learned about the deal.. yo neighborhood store.. and mo >> live from the cbs bay area studios. this is kpix5 news. safeway. it is being sold. tonight, what we just learned about the deal, your neighborhood store and more importantly, your grocery bill. >> betty yu tells us what is going on. >> reporter: customers should see lower prices and some stores may even be remodeled, but some experts are not so convinced. safeway is hooking up with albertsons. not because it wants to, but because it has to. >> safeway is pushed in the middle. >> reporter: santa clara university expert says this $9 billion deal was inevitable. safeway features growing competitions from wal-mart and whole foods and trader joes. >> it is not your number one destination. it doesn't have a brand. it is the other store you go to to kind of get what you didn't get anywhere else. >> reporter: albertson's parent company claims this consolidation will mean lower prices and better customer services and it doesn't expect to close any safeway stores. >> there will be closed st oars. there will be jobs lost. >> reporter: if that's the case, the traditional shopping center landscape could also change. >> safeway has been here a long time. and i think a lot of people would be affected. >> reporter: it is too early to say whether chris lahy who owns mission city creamery in santa clara should be nervous. some shoppers say if their go- to safeway disappears, they know they have plenty of options. >> i shop here because it is close to my house. if i had a choice, i would go some place else. >> where would that be? >> wal-mart. >> reporter: the combined company headquarters will be in idaho where albertsons is based. safeway ceo will stay on as ceo of this merge company. he said he had no immediate plans to make any changes at its pleasantton corporate officesful live in santa clara, betty yu, kpix5. >> safeway agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit that it overcharged customers. san jose stopped the camp stop won't stop bandits. they are accused of holding up 20 small stores in san jose. check this out. one of them fired shots of the ceiling of one store to show everyone he meant business. >> across the highway, he is moving toward the department building. >> reporter: chopper video shows the cops chasing the suspects. an officer spotted one of them as he left the store and hopped in a get away car. jesus beltran is behind bars. we are getting a look at the corner store the feds busted for selling not just beer and wine, but meth and cocaine. andria borba is in front of the place now. >> reporter: well the feds say this store was where they have been pumping drugs into the bay area for years. one man told me eight years ago, he was buying cocaine across the meat counter here. with a chain link and lock on the front door, it looks like it will be closed for some time. >> it sure is a mess in there. >> reporter: peering through the window, you can see a store tossed by the feds. >> the fbi, they came yesterday out here. yeah. i don't know what happened. >> reporter: agents were hunting for drugs. specifically meth and cocaine. they looked everywhere including in piñatas and underneath the vegetables. the store and three people were under surveillance and unwittingly involved in undercover deals with agents for a year now. >> alfredo doesn't mess around like that, but it is his store, so responsibility lies in his lap. >> reporter: the trio is connected to the caballeros cartel in mexico and the store was a front for their operations. >> i never saw people shopping there. i saw people hanging out at the register. but i never actually saw anyone shopping there. >> reporter: during searching that happened at the same time in san rafael, daley city, san pablo, and hercules, they collected three pounds of cocaine, 11 weapons, and meth. >> that is my little shopping place to go get food. and the thing that just absolutely amazing me is they are like family. they have just been gentlemen. >> reporter: in san rafael, andria borba, kpix5. >> all the suspects were arraigned in federal court in san francisco today. tonight, people in dublin are saying enough already. dublin has seen a rise in home burglaries this past monday. an 80-year-old was tied up and robbed. police and the mayor held a community meeting to talk about what they should do. dublin police tell us they are close to making an arrest in monday's break in. just a few hours ago, the oakland mayor gave her city speech. >> we have had four new police academies. they have been the most diverse in history. the most garage ration rates. >> she talked about the fight against crime and noted that california realtors named oakland as the top turn around city in the state. tonight, we took a poll and found oaklanders don't think things are as rosy as the mayor says they are. kpix5 survey poll says about 24% of people living in oakland approve of the job that she is doing. there is now a lawsuit over a horrific sky living accident that was caught on video. the san francisco man who took the video says the parachute was defected and he is suing the company that provided it for the jump. the chute opened early causing him to pass out in