Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition 20140411 : co

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition 20140411

The low to mid70s. Along the coastline 50s and some 60s. Big changes though as we head toward the next five to seven days. Well have more on that in a moment. Right now lets check the roads with elizabeth. And once again, as lawrence mentioned, there is some fog out there. Could slow you down. We did notice that we saw a lot of accidents by later on in the evening commute or later on in the morning commute. So were not sure if those are fog related but again if you want to use mass transit, so far everything is on time. Bart has 32 trains all with no delay. Ace train 1 left stockton with no issues. Heres a live look outside. 880, 5 01, a lot of the roadwork picked up. Northbound we saw some approaching marina into san leandro. All lanes should be reopened now and everything is flowing nicely into downtown oakland. South bay not too much issues and so far it looks great on 101 from morgan hill straight into san jose. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. We have breaking news about a freeway disaster in the Sacramento Valley. A tenth victim died overnight from burns suffered when a big rig slammed head on into a bus. Five High School Students, three chaperones and both drivers were killed in that wreck. It happened along interstate 5 in the glenn county town of orland as the bus was driving northbound on the interstate. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran joins us live from the scene. Reporter i got to tell you just looking at that tour bus just breaks your heart. We can give you an upclose look now. We did keep our distance before because the dead were not removed. But now you can get an upclose look. You can really see just that mangled mess there. The charred metal from the bus. Now, investigators are trying to comb through collecting evidence here on the scene and theres a lot of work to be done. Also a lot of questions to be answered and the one that stands out, why did the driver of the fedex truck cross on to oncoming traffic . Two large vehicles collided in orland, california, about 100 miles north of sacramento. There was a fedex truck going southbound on i5 just north of the 32 exit. For an unknown reason, it crossed through the Center Divide and collided head on with this bus. Reporter the bus, the fedex truck caught fire. The flames gutted the insides of both. Firefighters helped some of the victims away from the scene. Many of them clearly injured. Most of them students on their way to visit Humboldt State university and attend spring preview day. We have 48 people on board, 44 students and three chaperones and one driver. Reporter the University President issued a statement saying in part, Humboldt State university is deeply saddened by a tragic accident that occurred involving a charter bus filled with prospective students. Our hearts go out to those who have been affected and we are here to support them and their families in any way possible. Just the sight of the wreckage of the burned and twisted metal was a shock to many who live in the area. I went outside and everything was in flames already. Only like three blocks from us from our house. So, yeah, sad. Reporter some dead, others injured, mostly students who were just looking towards the future. Frank, theres one thing i do want to point out to you. If you look over here to my right, you know, on most freeways you have a concrete or cement barrier but not here. They have these oleander bushes. So there really wasnt anything to slow down that tractor trailer. Reporting live in orland, cate caugiran, kpix 5. The just moments ago, the federal investigators in washington, d. C. Spoke about the investigation into that crash. They are sending a team to orland from washington. When we get there, the two things were looking at, one were going to be investigating the human, the machine and the environment and whats critical for us especially in highway accidents is for to us collect perishable information, the kind of information that goes away very quickly. When we get on scene, well have much more information to provide you. Fedex released a Statement Last night that says, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved in the tragic accident on i5 in california. We are cooperating fully with authorities as they investigate. A 3yearold boy is in a hospital with critical injuries after a pickup hit him in San Francisco. Investigators say the child was on a bicycle yesterday in a crosswalk at fulton street and 43rd avenue. The driver is cooperating with investigators. Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be factors. Happening today, Court Hearing scheduled in Santa Clara County for two 49er Football Players. Linebacker aldon smith facing dui and weapons possession charges. Chris culliver is accused of hitting a bicyclist with a car and then leaving the scene. This comes amid developments in a strange case involving another 49ers player. The quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kpix 5s anne makovec live at the 49ers home base in santa clara with more on a Police Investigation involving the quarterback back in miami. Anne. Reporter and just to be clear, miami police right now are not calling this a crime. But the 49er nation is reeling with the news. The woman who filed this report says that she was with Colin Kaepernick and two other Football Players quinton patton, also with the 49ers, and ricardo lockette. They were hanging out and drinking and smoking marijuana. She went to another room with Colin Kaepernick who kissed her ard took off her clothes. They said he left the bedroom and they didnt have sex. The woman says she remembers the other two Football Players peeking into her room. The next thing she remembers is waking up in the hospital. Heres 49ers coach jim harbaugh. Im aware. I dont know anything else about it so no further comment. Reporter miami police again say this is not considered a Sexual Assault investigation. Live in santa clara, kpix 5. Pg e is offering a new reward for information about an attack on a power facility in south san jose. The metcalf substation was hit by sniper fire about a year ago. 100 rounds knocked out 17 giant transformers and they also consultant fiberoptic phone lines at the substation. Damage was more than 15 million. Top bart officials are getting a raise. The board of directors voted unanimously on thursday for a 3. 