Retardant foam. If theres anything certainly we can learn from the events of that extraordinary day, were all about improving our operations. Reporter the report says minutes after the crash, two firefighters concluded the teenager was dead just by looking at her. They didnt check her breathing or pulse. The chief says firefighters acted within protocol for mass casualties. Theres a category of deceased or what they call expectant, not expected to survive. Our members that day had difficult decisions to make. One was visualizing someone that appeared to be dead or expectant, versus going on to the burning plane with reports of people that still needed to be rescued. Reporter also under scrutiny, training. Fire crews posted at the airport have to take a specialized aircraft rescue course but their commanders do not. Do you think it should be considered to have that kind of training or is it not necessary . At this point, it is not a regulatory requirement. Faa has not required it. I think candidly it will be looked at. Just resent all the finger pointing thats going on. This department deserves a big pat on the back. Reporter commissioner said fire crews did the best job they could. They await the ntsbs final report and recommendations. Sharon chin, kpix 5. 4 32 now. A student at the third California University has been infected now with meningitis. The calpoly student is undergoing treatment for viral meningitis. The student lives on campus there. School Officials Say it appears though to be an isolated case n recent months four students were infected at Ucsanta Barbara about bacterial meningitis a rare stain of the disease and ucriverside reported a staffer also got sick. On the east coast at princeton more than 5,000 students have been vaccinated for meningitis after 8 students were sick there. San francisco will pause today to mark the oneyear anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. A vigil is planned for 1 p. M. Today at city hall. 20 first graders and six adults were killed in the mass shooting in newtown, connecticut. One year later the school no longer exists. It has been torn down and a new school will open on the same site in 2016. Newtown will not mark tomorrows anniversary with a public remembrance and tv news crews are asked to stay out. You could soon be dialing while flying. Regulators are looking into lifting the cell phone ban up at air. But as kpix 5s Christin Ayers shows you not everyone is happy about you chatting while flying. The ayes have it. Reporter the fcc voted 32 to consider lifting its ban on inflight cell use such as voice calls and texting. The Commission Says new Technology Eliminates interference with cell towers on the ground, the reason for decadesold ban. I think its awful. I would hate being stuck sitting next to someone for five hours having to listen to it. Irritating. I like it quiet. Reporter one commissioner bombarded with letters from opponents. A third wrote simply, no reporter the fcc chairman says its their job to worry about technology, not what passengers want. Im the last person in the world who wants to listen to somebody talking to me while i fly across the country. But we are the Technical Agency and we will make the Technical Rules that reflect the way the new technology works. Reporter the department of transportation says it would consider possibly banning the inflight calls and congress senator Dianne Feinstein proposed a bill to ban the calls. Theres a similar measure in the house. These airplanes are confined. They are noisy already. And to have dozens of phone calls going on all in flight i think is annoying to the traveling public. Reporter but on air, which provides cell service on planes around the world, says passengers havent complained. Most users text. And the three to four dollar a minute cost keeps calls short. In oakland, Christin Ayers, kpix 5. Delta, the worlds second largest airline, has already said it wont allow voice calls on flights. Other carriers including american, united and jetblue plan to study it first. A budget deal easily passed through the house floor and its now headed to the senate. The republicancontrolled house passed the bill yesterday. It is the first bipartisan budget in 4. 5 years. Lawmakers on the far right didnt support the deal. That prompted House Speaker john boehner to break from script and go after the staunch conservatives. They pushed us into the fight to defund obamacare and shut down the government. Most of you know my members know it wasnt the strategy i had in mind. One of these groups said we never really thought it would work. Are you kidding me . well, this budget deal is for two years and keeps the government from shutting down again. The senate is expected to pass it sometime next week. It is 4 35. The allimportant weekend is here. Lawrence is going to talk about some warming. After the cold snap it will feel good. We are seeing clouds in the bay area now. They will scoot through and setting up for a very nice weekend but a cold front moving through town overnight tonight. More of a sea breeze kicking in so thats bringing with it even some low clouds and fog out toward the coastline right now. And a couple of patches of dense fog in some of the interior valleys. Sfo partly cloudy skies and looks like as we get outside right now we have temperatures in the 20s still in the north bay, so a little chilly into santa rosa. 34 in san jose and 43 degrees in San Francisco. This afternoon, should be a nice day becoming mostly sunny outside about 60 in livermore, 60 in santa rosa and about 60 in oakland. Temperatures a lot warmer over the weekend. Well talk more about that in a moment. Right now, lets check out traffic with elizabeth. And just a lot of overnight roadwork still out there including the northbound lanes of 880 between 16th and broadway. They have various lanes blocked for another 20 minutes or so. Typically right around 5 00 since we start to see things clear out and obviously no delay because traffic is so light past Oakland Airport and coliseum. Highway 4 they finished their overnight roadwork about a half hour ago. But tonight, they are going to have a full freeway shutdown in the westbound lanes of highway 4 beginning at midnight. Thats from lone tree to somersville. Hopefully they will get lanes reopened by 5 a. M. Saturday morning. And a check of bart right now all bart trains on time. More than 20 in fact all good to go. