The judge got into hot water in 2008 where it was discovered he had a website where he would post pornographic images. The Washington Post notes that many former law clerks claimed they never witnessed anything inappropriate. The judge issued a statement saying he had over 500 employees during his sten you dont remember and it is regrettable that a handful have been offended by something i may have said or done. Removing a federal judge is not easy. It takes the impeachment process. Thats majority vote in the house of representatives, then a trial in the senate and then followed by a 2thirds vote in the senate. In 200 years only eight federal judges have been removed by impeachment. Less than two hours ago another state lawmaker stepping down after serious sexual accusations. Democrat assembly man matt debob le is accused of following a female into a restaurant and then committing a lewd act. His resignation is not admitting he is doing any wrongdoing. My stepping down isnt out of guilt or fear, it is out of an idea that i think its time for me to move on to newer opportunities phe is the second legislator in two weeks to resign. Raul stepped down last month. Meantime tony mendoza has been stripped of his leadership post pending an investigation into improper behavior with female staffers. Tichlt a landfill has been packed with debris from the fires tanned has caused a major grid loc new landfill to help trucks get in and out faster femily is at the landfill now. She has new details. Reporter there are thousands of people involved in this debris removal process which puts hundreds of trucks on the road and they were bot leng up here until this week. Its not rush hour or a regular traffic snarl. This was the buck tup at the Sonoma County land back up at the Sonoma County landfill last week. This is the traffic now. The army corps of engineers has instituted a new process this week to make the dumping process faster. If you look around the trucks are moving faster. We are not waiting for crews of trucks to get there. It has been a vast improvement on the efficiency. Reporter what used to be a 2 to 3hour dumping process now takes less than one. Rather than wearing trucks in and out, the new system takes the known weight of the temp tee truck and sub tracts it from the full load. That way they know how much debris is being removed. Normally the landfill accepts anywhere from a thousan 1100 tons of Household Waste a day. Thanks to the fire and thp debris removal process it is accepting ten times that amount with all the dirt and non Hazardous Material they are moving in. Today was one of the landfills busiest days so far. It is uch an effective system that they are considering expanding it to other areas accepting waste. There are a lot of areas we are looking at with safety being one of the main concerns we are looking at. We want the trucks to get to the roadways and not backing up into peoples roadways and get them back on the job site as soon as possible tthey have had some issues with this tear away system in previous disasters. To make sure that everyone is doing a fort right fort right job, they are checking the trucks when they are leaving the landfill that their pre designated weight is, in fact, accurate. A man working on a barge near Treasure Island had to be rushed ashore this afternoon. We are told he is critically injured but we are unclear of exactly what happened. The man was taken to San Francisco general hospital. A rescue boat happened to be training nearby when the call for help went out. Oakland leaders trying a new tack particular on day four of a strike by city workers. They officially declared an impasse now. Workers staged a show of unit this after. They marched in front of city hall and carried their pickett signs down broadway. The union wants raises of 4 in each of the next four years. They are offering 4 in year 1 but closer to 2 in year 2. We are requesting that sciu enter into state mediation with us. We want to resolve this. The union can either agree to mediation or it can request a fact finding process. That could take months, so the union would have to decide whether to send people back to work in the meantime. In the meantime sky drone five over the reservoir. Not much rainwater in there since the start of our rainy season. But this time last year we had much more rain pcommittee inn says water officials are not overly concerned just yet. Reporter it was images like these and unfortunately like this that came to define last years exceptionally wet drought ending winter. But what a difference a year could make. So far its been a dry december causing reservoirs to dip more than 2thirds below its capacity. Last year it was last year it was tremendously wet last year. Reporter it is too early to be alarmed by the low rainfall but the trend is troubling. San francisco is down 30 , oakland 27. If we can make it through 1 or 2 really really dry years, its he isly since especially since we had a good recovery last year. Our water basins are back to where stherp before the drought. The slow start where they were before the drought. The slow start to the winter is the reminder of importance of conservation. With the previous 4 or 5 years of drought no matter what happened last year, people should have learned by now that you cant plan on always having water available. The Water District says typically the majority of the rain comes in the first few months of the year and there is still time to turn