those tense minutes sunday aboard that flight. Prosecutors say 44 yearold Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson was sitting in the jump seat behind the pilot in the cockpit when he began pulling at the handles of the planes, Fire Suppression system, which if he had been successful, would have cut off the fuel to the planes engines. Prosecutors say he has admitted to doing that. Now faces both state and federal charges conference. Dan kerman joins us now live in the newsroom with the details on this. You know, the big question has been, how could someone like this do Something Like this . Court documents tell a story of a depressed man in crisis gri
Couch west of interstate 80. Take a look at some video just into our newsroot Officials Say a grass fire spread to a structure just west of the railroad tracks. Solano county fire has requested more help to fight the fire. Its a fouralarm blaze. We have a crew on the way and will bring you more throughout newscast and again tonight at 11 00. Crews are battling the flames, and it looks like the smoking blown around about. Rob is here to tell us how the winds are involved. We did seat wind sitting down at ground level being pushed, smoke off to the south and east. Take a closer look at vallejo right now. Temperatures in the 70s. This is probably one of the warmer spots were seeing around the bay area right now. Wind speeds generally have been 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour out of northwest and that today at least is a bit of a dry wind. Youve got the bay but notice the humidity levels out near valeo down near the 30 range. Actually fairly dry for this time of day and this time of year so with t
Im stunned. Im absolutely stunned. Attorney rick madsen says his clients privacy rights were violated by someone she should have been able to trust. A california Highway Patrol officer. One would think that their property, their private information would remain so, particularly when theyre in the custody of a peace officer. Yet, i guess nothing is safe, right . Madsen says the 23yearold woman was pulled over and arrested during the dui stop on highway 680 back in august. But while in custody, he says officer Shawn Harrington accessed the womans private photos from her cell phone, then transmitted them to his own cell. Theyre personal, private photos that she meant to keep private on her own cell phone and werent meant for anybody elses eyes. Search warrants detail the six photos, photos investigators say they retrieved on the officers personal devices during a search of his martinez home. The d. A. Investigator concluding felony Computer Data theft charges are warranted. The cph says t
Its clear right now. But thats going to change over the next several hours. Meteorologist anthony slaughter tracking this storm. Anthony, when does it get here . Tomorrow morning right in the heart of rush hour. Were talking about 7 00 to 11 00, even through lunch time, those showers will linger. I just want to show you what is happening right now. Showers moving in to the coastline, up towards eureka, where theyve seen steady rain for the past hour or so. All of that activity is going to continue to progress this way as we head into the overnight hours. This starts it off right associate monday at 6 00. Showers moving towards santa rosa sack, up towards point reyes, even napa. The shower activity will continue to hang out in the north bay. But eventually, well move toward San Francisco and down through the peninsula as we head toward 9 00, 10 00, 11 00. And by lunch time, the showers will be over towards livermore, even in san jose right around noon. So real moral of this story is tha
Service until monday morning. Again, were going to track this next strong storm coming up a little later on in the show. Eyeopening numbers, jeff. Thank you. Rain, saturation and flooding. Its a problem for several parts of the bay area. Thats why theres concern going into this weekend. Here now is nbc bay areas Marianne Favro from san jose. Reporter chain saws were needed to remove a large ash tray from the walk way of this los altos home. It came crashing down this morning thanks to heavy winds. High winds also caused this power pole to slope, causing highvoltage lines to sag here on alpine road near palo alto. Not motorists had to defor more than an hour. If you werent sitting and waiting if your car today, then you were likely getting splashed. This section of coleman road in san jose was covered with several inches of rain. Just one of many flooded areas in the south bay. And here on highway 87 a motorist was stranded as rain came down in sheets. I see pretty much accidents on the