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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm March 4, 2014

With russia . Very directly. The governments of the United States decide to sanction russian companies, that will create problems for the business deals and investments that they have here. At the same time, putin and his friends have asset. There is russian money in American Bank accounts. Some of it are russian government officials. So we have levers available today to put pressure on russia that we didnt 30 or 40 years ago. Getting russias volatile president to think clearly, hour, may be a challenge. He says president putin wants to see ukraine in what he calls the russians sphere of influence. The west, including the Obama Administration want ukraine to be independent and free. All i can do is hope that more pragmatic minds in moscow will prevail. That remains to be seen. But it duds underscore that the world has changed. The cold war has thawed capitalist in and out of the soviet union. A good deal of it coming here to california. A couple years ago, sicsc pledged to russia. So the Tech Industry is investing plus getting money from russia, so those economic sanctions we used to talk about so freely, they could kick us right wac here. It is an interesting concept. Now were in such a Global Economy that normally we, 10, 20 years ago would let russia take it. Now, our economy is so intertwined with theirs and vice versa. Exactly. You might make the argument that economic sanctions would put a little pressure on russia, though. It would. The reverse is true as well. They also have billions of dollars, including some high officials in bank accounts. And some of them are right here in the usa. So this could get personal. Yeah. These guy escorted dont get along. Phil, thank you for that. A student from stanford has family in crimea. We were there when she was able to talk to her mother today via skype. Cat is studying neuroscience at stanford. But tonight, shes using Computer Science to connect with family in crimea. My mother has heard theres a planned bombing at 1 00 a. M. So she is really hopeful that were going to see each other again. Cats mom is so scared shes asking we not show her face, use her voice or even tell you her last name. Everybody is carrying a weapon. Theyre traveling in huge trucks and tanks. All kinds of military equipment i have never seen before and wish that i would never see again . As world leader escorted Exchange Heated Words over the growing crisis, a mother and daughter say a quiet goodbye. I was saying goodbye to her. She was basically saying i really hope that we talk again. Social media gets through one way or tore. Cat keeps in touch with her family everyday using skype. Police are investigating a possible hate crime at a contra costa middle school. A transgender student from Hercules Middle School was reportedly assaulted in a bathroom. It happened this morning in the boys bathroom on the High School Side of the joint campus. It involves a student who is biological female but identifies as a male. The student says he was leaving the path room when three i woulder boys shoved him in a handicap stall and physically and sexually assaulted him. Police are investigating it as a Sexual Assault and a hate crime. The student was taken to a local hospital. We have a crew on scene gathering more information. We will bring you a live report later on in the hour. The other story we are following right now, the rain. This is a live look outside in dublin. Drivers dealing with rain on think evening commute. Paul deanno show us our high def doppler radar. Paul. Reporter the yellow is the heavier rainfall. Timing for the evening commute, it is pretty soggy. Roads like highway 4 between concord and antioch, martinez, vallejo, interstate 80 out toward fairfield. I80 back toward oakland and emeryville and richmond right over San Francisco we are seeing heavier showers. Light to moderate rain continues on 580 through the trivalley and 680 through san ramon and walnut creek. The rain has moved in and there is nothing to block it. For so long, we were talking about that locking ridge of High Pressure. Gone. Not here now. As waves of moisture keep moving across, there is no reason why they wont come here. They have come here. Rain pushing to the south. If youre watching from san jose saying where is the rain . It will be to you soon. It will be a slow commute thiefening. Also, tomorrow this evening. This is the first of three different rain chances coming up this week. We will talk about the other two in about so minutes. Paul, thank you. Train has moved out of southern california, but the clean up is just beginning. Cbs reporter jeff nguyen. Reporter this used to sit so feet from the ground. Now, you can tell it is no longer regulation height. All of this because mud came flowing down from that hillside. The homeowner tells us there was mud coming to noint here. All that took out a fence that you could sit along this wall here. The mud kept on going. It cascaded down into the second portion of this backyard right here. Now, since yesterday, this ship loader here came through and cleaned out some of the mud. As you can see, this is the line that the ship loader has taken. And, even now, after two days, it is still about waste deep in most of this backyard. The estimate is that there was about 600tons of dirt down here. Another 2,000 up there. So, the estimate now is that it will take another three to four days to clean