To go. 26minute ride for those of you headed westbound. East shore freeway looks good. Only a 36minute ride. Now you are down to one lane. Southbound on the Golden Gate Bridge, you cant see this angle. Theyre doing construction on that suicide barrier. The bay bridge metering lights obviously not yet on. Starting to see a stack up on that fast lane. You can see the east shore freeway thats moving along as well. Were in the westbound direction. You dont have a wholed. Im katt the live news desk. The amazon rain forest is seeing thousands of wild fires right now. This is all part of some of the issues that some people say is a right wing president s environmental policy who is the president in brazil saying that he is encouraging some of the agricultural and cattle farmers to burn off the rain forest to make more room ranching. Mostly in the amazon basin. These tropical rain forests are warming. Again, these fires burning in the amazon rain forest right now. Some firefighters are there trying to put those fires out but part of this could be illegal burns. At the live news desk im katie neilson. Two people managed to escape after their single engine plane crashed into the ocean. It 5 50 yesterday afternoon. The planes pilot david lesh was in the bay area from colorado to visit friends. They captured video of the crash. All right flying along and hd engine failure. Lesh says he recently bought the plane and his friends were recording missions with it. We planned ongoing over the Golden Gate Bridge and things like that. There wasnt anyd aan ction it was the motor. To me it seems to feel related. The pilot of the other plane contacted authorities for help. I watched him ditch it in the water he did a great job. Its something we train for but hope you never practice and he executed perfectly. Federal investigators are looking into what caused the crash. This morning a bay area teenager is being hailed a hero for stopping a man from strangling his fat Surveillance Video showing the chocolate shop owner trip and fall and kicking the customer out. His heroic son came to the rescue. And i was screaming for help, somebody he because he had me really good. I coo not move. The civilians who were sitting down, the customers who were telling me not to do anything they were telling me to put down the bat and stuff. It was a weird feeling because you dont know whether to act on your own instinct. The suspect fled when the boy aimed t bat at him. Police took the suspect into custody. A San FranciscoPolice Dispatcher is due in court after investigators say she cashed in on Disability Insurance while on the job. First took leave in march 2017. She returned to work in mid june that year but she didnt notify her Insurance Company to stop sending her monthly checks totalling139,000 in pay and benefits annual as a dispatcher. Three members of the ghost ship trial jury all were excused for misconduct. They were reportedly doing research on the case outside of deliberations. Theres a possibility that a prosecutor might decide that this is criminal content because they violated her cyou blantl vr that i made and im going to hold you in contempt. Three alternate jurors have since filled their spots. Deliberations will now have to start from the beginning. Yesterday, President Trump held a wide ranging media availability at the oval office and one of the major topics he touched upon, gun control. Democrats say they are concerned about the publics new message. Laura podesta has the latest from new york. At the white house yesterday President Trump expressed concern about new gun control legislation. We have very strong background checks right now. He instead pivoted to Mental Health issues. Its not the gun that pulls the trigger, its the pn. N theay idenlivered a. Ple the i took it meaningful. Meaningful background checks. But he stopped short of calling for universal background checks. I have yet to meet someone including republicans and gun owners who is not concerned about the level of gun violence we have in this country. En this president says hes p going to do something about background checks and word comes out today hes consulted with his masters at the nra. House democrats passed background legislation earlier this year but the bills haveledd senate. Laura podesta cbs news. Talks with the Justice Department are ongoing regarding legislative and executive Action Strategies to combat gun violence. The most senior catholic official to be convicted of child saul assault will stay in prison. 21 to reject pels argument. The 78yearold is serving a six Year Prison Sentence for sexually assaulting two teenage choir boys in the late 90s. An oakland businessman is accused of being the master mind behind a 110 million immigration scam. Thomas henderson promised to create 2000 jobs in oakland through an immigration program. The Program Gives green cards to investors who contribute half a Million Dollars to a u. S. Business and that creates 10 full time jobs. Henderson and two associates took money from 200 asian investors to enrich themselves and pay for commercial Properties Like the tribune tower. There are many chinese investors they wholeheartedly think thrti mey in like you can save getting a green card. Henderson h been arrestedraa. The tech giant restore historic hangar 1. Through its subsidiary planetary ventures. The clean up includes removing toxic material. Once done, google wants to use the hangar for research and office space. It will cost an estimated 157 billion. Walmart is suing its tesla. Claims that they suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Meanwhile tezlas stock dropped more than 1 . Wall street snaps its pays it forward. Were at the new york stock lown tuesday. The dow droppeded 173 points. The nasdaq fell 54 and the s p. The last months meeting Federal Reserve lost today. Wall street will also be looking ahead to friday when chairman Jerome Powell gives his peach in jackson hole, wyoming. Meanwhile hasboro will start phasing out packaging by 2022. That includes aplastic bags, elastic wrap and shrink wrap thats usually found around a board game like monopoly. And for the rest of this week mcdonalds is passing out 500 cards good for one free coffee. You can use it to get a fre of joendncdonalds wan uo p alo to someone that your c more head to cbsmoneywatch. Com. Its the first day of school today for sunnivale unified, ne. Local time now is 4 41. This morning San Franciscos newest subway station has a new name. The heated debate over a power brokers legacy. And before we head to break lets take a live look outside at the eastern span of the bay bridge. Its 4 42. Well be right back. Transportation officials in San Francisco have decided to name a future muni transit station. It will benage the chinatown station. Last nights