times it's the fans doing the work. we'll explain. good evening, i'm alan martin. >> and i'm veronica de la cruz. a manhunt continues tonight. authorities believe the suspect in these images shot and killed a police officer early yesterday. in stanislaus county. kpix 5's joe vazquez is here with the latest. >> reporter: this story is developing minute by minute tonight. we are told by the sheriff department they have teams of police and fellow officers from other jurisdictions spread out trying to catch this cop killer and now they are asking folks to take a look at some images from social media to see if you can help. late this evening, stanislaus county sheriff's department confirmed these photos we found on facebook are photos of the suspect in a police shooting. you see the man posing in front of the golden gate bridge, his facebook profile says he lives in san francisco but he may have been living in the central valley. this is unusual, police are not naming the suspect even though they know who he is. they are putting his photos out to the public in hopes that people will recognize him and help catch him. he is accused of killing police corporal ron singh, 33 years old from the town of newman, during a traffic stop yesterday morning. the suspect immediately got away in a gray pickup truck which he dropped off. police have some leads but so far no arrests. >> you have to understand this is not supposed to happen here. >> reporter: it has been a very emotional couple of days for this small town in the central valley. officer singh. >> i've been to too many of these funerals. and i never thought ever that i would be doing it. >> reporter: his colleagues say corporal singh had an unbridled enthusiasm about police work. he worked for newman police since 2011 and he always talked about his family. he leaves behind a wife and a 5- month-old boy. singh was an immigrant from fiji. he entered the country lawfully. a sheriff says the suspect did not. >> this suspect is in our country illegally. he doesn't belong here. he's a criminal. >> reporter: the sheriff's department wants to catch this guy, they want the public's help, but he may have several aliases, so they are putting the photos out but they are not ready to name him, they say they have several leads, they've got the statewide manhunt underway but so far they've come up empty. >> joe, thanks for staying on it. president trump seized on the case earlier today tweeting, there is right now a full scale manhunt going on in california for an illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killing a police officer. during a traffic stop. time to get tough on border security. build the wall. in report tonight, 144 police rsve be killed in thne of duty this year. the report from the national law enforcement officer's memorial fund shows an increase in fatalities over 2017. and comes a day after officer singh was killed. texas, florida, new york, california have the highest number of fatalities with 11 each. reporter marie mireya villarreal will be live in newman, california, with new details on "cbs this morning" news beginning at 7:00 a.m. the san jose police chief says a car police chased christmas day was not tied to a double homicide but he says, however, the ending would have been the same. officers shot and killed the driver. kpix 5's maria medina live in san jose where a vigil was just held hours ago. maria? >> reporter: the police chief and jennifer vasquez's family divided on this issue, this is where vasquez took her last breath. but officers say she gave them no choice but to fire. the moment that ended jennifer vasquez's life caught on camera. and forever changed her family's life. >> she didn't deserve this. >> reporter: since the shooting christmas day, candles have burned for vasquez. at the spot where police say she lost control of her car, then tried desperately to free it from a fence before she allegedly rammed it into a patrol car as officers stood outside yelling at her to surrender. >> i'm saddened to be here this afternoon. >> reporter: san jose police chief eddie garcia defended the officer's who opened fire killing vasquez. passenger linda bueno survived. >> it was reasonable and justified for the officers to feel their lives were in danger. >> reporter: garcia called the shooting a tragedy and the moment the suspect's crossed paths with officers a coincidence. vasquez and bueno were in a white toyota camera in an area where two people had been shot. a witness pointed at vasquez's camry as the shooter. and when officers tried to pull her over, they say she instead led them on a high-speed chase for miles. that's when they also discovered the camry was actually stolen. >> i stop short of mistaken identity type of issue, they were not the suspect in the shooting, but also had they not been in a stolen vehicle, not lead officers on a pursuit, had they not tried to ram cars, we wouldn't be here today. >> reporter: the chief met with vasquez mother. >> support and defend the actions of my officers. >> reporter: his words were not enough for the grieving mother. >> she feels the way that it was dealt with, it wasn't right. >> we are demanding answers and we are demanding justice. she should be here celebrating the holidays with her family. and now she's not. >> reporter: and the police chief told us earlier that vasquez had led officers on a high-speed chase in a stolen car before. she was just 24 years old. veronica? >> maria, obviously, police and family of vasquez don't see eye to eye. as to what happened here. what are they demanding tonight? >> reporter: yeah, there demanding several things. including an independent investigation as well as charges filed against those for officers who fired those shots against vasquez, those officers have been placed on routine administrative leave. >> maria medina live in san jose, thank you. a live look at san quentin where an inmate is missing after an apparent escape. tonight we are seeing the video from police would say the same inmate may have committed a carjacking a short time after he slipped out of prison. 