this all out. Jeffrey nguyen, kpix 5. Unbelievable. You can track the rain any time on our website kdka. Com weather. New at 6 00, things quickly went from bad to worse for one bay area man whose car was stolen. Somebody told his suv right out of the walmart parking lot in gilroy. Police later found it in san jose. Kpix 5 reporter don ford tells us about their grim discovery inside that vehicle. I was parked right over in this row here. Early sunday morning last week, Michael Mcvay and his dog came to this Shopping Center in gilroy. I went in and i was also going to get her some food. It was a cool day, so he left her in the suv with the windows slightly down. When he returned, his path finder was gone. It was stolen with peco inside. I have had her over 15 years. Michael isnt married. Never had kids. Now, his Constant Companion of 15 years is missing. Four days later, the San Jose Police found the suv. When they opened the back door, the dog was inside dead. Michaels friend is devastated, too. Ice hard to imagine. It really is hard to imagine having it end that way. Its just its not supposed to end that way. The parking lot is covered with cameras. Nearly a dozen may have recorded the theft. This surveillance photo shows the man Police Believe stole the car and left peco to die. If i could get my hands on him, it wouldnt be fun, at least for them. In gilroy, don ford, kpix 5. Apple wants to make it easier for drivers to use iphones in cars. New technology will be introduced call canned car play. Apple is working with car makers ferrari, Mercedez Benz and volvo. The system will let you plug in iphones in the car and use maps or make phone calls. It works with voice command or by touching a dash board screen. Bay area headlines. A slow speed chase caused traffic troubles on the bay bridge before it ended with an arrest in San Francisco this morning. Officers stopped this truck in the inside lane of highway 101 this morning. Truck driver ran away, but was quickly captured. Officers say 46yearold Hector Fuentes stole the truck from his now former employer in fairfield. A woman was hit and killed this morning by a driver in fremont. 49yearold driver pulled over when he heard something hit his car. He told police he thought it was a bird until he saw a body in the roadway. The woman was crossing washington boulevard around 6 00 when she was hit. The driver is cooperating with police. 4yearold girl in Critical Condition tonight after a possible drunk driving crash in fremont. This happened about midnight. Her mother was driving when she crossed the center line and hit a car head on. Girl was in the backseat in a car seat that was not secured properly. According to police, they say the woman smelled like alcohol at the scene. And, the other driver admitted to Drinking Alcohol before driving as well. Both could be facing dui charges. Everyone was crying. It was really depressioning. A school in mourning after a bay area teen was kill bid a train. Why the popular eighth grader went back on the track as the train approached. Why twitter Head Quarters in San Francisco will look like it got invaded by lumber jacks. The Old School System is like the titanic. It is almost impossible to change course. How vandalism has become the poster child for Bay Area Schools hoping to transform. Hales corners, wisconsin. Nice pass by alyson dudek. Can she hang on to that spot . And she does [ male announcer ] with the uverse wireless receiver, your tv goes where you take it, allowing inspiration to follow. [ dad ] looks pretty good, right . [ girl ] yeah. [ male announcer ] switch to uverse and add a wireless receiver today. Her home. It happened near old orchard martinez teen ager being remembered tonight after she was killed by a Freight Train near her home. This happened near old orchard last night. Kpix 5 reporter Ann Notarangelo with the investigation and how the community is responding. Ann. Reporter ken, everyone i spoke with today seem to be in a state of shock. They kept asking how could this happen to glen betty. This is a jena betty. Ed to they wore pink to honor 14yearold jena betty. Everyone was crying and it was really depressing. Parent are also huggedder that children a little longer, and bettys principal was close to tears. Cant put it in words, to be honest. Its rally hard, you know, on a personal level. Really hard, you know, on a personal level. The teen was on Railroad Tracks with her boyfriend. A spokesperson said the crew saw them and sound the horn. The pair got off the tracks at first. Bettys mom posted on facebook. She dropped her phone and went back to retrieve it. She department judge the approach and the train creates a vacuum, we were told, and it sucks you in. A spokesperson for the railroad told us there is no suction from an on coming train, but someone could get pulled under by it. The investigation sundays way, but thats not the communitys focus. I know the kids are going to have a tremendous outpouring for jena in many different ways. Many of her classmates have under the out in droves to social media to express their grief. The school has an un turned up in droves to social media to express their grief. Were not wanting to necessarily go out and drum up a lot of social media about the situation. We want to be sensitive to the family. The vivacious girl with a beautiful small is gone much too soon. In every class that she was in, there was a box that you could write letters or notes to her. It was sitting at her desk. Reporter as stunning