things around. We are always vigilant that the next drought could be around the corner. Were always encouraging people to be aware of that and to use water efficiently. In the north bay, rainfall totals are also running behind last years. By december 8th, 2016, we had more than eight inches of tlavenlt year, they report only about eight inches and just a trickle of water coming down the spill way right there despite the rainfall difference, the Water District is still above average when it comes to total water storage. Traffic 5 in oakland giving you a hazy look above the skies. It looks fuzzy in the distance. Some of the haze is from the Southern California smoke. On the fire watch tonight, checkout this scene. Horses running wild from the lie lack fire. They had no lilac with no choice but to set them free. 65 homes and buildings have been destroyed. Crews have yet to get any containment on the fire. The fire is 1 of 6 big fires burning this evening in Southern California. The thomas fire in Ventura County by far the biggest. Here is some video of that fire from a little while ago. You can see flames still raging across hillsides and showing no signs of letting up. Reporter randy page is live tonight where people are surrounded by flames and this smoke. Reporter thats right. We often say if you want to know november what a fire sup to, just look at the direction of the smoke. Well, the smoke is everywhere and the reason is there is very little wind ndowntown ohi today, a free give away of lung saving masks. They are doing a they are doing a good job. Right nouf Everybody Needs help. Reporter as thick gray smoke is in the air over the city. Born here. Raised here thchlt Community Gives us so much. Why not give back to the community. Reporter the community is here because there is no smoke to blow it away and no wind to drive the fire into the homes and businesses here. From the air you can see the thomas fire continues to burn but the smoke is traveling straight up not driven by powerful winds. This is one of areas of concern as powerful winds last night punched a finger shaped section of fire into the willed ngs area of santa barbara. Today we are told the winds will be unpredictable. The city is surrounded on three sides by fire. But thanks to the lack of wind more structures have not been claimed today. But outside of ohi on 33 skel tons of homes can be skeletons of homes can be found. I think this is a durable town because this has happened three times in the last 40 years where we have been completely surrounded by fire. And the downtown here sp like a nice little old home. Although it is an oasis, we have to put up with the smoke when it happens. Reporter a few moments ago the coroner confirmed that a body found in her car marks the first fatality attributed to these Southern California wild fires. That is so sad. Our thoughts of course with her family tonight. Randy, this is the largest of the fires burning right now. How big are we talking here . Snoof this really has become a huge fire. For example, its about the same size as 100,000 football fields. And veronica, i just looked this up for you. This also happens to be about the same size as the entire city of San Francisco. Randy page, live for us tonight. Thank you. A secret exposed. Women sound off after a report that companies are hiring and bringing in models to mingle at their holiday parties. Teachers who cant afford to live where they work. Now bay area city has a creative new plan to lure them to town. A psychiatric patient caught after a wild run for freedom. How he tried to escape again today. We just showed you some rainfall totals. Here are the new updated snowfall numbers. 40 of average. Thats not good. When is this ridge of High Pressure going to move out. Ill have the answer in your forecast coming up. Sorry. I cant make it. Its just my eczema again, but its fine. Yeah, its fine. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. Moving forward in pittsburg. Kpix fives da lin is live at. New at 6, a Ground Breaking effort to recruit teachers is moving forward in pittsburgh. Dolan is live at the at the area. Reporter pittsburgh unified is the First District to build housing for the teachers and district employees. This is the site right here. They are hoping this can help them retain and attract new teachers. Using rap to sell science. These students all have different interests and one of them is rap and hip hop. Im trying to use some of the things were interested in. A lot of times teachers have perceptions that learning is boring. Reporter the Unified School District is thinking outside of the box to recruit quality teachers. The district owns this land in downtown and plans to build 68 apartments for its workers. Right now its under review by the planning commission. Some teachers travel as far as sacramento. Reporter the districts deputy superintendent says many of its teachers cant afford to leave here. Even offering signing bonuses, they have a shortage of teachers. Educators believe providing Affordable Housing will entice more young people to go into the profession. Chris is an exception. He left his tech job at apple to become a teaching. I love teaching because i know its what im called to do. Reporter now that hes married with kids, he is working a second job to buy a house. Chris teaches at the Black Diamond continuation high school. His kids really seem to enjoy his creative ideas. The district would like to break ground at the