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
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
Couple of minutes. Mark sayre is in East Palo Alto where heavy rain has caused problems in the past in flooding. Reporter san fransesquito creek is a 14mile creek that brings water from the mountains of san mateo and santa clara counties right down here in the bay but since the big floods here only a little bit of long term improvement work has been completed. Sandbags, up against the wall. Reporter Mitch Johnson looks over photos of his auto upholstery business from december of 2012 the last time san fransesquito creeks overflowed its banks causing thousands in damage and putting him out of business for a week. That was a bad one. We had probably about 8 of water throughout my whole shop. And it buckles the floors and anything cardboard boxes materials on the ground get ruined. Reporter its not the first time. Johnson was also hit hard during an even bigger flood in 1998. Now all these years later, the problem is still not solved. Why does it take so long to get anything done . The wh
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 5 news. Blown to smithereens when a train carrying fracked oil derailed. Tonight we learned theres a plan to ship this highly explosive fuel right through the bay area and city leaders are powerless to stop it. Christin ayers has some exclusive new information tonight. Reporter on bustling Fourth Street in berkeley people shopping and the occasional blast of a passing amtrak train, but very soon that amtrak could be joined by another very different type of train. Here comes our amtrak and theyre proposing to use exactly the same track for these hazardous cars, totally unacceptable. Reporter the hazardous cars berkeleys vice mayor linda mayo is talking about could carry a highly explosive crude oil fracked from the bakken region of north dakota as flammable as gasoline as we saw when this 100 railcar carrying it derailed in quebec last summer. 47 people were killed and the town was reduced to rubble. I cant even imagine what would happen