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KPIX CBS 5 Eyewitness News At 5AM August 27, 2010

Serious major injury accident here. Overturned big rig. Northbound 101 is completely shut down between highway 156 and highway 25. So cars are being detoured off to eastbound 156. You can use 25 to get back on 101. All right. Thats a check of your traffic. Lets get a first check of your forecast with tracy. Hey, thanks, elizabeth. Well, this morning, more clouds out there, fog at the coast, some low clouds at the bay and inland. Get out of my way, john kessler [ laughter ] temperatures this morning ranging from the upper 40s to the upper 50s. Thats going to be as you head out the door. Your sevenday forecast, sunshine expected later on today throughout the bay area. Temperatures mid60s for the coast, mid to upper 60s around the bay and the mid80s inland. Tomorrow more clouds, maybe even a little precip for the north bay. Temperatures cooling down. Sunday we warm up. And were back in the 90s, yeah, by the middle of next week. So if this was a rude an abrupt change to the warm weather that you kind of liked or you loved, dont worry it will be back next week. Summer made a brief appearance and then yeah, very brief. Were trying to keep everybody happy. Some folks who like the warm weather and others who say i love the cool breezes. We have something for everybody. Thank you. See you in a couple of minutes. This morning, crews trying to repair a ruptured underground pipe that leaked thousands of gallons of raw sewage on the peninsula. That pipe is near davett lane and anchor circle in the Redwood Shores. Anne makovec reports. Reporter they are working to repay the line right now. We are right by Redwood Shores. The problem is that a lot of the sewage is already leaked even though by this point its stopped leaking. Crews have been working throughout the night to try to repair the line. They are going to be here all morning long. It ruptured on wednesday spilling raw sewage into the street, lagoon and to six peoples garages. Its a 14 line and yesterday they excavated it and began diverting it to a treatment plant. While the spill is over, the aftereffects are far from over. The water in the lagoon is contaminated with toxins and bacteria. We did some Water Quality testing thats with the lab and there currently are high levels of e. Coli and total coliforms in the water. Reporter they dont know how much. City crews also have not been able to determine what caused the pipe to burst or how much sewage has made it into the San Francisco bay. They also dont know when the people is going to be repaired. But they are keeping everyone around this area informed by doing automated phone calls. They sent some of those out yesterday and will continue as they get more information on this spill. Sydnie. Thank you, anne makovec in redwood city. It is 5 04. Trash day is returning in San Mateo County. A twoday garbage strike ended last night. More than 500 allied waste collectors in solidarity with a dozen strikers. They refused to cross the picket line. This is a landfill in half moon bay. The company will be two days behind schedule handling the overflow of trash. Fires in san jose putting the spotlight on recent layoffs of 49 firefighters. Fires early yesterday morning burned two homes on the citys west side and a Construction Company building near downtown. In the afternoon, there was a 40acre grassfire in the santa teresa area. Some firefighters say the thinner staff made their efforts more difficult. Today results are expected from a vote by members of the firefighters union. They are deciding whether to take a nearly 9 pay cut to allow the rehiring of their laid off colleagues. Oakland police still have no suspects in the murder of a teenager a week before his 14th birthday. Friends and Family Holding a vigil last night for jimon clark, he was shot wednesday night on bancroft he was. He was a star athlete who enjoyed doing magic tricks and religious activities. It weakens you in the knees that here again were back on stage one with the violence and the corruption, you know, in our community. Laying off 80 Police Officers, they should be adding more Police Officers to help circumvent the crime thats still out there on our streets. Jimon clark was shot as he and his 15yearold brother walked to a gas station to help a friend. Investigators say the gunman went through the teens pockets and stole 2 before running off. 5 06. Its not the chickens. Its what they eat. Thats believed to be the source of the salmonella contamination that may be linked to 1500 illnesses. The fda found salmonella in chicken feed used in the recall of millions of eggs. Some have questioned why so many eggs. Critics say the fda doesnt have the resources it needs to prevent problems. The agency acts more like a Fire Department waiting for the problems to emerge and then going out and inspecting the facilities. Its really a backwards system. The farms owner is being asked to testify before Congress Next month. He paid millions in fines over the last 20 years for various health, safety, immigration and environmental violations. Former president jimmy carter is due back in boston from north korea today along with an american whose freedom he helped arrange. Carter traveled on a private mission to secure a pardon for 31yearold molly gomes who was arrested for trespassing in north korea. There is no indication that carter actually met with kim jongil. But that countrys News Agency Says kim granted carters request to leniently forgive gomes. Another toyota recall that may linked to a few accidents. A shortterm break for bart riders to save more than 2 million. Operate a separate warehouse in emeryville. ,,,,,,,, good morning. An injury crash in palo alto is cleared so its a nice ride along the peninsula. Coming up, we still have that stretch of 101 