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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 11PM May 6, 2016

Thunder. Lightning. One bolt eve live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Area house. The impact so g fan [ thunder ] thunder, lightning, one bolt even struck this bay area house, the impact so powerful the ceiling fan fell off and a woman had to be hospitalized. Taking a live look outside from Treasure Island now, tonight we are getting a bit of a break from the wild wire, but paul deanno says theres a chance of new thunderstorms again tomorrow. We may see a repeat performance, guys. We only get two thunderstorm days per year on average. This year they may be today and tomorrow. Were looking at a few showers still in southern santa clara, otherwise we are drying out tonight. Look at the snow, thunder snow over the sierra, more showers and thunderstorms for northern california, our second consecutive rather wild day when it comes to may when. What does futurecast say . Futurecast says well be watching things moving in from the east. Thunderstorms that bubble up overnight over the sierra may turn into light to moderate rain showers impacting part of the morning commute. We could see a widespread light rain event before lunchtime tomorrow and theres still the chance of a few afternoon thunderstorms. Talk about if any of this will impact your mothers day weekend coming up. The backyard. Almost co in yuba city the onlying jumping into that Swimming Pool today was hail, lots of it, the backyard almost covered by ice pellets. Lightning bolts struck a bay area home, a school. Tonight cate cauguiran shows us the damage. Peta reporter a light show mixed with mother natures rumblings filled the skies in petaluma. Right now power is being shut off to the home. Reporter over in oakley the light show there quickly took a scary turn. I just heard a big loud boom. I thought it was an explosion at first. It kept hitting. It hit about six times. Reporter after 1 woman was hospitalized when a bowl of lightning hit this house bolt of lightning hit this house. We didnt realize it was a lightning strike. I thought maybe the propane tank blew up. It was that severe. Reporter the energy blew out the base of this flagpole. Its believed the residual energy somehow shocked James Douglass sister working outside at the time. She was taken to the hospital with minor injuries by paramedics. Really a scary moment. Reporter kind of like the scary moment Nicole Harvey felt after her son jayden texted her. He said his school was hit by lightning and they were being evacuated. So i panicked. Reporter students at Ohara Park Middle School were evacuated from the building after firefighters believe lightning struck the school triggering the fire alarm and causing the clocks and p. A. System to malfunction. It was really scary because like the clocks were moving. I thought it was an earthquake, but then they said it was thunder. An Alameda County firefighter was hurt putting out a house fire near san leandro. Thick black clouds of smoke were pouring from this home on liberty street before 5 00 today. A window header from the house fell on the firefighters head knocking him to the ground, but he should be okay. Weve learned that crazy chase and shootout that sent an east Bay Police Officer to the hospital last night was just the tip of the iceberg. Reporter police now say the wild shootout in pittsburg was the third time in the same day the suspect opened fire with his shotgun. The motive . Investigators say he was angry at his girl friend. The first was before 9 a. M. Here at mcdonalds on mahogany way in antioch. His girl friend is an employee here but wasnt at work at the time. Another worker was wounded by the shotgun blast. Luckily no kids were in the play area. 15 minutes later the suspect drove to this house in pittsburg, more shot gun blasts. His girl friend was not inside. She has relatives who live here. Nobody was hurt. Later around 6 00 the gunman carjacked there bmw from a 17 yearold, then led police on a high speed chase through antioch on to pittsburg. He crashed starting a Chain Reaction car wreck injuring four people. Then he traded gunfire with police. One officer was wounded, minor injuries. The killings and shootings all over random stupid stuff, girl friend issues, come on now. Thats not from our city. Reporter the mayor of pittsburg says the crime rate here is the lowest in 10 years. The Antioch Police department chased it right into our city. Obviously he hit a truck and thats what stopped the whole ball from him doing worse things maybe. Reporter in pittsburg joe vazquez, cbs5. Antioch police say for now they arent releasing the officers name who was shot. We live in the tech capital of the world they say, but a glitch with the radio system has Oakland Police officers scratching their heads tonight. The department had to come up with a plan b when the equipment went down today. Betty, this isnt the first time this has happened. Reporter thats right, ken. Unfortunately this is nothing new for the oakland Police Department. Its radio system has been going out from time to time. Well, tonight a City Council Member said that he is tired of these breakdowns that he believes jeopardizes the safety of officers. This afternoon the Oakland Police radio system failed and it isnt the first time. It has a rocky history. At times its left officers unable to communicate with each other during emergencies. Opd says it went to a backup county system and everything was working again within 40 minutes, but