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Transcripts For KICU 10 OClock News 20140226

Here tomorrow. Heres storm number one. Heres storm number two. This one gets here tomorrow. You can see the atmosphere moistening up. You can see it right here getting radar returns. Not getting reports that its hitting the ground. All this moisture coming in is going to provide fuel for this storm as it comes in tomorrow. Wednesday at 2 00 a. M. Late tonight after midnight you see showers start to come in. We push forward into the morning commute. At this point you have showers showing up in the north bay up around santa rosa. Light showers as we push into the 10 00 hour the showers thicken up. Oakland starting to get wet. San francisco youre wet at noontime as well. The real push of this storm will be wednesday. Well see you back here. Tonight south bay water customers are being asked to cut back even more not 10 of their water use by 20 . Ken pritchett is live. He found out if recent calls for Water Conservation are actually paying off, ken. Reporter the Santa Clara Valley Water District tonight has voted to set a higher level of water reduction so that can be achieved in Water Conservation. And the numbers are revealing that people in the bay area are conserving more. We had one storm in the bay area this year with more rain on the way. But its too late to prevent calls for water use reduction. Reporter tonight the Water District spoke about water well. San Francisco Puc asks for a 10 reduction. It says customers are clearly conserving more water but the numbers will not be in until next week. Water use is down 17 would compare to a similarly week in february last year. And east bay mud asked for a 10 reduction just a week ago and announced today conservation is already at 4. 3 . We still have a ways to go. We want to get to 10 at least if not more. We think its really a good start. Reporter east bay mud spokeswoman andrea pook says that customers are using less water than they did in the 2010 drought. Its getting water each drought. Because we already have the low flush water toilet or low flush water head or whatever. Reporter customers are cities for example here in the south bay. Its asking those cities to meet that 20 target. And its asking those customers to meet that target by taking mandatory steps if necessary. In san jose, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. Stay with us for continuing coverage at 10 30 what the chp wants you to do to your car tonight ahead of tomorrows rain. Then first thing tomorrow, turn to the ktvu morning team for up to the minute traffic and weather. Bill will be back later in this hour with the complete bay area forecast. New video tonight of a coast guard search for two men after their boat ran aground. It happened around 6 00 tonight. The two men on board were able to get to near by rocks but they didnt know where they were and called for help. It took police less than an hour to call police in a fenced in area. Neither man was injured they were just cold and wet. New at 10 00, patti lee live where a permanent tribute to those officers is about to be dedicated. To mark this first anniversary. The Santa Cruz Police department will be dedicating this garden tomorrow morning. Itll be a private ceremony but just a few hours ago there was a private vigil down the street at city hall. Reporter a Candlelight Service started with a moment of silence followed by song. On february 26 of last year, Santa Cruz Police officer baker and butler were shot and killed by a Sexual Assault suspect after they knocked down his door. I miss my best friend. Hes my hero. Reporter adam baker says time has not healed the hole left from the death of his father. I miss him, we used to call ourselves the three amigos. Its just bringing all those i motions back. Reporter adam baker says the emotional support has been invaluable. The Pivotal Point in my healing process has been all the support and love that everyone has given us. Reporter many in this crowd told us they have never met the honored officers and their families but came to show they cared. Meantime other First Responders say the ceremony was a double edged sword ripping open old wounds by also helping them heal. Seeing the community is always helpful in reminding us what were there for. Reporter you cant see them now but on these two boulders are photos and plaques honoring Sergeant Baker and detective butler. And on this boulder this will tell the story of what happened last february 26th all of this will be uncovered tomorrow morning. And on view for the public after that. Reporting live patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. Now the mother and girlfriend pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering the womans 3yearold daughter. Theyre accused of killing caley fletcher. Putting her body in a freezer. Sarah crougar died. Her boyfriend sat quietly. Outside of court crougars father lashed out at the media. You people have brutalized this case. Hung my daughter and tried her before anything could ever happen. So you know what, go away. Reporter prosecutors have subpoenaed the girls hospital records looking for signs of prior abuse. Theres a new development in the asiana plane crash that killed three people last summer at San Francisco international airport. Today they announced they have fined asiana for failing to communicate with families in a timely manner. The airline took five days to contact with families. This is the first time the agency has issued this type of fine. Asiana flight 214 crashed last july after it clipped the sea wall at the end of the run way while trying to land. Archaeologists plan to take a look at the Construction Side of the new transbay terminal in downtown San Francisco. After the remains of a native american were found there today. Contractors made the discovery this morning 60 feet underground at the construction site on fremont street near mission. The coroner confirmed that the remains belonged to a native american. Now the native American Heritage commission will apoint what is called a