Three times jahi mcmath has been declared legally dead. Three times but her lawyer now claims she has improved significantly. So much so, he is asking an Alameda County judge to declare her alive again. Attorney chris dolan says he has experts coming to the bay area to say jahi mcmath is alive. Tests show she has brain activity that wasnt there before. Dolan is asking the judge to declare she has not suffered brain death and he wants her death certificate voided. Jahi is doing so much better physically. Reporter they insisted their daughter is improving. Remember late last year, she had gone to oakland Childrens Hospital for a tonsillectomy but there were complications and she was declared brain dead. Her family fought the declaration and moved her to a hospital in new jersey that would keep her on life support. There is no evidence that brain dead patients can ever recover. Reporter he want to see proof, independent proof. I would think that they would at a minimum need an independent
They have. We are trying to divert the water into the street. Two people are displaced and six homes have water damage. This morning, Water Service is off for some people in the bayview neighborhood. Lets get another check on the weather. Its the weekend so you know your forecast is very important. Absolutely. We have been baking the last couple of days. And today probably going to be the hottest day of the week so far. We are seeing High Pressure overhead. The offshore winds continuing. And yeah, we are going to see those sunny skies all the way to the coastline again. These temperatures are going to be something else. Numbers soaring into the afternoon. Youre going to see some very hot weather outside and, in fact, the temperatures are going to go well into the 90s in some spots. So yeah, we have to be prepared today. A heat advisory is up around the bay area. Those temperatures in the 80s and the 90s. We are seeing some changes though for the weekend. Well have more on that coming u
Us. Tonight friends and family of one of the men accused claims he has an air tight alibi. They are facing charges in ala media. Petersons family says there is no way he is involved. Nick . Theyre putting their money where their mouth is, raising thousands of dollars and they say its impossible that peterson is involved in this arson because he was at work. Hannah flores is convinced that peterson is innocent. I want people to know that steven did not set the fires he was at work at that time. She just picked him up in front of his house and havent checked on his alibi. The fires damaged or destroyed several homes and businesses many remain behind crime scene tape today, peterson made his Second Court Appearance friends and family are saying cops have the wrong guy. There are facts. If youre to say were in a state of denial, facts are facts he wasnt off work. Impossible. I was with him from 7 00 to 1 45 sunday morning working at roosters. Petersons friends say he was here at roosters r
To the street. No word on the cause of the break. The citys Public Utilities Commission Says about half a dozen homes have water damage. Several homes are without Water Service this morning. We have developments this morning on the Ebola Outbreak and its hitting close to home. An American News crew with bay area connections is evacuated from africa after the cameraman was infected with ebola and dr. Nancy snyderman from kpix 5, she is a medical correspondent for cbs news, dr. Snyderman is fine. Its a 33yearold american photojournalist working with her who is infected. She is a medical correspondent for nbc news. They were on assignment in liberia. Kpix 5s andria borba reports, nbc has chartered a plane to bring them home. Reporter the 33yearold photojournalist joined dr. Snyderman in the liberian capital of monrovia tuesday. She said she and the photo journalist actual will had their temperatures taken at a checkpoint while moving from one part of liberia to another which has become St
Black hoping for a win. Good afternoon, im brian hackney. Frank and michelle are off. First at noon, a water main bursts in the middle of the night and people in one neighborhood forced to act fast to protect their homes. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is live in San Francisco right now. How are the repairs coming along, anne . Reporter well, crews dug a huge hole in the roadway and they have been working to repair that main. They are just about finished and then they will have to fill in the hole the size of a car. Water is back on for most of this neighborhood in the bayview after flooding about a dozen homes downstream. Water started flowing at midnight and didnt stop until around 5 a. M. It sounded like a river running. You would think you were in yosemite. Reporter it was a rude awakening for about a dozen homeowners whose basements, garages and yards flooded, some up to three feet. Ring the bell and we saw like a river in the street. Reporter it all started with a break in a 12 wat