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Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 6 20131219

Children hospital oakland isnt commenting on camera. Only releasing statements that its carrying for the grieving family. Its a sad situation that has brought a lot of people together to pray for mcmath tonight. And at this point, no one knows how much longer this very emotional situation will continue. Reporting live in oakland, jean elie, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jean. Want to give you a live look at the eastern span of the beleaguered bridge. Cal trans announcing those cracked bolts have finally been fixed. What it mean for the safety of the bridge. You may remember back in march, it was discovered that about a third of the bolts of the new eastern span had snapped during nps. That set off all kinds of red flags. Engineers put up temporary shims so the bridge could open on labor day. Caltran officials showed us what the permanent fix looks like. Its called a steel saddle. Its purple on your screen. It replaces the broken rods on the bridge. It also allows the bridge to sway in case of a major earthquake. Retired engineer criticized caltras about the permanent fix. We do agree that the water, the standing water that had been in the holes that the bolts were in would have very well been a factor that led to them break, but our report also identified other factors and were continuing to listen to anyone who comes to talk to us. So caltrans says the bridge is safe. Its safer than the old one. The cost of the permanent fix, 25 million. The life span of the new eastern span, 150 years. Reporting live in oakland, im cheryl herd, nbc bay area news. Thank you, cheryl. Here comes a shift in our weather. Were bracing for a windy night. Lets take you outside. A live look at the san mateo bridge now. Use some caution on the bridges and freeways tonight. Jeff franieri to show us what we can expect. The winds increasing in San Francisco, coming out of the west at 14 miles an hour. Certainly not overgusty at this point. But its a sign of things to come by tonight. 19 in san jose, San Francisco at 26 and san rafael at 31. Thats not very windy, but as we head throughout tomorrows forecast, youre going to see the lower elevations will likely get to 31 in livermore, San Francisco 32 and san rafael at 40. But then wire going to add another layer on this. Traveling throughout the hills in the bay area, up 1,000 feet in the north bay, east bay and south bay. Thats where winds could likely top 50 miles an hour. Were pinpointing some of the highest gusts, at least with this wind advisory, kbpted up in the north bay. That includes the immediate koes line. And then also anyone back towards napa and sonoma, winds up to 50 miles an hour. Well, you can add two new millionaires to the bay area tonight. One we know, the other, though, remains a mystery. A Winning Ticket was purchased right here at jennys gift shop in san jose. That winner has yet to come forward. Counting his own cash, the owner of the store who gets a cut for selling the lucky ticket. And now more people want that luck, to. 1 million for selling that ticket, boy, thats a good return. It certainly is. Especially since hes only had this store four months. All day long, people have been flooding into jennys gift shop to buy a lotto ticket after someone purchased the Winning Ticket here. And now that little piece of paper is worth more than 173 million cash. Dodsens of people crammed into this tiny san jose gift shop today to take pictures with the owner. I wanted to come and man, i wanted to get some of that good luck to rub off on me. Obviously heres znl zjs newest millionaire. One of two mega jackpot tickets were sold here off tully road in san jose zj. That means the owner nguyen woke up a much richer man as well. Im so excited. I won 1 million, too. People are driving from miles away to buy lotto tickets here. After aech sale, nguyen offers customers good luck. Hes convinced it helped the person now holding a ticket worth more than 173 million cash. I say from bottom of my heart. So i think its got to be lucky. The total Mega Millions jackpot amount was 648 million, the second largest jackpot in u. S. History. It will be split between a winner here and one in georgia. Lottery Officials Say those two people are not the only winners. Out of every dollar that you spend on a lottery product, roughly 1 3 goes to California Public schools. The reason why we were created back in 1984 is to supplement Public School funding. So a lot of this money is going to make it back to the classrooms. But for now, the focus for these customers is on buying more lotto tickets. Theyre convinced if one person won a fortune here, then this is the pla is to come for more good fortune. Lotto Officials Say once a winner does come forward, it will take about six to eight weeks before theyll be able to get their cash. But im sure it will be worth the wait. These are the winning numbers. 8, 14, 17, 20, 39, and the mega ball number, 7. Not just san jose, but atlanta, take a look. Heres the other winner. Ira curry, thats her name. She used her familys birthdays to pick her numbers. She bought one ticket and shes opting for the lump sum onetime bayout, 120 million after tacks. The owner for the newsstand, not as lucky as the san jose winner. Theres no Million Dollar bonus. Theres no payout for the retailer who ses the winning tiet. Instead they get 6 of the tickets they sell overall. The owner of the newsstand located in the atlanta suburb of buckhead is 58yearold korean immigrant bonus or not. She says its a Big Christmas present. What do you do after becoming an instant millionaire . Experts say 70 of people who get a big wind fall end up losing it all. Alan hit it big in 2001, winning 141 million jackpot. The castianos played it smart. They went into seclusion for a few days. They hired an attorney, a banking firm, an investor, and a publicist before telling the world they were winners. The advice they gave us on how to handle it was very, very i mean, it