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KPIX KPIX 5 News Sat Morn Edition April 15, 2017

Right now, a killie start, in the 40s, clear skies outside, a beautiful shot of bay bridge this morning. Futurecast taking you through the day in the south bay starting off in the 40s today. As you can see, mostly clear skies through the day and plenty of sunshine for you. Temperatures warming up to near 70 degrees later on today. Really nice and dry and relatively warm weather but tomorrow things start to change. Were off to a clear start this morning, dry and mild for saturday, but showers on Easter Sunday and you can see that here with a futurecast skyline. Well time it out coming up in a bit. Over to you, devon. Bart is back up and running after a mystery glitch. The first train to San Francisco left an hour ago. Last night east bay riders had trouble getting around. The electrical issue blew out service on 24 cars. Over a year ago bart had a similar problem near North Concord and also between west oakland and the transbay 2. Power spikes hit trains knocking rail cars out of service. Berkeley police are not taking any chances, this time we report they are telling people leave your axes and shields at home. Reporter this is what it looked like the last time there was a protrump rally in berkeleys civic center park, a series of bloody brawls between conservativeses conservatives and liberals. I think they are preparing for the worst. Reporter a trump supporter was there march 4 when the protest turned violent. Hes convinced this time will be different, but admitted. Theres a few people out there that are definitely feeling that theyre coming here to do some kind of fight. Reporter Benjamin Lynch is organizing a counter protest and says his group of protesters will defend themselves. When they come down here with weapons and bats and knives to attack people that dont believe in what they believe, to bring their hate into our community, were not having that here. Reporter the city of berkeley released a long list of items banned from the rally, including baseball bats, poles, glass bottles, pepper spray, knives, razor blades and police are expecting this rally to be larger than the last one, fueled by a rise in tension at campus at uc berkeley. A member of the bcr told us the group has been targeted repeateddedly with graffiti with behead the bcr. We dont think they take it seriously. A settlement has been reached. The dean was accused of Sexual Harassment and it has been agreed to pay 50,000 to a charity and another 50,000 to pay the attorney fees. The former Law School Dean will resign voluntarily next year after taking a oneyear unpaid sabbatical. A south bay family is mourning a mother and daughter killed by a suspected drunk driver on their way home from church, happening late thursday night at Great America parkway near 101 in san jose. Skid marks on highway 101 show where the driver plowed into a car killing a 60yearold woman and a 92yearold woman. The driver lost control, said he was starting to commit to northbound Great America parkway and hit that raised median which caused the vehicle to go further out of control. The driver slammed the red Mercedes Benz head on into the subaru and under the arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence. Hes in the hospital with injuries. Two of the members of the victims family were in the car and hospitalized. A group of renter advocates are on a Hunger Strike in an effort to draw attention to renters facing eviction. Four members of the renters Rights Coalition are on liquid diets, wanting the city council to inability new tenant action. They often evict people without reasonable cause. What we find this year is the same type of lack of prioritizing for the housing crisis and so as part of the coalition we have decided to bring the housing crisis to the front, so to speak. The city council will take up the issues at the next meeting on tuesday. Speaking of san jose housing prices, the city has been ranked first in the nation for the mostcompetitive housing area. San francisco was number two after san jose, 66 of homes, and then oakland, with a close third, and the tight inventory keeps pushing prices up. The number of hopes for sale in san jose fell 25 from last year. That pushed the median home price, get this, in san jose, 957,000, and we were talking about it earlier and were both from answer r san jose from san jose. Its astonishing. It might be cheaper to live in San Francisco than move back home to san jose. Is your boss giving you a giant low interest loan . Probably not but that person is being offered to top first. We report on the sweet deal and now the blowback. Reporter in sunnyvale the big home loans are practically free but only if you are a top executive. They are loans we use as recruiting deal to get high call guyed people into the city and its a tool we use because we like to see the executives live in the city of sunnyvale. Reporter city records show a handful of managers of getting the loans, among of them, deanna, a 1. 