Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 Noon News 20180220 : comparemela

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 Noon News 20180220

Up to the coldest temperatures of the year. You can see the frost on the cars at the dealership in san jose this morning. Lets get right to Neda Iranpour who has more on the cold front. Looking at the frost makes me feel cold. We are starting to see our temperatures warming up slightly. Still going to be well below average. A few wispy clouds out there, just those thin clouds, but its a sign of whats to come. Were watching a system that will be working its way towards our area. Right now, temperatures 46 in oakland. 49 in livermore. 47 at this noon hour in San Francisco. So were still chilly. Here are a look at those records, though, at least were not as cold as what we were this morning. Napa, 23 degrees. We tied a record in livermore, in santa rosa as well. And san rafael. Sfo broke a record, so did oakland with temperatures in the 30s. A lot of north bay valleys, were down into the mid20s today, so it has been an uncomfortable day as the cold air mass just sits over california. Were also watching a couple systems that are expected to bring scattered showers. Ill track that coming up in just a bit. The brutal cold can be down right dangerous for the homeless. In San Francisco where theres an estimated 7000 People Living on the streets, many shelters are expanding their capacity this week. They include the Gene Friend Rec Center on 6th street, the first unitarian universal street on flank lin street, the humming bird place at sf general, the mission center, and the United Council of Human Services on jening street. More than 14 months after the deadly oakland warehouse fire, the two men who managed the building pleaded not guilty today to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Kpix 5 reporter Jessica Flores was at the courthouse. Derick almena and max harris now headed to a jury trial. Today set for july 16th. The prosecution saying the pair created a death trap in the oakland warehouse, leading to the deaths of 36 people during the unpermitted dance party in 2016. Investigators say exits were blocked and debris filled the space. The men say they are innocent and their attorneys say their clients are being scapegoated for the tragedy. One line of defense, the investigators havent determined the exact cause of the fire. They dont know that its electrical. They dont know and they havent discounted that it was arson. The attorney will argue the city is to blame for not shutting down the warehouse. They visited several times for complaints. Its the city of oakland that many it that had crime. The oakland fire department, the Oakland Building inspection department, planning department, the complete systemic failure on the part of local government. Reporter the judge set bail for 750,000. But the attorneys for Derick Almena and harris are asking the judge to release the men on their own recognizance. They are due back in court for the bail hearing set for march it 21st. In oakland, Jessica Flores, kpix 5. A developing story near cleveland, ohio, classes were dismissed after a student brought a gun on campus and shot himself. It happened inside the bathroom of his middle school. Its not clear if it was accidental or intentional. Six schools in the area were evacuationed and closed and panic evacuated and closed and panicked parents rushed to the scene to get their children. I didnt think it would happen here, but obviously thats not the case. No one else was hurt. The condition of the wounded boy who is a 7th grader has not been released. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are planning rallies to demand lawmakers address gun control. Tomorrow marks one week since 17 of their classmates and teachers became victims of the latest mass shooting on a school campus. The survivors say they will not rest until they get change. We have to seize that opportunity so we can ensure theres going to be change in the future. The fight is guilty not going to be easy in florida. The states gun laws are some of the least restrictive in the country. George clooney and his wife are trying to help their cause, donated 500,000 to students organizing nationwide marchs against gun violence, and the clooneys say they will attend one of the marchs. We are poised to fail another if congress doesnt act now. New at noon, a state lawmaker at the forefront of the me too movement is now defending herself against Sexual Misconduct allegations on the job. Assemblywoman Christina Garcia has authored numerous bills about Sexual Assault and consent and was featured in time magazines persons of the year issue recognizing the silence breakers, but now shes among the accused. A former staffer says he was working in the State Capitol when garcia cornered him at a staff softball game. She touched you sexually . Yes. She grabbed my butt and i spun to turn around. As i turned, she tried to reach for microtia my crotch and she did. Im going to be respectful of the process. Ive never had allegations like this against me. A second unnamed accuser claims garcia made a move on him. She denies that claim. Garcia says she has no plans to resign. Meanwhile, President Trump is lashing out at a woman who claims he once forcibly kissed her. Rachel crooks is among 14 women who have accused trump of Sexual Misconduct. The Washington Post featured crooks in a story today. In a tweet, the president denied the allegations saying quote, a woman i dont know and to the best of my knowledge never met is on the front page of the fake news Washington Post saying i kissed her for two minutes, yet in the lobby of trump tower 12 years ago. Never