was good to hear. Because we dont know. We didnt know how to handle so much money. They are warning new winners to look out for people trying to cash in on their winnings. Today the castianos still give some of their money away to charity through their own foundation. They say their only regret is that they didnt win the lottery when they were 27. Stay with us for continuing coverage. The minute we know something about the Ticket Purchase in san jose and who got it, we will, of course, bring you that information. Still ahead here at 6 00, the new contract trouble for b. A. R. T. No sprinklers and no flushing and already the outlook getting more diefr. What the state is doing to try to solve prices. And the latest band that could be on the table for the city. And 400,000 a year . Local workers making sky high salaries. We investigate some of the highest paid county and city workers an why. Teens joining gangs at a younger age and graffiti. These are challenges being addressed by the task force. Chris sanchez sgroins us live from san jose with more on this report. Hi there. We were there as members of the story Road Business Association told members of the san jose Mayors Gang Prevention Task force that crime in their neighborhood is the worse that its been in years. As you mentioned, the audit for san jose confirms theyre on to something. The septemberment jose romero is decorating a lot more cheerful than what hes seen in his 1 years of business. He says in recent years, sales are down by about half because of gang crime and blight in the neighborhood and theres not much he can do. He says when he confronted a group of 8 and 10yearolds tagging the score next door, they beat him up. This is the worst that i have seen. Four major town Hall Meetings and about 20 focus groups like this one with business associations, patient groups, school 2k3wr50u7 group, even the trauma yau trauma unit. I think a lot of the community is saying that the youth are getting involved yo g youngyoun younger and theyre also asking for interveenntion at a younger age. Enforcement is falling short according to the citys independent auditor. The crime weight went up more than 30 in the last ten years. Arrests decreased by nearly half in five years and the sjpd closed 15 fewer cases than the state and national average. Community leaders say if something doesnt change a generation of children will grow up thinking gangs and crime are normal. If you want to talk about prevention, work with those kids inlement tear school. If those kids after school, they came out in their imagination, they think thats my neighborhood, thats the way it is. And its okay. Its not okay. The san jose mayors preenks task force hopes to prevent for the summer. B. A. R. T. And its unions were back at the bargaining table today. And another complication has popped up. B. A. R. T. Says it discovered a glitch in the contract with one of its smaller unions. It had to do with a start date of a retiree program. B. A. T. And two of its largest unions are meeting tomorrow. They say language was accidentally included in a contract approved by the unions. We all know there are plenty of skyhigh salaries in the city and you would those to be paid by private companies. Not by you, the taxpayer. The president earns 400,000 a year. Not bad, but not as good as what some city and county workers in california are making. According to new figures from the state controllers office, more than 100 city and county workers statewide earned more than the president last year. Thats up from 68 in 2011. The biggest paycheck went to an Orthopedic Surgeon who made more than 1 million. The highest paid city worker was the city manager of buena park in southern california, who took home 545,000. In the bay area some of the highest paid workers were a city attorney, 465,000, a county administrator who took home almost 464,000, a fire cheer, 461,000, and a fire chief, 416,000. Anytime theres a highly compensated vinl, you have to ask whether or not that person is appropriately compensated. The Government Watchdog Group common cause says its not just basalry, bonuses and overtime also say a lot about how your money is being managed. When overtime starts to exceed your own base pay, then you have to ask whether or not the city is making good snumt jumts. We found many of the top overtime earners were right in the bay area. A San Francisco fire lieutenant pulls in 260,000 of overtime on top of his 128,000 basalry. A Police Officer made 206,000, adding to his 98,000 base pay. And a mui worker earned 146,000 in overtime, along with his 11 1,000 basalry. One of the biggest payouts in bonus also came from mni with a transit manager being paid 200,000, adding to a 98,000 basalry. What it says to me is that these compensation levels are rising and theyre rising unchecked. Citizens are not calling foul. 50 she says examining public salaries is one way to prevent cities from heading towards bankruptcy. If you think back to stockton and valejo, they werent having these conversations before. These compensation levels are unsustainable. Emergency services are responsible for the lions share. But in santa clara, we found the most overtime was paid to electric utility work es, 2. 8 million last year. Thats more than the 2. 3 million paid to police, fire and all other city workers combined. A when the overtime exceeds the base pay, thats a bit of a red flag. Perhaps the time of the this workers is not being managed well. Whats your response to that . Having a lot of overtime is servely not sustainable. Manager larry owens says overtime has been high over the past two years because of a boom in development, including the new niners stadium. But he says his department is trying to hire more workers to reduce overtime. Adding you can its the rate payers who cover salary costs. I firmly believe that santa clara and silicon power is doing the best sthek to meet the demands of customers and continue to provide safe and reliable power. Meanwhile, government watchdogs say its important for public agencies to balance their promises to workers with fiscal responsibility for taxpayers. The attention that people are now giving to public compensation is an important one. It allows us too gauge what the public is willing to spend for good talent and what might be crossing the line. The figures dont cover retirement or benefit. 