Drop. In boston revelers watched the pyrotechnics over the harbor. A crowd estimated at 1 Million People packed into times square. Wendy gillette was among them. Start spreading the News Reporter fireworks, confetti, and cheers filled the air over times square as new york city rang in new years day 2014. Amid tight security revelers started gathering on sidewalks tuesday morning. They came from all over the world to stand in the sail spot for hours in the cold. Hosana silvez is one of ten students from chicago. She said shes been looking forward to new years eve in new york ever since she landed in the u. S. We heard about the ball drop and i was like, oh, we have to go there now. So were here now. Reporter its a long ways from her usual new years eve on the beach. In the water with friends and the beach. Its ice cold. Reporter you said you cant feel your fingers . No, i cant. I just cant. Reporter its estimated 1 Million People stood here to watch the ball drop in time square. The col
The interior valleys now. 30 degrees in santa rosa. 38 in san jose. And 43 degrees in San Francisco. Clear skies all day long and that means we are in for a very nice start to the new year. In fact, these temperatures well above average. Well into the 60s inland. Hazy sunshine inside the bay mid60s and low 60s, mostly sunny toward the coastline. Plan on about 66 degrees in oakland today. 64 in vallejo. 65 degrees in santa rosa. And 62 degrees in San Francisco. Lets check your traffic with roberta. Lawrence, photographer edgar is on the scene this morning in san jose where we had a pretty nasty accident about an hour ago. But the chp is doing a fine job cleaning up, sweeping up all the debris. We still have two lanes blocked on 680 northbound to that 101 northbound connector. No injuries being reported because they say the occupants of that vehicle youre looking at right there fled the scene and jumped in yet another vehicle. Major traffic snarls, thats being cleaned up. Meanwhile, this
Driver was drunk. Kpix 5s mark kelly outside the home with more. Reporter this is not the way you want to start fourth. I just got done talking to neighbors here on this street. They say the second drunk driver made his way down grove way at 5 40 this morning in a silver sedan. Let me show you, first he crashed in front of one of these homes hitting a parked car there. But that did not end this story. Let me show you down here, lets walk down grove way. He continued on, hit this fence according to neighbors, flipped his car over this fence and over the bmw. And he landed right there on that 66 ford mustang. The homeowner says thats not his ford. Thats his brotherinlaws. And his brotherinlaw was overseas at the time. My brotherinlaw, he came and turned the car on, you know, but, uhm, you know, i see that some other car landed on top of that, you know. Reporter the chp tells me that the driver did sustain injuries but we dont know the extent of those injuries at this point. But a lot of
For every day i feel like a little piece of me is being taken away. The state opens an investigation into the handling of the jahi mcmath case and now the mother of the braindead 13 yearold is fighting with the hospital to release her child to another facility. Major portions of the Affordable Care act go into effect today. But just before midnight, a major move in the Supreme Court. Justice sotomayor delayed the requirement that religious organizations offer Birth Control as part of their insurance plans. From across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner is mrs. Linda m. Macdonald. Good morning. Happy new year. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. We begin with some developing news on this new years day. Its been a deadly night on bay area roads. In San Francisco a 7yearold girl was killed when an suv hit her and family in a crosswalk at polk and ellis stre
Charged. We do have the driver of the vehicle who is being questioned by police. During the course of the investigation, we developed probable cause to arrest him for vehicular manslaughter and he is being cooperative but it will be at county jail. The mother and young boy who were hit as well are expected to recover. Some new details about a deadly accident in fremont. A young woman was killed and two other people were seriously hurt when they were hit by a pickup truck. They were walking across paseo padre parkway on mowry avenue at 10 p. M. Last night. 19yearold woman was killed. The 3monthold baby she was carrying suffered life threatening injurieses. Police say the driver is cooperating. One man is dead and another injured after the car they were in plunged into the water at tomales bay. Witnesses reported seeing the car driving erratically and weaving along the road last night. The car crashed near the intersection of highway 1 and Marshall Petaluma road. Witnesses were able to g