Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6AM 20161208 : compareme

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6AM 20161208

On the screen all the way back into the Santa Cruz Mountains by the evening commute encompassing the delta, as well. Friday were on the back side of the fronts with lingering scattered showers. This is tomorrow mornings commute. Then scattered lingering showers throughout the day today a bit of a break for the evening commute and then a secondary system will impact your saturday Morning Saturday afternoon but it tapers on and digs to the south by saturday night leaving us with a mostly cloudy sky on sunday with a chance of showers. This is our live weather camera looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge and through the lights here you can see that we are picking up some light rain showers making it very slippery on the approach towards the toll out of the north bay in towards the city of San Francisco where currently, its 45 degrees. Oakland east of the bay bridge in the 40s. Yes, when you look at these numbers, its much more mild this morning than 24 hours ago due to the blanket of clouds that will remain over the area. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Gusty winds out of the south 10 to 20, some gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour. So hang on to that umbrella today. Its going to be one of those days when that umbrella blows inside out. Well talk about when the third storm will roll into the bay area but first lets send it on over to roqui. 6 02. Lets get a check of the morning commute and send it over to roqui. Wake up, kenny. [ laughter ] okay. Lets take a look at the roads. The rain is affecting the morning commute. But mass transit is all looking good throughout the area. Bart, ace, muni and caltrain are on time. May i suggest you take mass transit this morning because problem San Francisco northbound 280 before geneva avenue a threecar crash involving a rollover here and this was just reported as a Traffic Alert. So its going to take 30 minutes or more to clear. Im thinking two hours to clear it out here. We have traffic moving at just 2 Miles Per Hour in the area so you want to give yourself a lot of extra time if this is part of your morning commute. Moving over now to the nimitz freeway live, looking good in both directions if you can see it through the raindrops there. 238 in san leandro to the maze will take you 18 minutes. And then expect a 16 to 20 minute drive across the span of the san mateo bridge. We have traffic starting to slow up here because cars are driving slowly due to the wet road here. And moving over to the Altamont Pass, coming out of tracy on 205, 8 Miles Per Hour into north flynn road where speeds pick up to 31 Miles Per Hour. Once you hit livermore thats usually supposed to free up but we do have some slow traffic because of the earlier big rig versus car crash. Its now cleared but expect delays along the way. Ill send it to you. All right, roqui. Thank you. Any minute now oakland congresswoman barbara lee will speak with last fridays deadly warehouse fire on the floor of the house of representatives. The house will also hold a moment of silence to remember the 36 people who died. And here in oakland, City Council Members are expected to make the local state of emergency official bringing in extra funding and resources to help with the fire recovery. Kpix 5s anne makovec is live in oakland with an update on the investigation. Anne. Reporter yeah. You can see it is raining here in oakland. So a real mess at the site of the fire over on international and 31st. Im here at the office of the Emergency Services of oakland and that is where they are now heading up the operation looking into the cause of the fire but a lot of questions this morning. In fact, the mayor and the Fire Department, several members of the city council, have been scrambling to find inspections records on that building, that warehouse known as the ghost ship, where 36 people died on friday night. Despite a lot of reports of illegal interior construction and People Living in the building that was only permitted as a warehouse, the planning and Building Department had not been inside that building to inspect it in 30 years. In fact, the building is not even on the Fire Departments database of properties. I spoke with one City Council Member yesterday who said he is sending a message to Property Owners that they are waging a war on code violations. They need to be aware that they are accountable for whatever happens, for whatever happens in their facility, they clearly know what the rules are here in oakland. But its one of those, you know, catch me if you can on these streets. Reporter mayor schaaf says there needs to be better communication within city departments and they need more Code Enforcement staff right now. The Building Department of 11 people answers 4,000 calls a year. Back to the investigation into the cause the atf has been working at the site of the fire and also all the debris from the area has been brought to an undisclosed location. They are continuing to sift through that for clues. It does appear to be an electrical fire but they are not making any forsure pronunciation on that. They also say that they dont believe its arson. But they have not completely ruled that out, either. Live in oakland anne makevoc, kpix 5. Authorities are releasing the names of more People Killed in the fire. A 35yearold was a sound artist from iowa. He received his masters degree from the San Francisco art institute. Several couples were also killed in the fire. Hannah from finland came to oakland to reunite with her fiance alex. Alex had been working as a documentary producer for kqed. His mother heartbroken. I lost my only child. Nothing can replace that. My granddaughters dont have a father. My husband doesnt have a son. There is still one unidentified victim. Today the woman charges in the brutal murder of an oakland family will enter a plea in court. 