Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition 20140924 : co

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition 20140924

For felony thefts at twocar dealerships in the city of san mateo. Could the two teenagers also be part of this organized group of car thieves that stole more than 20 cars over the weekend . They used the fobs to locate the cars. Reporter police throughout the bay area are now comparing notes to see if the cases are related. As we first reported the formula 1 dealership in san jose captured the thieves on surveillance video, seven men breaking in and going straight for the key box. They are not concerned with getting caught. So these crooks are probably pros. They probably have done this more than once. And again, maybe the idea that maybe they are not from the area . Reporter they click on the key fobs, the lights flicker and the thieves take off. With five cars from formula 1, eight cars from nearby Mercedes Benz of stevens creek, and eight more from autobahn mercedes in belmont, many of the cars have been found. All have been essentially dumped or abandoned in oakland just basically parked. Reporter why would somebody go through all that trouble to steal the cars and abandoned them . We havent figured that out. Reporter joe vazquez, kpix 5. Time now 4 32. New this morning, two people were killed, one injured, in a shooting in san jose. It happened around 9 00 last night on rancho drive at seven trees boulevard. Two men shot at least once each. Both pronounced dead at the scene. The third victim taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening. So far, no arrests. Firefighters are making slow and steady progress against the massive king fire in el dorado county. The fire is now 35 contained. 89,500 acres have been burned and it could get worse today. Winds will pick up and temperatures are expected to go up over the next few days. At least a dozen homes have burned, devastated homeowners are already picking up the pieces and looking forward. You know, weve made quite a life up here that we love. So, um, onward and upward. 2700 people are still not allowed to go back home. 4 33. First check of weather with drizzle. A little damp around the bay area now and i think there will be fire relief coming up. Rain will move in our direction some real rain. Looks like it could be coming our way within the next 24 hours. All right. Here we go. Out the door, look at this. We have this cold front very, very impressive for this time of year. Of course, we are going to see the heaviest rainfall up in the Pacific Northwest some places there could be upwards of four inches but now beginning to see it make its way onshore. Eureka with showers. Its a slow mover so its going to take some time to get here. Well see some increasing clouds throughout the day but ahead of it, we have seen a lot of low clouds and fog. Some very, very mild temperatures. And damp conditions with some heavy drizzle reported around parts of the bay area. Temperatures now into the 60s. By this afternoon, well still squeeze in some 70s maybe a couple of low 80s inland but these temperatures coming down and theres some rain on the way. Well talk more about that in a few minutes. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Some wet roads this morning. We are busy with a few spinouts out there so again be careful. Give yourself some extra time for this mornings commute. Lets take a live look outside and show what you were talking about. So live look at westbound 580 coming into pleasanton. A lot of overnight roadwork is still out there as well from hacienda to san ramon road, foothill san ramon road. You can see some slowdowns right before you reach 680. Golden gate bridge everything moving at the limit. Slick roads on the Golden Gate Bridge. Bay bridge toll plaza still clear. They cleared the overnight roadwork. No blocked lanes. No delay into San Francisco. A couple of spinouts, one eastbound 80 approaching San Pablo Dam road and there was another one coming into daly city. Nothing causing huge delays but just be careful. Chp is already busies. Bart is on time. More than 25 trains. Remember kcbs, our radio partner, when you hit the roads at 106. 9 fm or 740am. That is traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. 4 35. Golden gate transit workers could go out on strike later this week. Worker from a Machinist Union staged a oneday strike over claims of unfair labor practices just last week. There are 13 unions representing district workers and right now its unclear which of them would go out on strike. A strike could affect thousands, though, of bus and ferry customers and impact drivers on the Golden Gate Bridge. Animal control officials have ordered lab tests on eight suspicious meatballs found in a santa rosa dog park. The meatballs were found saturday on a trail at a facility called a place to play. There are no reports of any dogs being sickened. But there are concerns the meatballs could have been poisoned. Over the past year in San Francisco, more than 30 poisoned meatballs were discovered in areas where pets were likely to find them. One dog died and another one became ill. For more of these incidents, go to kpix. Com click on the photo of meatballs on the main page. A walnut creek woman kidnapped as she stood in her front yard. The armed suspect took her for a ride. Christin ayers shows what happened next. Reporter Walnut Creek Police surround a home on muller road looking for clues. The suspect forced a woman into her car, this audi, and took her on a terrifying ride down quiet lakewood road, through this leafy residential neighborhood and into downtown walnut creek where he stopped at this atm and forced her to withdraw money. It happened at noon . [ pause ] wow. Kind of sad. You know, that somebody would feel like they can get