Now at 11 00, 5 years behind bars, 3 trials, why a bay area man charged with double murder will soon return home to his family. He gets to call him dad and hug him. Reporter a bay area billionaire sued by california. The evidence the state says gives the Public Access to martins beach. Reporter suspected car burglars in custody after San Francisco police say they smashed into a Parking Enforcement vehicle. I was raped on the streets at least twice. Kicked out of her home and forced into sex work. Why shes a textbook case for the crisis of young People Living on the streets. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a shocking twist in an Alameda County double murder case. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. And im ken bastida. The suspect about to walk free, his charges dismissed after 3 failed trials. Kpix 5s Andrea Nakano is outside the santa rita jail in dublin. Reporter kyle puckett will walk out of the jail any moment now. Hes been locked up the last 5 years on firstdegree murder charges. Tonight he will finally be reunited with his family and will be able to hug his son for the very first time. I feel blessed, you know . Everything is finally all over. Reporter after 3 trials in 4 years, Zipporah Chang cant believe her fiancie is finally coming him. It means everything. Because ever since i found out he was locked up, i felt like i had a broken family. And my son doesnt have to look at his father through the glass anymore. Reporter prosecutors accused puckett of murdering 2 men in october of 2011 in oakland. According to the Alameda County District Attorneys Office, puckett and his accomplice shot 2 men while trying to steal a suitcase of marijuana. But pucketts attorney said he never doubted his innocence. He refused to accept any type of resolution in this case. He wanted to go to trial and prove his innocence. Reporter today prosecutors made the move to dismiss the case due to the deadlocked trials. Its probably the sweetest victory ive had throughout my career. Reporter the Alameda County District Attorneys Office wouldnt comment, but castillo feels the jury bought their argument that puckett was home at the time of the shooting and the prosecutions case was full of holes. We had a lot in our favor, including discrediting every single witness the prosecutor put on the stand. They had very unreliable witnesses to try and prosecute him. Reporter his accomplice took a plea deal in the case. Hes serving 11 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. New at 11 00, a federal judge tossed out the lawsuit filed by the parents of kate steinly. She was shot back in 2015. Her parents were suing the government for employing a ranger who left a gun unlocked in a car. That gun wound up in the hands of the shooter, an u ndocumented immigrant. He was acquitted of charges. California is suing a bay area billionaire to stop him from restricting Public Access to a popular San Mateo County beach. Kpix 5s maria medina with the case that could finally resolve this high stakes showdown. Reporter this gate with the no press passing sign has been mostly closed for years, but now the attorney general is stepping in to try and give the Public Access to one of californias gems for good. This is a particularly special and beautiful beach that had been open to the public for generation after generation for close to 100 years. Reporter and that is the evidence the California Coastal and state lands commissions plan to use to convince a judge the public has a right to access martins beach. The historical use of the property has given the public the right to continue to use it. Reporter the commission has collected evidence from more than 200 families who used the beach dating back to the early 1900s. The lawsuit comes after the First District court of appeals in San Francisco ruled in favor of the lands owner, that the public hadnt established right to the roads because they paid parking fees to the previous owner. Why is it important . For the same reason that access to yosemite is important. Its a california treasure. Reporter the battle with the billionaire over the beach has gone on for over a decade after he bought nearly 100 acres of land that surrounds the beach. In 2018, he spoke to kpix 5 in a rare interview. We need a Coastal Commission that works with Property Owners to follow the law. Reporter the tide may turn for the owner if the court rules in the commissions favor. But the agency says the decision could take months. Its been very painful for a lot of people. Thats the kinds of historical use we expect the court to take very seriously when we present the evidence. Reporter and the owners Attorney Says the claims in this lawsuit have been repeatedly rejected by the courts in a previous lawsuit. Maria medina, kpix 5. A parking control officer got in the way of 4 car burglary suspects on the run from the law. Kpix 5s joe vazquez shows us the crash that shut down San Francisco streets and how it all ended high above them. Reporter it was a wild scene here on union and van ness when police say the vehicle full of suspected car burglars smashed into this Parking Enforcement vehicle, flipping it completely over. It all started at hyde and green streets when Police Officers from Central Station said they recognized this white suv as one that had been committing auto burglaries in the area. The vehicle peeled away from officers and sped down union street according to a statement from an sfpd spokesman who insists the police were not chasing the vehicle. Then the suspect vehicle smashed into a Parking Enforcement vehicle with the driver inside. When he got hit, it turned the cart upside down and over on its back like that and just skidded. All the sudden i saw 3 to 5 people just running north, west and then north. I saw them coming this way, so i told the cops they are here, and the