61yearold dana rivers is accused of killing Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed in their oakland home. They were shot and stabbed. Their 19yearold son had been shot in the street and the house was on fire. Court documents say rivers planned to kill the family. If convicted she faces life in prison or possibly the death penalty. Theres a push to get the Contra Costa County District Attorney to resign. Mark peterson is accused of spending more than 66,000 of his Campaign Money on himself. Authorities say that he spent it on things like traveling, hotels, restaurants and movie tickets over a fiveyear period. Peterson said he considered using the Campaign Money as a personal loan. State officials fined him 45,000 but some residents say thats not enough. I really think that is wrong. And i think at this point he just needs to step down. Peterson could face more penalties. A meeting is scheduled next week. Conjoined twins from california are now two separate toddlers after a miracle surgery and beating the odds. Kpix 5s maria medina is live near Lucille Packard Medical Center with the details. Childrens hospital with the details. Reporter the hospital staff is expected to announce later today that the twins are doing well after their marathon surgery and were talking 18 hours of surgery. Their names . Eva and erika. Little ballerina socks, huh . Reporter all right. So they have separate hearts, lungs and stomachs but they only have three legs. And as you can imagine, it was a long journey for the twins. They have lived with skin expanders since this past summer to stretch their skin get them ready for surgery and on tuesday, they were separated successfully. They each have one leg and they are now recovering in the icu. A miracle because when they were born not only did doctors think the twins would die but they thought the mother would die, also. With every day, every week that passed, for me it was just like we have made it. We made it, you know . Reporter later today a team of doctors from Lucille Packard Childrens Hospital are expected to announce just how well the twins are doing after the surgery. And when i talk about a team of doctors, im talking 50 doctors and nurses and staff who helped separate the twins. Live in palo alto, maria medina, kpix 5. [ music ] time now 6 09. Donald trump goes head to head with a union leader over the carrier jobs deal while environmentalists raise concerns about the president elects latest nomination. And an invasion of arctic air is causing problems all over the u. S. Speaking of arctic air, our cold weather is now pretty much history. Okay, so its a little raw outside but were tracking not only the storm thats bringing us rain right now, but the one for the weekend. And we have wet roadways throughout the bay area. How its affecting your morning commute . Well tell you when we come back. ,,,,,,,,,,,, president elect Donald Trumps boost deportati new this morning a california bill that could protect immigrants from president elect Donald Trumps plans to enforce deportation law. The leader of the California Senate wants to prevent police from telling federal immigration officials about immigrants being released from jail. The bill would also prohibit Immigration Enforcement in public schools, hospitals and courthouses. Its one of a series of measures by California Democrats aimed at protecting the states more than 10 million illegal immigrants. President elect donald trump travels to iowa today as part of his thank you tour continues. The event comes amid the president trumps escalating feud with the union leader who criticized his recent carrier jobs deal. Reporter the latest dustup came after indianas United Steelworkers Union president chuck jones appeared on cnn blasting president elect donald trump for allegedly overstating the number of jobs that would be saved as part of the carrier deal. We have a lot of our members when the word was coming out of 1100, they thought that they would have a job. Reporter moments later, mr. Trump fired back on twitter writing in part, chuck jones has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee the country. Mr. Trump made another nomination to his cabinet tapping Oklahoma Attorney general scott pruitt to head the Environmental Protection agency. Pruitt has repeatedly sued the epa over fossil fuel regulations. Mr. Trump also picked former wrestling executive Linda Mcmahon to head the Small Business administration and retired marine corps general john kelly to run the department of homeland security. Cbs news. If confirmed kelly would be the third former general to join the Trump Administration with another general and an admiral under consideration. Some lawmakers and Security Experts are concerned that military commanders will have too much influence over the new administrations policies. Intense blizzards are slamming the midwest right