Building. Several people who live there believe it was started by a mentally ill man who lived there. He was taken to an institution and returned home yesterday. Suddenly overnight they heard a small explosion coming from his second floor apartment. Many saw smoke coming into their apartments. That is when the one woman i spoke with jumped off of her balcony. People are very nervous right now that everything they own has been destroyed because there is significant damage as you can see from this video to that building. Well let you hear from some of the people who live here coming up in the next half hour. Live in alameda, anne makovec, kpix 5. Harsh weather in much of the country is threatening chaos for thanksgiving travelers. This is a live look at buffalo, new york. Its cold out there. But they are dealing with a lot of snow and ice. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is live at the San Francisco airport where delays could be longer than usual. Cate. Reporter not to mention lines will b
Mess of one of the busiest travel days of the year. This is buffalo, new york, overnight. Parts of the area could see up to a foot of snow depending on where you are. This storm system combined snow, ice, drenching rain and dangerous gusting winds. At least 11 deaths are blamed on the weather since the storm began last week. And a reported tornado touched down along the North Carolina coast. There are reports of damage, trees and power lines are down, and a roof of a condominium was blown off. A local hospital suffered some damage as well and is operating on a generator. Eric fisher, chief meteorologist at our boston station, wbz, has the latest on the holiday storm. Just 24 hours ago, finally the storm will be out of our hair. Its the same one that brought all that flooding rain to california last week. And now were watching the northeast corridor. As we go through the morning, the heaviest rain new york city up through boston. Along i95, really difficult travel. Not an easy drive wha
Ac transit bus could be released from a hospital. As kpix 5s da lin reports, the father of Luke Fleischman wants the suspect tried as a juvenile. Reporter 16yearold Richard Thomas is being tried as an adult for burning fleischman. He set the teens skirt on fire aboard a bus. The suspect and his attorney asked the judge to send the case to juvenile court. The victims father Carl Fleischman agrees. As a 16yearold, i feel that he should be tried as a juvenile. Reporter he says the teen feels the same way. I was a 16yearold and i know i wasnt the most mature person. Reporter its ultimately up to the judge to decide whether thomas will continue his case in the adult court. In the meantime, fleischman is preparing for sashas return home from the hospital. He says the agender teen is making a lot of progress. Were just glad that we have sasha and sashas going to make a full recovery. Reporter in oakland, da lin, kpix 5. He says his son is making such a fast recovery from the second and thirdd
Away. as far away as stockton, and theyre saying that they want to go to stand with the family of andy lopez, the 13yearold who 7n shot and killed last week by a sheriffs deputy. Now, many of them say theyve lost loved ones to gunfire themselves, including one officerinvolved shooting. The family of james rivera, involved in an officerinvolved shooting in 2010 in the central valley. They were here. Investigators say he was driving a stolen br in a high speed pursuit. U g6m Sheriffs Department afternoon thoughed. Protesters like the mom of james rivera arekx joining the outcry. Theyre always just filing killing someone, and we need to start organizing, coming together, city to city, state to state, country to country to address this. This isnt a war zone. The Police Officer is there to protect and serve. He should have been there andpt cognizant of what that situation really was. Lopez was carrying at the time. Investigators say that the towards him and his partner when they ordered
On revenue is disgusting. Reporter president obama wanted a bargain that dealt with taxes and spending cuts at the same time. But with this congress, that was obviously a little too much to hope for at this time. Reporter House Speaker john boehner has not yet publicly endorsed the deal. And the house reconvenes by midday today. A vote could also come today. Tara, a lot of republicans werent happy with the president s speech yesterday. Is there any indication that that could affect the vote in the house . Well, president obama during that speech criticized congress for taking too long to come up with this deal. He also laid the groundwork for another problem thats coming and thats basically burrough upping the countrys burrough limit. Republicans will no doubt try to use upping that in exkang for spending cuts. And to which the president said, they have another thing coming if they think thats going to be the case. Spending cuts alone are not going to be able to reduce the countrys def