Iv e from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Now at 11 00 p. M. The battle continues over night in gilroy as firefighters work to surround a fast moving brush fire in the hills. And good evening i am juliette goodrich. I am brian hackney. The flames broke out behind the college west of 101. Cal fire said 150 acres burned but they down graded to 125 acres. Good news. Firefighters have it 50 contained at this hour. Kpix 5s joe vazquez on the effort to protect threatened ranches. Reporter 100 firefighters are on the scene here and they are hitting the fire hard from up above dropping water on the flames. Reporter cal fire deployed air tankers and helicopters around 4 00 p. M. The brush fire grew to 50 acres and then tripled within two hours. The fire is concentrated on private property near two cattle ranches. At fist there was concern about property being first there was concern about property being threatened but quick work diminished the threats. By 8 00 p. M. Tonight all f
Jose 61. A little bit cooler in santa rosa, concord and down by six in livermore and around the bay. Hayward is down by seven in san jose. We will carry this trend into the afternoon with temperatures coming down for the second half. We have the fog bank just inside the bay and it will creep across as we get closer to sunrise and we expect to wake up with partly to mostly skies along the east bay sure. The onshore breeze picking up over the weekend and now 18 miles an hour. We will see if that increases through the morning. The cloud cover all the way to about 10 00 before begins to step back a little bit. Most of us sunny for the afternoon and nine in antioch, up rineys yesterday. 80 for santa rosa sewer cooldown for you as well. Low 70s in oakland, 75 in matteo, low 60s in pacific up. Back up in the second half of the business week, your extended forecast coming up. It is 4 02 am. Good morning. We have traffic moving along relatively well on 580 and not a bad drive on the Altamont Pa
Matter and he denies doing anything wrong when he took part in a meeting last year with the russian attorney promising damaging information about hillary clinton. Let me be very clear. I did not collude with russia nor do i know with anyone else on the campaign that did so. That is kushner addressing reporters outside of the white house a short time ago after meeting behind closed doors with senators. He offered that prepared statement. The president s Senior Advisor and soninlaw has become a key figure in the Ongoing Investigation into possible ties between the Trump Campaign and russia. It was revealed that kushner attended a meeting last year that included donald trump jr, Paul Manafort and a russian lawyer offering dirt up on the donald Trump Campaign rival, hillary clinton. Kushner said today he did not know what the purpose of the meeting was before he took part and he denied there was any collusion with the russians to try to influence the elections. I had no improper contacts.
If you listen to the Planning Commission hearings a lot of it sounds political. Reporter nothing unusual with that. Just about every move at city hall has a political angle. And while the academy is not overtly political, it is one of the citys biggest employers and brings millions of dollars to the local economy every year. And its president Elisa Stevens is a big donor to civic and charitable causes. In fact, cars from the schools world famous antique collection are often used by officials in city parades. If they would have enforced the notices of violations they could have enforced three, four years ago, we could have gotten in excess of 3. 5 million of personalities. Reporter whatever the case mayor lee was in no mood to talk about the report when we met up with him. Im here to talk about homelessness. Reporter im here to talk about the Planning Department report. Lets talk about homelessness. Reporter do you have any reaction. I havent read it. I dont know what report youre talki
Reporter sources confirm to kpix that one of the Correctional Officers on leave is lance scimeca. He is shown here in a Youtube Video that posted as president of the Santa Clara County correctional peace officers association. In the video, he criticizes sheriff laurie smith and her investigators for reopening dozens of past complaints and he your honor officers not to be coerced into turning over their cell phones to investigators. Know your rights regarding personal property. If they dont have a warrant, dont just freely give your cell phone. Reporter he had no comment on why he had been placed on leave but we have learned its because he may be linked to a new investigation that involves officers exchanging racist texts. In an earlier interview this week, sheriff smith praised the correctional deputies who work here said most of them are upstanding and do an excellent job but she made no apologies about reopening all these complaints and also gave no timeline for the investigation. Re