now and the worst is yet to come. The massive storm system will soon stretch more than 2,000 miles across the country. Whiteout conditions are making it almost impossible for drivers to see the roads. Icy roads are a danger to drivers and First Responders rushing to help them. Hoses and truck freezing up. This is just not good firefighting weather. You want to get there as fast as possible but if you dont take the time you will get in an accident yourself, hurt somebody else, get stuck and the patient waits even longer. Just have to be patient. Parts of all 50 states are expected to see below freezing temperatures by saturday morning. An early winter surprise in the sierra. Its been snowing there since yesterday afternoon. And this is what it looks like. In blue canyon this morning. Im sorry. You saw reaction by me . Yeah. Who said it was a surprise . we were forecasting it yesterday. No. Some people dont Pay Attention like the people who go up to the sierra in flip flops and shorts. So to them, its a surprise. [ laughter ] yeah. Thats really negligent of anybody heading to the high sierra this time of the year and you dont check your forecast because as roqui would mention, you need your chains yup. And youre going to need them this weekend, as well. Absolutely. Surprise surprise [ laughter ] we also have a Traffic Alert. The roads are wetted, surprise the bay bridge toll plaza, if you are headed into downtown San Francisco, the maze to downtown will take you 17 minutes. And, of course, we have the San Francisco problem here thats now a remember it northbound 280 before geneva avenue. Its a threecar crash blocking the two right lanes and that backup is to john daly boulevard. Look at that, in that area, traffic is moving at just three Miles Per Hour. So he definitely want to give yourself a lot of extra time if this is a part of your morning commute. Lets head now to danville here. Southbound 680 after Sycamore Valley road a threecar crash is cleared off the roadway but a lot of residual backup in the area. Traffic moving in the area at just 13 Miles Per Hour. Down to the Altamont Pass, traffic where youre coming out of tracy at just 18 Miles Per Hour, and this slow traffic is due to an earlier crash in livermore thats since been cleared out the way but expect delays in the area. North tracy boulevard to the Altamont Pass on 580 westbound will take you 40 minutes. Thats your traffic. Roberta, its cold and rainy. It is cold. It is rainy. And it will continue to be equally as wet by the evening commute. Good morning, everybody this is our live hidef Doppler Radar. We have a lot of green on the screen. Its scattered right there. We have some rain showers around the san rafael Richmond Bridge that will affect the morning commute. Some scattered showers lifting out of the crockett area backing through hercules, as well. We have the rain showers just push out of the martinez area heading towards concord, clayton and walnut creek. And again, this is very scattered and, in fact, we have some wet conditions in the south bay at this hour. Milpitas, alviso, alum rock, fremont, union city also wet. As soon as i queue this up and we have rain it, moves out. Thats how quickly the individual cells are progressing. And this is live data from our hidef doppler. So it looks like we are picking up a little bit of light rain showers near watch the street. The rest of the activity is out over the bay waters. Its wet across the Golden Gate Bridge at this hour. Temperatures not as cold this morning as 24 hours ago when we dipped into the 20s and 30s. Thats because we have a blanket of clouds in the 40s now 53 degrees in san jose. But in san jose across the Santa Clara Valley you have been picking up an east southeast wind at 13. Its breezy this morning not so much around the lip of the bay but San Francisco south winds at 12 will continue to blow up to 20 gusts up to 30 throughout the day. Vallejo you know what im talking about, a breeze right now at 10ers in. 14 at the delta. Heres what you need to know today. You need your umbrella for the morning commute. And you need that slicker for the evening commute. Pockets of heavy rain at times lingering showers with the passage of this front for your friday. We know that because this core, this area of low pressure is drawing down some of the cooler air mass. Its also of kind of unorganized so the showers will continue to lift throughout the day today. Heres your friday. We will have the scattered showers throughout the day. Thats the Second System. Thats a whole different storm that will be bringing us rain showers for saturday through saturday afternoon then finally tapering off for football on sunday. All right. So well tally it up like this. By friday easily a half inch of rain throughout many neighborhoods. By saturday up to a full inch of rain away from the bay and even San Francisco approaching. 9 of rain. No surprise Winter Weather advisory in effect 10 inches of snow above 7,000 feet in the high sierra, about 6 at lake level. Sunrise 7 13. By the time it sets it cools off rapidly, 50s, 60s today. Rain in and out of it all the way through saturday, a chance on sunday through wednesday. Thats a look at the very wet forecast. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,, all right. Good morning, everybody. Hey, we got the nba up top. And the warriors last night, man they went to the l. A. Clippers and

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