as this tragedy sounds, there is an Organization Called operation lifesaver. It is a group that goes around to kids trying to educate students about the dangers of these train track. I asked the superintendent if this group had been to this district at all. She said no, and she admitted maybe its time for them to come. In martinez, Ann Notarangelo kpix 5. The district has a crisis team in place and is providing grief counselors for students and teachers. By the way, you may remember last year, a student at this very same school was injured in the Boston Marathon bomb and the Community Rallied around him and is hoping to do the same for jenas family. Twitter employees will soon have a pretty interesting place to take their lunch breaks. Nineteenth century log cabin. The hightech giant is installing low tech log cabins outside its San Francisco Head Quarters to serve as dining rooms. Theyre designed to have a more intimate touch to break up the impersonal work space. The cabins were salvaged from ranches in montana and should be in place in a few weeks. Sheriff is serging for marijuana growers who have been stealing water as california suffers through this historic draught. The sheriff says some pot growers tapped into open irrigation canals or even drill their own illegal wells. Others tap into their neighbors water tanks and bury the pipe. Sheriff says the water is being used for illegal marijuana, not the medicinal kind. Any grow attempting to steal water will be punished. Were now becoming the water police. Were going to arrest people for grand theft. It is not petty theft. It is friand theft of Natural Resource grant theft of Natural Resources. The sheriff believe thieves will use up to 5 million gallons a day in the fall. Speaking of water, the good news is we err getting more of it in a nice, steady pattern. Reporter weve been hoping for this all winter long. Guess what . Were nit. Were here. Rained yesterday. Rained friday. Rained last wednesday. Raining tonight. It will continue to rain on and off all week long. Here is a look at your radar which is lit up with the exception of the south bay. San jose, youre waiting for the rainfall. Youll get it. Not there yet, but its raining just about every where else. Right in the urban core, oakland, san bruno, and mill valley. We are looking at that being the heaviest rainfall right now. Couple Million People driving around. There acceptly will impact the evening commute. If you look offshore there is plenty more rain to move through. It is not as intense as what we saw last week. I do not expect any widespread flooding, but things will certainly be slowed down on the road. Why has it changed we had a very significant change. As soon as february hit we went from no rainfall to about 20 above normal for the month of february. Right now, march is starting off soggy. It is because of the ridge of High Pressure. This is the guy that gave us no rainfall in november, december, clan. All it did was move. Now it is down to our state of texas. Rather than locking everything and sending it up to can dark it is now kind of directing stuff. Follow the moisture all the way back, i think you can see honolulu right there. This is tropical moisture coming hawaii if you were to fly you probably wouldnt leave the clouds. There would be clouds the whole time because that ridge is steering all the moisture into the bay area. Rain tonight. Rain overnight. It will be wrapped up by the Morning Hours tomorrow. But roads will still be wet. Then, we get a break. But the storms, the train tracks are still in the atmosphere. The next storms that mauve through will be in the bay area. That is on thursday. We get a couple more days of a break. Next storm that mauves in will be on sunday. We get more rainfall. We get rain tonight. We get rain on thursday. We also get rain on sunday. Perfect pattern for us. It will be mild and humid all week long even when it is not raining, it will stay pretty cloudy. Highs tomorrow, pair of 6s. Fewover night showers in napa. Rain is done by sunrise. San rafael, youre 66. Couple days of break. Mid up toker 60s on tuesday, wednesday. More rain on thursday. If youre fan of the sunshine, youll get it on friday and sample highs around 70. Pretty warm, too. On sunday another chance of rain. Here is the truth. Were not going to end this draught this year. It just takes too much rain. What we can do, we can take big brought and make ate tiny draught. Yeah. I think we are well on our way to make this a smaller draught. Still a problem. Not going to two away. But were doing the best we can and trying to eliminate it. Any time we get rain, it is a bad thing. Reporter it is and we got some good thing. Reporter it is and it is a gad thing. How a terrifying bust of violence had an unexpected side effect. How this Bay Area School is now an example of how troubled schools can change their destiny. So what happened . Life happened. Work. Stress. Fun. Bad habits. Kids. Kids. Kids. Now what . Not milk. Not sheep. Not that. Lets think smarter. Lets get some science in here. Lets build a bed. Another bed . No, an entirely new sleep number bed that tracks your movement, your heartbeat, your breathing. Sensors working directly with the air chambers, yeah you need the air chambers. 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It is a little rare here in the bay area, frustrated teachers trying to take control back from the school district. Last week, comix brok

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