most likely descendent to determine whether the remains will remain on be moved construction will not be affected. Buried treasure found by a Northern California couple out walking their dog. As Noelle Walker reports they found hundreds of gold coins from the 19th century in near mint condition. And worth an estimated 10 million. Reporter if these rusted old canisters could tell a story we would all lean in. This is as cool as it gets. Reporter a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow that stretches back to californias gold rush days. A couple walking their dog on their gold Country Property found a can sticking out of the dirt. They weud widdled it out with a stick and dug it out carefully. Just looking at it, it looks like it was minted yesterday. I said just about how many are they . And they said, we found about 1,500 of them. Reporter this coin alone is worth 1 million. I have never seen anything like it in my life and i will never see anything like it again. Reporter kagan wrote the book on gold rush coins. Some of these are finist there is. Its exciting for someone like me. And it isnt just the coins. Ive done this for a long time but its the story. Reporter its a snapshot of our history. A time when putting money in the ground seemed safer than putting it in the bank. In fact, the couple who found these coins pulled a page from history. The first thing they did when they were done organizing the list they buried it again. In tiburon, Noelle Walker, ktvu news. Can you imagine. You can own a piece of history for a price. The coin collection goes in sail in may on amazon. Com and kagans own website goes on sale in may on amazon. Com. Were going to trace the steps this palm tree takes before its rooted in history. Arrested 22 times for the same crime. Have you been arrested before. Millions of times. They always arrest me. Tonight 2 investigates the b. A. R. T. Derailment. We already knew last fridays incident happened at the same site as a 2011 derailment. Now weve obtained the report from that previous derailment. Jana katsuyama read through the type print and asked b. A. R. T. What changes have been made. Reporter 2011 accident investigation reveals similar similarities between the two incidents. Both involve 10 car trains that were not fully loaded but just a light weekend crowd in 2011 and no passenger load last friday. Both derailments happened at a switch point where two sections of tracks cross over just south of the concord b. A. R. T. Station. In both cases it appears the front set of car wheels went one direction while the back set went another. In the 2011 accident report investigators say four factors contributed to the derailment. One was the trains side to Side Movement at the switch point. And they found an unusual groove at the circumference of the wheel. B. A. R. T. Investigated the wheels of 39 cars and found 30 with similar grooves. The grooves were caused by a batch of bits that were purged from the system. That 2011 finding prompted b. A. R. T. To investigate switch points. And the system is now being checked quarterly. We asked a b. A. R. T. Spokesperson if b. A. R. T. Implemented other recommendations and she says b. A. R. T. Did revise ed maintenance standards. Increased inspectors training and hired an outside consultant to recognize improvements. A study that is still ongoing. Also tonight i asked the investigators about the switch point. She told me they were all inspected within the last three month and all of those met those new revised standards. How long do you think it will be before b. A. R. T. Knows the true cause of that derailment. It could be weeks. Were really going to have to wait and see what the investigators find. Now to the south bay where police in san jose have arrested three people for a hit andrun death. 24yearold Andrew Reynoso charged with homicide. The killing happened nine days ago. Alreque was hit on snell avenue. And police say it was not an accident. And that it stemmed from a gang related fight that happened at the flea market. They are looking for a her mercedes with rear damage. Today caltrans responded to criticism saying yes the bridge has its flaws but no bridge is perfect. And we asked the bridges chief engineer about those flaws today. He insists the new span is safe. He says it can withstand an earthquake. Chief engineer ryan malonie told us the new bridge would likely sustain damage in a big quake but it could be repaired and reopened quick. Can you get a fire truck, can you get a water truck. Can you get a flow of people going back and forth to work. So the bay area can rebuild itself . Im confident. Reporter maroney said some bridge critics could have credentials but did not work on the bridge. And tend to use the word could talking about the problems. Tonight were learning more of all the time, money and effort being spent on these trees. Were live after speaking to a homeowner who is selling his palm tree for the bridge landscaping. Reporter that walnut creek man was said to shell out thousands to have that tree removed because it was growing too close to the house. But then he drove across the bay bridge and suddenly he had a better idea. An idea that would allow his problematic palm tree to one day blow in the breeze on the most expensive bridge in the world. That idea is starting to come to life. Contractors were preparing to remove the 20yearold Canary Island palm from the front yard of his home. The homeowner did not want to talk on camera about the bridge selection. But he said receiving 1,000 for the tree is better than the 3,000 they were going to pay to remove the tree. Really best friends of us from england moved here and i think it was 79. We helped them plant those trees. And they were a little smaller than they are now. Reporter before this now 20 foot tree takes its play in the median it will first be checked for disease. It will be put on a truck and make the trek to river side where it will be planted on this waiting yard. Waiting room for the plant to be examined. All of it driving up the cost to each tree to about 10,000. Is there a better