Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm 20141001 : compareme

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm 20141001

Seconds after they like it to the be here. The ambulance is supposed to be here 3 minutes, and it arrived in 10 18 after they like. Does that concern you . Well look at that specific data. I just though that she felt it was very quick, under 10 minutes. Reporter normally the media would not get access to specific details unless both sides want the story to benefit them, even in a car crash. Blood politics, theatrical situations. Reporter seconds and minutes count in an emergency but theres been examples of ambulances 20 minutes and 30 minutes, an hour late in the last couple of months. Now were here at station 26 up in Diamond Heights and this station was supposed to respond to the mayors wifes accident but they were not here at the time yesterday. They were at a training subject, and here they are, going to yet another emergency. Back to you. Thank you. The mayor said today that he still has full confidence in the fire chief. Bolts will with stand the stress and weather, according to the final reports that broke months before the span opened. We have the results of the final study on those bolts. Reporter most of us know the 6. 4 billion bridge came under fire even brit was finished, mostly because of those steel bolts that broke when they were tightened down. A final report on the bolts was delivered to the bay ridge Oversight Committee today. In march of last year a third of the bolts used in the braces cracked when they were tightened, and 25 million was spent to replace those. According to engineers, new tests with weather exposure show the bolts will stand up. A Committee Member says getting the bridge to last 150 years, as it was designed to do, comes down to how well its maintained. The three factors are susceptibility, high stress and the presence of hydrogen. We dont see a metal problem, and were working on keeping the third factor out even those we dont have the first two. The Committee Says they will wait until november to sign off on the report, allowing time for people to comment. Back to you. The bolts are safe according to what they say. Thank you very much. A secret affair and the failure to turn over a mountain of evidence, both leading to the cold case murder trial in san mow say. Robert zimmer and his brother, david, were set free by a judge today, accused of strangling dave individuals wife, kathy. They found out that the lead prosecutor had an affair with a woman handling the cases crucial dna evidence. That prosecutor also failed to turn over 10,000 pages of evidence as required by law. We have given it to a new prosecutor who has been looking at the case and hell continue to do that and review the case and make information known to us as to what is thoughts were. The d. A. Could refile the case against the zimmers if more information arises. The governor signed a number of bills into law today, including several on gun patrol. The law allows family members of a person who shows signs of mental instability to request a Court Order Barring that person from buying and using a gun. Other bills, audreys law, increasing penalties for teens convicted of sex acts from somebody passed out from drugs or alcohol and another low, fire excontinue guesser in limo extinguishers in limos with nine or more passengers. Pot clubs that dont follow the rules could face massive fines, raising the current 25 fine as high as 50,000, depending on the defense. They decided to put off that decision and theyll continue the discussion in 30 days. The mayor said theres a good reason for pushing the fines so high. They have to be steep. This is a cash business, a lot of cash moving through and if theyre not steep people will just ignore them as the cost of doing business and wont comply with the ordinance. Dispenseerries are already facing a deadline for relocating, amongst other things. The distance requirements leave only about 1 available. Its been two years since we told you about the trucks rolling around which turned out to be pumper truckses. Those echos from those trucks fired up neighbors who think fracking should be put to a vote. San marlboro day the vote now has the county divided. This will be ready to harvest in probably two to three days. Reporter meet this vegetable rancher, a strong no vote on the proposed fracking ban. I live here and i farm here and i raise my family here. Why would i want to do something that i have any question that i think is going to cause harm to . One, my lifely hood, two, my family, and three, my future. A few miles away, this cattle rancher wants to vote yes. We dont need oil. We may want some. We dont need it. We need water. The Campaign Signs tell the same story, neighbors, some right next door to each other, all divided over the future of oil production. The campaigns is promising to protect the land and water. We think we have a lot to risk here and we dont think its worth the gamble. The no signs pro up and away promising to protect property rights. The biggest players in this campaign is the sierra club and the center for biological diversesy, the same people who shut our water off. Water is a complicated business here, and so is the science of hydraulic fracturing, as is the confusing idea of mineral rights. Its a tough assignment for voters, a laundry list of complex issues boiling down to one single vote. Some folks think its accessible and some dont. Its really a more complicated issue. Do your home work. Understand what youre voting on. If you stick to the truth, theyd lose this thing hands down. Im hopeful that my neighbors are smart enough to deal with the complexity of these issues. That was Elizabeth Cook reporting. There is virtually no fracking underway in san mateo county. They want to stop it before it starts, says supporters. Another blow to a bay area billionaire who wants to block off the Public Access to the beach. The governor signed legislation that allows the state to forcibly open up a Public Access road down to a beach. The billionaire has a year to negotiate with the state as to how he wants to do that. Last week a judge ruled