away with that in broad daylight like that. Reporter people who live on her street too traumatized to talk about what happened on camera knowing the suspect is still out there. The woman was not harmed but people who live here say this is a reality check for walnut creek. You dont like to think of it happen in the suburbs. It happens in San Francisco. No place is safe. Walnut creek police have only a vague description of the suspect. If you saw anything, they would like to hear from you. Santa clara county prosecutors have hit a potentially major snag in a murder case that took 25 years to solve. Murder victim cathy zimmers body was found in 1989 wrapped in a quilt in a car parked at San Jose International airport. Her husband and brotherinlaw were arrested in march. But the prosecutor was recently replaced on the case because he allegedly had an affair with a key witness, a Crime Lab Evidence technician. Now the mercury news says the original prosecutor also failed to disclose more than 10,000 pages of evidence. The d. A. s office has since turned over the evidence but the situation could potentially prompt the judge to exclude key dna findings. San Francisco Police are trying to find this man. He disappeared from the tunnel Rehabilitation Center yesterday afternoon. Donald brockett is recovering from a stroke. He is not taking his medication and could become violent. Developing in new york today president obama expected to talk to isis talk about isis, rather, at the u. N. I think we now have an opportunity to send a clear message that the world is united. The president met with leaders from the five arab nations that are participating in air strikes against isis in syria. The pentagon is calling yesterdays Bombing Campaign that targeted isis, Communications Training and supply centers, a big success. The president will chair a Security Council meeting at the u. N. Members are expected to adopt a resolution to require countries to pass laws to try to prevent their citizens from joining terrorist groups. The threat of foreign terrorist fighters is very real. And we have to start with the uncomfortable reality that security measures alone will not solve this problem. The National Counter Terrorism Center estimates some 15,000 foreign fighters have all traveled to the middle east to join groups like isis. This weeks u. S. Airstrikes have not only targeted isis, but also a lesser known terrorist Organization Called khorasan. Kpix 5s cate caugiran has more on this al qaeda splinter group. Reporter the name khorasan may be new to us but u. S. Officials say we have been fighting it its members for years. Now taking advantage of the lawlessness in syria, this terror cell of Al Qaedalinked fighters was working on making bombs that could be smuggled on airlines. We know al qaeda experimented with nonmetallic bombs that may be hid then shoes, clothes, cell phones, laptops and tubes of toothpaste. That intel prompted the tsa in july to tighten security for u. S. Bound flights from two dozen foreign airports. Sources say khorasan, which takes orders from al qaeda chief ayman al sa what herery, may have been trained by the top bombmaker based in yemen. He is the architect of bombs in underwear and computer printers. The air strikes on khorasan disrupted an imminent plot according to thi general. They were going to target the u. S. Reporter khorasan works in tandem with al qaedas affiliate in syria. This video shows extensive damage from the air strikes. Tonight the u. S. Is trying to determine if a major khorasan leader was killed. On the twitter they say a person died in the bombing. He was once a close adviser to Osama Bin Laden on the u. S. List of most wanted terrorists. Cate caugiran, kpix 5. Unlike isis, khorasan is not fighting for territory. Instead, sources say khorasan is plotting attacks against the west and recruiting american and european radicals. Happening today, the jews celebrating rosh hashana. Thats the jewish new year begins at sundown today ends at nightfall on friday. There are four new years in the jewish year. Rosh hashana is considered the new year for people, animals and legal contracts. Time now is 4 41. Firefighters are calling for their own chief to be removed. Why they say its a matter of Public Safety coming up. Whats cool about your school . Email your nominations to us at coolschools kpix. Com. We may come and feature your school on the show. Iwith something terrible to admit. I treated thousands of patients, risked their lives, while high on prescription drugs. I was an addict. Im recovered now, but an estimated 500,000 medical professionals are still out there, abusing drugs or alcohol. Police, airline pilots, bus drivers. Theyre randomly tested for drugs and alcohol. But not us doctors. You can change that vote yes on proposition 46. Your lives are in our hands. Franciscos fire chief. Cg a crisis of confidence in some firefighters are calling for the ouster of San Franciscos fire chief citing a crisis of confidence in joanne hayeswhite. U. N. Leaders plan to sent a letter to the San Francisco mayor today. According to a copy obtained by a kpix 5 source the Firefighters Want an interim Leadership Team to address understaffing, excess overtime and what they call an ongoing ambulance shortage. Mayor ed lee said yesterday he had not seen the letter yet. I do have confidence in the chief and we are working very hard particularly on this ambulance Response Time that we have and im going to our office is taking up responsibility to make sure that the Response Times are better than what weve seen. Hayeswhite says she is not thinking about resigning. She thinks part of problems stems from discipline cases that made some firefighters unhappy. The states historic drought is causing glaciers to melt here in california. As Elizabeth Cook shows us, its having a devastating impact on communities like mount shasta. Reporter this is what happens when californias drought goes rushing downstream. 