alternative . I dont know what other trees were looked at. Again the Landscape Architect thought this was the most appropriate tree for what we wanted to convey and what we wanted to do. Reporter im told a 60ton crane will be brought in. 22 more trees are set to be planted here. Frank and julie the man in charge of finding them. The so called palm tree scout. He told me today he needs more. If you have a tree youre looking to get rid of. Be sure to go to our website ktvu. Com and we have a man that just might pay you for it. Heather holmes. We have two radars working. Were picking up a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. This weather system is going to be here tomorrow it starts today with the clouds. Then tomorrow we might see showers at the bay. You see showers showing up around santa rosa, north of that area. Out by point rays and just offshore. We push forward now to lunchtime and now it really starts to move in. Still pretty dry south of oakland and fremont. But you see the rain moving in after lunchtime and then bang there you go. Its going to be a wet wednesday afternoon commute. Theres more rain offshore as you go into the evening hour. 9 00 it starts to break up a little bit. Your morning commute looks dry for the most part. Afternoon commute you can count it to be wet for the most part. When i come back thats storm number one. I bet storm number two tees up. Well talk about the mountains and the five day forecast with more rain. Well see you back here. Apple released a critical security update today for people who use mac computers. The patch fixes a bug that if left unaddressed could allow hackers to intercept emails and other communications for mac users. Apple issued a similar patch that affects the same vulnerability for the iphone, the i pad and the iphone touch. A north bay slaughter house under criminal investigation. Up next the plant intentionally bought sick cow aepbs one way it tried to mis sick cows and a bay area congressman says federal invest investigators are looking into a meat company tried to deceive the inspections. The slaughter house bought animals with eye cancer and then cut off their heads to make them appear healthy. The Company Recalled 9 Million Pounds of meat. The slaughter house has now voluntarily closed down and in the process of being sold. All too often we hear about people who carry out gun violence. Less often we hear the stories of the innocent victims. Tonight a courageous teenager tells rob roth shes determined to fulfill her dreams despite being paralyzed by a stray bullet nearly three months ago. I kind of didnt know instantly. Reporter romero says through physical therapy and determination shes able to move one leg this much. Its going to take time for me to build up Walking Around with the braces and walker. Reporter shes permanently paralyzed from the waist down but she knows how she could have not been here. I am glad that im paralyzed instead of not being here. Reporter she tell us what happened the night that a bullet went through the wall of her house. It went through the house and hit me here. As the two dove on to the floor dominique felt a sharp pain. I started to scream because i felt something. Then something went wrong with her legs. It felt like they were going to sleep. The feeling went from normal to going to sleep to i completely can cant feel them. I was panicking really bad. I was saying i cant feel my legs. Reporter a few weeks later in the hospital doctors told her she would never walk again. Im still determined to walk. Reporter dominique has recently moved out of richmond to get away from the violence to begin a new phase of life in a new apartment with her boyfriend in sacramento. She has received hope from friend online and donations. She is going to college. It should not stop me or anybody else. They should still do what they want to do. Rob roth, ktvu news. San jose city leaders are considering a new proposal to get firefighters to medical emergencies faster. Today firefighters rushed to get to a biker hit by a truck. Firefighters got there quickly. Earlier this month the county voted to withhold payments. The council is now considering expanding a Pilot Program where a two person medical crew responds to emergency instead of four people. We can get to more medical emergencies faster, much more efficiently than we can with four or five firefighters in a truck or engine. It just makes time and sense. The two person crew is still evaluated but say the four person crew is more effective. Dont be such a killer. Reporter she lost one pet to a poisoned meat ball. Why spotting these treats on we are back on storm watch tonight as the first in a series of wet weather systems is getting ready to move on shore. Ktvus chief meteorologist bill martin says the rain should arrive by midmorning and later in the day we can expect wind gusts of 20 to 30 miles per hour. Ktvus amber lee is live where she has found signs of the approaching storm, amber. Reporter julie were at the Richmond San Rafael bridge which is under a high wind advisory as is the cardenas bridge. Be careful and slow down. The wind advisory went up this afternoon. The rain is expected tomorrow and chp says theres something you can do ahead of time. What were asking people to do is check your vehicles tonight before you head into work tomorrow. Take five minutes, check your tire pressure. Make sure you still have threads on your tire left over. Make sure your windshield wipers are working properly. Reporter this evenings overcast skies and choppy water nearly hinted at what may be in store the next few days. The forecast for rain brought in a steady flow of customers at this ace hardware on university avenue. I think i should probably buy some kind of poncho would be a good idea. When it rains you can say it pours. People started coming in. Its the height that its going to happen they need to start stockpiling now. Reporter all in high demand some in low supply. Marquise monroe brought us to the back room to show us sandbags. Today the san

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