he cant stop the public from accessing the beach without a permit. New at 6 00, some bay area fisherman are suing pg e, claiming massive contam contam nation. Reporter in 1896, long before the golden gate bridge, a large manufactured gas plant turned coal and oil into gas here. It also left behind a mess. Now fishermen are suing pg e, demanding they clean it up. The fact its caused damage for the last hundred years does not mean theres a license to do it for a hundred more. They claim old residue is causing harm to the fish and environment and mat rena n neighborhood. What they did was dump the waist from the manufactured plants. Reporter he says they have known about it. They have known about it. In the Marina District we have successfully investigated 23 properties and completed remediation on six. Reporter pg e says they are reviewing the lawsuit but theyre aware the issues involving old manufactured gas plants in the bay area. We are managing historic operations and doing so in the Marina District since 2010. Reporter a new fight over a centuryold operation and the fishermen say all they want is for them to clean it up. Kpix 5. A thieve steal as wallet and a camera shows how she did it, all without the victim noticing a thing. How police finally tracked this individual down. How people from all over the world are cashing in on this Northern California land. The clouds that were over the campus earlier this morning may be the final clouds we see for about five days, a bigtime warmup with lots of sunshine even for you at the beach. Thats coming up for you in the forecast in about 7 minutes. A woman is sitting there down at the bottom of your screen and she steals the womans wallet next to her. She sits down at the tender greens restaurant in walnut creek and bends do you know grab the wallet out of her purse, playing it cool, lifts the cash and credits cards before replacing the empty wallet, back in the purse and walks out. The suspect racked up 3,000 on a shopping spree. Police say the suspect in a fourhour manhunt charmed his way into somebodys home to hide out. Neighbors say this 35yearold from San Francisco talked his way into this complex on Everett Court yesterday after police said he use a fraudulent check. Police looked for him for hours and he eventually walked out of a house with a homeowner and gave himself up. Basically they gave him food and took care of him and then offered him a ride out of tun, and the homeowner did not know he was a dangerous criminal they just let in. Hes also wanted in oklahoma for a sex crime with a minor and hes booked in the jail. A wakeup call for a hayward woman overnight. She woke up to a any burr screaming. Her apartment was on fire, and firefighters say while the woman was sleeping somebody sprayed the woman was not injured. Stow is file agnew filing another lawsuit. Hes disabled from the 11 attack. He was recently awarded an 18 million settlement damages. Ebay and pay pal are splitting up. Ebay approved a plan to separate its pay ball business as a separate publicly traded company beginning in 2015. Ebay says the two standalone businesses will help both compete in the changing ecommerce and mobile payment worlds. Investors were happy, too, sending ebay shares up too more than 7 . U. S. Stocks ended slightly lower today of the dow jones tell 28 points and the nasdaq dropped 12 and the s p, five points. The governor signed the law to where plastic bags will be phased out. The law is designed to reduce litter. The makers say it result in the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state. 2014 will go down as one of the driest years ever in california. You know that. You live here. State water managers say we have received less than 60 of our average precipitation for the 14 water year which ends today and were facing what could be a fourth consecutive dry winter. We have a Photo Gallery of the droughts devastating impact on reservoirs, along with other resources on our website. Its not the greatest thing you have ever seen but check it out. It will shock you. On that note, im not even going to ask if theres any rain in the forecast. Then i wont answer. [ laughter ] one of those pictures is spooky. You dont want to start the rainy season this dry. Its been three years, a growing effect. We have this wonderful Banking System of water and the accounts arent looking good. We could use rain and its not coming. We wont see much in the way of cloud cover. It wasnt terribly warm today. You see the temperatures on the screen. Most of us would agree it was comfortable outside. Well leave that comfort zone for most of us tomorrow. How about 83 in San Francisco tomorrow. Nothing on the radar and nothing will be when you have the High Pressure building off to the west, and if it were to stay there we wouldnt get hot because we would not get rainfall, but the ridge is inching its way close to us and wants to visit the bay area, and when it does, winds go clockwise around High Pressure, and so when its to the north, the flow gives us an offshore wind and we do this every september and october. This is not something crazy. But it will be out of normal because our temperatures average around 70 near the water and well be in the mid80s with the hottest days being friday and saturday. Tomorrow is 83 in San Francisco, likely not the hottest day of the week. 86 in oakland. Livermore, 87. Napa, 88. San jose, 83. San francisco and san jose with the same high tomorrow. Santa rosa, 86 degrees. The extended forecast, 90s inland, and the hottest day is likely friday. If you want to head to the beach to cool off, close to 80 degrees coming up on thursday and friday. It will end unsunday. We do this every october but its still a shock to the system. A lot of folks in San Francisco dont have airconditioning, and its like 75 at midnight and it will be pretty uncomfortable. I definitely feel it and i dont have airconditioning. I was shocked when i got here. Let the whining begin. There will be a lot of unprepared people. Thanks. The head coach is fired after 10 state losses, rumors of the team moving and, coming up, how the raiders nation is dealing with this. The prayer in this end zone fires up fans. What