888996tips. Or accepted us an email to the unit at nbcbayarea. Com. The latest number the on the wildfire burning south of us in big sur. The fire started monday as you well know. In the Los Padres National forest. Its already burned 840 acres and destroyed 22 homes. About 900 men and women are fighting this fire, including a strike team from here in the bay area. The fire is 74 contained at this hour. Crews hope to have this wildfire under control hopefully by friday. No word on how this started. Lets turn it over to jeff ranieri. How are things turning for us now. A lot better. We have a cold front across california. Its doing well enough to stir up the atmosphere. We cant rule out a stray shower tonight. Also for tomorrow, you may need those wind shield wipers again. Wind advisory in effect all the way through 6 00 p. M. Through the hills, above 1,000 feet. Well have more on that in a minute. Temperatures averaging in the 50s here all across the bay. Gustiest at the coastline. Increasing wind in San Francisco and less haze right now in the south bay at this point. Lets look at where were gong to average through tomorrow. Were going to be generally in the upper 50s to about 60 with a mix of sun and clouds. Lets break it down a little bit further. Your forecast hour by hour. 7 00 a. M. In the south bay, some low 40s, nice start for us. Through the noon hour, youll get plenty of sunshine. The winds are really going to help scour out any kind of cloud cover. scenario in the peninsula. By 5 00 p. M. , 55 degrees. San francisco also starting off with mid 40s. And then sunny skies as we head throughout the afternoon at this point. Northbound, east bay and tri valley, some low 30s. Then for the east bay, temperatures right around 40 degrees. Lets take us to that other equation. Thats the wind. I9 does look gustiest as we head throughout thursdays forecast. Winds topping 45 miles an hour. In those hills above 1,000 feet. But the wind event is not going to last too long. As we head through friday, saturday and sunday, the wind starts to decrease. And heres the good news in the forecast. By thursday, with that 45 miles an hour wind gust expected, that tick a look at the air al qaeda pi. Ten days of poor air quality, everybody is expected at the good levels as we head throughout tomorrow, its almost hard to make the bar graph. I had to lower it so much. Great, good news. We can breathe easily. Thanks, jeff. Still ahead here at 6 00, it was a hoax with real consequences. A viral story that brought police to a bay area school. And changing the way the government spies on us. Today, recommendations announced for the nsas snooping program. And wall street soars. Well tell you why the dow hit a record high today. Thats coming up in world tonight. Thieves made a big withdrawal from an atm. In fact, they took the entire atm. They used a chain foul the atm right out of the ground. It happened in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. Thieves put the atm into a van and drove off with it. Police managed to chase the thieves but they managed to esca escape. Officers then found the van used with the atm side. It was stolen from an area in the south bay. San francisco is examining a ban on plastic water bottles. The ordinance would be one of the tough estebest bands in the country. The ordinance would cover the sail and distribution of bottled water, 21 fluid ounces or less on all city property. The plan is to phase it in northeast next year and require all events to comply by 2016. Still ahead at 6 00, the trouble at target for shoppers. Plus im scott budman, its christmas carrolling with a high tech twist. Coming up, the Company Making music with their mobile devices. Dont stop it, just change it. Thats the recommendation on the nsa spying program. President obama ordered an independent panel just days after former nsa contractor Edward Snowden leaked the contract in june. Today, the panel released 46 recommendations, most most of them calling for more oversight. The nsa can look at phone data but not store the data. And if they want more information on a specific phone number, it needs a court order. Also spying on Foreign Countries is fine, sings we all do it to each other, but the reasons why should be much tougher and agreed upon. President obama will review these recommendations and make a decision in january on what to keep or reject. It will soon be official. This afternoon, the Senate Passed a budget that will prevent another government shut down for two years. The bipartisan agreement will increase funding with the pentagon. But there will be no more unemployment extensions in rein federal workers will have to pay more into the pension. Wall street scored on other economic news. The Federal Reserve announced its scale back on the amount of money its paying into the economy. Ben bernanke says he believes its because the economy is improving. The aircraft of the future is coming. And coming fast. The faa says it will pick six locations by the end of this year to test the safety of commercial drones. Companies want to use the unmanned flying devices on everything from shooting movies to roofing inspections to delivering online goods the faa is also working on regulation which include air safety and privacy. Today, the white house is officially commenting on its announcement of the olympics delegations. The white house says president obama just doesnt have time to travel to sochi, but it appears to be a snub to russia because of its antigay laws. Instead, the white house is sending two openly gay athletes, Billie Jean King and hockey star kaitlyn kahow. Soo i think that wribrings t diversity of the United States as well as the success the United States has ha

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