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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm January 16, 2015

Extra 40 in money. Fremont high doesnt even have a library. We need a working auditorium for our drama. We need more computers on our campus. If you came to our campus and saw our computers, you would laugh. 700 students or so you have one counselor. Reporter even the founder of a Charter School opposes the latest idea. Overwhelming majority of people that i hear entering into the conversation for these five spaces are not from this community, have no track record of consistently serving the highest need kids in the community. Reporter she wants help for her school but sees it as another failed attempt. They are just like giving up on us, like oh, im going to put guys on the market. I dont know whats going to happen to your teachers. I dont know whats gonna its really frustrating. Reporter the new superintendent says he is not committed solely to charters. He says most likely, some of these schools will end up being districtrun. He says whoever has the best idea and can be embraced by the community, that organization will take over be that the district or a charter. The district wants to implement the changes in fall 2016. Our december rains now seem like distant memories. We wanted to take you back a bit. This is one of the last showers we saw around the bay area. That was late last months. This year nothing. So that means the drought picture is taking a turn for the worse again. Paul deanno is here with those details. Well take you back a couple of months october 14. The darkest shade of red is the most significant drought covering the Central Valley most of the bay area. We fast forward to where we were last week where all the rainfall helped us out. We went down a shade if you will and went down to a severe drought for much of the bay area. Two things have happened with the drought update. One we have more of the exceptional drought once again in the Central Valley. Marin, San Francisco down another level but statewide the drought is once again getting worse. Heres the problem. Look at the numbers for january. Average rainfall for january is. 5. It is historically our second wettest month. Two years ago we got 10 of that. Last year, we got just a few drips of rainfall which is right now at least the driest january on record until maybe this year where it has not rained yet and tomorrow we are more than halfway through the month and just looking at how close the rain is getting but close does not end the drought, look at all the rainfall thats going to fall between now and saturday morning, 4 inches of rain in the Pacific Northwest but none in the bay area. Like a wall has been put in the atmosphere stopping at ukiah and Mendocino County counties. So close but our drought continues and the update is at least in the Central Valley it is now once again getting worse. Back to you. The december storms have helped a bit. The state is upping its water deliveries by 5 to public water agencies, but they will get only about 15 of the expected allocations from the state water project. Richmond police are investigating what happened just before an officer opened fire on an armed suspect this afternoon. Investigators marked evidence at the scene. Police say the officer approached a suspect who pulled out semiautomatic pistol. Thats when the officer opened fire, according to police, hitting the suspect. He is now in critical condition. The officer was unharmed. We are learning more about the High School Student who jumped into action after a car slammed into a macys store. Mohammed works at the macys at newpark mall. He says he found a man trapped under the car after the driver smashed through the front doors. The High School Senior says that everyone in the store was frozen so he started to help. I went inside the car took the kids out, saw the female passenger and driver and took them out, turned off the car and brought them aside and said hang on over there. Six people were hurt. The man trapped under the scar in critical condition. San Francisco Mayor ed lee talked about the state of the city today. One of the big goals is to build or rehab today 30,000 Housing Units by 2020. Friends, thats double the housing we built in 2013. Its triple what we did in 2012. And well do even better in the coming year. Mayor lee is introducing a bond for the November Ballot that would provide Housing Loans to 150 families a year. Shifting and shuffling going on at the San Jose Police department. New at 6 00, kpix 5s len ramirez tells us that officers are being told to get away from the desk and get out on the street. Reporter thats right, kent. The Police Administration building behind me will soon be more empty because a lot of the officers who have worked in detective bureaus and support services places like that will now be shifting to the street. Now one former police chief here in san jose is speaking out against the city policy that enabled this to happen. The San Jose Police department departments new staffing plan takes every available officer out from behind a desk and puts him on the street. This memo from chief shows how officers from all different departments will join robbery, homicide, and missing persons detectives and sergeants on basic patrol duties starting next month. To see it gutted is heart wrenching. Reporter thats former police chief rob davis who was san joses top cop for 7 years and spent 30 years with the department. He said there was much more backing of the Police Department from elected leaders during his time when san jose was also known as the safest big city in america. He said dismantling units to meet patrol units is only a shortterm gain. Chief esquivel and the staff will put people on the street to answer 911 calls but