decision followed a long debate. She was an important leader in the Chinatown Community and helped the subway station become a reality. Critics say she was a morally corrupt bully. Critics say she was an illegal power voter. The administration is new video of an wto h a famy of mountain lions were spotted at the rancho county preserve. Wild life officials are warning hikers to stay away aer several recent encounters. Meantime plans are in the works to build the biggest wild life crossing in the world. The span over 101 in agora hills would give big cats and other animals a safe space. They wont have to worry about the cars. Different drought. Lets get a check on the weather. Were starting to warm up. We are. Are you ready for temperatures to get back to inland. So that warming trend starts today and continues into the weekend. Heres a live look at our sales floor tower camera looking east and under mainly clear skies. Compared to yesterday morning when we had all of that cloud cover. As we kick off your wednesday. So weather headlines. Less cloud cover. Mostly clear skies this morning. Breezy conditions in spots and that warming trend starts today with highs about 5 to 8 degrees warmer compared to yesterday and we will stay the strong ridge oh pressure. And it has been a warm august so far. Of course last week we had that record heat so we have tied so far for the 5th warmest august on record in San Francisco. That goes back to 1845 and we are going to add to those numbers as we head through the next several days with temps warmer than average. That low pressure system that did bring that on shore flow is going to be pushing in to the Pacific Northwest bringing them the rain and the storms. Thats going to take the chill with it because high pressures going to build in for us and strengthen and with it well see those temperatures rising. As we go through the day you can see all of that sun. Tomorrow morning starting off pressur dominate clouds g sy wo weather feature for us check out thursday, this is on the scale up to 12 and we havent seen numbers like this in ability two months so if youre suffering from allergies still looking in the high category for friday and saturday. 91 in concord. 77 oakland and 72 for San Francisco. And there we go with those hot temps especially inland through the workweek and next weekend. When it comes to traffic this morning its pretty calm out there. Look at the overall big picture. Lets zoom in the regular trouble spot of the day. The only issue here is its a little bit slow as you come down out of the tracy triangle. There is a high wind advisory. So it might be a little bit of a bumpy ride out there. But youre looking good as far as your traffic is concerned chlgt no backing up on 680 southbound or 84 at this hour. Everything there looks good. That drive time is a 29minute ride. Youre still in the green on the east shore freeway as well as on 101 at this hour. Those drive times look good. Those lanes should all be back open at this hour in the process of the construction on the suic bar. A5 00. Bay bri getting a little bit busier starting to stack up in those cash lanes. Fastrak customers are smoothing all the way into San Francisco. No problems to report. Were getting a little bit busier at the san mateo bridge thank you. A new demi moore movie and a star wars experience in the city. Chris martinez has those stories and more on your eye on entertainment. In the comedy corporate animals. Are you ready for the ultimate teambuilding challenge. Moore plays misty an egotist cal ceo when the Group Becomes trapped underground they have to make some unthinkable choicese. A galaxy is far far away. It triggers when you get hit you feel it. You can feel the heat from the planet and the burning in the atmosphere star wars secrets of the empire is happening. And adam driver and skarlt johanson play charlie and nicole in the up coming film marriage story. The movie tells the story of the break up through the eyes of the husband and the wife. Also laura durn, and ray liotta. Thats your eye on entertainment. Chris martinez cbs news los angeles. The giants are doing a high wire act in the wiled here comed there goes the judge. That wasnt the whole story next. And as we go to break, lets take a live look this time at menetta International Airport in san jose. 58 degrees there. Well be right back. Good wednesday morning to you. Were going to turn up the heat. So temps will be warming up to above average for this time of year with that sunshine. 85 in santa clara. 84 for san jose. Check out antioche. 91 in concord. 7ly berkley. Oakland. Ancisco. 75 for san leandro and mid 90s in windsor. Lets take a look at what our bridge travel times look like. Mobile 5 is right now as we speak on the ground headed across the bay bridge leaving San Francisco. No problems to report at all and that into San Francisco part thats a little bit slower. Ill continue to track your traffic times ahead. Its late august and this is crunch time for both the as and giants. As top pitching prospect hes going to start in the bull pen. Bottom 1. Matt olsen. This is for you. Thats olsens 26th home run. Going with state farm for a little insurance. And the as led 31. Homer bailey allowed one run. Bailey has allowed one run. And now tied with tampa for the second wild card spot. Want to see what the giants playoff chances look like is ti. But the giants started hooeny gave up 3 home runs in just 4 innings. The giants now trail chicago by 4 and a half games in a wild card race. If Antonio Brown was all in or all out. But john gruden sounds like he knows the answer. Seems like antonios all ine . Eha ahro w all o par of the practice where cameras were left inside. So the ongoing ab soap opera is becoming a distraction for the team. Its not been a distraction to me at all. Weve known what the status is regarding his feet. He just showed up with frostbite. Ive never had a guy show up with frostbite. And this grieve answer thing is no laughing matter. Its something thats important to him. And theres nothing wrong with supporting your players. And the 49ers and the chiefs this saturday on channel 5. Time now 4 56. Coming up in our next half hour elderly and disabled fire e garages desnedhen the to save lives. Nd wur tchoo spe cag this morni. Toynd live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix 5 news. David just crashed into the ocean. Now at 5 00 a small plane makes a water landing near half moon bay. The pilot and passenger survived. This morning, the question what went wrong plus jurs it normal. Children practicing active shooter drills at school. This morning First Responders team up with Bay Area School districts to make sure theyre ready. Good morning its wednesday august 21st im kenny choi. And im michelle griego. Lets getat