shut down in watsonville. Well have details on that in a few minutes. It is 5 10 right now. Thank you, elizabeth, well see you in a couple of minutes. Approved. Ikeas plan to operate a separate warehouse in emeryville. They applauded . The empty warehouse is a few blocks away from the ikea furniture store. The site would be used for storage and customer pickup of bulky items. People who live near the site on hollis and 53rd say they are worried about an increase in traffic and noise. We are so close to this. I personally and all of emery bay village are so close to this. Go over there and look how close this is. Theres no way its not going to drastically reduce our quality of life. There will be no Product Sales out of this building. We wont sell anything out of this building. No food. No services. Come pick up your stuff. Load it in your car. And youre on your way. The Planning Commission approved the project. It was a 43 vote. The proposal now heads to the entire city council. Bart rewarding riders loyalty by delaying the next fare hike for six months. The Transit Agency has regularly scheduled fare hikes every two years to counter the rate of inflation. The next increase was set for new years day 2012. Now it wont go into effect until july of 2012. The move will save riders 2. 2 million. It is all part of a larger rider appreciation package from barts 8 million surplus that includes replacing seats and installing realtime departure signs. Toyota recalling 1. 3 million cars because of stalling engines. It covers corollas and matrix hatchbacks from 2005 through 2008 model years. Three accidents and a minor injury have been reported but toyota isnt positive the accidents are linked to the engine issue. Toyota will begin mailing notification to cussers in in midseptember. In sacramento, passengers scrambled down emergency chutes. This was jetblue flight that had made a rather hard landing. The tires under the right wing apparently caught fire. Bumps and bruises but no one was badly injured. So our question of the day, what was your scariest moment in flight. The first pictures of the trapped miners in chile. And weekend is almost here. Its the longest week ever with that mini heat wave earlier. The weekend is just a day away, folks. I think you will like the forecast. I have the forecast coming up. ,,,, [ indistinct conversations ] [ female announcer ] this is not a burger. Its better. Because with 57 less fat than regular ground beef, its better for you. You see, this is a morningstar farms® meatless griller. Thats right, meatless. And it tastes as good as it looks. So you can still enjoy that grilledburger taste you love. And everything that comes with it. Morningstar farms® grillers® original. [ indistinct conversations ] now thats more like it. This saturday only for big savings on back to school looks. Start saving big early with four hour steals get big savings on kids uniforms, now 55 off. Save big on a new pair of jeans guys arizona jeans are just 12. 99. And juniors arizona jeans are just 14. 99. Plus, get onthespot savings with jcp cash this friday and saturday get 10 off when you spend 25 unlike other stores, we dont make you come back to save go to jcp. Com to see everything on sale. New look. New year. Who knew jcpenney. Good morning. Starting with a live look at the san mateo bridge where there is no, nothing, no problems across the san mateo bridge. This is the commute direction westbound 92 if you are heading towards the peninsula. An earlier problem in palo alto. A crash never caused any delays. Traffic is very light. 101 and 280 both moving well heading into San Francisco. This is a live look northbound 101 at candlestick as the sign says. Everything is fine up towards hospital curve and towards downtown. If you are coming the other direction from the east bay, bay bridge toll plaza no metering lights. No construction. Just a nice easy ride all the way across the span. A couple more traffic cameras. This is where we are seeing a problem far south over in the watsonville area. There was an overturned big rig around midnight and they still have that stretch of northbound 101 shut down between highway 156 and highway 25. Cars are being detoured in the area. They have to use eastbound 126 to get you back on northbound 25 as you can see from our map and that gets you back on 101 from there. But still no estimated time when they are going to get that stretch of northbound 101 re opened. Southbound lanes are open to traffic. That is your traffic. For your forecast, heres tracy. Hey, thanks, elizabeth. Friday forecast well also take a look at the weekend because hey, its just a day away. Our Daily Planner for this morning, youre heading out the door. Youre wondering, okay is it going to be cold today, is it going to be hot today, whats going on . Well, partly cloudy conditions for the morning. That should give you some indication of what will be happening. Temperatures ranging from ther 40s to the lower from the upper 40s to the lower 50s, even fog at the coast. In the afternoon, sunshine and mild temperatures which continue to cool down inland. Yesterday, antioch in the lower 90s today, the mid80s. Mid70s to mid80s inland. Sunny at the bay, 50s and 60s. Satellite and radar, we have something to show you. Clouds moving in right here. This is a small disturbance thats going to be pushing into the bay area tomorrow giving us more cloud maybe even a small chance of light rainfall especially in the areas in the north bay. So if you walk out and say hey, where are these clouds, thats where they are coming from. Following this morning following this morning sunday we will begin to rebound with more sunshine and slightly warmer temperatures. And temperatures will continue to rebound monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. The weekend is almost here, folks. A festival of the arts is going on saturday and sunday. Nice conditions partly cloudy for saturday with temperatures just near 70 degrees. Sunday mostly sunny skies with a High Temperature of 71 degrees. That is a look at your weather this friday morning. Back up to you. Get it out, tracy. 