1 million home loan and interest rate, less than a point, and the term was 45 years, on top of her 316,000 a year salary. They are receiving the loans at the rate the federal government gives loans. Reporter the loans have become a cloud over bitter contract negotiations between the city and the the employees association because workers have not had a raise in five years. Its a sour note with them. A lot of the members cant afford to live in the city of sunnyvale and commuting long distances. Distances. I leave about 3 30. Reporter he commutes 80 miles one way between sunnyvale and his home near modesto. They say there is no money to give us the raise but they find money to give the loans. Reporter he said he would like a loan the executives are offered so he can send more time with his family instead of on the road. Sunnyvale has another Home Loan Program for employees but not with the same Interest Rates or loan term. Employees say those loans are much smaller, about 22 workers are getting them. Some south bay students just shattered a new state record with 25,000 dominoes, set up inside the Childrens Discovery Museum in san jose and a group of young people who put it together knocked it all down in front of spectators. I learned it was possible to build such a huge machine in three days if you worked hard enough. I had a great time building. I had great people building with me, and i really enjoyed the process. The previous state record of 15,000 was set by the very same team in january. Coming up, an intruder barricading himself inside the bay area home and the bizarre 10hour standoff. Lots of local supermarkets are running low on leafy greens. What is responsible for the lettuce shortage. Protecting yourself from companies that want to have more after you pay the bill. The resident says he came home after work to find the man had baricaded himself inside his twin peaks home. But that was just the first a bizarre breakin in a San Francisco home, the resident said he came home after work to find a man inside his home. This was just the first time. The crazy guy, on my balcony, living in my house. The resident says when he saw him, he had a battle of jagermeister and started screaming and thats when he called police he refused to come out. He was arrested for unlawful entry and resisting arrest and released him wednesday night and it started again. He goes to my room and he just he dances around completely naked for hours. The resident said he called police the next morning and they told him he has the right to use force if he deems it necessary. The suspect is facing two misdemeanor charges for the breakin and hes due in court on monday. Right now leafy greens are in short supply in some bay area grocery stores. Prices for lettuce are more than twice what they should be this time of year but its not just lettuce. Most crop vegetables are hard to find and its the wet weather to blame. All because of the rain. The rain, not last week, not last month, but the rain three months ago, three months ago we should have been planting crops that we should have been harvesting now. We cant do that because they werent planted. Not only may you end up buying the foods for twice the price, what youre getting may not be very high quality because its all thats available. The Central Coast right now, its yellow as far as the high can see thanks to the super bloom we keep hearing about. Check out this incredible drone video. This is the national monument. The flowers are said to be the best in 30 years after years of drought, and only expected to last for another couple of weeks. All right. Take a look at the forecast. We have some more rain on the way that were starting off this morning with plenty of sunshine and nice and dry today. Temperatures are likely on the warm side today. Here we are outside, temperatures in the 40s to start the day, clear skies, a little chilly to get out there this morning, but well have plenty of sunshine, High Pressure though is waiting in the wings and this is what will bring us showers for your Easter Sunday. Get those easter egg hunts in early, folks, if you can today, because tomorrow, likely will be a wet one. Lets time it out with futurecast. Here we are today, plenty of clear skies, clouds increase in the second half of the day, and im hawing it here, around the end of Church Services tomorrow morning or during those tomorrow morning, the leading edge of the rain is moving in here and as we get out of church we head to our sunday brunches maybe and also we have several big games in San Francisco and oakland and the bay area tomorrow, right around this time, and thats when well see the heaviest rain, and traffic problems around here also due to the big games tomorrow. You combine that with rain and you can anticipate problems on the roadway and the outdoor activities. The showers will continue through much of Easter Sunday and tapering off in the evening tomorrow. Well see unsettled weather through monday and through tuesday but the first part of the week, as you see, but the High Pressure builds in the second half of the week and temperatures will dry. For today, really, if you want to get outside, today is the day to do it. Temperatures in the 60s for San Francisco, oakland, upper 60s there, low 70s in concord, slightly above average for this time of year, on the warm side for you. South bay temperatures, warming up into the low 70s for the warmest locations, 60s along the coast. Upper 60s, vallejo, and danville today. Around the bay, temperatures topping out in the mid60s, alameda, San Francisco, daly city, 58, upper 60s for many folks in the bay. A look at the Cherry Blossom festival today, temperatures in the 60s in San Francisco and the extended forecast for you. Starting off the day dry. Tomorrow, showers, monday, unsettled, and we have dry weather thursday, friday, late week, so it dries out and well see sunshine. From deltas 3,000 Flight Cancellations to a bumped passenger dragged off the united flight, its a tough week for travelers but airlines arent alone. Weve been getting a lot of complaints about surprise damage fees from rental car companies, and in one case, a woman wrongfully charged for smoking after she returned the car. Reporter she has found memories of the weekend she and her boyfriend rented a car. San jose says, richmond. Reporter she inspected the car before and after with a budget employee and neither found any problems. They closed me out and gave me a receipt, 94. 