cop threw them on top of this building here. Reporter how did they get on the top of the building here . I dont know, they climbed. They have a shed in the back and they climbed. Reporter Police Arrested all 4 burglars. The parking attendant was hurt, but his injuries were not life threatening. Bart is set to vote on a null Pilot Program to boost safety on trains. Unarmed ambassadors would be trained in crisis prevention and roam around the station between 2 00 p. M. And midnight. The bart board of directors is expected to meet this thursday. If the program is approved, riders could see the unarmed staffers as soon as next month. Take a live look at the funeral procession in iran as hundreds of thousands of people flooding the streets for the second day to mourn the top military general assassinated in a u. S. Air strike. Back in the United States, the white house plans to brief congressional leaders tomorrow about the deadly strike. At the same time the pentagon is doing a bit of damage control of a letter circulated suggesting the u. S. Is leaving iraq. A marine Brigadier General wrote this troops would be quote repositioning forces to prepare for onward movement. But now the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says there are no plans to withdraw. It was a mistake. An honest mistake. A draft, unsigned letter because we are moving forces around, and we have increased Helicopter Movement in iraq. The pentagon also distancing itself from president trumps threats to bomb iranian cultural sites. That type of attack would violate international law. The defense secretary mark esper says the u. S. Will quote follow the laws of armed conflict. Im betty yu in the newsroom. Tonight california is trying to do what the feds wont. A new bill would go further on the partial ban of ecigarettes. The proposal would ban all store sales of flavored products, including menthol cigarettes. The reason this goes beyond what the United States government has done is because thats pretty much ineffective. Theyre not prohibiting the sale of the flavors in the Tobacco Products that entice and addict the young people of california. Reporter nearly 30 state lawmakers have backed the bill, coauthored by senator hill. This as data shows tremendous growth in ecigarette use by high school students. There was a 78 percent increase between 2017 and 2018. What i see different this year than last year is the statistics, the health risk, and the Health Impact and devastation and deaths weve seen around the country and in california from those who have used an ecigarette. Reporter in december the cdc reported more than 2500 hospitalizations and more than 50 deaths nationally that are believed to be tied to vaping. Stores in california that violate the proposed ban would have to pay 250 per violation. In the newsroom, betty yu, kpix 5. Coming up, our series project home. A young woman kicked out because shes transgender and preyed upon in the streets. How it highlights the crisis of the young and homeless. If a young woman is on the street for 48 hours, she has nearly a 100 percent chance of being trafficked. And sucker punched on the street. A vicious road rage attack. How this video could help catch the suspects. And impossible foods is you shouldnt have to live with pain. You shouldnt have to pretend youre fine. You shouldnt have to be the ambulance. You shouldnt have to be thinking about the cost. You should just be focused on her. Covered california can help you find a health plan that fits your needs and budget. Because we believe you shouldnt have to choose between the life youve built and the care you need. Blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we needed somebody to lean on now our original series project home. And tonight we are getting a glimpse at a hidden homeless population, street kids. And it has an enormous impact on your odds of ending up on the street. Number one i was scared. Reporter rika spent her first night on the street in San Francisco at age 19, right around the time she came out as transgender. What initially kind of started my homelessness is my father. He didnt accept me for who i am and burned my clothes because i was presenting as female. Reporter so she moved from sacramento with no family and no connections to the big city. She says almost immediately strangers on the street started to chip away at her. I was raped on the streets at least twice. Times got desperate for me and i had to do sex work, so all the things took place because i didnt have a place to live. If a young woman is on the street for more than 48 hours she has nearly 100 percent chance of being trafficked for sex. Reporter while you might find rikas story shocking, its textbook. This professor at uc berkeley studies Youth Homelessness, a sub population thats disproportionally black and lgbtq. 49 percent of the total population are people of color. 80 percent of the Homeless Youth are people of color. 46 percent of the Homeless Youth identify as lgbtq. The doctor says intervention for people experiencing homelessness at this age is critical, especially as they begin to develop selfesteem. If you and i were passed out on the sidewalk and unresponsive, chances are people wouldnt just step over us and keep walking, and thats what we both do every day because weave been taught thats what we do. Young people will internalize the idea that its there fault and they are, you know, objects of animals to be ignored. Reporter if that doesnt convince you, the cost should. Every night more than 1100 young people are homeless on the street in San Francisco. Statewide that number is more than 12,000. Just for tonight, the public cost of paying for those young people on the street is 1 billion, and over the course of their lifetime, if they dont find housing, the number jumps to 15 million. The cost of letting young people stay