midair. he landed face down. wound up unconscious in the hospital for two weeks with massive head trauma and broken bones. tonight, the google barge is in stockton. it left treasure island under the cover of darkness. they had to stop work on the project because they didn't have the permits for the bay. it was sent 80 miles deep into the delta. stock ton welcomed the barge with open bars. work on the barge will resume. a live look at the bay bridge. lights are shining brightly again after a short blackout. did you miss it? that is what the creator was hoping. the lights went out about ten minutes tonight. this is the one-year anniversary of the art installation. there is a fund raising campaign to keep them going another ten years. the crisis is heating up in ukraine. crimea has voted to break away and join russia. the united states and european union have sanctioned moscow. president obama called the move a violation of international law. he called putin and urged him to come up with a peaceful solution. crimea is blocking seven ukrainian naval ships but some of the fleet may have escaped before russia sealed tough waters. a story of secrecy. we are hears about who the creator of the mysterious bit coin is. >> reporter: the man news week reports is the founder of bit coin is the high-tech kind city of the future says they got the story wrong. he is not the founder of bit coin and has nothing to do with it. >> i had nothing to do with bit coin. i never worked for the company, i don't know any people there. never had a contract there or anything like that. i wasn't even aware of the product. >> do you think that your name became involved because you created sort of the code maybe or the concept? >> i never created a code. i never created a concept. i just believe that somebody ... it could have been designed this way to put my name in there. nakamoto is not a common name, but it is also not uncommon. >> reporter: outside his home, he did not deny he would be capable of understanding the computer code necessary to build such a project though it wasn't him. >> if i say yes, i could get in trouble. all right? so i will say no. all right? i was an engineer before, but that was many years ago. >> reporter: and tonight, news week says it is standing by its story. five bay area women murdered. their killer has never been caught. but tonight, the fbi just got a big break. this guy gambled away half a million bucks in vegas. tonight, he is trying to get the casino to pay him and he just might have a case. these are the hands a pediatrician. these are pioneering advances in heart surgery. and these are developing groundbreaking treatments for cancer. they're the hands of the nation's top doctors. kaiser permanente doctors. and though they are all different, they work together on a single mission: saving lives. discover how we are advancing medicine at kp.org join us, and thrive. joe vazquez on the hunt for ki >> the gypsy hill murders have gone unsolved almost 30 years. now there is newived. joe vasquez on the hunt for a killer. joe? >> reporter: this series of murders is sered into the consciousness of the people who lived here. we are hearing from the reno police department it was dna evidence collected on the scene of a murder there back in 1976 that now appears to be connected to five murders here. read through the old browning clippings and you can piece together the story. michelle mitchell was driving her bug when it broke down. her body was found in a nearby house. her hands tied and her throat slit. >> the crimes were all very similar. >> reporter: now the fbi is saying they have new evidence linking the killer in that unsolved murder case to five female murders killed in the same time cross-claim. they were all brunettes with their hair parted down the middle. all stabbed to death. they are named the gypsy hill murders. starting this week, a team of police and federal agents will fan out and begin knocking on doors near all of the murder scenes hoping this new information will shake loose old clues. >> potentially an individual that lived in the area, that traveled to reno. back and fourth, had business there. mentioned that he orache was going there. we are just trying to jog people's memories. >> reporter: in the case of the reno murder, there is now an interesting twist. a woman named cathy woods confessed and is serving a live sentence. the dna is not hers. but, investigators say that doesn't exonerate her. there is other evidence according to a prosecutor that worked the case back then including a man's footprints. >> there is new evidence and there is old evidence and i was always of the opinion there were two people involved. >> now joe, the fbi is sort of being careful with how it describes the suspect right? >> they are careful not to use the term serial killer but this fits the definition. basically anybody's definition of a serial killing incolliding their own definition on the website. anything more than three murders. here is the point. as they are trying to jog people's memories from 38 memories, they want people to keep an open mind and not think about a preconceived notion of what a seral killer might look like. >> thank you joe. the meat