Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm 20180205 : compa

Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm 20180205

Dozens of cars and hundreds of spectators took over the intersection on high street leading to the 880 onramp. There was a second location further up on high street outside of foothill high school. The illegal activity left the streets and a few people robbed this convenience store. The exxon gas station owner let us record the surveillance video. The store was locked and only a security window was open to customers. Just after 2 am, a man is seen kicking through the glass door. This the security alarm is hit but several people rush into the store and start grabbing items. They entered into the store. There was no injury to the staff. Reporter there were no injuries reported. Customers were surprised to hear sideshow came onto such a small intersection. I actually was walking near foothill square. It was 10 pm and i saw a lot of smoke. I heard cars revving. I walked up and there were 20 or 30 cars parked in the middle of the street. Reporter he is surprised that even a small sideshow would choose high street. The damage to this store will cost several thousand dollars. I am not worried about the financial loss. My First Priority is the security of my staff. Reporter not everyone at the sideshow got away when Police Showed up. The department impounded 30 cars and issued 147 citations. In oakland, leigh martinez, ktvu fox 2 news. There is a new report that pg e powerlines started two small fires in the santa rosa on the same day that those massive wildfires started in october. The Santa Rosa Prescott reports the city fire investigators have determined the strong winds caused utility lines to spark to fall over which created sparks. Cal fire continue to investigate the cause of the larger fires which killed 40 people and destroyed 6200 homes. That makes them the deadliest and most destructive fires in state history. Pg e is not commenting on the report. It has been another unseasonably warm february day today. People along the embarcadero in San Francisco took advantage of the weather. Mark tamayo is here with a look at the temperatures. This is better than summer because we dont have any fog. For february 4, the average highs are in the upper 50s, right around 60 degrees. Take a look at the highs we had today, well above the average. Lots of 70s out there. 80 in the santa rosa. We had widespread 70s. This is the fourth day in february and also the fourth day in a row we have had quite a few records to report. You can see for Half Moon Bay and San Francisco there were records. We had records broken all over the place today. Taking a look outside right now, it looks warm outside for the evening. Looking out towards San Francisco we have some haze developing. We have been locked in this dry weather pattern. We have a completely different story and other portions of the country. Right now, in minneapolis, they have a and temperature of 0 degrees. It is just Single Digits out towards fargo, north dakota. We only have scattered high clouds rolling into the bay area but we had lots of sunshine this afternoon. We will have more 70s coming up next week. Federal investigators are now on the scene of a deadly train collision this morning in south carolina. That crashed left and coamtrak conductor and and coengineer dead. Brian yunus has more on the investigation. Reporter amtrak train 91 was traveling from new york to miami when it collided with a stationary csx Freight Train sunday morning in south carolina. The train carrying 147 people, eight crew members and 139 passengers. Two amtrak crew members died in the crash. 150 people were sent to area hospitals. It appeared to the governor that the amtrak train was traveling on the wrong track because the Freight Train was parked on a loading track or a sidetrack when the amtrak train slammed into it. The governor believes the amtrak train was traveling at approximately 59 Miles Per Hour the National Transportation safety board is on the scene. We will determine the time it happened and try to determine why it happened. We will determine if it is human error and if so, why. Reporter the red cross opened a shelter at Pine Ridge Middle School near the crash. Volunteers helped dozens of passengers get food, stay warm and make contact with their loved ones. The governor commended First Responders who arrived just five minutes after the first 911 call came in. He also asked churchgoers to say a prayer for the victims. In new york, brian yunus, fox news. Republican lawmakers are starting to distance themselves am the president over the controversial gop memo released friday alleging antitrump biased within the fbi. The president said yesterdays memo vindicates him in the russia investigation. I am in a really small group of republicans that think that this process is suspect and wrong. You still have a russia investigation even without it. I dont know how many other republicans feel that way. I am on record to saying i support robert mueller. The judges are not pushovers. They are responsible individuals who carefully review all of the evidence that is presented to them. At least four republican members of the House Intelligence Committee went on sunday morning talk shows to publicly show their support Robert Muellers russia probe. There is concern from democrats and many republicans that the president will use the memo as a pretense for firing miller or Deputy Attorney general rob rosenstein. Trunk up President Donald Trump has withdrawn his nomination as Kathleen Hartnett white last october. She failed to gain the support of democrats and even some republicans because of her anticlimate change views and her apparent lack of scientific knowledge. The council was created in the 1970s to coordinate environmental policy for governmental agencies. Critics believe she would have used the office to dismantle environmental law. Doctors are calling this flu season the worst in a decade. California saw 30 flu deaths this week. The week before that, 23 were reported. 