happened. Who would do this in a public space with live security. New charges and new pleas in the russia probe. Special Counsel Robert Mueller accusing a dutch lawyer with ties to Trump Campaign aide rick gates of lying to investigators. Alex vander is charged with covering up his discussions with ukraine with gates and failing to turn over emails to the special counsels office. This will be the fourth guilty plea in the mueller information. It is expected to ratchet up the pressure on gates as he negotiates a plea deal. If a deal takes place, gates would become the third known person to cooperate with muellers investigation. Today, the Trump Administration unveiled another alternative to obamacare. It allows insurers to sell policies that just under a year. It would make it easier to get coverage through shortterm plans which dont have to abide by obamacares consumer protection. The plans would set rates based on medical history and would be allowed to exclude people with preexisting conditions. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had this to say about the plan quote, republicans plus stop cynically raising americans costs and working in good faith with democrats to improve and update the Affordable Care act to reduce health costs for everyone. A push to keep flavored Tobacco Products out of San Francisco. City leaders along with parents and Health Officials are rallying outside city hall to protest tobacco companies. A repeal is up for a vote in the june election. To keep the ban enforced, the group is asking politicians not to take funding from the Tobacco Industry. So far, every political elected official that we talked to seems to be in support. They know the need to be able to restrict the Tobacco Industry from targeting our youth. The group claims big tobacco is misleading voters. A lot of shaking instinct east bay, a cluster of small quakes reported in the mount diablo area. It started at 1 30 this morning, a 2. 8 hit, then a 4 . 25. 30 seconds later a 3. 0. Then at 4. 26. A 2. 9 struck closer to danville. 28 small quakes have hit the region since last week. No damage has been reported. Seismologists say this is tip activity for the area and isnt necessarily an indication of a major quake. Four adults narrowly escaped after flames engulfed their home in walnut creek early this morning. The fire started at around 4 00 a. M. At a home along spring brook road near sherwood way. Crews put out the fire 30 minutes later and they say one person was treated for smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A giant legend and hall of famer is rushed to the hospital. What we know about his condition and a fast food fiasco, in the uk and ireland as kfc runs short of chicken. Why customers are having a hard time finding a finger looking good meal. Refresh your home and save at ross. Ross has all the home trends for kitchen, living room and bedroom for a fraction of what youd pay elsewhere. For the latest home trends, at big savings youve gotta go to ross. At the Marine Mammal center, the environment is everything. We want to do our very best for each and every animal, and we want to operate a sustainable facility. And pg e has been a partner helping us to achieve that. Weve helped the Marine Mammal center go solar, install electric vehicle charging stations, and become more energy efficient. Pg e has allowed us to be the most Sustainable Organization we can be. Any time you help a customer, its a really good feeling. Its especially so when its a customer thats doing such good and important work for the environment. Together, were building a better california. Theyd tell you to go to ross. Because theres so much to choose from. Listen to your pets. Theyre your best friends, so they dont want you to spend more than you have to. If you want to save big on pet accessories, you gotta go to ross. To a hospital in the bay area last night. An official with the giants did not comment on cepedas condition. Or expla giants legend and Baseball Hall of famer, Orlando Cepeda was rushed to the hospital. An official did not comment on his condition or explain why he was hospitalized, but a puerto rican newspaper claims to have reached out to a family friend. According to those reports, the 80yearold fell in a parking lot yesterday and hit his head. He was last seen in public last month during a Birthday Celebration for willie mccovey. A workshop is running from 6 to 8 this evening at st. John the Baptist Catholic church. Participants will be able to ask experts questions about financing and rebuilding. Thousands of buildings burned to the ground during the october wildfire. As athletes battle for gold in pyeongchang, theres another battle in south korea on craft beer. The interest came from a 2012 Magazine Article in the economist called fiery food, boring beer. It praised the suddens from north korea, while trashing the south. After it was published, relaxed liquor laws ignited the craft beer scene. It was an International Product that was here, and now people are seeing it as, oh, this is a locally made product, we can put our own stamp on it. One beer in south korea is brewed out of an old rice wine factory. The owner says his goal is to combine local korean flavors and traditions with the flavor of a pilsner. In greece, they are celebrating one of their quirkier holidays, the annual flower war requires people to pelt each other with bags of dyed flour. This is the thing, it happens on clean monday, as its known, an Orthodox Christian holiday, and the end of the carnival season. Clearly nothing clean about this tradition. Can you imagine. Because people are wearing like masks. Because you dont want to breathe that in. No, you dont. Imagine if it rains. When the