Michelle is on assignment. This will be the president s fifth time delivering the state of the Union Address. And Tara Mergener live on capitol hill now joins us and it appears income and equality are the major focus of tonights speech. Tara. Reporter well, frank, thats exactly righ income and equality something youll hear over and over tonight. So will the president s willingness to go around congress to finally move his agenda forward. President obama will call for a year of action during his state of the Union Address tonight. But if he cant get action from congress, the president is willing to go it alone. Congress sometimes slow to action. We wont be waiting. Reporter the president will announce an executive order raising the minimum wage for new federal contract workers to 10. 10 an hour while calling on washington lawmakers to raise the minimum wage for everyone else. Nobody who works full time and works hard at his job should live in poverty. Reporter republicans say executive
Temperatures up into the 60s some low 70s. What about the weekend . Well have more on that in a moment. Right now lets check on the roads with liza battalones. Friday light for all Silicon Valley freeways including 101 as it rolls through the santa clara area, san jose, sunnyvale, no big problems to report to you. 280 is fine approaching downtown san jose. And the 880 237 interchange leaving the fremont area bound for milpitas that is trouble free with no roadwork either. The 580 680 commute thats also looking good right here our sensors are picking up a very quick trip so far for west 580 leaving the Altamont Pass bound for the dublin interchange. Thats a look at kcbs traffic. Guys . Thank you. Breaking news this morning out of san rafael, where firefighters are battling a brush fire. In this photo you can see heavy smoke and tall flames. Drivers are reporting seeing this fire from the freeway. It is spreading off of east francisco and shoreline right now. The fire burning in the midd
The suspect. Reporter the victim is lucky he survived after a hit andrun with a callusness that everyone surprised authorities. The video shows a man crossing the street, suddenly a vehicle that was stopped and waiting lunges forward and hits him. But not seeing what he does next. He walked over to the victim. When someone asked him if the victim was okay he said well hes breathing. Got back into his car, drove around the victim and left. Reporter here it is again closer. The driver lingered less than a minute before taking off. Leaving a very surprised witness to get help. All very shocked and surprised this person left the scene without waiting for the police. Reporter the video comes from a bus that was approaching the intersection about 6 30 that morning. The intersection sits alongside a transit center. The pedestrian was walking to catch a bus. The bus driver too saw the hit andrun clearly and helped alert police. The victim hit his head but was conscious going into the ambulance
Student. Oakland union fight says he smacked the student across the head a few times before dumping him out of his wheelchair. Now, the special ed. Student Francisco Martinez has cerebral palsy. It happened at Oakland High School on may 19. The district said the guard asked the freshman to go to class. When he refused, the guard handcuffed him and started pushing his wheelchair. After martinez spat in the guards face, the district said the guard snapped and attacked him. Now, despite the violent ak that, many students started a despite the violent attack, many students started a petition to bring back the Popular Security guard. They say the victim is a known troublemaker and provoked the attack. The boy spit on him. This would have never happened if the boy was in class in the first beginning. Spit something a crime. Students are envisioning themselves in the same situation but their situation is not equivalent to that of the security officer. He has a higher standard. He failed in th
Meeting changed its agenda so that barts police chief could address the board and give the latest update on the investigation. A moment silence in memory of our Fallen Police Sergeant Tommy smith. Reporter emotions are still raw for bart police and its chief. We have a lot [ pause ] outpouring of support from the public and Law Enforcement around the country. Reporter bart Board Members asked questions about the investigation over Sergeant Tommy smiths death. Robert raburn asked the chief to clarify if officers were wearing cameras during the incident. Two uniformed patrol officers did have videocameras as required by policy what it captured i dont know. Reporter whether or not the video will help the investigation is unknown. Bart police are not officially naming the officer who shot and killed smith. Kpix 5 confirmed it was michael maes. John henry lee was not home at the time the officers were searching for stolen property. An hour into the search maes killed smith. The details are