30 deaths reported last week all involved people aged 64 or younger. The number sounds grim but Health Officials say flu activity is decreasing and it is not too late to get a flu shot. A San Jose Police man searching for clues after a man was shot and wounded while washing his car. Police say three people came up to the victim and one man a shot him. The group took off and the victim called police. Dozens of people gathered today to sign a petition in support of a San Francisco teacher who was under investigation. The group came to Saint Anthony church in the Mission District where andres tovar is a member of the congregation. Tovar is a teacher at marshall elementary who is accused of holding a student over a second story balcony at the school this year. Several of tovars former students signed a petition to show their support for him. Many say the allegations against him seem out of character. One former student described him as a dedicated teacher who taught her how to read and write. He took his time during recess, during lunch, after school. He was like a father figure to me. Tovar was arrested for felony child endangerment and abuse. He is now on leave during the investigation. Drivers on the ritz in san rafael dredge my see something different. Transit officials will begin testing new overhead message signs. The signs will only show a series of dots during the test. The new signs are part of the changes to the bridge coming up, a new pentagon report on Nuclear Weapons drawing criticism from democrats. Imagine hopping on a plane to get to work. A new company that wants to create an air taxi service. The pentagon has unveiled a new Nuclear Weapon strategy. It does not call for and co increase in Nuclear Weapons but it does toughen the less stance against russian and russia and north korea. The new Nuclear Posture review unveiled by the Trump Administration takes a stronger stance against russia. It must be clear to the russians that any threat of an attack nonus allies would come at a dire cost. It also endorses following existing armscontrol agreements including the new start treaty that limits the two countries to 700 diploid launchers and 1550 Strategic Nuclear warheads. The deadline for that is monday. The u. S. Says it has met the limit since last august and wants to make sure the russians are in compliance. The review mostly follows the strategy laid out by the obama administration, including modernizing the nuclear arsenal. The review recommends adding more summary and launch Nuclear Submarine launched capable capabilities. As part of our defense, we must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal. Hopefully we will never have to use it. We need to make it so strong and so powerful that it will deter any acts of aggression. Reporter nancy pelosi lashed out against the new review. She warned President Donald Trump is pushing a stunning reversal of our nations long standing commitment to advance a nuclear free future. Pelosi also warned the new posture would ramp up warhead production and threaten millions of lives. We are just a few days from the start of the 2018 winter Olympic Games but the head of the International Olympic committee was focused on gymnastics which is a sport in the summer games. Thomas bock of germany opened his first News Conference in south korea by saying the entire olympic board is a shocked by the us Sexual Abuse Scandal involving larry nassar. He also said the board supports all of the victims and applauds their courage for testifying against a nassar who has been sentenced to what amounts to life in prison. The games opening ceremonies are on friday. A new report says there are 9000 massage parlors across the country being used as fronts for human sex trafficking including several hundred in the bay area. The antihuman Trafficking Organization says more than one third of those illegal massage parlors are here in california and nationwide they make up 2. 5 billion a year in business. The report says San Francisco is one of three main port cities where the victims are exploited from china and south korea. It also says there are 400 of these massage parlors in San Francisco three years ago but more than 100 of them have closed after recent crackdowns. The ongoing legal dispute between uber mac and a self driving Company Owned by googles Parent Company is set to go to trial tomorrow. This dispute centers on an engineer used work for whammo and now works for uber. Whammo claims uber stole trade secrets. Whammo is seeking 2 billion in damages. Jurors were selected last week and Opening Statements get underway tomorrow morning in the San Francisco. A Santa Cruz County Company Wants to hire 100 engineers to help it create an air taxi service. The company is creating the next generation of transportation. Right now, the company is focused on a two seat aircraft with 12 tilting, electric propellers. He says