Beautiful thursday morning in russia. Now the Opening Ceremony is friday night, but there are new developments right now. Janell wang is about 7,000 miles away and joins us live from sochi. Its about 11 00 a. M. On thursday. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Yeah, were exactly 12 hours ahead of you in the bay area. Competition has already started today. It started about an hour ago. We have three events going on today. We have womans mogales and the slope style snowboard competition. Shaun white announced he has dropped out. He made that announcement wednesday afternoon after jamming his wrist during practice on tuesday. He called the course a bit intimidating after seeing several athletes crash. Hes decided to drop out and avoid risk of injury and focus on the halfpipe, which hes going for his Third Straight gold. The frontrunner wasnt shaun white any way, its the 26yearold from reno. 21yearold ryan stasle is also competing. On the womans side, we have jamie anderson, the 23yearold
Puts that out, we will have them take that sign down. We would ask people to take that down, and they have. Lets say it were you, and you were collecting signatures. You may want to say, to anything that you could to get somebody to sign it. But thats not what were trying to do. So when we find out about it, we correct it. Reporter he would only say Waste Management is not behind the wrong information and blames the signature gatherers. Those people generally get 2 for each signature. I went to a booth outside of a Grocery Store today. The posters are gone, go a signature gatherer confronted me after i declined to read an article and sign the petition. I signature you learn how to read, and maybe take some reading comprehension tests. Reporter Waste Management says it has gotten about 13,000 signatures so far. They have until september 26, or 27, to get enough signatures. As for the city, it is meeting with its City Attorney to see how they should look at this referendum, and what they
To sell the public on one idea. If anything, the public support for the warriors move to San Francisco has only increased. Reporter in an exclusive kpix 5 poll conducted by survey usas 68 of San Francisco residents support the move. Its overwhelming support. Reporter the real question is, where that arena should be built . And according to our poll, the leading candidate is the site the warriors have been pushing since day one. Piers 30 and 32 top the survey with support at 34 . Our opponents have come at us with everything they have but right now, the site that is in the lead is the site that we have been committed to for the last 18 months. If i were the warriors and i got a result like that after a year and a half of a multi Million Dollar campaign i would be very disappointed and very nervous. Reporter former mayor art agnos wants a new arena in San Francisco. He just thinks its better suited for parking lot a just across mccovey cove from at t park. They are both about the same he
Lumpur headed to beijing. However, air Traffic Control lost communication with the jet and the crew about two hours after takeoff. The plane is believed to be somewhere in the waters off of vietnam. Lets bring in chase cane. Its saturday afternoon in southeast asia. Whats the latest . Reporter Airline Officials are saying despite the rules that the plane did crash, there are no signs of wreckage. Weve learned there were four americans on board, including a mother and her infant and now more than 12 hours have past since the plane went missing. There are military planes and ships and helicopters from three Different Countries searching the waters to try and find this malaysian jet. It went missing about two hours after takeoff from kuala lumpur. The airline says the plane would not have enough fuel to still be in the air. They say that no one has reported the plane landing anywhere, so it seems all indications that this plane has gone down somewhere. The airline says in total, there wer
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. An emotional scene when people learn their loved ones were on board a plane that disappeared l. Are over 200 people on the Malaysia Airline flight. Air Traffic Control lost communication with flight 370. Air Traffic Control lost communication with Malaysia Airlines flight 370 about two hours into its journey. The plane was headed from kuala lumpur to beijing where people waiting for the flight to land were distraught. It was over Vietnamese Air space at the time it vanished. Cbs news travel editors sayen event like this is extremely rare. We have very reliable airplanes, very Reliable Equipment in terms of engines, texnology, and backup systems. So for a plane to disappear off the face of a radar screen without any knowledge or information about where it might be is a little strange. Reporter 227 passengers including two infants and 12 crew members are on board. Ceo of Malaysia Airline spoke to the the media. The airline is notif