23en cents. And week later, her credit card declined due to a suspect hundred 50 charge from budget because employees smelled folk in her vehicle. It was a shock because if you know you dont showing in a car and it made my credit card go over the limit. They will have a hard time proving their case. It time it takes to make the case and defend any charges imposed on the renter. Reporter budgets smoking policy notes exemption like if the customer leaves before the inspection or the vehicle is returned before hours but that didnt apply to them. They went in the passenger side and i didnt hear them say anything about smoking. Reporter theres similar complaints online. After contesting it in person, a manager sent this saying the charges would stand and referenced the comments she made about a previous experience accusing her of a pattern of accusing vehicles poorly many. What recourse does the passenger have . [inaudible] reporter he says the Credit Card Company will investigate and without evidence will likely side with the renter. But the day before the interview she got a call from budget with an apology about the charge. He said it was an error, that it was meant for somebody else. Reporter budget did not responds to our with for comment but this case is a great reminder, whenever possible, use a credit card to pay for purchases like these so you have a recourse. Debit cards dont have the same protections. It goes without saying, you should inspect your vehicle with an employee before you leave the lot. Coming up next, tips to clean your cyber clutter, and we sit down with a representative with the bbb for pointers. Coming up in sports, the giants trying to get back in the win column and the sharks are in playoffs, but chance was there for a 20 lead, and well talk about that more coming up. Grocery outlet Grocery Outlet is the home of wow savings. Wow means you save 50 or more. There are three stages of wow. Denial. Is this price right . Acceptance. And boooyah wait for it. Boooyah has three os. Grocery outlet bargain market save upto 50 80 during our wine sale. Time now for consumerwatch weekend. When you think of Spring Cleaning you may not think of good morning. Welcome back. The time, consumer watch weekend, when you think of Spring Cleaning, you may not think of your computer but it turns out your cyber clutter could be dangerous. Joining us today to talk about why and how we can protect ourselves is jared from the bbb. Thanks for being here. Thank you very much for having us. Were talking Spring Cleaning our cyber clutter. Why is that important . Identity theft is a growing problem. About 400,000 victims was reported with identity theft. Its a growing problem. Make sure you clean up not only your real clutter in your house but also your digital clutter, like yore maims and your apps on your phone. Right. A let to remember. When it comes to digital Spring Cleaning theres some things you can do to protect your identity. Whats your advice . The big thing, make sure Antivirus Software is up to say and make sure your security settings in your phone is upto date. When the phone says to update, make sure you do that. Make sure you have strong passwords. Thats a really big thing, too, and think about going beyond passwords. Think about biometrics and a device key. Make sure you declutter your mobile life. Get rid of the apps youre not using. A lot of those will draw information, as well, so you have to be careful about that too. Just get rid of those apps. I think we have a graphic with bullet points as the main things that we want to know about. Yes. And that includes many of those elements. And then you also say its important to review your privacy and security settings. So keep your machine clean, lock down your login. What does that mean . Password protection. Make sure you have two indications, so if you set a password, make sure you get a text message on your phone. And get rid of the apps you are not using and make sure theres Strong Security settings on the apps and if you dont need to use your camera or microphone, make sure those are turned off on the apps and digital file purge. Get rid of the emails youre not using and clean them up. If you have a lot of clutter, if you subscribe to a lot of maybe shopping lists, get rid of those youre not using. You mentioned review your privacy and security settings. I get lazy and log into things with facebook. I wonder how many different accounts have my Facebook Information and what that means. Exactly. Is there something we should be looking at when it comes to the accounts that we log into on social media . Thats the big thing, too, well be on the computer with multiple sites on and were not logging out of them. Log out of them. Because if you become a victim of maybe a criminal online cyber criminal, theyll access that information as well. On your phone, as well . So close out of those apps, because if nothing else, they are tracking your movements and you may not want some Company Tracking everywhere you go. Yes. Its important to back up your data with security cloud sites or a Password Protected drive, a separate drive, and with ransomware, you want to be careful of that. Getting rid of electronic data. Is there digital shredding . There is. You can do overriding, too. Just because you throw it in a recycle bin and delete it doesnt mean its gone from your computer or phone. It still lives there. Yes. When you turn into the phone, make sure you set it to Factory Settings to purge your phone if youre trading it in. We did a story about this. Take out your sim card. Crush it, destroy it, in some manner. Exactly. Thats how you can digitally shred your documents. What about your reallife documents . Our shredder broke about a year ago and we keeps files in bags of documents that need to beshredded. Do i have to pay to get it shredded somewhere . You can but we actually have a free shredding event next week. Next saturday from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. In concord the city of concord, city hall, well do a free on site shredding. Our company, rip cord, a bb

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