Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 5 20150302 : compa

Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 5 20150302

A fwhom the east bay. The victim was flown to the hospital and is being treated there. Police say the 40yearold wam woman as attacked hours ago on civil raddo drive and suffered serious wounds to her face arms and legs. She was transported via helicopter to the Trauma Center in walnut creek. The dog has been described as the family fete and has been captured. We have a crew at the scene. Well bring you the latest in a live report at 6 00. This just in new clues after a man allegedly exposes himself to a girl in paltdo. Look at this sketch given to us by the palleta police department. Officers say an 11yearold girl was walking her dog when she noticed the man following her in his car. He was naked and touching himself at the time. The girl ran home. Police are checking into whether this man is the same as involved in four other incidents beginning in october. A water main break was reported at 8 30 this morning in roanoke. Web san jose avenue was closed while clean35 9 up was taken. There are no customers impacted at this time. There was low water pressure earlier this morning but thats all been resolved for the customers. San jose avenue opened up again at noon. The cause of the break is under investigation. A car chase and a Police Shootout in arizona leads to askpreft a bay area murder case. Police believe the suspects were involved the death of an 84yearold woman. She was discovered in her pen grove home in petaluma on friday. The suspects refused to pull over when they were spotted. One suspect opened fire and was shot and killed by police. The second suspect surrendered. Also on friday Police Arrested a third suspect in rich monds. A 20,000 reward is being offered in connection with a shooting that killed a 14yearold boy. Police say the victim was walking with friends in the freud vale neighborhood just before 8 00 last night when someone shot him. The chief called the shooting senseless. In a Statement Released this afternoon, it read in part a Violent Crime is tragic. When the victim is a child its even more so. The chief says his department will do Everything Possible to track down the shooter. A growing memorial at the scene of a dadly hit and ran in san jose. Vladimir vargas died in the crash. Police say it was the result of a drag race between suspected gang members. One car hit a light pole. The impact ejected three passengers. One of them was vargas who died at the scene. Three hikers recovering tonight after one of them took a dangerous tumble off a cliff. Look at this. The rescue took place at Point Reyes National sea shore park in marin county. The first hiker fell 80 feet down into the water. Two Good Samaritans swam out to save the man but the high surf stranded all three of them on the rocks. A chp helicopter brought them back to dry ground. A weekend of fresh snowfall in the sierra made for happy people. Seers and snowboarders took advantage of todays clear skies and fresh powder. The many businesses that need to snow to survive were all smiles today. We have a sugar bowl ski resort story. Reporter this weekends storm brought two feet of snow on the summit at sugar bowl. And that brought a lot of happy skiers and snowboard toes this mountain. Everybody smiles on the slope. Winter is back, right . Weve finally got some snow. Its time to get out and enjoy it. Reporter with clear skies above and fresh snow on the grounds today was expected to be one of the best days to hit the slopes in a very long time. This is my second winter here. Ive been waiting for a day like this. Yesterday was amazing. Ive never been here. So i wanted to come check out out today. Reporter all this snow isnt just good for the skiers and snowboarders. Its great for businesses in this area as well. Here at sugar bowl they are able to open new lifts and bring on some seasonal employees. The cold temperatures and new snowpack also allow them to make and keep more of the powder for longer period of time. So according to brennan best this beautiful start to the month of march could be the sign of a great spring ski season ahead. Should be some good skiing here in march. Hopefully that goes right into april and we get to stay open for a couple more months here. Reporter Christian Sim owes. We hope thats true because it looks fantastic. They are hoping it goes march to april, to may, and maybe early june. Hope it does too, because i havent been yet. Now is the time to go. Even after the rain in december the storms that came in were warm. So it was a refreshing chair change to see snow levels down to 4,000 feet as we had fresh powder coming down. Not the sierra cement we sometimes see. Two feet of fresh pould powder at sugar bowl. All the others at least a foot of snow. More still falling for areas south of highway 50 tonight. A few snow showers right now. But most of the action beginning to shut down as we await the next weather system thats going to drop down the coast. Today the only showers were around morgan hill. Most of the showers staying in the hills today. Yesterday more of the active weather is now further to the south, Southern California and south of gilroy. Thats the story as we ped into tonight. A few clouds out there. Breezy at times. Clear skies until midnight. Waking up tomorrow morning, increasing clouds which sets the stage for another chance of seeing showers and possibly afternoon thunder as a similar pattern sets up cold air with low pressure coming down the coast during the day tomorrow. Well let you know how much we expect out of that system coming up in the forecast. Happening now, headaches for travelers because of a storm back east that has grounded flights at jfk. The northeast and the midwest are being hit with a wintry mess of ice and snow right now. Look at this video from virginia where you can see