Live in san leandro, da lin, kpix 5. Police say the passenger thats in custody will face a number of charges including two counts of attempted murder of a Police Officer. New video of that big sinkhole in San Francisco. It is growing but by design crews have to make it bigger in order to fix it. Century old pipes are to blame. A problem the city says its working on. But kpix 5s Christian Hartnett tells us getting to the root of the problem is complicated. Christian. Reporter it absolutely is. Well, first of all, the citys Public Utilities Commission Says that the sewer main under the road right here where all these guys are working is not the problem. Its the connector piping from this drain right here that burst yesterday. All that Rushing Water in there was too much for it to handle. These guys will be working on that in the next few days. The fact of the matter is that the water and sewer piping near San Francisco is old. Its worn and the city cannot guarantee that Something Like th
The offer. Reporter bart at 30. 50 an hour ranks third behind new york and boston. But ahead of washington and philadelphia. In the bay area bart is top paid among transit systems. Ahead of muni, sam trans, a. C. Transit and the golden gate transit district. The offer they knew in advance we would be unable to accept. Reporter why that last offer is so important is at 6 00 p. M. , but live, the president of the bart board of directsers about to announce directors is about to announce that. What compliments that is a a. C. Transit strike as well. Speaking of the a. C. Transit strike this will be unprecedented if bart and a. C. Transit will be on strike at the same time. Take the bay bridge crossing, 16,000 people every day ride a. C. Transit across the bridge. If they are like the bart folks, half of them, 8,000 will put cars on the bridge. Think about what happens with bart and a. C. Transit, all those people trying to get across the bridge, ferries and buses, it would be useless. The
Notorious former chinatown gang leader and yees consultant jackson. Yee is out on bail this morning but could be facing a lifetime behind bars if convicted of all the federal charges against him. Reporter senator leland yee left the courthouse with no comment. One of the bay areas highest ranking politicians now finds himself facing public corruption charges as well as charges related to selling weapons. His Attorney Says his client will plead not guilty. He says that he is innocent . Well always as in every case enter not guilty pleas and then the case takes on a life of its own with discovery being provided, motions being made, sometimes a case ending up in trial. Reporter the fbi conducted a series of raids across Northern California eventually arresting more than two dozen people with crimes ranging from selling drugs and weapons to murderforhire. Basically, he is being accused of trading political favors in exchange for money. Reporter kpix 5 legal analyst Melissa Griffin said he
Highway 24 dont expect that the last two much longer you have like reagan and what great danville and again we do have some rain to west of that. redwood city could be dry for now all containing with light rain. And it looks like youll need your umbrella if youre going around or heading around into a soft bear right now. look at the headlines rain consistently throughout the day we start to see the showers taper off sunday morning. Not talking so much in rainfall totals Higher Elevations could accumulate half and only expecting about a quarter inch in depth of death of an inch in San Francisco and san Jose Christmas more details on that coming up in 15 minutes San Francisco giants now down two games in the world Series Kansas City Royals plan of solid performance at t park last night beating the trans 32. Trans and still hopeful a team will tie the series in game 4 tonight here a highlights tensing up and out early one run lead was my continuing to add on durrells course to run six inn
To an end, just in time for the weekend. We extend into this afternoon and this huge area in pink is the heat warning. It wil expire tonight at 8 00. With that in mind, lets look at whas going on. The huge heat dome is starting to break apart. Its sandwiched between two interests two interests systems. See the l, low pressure starting to dive dive down, that will cool us. Ao something is coming from the south. A hurricane. Thats bringing in atmospheric moisture atmospheric moisture as we head into the weekend. Boy, will it cool us off. We are still dealing with the heat wave so triple digits are expected in the east inland hills, 70s and 80s, at the coast and the bay. I bay. I will break down the hurr. Its nothing too scary for us ie bay. How are the roads . You are busy. I give up. The weekend is almost here, o thats good news. Weve got some brake lights g in the altamont pass. Here is a look at our travel times, 40 mis 205 towards 680. The rest of the the bay area is good. No delaysn