the taxi could make the trip from palo alto to San Francisco in less than 10 minutes and claims it would cost less than 60 which is what uber charges. People who live in palo alto are on alert right now after two Mountain Lion sightings were reported last night. The first big cat was spotted around 10 pm as a woman drove down wildwood lane. Then, another woman who was out for an evening walk on federal avenue also saw a Mountain Lion. Those two streets are a mile and a half away from each other. Police are not sure if it was the same Mountain Lion or two different sightings. Parking reservations will be needed for people visiting yosemite for the annual fire fall late show. During mid to late february, Horsetail Falls takes on this fiery orange glow at sunset. The phenomenon has been attracting larger crowds each year. Starting this year, the park service will issue 250 free advanced parking reservations per day and 50 firstcome first served reservations. Visitors can also walk to viewing locations or they can take guided tours. Stunning. Temperatures today were in the 70s. Santa rosa airport topped out at 80 degrees. Temperatures are well above the average. It has been a dry weather pattern. We have been locked in this try weather pattern for over a week. We have scattered high clouds approaching the pacific northwest. We have some clouds in the morning but mostly clear skies right now. As we head into monday, take a look at the current numbers. It is still very mild. Santa rosa, 67. Fremont, 70. San jose, 66. Taking a live look outside, we are in the clear for your sunday night. We have been wrapping up a very warm we can. We have no major changes for your monday forecast. A few neighborhoods will be in the upper 60s. Biggest change tomorrow will be a little bit cooler across the area. It looks like temperatures have peaked from the shortterm. Overnight lows will start out the day in the 40s and 50s. The coolest spots will be in the low to mid 40s across santa rosa and napa. In San Francisco tomorrow morning, partly cloudy skies. Into the afternoon hours, more sunshine. Temperatures will be in the upper 60s, maybe touching the 70 degree mark for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be 3 to 5 degrees cooler than today. 40s and 50s to start out the day. Then we show you once again the greens and the yellows. It is a dry weather pattern as this big area of High Pressure moves in. We have some minor day to day changes with temperatures. It is a warm work week ahead into friday. Then we will gradually cool things off. The winds could be increasing out of the northeast monday night into tuesday morning. We are looking for some rainfall. We have expanded the Rain Coverage here. The northwest is picking up the rainfall but not for us. A week out we still see a bunch of zeros. The first half of february looks like it will be completely dry. Temperatures for tomorrow, 60s and 70s. San jose, 73. Santa cruz, 76. Here is a look ahead at your 5 day forecast. Not too much change but a little bit of cool down. The sharks look to finish their four game road trip strong. Sports is next. Hi, were alaska airlines. And we dont just fly lumberjacks to glaciers. We fly all kinds of people all kinds of places. Like App Developers to mexico city. Musically inclined novelists to nashville. And pilates instructors to palm springs. Sure, we love a good glacier. But we also like a little cocoa butter. From the west coast to the world. Alaska airlines. Thats how we fly. End interactive map of San Francisco will let you see what neighborhoods in the city looked like 150 years ago. Thousands of photos from the 1850s through the 1970s were posted on the website. It is part of the western neighborhoods project. You can click on the interactive map on the website to see old photos from specific neighborhoods for free. There are other things going on on super bowl sunday. The San Jose Sharks are streaking in the right direction. San jose and carolina today, the four stop on a five game road trip. The sharks score a goal in the first period. The sharks added to the lead in the second. The sharks win 31. The phoenix open has become the super bowl morning tradition. Shades of caddy shack in todays finalround. It has been all about layoffs and today was no exception. Shaver of a on the sixth hole. This is a birdie. Woodland made nine birdies. They were both 18 underpar at the end of regulation. Woodland, an asu grad would win the tournament. It is the fourth straight tournament that has ended in a playoff. The stand for women are on the road today in stanford women are on the road today in eugene. Kiana williams takes care of the type. Williams had 14 but the big score for stanford was brittany make feed mcphee. Stanford wins 7865 to finish an oregon sweep. No such good fortune for cal at oregon state. A nice play for the bears. Kiana smith with an easy hoop but this game was all oregon state. Katie mcwilliams will drain a quarter three. Oregon state by 20, 6848. We do have the super bowl going on right now which is turning out to be a scoring bonanza. They first just finished the First Quarter and it first half and 3rd quarter. Fly, eagles, fly. Go pats go. Thank you so much for watching. Have a great night. Wow, sheldon, i cannot believe you made up your own game. Oh, research lab is more than a game. Its like the slogan says the physics is theoretical, but the fun is real. We must not be playing it right. 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