Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Tales of luxury the owner of this bay area wine shop schemed customers out of millions. So where did that money go . Tonight tales of luxury cars and online dates. Tonight that berkeley wine shop owner admits to fooling customers and using their cash for his pleasure. Kpix5s Christin Ayers shows us how he did it. Reporter the storefront is still standing, but the business is bankrupt. Today john fox, former owner of premier crew fine wines in berkeley admitted to running a ponzi scheme and ripped off his customers for 40 million. Heres how the scam worked. A customer would purchase expensive european wines from fox with the promise it would arrive in six months to two years, but in many cases fox admits he falsified purchase orders and never even bought the wine. The u. S. Attorney said fox acknowledged between 2010 and 2015 he sold or attempted to sell approximately 20 million worth of phantom wine that he never actually purchased
Heading toward the bay bridge because any time anybody hears b. A. R. T. That start to hit the roads anyway. The traffic is back up here. Through San Francisco and the peninsula, they are single tracking on those b. A. R. T. Trains but continuing with repairs. We do not have full service restored. Major delays along the pooul line. Low clouds. Kari, looking toward the weekend. How does that forecast look . It looks like we will have temperatures that will be in the 50s and low 60s to start out. As we go into the day expect it to warm up into the low 90s in the trivalley. 93 degrees there. And in the north bay, 89 degrees. And we will see a high of 88 degrees in the south bay. While the peninsula today tops out at 82. Well take a look ahead to a hot weekend coming up in the microclimate forecast. Laura and sam . We will check back with you. Thank you very much. Targeted again. For the second time in less than a month someone has chopped down dozens of newly planted trees in the south ba
The hospital right now after being hit by that fallen tree limb. It happen in Washington Square park at columbus avenue in San Franciscos north beach. The woman is in Critical Condition at San Francisco General Hospital that happened before 4 00 this afternoon. Police say the mom was on a bench watching children on the playground when suddenly the 100 pound limb fell on top of her from 50 feet up. And the report was a tree branch fell off the tree and landed on top of her. A pretty big branch . Branch fell, hit her in the head, we believe, and so we were arrived, she was in and out of consciousness. And shes in Critical Condition, and an arborist was sent to the scene. They are examining other trees to look for other potential problems. The womans two children have been handed over to their father. A 15 acre fire near morgan hill. Cal fire calls, and david sent e ground showing the Fire Fighting efforts. Well have a live update ahead on abc 7 news at 11 00 on channel 7. The fire in Mon
Along with her fellow final five team members. Friday, august 12th, 2016. This has been her destiny all along. One more time for the ages. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games. With matt lauer, lo i have from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone, welcome to a special split edition of today, rio and new york, the games of the 31st olympiad and as you can see behind us its dark and rainy and windy on copacabana beach, but it doesnt matter because yesterday was bright and cheery and fantastic for team u. S. A. It was crazy as we talked about Simone Manuel first africanAmerican Woman to win gold. I have a feeling in individual swimming i have a feeling if we mark our calendars in about nine months there will be a lot of sinones named as babies. Simone biles turned in one of the most impressive performances ever to win gold in the womens all around. Right on her heels of course teammate aly rai
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Tales of luxury the owner of this bay area wine shop schemed customers out of millions. So where did that money go . Tonight tales of luxury cars and online dates. Tonight that berkeley wine shop owner admits to fooling customers and using their cash for his pleasure. Kpix5s Christin Ayers shows us how he did it. Reporter the storefront is still standing, but the business is bankrupt. Today john fox, former owner of premier crew fine wines in berkeley admitted to running a ponzi scheme and ripped off his customers for 40 million. Heres how the scam worked. A customer would purchase expensive european wines from fox with the promise it would arrive in six months to two years, but in many cases fox admits he falsified purchase orders and never even bought the wine. The u. S. Attorney said fox acknowledged between 2010 and 2015 he sold or attempted to sell approximately 20 million worth of phantom wine that he never actually purchased