not 11, the bay area on heightened alert. for the coronavirus. what we have learned about a number of local patients tested for possible exposure.>> you're always wondering, you could be next. >> more than 60 cases of cars being hit by projectiles on and near highway 101. now, a break in the case. and explosive discovery in a dead man's house. the stash that could have neighbors out of their homes for days. not 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, concerns about the coronavirus hitting home tonight. good evening i am elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken bastida. we have come confirmed a small number of patients in alameda county have been tested for the illness that has forced china to take some extreme measures. kpix 5 the andrea nakano tells us there is no confirmed cases but officials are taking reports about symptoms seriously. >> reporter: here at sfo tonight there are no passengers arriving from wuhan china, that's because the entire city of wuhan is under quarantine, and all flights have been canceled. but the alameda county health department is looking into whether or not the virus is already here in the bay area. this is the scene at wuhan. mike disinfection point to make the train station is turning people away to keep them from leaving the city. in all, three cities in china are being walked down effecting an unprecedented eight teen million people. >> we suggest to them by having a strong action, not only will they will control the outbreak in their country, but they will also minimize the chances of this outbreak spreading internationally. >> reporter: the alameda county health department is looking into whether or not the virus may have already spread to the east.. health officials confirm several people have been tested for the virus but none of them has come out positive at this point. >> we don't have any confirmed cases in the bay area that i am aware of. the only one of them aware of in the united states and is in washington state. >> reporter: the death toll has now jumped to 25 in china and has sickened hundreds of others. of the roughly 10 cases that are being investigated in the east bay, only a few of them have had samples sent out for testing at the cdc in atlanta. those to haitians are under home isolation but doctor pons says it's highly unlikely any of them has the coronavirus.? we do it is very low risk here in the bay area. but that we as a public health community and our healthcare community are working hard together to make sure if and when this novel virus comes to the bay area but that we will be able to detect it early on and contain it. >> reporter: sfo is one of five airports in the country screening passengers for the virus. travelers who arrived from wuhan before the quarantine was put into place were contacted and checked for flulike symptoms associated with the coronavirus. at sfo, andrea nakano, kpix 5. we have just learned china is building a hospital dedicated to treating the virus. in the meantime, health officials are investigating two other potential cases in the us, in los angeles and texas. no confirmation yet that those patients actually have the virus. and the rest tonight indicates that terrified drivers for months. the chp says a suspect used marbles and a slingshot to target dozens of cars on highway 101. kpix 5's mike sanger is allowing 101, in prudential, where many of those attacks happened. >> reporter: residence in this area and commuters along highway 101 say there has been a year of stress and anxiety and they were glad it suspect is finally under arrest. it was on this stretch of highway 101 near prune dale in monterey county where many of the attacks occurred, with chp says it has investigated 69 incidents in all, going back to february of last year which injured at least five people. under arrest, 52-year-old charles ken lafferty. we believe mister lafferty used a slingshot with glass marbles to commit these crimes. in one incident last november, a school bus carrying members of the carmel high school football team to a game in san jose was hit along with a another nearby vehicle. the chp thinks lafferty used the slingshot while he was also at the wheel driving. mister lafferty was in possession of a weapon there was no indication at this point that a firearm was used in any of the 69 incidents? what was your reaction? >> that my daughter can be safe when she drives. >> reporter: residence like stephanie saavedra say these incidents have literally altered their lives. and their sense of safety. >> you made changes to your driving habits we don't go to monterey. >> reporter: the fact that he is off the street, is that good news? >> it is great news. >> reporter: the sense of relief here is obvious after months of worrying during every morning and evening commute or even a simple trip to the gas ration or a grocery store. >> it is definitely stressful. you think about well, man, what if it is a project i'll just flying through the air? your driving. and that is uncertain you just always wonder. you could be next? it is fantastic. a good job by the police. >> the break in this case came after the most recent incident on january 5. as a result of that crime investigators were able to identify a gmc sonoma pickup which was linked back to the suspect. along highway 101 in prune dale, i am mark sayer, kpix 5. we are getting our first look at the three americans who lost their lives when their air tanker crashed while battling wildfires in australia. they were part of a crew based in northern california. kpix 5's racket in a cruise is in our newsroom with the very latest. >> reporter: the c-130 hercules crashed while on a mission to drop fire retardant in a ready part of the country's coastal mountains. all three men on board were killed. they include captain ian mcbeth of montana, first officer paul hudson of arizona, and flight engineer rick morgan of florida. the crash happened as fire conditions worsened with 900 heat and 60 mile-per-hour wind gusts. the three occupants on board, highly specialized, highly experienced. specifically trained, dedicated professionals to the ark, and large airplane, who did not survive. that awful crash. we simply don't know the circumstances pertaining to the accident at this stage. in the appropriate formal