theres a huge longterm loss in the fact that the very thing that made San Jose Police department so effective is the proactive activity to prevent crime from happening is going to be lost. Reporter davis said things will only get worse under measure b because officers can move to other departments and start making more money immediately. He doesnt blame chief esquivel for making the hard and unpopular choices. Chief esquivel is between a rock and a hard spot. He hasnt created this situation. Its a political issue. He has a situation where he has had, what, you know, we have had 400 officers resign in the last four years. They have not been replaced. Reporter many more officers are scheduled to retire this year. In fact, its getting to the point where the chp may be coming in to help patrol the streets of san jose. Reporting live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. And they tell us those cuts will take effect starting next month. San jose lost a legal round in its bid for the oakland as. The federal Appeals Court ruled against the city today. San jose claims Major League Baseball is blocking the as from moving to san jose. The city is trying to challenge the league exemption from antitrust laws. But the Appeals Court ruled mlb is protected from the suit by three Previous Supreme Court decisions. San jose says it will now appeal to it the u. S. Supreme court. A tech giant may be going back to the drawing board before releasing its wearable computer. Allen martin here to show us what is happening with google glass at the end of the month. Whatever happened to google glass . Reporter its still out there but the sales of glass stopped at the end of the month. Today the wall street journal calls the google glass project troubled. The bbc says google glass sales halted but before anybody tries to drive the final nail into the Wearable Computers coffin, heres how google sees it. Google has always preferred to see its glass half full. The fact that you could build such a thing was crazy when we thought about it a couple of years ago. Reporter google launched glass in mid 2012 but today when tech blogs and websites reported the google explorer Testing Program was ending, some saw the glass as half empty. The glass was done. Not true, according to cnet. The project is actually coming out on its own. Reporter meaning google glass will move out of the Google Research lab and will fall under the leadership of hardware guru coney fidel who used to be tony fidel who used to be with apple. Google bought his company last year for 3. 2 billion. He oversaw the first versions of apples ipod and he has had Great Success with nest. Reporter critics of google glass point out, not all has gone smoothly for a product sometimes seen as less tech and more geek. Fodder for Silicon Valley backlash. In San Francisco last year, glass explorer sarah slocum was attacked in a bar when she began videotaping without permission. Cameras are everywhere. This is the 21st century. And this is just a part of the future. Obviously, people are having a hard time adapting to it and accepting it. Reporter and then theres the google barge fiasco. In october of 2013, kpix 5 revealed googles big secret project at Treasure Island was going to be a floating showroom primarily for marketing google glass. Four months later unable to attain the necessary permits for it, google towed the barge to stockton where its essentially been abandoned. And there it floats. Despite the setbacks, analysts still think that glass will be launched as a Consumer Product sometime this year. But they also feel it needs to come down in price. 1,500 . No. 400 to 500 before most people will actually consider buying it. I kind of agree with that. I think price was a problem with it initially and also, that sort of social, um, backlash. Are you recording me . There was that backlash. When you go into places now, it says no photographs sometimes and meaning phone or that or anything. Yeah. People didnt dig it. No. Allen, thank you. The world has been watching as a santa rosa man and his climbing partner make history scaling el capitan. Today people in his hometown tell us stories about the man they have been in awe of for decades. Mom, dad and brandnew baby look relaxed but quite a scramble beforehand. The at Kaiser Permanente everything you need is under one roof. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Okay, a little easier. Become a member of Kaiser Permanente. Because together, we thrive. Female announcer get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempurpedic mattress sets at low clearance prices. And through monday, get 3 years interestfree financing on selected models. Dont miss sleep trains year end Clearance Sale. Your ticket to a better nights sleep a mother went into labor on a bay area freeway. A don ford explains, they now have quite the story to tell. Reporter in the middle of yesterday mornings rush hour, one car was struggling through traffic heading to the hospital. The mans wife was in labor about to have a baby. And the baby was coming quick so before you know it, time ran out. He pulled out and called 911. Indicated his wife delivered a child that he was on the right shoulder of highway 24. Reporter right there in the car the baby was born. Mom and baby appear to be fine, so dad didnt wait for the chp or the emergency crews to arrive. So the dad actually decided that at the last minute maybe i just want to drive my wife straight to the hospital. Reporter five minutes later the new family pulled up to john muir hospital on their own. The chp caught up to the new dad by phone. He seemed ek extremely happy. He said they were doing great and that he was the proud father of a baby boy. Reporter parents tom and sabrina will now have a story about the day little gabriel was born