15 miles of mud, eight feet deep, creating something between quicksand and concrete. This is the biggest mud floe we have seen in 90 years. Reporter outdoorsman Tom Steinstra has covered every inch of california. But he has never walked through anything like this. The aftermath of a shasta glacier left vulnerable by another winter with very little snow. The snow acts as a mortar for everything. It hold the mountain together. Reporter no snow and warm temperatures. At 10,000 feet this year, i measured it at 70 degrees. So we got a subliminal melting underneath the glaciers. Reporter from there, all it took was gravity. A crack in the glacier, a chunk falls, and all that water pours down and floods out the entire watershed system all the way down to the Mccloud River 15 miles away. Reporter and the danger isnt over. Emergency workers are now worried about the glaciers on shastas north slope and all of this is unfolding just minutes away from the site of last weeks fire that tore through the town of weed. This is one of the worst fire seasons for Siskiyou County in history. All those conditions are set up right now. Reporter a catastrophic fire, melting glaciers, and a landmark mud slide, all in one week on one mountain as the california landscape literally falls apart in our third year of drought. Yeah. Weve on the edge right now. We desperately need a normal winter. Reporter Elizabeth Cook, kpix 5. Maybe a little bit of relief. We had a little drizzle today and i guess you have a little cold front looking at doppler over there, huh. Yeah. This is great news for the fires around the state. This year we are getting rain coming our way. Right now we have some drizzle outside the door very damp on the roads but check it out. Our hidef Doppler Radar is tracking some raindrops, cold front just making its way into the state. It is up in far Northern California toward Crescent City and eureka already getting some rainfall. This is going to be a slow moving storm system so going to take the better part of the day to get here but we are seeing lots of clouds this morning and some drizzle out ahead of it. More clouds on the way into the afternoon. Then a chance of showers developing north of the Golden Gate Bridge later on this evening. Then rain spreading south as we head into tomorrow morning. So here we go. High pressure ahead of this system pretty impressive cold front for this time of year diving into the Pacific Northwest and the state. That will bring with it some rain into the bay area for tomorrow. Temperatures around the state youll still see some 80s and 90s into the Central Valley the further north you go the better chance you have of rainfall for today. Computer models timing you out for it a little bit. Well see increasing clouds into the afternoon then later on this evening showers developing in the north bay. Tomorrow it drags through the bay area and it could be slick tomorrow. That should move out by tomorrow afternoon, becoming partly cloudy and sunshine later on this afternoon. Temperatures today in the 70s maybe a couple of low 80s inland. 60s along the coastline. Next couple of days, looks like we are getting into the wet season early. Thats good news. Maybe a lingering shower on friday back to warming as we head into the weekend with more sunshine on the way. All right. Lets check the roads with elizabeth. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, lawrence. And even though theres just a few sprinkles out the door this morning, chp is already working a dozen different incidents all around the bay area so obviously theres a few spinouts out there and overnight roadwork. So theres a couple of things that could slow you down. 880, they cleared the roadwork in the northbound direction. Southbound 880 though coming out of downtown, you will still hit some overnight roadwork likely for the next 10, 15 minutes and they will be picking that up. Right now the drive time looks good in both directions between san leandro and the macarthur maze. Your other bay area roadways heres a live look at the san mateo bridge. The right side of your screen commute direction still looks great no delay out of hayward. And bay bridge they much earlier cleared the overnight roadwork on the span. And so you can see its a nice drive except for the slick conditions approaching the bay bridge toll plaza, just slight delays in the far left cash lanes. I mentioned a couple of spinouts they continue to come in just kind of warning of these slick roads and how you should really slow it down. Heres another one eastbound 24 in lafayette approaching oak hill. That one blocking a lane. And then another one we have a slight location change also countercommute eastbound 80 approaching richmond parkway. No delay in either direction and mass transit is on time. That is traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you, liz. Cupertinobased apple plans to build a new store in San Francisco but theres an issue they cant tiptoe around apparently. Seven 35foottall tulip streets on the stockton street sidewalk. Apple wants to remove them but needs the city of San Franciscos permission to do so. The City Arborist said these trees are in fair or Good Condition each the seven trees. We said lets not take them out. We want to grow our urban forest, not destroy it in any way. But there might be wiggle room for how apple can go forward with its plans and we can still have street trees in San Francisco in the area. San franciscos director of public works will make the final decision. Apple says it does plan to plant more trees, though, around its new store. Lawsuits threaten to derail the transba

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