from a petaluma company was distributed nationwide. we know it was sold to retailers in 35 states, plus guam. safeway, walgreens, wal-mart, 7/11, just some of the chains involved. rancho feeding corporation in petaluma shut down last month. they are accused of selling meat of cows with eye cancer. they have a full list of the recalled products on the website. kpix.com. explosive new allegations out of the pentagon. an army lawyer accused of doing what he trains others not to do. >> lieutenant colonel joseph morris was one of the top prosecutors. he led the case in robert bails who pled guilty to the murder of 16 afghan civilians. he was in charge of the special victims prosecutors. the lawyers who prosecute sexual assault, domestic abuse, and crimes against children. he is now suspended from his job buzz a female lawyer alleged in 2011, he tried to kiss and grope her in a hotel room during a legal conference, on of all things, sexual assault. the investigation is not complete, and so far, no charges have been brought. norris has made no comment. the case sounds similar to that of lieutenant colonel jeffrey kruzensky. he was charged with groping a woman outside a nightclub last year. he was tried in civilian court and acquitted. he is still in the air force, but officials think he will be forced to retire. >> reporter: whatever the outcome, it will feed the perception that when it comes to sexual assault, the military can't get anything right. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> last year, there were 5400 reports of sexual assault in the military. a southern california man say is what happened in vegas was not his fault. he is suing the casino after he gambled away half a million dollars. the lawsuit claims the downtown grand loaned him money and kept serving him drinks. when he was black-out drunk. that is against nevada law. he gambled for 17 hours straight, had at least 20 drinks. >> i take full responsibility for getting intoxicated. to a black out state? no. i blame that on them. and letting me gamble and drink, i blame that on them. >> the man wants his debt forgiven. he is also seeking damages from the grand for hurting his reputation. nevada gaming commission is investigating. the casino is not commenting. >> how many other people have a similar situation after leaving a casino like that? >> yeah. >> well a lot of people lose. >> exactly. all right, yes. >> we are winning weather wise. today it was beautiful. >> yeah, we are getting some good cards. it is five of a kind every five day forecast. we have seen a change and we are beginning to revert back to the drier stuff. but there is one more rain chance to talk about. tonight, thursday night, friday morning, we will be rain free, not fog free, this is a live look outside at san jose. we will have widespread fog along the coast and likely in the north bay and many areas around the area. we are looking and not seeing anything, but 24 hours ago, what a different story. we had thunder, lightning, heavy rainfall in shots. it is much calmer tonight. without the blanket of cloud cover, it is cooler. we will drop down to the 40s for the first time in a week. 48 in oakland, 41 santa rosa. with fog in san francisco, 49 degrees. you are setting your clocks ahead one hour in n week. we are springing forward. don't forget, saturday night, you lose an hour of sleep. clocks go ahead one hour and check the batteries in your smoke detecters. as it has been, arietter is dominated by this. that ridge of high pressure is building back toward us. knocking the storming up to the north. there will still be storms ands rain, but not for us. we will have milder weather. if you want the 70s and dry warm weather, that is for you. the first half of the weekend is looking very nice. now this is nice. sunday, that ridge moves back down which allows the next storm system to hit us. we will have some rain moveing in sunday night. won't amount to much. a quarter inch of rain at most. that is our rain chance coming up sunday night. areas of fog tonight, sunny, warm on friday and saturday. rain is back late in the day on sunday. we will get close to 70 degrees tomorrow including san jose. fremont, 65. san mateo, 67. a sunny friday in san ramon. 64 in san francisco, richmond, 67. extended forecast, warmer on saturday. well into the 70s inland. rain moving in, not until sunday night. it is gone by monday morning and next week, trending sunny mild. so one chance of rain, we need it. we will take the one. >> thanks paul. well before you buy anymore makeup, you will want to see what we found out next. ,, here in philadelphia you can access a philly cheesesteak anytime, day or night. just like you can access geico anytime, day or night. there is only one way to celebrate this unique similarity. witness the cheesesteak shuffle. ♪ cheesesteak, cheesesteak ♪ ♪ it's the cheesesteak shuffle! huh! ♪ ♪ every day, all day, cheesesteak, cheesesteak! ♪ ♪ every night, all night cheesesteak, cheesesteak! ♪ ♪ 9 a.m. cheesesteak! ♪ 2 p.m. cheesesteak! ♪ 4 a.m. cheesesteak! ♪ any time (ruh!) >>geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or it's amanda. hey sweetie. what? 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