that will last for generations. In contra costa county, don ford, kpix 5. And just in case youre wondering, the chp says their officers are trained to help deliver a baby if the circumstances are arise. One family from tracy never gave up hope finding their Rare Japanese breed dog that was stolen three years ago. And its a good thing they didnt give up because as kpix 5s Christian Hartnett tells us, they got a phone call this week with an amazing message. Oh reporter it was a moment three years in the making. He remembers. Reporter ian mcnesby had given up hope seeing the dog after she was stolen from the backyard in tracy three years ago. We had no idea what would have happened. Reporter Oakland Animal Services found her wandering the street last week. Then they found her microchip. It wasnt long after that before mcnesby got the call from the shelter. Ian says it was the surprise of a lifetime. I didnt know by looking at her if she was injured, you know, what she has been through over the last three years so its pretty hard to leave her there and reporter ian bought her in japan when he was stationed with the u. S. Army over there. He says he is going to give his old friend the fivestar treatment when they get home. Oh, i mean, we already said we are going to stay here, spoil her as much as we can. Reporter have you had amazing. That was Christian Hartnett reporting. Anna you notice there has a little skin infection on her back that caused her to lose fur but vet says its treatable and she should be fine. Its nice when we have good news to come home. Dog comes home, always a good story. Baby delivered. Next thing youre going to tell us rain is on the way. There is for redding and fort bragg, medford, portland. Well get a little bit. Its a change. Cloud cover today slight chance of a shower in the north bay, im grasping at straws trying to be positive here. Oakland 64. Even when its cloudy in january, we are hitting the 60s. San rafael 55. Live look at cloudy conditions at sfo. Look at our live neighbor network. Wide range of temperatures. Deer Valley High School 44. 53 pleasanton. Henry ford elementary in redwood city 55. Saint marys school in gilroy 59. But look at the rainfall. This is not for today. Its for the entire month. Goose eggs across the board. We are still waiting for our first rainfall. Oh, is it close. Look at all of that green. And yellow and orange up to the north. The ridge of High Pressure thats been keeping us dry is now flat. In the that we are not seeing a pronounce in that were not seeing a pronounced rise in the overall jet stream. We are seeing things slide west to east so its a flat ridge. Even when its not as strong and close, it still takes away the rain chance because the ridge is staying close enough that all of this moisture in the atmosphere pretty potent pacific storm will stay just to our north. Redding and chico and mount shasta and yreka, they are all going to get a ton of rainfall. For us, the clouds will make it here. The rain will not make it here. Couple of sprinkles in the north bay tomorrow, way in the north bay im talking north of santa rosa and thats about it. 60s again tomorrow, san jose you will hit 65 despite the cloud cover. Cloudy in livermore 64. San francisco 62. And napa 61 degrees. And tomorrows close pass to that rain is the only rain chance for the next week. Be cloudy through the weekend through sunday. Mid60s with mostly cloudy skies. Then next week whats going to change . Sunshine is going to come back. Mid to upper 60s. Now, yes, we are in a drought. Yes, we need the rainfall. Heres what i want you to do. To feel better about the weather, call a friend in nashville, call a friend in minnesota, call a friend in fargo and just say, hey, you know, it cooled down today. It was 61. Probably hang up on you. Just reverse that. Its 16 here. For a high. Exactly. Yeah. Thank you, paul. Still ahead, a huge honor from the pope. The next saint with a california connection. For over 60,000 california foster children nights can feel long and lonely. I miss my sister. I miss my old school. I miss my room. I dont want special treatment. I just wanna feel normal. To help, sleep train is collecting pajamas for foster children, big and small. Bring your gift to any sleep train and help make a Foster Childs night a little cozier. Not everyone can be a Foster Parent but anyone can help a foster child. Ooooh. I can hear that sizzle. Getting louder and louder philly cheesesteak and egg sizzling with prime rib and gooey cheese. I better just silence this sizzle the new philly cheesesteak and egg skillet. Dennys. Welcome to americas diner. Two big wall climbers are resting today after making their marks in the history books conquering el capitans dawn wall. Its an emotional roller coaster and pulling on to the top was a relief to have that roller coaster come to a stop. Santa rosas own Kevin Jorgeson basking in a dream come true with his climbing partner, Tommy Caldwell. The two completed the 19day climb yesterday. Its significant because they are the first to free climb that route called the dawn wall. [ laryngitis ] [ inaudible ] Tommy Caldwell lost his voice yelling to his partner during the journey and celebrating, too. The climbers had to grasp on to just razor sharp hand holds ripping the skin off their fingertips in the process. Jorgeson says his hands are so sore he has to take ibuprofen just to brush his teeth. Jorgeson and caldwell used only their hands and feet as we say to climb the 3,000foot wall. They used ropes only to catch them if they fell which jorgeson did almost a dozen times. They have been working toward this goal for almost 7 years. Caldwell and jorgeson are being praised for completing the hardest climb in the world. And for jorgeson, his lo

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