21-year-old shalom mendoza was last seen 6:00 last night, part of a work crew in san quentin. 9:15, a carjacking was reported less than a mile away in the parking lot of a home depot. take a close look at the video, you can see it's highlighted there came a the man in the white shirt walks up to a woman about to get into an suv, san rafael police say he motioned as if he had a weapon under his shirt and then threatened to kill her. then he demanded the keys and drove away. >> the description given by the victim and what was provided by san quentin were almost identical so that was an investigative lead that we are currently following up on. as we speak. >> back out live, police found mendoza's jumpsuit near that carjacking site. they do consider him armed and dangerous and say anyone who sees him should keep their distance. mendoza was serving a five-year sentence for armed carjacking down in l.a. county. strong winds are rocking the bay area tonight, the national weather service issued a wind advisory warning of downed trees, power outages and rough waves. chief meteorologist paul deanno joins us with the latest. >> that wind advisory is for our higher elevations above 1,000 feet, even in our cities today it was a rather windy day, peak wind gusts, napa 37 miles per hour, san francisco chrissy field, also alameda and san carlos 30 miles per hour wind gusts, 29 miles per hour in concord, 28 ndadvisory expir hours so the overnight hours will be rather windy in the hills and mountains of the bay area including mount diablo, sustained winds 20 to 30 miles per hour with higher gusts, 64 miles per hour wind gusts earlier today at mount st. helena in napa. let's look at new year's eve, monday night into tuesday there will be no wind, thankfully there will also be no fog. good fireworks viewing weather with temperatures in the 40s at the coast, near the bay, also inland, full forecast including last weekend of 2018 coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you. tomorrow marks the first full week of the government shutdown. both the house and senate were back in session today but no signs of a breakthrough to add that funding stalemate. congress convened for minutes, closed session without taking any action. democrats refused to fund the wall. president trump campaigned on. no compromise appears to be in sight. >> i wasn't given the courtesy of being recognized on the house floor. which is unprecedented. >> compromise doesn't seem to be a word that the democrats are willing to engage in at this point. >> a new reuters poll finds 47% of adults blamed president trump for the government shutdown, 33% blame democrats in congress. some developments in the death of the 8-year-old boy from guatemala who died in border patrol custody on christmas eve. we are learning tonight that felipe gomez alonso was sick with the flu when he died in a new mexico hospital. felipe gomez alonso is the second child to die in border patrol custody this month. today the department of homeland security announced health screenings for all children in immigration custody. many have voiced outrage over the child's death. >> we shouldn't have had to wait until two children died for the government to begin to act. >> senator dianne feinstein has called for a hearing on children's deaths and said the facilities are not equipped to care for them. coming up, a blast turns the city skyline blue, the powerful explosion that lit up social media. a record-breaking game tonight at oracle arena, but this time it's warriors fans who are making history. would you camp out on a bay area billboard? a big payoff these football fans are hoping for. tonight the warriors are scoring big even off the court, the fans are setting a new franchise record. kpix 5's christin ayers on their big win. >> reporter: if you're a warriors fan, you're used to watching record-breaking performances on the court, but tonight it's the fans who are setting records from their seats. >> the warriors are home with a busy week ahead. >> reporter: december 18, 2012, the warriors wouldn't have known it that night, but it would be the beginning of a record-breaking streak. six years straight now, all 19,596 seats have sold out. that's 311 consecutive sellout games. for fans like the armstrongs, 31-year season ticket holders, the record confirms what they already know. >> the warriors have probably i think one of the strongest fan bases. ever. >> the best loyal fans of any team. >> reporter: technically the team has the fourth longest active sellout streak. next to the mavericks, miami heat, and oklahoma city thunder. steve kerr says the fans have been pivotal to this championship team. >> the atmosphere at oracle has been amazing even when the teams haven't been that successful. so now with the success of the team combined with this incredible six-year sellout street, it's amazing to just be