5 19. Lets take a look at some of the stories we are following. No word when a sewage pipe will be repaired in redwood city. Sewage flowed into the garages of six homes and into the bay. People are warned not to come into contact with the water in Redwood Shores lagoon. Tainted chicken feed is what federal investigators think is behind the salmonella contamination. Leading to millions of eggs being recalled. They found the salmonella in feed in two of the farms involved. 1500 people have gotten sick from bad eggs. In his new video from chile showing the 33 miners trapped half mile underground. Footage came from a camera that the government sent down a hole used for communicating with those miners. Well have more on their story at 5 30. It is 5 20. Apparently we are worshipping at the church of apple again. Apple creating some buzz. They are going to have a press conference next week. They dont know what its going to be about. But heck, well be there. They are having a news conference, we dont know what its about but were going to tell ya. Some people believe apple will unveil a new ipod touch which could be resigned or redestined to look like the iphone 4. Of course thats what some people say. But we dont know. There may also be a new ipod shuffle. But we dont know. Something else apple may announce. A new service to allow music streaming over the internet without having to download it. But we dont know. Its exciting to think about. Boy, you bet well be there. Apple farts, were on top of it. Coming up, the burglar that steals dog business schedule snacks. ,,,,,,,,, when i melt to sleep with unisom sleep melts i get to sleep faster, stay asleep and wake refreshed. Melt to sleep fast. Unisom sleep melts. We have a beautiful picture here of the transamerica building and forecast later on today, nothing to sneeze at. Look at those temperatures. Upper 60s in San Francisco, a mix of sun and clouds. Plenty of sunshine in berkeley with a high of 67. 81 in pleasant hill. More sunshine to go around. 81 in san ramon and 85 in antioch. Clouds over the course of the weekend, maybe even a few sprinkles. Which of the two weekend days will be the cooler of the two . Ill let you know. Thats coming up. Thank you very much. Well see you in a couple of minutes. 5 25. Nice park job. That wasnt me. A couple of suspected car thieves are under arrest this after a highspeed chase through the oakland streets. Police say they spotted a stolen pickup near macarthur and pearson. That was just before noon on yesterday. When they tried to stop the driver, he sped off. Then the driver crashed the truck into a car near 20th and 12th and then plowed into a power pole. The driver and the passenger tried to make a run for it, but they were caught. Is it on a fire hydrant or something . Or whats left of the power pole. Bristol palin there is the car again huh . Bristol palin has agreed to join dancing with the stars for the upcoming season. A report on the e channels website says the 19yearold single mother and daughter of sarah palin will join david hasselhoff, singer brandy and Mike Sorrentino from jersey shore. The hof ] the hoff and the situation on the same show . Scary. Bristol palin has been supporting herself independently and living apart from her mother. This morning the early show has an exclusive interview with levi johnson. They will talk to him about his political aspirations and Reality Tv Show as he runs for mayor of wasilla. Is he running for mayor because he wants to be mayor or this new reality show . Good question. Doesnt matter, really. No. Is he going to get elected . He going to make some money . People living along the American River canyon in auburn are on alert for a bear that broke into a home. The home owner says a 6foot bear very gently removed a screen door. A little screwdriver . By the hinges. And then he helped himself to a snack. A bag of dog biscuits. The owners tried to scare him away but apparently the bear did not budge. You talking to me . [ laughter ] eventually he left on his own. No one was hurt. Neighbors are keeping a lookout, though, for a hungry burglar. I heard up in tahoe they get into your freezer and get things like haagendazs. You cannot stop them. 5 27. Coming up in the next half hour, they still dont have their luggage. When passengers on the jetblue flight that made a rough landing in sacramento can expect to get their belongings. And for the first time we are going to see what life is like underground for those 33 miners trapped in chile. And a nasty spill from the streets into the waters reaching the San Francisco bay. [ signal breakup ] how theyre keeping people informed coming up. ,, our Real National pastime . Saving money. And like baseball people love their stats. I started bringing my lunch to work 50 bucks a week in my pocket. Heres a good one state farm insures 40 million drivers. More than geico and progressive combined. I saved because im accidentfree. Of course, with so many ways to save including discounts of up to 40 , having that many customers shouldnt be a surprise. So ask a neighbor about state farm, then call an agent at 1800statefarm or go online. Baccalaureate. Correct. 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Light traffic including across the golden gate bridge. They did the lane change. So everything is flowing nicely as you approach the pay gates. Same thing at the bay bridge. No more roadwork on the upper deck and san mateo bridge, no problems. No issues. Lets go to our maps. We heard about this situation right there on highway 9

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