thats not good enough for Council Member noel dyo. For me to hear our radios are off and on sometimes, it sets back Public Safety and it kind of holds back our Police Officers because they have no confidence in the previous radio system. Reporter the City Council Approved joining the countywide radio system in 2014, but the full transition has not yet been made. To make matters worse, during todays radio glitch opds computeraided dispatch or c. A. T. Went out for three hours. Officers and firefighters used the data business for addresses, phone numbers and information to respond to calls. During the outage dispatchers had to write down incidents on paper. But, you know, thats the oakland okiedoke way. Well, it doesnt work that way, lets use it the way we did 20 years ago. Right now other Law Enforcement agencies are not having the same issues we have. So we just got to get it right. Reporter the oakland Police Department did not want to go on camera tonight. I spoke to the Oakland Police Officers Association and a spokesperson said that going to that backup system was a very good thing today and that that c. A. T. Outage was not too big of deal. Live in Oakland Betty yu, kpix5 news. After our investigation into one of the big he is Property Owners in San Francisco, tonight biggest Property Owners in San Francisco, tonight only on 5 weve learned the city is filing a lawsuit accusing the academy of art of unfair business practices, at issue, the schools more than 40 properties spread throughout the city, many of them historic. The problem, it rarely gets permits to convert them into classrooms and dorms. Fines have been issued, then put on hold multiple times over the past 10 years. Were potentially talking about millions of dollars, but so far the universitys owner hasnt paid a dime. Inancial benefit of its founders family, depriving San Francisco of ousing stock. The complaint alleges the academy expanded aggressively for the financial benefit of its founders family depriving San Francisco of critical housing stock. Kpix5 has learned the academy recently proposed to build new Student Housing and pay 10 million to the city over time as a settlement. The proposal apparently was not accepted and the lawsuit will be filed tomorrow morning. In a School Lawsuit in gil one of the most famous lawyers in the country is now involved in a School Lawsuit in gilroy. A teacher is accused of preying on hundreds of children. Maria medina says that one mother claims the district did nothing for years. Y daught i am disgusted that the district did not do enough to protect my daughter. Reporter standing in front of the Gilroy Unified School District Office celeste ben told a crowd of reporters how district leaders allegedly failed to protect students. Our voices have not been heard. Reporter now one of the countrys top lawyers is standing by bens side suing the district for allegedly breaking the law. The district failed to report the abuse as required. Reporter ben said she told school staff this teacher douglas lay sent harassing texts to her daughter, but instead of being removed from the classroom he continued to work as a chemistry teacher two years ago. This week he was arrested accused of posing as a woman online to get hundreds of current and former gilroy lie boils to send them nude photos. I think the guy is sick. Reporter nancy gales granddaughter is in the same district and believes more could have been done. Fire him. They should have called the cops. You know, they should have done something right away. Reporter harsh lesson for the district and now its time they pay the consequences they say. The School District gets an f grade on protecting the students and because they failed to take meaningful action, many more children were harmed. Reporter in gilroy maria medina, kpix5. And a District Board member says that they did not take mr. Lay off the job two years ago because they did not believe that he had committed a crime. Lay resigned from his job last week. In san jose deputies said come down, but that man in a yellow towel refused to listen for 12 hours. It all started at 1 30 this morning when 25yearold kyle lewis flagged down a vta light rail train, climbed on top of it and used the high volage power lines like a trapeze. To get him down the Sheriffs Department brought in a deputy who knows kyle. According to the mercury news, that deputy used trail mix to lure him down. Kyle was taken for a psychiatric evaluation. We heard from a bay area mother a couple hours ago who is going toe to toe with the department of justice over her sons death. Kpix5s andria borba was there for the showdown and this woman is furious. Ken, gwen wood said she hoped her complaints did not fall on deaf ears tonight. [ cant hear audio ] reporter in front of a packed room filled with supporters for the justice for Mario Woods Coalition three representatives from the department of justices cops program got an earful tonight about the San Francisco Police Department. Mario woods mother gwen said the racest text message scandal is directly linked to her sons death. They stand its animals. Its a black one, they said any day is a good day for lynching. They said to lower high blood pressure, guess what . They like to shoot negroes because i still think if someone would have called them to task and not let that sit, my child may be here to tell his side of the story. Reporter the crowd was loud and angry calling the doj reps political pawns called in by mayor ed lee and chief greg suhr to assess sfpd and not much else. Investigate is not a word