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you, liz. 4 37 now. Some other bay area news now. San jose police are looking for an armed robber who barged into a bingo fundraiser. Investigators say it was a well planned robbery at the Oak Grove High School on wednesday night. The thief interrupted the bingo games towards the end of the time in when the greatest amount of money was available. The man ran away with thousands of dollars that had been raised for the schools band program. San rafael investigators are looking into an accident involving a van that hit a gas line and cut power to an elementary school. It happened last night at laurel dell elementary and police say the driver lost control and suffered minor injuries. Police had to shut down the street and the gas was quickly turned off. And some developing news out of north korea this morning where the government says it has executed an uncle of their leader kim jongun. The leading figure in the north korean government was accused of being a traitor trying to seize power. Official charges were womanizing to corruption. Its unusual for the north korean government to publicly announce such a high level execution. And today is the last chance mourners have to view Nelson Mandelas body. And these are live pictures now from pretoria as thousands line up to pay their respects to south africas former president. Tens of thousands of people waited hours to view the body of the antiapartheid icon. The government estimates some 50,000 people showed up and one journalist estimates the lines stretched for several miles. Mandela will be buried on sunday. It is 4 38. An old bay area shopping district is getting a new look. More on the renaissance happening on the broadway corridor. And anger growing towards Tech Companies moving into San Franciscos rougher neighborhoods. The new effort now to repair their image. Coming up. ,,,,,,, the broadway corridor is ow that it is 4 41. A renaissance is happening in an oakland shopping district. The broadway corridor is creating new jobs now that several new businesses have opened. Kpix 5s da lin has more on the broadway boom. Reporter a walk down the broadway corridor, youll notice some new faces in town. In case you missed it, coming soon or hiring signs, the construction noise will remind you broadway is slowly transforming. I love the raw energy that oakland has. Reporter Ulysses Romero is one of the new faces. The cal graduate is opening tierra mia coffee across from sears next month. Theres a lot of room for new businesses to come in and and, uhm, and if you sort of join that movement and be part of it, i think that makes it more exciting. Reporter theres been a renaissance in uptown and downtown in recent years, and things have really picked up in the last six months. 20 beers on tap. Reporter tim martinez is opening a beer garden behind paramount theater. Boarded up storefronts on broadway and on telegraph here all being snapped up really fast. Uptown, downtown, we have had 61 new restaurants as of last year. We think were now up to about 80. Reporter while growth is evident, theres still a lot of room for it. Its not hard to find empty storefronts and failed businesses along broadway. Some people tell me it has a long way to go. It is sad to see it like that, seeing i have been here for so long but i know its going to come back. Reporter many say the perception of crime makes them avoid oakland, whether its to shop or set up shop. Those who have joined the movement say its exciting. This is a little jewel to be discovered and timing is great and investment is great. Reporter in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. And the Oakland Business Development Corporation held a ceremony yesterday to celebrate the revitalization. It credits partners like citibank for speeding up the loan process for Small Businesses in the city. Search for missing children across the country is getting a little more tech savvy now. The National Center for missing and exploited children just opened up a branch in palo alto. It customizes software, helps the center make sense of their data faster so they can track down missing children and stay ahead. For years, analysts have relied on tech giants such as google, facebook and adobe. But the new location in the Silicon Valley gives the Company Better access to brand new tools. This is the incubator. This is the area where a lot of these new ideas are developed and launched. Since 2008, the center has handled more than 60,000 missing children cases. Nationwide of those, 6,000 were in california. Tech companies are experiencing some growing pains as many invade San Franciscos rougher neighborhoods. In the latest incident, the ceo of a startup compared poor people to trash. Our ryan takeo on the tech industrys pr problem. Growing up in florida, i had always been an entrepreneur. Reporter this tech executive is the latest example of San Franciscos culture clash. The angel hack ceo went on a Facebook Rant about the homeless this week. He complained how Market Street was overrun by, quote, crazy homeless drug dealers and trash. I think its a shame. Reporter gotman said there is nothing positive gained by having them close to us. His opinions triggered a backlash. Well, i mean, bashing market and bashing the homeless isnt going to help them. Reporter its clear, tech workers have a pr problem. Tensions have been simmering between Market Streets down and outers