Michelle griego. Frank is on assignment today. And were following this developing news. The family of mcmath is detailing what happened in the days after their daughters death. Kpix 5s ryan takeo joins us with the latest. Ryan . Reporter michelle i just got off the phone with the medical malpractice attorney representing her family. For the first time the lawsuit provides the familys account of what happened after jahi underwent a tonsillectomy at ucsf hospital in oakland in december of 2013 to treat sleep apnea. It says show lost two find she lost two pints of blood and the hospital was making plans to harvest her organs. They blame hospital staff for perjuring a dangerous surgery performing a dangerous surgery and lacking communication and putting pressure on the family to pull her off life support. Her family battled to keep her on the ventilator and have to breathing and feeding tubes surgely inserted surgically inserted. More than a year after she was declared legally dead. She wa
Antioch high school prompting a lockdown around noon. Officers surrounded the area and did arrest the man. The lockdown was lifted about an hour later and classes resumed. Three men pleaded not guilty to holding a woman hostage as a sex slave. Police say the 22yearold woman was held captive for almost three months. Charged against one of the suspects include rape and torture. The two other suspects face conspiracy charges. Investigators say the victim was able to escape through an open door last month. Some uc santa cruz students created a traffic nightmare along highway 1 this morning in protest of tuition hikes. Protesters chained themselves to bins filled with concrete. The chp had to use jackhammers saws and sledge hammers to unwind a mess of wire and chains the students were tangled in. Southbound lanes in santa cruz were shut down for five hours starting at 9 a. M. Six students were arrested. Skate borders in the east bay may have to find other spots to show off their tricks. Boa
Showing her and another woman using the victims credit card. Its as bad as we think maybe even worse. The third snow survey of the season reveals the Sierra Nevada snow pack is far below normal. Lowest snow pack in 25 years. Our chef meteorologist takes a look at the extended forecast but we begin with Jodi Hernandez in petaluma. Reporter farmers and rancher are very nervous. Were on the grounds of the Petaluma Creamery. The cows drink 75 gallons of water. Without enough water the creamery is in a tough spot. Farmers will be out of business if we dont get rain pretty soon because cost of living is so high. Reporter folks who run the Petaluma Creamery are looking at another tough year. The creamery produces about 100,000 pounds of cheese a day but faced with a fourth Straight Year of drought, feegd and watering the cows that make the cheeses main ingredient is a challenge. This water is what the cows drink for them to make it through the year. Reporter today sierra snow survey didnt del
Mother nature can tease us with a showers, but california should expect conditions with more frequent regular layer ti. The kinds of conditions in california, low precipitation, with high temperatures are already more common, likely more common in the future. Noah is a climate scientist and says its no longer valid to forecast drought based on 100 years of historical data. 80 of the year has been warm. That means is that there is a big increase in the odds that when a low precipitation year happens, it is producing drought. The high temperatures melt snow in the sierra. When you couple that with soil the implication is that drought conversation will be part of the ongoing exist yens. I am not thinking about it yet. But yeah. There is a lot we can all do i think. Some point out what is being done by resilient rinl of High Pressure from blocking storms from reaching california more frequent droughts can mean more emphasis on getting people to replace lawns installing green Water Systems
Have many options so theyre taking it to the top. The department of education is the steward of all the taxpayer money in the form of grants and federal student loans. Theyre also the ones with authority to discharge those loans. They own the loans. There is fraud happening here and its not being acknowledged. Reporter the students argue while one arm of the government sues corinthian for predatory loans, the other arm is propping it up and requiring students to pay back those loans. They sold me a dream and its turned in to a huge nightmare. Reporter a nightmare she says thats left her life in limbo. Organizers say the department is growing and the department is continuing conversations with students about options but stopped short of saying its considering loan forgiveness. It advises borrowers to continue paying to avoid serious consequences of default. She said she cant go back to school until these loans are taken care of and if she defaults she cant even get a cell phone. That mo