they use because they dont have that authority. Thats correct . Thats a question. You need to answer that. Is that correct . No, were not investigating. Reporter the crowd demanded more from the reps, more from the doj, reform action from anyone. Thats the message. Go tell your higherups give us what we need and what this community deserves [ applause ] and stop playing games [ applause ] enough is enough [ applause ] ustice similar reporter now the Coalition Wants a full civil rights investigation of the San Francisco Police Department by the department of justice similar to what attorney general Loretta Lynch ordered in chicago. Andria borba, kpix5 news. Hillary clinton is in california tonight, the democratic president ial candidate held this rally at East Los Angeles college. Tomorrow shell be in Oakland Holding a Campaign Event at la escolita elementary school. On the republican side some top gop leaders are turning their backs on donald trump tonight. House Speaker Paul Ryan says hes not ready to endorse him. Im just not ready to endorse him at this point. Im not there right now and i hope to and i want to, but i think whats required is that we unify this party. In a statement mr. Trump came back and said hes not ready to support speaker ryans agenda but hopes to Work Together in the future. Also tonight the presuch active republican nominee is catching a Presumptive Republican nominee is catching a little heat for this tweet that reads happy cinco de mayo. The best taco bowls are made in the trump tower grill. I love hispanics. The thing is the trump tower grill does not serve taco bowls, but the cafe does. Police chased a murder suspect inside a black mercedes for hours tonight. Eventually the car blew tires on a spike victim, scraped along a guardrail and police fired tear gas and they captured the suspect about an hour ago. Investigators say the man under arrest is suspected in an attempted driveby shooting on monday. Well, this is driving the largest evacuation in north america in decades happening right now tonight, an entire city in canada has been forced out. Fire hasnt threatened an entire city on this scale since the San Francisco earthquake 110 years ago. The fire in alberta exploded in size since sunday and tonight it has grown to 200 10,000 acres. 10,000 ache 210,000 acres, larger than the city of chicago. Reporter 49 fires are raging, at least seven out of control. Air tankers will not stop this fire. This is an extreme fire event. I can feel the heat here. This is insane. Reporter the fire tore through the town of ft. Mcmurray, population 88,000. Hundreds of homes, whole neighborhoods were destroyed. Theres nothing there. Theres nothing left. Theres so many homes gone. Ough industry reporter the canadian government sent in reinforcements as huge plumes of smoke grew in the sky. Its very stressful. You dont know whats burned and whats not burned, when you can go back and now youre sitting here and all you see is red flames. Its pretty scary. These fires brought the Oil Sands Industry in alberta to a halt because the Oil Companies have to make sure their employees are safe. The good news, so far no loss of life. Allen martin, kpix5. A new warning about the san andreas fault. A leading quake scientist says its locked, loaded and ready to roll. At the National Earthquake conference in long beach emergency officials said theyre ready. The san andreas is one of the most dangerous faults in california. Its been quiet a long time, too long says scientists. The advice . Get that earthquake kit ready. However much water you already storm, get some more because were going to lose all of the aqueducts coming into Southern California and were going to lose most of the pipes going into peoples houses. Officials say a magnitude 7. 8 quake on the southern portion of the san andreas could kill hundreds of people. You might want to get away and if youre planning to jet away this summer, youre in luck. According to the air fare site hopper, flight prices are expected to be the cheapest theyve been in seven years. The drop in costs of jet fuel may be the biggest reason. An average domestic round trip flight will cost about 240 bucks in june, 20 less than it would have cost two years ago. Do you get jetlag when you fly across time zones . Only on 5 tonight sharon chin on the portable Silicon Valley based tool that could be the cure. Reporter when stanford phd student tim frank flies to germany for an engineering conference, he knows hell struggle with jetlag in his first workshop. I find it difficult to stay away in the afternoon. Reporter but on this trip he felt fine. He credits a sleep mask. Wearing it the night before and the first night i arrived i was ready to go. Reporter the mask uses light therapy to help your body clock adjust to a new time zone while you sleep. The product comes from researcher Jamie Zeitzer of stanfords sleep study center and startup lumos tech. The mask will flashlights when the sun rises in new york to fool your brain into thinking youre on east coast time. What were doing basically with these flashes of light is were mimicking whats occurring with the sun except its occurring while youre asleep. Reporter so when you wake up . Your brain is almost all the way in new york. Reporter you program the map by entering the information by the app. Inside the mask you can see flashes of light underneath the diffuser kind of like camera flashes, very short. Most people say they dont disrupt their sleep. About 200 people have tested the

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