site in about a year, they would like to have their teachers and district employees move in here in about. A man who hit and killed a pedestrian in fremont has been arrested. Police believe he was driving under the influence. Police say a 44year old pedestrian was killed when the driver of an s and slammed into the cargo trailer. The suv also hit a fire hydrant flooding the sheet. It happened in the safe way parking lot. An escape ee from a Psychiatric Hospital is back in custody. During his brief brush with freedom, alameda deputies s crashed a teenager and stole a car. Then he ran on to 580 where he was hit by a couple of cars. He was eventually found in some bushes. We learned he tried to get away this morning, attempting to get out of his shack he wills despite shackles despite injuries and broken bones, he was not successful. Ifr more firefighters make quick work of a three alarm blaze. Flames are reported on a warehouse. The building appeared to be storing mattresses. Extra Police Patrols and an alert rider helped to nab a suspected car burglar at barts station. Andrew freeman was spotted yesterday spashing car windows by a bart passenger. That rider reported it to bart police who made an arrest. Freeman is suspected of breaking into at least five cars. Police have arrested at least one suspect np this video. A group of seven teens were seen breaking in to this house. They are close to identifying the rest. Friday night. Made it to the weekend. If you want to get outside the weekend is going to be just fine. The air quality in north bay not so great. Who cares if we have sunshine every day, but we need rainfall soon. Naday. If you have asthma or know someone who does, the north bay not the greatest air quality tomorrow. Most of this air quality issue is because of the ridge of High Pressure trapped in the pollution. Minimal impact from the smoke from the wild fires. The up where the planes fly. Speaking of that ridge of High Pressure it is strong and locked in place. As long as it stays centered to our north, we are not going to get that warm. Remember a couple of januarys ago, we were about 75 to 80 degrees every day. Thats not what this air pattern is. We are staying in the 60s for the most part. It is driet part. We have been dry all week long and we will be dry next week. Once a week they put out the week three and week 4 outlook. Thats how far we are grasping at straws here. Were talking late december, after christmas, there is a better chance to get back to normal rainfall. Between now and then, at least the next 10 to 14 days, it looks not only kind of dry, it looks competely dry. Not a drop of rain is in sight. Get outside and enjoy the sunshine. San jose you are going to hit 70 for a two minces. San francisco 65 degrees tomorrow. Sunday a few degrees milder. The overall theme though, sunshine across the board. Mid 60s to low 70s inland. Thats something i typically would show you in october. We are a couple weeks away from christmas. It is going to be a great weekend. Thank you. Forget sports drinks. Some athletes are turning to a different section of the Grocery Store to help their recovery. Why some are swearing by pickle juice. Why the Giants Front Office needs a hug. 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I love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other peoples lives. Together, were building a better california. To open up, but already the giants are left out in the cold. 0for2 today. First, japanese star shohei how. Baseball up top. I know the winter meetings are about to open up, but already the giants are being left out in the col2 today. First japanese store otani agreed to go to the american league. Then giants fans, stanton looked good doing this in a giants fun form, but the Team Released a statement, all they agreed to a trade they needed him for drop a no trade clause, not only would he not waive it he is only interested in going to the yankees, astros, cubs, or dodgers. Stay tuned. Nba has a shot to becoming the second team in the history to kick off a road trip. That would be dra monteens home area. We pick it up here with carla cook. A three ball put the warriors up ten at the understand of 3. Then its time for a little defense. A block at one end and a dunk at the other. 24 points. 30 seconds in the game. Doves up by 210098. Before they flew out to kansas city today, they practiced for the first time martin practiced for the First Time Since suffering from a concussion a couple of weeks ago. Meantime we have college food ball for you College Football for you. Lamar jackson on the left and baker mayfield, thats the oklahoma quarterback. The Heisman Trophy ceremony is tomorrow. Love for a rush over 1900 yards this season despite playing with extreme pain. Second half of the year, he played on an injured ankle. Any ideas of sitting out. Love responded thi. It wasnt necessarily hard from a mental standpoint. I guess physically there were some trying times. But there is no way that i wasnt going to go out and compete with my teammates and do the best that i could and contribute in any way that i could. Speaking of stamford. How about Stamford College cup soccer. All of the attacks against akron. A scoreless first half and the cardinals won it 20. They are back in Sundays National title game again and a chance to win this back to back fo back against either North Carolina or indiana. 5 seconds left in the game. Warriors still up by 2. Now up by 4. So, it looks li