Youre watching kpix 5 at 5 30 pm. A good evening i am veronica de la cruz and i am allen martin and overabundance of grapes. Heres more on that story from the northbay. Reporter despite the money and glamour this is a sophisticated form of farming. There is a grape gut in california. It was a record harvest earning more than 2 billion. A lot of that juice was stored and combined with this years crop there is it too much. We are sitting on a lot of wind from previous years. The industry has more than the demand. Reporter some Small Vineyards are having a hard time selling their grapes. Its a sensitive topic that several Small Vineyards would not discuss on camera. They may be in trouble. I dont want to seek quality vineyards disappear. I hope the demand picks up instead of the supply going down thats a solution. I think wine will get cheaper in california its going to drive prices down a little bit. And it helps the consumer. Reporter is also market complexities. A merger between wine g
Take the Steering Wheel out of selfdriving cars and the brake pedal and everything else. This is not a insane as it sounds. The thing b about an Autonomous Car is if its working properly, the driver has nothing to drive. At in turn means the human behind the wheel is probably not paying enough attention to cake control if that became necessary. Bottom line say engineers say if youre going to drive, fine. Grab b the wheel, look out the window and drive. If youre not going to drive, if youre going to sort of monitor the situation and let the car do the work then let the r car do the work. The theory is the driver becomes a liability not an asset in this situation. Jimmy carl son is one of the worlds leading experts on selfdriving cars. Hes workeded at tesla, curiously at apple as well. And is now the Vice President of out information at neo, a chinese car company. Chinese answer to tesla. One of chinas most legitimate challengers. Well get to neo in a moment, but lets start with the ques
Summit this weekend, but our eyes are on just two of them. The United States and china. President trump and chinese president xi face a trade war, tariffs, and the question of intellectual property. The talks may be at the conference in japan or in beijing or in washington, but their effects are felt in silicon valley. From china, whed. Hes joining us now. China is the home to vm wares locations. Sanjay is in charge of all of them. Joined by John Schwartz and richard waters. I kind of want a deep review on your most recent trip to china. In the hotel bar, and youre talking with your chinese counterparts, who work for your company, and those who dont, maybe some of your clients, what are they saying behind closed doors . Thank you for having me on the show. First off, it was important an executive showed up, they were getting a sense of who is going to show up here. Low level person or the senior executive. I went there deliberately to reassure first time employees, we care first about
Altogether inside. Only about seven to ten of them were affected by that massive fire. Now these businesses, they included woodworking shops, metal working shops as well as bronze. And we talked to oakland fire and they explained the difficulty of putting out this fire and the type of businesses that were inside. Heavy fire load in there. Especially with the woodworking shop. That makes it very stubborn for us. There part of the facility or the warehouse is two stories and the roof collapsed in and trying to get to the fire on the first floor is difficult because we cant get the water to ther reporter as you mentioned, no one lived in this building. This was strictly for work. So no one was no one was anide at the time of the fire. Issue as they tried to extinguish the fire and the fire crews were able to fix the problem. As we take you back out here live to the scene, there were no mandatory evacuations. This is primarily a residential area but the cause of the fire is still under inv
Temperature trend for south san jose headed to santa teresa, 58 degrees and a cool start, reaching into the low 70s for the early afternoon. As we get a live look in dublin, 580 has got a lot of people up and out the door, so if y about to head out the door, we are looking at overall a nice flow of traffic, except for a couple of spots. On our maps we are seeing a lot of green sensors, except for 84 headed westbound, coming through livermore, and then also we are seeing a little bit of a backup in parts of the east bay, and then getting to the bay bridge, weve seen a heavy flow of traffic. Here the metering lights were turned on early. Major delays at the bay bridge toll plaza, so plan ahead as you get ready to head out for work this morning. Well get a look at weather and traffic. More on that coming up in a few minutes thank you, kari. Breaking news for you this morning in Contra Costa County where an officerinvolved shooting is under investigation. This happened in rodeo near third