a part of that and to feel it. >> reporter: that feeling is what brings fans like lindsay counsell from across the country. >> i'm from new jersey, i came here just to be a part of this atmosphere. so this is cool. people of the camaraderie and so why not come out and support a team that shows team effort? >> it's like a big giant family. the. >> in oakland, christin ayers, kpix 5 news. >> vern glenn will have much more on tonight's game coming up in sports. electric emergency at an energy facility in queens sprayed blue light across the new york city skyline and spawned a flurry of social media reactions. con edison says it's investigating a possible transformer explosion at one of its facilities. it happened just after 9:00 p.m., caused many folks to lose power. people took to social media to post photos like these, the brilliant blue green light that illuminated the city, as for what caused that wild side, energy officials had this to say. >> it could have been it caused an arcing, a flash of power so to speak. and that might have been what caused that large light and colors. >> it was freaky like independence day the movie, look up and a weird blue color that you haven't seen lighting up the clouds and the sky. >> the fire department says the incident is under control and no injuries have been reported. a mushroom grower could face tens of millions of dollars in fines for illegal dumping. a lawsuit from the santa clara district attorney claims monterey mushrooms pumped wastewater containing manure and toxic levels of ammonia from its facility into for sure creek. fisher flows into coyote creek, coyote creek flows into san francisco bay. the d.a. says the illegal dumping started in early 2016, and continued into the spring of 2017. the lawsuit says the company did it in order to save money. it seeks $67 million. we reached out to the company for comment, so far we haven't received one strike a new state report squashes hopes for a california-backed marijuana bank. they report claims in a state run bank, for cannabis, it's too financially risky and here's why. marijuana of course is still illegal under federal law. the report says a bank would be at risk of criminal or civil liability and the penalties would be too severe. >> i think there is obviously a lack of experience within the public sector, when it comes to banking and financial institutions. >> the report recommends lobbying for legislative change on the federal law in order to set up an exclusive bank, that would provide services only to the cannabis industry. a man is behind bars following a string of retail thefts in fairfield, police say the ulta beauty store in solano town center mall was robbed at least three times in the past three months. more than $35,000 worth of goods were stolen. this is one of the suspects, 40- year-old archibald crump. police say he is responsible for at least two of those thefts. krumpter was arrested yesterday at a home in san pablo while police also arrested 28-year- old tonya williams. during a search of the home, police found williams was in possession of an assault weapon and five large bags filled with marijuana for sale. the investigation into the retail theft is still ongoing. if you have any information, please call the police. police on the peninsula say they've broken up a sex trafficking scheme. they say carlos garcia of mountain view helped people come to the u.s. from guatemala. then he allegedly threatened them, sold them for sex or other forced labor. gaza's sister is accused of taking part in the intimidation of victims. police arrested the brother and sister last thursday, they say their victims included both minors as well as adults. a judge suspended proceedings for the man charged in a deadly bart stabbing. john cowell's attorney says his client is suffering from extreme delusions and paranoia. now the judge is calling for two court-appointed psychiatrists to evaluate him. they will submit their findings when he returns to court on february 13. cowell is charged with slashing the throat of 18-year-old nia wilson as she stepped off a train at the macarthur bart station in july. prosecutors described the crime as a random act of violence. cal osha is investigating a transformer explosion in a word, it left a utility worker with burns. it happened about 10:15 last night on santa clara street. apg and d-lineman was in an elevated bucket troubleshooting a voltage problem when that transformer blew up. he suffered burns. he is now at santa clara valley medical center, no word on his condition tonight. cal osha working to determine what went wrong and whether any workplace safety rules were violated. were violated. a pair of sea lions are making it home just in time for the holidays. earlier this month, these sea lions were found in san luis obispo and monterey county, one was malnourished, the other had an infection. the care center has been nursing them back to health. today they were released back into the ocean. windy weather today but it had nothing to do with this big mess in san francisco's hayes valley, the massive tree came down on a box truck after the driver bumped into one of the branches. the tree blocks both lanes of traffic on haze street, nobody hurt. looking west, the tower cam time lapse of today's stunning sunset. paul deanno joins us now with the forecast. >> as always, nice news to share that we are gaining daylight every day from now all the way till the first day of summer, almost the next six months, 19 seconds of daylight today. we are losing degrees now that we are mired in the evening under clear skies, still breezy outside in santa rosa, 41. 