investigations and inquiries caforn lasmmthmassivaid -hees h fire. it was based at mcclellan air force base in sacramento county. this is video of governor gavin newsom and from o'gorman or arnold schwarzenegger touring tinker 134 back in august. governor newsom released a statement today saying in part "california and australia are already united by the deadly wildfires, now grieve this tragic loss together." investigators now reach the crash site. the tail section reportedly remains intact. but the fuselage was destroyed. this? >> veronica thank you. a push tonight to make utility companies pick up some of the tab when they cut your power. state senator scott weiner's bill would require companies to reimburse customers or local governments for cause associated with planned blackouts like lost wages and spoiled food. sheriff grose would have to put money into a reimbursement fund. the bill cleared the senate operations committee today. weiner says it would create an incentive for smaller targeted blackouts to prevent wildfires. president donald j. trump's impeachment trial stretching into another late night. house managers ending their day with a fiery push for the presidents removal. cbs reporter natalie brand with of the highlights from capitol hill. >> reporter: house managers have one day left to wrap up their case. the impeachment manager california congressman adam ship became emotional while delivering his clothes. our producer watching the senate chamber noticed that congressman schiff often looks to the visitors gallery while speaking as he tries to make this case to the public as well as to the senators serving as jurors. make the truth doesn't matter, we are lost the delete house manager adam schiff ended two days of our opening i went in the impeachment trial with a plea to senators weighing the presidents fate. >> you know that what he did was not right. >> reporter: earlier will house managers spend hours making their case for abuse of power, trying to establish a personal motive in the presidents dealings with ukraine. managers even cited pulling from last year showing joe biden ahead of president donald j. trump in a hypothetical 2020 white house conduct contest. >> it wasn't until biden began beating him in the polls, that he called for the investigation. >> those polls do show a powerful motive. >> reporter: during a break in thursday's action in the senate, republicans seized on democrats line of argument. >> today the house democrats, perhaps unintentionally, through joe biden under the bus. >> reporter: based on the house managers presentation today, i think you probably are going to need from the former vice president. >> reporter: noted the presidents attorney j secular. has been a lot about joe biden. they have kind of opened the door for that response. >> reporter: house managers also took aim at defense theory that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 election. >> this theory was brought to you by the kremlin. >> reporter: the president defended himself once again today in a torrent of tweets. one jump comes and told cbs news that gop senators have been warned to vote against the president and your head will be on a pike. house managers will wrap up their opening arguments on friday, and the presidents defense is expected to kick off their turn in a shortened session on today. the presidents legal team will also get up to three days, meanwhile, house impeachment managers which in course of food they area congresswoman zola crane, will focus tomorrow on article 2, obstruction of congress. i asked her staff what goes into preparing her 24 hours of opening arguments, and staffers told me that she has been meticulously pouring over notes and working to best present. on capitol hill, and natalie brand, kpix 5. republican senators sitting through arguments today found a new outlet to divert their attention. senator richard burr of north carolina handed out those little fidget spinners. several senators have the small toys on their desks. newton i, a california man convicted of murdering two teenage girls is now out on parole in the bay area. sam strange was released last weekend, you'll stay under supervised parole in alameda cothe next two years. strange, who is now 45 years old, was convicted of the two mergers in nevada county in 1996. a relative of one of the victims does not think he should be out of prison. >> my sister and her friend never got the chance that half of what he has been experience. the other victim relatives now say they believe ranges claim that he only witnessed the murders, and helped move the bodies. governor newsom reviewed the proposed parole during a 30 day period last year, and allowed it to go through. also knew tonight, bart is grappling with a potential downside of its plan to phase out paper tickets. the transit agency wants everyone to switch to the computerized clipper card by the end of this year. the examiner reports a new analysis by bart's office of civil rights finds low income riders with less access to clipper cards will be at a disadvantage. people in that group are more likely to be young or from a racial minority, and may not even own a smart phone. coming up, hundreds of explosives found in a northern california home. i neighbors may not be able to return home for days. and a harrowing brush with death, caught on camera. a man clings to the hood of his car. the wild ending to a teen carjacking suspects mile-long rampage. scientists announcing a new species of walking sharks. you heard that right. why they say it's no reason to i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. climate is the 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36-months. ends saturday. hundreds of military grade explosives found in a dead man's home. tonight he is forcing about 20 homes to evacuate in stockton. reporter rich wolf on the delicate investigation. >> he was pretty reclusive. we very rarely saw him. >> reporter: that's how neighbors describe the elderly man who lived in this house at the corner of rockford avenue and steuben way in stockton. authorities arrived there a little after 9 am for a death investigation and found hundreds of military style explosives. >> at that point of the investigation they evacuated the people inside the home and called out