its causing a lot of trouble for drivers there. Slick roads. Because of the storm 18 flights have been played from sfo, among those affected katie dooric. She tweeted out a picture of herself, camped out at sfo earlier today, along with the hashtag, stock up on essentials. I never run into katie when im at the airplane. She was available this morning, apparently. Coming up next at 5 00 sticker shock at that time pump. What bay area drivers can expect to pay for gas after another jump. Also success in space. The work that astronauts completed today after a scare earlier this week. A fight over Homeland Security funding has turned into a battles among House Republicans on capitol hill. Funding scheduled to run out on friday. Nbcs brian moore has the latest on the fight between the House Speaker and his own party. Reporter a late friday vote in the house bought Congress Another week to fight over funding the department of Homeland Security. It also gives House Speaker john boehner is chance the beat back a revolt within his own party. We have moems members who disagree from time to time over the tactics we decide to employ. Remember, republicans are united in this idea that the president has far exceeded his constitutional authority. Reporter a few dozen of the most conservative house members are outraged the speaker isnt fighting harder to oppose the president s unilateral imflaigs grags reform and are threatening to go offer boehners job if he negotiates with the the democrats. I would encourage anybody who zbreezs illegal act on immigration like i do light up the Senate Switchboard between now and monday evening when they make that vote. Reporter with the paychecks of 230,000 dhs workers on the line not all republicans are ready to go to the brink. They have no concept of rmt. Listen, i am as opposed to the immigration act as they are, but the fact is its essential that we fund the department of Homeland Security. Reporter a congress countdown clock resets but still ticking down. Democrats have given their answer, no compromise arc clean funding bill from the house or no deal. Brian moore, nbc news washington. Practice makes perfect. American astronauts have completed their third space walk in a little over weeks. For thesecond time one of the astronauts had a bit of water in his helmet. Scientists say its because of condensation due to repressurize igs of the air lock. Astronaut called it no big deal. This month marks 50 years since the first space walk by the soviets. They beat the u. S. By two months. Any other questions. You covered it on the depressurization. Still to come, is it a game changer . How a local company is providing Breast Cancer patients a new way to extend their live. Plus a south bay Nonprofit Organization thats growing fast. The groups unconvational approach to charity will make you bay area proud. Lifes running out of shaving stuff. And thankfully being able to find backups. Lifes running out of shaving stuff. And thankfully being able to find backups. It was a good ride while it lasted. But relief at the gas pump is over. Gas prices shot up significantly last month in california. They jumped again last night. Another five to six cents a gallon in the bay area n. San jose the average price per gallon is 3. 35. San francisco, 3. 42. Higher crude oil prices and a more expensive Spring Summer blends of gas, two of the reasons they are giving for higher prices. The Spring Summer blend, always prizier. A hand up not a hand out. Many people leave believe that the best way to help out the needy is to actually teach them to help themselves. How do you do that . One south bay nonprofit believes it has a successful working model. One thats growing fast. Garvin thomas has todays bay area proud. Reporter janice as you will learn in a moment started sunday friends 18 years ago. But three years ago the nonprofit hired a sfl successful tech executive to take over. Their budget has grown fivefold in that time. And they think the community they are creating others will want to be a part of. Yes, i interact with the kids. I ask them all what are you doing this summer. Reporter a funny thing about trying to teach someone a lesson. If they say nothing, i dont know is that every once in a while you learn one yourself. This year i want to turn that around. Reporter it happened to janice 18 years ago when a lesson she hoped to teach her children revealed to her a new way to help those in need of a hand. Something she now calls sunday friends. Its a combination of learning and service. You know all interwoven together. Reporter it was in 1997 that janice a life long volunteer, took her three teens to a local homeless shelter to teach them about giving back. Janice and her kids tried engaging the Homeless Children with games and crafts with limited success. But then looking around the trashfilled property janice had an idea. I turned to the child next to me and i said ill give you a sticker for each ten piece of trash you pick up. I must have been overheard because immediately all these kids came running. And they wanted to know how many piece does we have to pick up to earn a whole sheet of stickers . That was the formative moment. That was birth of sunday friends. Reporter what was born then has not stopped growing. Now at three san jose locates, sunday friends works with hundreds of lowincome families a year. The stickers now gone replaced by tickets. Parents and their children earn the tickets any number of ways, participating in classes, writing letters of thanks to donors working on projects that benefit other nonprofits. The list goes on. At the end of the day, those tickets are redeemible in the store for the things families both need and want. The secret to all of this is that while earning, the families are learning about parenting, about health and perhaps most importantly, self reliance. We Work Together side by side as equals to give back