51 in concord, 53 in san francisco. wind speeds, becoming less so as we roll through, still breezy. pleasanton 14, san jose 10 miles per hour, berkeley 14, the wind has gone home in napa and no votto and 10 mile-per- hour breeze from the north in santa rosa. tonight chilly, lots of 30s, redwood city, fremont, san jose below 40, fairfield, concord and livermore below for the, santa rosa one degree above freezing, cool this weekend, there was ice but the air temperature too, embarcadero center ice rink 56 degrees this weekend, going skating, good for you, downtown ice, sunshine 58 degrees, we've been talking about a ridge of high pressure to our south and west, joining it on the weather map today is low pressure moving to arizona and the four corners region causing rain and snow, these two teamed up, both are strong so the wind will also be strong and we had that in the sacramento valley and bay area today, winds are subsiding but elevated through midmorning tomorrow, cloud cover not much, no fog, no clouds throughout the day, roll into tomorrow because there is something coming. looking at saturday also dry, sunday under the front will pass by, sliding down the sierra, a slight increase in cloud cover, that is it when it comes to clouds for the next several days and it will be dry two and 2018. futurecast monday night, canada, salt lake city or southern arizona, the three closest precipitation areas of the bay area, will be dry monday night. brisk and breezy with sunny and mild tomorrow, rather cold tomorrow night, and drive for all of the next seven days. upper 50s tomorrow, oakland, high 59, san jose 59, fairfield 58, with sunshine, and less wind. drive across the board for the next seven days, afternoons will be mild, most days will be mostly sunny. wake up with our morning team, mary lee, gianna franco for the latest on weather and traffic beginning at 4:30. it will be cold but not crazy cold, just december. expect it. but clear. >> thank you. they'll do anything for their team even if it means camping out under the stars on a billboard. the sleepover contest happening tonight in san jose. your tonight's guests on "the late show with stephen colbert." ♪ whoa! the mercedes-benz winter event is back and you won't want 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[ barks ] ho! lease the c 300 sport sedan for $399 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. rway downtown san jose right now, high atop a billboard, 45 feet up. >> four diehard college football fans, two men, two women camping out, ahead of the national championship game at levi's stadium january 7th. they are part of an espn contest going on, representing the four teens, vying for that title. clemson, notre dame, alabama and oklahoma, the billboard is 40 feet long, each person gets their own tent, sleeping bag, three meals a day and sanitary purposes, there is a bathroom and a shower. the fans of the final teams will get tickets to the championship game. >> i hope they are bundled up. >> except for notre dame. tv market, that is all that matters in the world. >> that's true. it is religious football. especially at alabama. i used to live down there. we've got to put it together for 48 that's what steve kerr said as the warriors dropped another local prod kids say. on the back end. post holiday setback including trance overnight thriller. nba up top for the warriors, over time. setback. remember they had to fight to beat the mavericks and the clippers. effort tonight was there at both ends, steve steve kerr said we need to find a way to compete throughout, go play. here is how it went down, kevin durant ready to bring the mas day, triple-double. durant, not fooling around! going to the rack. let's get to the good part. end of the game. seth curry got hot for the blazers, eight straight points. steph curry's brother had range. steph had 29. the dubs needed a three, steph curry, no, kevin durant, right place, right time! overtime, 26 points, 10 rebounds. in the extra period, the ball is loose, oakland native damian lillard clutch three-ball. boom! blazers 110, warriors 109. let's go to the ice, where we see brent burns play his career 1,000th game tonight. sharks hosting the anaheim ducks, scrum in front, somehow the biscuit put in the basket. marcus sorensen. nine minutes left, burns, let it go from just below the blue line. and scored. sharks win it 4-2, burns, 1,000 career game. raiders and chiefs, 49ers at the rams sunday. quarterback nick mullens, seven starts, 10 touchdowns, three wins, and teammates have seen enough. they know they've got something special. you know you're doing something right if you impress the locker room leaders, the seasoned veterans like richard sherman. >> he could be a starter for a lot of teams in this football league and we appreciate that we have him and he's playing his tail off. >> what he said after the game was it meant a lot, the fact that i've earned his respect, it's the biggest thing. >> those are on sunday. we've got nine college bowl games to get to between now and then. >> let me get a notepad. >> and you'll have them all. ♪ whoa! the mercedes-benz winter event is back, and you won't want to stop for anything else. lease the gla 250 for $359 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. 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