7 pay hike. The increase in compensation and benefits for the top executives is the same raise that employees got in a new contract approved earlier this year. Barts general managers pay was more than 323,000 last year. Its not even time for the midterm elections but Hillary Clinton just cant escape questions about whether she will run for president again in 2016. As kpix 5s betty yu reports, it happened again last night as the former secretary of state visited san jose state university. If theres a major announcement that you would like to make regarding your future. [ screaming ] reporter Hillary Clinton has tiptoed and danced around the question before. She laughed off talk about a possible run altogether. Im delighted to be with you. And [ screaming ] i am also very honored to be an honorary spartan. Reporter speaking to a full house at san jose state, she focused on empowering women and breaking barriers at the unique lot north americas foremost womens lecture series. All most women need is a fighting chance to prove themselves but they need, in order to do that [ applause ] the support of societies to knock down the barriers that too often stand in the way. Reporter the former secretary of state encouraged the crowd to help the next generation of Women Leaders dare to compete. She wasnt shy about giving her opinion on the Supreme Courts Campaign Finance decision that allows big spenders to give money to as many candidates as they please. I disagree with a lot of the recent Supreme Court decisions because they are [ screaming ] they are transferring an enormous amount of Decision Making within our political system to people with money. Reporter betty yu, kpix 5. The sjsu event went smoothly unlike this one. Clintons appearance earlier in the day in las vegas, she had to dodge a shoe. Was that abat . No, it was a shoe thrown by a female protestor who faces criminal charges. 5 09. Search teams may be closing in on the wreckage of that missing malaysian jet. Why investigators are growing more confident by the day. For the first time we are hearing from one of the students stabbed inside a Pennsylvania High School. More clouds around the bay area this morning. Some cooler weather is on the way. What about the weekend . Well talk about that coming up. And we are rolling right along our show and the morning commute. This is a live look at what traffic looks like now heading out of berkeley into emeryville. Well have a look at your growing drive times after the break. ,,, i want you to know stuff i want you to be kind. I want you to be smart. Super smart. I want one thing in a doctor. I want you to be handsome. I want you to be awesome. I dont want you to look at the chart before you say hi. David. I want you to return my emails. I want you to keep me doing this for another sixty years. At kaiser permanente, we want you to choose the doctor thats right for you. Find your Perfect Match at kp. Org and thrive. Morning. More passengers this cruise ship are sayingy got sick. An official with Princess Cruises says 104 passenge more passengers on that cruise ship are saying they got ship. An official with Princess Cruises says 104 passengers, 25 crew have contracted the norovirus. But the voyage will continue. The cruise ship stopped in San Francisco earlier in the week. Its now down in san diego. About 50 people still quarantined in their cabins on that ship. New this morning, one of the victims of the knife attack at Pennsylvania High School is speaking publicly. Brett hurt left the hospital yesterday one day after being stabbed in the back during a rampage by a fellow student. He was running up the hallway and hit me on the way and i didnt know what happened. 16yearold alex viable now charged with multiple counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault. 21 students and a Security Guard were injured. Developing news. More optimism that search crews will find a malaysian jet thats been missing for more than a month now but as Wendy Gillette reports, theres still a race against time to find it. Reporter australias Prime Minister offered assurances today that search teams may be close to finding the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. A u. S. Navy black box detector aboard the australian ship ocean shield has picked up four under water signals over the past week in the southern indian ocean consistent with those emitted by the planes back boxes. We have very much narrowed down the search area, and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh370. Reporter Prime Minister tony abbott spoke to reporters while visiting shanghai, china. He also brought up the sobering reminder that time is running out. The batteries which emit the signals only last about 30 days. And the plane disappeared more than a month ago. We are hoping to get as much information as we can before the signal finally expires. Reporter investigators announced that the first signal detected by an aircraft is not related to the missing flight. Abbott stressed that even if teams are able to find the planes cockpit voice and flight data recorders, the recovery effort would be a lengthy process. The area where search teams are focusing is about 15,000 feet deep. Wendy gillette for cbs news. And, of course, investigators hope those flight data recorders will help explain what happened to that plane. 