sun comes out, you have red. We are starting to see the sun, which is a welcome sight because of the cold temperatures. Temperatures are down into the 20s for many spots. It was really pretty uncomfortable for a lot of folks. We are starting to warm up and it looks nice out there. Temperatures in concord bumped up to 50 degrees. Oakland, youre warming up slightly. Down to 32 degrees. Now,48. San francisco 49, san jose in the 50s and our winds are looking pretty calm. Hatch moon bay, theres a bit of a west moon coming through. Downtown San Francisco, west wind, sustained wind at 10 miles per hour. The rest of the area, 5, 6 miles per hour, not too crazy. Not like what we saw yesterday at this time when we had breezy conditions. We are seeing cloud coverage coming through. This is ahead of whats to come, a slight chance of scattered showers late tonight and again on wednesday night into thursday. Heres the wider view of our satellite and radar. Yes, theres some green popping up. Just off the coast, i want to show you on our high def doppler. You can see a little bit here. It has not quite made landful. It is very far north from our area. Eureka, crescent city, may get a little bit of rain this afternoon, and then for us its not going to arrive until late tonight, if it does. Its not expected to be too much rainfall for the first round. The second round, maybe more intense. Our high temperatures, upper 40s expected for pacifica. Low to mid50s for your afternoon highs. Youll bump up a few degrees from this noon hour. 50degrees expected for the high in San Francisco, and that is about ten degrees below average for a lot of our area. Temperatures in the 40s for this afternoon for clear lake. Sunset happening at 5 54. Sunrise tomorrow, 6 51. It was just around sunrise when we really got cold this morning. Future cast showing that chance of showers, 3 00 a. M. , and then throughout the day tomorrow, we may see some sun, some clouds, and yes some rainfall in parts of our area. But thursday is the storm thats going to bring a little bit more chance of some rainfall and that actually could lead to low elevation snow. Some of our local hills could actually get a dusting of snow from the two systems and the thursday system will bring a bit more sierra snowfall. We could get 8 1 2 inches at donor summit. 6inches possible for bear valley, and a few inches of fresh powder for the sierra. Three things to remember, sub freezing conditions for the morning lows. Its going to be chilly overnight, and morning. Afternoon highs, 10 degrees below average, scattered showers, low elevation snow possible for wednesday and thursday. In your 7day forecast, showing we have dry conditions, friday, saturday, sunday, like when the weekend stays sunny and another storm possible on sunday. You are right about the sun being deceiving out there. Look out the window, its all inviting. Big jacket on. Lets take a look at the big board now, see how the market is doing. The dow is down. Its dropped about 291 points. Still ahead, the hottest toys on display from interactive puppets that pranced and danced to the latest drones. Well take a look at the toys kids will be eyeing. At at t, we believe in access. The opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, weve created access from at t. California households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Visit att. Com accessnow to learn more. Have been forced to close due to a chicken shortage. A fast food follow up in the uk. Hundreds of kfc restaurants have been forced to close because of a chicken shortage. The poultry predicament is blamed on the lays by the kfc shipping company. Customers dont care, they are just hangry. They should have chicken. They should be able to store it. The kfc crisis has led to some pretty funny tweets, like this one. Police arrest the man responsible for chicken disaster, showing a picture of ronald mcdonald. Isnt the ham burglar, hes the thief. And another tweet said kfc is working around the clock to fix the problem. They should fix that, though. Kfc is pretty good, especially the crispy chicken. Saved a few chickens in the meantime, though. Lets talk holidays, it may be months away. I know its a long ways away but toy makers are gearing up. Reporter Diane King Hall visited the toy fair. Reporter toyota of all kinds can be found at the toy toys of all kinds can be found at the toy fair in new york. One of the biggest trends youre going to see this year is everything thats gross. Reporter that includes the game snot it, where kids try to use snot glasses to pick up items. Thats not gross enough, how about the game pop a zit. I want you to push and squeeze. Reporter slime is also widely popular. And give it a spin. Reporter nickelodeon has a kit that includes a few ingredients so kids can make it at home. Here it is, ever ooey, gooey slime. Reporter for older kids, theres key pics, take a selfie, and lay your smartphone on top. Theres a little button. I just took a picture. You manually wind out a polaroid picture that develops. New ones are coming out this year. They respond to touch. They respond to motion. They respond to sound. Reporter it was voted toy of the year, voted p the top spot with the lol surprise. Kids unwrap it and find little surprises along the way. What do you have there, diane . More stickers. Reporter at the end, there are several toys to open up. There is a little person. Reporter the lol surprise and fingerlings were tough to find during the holidays and new versions of both are expected to be on many kids wish lists this year. Diane king hall, cbs news, new york. Today is going to be green peppers. Theyre important, but in the marke

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