Supposed to be a momentous occasion. To celebrate her friends renewing there wedding vows for their 25year anniversary. That isnt quite what happened. I feel in shock. Im pretty numb. Because i just dont know how to feel. How can anyone do this . Reporter among a group of 25 families all used house of aloha travel services owned by wendy wong. Bernall showed us invoices that she later found out were bogus. Leading up to the trip she learned no travel arrangements had been made. How much total did you get from her . Total for everything, 10,806. How much have you lost . In total about 10,000. We his wife trusted wong a long time friend from bill peters who graduated from felt like a broken. Reporter he says he authorized her to use his credit card for payments. Come to find out she used it to pay for three tickets for another group. Through our investigation we determined there are quite a few upwards of at last count about 13 victims. Reporter Police Investigating the theft and have tu
Cozy with one another. Well have state senator jerry hill. The california puc is in charge of regulating these Companies Making sure they dont kill us. Unfortunately they have been getting criticism about not doing their job. In Santa Clara County they want to reduce water usage by 20 and voted to use a half Million Dollars on a new tool to help them do that. Lots coming up. First, water falling from the sky today. Scattered showers. Taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. There are a lot of people running the San Francisco marathon this morning, some ambitious folks. Temperatures are mild all around the bay area. 70 degrees in livermore, 58 in santa rosa. In oakland it is 63. Look at our highdef doppler, showers around the bay area. More hit than miss but well see the possibility throughout the rest of the day. More on your extended forecast. Here is mark with a quick check on headlines. Today in the mideast hamas agreed to observe a 24hour humanitarian truce. Hamas the truce wo
Receiving. Reporter right now he is at a fundraising lunch expected to bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars for democrats. Thats after an event this morning benefitting Senate Majority pac. Its a less than 24hour trip for president obama, air force one landing at sfo last night and leaving this afternoon. He is raising money to help democrats running for congress. First an event of the Four Seasons Hotel this morning in San Francisco. The secret service swept vehicles for bombs and paid the waited to see the president but they slipped out quietly to another fundraiser in los altos. Pressing International Developments continue to unfold. On a downed plane in ukraine, the escalating fighting in gaza and the surging number of Illegal Immigrants crossing the border. Some people say the president s focus on fundraising is out of touch. By avoiding the big problems, youre talking about what he is doing or not doing instead of the solutions the democrats need to get to, if they are going
Patchy front lawn, hannah paul has been saving water. But she feels some of her neighbors may not be doing the same. Do you think some neighbors water more than others . Everybody waters daily. Reporter and they shuttles . No. Reporter soon the Water District will be on the case. Passes unanimously. Reporter the board voted unanimously to spend half Million Dollars for up to 10 water cops to investigate complaints and educate people about wasted water. So they will talk to the homeowner or business and let them know what violations that they are or what restrictions are in place in their area and what they are violating and talk to them about the drought. Reporter they arent handing out fines but they will work with local water providers who starting august 1 have the authority to give out citations of up to 500. If you saw somebody wasting water you what call it in . Absolutely not. If i have a problem, ill tell my neighbor, say hey, did you know your sprinklers are filling the gutter
Reporter they cleared the usual overnight roadwork in pleasanton and much better news for drivers out of the Altamont Pass westbound 580 from north greenville to vasco emergency road repairs. Some delay in the area maybe some crews off to the shoulder but all lanes are open and they reopened the lanes ahead of schedule. A quick note the roadwork up and down the nimitz cleared, it was southbound hitting downtown oakland exits. Its picked up. Back to you guys. Thank you. Happening today president obama is in San Francisco to attend two fundraisers. Kpix 5s anne makovec is following his trip. The president is taking some heat for fundraising right now. Reporter this morning, he has a big events at the four seasons in San Francisco at 9 20, then a private fundraiser at the home of Real Estate Investors judy and George Marcus in Los Altos Hills. President obama landed at sfo at about 9 20 last night. He is raising money for the Democratic National committee to help members of his Party Runn