5 15. Lets get a check on the roads with elizabeth. And lets get a check of the bay bridge where a lot of people will be heading this morning, one more workday to go and everything is actually looking great all across the span. They cleared the overnight roadwork. So as you can see both directions on that new eastern span looking beautiful this morning. No big fog issues. Drive times still in the clear. Westbound 580 through the Altamont Pass and the dublin interchange Still Holding steady about 15 minutes and same thing up and down the nimitz freeway. As you can see from that drive time at the bottom of your screen, it is still in the green. The taillights youre looking at is the commute direction northbound. Its usually closer to 7 or 8 when we see some kind of delay. Yesterday, we could barely see traffic in this camera the fog was so thick. So just a heads up. Lawrence say theres still fog out there this morning. Getting more crowded for this friday morning commute. Still only 15 minutes between the Altamont Pass and the dublin interchange. Im starting to see some delays though coming out of tracy on 205. To the south bay now, 65 Miles Per Hour if you are coming through downtown san jose. Continues to look good as you pass cupertino. And at the bay bridge toll plaza theres no metering lights no big issues and you saw that traffic all across the span flowing nicely. I5 its a tricky spot this morning trying to get out of town northbound, closed due to the headon crash that happened last night. I5s glenn county near oreland the southbound lanes reopened around 2 30. Thats the latest from the kcbs traffic. More on our weekend forecast. Heres lawrence. Thats right. Just about the weekend. And, well, we have some changes outside today. A lot of clouds sweeping in across our skies. We have low clouds and fog a little drizzle out toward the coastline but look at the mid to highlevel clouds sweeping in across the state due to an area of low pressure off the coastline thats headed towards southern california. But its going to bring us a lot of clouds on and off throughout the day today. The low clouds and the mid to high levels combining to bring the temperatures down becoming partly cloudy by the afternoon. But cooler and then morning clouds and afternoon sunshine for the weekend. Not a bad weekend when the numbers are going to be down a bit. High pressure on this low approaching the coastline. Not a lot of energy with it but clouds sweeping ahead of the system will keep the clouds on and off into the afternoon today. Around the state you will find a few clouds too and a mixture of sun and clouds. Still almost 89 degrees or so into fresno. 82 in sacramento. About 63 degrees and mostly cloudy into monterey bay. Computer models showing you those clouds sweeping up from the south and you have some low clouds and fog down below. In fact, we are probably going to see a strong surge of low clouds and fog as we head into tonight, early tomorrow morning. Maybe all the way into the central valley. Usually when its that strong of a push, it will be a very cool day outside around the bay area. Temperatures this afternoon, 73 in san jose. 69 in san mateo. East bay numbers up into the 70s in many spots. A little cooler into the delta with a breeze there. You will see about 66 in alameda, 63 in sausalito. Next couple of days, we are going to cool down the temperatures. But not a bad weekend in store. Just some morning clouds giving way to some afternoon sunshine. And then the weather starts to get a little unsettled. Yeah, looks like we could even get a chance of a couple of at least a shower or two on wednesday or thursday. You have to work next week . I may have to work a few days, yeah. About time. We may see the mock turtleneck next week. I hope so. Not many more days for that this year. Thanks. Well, today the smartphone war between samsung and apple will likely intensify. Samsung is releasing the galaxy s5 which has some competitive features. You will be able to measure your heart rate with your fingerprint as well as pay for things with your fingerprint and it will sync with two new smart watches which you cant do with the iphone. Rock and roll hall of fame has new inductees including the band that backed Bruce Springsteen for decades. [ music ] that would be the e street band, of course, among many performers at last nights induction ceremony in new york. Others include cat stevens, hall oates, peter gabriel, kiss and nirvana. The bay areas Linda Ronstadt was also inducted but couldnt attend because of her parkinsons disease. Rock and roll hall of fame trending now. Also trending google glass. Google is making special glasses available to consumers on the 15th. Stephen colbert the Comedy Central host taking over the late show for David Letterman. Girls meets world. The disney channels boys meets world spinoff show released its first trailer. And, of course, the bus crash. Fedex truck crashed head on into a full bus of High School Kids along i5 in glenn county near the town of orland last night. Check us on on twitter at cbssf. 5 20 on your friday. Punishments handed down after the death of a man working on the new 49ers stadium. Who regulators blame for that accident. Coming up. Good morning, everybody. Hey, i got some sports for you, about a minutes worth. But trust me, it will be worth. Dont move. The San Francisco giants opened up their baseball season right here at home this past week and we came here and it wasnt for baseball. Wh

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