on the street is astronomical and something we cant afford. Reporter she wants to see the state put in place a plan to end Youth Homelessness. Right now california doesnt have one. She also wants a plan in place to make it illegal to send someone on the street from a hospital or jail. Despite everything rika is optimistic. Shes now permanently housed thanks in large part to larkin youth organization. Shes also starting an internship and wants to work as an activist to help lgbtq youth like her. Thats one solution San Francisco is getting right. Communities where youth are given a voice and Decision Making authority have seen the greatest reductions in Youth Homelessness in the past 2 years. San franciscos count is down 10 percent. Seattle and austin, texas are also seeing major decreases. Thats why rika says she wants to work as an activist to work for people like her who have so much life ahead of them and desperately need a hand up off the street. I havent given up. I havent completely lost my soul. Thats amazing after all that she wants to give back. Thats great to see. Yes, she wants to be an advocate, and shes been through that so it will be a successful scenario. Keep sending your stories and ideas to project home and see all of susie steimles reporting on our website. Shocking new video tonight of a road rage attack in los angeles. You can see a group arguing with a guy when one of the specks just sucker punches the guy causing him to fall to the ground completely unconscious. The suspects down to their vehicle and take off. Police are still looking for them. The attack happened new years day. The victim has not regained consciousness since the incident. Impossible foods had success with beef, so naturally its moving on to plantbased pork. The start up that launched the impossible burger just debuted its first impossible pork at ces in las vegas, and the staff of cnet got to sample it and say it tastes just like the real thing. No word on where or when you can get your hands on it. I can give you specific timing on when its going to rain next. Late tomorrow. Tomorrow in the afternoon and evening we have a weak little rain maker coming, but first theres not a cloud in the sky out there right now. Thats the view from Treasure Island looking back toward the city skyline, but first for morning lows that means clear skies and we bottom out in the mid30s some for inland spots. Santa rosa 35, san jose 37. You can take the daytime highs tomorrow and bring them right back up pretty much to average. Granted it will be cooler than today by about 3 or 4 degrees. And most of tomorrow well have blue sky until we get to the very Late Afternoon and early evening. That says 5 00. See the line of clouds that just approached . You have blue sky all day until about there, and then the showers show up behind that once we get into the early evening. 8 00 its raining from the north bay. Sonoma and marin county seeing the showers. By 9 00 its coming right across the heart of the bay. So the important detail is, its coming in late enough that it shouldnt impact the commute home. And even with that, the amount of rain well get from this, even if it came through right at 5 00, theres not a lot of rain here. Probably led less than a tenth of an inch of rain. This gets us into wednesday afternoon. Theres still left over cloudiness, maybe a stray rogue shower on wednesday, but i dont have rain in the forecast on wednesday. Its really just a cloudy day. The totals from the first rain maker, less than a tenth of an inch. We have 2 more possibilities of rain. Storm number 2, dont even want to call it a storm, but rain chance number 2 comes in on thursday. Ill start it after midnight on thursday and play us through 10 00 a. M. Thursday morning. This is a little more noticeable rain. So thursday morning we get another tenth of an inch area wide. And heres number 3. I start it saturday at midnight. Play it through the first aft of the day on saturday and just barely a chance for a sprinkle. But thats about all weve got. It doesnt look very impressive. I dont think the niners game will have an issue at all. Down in the south bay, the rain wont hold together much. All right, dennis, i bet youll have more on that. For now back to you. Darren, kirk cousins proves he can win a big game, but can he win another . And it was that kind of night for steve kerr and the warriors in sacramento. More on that next. And all this week were sharing advice for a new decade. Tomorrow morning at 4 30, well help you plan your next tip with the top travel after a game in sacramento, the warriors waive marquies criss. Also steve kerr was tossed before half time. Without Deangelo Russell they were 0 for 17 from downtown, but then Glen Robinson finally knocked one down. They shot 39 percent for the game. The kings scored 38 in the 4th quarter. Easy dunk. Sacramento won 11198 with mike brown as the acting head coach for golden state. Nfl, the 49ers are the 7 point favorite against the vikings, but the saints were also a 7 point favorite against minnesota, and the vikings coach is taking notice. I dont think anybody believes that we can win this game. All i really care about is that 53 guys believe. And 1 of the 53 guys is the quarterback kirk cousins who made 2 huge throws in overtime to lock in the upset win in the superdome. Cousins is a guy people say cant win the big game, but he has an answer for that. You know, like the book the dream giver, when you climb a mountain and is it around at the top you realize theres more mountains to climb. You just keep chasing the next mountain and there will always be people that criticize you, and thats okay. Aint no Mountain High enough for the top 5. We have some incredible moves on 2 different surfaces next. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. 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