the media lass to say about it, coming up next. Z. Heres something we have heard before, the Oakland Raiders have made a coaching change. Former assistant and defensive line coach sparano was named interim head coach this afternoon, the news coming less than 24 hours after they fired allen who won just eight games in his three season with the team. From the coaching changes to the losing season to the rumors of the team leaving oakland, just how much more than the raider nation take . We sent john to ask that. Reporter this is like [indiscernible] i said, welcome home. Reporter if youre a raider fan, you know about rickys in san leandro, less a bar than a shine 32 the glory days of the raiders and the late al davis, but these are difficult times. Eight head coaches since 02. They definitely have to get it right this time as quick as possible. Reporter the bars owner says even if the team doesnt get it together, it probably wont matter to die hard fans, because most of the them probably arent cheering for a team but for a history, a family. Theyre a unique group of people and ive been to many games at the coliseum and its awesome. Reporter to many, the coliseum is not awesome. Chris is with a fan Group Pushing for a new said yum to keep the raiders in oakland. We can spell keep the teams if were losing but it would expedite the process. Reporter but the team is not winning and does not have the money to build a private stadium, but raider fans doesnt seem to worry about that, because davis tout them, if you cant win, just dream, baby. They have won just eight of their last 22 games, and sparano, could he turn things around . Well see. They got three trophies, dont forget that. The nfl says their referees were wrong to call a penalty on a player to dropped to his knees in prayer. Abdullah ran in for a touchdown, you see there, after intercepting a pass and hes a devout muslim, and he got down to pray but he got penalized. We shouldnt play the victim card especially for a football game. We should thank the nfl for setting the record straight and making it clear that theyre not against any kind of religious expression. The game officials reportedly told coaches they threw the flag for the end zone slide, not the prayer. Cashing in on california pot. We have spotted dozens of marijuana farms from overhead and found out who is moving in to make money. A disease that killed thousands over seas is now here in the u. S. , the first ebola case diagnosed on american soil. Those little blue beads could be doing more than just cleaning your teeth in tooth paste. Youre watching kpix 5 news. Now at 6 30, theyre calling it the green rush. People from all over the world buying up Northern California land to get rich growing marijuana. Welcome back. Pot has always been big business in humboldt county but it took off after the state legalized medical marijuana. Our reporter shows us who is taking advantage and getting away with it. Reporter deep in the mountains of californias rugged northwest they are everywhere, those greenhouses seemingly in the middle of nowhere, the marijuana farms. In just the last five years cannabis growing has doubled. This realtor says he gets calls from all over the country and the world. They have certai attributes, they are looking for, a lot of water, good sun exposure and looking for remote locations. Its not our business to ask what theyre going to do with property. Theres private property rights. Reporter theres a hitch. Its completely i would legal under federal law and even under state law where marijuana is medicine, you need a doctors note to grow it. Thats why they dont want you to see their crops. Look closely. You can see people making a mad dash to cover them up as chopper 5 flies overhead. We spotted 35 farms in less than an hour. Miles away you can see the greenhouses, theyre so big. Reporter the sheriff detective shows us how growers are clearcutting 100yearold wed woods and leveling hills and sucking dry rivers that are already stricken by drought. These plants can taken well over a gallon of water a day. We come across a lot of firearms. We have deputies that have gotten in shootings before. One of the ones [indiscernible] reporter who are these people . The asian connections, russia, germans, to name a few. We have pretty much run into all of it. Reporter why from bulgaria . I have no idea. Theres a lot of mean be made in marijuana, the modern day green rush. Reporter green rush instead of gold rush . Yes. Reporter Sheriff Deputies busted this farm last year, destroying pounds and pounds of marijuana and almost 2,000 plants, and almost all 16 suspects arrested are from bulgaria, six on expired visas. The alleged ringleader is this man who has been linked to other known illegal grows yet no charges were filed against him or any of the others arrested with him. For the sheriff, its frustrating. The state of california and the federal government itself has changed policy and direction. Marijuana is not quite as important of an commodity that theyre trying to control, so funding has gone way down, which is resulted the lack of enforcement. Reporter he said its like playing [indiscernible] you bust a few and most come right back. Were scratching the surface on it. Its basically out of control. Reporter kpix 5. You heard joe talk about the expired vivas. We checked with immigration, and all but one of the suspects are still here in the u. S. Amtrak is sending a message to remind everybody to be alert when crossing train tax. Today in sacramento, a memorial here stands for individuals hit by trains. She cleared the train tracks but had remembered that she forgot her cell phone. It happened so quickly. She couldnt react in a way that one would need to react. Last year more than 600 people were killed or injured by trains. The deadly ebola virus has made its way to the u. S. Health officials are confirming the first case of ebola diagnosed in the u. S. The patient is being treated in isolation at a hospital in dallas. He apparently left liberia last week with no symptoms. He got sick several days later and was admitted to the hospital on sunday. Health

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