our bomb squad. >> reporter: stockton police and joined the investigation along with experts from travis air force base. >> going through the house we try to determine if they what these explosives are, and how to get them out of the home safely. >> reporter: officers closed streets and evacuated 20 nearby homes as a precaution. >> we were having cuts available for them to stay here tonight. >> reporter: the american red cross set up an emergency shelter at the root community center a few miles away. a trailer full of supplies arrived filled with whatever families might need. >> the goal is to try to found have everyone to have as much comfortable, for example we will have refreshments, we will have warm drinks. >> reporter: they may have to stay a second night. authorities predict the investigation will spill into the weekend. neighbors watching it all unfold were in disbelief over the scope of this stash. >> you just never know. it could happen anywhere i guess. >> reporter: that is rachel wulff reporting. the team says there is so much, so many explosives in this house. they couldn't get it all come out tonight, they will be back at the home tomorrow morning. new video of a teenage carjacking suspect going on a mile-long rampage with the victim clinging to the hood, take a look. >> surveillance video captured men's screams as he is thrown off the hood of that car. amazingly he survived. this happened last night in turlock in the central valley. police say two teenagers carjacked the man at a neighborhood park. a 15-year-old girl allegedly got into the driver's seat while the man jumped on top of the hood. >> it was amazing you know, that they missed my truck by inches, and they missed that poor guy's head by inches.? they come down here and i hear the big boom and i was like oh my goodness someone just hit something. >> the victim stayed on the hood for more than a mile as the car hit several parked vehicles. the two suspects now faced carjacking charges, plus one count of attempted murder. report claims air safety regulators may have been cutting corners when they approved southwest's new flight to hawaii. according to the wall street journal and faa employee and a whistleblower, claimed that faa agency managers gave southwest preferential treatment by rushing the approval process for hawaiian flights. southwest told the wall street journal the airline went through the same stringent 14 month approval process that all airlines are required to follow. the faa has not commented. a bay area mansion once owned by a metallica's drummer has just sold for more than $10 million. the home in tiburon in marin county covers 13,000 ft.2. it has a recording studio, pool, and a sauna, plus an aquarium over a bathtub. drummer rod ulrich is listed as the previous owner. new video out of riverside county where this puppy found itself in quite a pickle. oh no. he stuck his head inside the middle of a spare tire, and couldn't get out. and it was a big production to get him out. animal control used cooking oil to try to slip his head back out. but when that didn't work, the australian cattle dog had to be sedated so firefighters could cut the metal and that did the trick. the idea of a walking sharks may sound like some kind of creation. but predators are hardly a horror show. scientists have discovered 4 new species of sharks that like to stroll along the bottom of the ocean floor. they are 3 feet long and crawl with their four sins. luckily, the great white have not made it on land yet so that's good. >> especially on land. that would be bad. >> who needs fins? we will look stroll along the sand out there. a beautiful view of san francisco. we will start out by looking at the city from treasure island. we are looking at the city from the east to the west. the numbers right now in the 40s and 50s but if you prefer your prospective from the west to the east. a top sutro tower, the highest july, 1630 for much of the bay area, san francisco at 61, half moon bay at 580. tomorrow looks pretty good, we have some sun and some cows, not unlike today. the pressure to the north and high-pressure to the south. perfect conveyor belt for a few high clouds over the top of the ridge. that will keep the house and forecast for part of the day. by tomorrow night watch what happens. a little dose of rain moving into the north bay by friday, 9:00. it's a convenient rain and will be after sunset. it looks like it is mostly confined to the north bay and light. future cast rolls on, by saturday afternoon, the next dose of showers comes in. so it is late on friday, late on saturday, mostly north bay, and overnight sunday night. then we get a few spare hours splashing into the bay area. by sunday afternoon it will look pretty nice. there are these intermittent shots of rain coming into the bay area. we are going to look for a partly cloudy tonight tonight. areas of fog around. clouds will increase on friday late in the day and there is a chance of rain in the north bay. then light rain saturday into sunday morning for much of the bay area but we are talking on the order of a few 10 of an inch at most. forecast highs tomorrow, looking nice. there will be some sun and clouds land in san francisco 59. down in the south bay, variably cloudy. and mid 60s. for january, balmy. in the east bay 62 at walnut creek and 63 at livermore. drive through friday, sent chance of rain saturday night. that would be light showers in the north bay. there is a chance tomorrow at about 9:00 at night, a few light showers passing overhead. a better chance for ukiah tomorrow night 61 at ukiah and 57 at lake. extended forecast, we will would be looking for clouds tomorrow and some sun, and then a shot at rain friday night. and then another chance coming in on sunday. by late in the day on tuesday, another chance of rain. you will simply have to stay tuned. especially for sports. here is dennis. brian just how did the 49ers stop at the homes? the 49er d coordinator is open to suggestion tonight. and serving on the road, to i am running to defeat donald trump. in 2016 i warned that donald trump was a dangerous demagogue, and when the republican congress wouldn't hold him accountable, i went to work helping run winning campaigns in twenty-one house seats. it's time for the senate to act and remove trump fr