About a cancer causing contaminant in drinking water. Neighbors want to know why it took months for them to find out. You really cant express, um, what it means to see an innocent man walk out of prison. A cold case makes history in california. How dna helped exonerate a man convicted of a murder more than 30 years ago. And right now on the kpix news at 7 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, retailers giving a state law the run around with bottles and cans. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im elizabeth cook. With recycling centers shuttered around the state, retailers are supposed to pick up the slack, but the reality is far from it. In tonights original report, kpix 5s Andrea Nakano went undercover to find stores blatantly skirting state law. Ive come to recycle. Reporter most employees dont know about it, and neither do many consumers. If you paid a deposit for bottles and cans, youre supposed to be able to get your money back. Its part of californias 33yearold bottle bill, but dont e
Degrees. 66 in san jose. Topping out at 64 for concord later today. We will talk about the all important weekend forecast and the Holiday Weekend, details on that coming up. Now lets check in with gianna and the friday light out there. Yes, it is definitely friday light. Not saying a lot of cars on the roadway, which is great. You are good to go for the most part. A live look at the bay bridge. You can see traffic moving along pretty nicely as you head into San Francisco. No delays in the city either. In fact, most of our bridges and our freeways are looking pretty good this morning. Heres a a live look at the nimitz freeway near the coliseum. Nice speed of there. Are at the limit on the san mateo bridge with no delays between 880 and 101. And if you plan on taking the Golden Gate Bridge this morning, just be advised there is roadwork northbound. You can see in our live shot, theres at least a couple lanes blocked. But again, lightly traveled, not causing a lot oflays. Developing this
Raising rates is the same. They say its for safety and reliability. Well, i dont think you could find customers who are experiencing less safety and reliability than pg es customers right now. Reporter meantime, pg e reported a Third Quarter net loss prior to the open of trading today, sending its stock tumbling. The utility filed for bankruptcy in january. That is their financial situation. Every month, i pay my pg e bill when it come in the mail, just like everyone else does, and we expect the companies that we pay to give us the services were paying for. Reporter simon says while lake county understands wildfires, perhaps better than most, he feels Public Safety power shutoffs are not the answer. There is no way that this can be the way we live for the next decade, and thats what were hearing, and thats unacceptable. There is another Public Meeting scheduled for next week, and thats when the cpuc is expected to take a closer look at all the ways the shutoffs and the notifications ab
Commute. Thunder and hail are possible in this storm. Just quick forecast animation. Things will be calm until 10 00 tonight. Then that wave of Stormy Weather starts to sweep through and once again messy and stormy morning commute. Ill have a closer look a little bit later. A vallejo home is red tagged after a tree came crashing down onto the house overnight. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Holly Foo hollyfield spoke with the homeowner. Reporter when the huge oak first hit the house, the family inside thought it was an earthquake. When the first branch hit, it shook the house. So when we got up, it was 2 13. We were like, okay, check the floors, make sure theres no glass on the floors. Reporter they looked outside only to find it was the tree they had always worried about. A few years ago they had looked into having it removed. It was a bunch of red tape. A lot of hoops to jump through and money. So we just decided to leave it alone at the time. Here we are 11 years later and its finally falli
We scour around looking for something positive. Pretty safe ground when the dow was up. Not so much now. We are above 17,000. The price of gold is not moving much. We are right at 1200 an ounce. Look at the price of oil. Oil is down to 89 a barrel. These price declines are starting together some momentum. Look hard. They say a to handle. I paid 2. 98 on sunday in new jersey. Prodemocracy demonstrations dying down just a little. Officials from hong kongs government has met with the students. No big crack down from beijing as of right now. Next case. Ebola. The nbc cameraman affected with ebola. He is now in the United States. He will be treated in a special Isolation Unit at the nebraska medical center. Thomas eric duncan is the first person to be dyed host with ebola in this country. He is now fighting for his life. I want to get back to that massive hack attack. Nine other unnamed Financial Institutions in addition to jpmorgan have had their personal information stolen. The apple past