and its up and comers. I can pay my rent. Can you pay yours . Reporter techies are being blamed for driving up rents in the city. This staged yelling match shows what some think is reality. It shows a snob entitled google employee. Im sorry, its time for you to leave reporter fair or not, Tech Companies headquartered on market are all being lumped together. Zen desks tiffany thinks the latest online rant shows some of the industrys lack of maturity. I think a lot of these companies are young and i think for most companies they dont feed their social responsibility or their Corporate Giving until theyre much older. Reporter the Customer Service Software Company moved to the tenderloin two years ago. Zen desks comfy office space is nothing like the high crime, low income streets two floors down. So to try and repair that image, some of its workers are giving back. We really depend upon the entire community. Reporter erica runs compass family services. The organization relies on Companies Like zen desk to help homeless families especially during the holidays. Rather than isolate yourself from that environment, if you engage in it, you find an uptick in employees who want to stay. Reporter in San Francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Now, the ceo has apologized. Gotman says he trivialized the struggles of the homeless. Time for a little weather now. The weekend is here. And were going to warm up a little bit, arent we . It is the weekend, guys i cant believe it. Finally getting here. The weather finally going away from the cold snap. Just chilly in spots and freezing in some areas this morning. Out the door 29 degrees in santa rosa, 28 in napa right now, 32 and freezing in livermore and 34 degrees in san jose. But these temperatures moderating from what we had just a couple of days ago. Into the afternoon, we are going to see a few clouds early on. Then mostly sunny skies and some mild temperatures. And a much warmer weekend with offshore winds kicking in. Some of these temperatures soaring well into the 60s getting near 70 degrees. Overnight a cold front passing on through. That should improve the air qualities a bit although the bay area air Quality Management has declared another spare the air for today. Looks like we are going to see improving conditions here and around the state. 60 degrees in sacramento. 60 into the monterey bay and 59 degrees in fresno. Computer models showing you some patchy fog along the coastline early on this morning. Then as we head in toward the afternoon we are going to see a whole lot of sunshine and looks like that offshore wind going to set up overnight tonight and into toward tomorrow morning. Temperatures 50s and 60s in the south bay. East bay numbers running up to 60 in livermore. 60 in pleasanton. About 57 degrees in brentwood. Inside the bay were looking at numbers in the 50s and the 60s. And out over the next couple of days, here comes that sunshine. You got plans for the weekend, should be a great one. Temperatures near 70 degrees by monday. Slow cooling toward the middle of the week. Lets check your kcbs traffic with elizabeth. Thanks, lawrence. And fortunately still no big hot spots out. In fact, no big accidents anywhere around the bay area right now. We are just seeing your usual overnight roadwork and a lot of this will be picked up within the next 15 minutes. So, yeah, overall you can see a lot of green in the east bay coming from walnut creek and the caldecott. Everything is still moving at the speed limit with two bores open. He is with bound 24 past the called heres the westbound 24 past the caldecott approaching telegraph towards the macarthur maze. Silicon valley commuters westbound 237, it is extra friday light right now leaving milpitas heading out towards sunnyvale. San mateo bridge traffic the right side of your screen thats the commute direction and the drive time you see at the bottom of your screen, it is 13 minutes right now between 880 and 101 in foster city. Over to the bay bridge now, theres still some roadwork if you are traveling westbound 80 past the toll plaza from the incline out towards Yerba Buena Island but obviously theres not too many cars on the road right now heading towards the pay gates so it wont slow you down much and all of it will be picked up by 5 a. M. Heres a look at travel times for the south bay, 101, two and the guadalupe parkway all look good through downtown. As you get closer towards san jose mineta. And bart systemwide on time with no delay. If you have any questions about your morning commute once you hit the roads, tune to kcbs radio 740am and 106. 9fm. Thats your latest kcbs traffic report. Back to you. 4 48 now. Online retail giant amazon is expanding its Grocery Delivery Service now. Its available in parts of San Francisco after launching test runs down in l. A. And up north in seattle. On the consumerwatch, julie watts gives amazon fresh a test drive and explains how its trying to succeed where others failed. Reporter from the people who brought you sameday delivery, amazon will now bring groceries to your door. [ ring ] reporter stop me if you have heard this one before. Remember web van voted cnets number one dotcom flop . The billiondollar grocery delivery startup went bust in 2001 and with the rollout of amazon fresh, many wonder how the worlds biggest etailer is going to turn a grocery profit when its predecessors couldnt. Well, for starters, amazon is the company that isnt aphrase or embarrassed to take things really, really slowly. Reporter cnet says amazon is learning from web vans mistakes. Unlike web van criticized for growing too large too soon, amazon tested fresh for five years in seattle before expanding first to l. A. And now San Francisco. Webvan was also targeting large regional areas. Reporter saving time and gas amazon will only deliver to specific densely populated zip codes. So specific, they wouldnt deliver to the tv station just a few miles