to the community. So there is that sense of respect. We dont praise them for doing well. We thank them for contributing. We are not just impacting low income. We also impacting volunteers. Reporter for 25 years, ali was a silicone valley tech executive. He learned about sunday friends after his son volunteered here and three years ago took over as executive director with big plans. If this program is good for this community, its got to be good for other communities. Reporter and once they do try it the sunday friends believe they will learn the lesson janice learned long ago, that the best kind of charity isnt actually charity at all. When ali took over as executive director of sunday friends a knew years ago their budget was in the area of 200,000. They are now operating with a 1 million budget and looking to keep growing. Garvin thomas nbc bay area news. Great to see. He finds the stories. He does, yes. And garvin loves to hear about them. You can always send him ideas. He loves to hear from people. Meteorologists join us now with the micro climate forecast. Nothing but sunshine. But picturesque clouds in the south bay. Towards mount hamilton. San francisco cloudfree. A big difference from yesterday when we had thunderstorms rolling across the bay at this hour. 59 right now in sfrak. Oakland, the camera is bouncing with the winds picking up. San jose looking off towards the east big clouds building. 61 degrees. As we take a radar and scan underneath that cloud what you have is a little bit of rain building down. The clouds build rapidly, but then they drift away from the base and once the updraft begins to collapse you are not looking at much in the way of showers with this particular other than on the east side highway 101 around morgan hill. Todays active weather has been from monterey south to is Central Coast and Southern California. As this system moves towards nevada, we wont worry about it anymore. But there is another system dropping in tomorrow that could bring us more showers especially around the hills of the south bay tomorrow. In the morning, clouds on the increase. Around midday the chance of showers increase as the cooler air arrives. The low is off to our west. The opportunity for seeing showers probably highest from noon to about 3 00. Well see temperatures mostly in the 60s around the bay area. Well see partly cloudy skies in the morning and increasing at the hill tops during the afternoon. As the system goes on by we will he see the slight risk of thunder in the mix, too, for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the coolest day of the week, and probably the only chance for rain for quite some time. Highs in the mid 60s around san jose and San Francisco into the north bay. Low to mid 60s. And for the trivalley, highs in the low 60s. As the system moves on you will see High Pressure building in tuesday into wednesday. Then those temperatures really climb. Thursday into friday, highs in the 70s. And we could stay try for a while as this high builds in this weekend. This is going to put us in a spring like pattern. Notice the storms staying way off to the north. Next chance for rain at this point in the long rain forecast not until march 10th. The following tuesday of the following week. If u. K. You are making plans for the week, looks good. Low clouds. Back to you. Week from tuesday. Keep it in mine. Thanks, rob. Still ahead arc breakthrough in the fight against Breast Cancer. Its heaping right here in the bay area. A new therapy thats giving patients an extra shot at survival. Lowes presents how to use the greek gods to update your deck. Wow, i cant believe you did this deck yourself. Well me, lowes and zeus and apollo. Now get 10 off instock composite decking at lowes. They certainly dont use this term loosely, a breakthrough in the fight against Breast Cancer. A new therapy developed here in the bay area is said to be prolonging the lives of patients for more than 16 months. Doctors say it is unprecedentsed. Ian cole. Reporter Michele Avery was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in september, 2013. Doctors told her it was aggressive and spreading quickly. I had cancer all through my spine, and my kiphip bones, and i had liver lesions. Reporter her doctors elected for a treatment found to be successful in women with incurable her 2 Breast Cancer. That includes one fifth of Breast Cancer patients. Avery was overwhelmed. Then to learn, okay, for the relevant of your life you are going to every three weeks going to have to do these enfusion us. I thought oh, my god, who could do that. But its okay. Reporter instead of using just chemotherapy, doctors added two more drugs. When this method was tested in Clinical Trials, it expanded the patients average Life Expectancy by more than a year. This is the kind of discovery thats unprecedented. We just dont see anything like this. Reporter uncommon because most breakthroughs have only added a few months to Life Expectancy. The study also found that patients given the cocktail of drugs lived five years compared to two to three years. There are women treated with this therapy who will never relapse. Their disease will be controlled forever. In other words, an incurable disease in some patients will become curable. Reporter both the drugs were developed at genentech, they point out the therapy isnt knew to most doctors but the Clinical Trial showing its effectiveness is. The findings were recently published in the new england journal of medicine. The study it self is really the result of many years of research here. In fact, about 30 years. In really trying to understand what drives a subset of Breast Cancer. Reporter the drugs may not be for everybody. Cost about 11,000 a month. Insurance companies cover some patients and genentech also has a program to help people who cant afford it. For Michele Avery,

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