To go way out to Southern California to pick up a few showers. We have a quiet weather pattern up there for awhile w. That it is cold tonight. Now, a graddule milder trend over the weekend. No storms for a little while. I do have a bit of snow coming up in the sevenday planner. All right, thank you, mike. They were fired for walking off of the job at the Meat Processing plant. Now the workers, all want their jobs back. Only if they can pray. Denver 7 reporter is live outside of that plant in fort morgan. Now, a group says it is all a big misunderstanding. Reporter that is right. You know, this is a sign of the are hiring. They fired 150 employees last week after those employeesed they had been denied the time to pray. Tonight, the Human Rights Commission tells me this can all be solved. Processing plant here in fort morgan, it is a misunderstanding here. We dont have it. Reporter speaking by web cam rarbgs the head of web camera. There has to be a balance between prayer and productivit
Im anne makovec. Happy new year. Im frank mallicoat. 2015 is bringing changes to peoples paychecks in the bay area. Kiet do has that and other laws you need to know about. Reporter happy new year and happy payday to people out there who will be betting paychecks. It will definitely be a happy new year for a lot of people who will be getting slightly bigger paychecks. Starting today minimum wages bump up for every major city in the bay area and that includes san jose. Now, this is all part of a slow phasing in of a minimum wage law that was passed years ago. Starting today, san joses minimum wage goes up to 10. 30 an hour. Oakland creeps up to 12. 55 an hour. And San Francisco is at 12. 25 and they will be at 15 an hour by 2018. A new privacy law kicks in today thats the strongest in the nation requiring police to get a warrant before searching your Electronic Communications this includes computers, smartphones, emails, text messages, Digital Documents and location information. There ar
The problem, old mattresses that people simply leave on street corners. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran on the cleanup plan. The problem now is that you dont have anyplace to put them. What could you do with a mattress . Reporter you see them under freeways, sidewalks and front yards. Everywhere they are not supposed to be. Its a health problem. They attract rodents. They attracted mold, germs. Reporter this is state senator Lonny Hancock talking about the mattress problem nearly 30 years ago. In 2013, she coauthored a new mattress recycling and recovery law giving birth to the byebye Mattress Program offering californians a place to drop off old mattresses free of charge. If you go ahead and have a place to dispose of em and its free, why not . Reporter before the program would cause 20 to 35 to dump them. But cities and organizations like goodwill would pay because of Illegal Dumping. They just come in and dump em at times when were closed or when were on break. Reporter this goodwill
[ yelling in Foreign Language ] 42 people were later arrested, though iran has now also named the street in honor of nimr al nimr. The countrys supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said saudi arabia will face divine revenge. In Indian Kashmir Police Used Tear Gas and rubber bullets against an angry crowd protesting the killing of the shiite cleric. In lebanon protesters also targeted the saudi embassy, heavily guarded by the army and police. Saudi arabia is ruled by a sunni muslim monarchy. Nimr al nimr demanded equality for shiites and called for peaceful protests during the arab spring. He was shot and arrested in 2012 and sentenced to death two years later for crimes including disobeying saudi arabias rulers. The u. S. Says its worried the execution of nimr al nimr will exacerbate religious tensions. But jeff, saudi arabia is unrepentant and says al nimr, along with the 46 other people it executed on saturday, was put to death in accordance with islamic law. Holly williams in
Night. It will feel cold. Overnight tonight down to 27 degrees in santa rosa. 33 in san jose. It wont be the cold weather were talking about in the upcoming week because well be showing you graphics like this by tuesday and wednesday. Significant rain will be heading into the bay area by midweek. The first winter spare the air alert has been called for tomorrow. Burning banned indoors and outdoors for 24 hours so that means the use of fireplaces, wood stove, outdoor fire pitney other woodburning device is prohibited. First time violators face fines of 100, second violations 500 and penalties go up from there. Winter spare the air season goes from november 1 through february 29. Air pollution from wood smoke one of the greatest Health Threats to bay area residents especially those folks with respiratory conditions. The new year is getting off to a violent start in oakland after two separate shootings. One happened early this morning on crouse near 73rd. Police say a man had a graze woun