from my house. But the biggest difference is printed right here on the bag. Amazon wants you to buy things like harmonicas with your bananas because as web van learned the hard way, theres not much profit margin in groceries. You can also order things Like Electronics and household items. Those are products that amazon can make a good profit on. Reporter and in order to get free grocery delivery you have to sign up for the 300 a year amazon prime which also gives you video streaming, book rentals and overnight shipping. So what youre really buying into is the entire amazon ecosystem and thats exactly what they want. Reporter julie watts, kpix 5. Okay. So some of julies order came in plastic bag so apparently they are exempt from San Franciscos ban. It is 4 51. One south bay city is experiencing a troubling spike in the number of bicyclists killed. Coming up at 5 00 what the city is doing to reverse this trend. But first a group of East Bay High School students is about to hit the big stage in london. A remarkable journey when we come back. ,, the lighted boat parade happens tonight at 5 30. Bring a jacket. It will be chilly. Ride bart. All trains are on time. They have more than 24 all on schedule also ace train number 1 got a great start out of the central valley. Well have another kcbs traffic report coming up. Beyonce dropped a big surprise on her fans. The singer released a new album at midnight. [ music ] the fifth solo album from the pop diva was dropped on itunes. Fans arent just getting 14 new songs but also 17 new music videos including this one. Beyonce shot those videos around the world. The album features her husband and even her baby. Sharon in the newsroom tapping her foot right now. She is happy about that. As the new year approaches the world is about to open up for a group of East Bay High School students. Kpix 5s john ramos has the story of small town kids heading out for one big new adventure. 4, 3, 2, 1, whoo reporter each new year after big ben strikes 12, the city of london is treated to a parade that features so Many American high school kids, that even the bbc jokes about it. A threehour parade unashamedly international, even if it did have a few wondering this morning if they had woken up in london. Reporter but now, the brits are about to get a taste of the bay area east bay style. The Pittsburg High School marching band calls itself a show band, mostly because they like to show off a little bit. They play music they like. They do dances while theyre playing which they like to do, whether its hip shakes or jumping up and down. [ music ] reporter the band got a surprise invitation to perform at the london parade. And the kids and the booster club have spent the last 12 months trying to raise the money to go. Rummage sales, the car washes, pasta feeds, crab feeds. Reporter you get the idea. They have even worked a deal that will raise 3,000 if they can collect 7500 pairs of used shoes for shipment to third world countries. And this saturday, former members of tower of power will jam with band members at a local benefit concert. For small town kids who arent used to dreaming big, its the kind of challenge and opportunity that can literally change lives. It will show kids how big things can be and how serious things need to be taken. To get them on a plane for the first time, you know, out of the state for the first time, uhm, and especially for this trip to go out of the country, i think theres so many memories that they will take with them for a lifetime. Its amazing actually. Im glad that we can be a part of it. Reporter so come december 27th, the world will get a little bigger for some kids from pittsburg as they stage a little british invasions of their own. In pittsburg, john ramos, kpix 5. And if you would like to purchase tickets to the benefit concert or donate your old shoes, you can contact the high school. And it is 4 56. What goes up must come down and thats what a federal judge is saying about a giant crossland mark in la jolla. Why the judge says it has no place being up. Reporter and the number of bicycle deaths in san jose is the highest its been in a decade. Im kiet do. We have a live report coming up. ,,,,,,, your realtime captioner is mrs. Linda m. Macdonald. If theres anything certainly we can learn from the events of that extraordinary day, were all about improving our operations. San franciscos fire chief is reacting to findings revealed at a federal hearing into julys deadly plane crash at San Franciscos airport. I think theres somebody shooting in here at sandy hook school. Tomorrow marks one year since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Today San Francisco pauses to reflect. I cannot bring him back. Bike fatalities in san jose have increased every year, and now the city is taking steps to protect twowheeled riders. I dont believe whatever happened to him in the past has dwindled his spirit. Finney was just a puppy when he was found beaten and starving. Today we are going to meet a very different dog in a very happy home. From across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com good morning, happy friday. Its friday the 13th. Im frank mallicoat. Good morning, im juliette goodrich. Michelle is off this morning. Lets get a look at weather and traffic. Heres lawrence. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Got some great news for the weekend. If you want some sunshine and warmer weather, we are finally going to get it. Cold front passing through overnight bringing a few clouds and we are seeing some partly cloudy skies right now. Even a little patchy fog along the coastline and over sfo. But temperatures still chilly in spots. 31 degrees and freezing in concord. 29 in santa rosa. 35 in san jose. And 43 in San Francisco. This afternoon, though, becoming mostly sunny, i think we see a few more 60s beginning to pop up in santa rosa into
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