Supposed to be looking after an elderly woman. Instead, San Mateo County Authorities Say they covered her with a pillow, tied her up and ransacked her home. Zoranna and anton no mapapalangi were accused of causing the terror inside her home. We have the new details. Its pretty frightening when you know you are almost going to die. I couldnt breathe. The 75yearold doesnt want to be identified but she wants to share her story. It was sunday you, she was sound asleep in her home. Somebody pulled the pillow from under me and stuck the pillow over my face and another person tied up my hands. She said they demanded money and ransacked the house when she told them there was no money. After an hour the house was quiet and she assumed they were gone. They tied me up with a pillowcase. I squeezed my hand through it and i got up and i called 911. She suspected her livein caretakers, a husband and wife. She sort of recognized their muffled voices and they knew she had recently come into some money
Much rain every little bit helps. Spring rains are tracking towards the bay area. Roberta has the timing. We have a little light green on the screen off the coast at this particular time but that is nothing. Thats just the leading edge of the precipitation. This is our futurecast brings the leading edge of the precipitation into the bay area beginning at 11 p. M. Overnight well see heaviest rainfall from the north bay into san jose. Then look what happens. Its out of here. Easily by the midmorning hours on saturday leaving us with partly cloudy skies. We have a Winter Weather advisory in effect for the high sierra. Up to a foot of snow possible in the higher elevations. More on this and how much rain you can expect still straight ahead. As roberta said the system is already bringing a mix of rain and snow to the sierra. Reporter sean bennett has a look. Reporter its the calm before the storm. Sure, we see flurries up here and we see snow on the ground driving on slick conditions on the
Sheriffs office utilizes to take care of that facility. So they were doing work, hit a pipe carrying natural gas. Im sure you know about the fire and explosion we had in san bruno a couple years ago. Much has been made about the pg e shutoff valve. From a firefighters perspective, pete, can you tell us, was it shut off quickly . Did it take a while . Tell us about that. The last report, it was still going to take approximately two hours for them to shut it down. Yeah, obviously we know about san bruno. Luckily for us, this was an area isolated from any homes. The fire was still going with the tractor nearby working in the area, which caught on fire as well. That fire started a grass fire. So at this point, weve surrounded the grass fire, contained it to the area that burned and now were letting the gas line burn until officials can shut down the line. Just to be clear, the gas is still flowing right now . As of last report, yes, it is still flowing, but they are working diligently to g
That gives us a northerly breeze. Sunshine warm to hot today. A little breeze here and high elevations off to the valleys as well and 70s and 80s and 90s way above average. Well have more on when it is going to cool down. Now, here is an update on your traffic. We are looking at a decent commute, although things are becoming slow at some of the points around the bay area. As we look here on the golden gate bridge, no major problems heading down to the toll plaza there. Toll plaza traffic is going to be okay. San matoe bridge not bad here. There are no major problems sitting out there you are driving there, 208 is looking good so you may have time to jump out of that crowd. Lets go back to the desk. A woman was sexually assaulted there earlier this week. Ktvu alex salviggde is out there. Reporter yes this type of incident happens before. There is been a total of four attacks here along the trail in just the past three years. The latest happened on tuesday night. It was about 6 00 at a b
Livermore 15 Miles Per Hour from the west and winds will be continue to stay sustained up to 25 Miles Per Hour later on this afternoon and it could gust up to 30. Keep that in mind later on as you pick up the kids from school and even as you drive home later on this evening. Temperatures into the upper 40s and 50s, 48, and same for sunnyvale a handful of mid50s, it could feel cooler with those winds and today temperatures will be on the cooler side with cooler air sinking in behind a cold front, the lunch hour warming up to the lower 60s, coastal location also stay cool for much of the afternoon, inland locations warming up into the upper 60s, well time out tonights rain chance coming up at 7 15. As we continue to track delays that are building at the bay bridge this morning, there was a motorcycle accident and all it takes is one westbound. This had been a lighter than usual commute for the bay bridge, thats the way it started but now the backup is into the macarthur maze and the driv