Recordbreaking temperatures in the bay area in january. The warm weather drew people to the beaches potentially dangerous surf including these waves in santa cruz forced people to stay out of the water. Im matt keller. Living in the bay area, you knew we were due for a stretch of springlike temperatures in the winter. Lisa joins us live from the embarcadero. Lisa its cooler now but earlier it certainly didnt feel like january. Reporter that is very true, matt. You know, a lot of people took advantage of the warm weather while they could which will last through tomorrow. It comes with pretty serious downsides. They were taking in the lights the sights and the warm temps tonight along the embarcadero. I dont know if this has anything to do with Global Warming or climate change, but ill sure enjoy it. Reporter it wasnt hard to find people in shorts and a tshirt in pacifica today where it was 70 degrees. Typically this time of the year its in the 50s here. Its beautiful. Especially since t
Chaos. That is when a 63yearold woman was driving a honda fit when she suffered some kind of medical emergency and then plowed right through the front door of the macys. She struck a man on the sidewalk, dragged him 80 feet into the store and then hit several more people inside. She went some distance before actually braking since the first skidmarks are seen inside the store. It was a miracle the car didnt hit a whole lot in terms of structures going inside. It was just the corridor happened to go down the corridor. It did impact several people inside. Those people were transported. I was nervous. Actually i saw the helicopters from like the highway when i took the 880 exit. You know . So i was really scared. And i was nervous that i would you know, i didnt want to lose any of my friends and and im scared for the people in there that got hurt. Reporter a total of 6 people were injured and the man who was struck on the sidewalk and dragged into there is in Critical Condition. The macys
Safety rope. Tommy envisioned this climb in 2007 and audacious considering the wall. This is the blankest section of the wall with few cracks. It took every bit of those 7 years of work to make this real. The president even posted a congratulatory message to the climbers online. Kpix 5s mark kelly has more on the big accomplishment at yosemite. Reporter this kiss sealed 7 years of hard work. Thats how long these climbers had been planning and training to scale el capitan. Whoo reporter with the long lens photographer tom evans has been capturing the climbers scale the 3,000foot peak. This is a giant leap forward in free climbing standards for climbing in the world and a big daily for yosemite climbing. Reporter with each day, people filled the meadow below el capitan for a glimpse of these men and a chance to cheer them on. They started the free climb december 27 with a few tumbles, which they called taking a whipper, along the way. With no equipment except a few safety ropes, fear of
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Its 20 feet bay area roads no match for this storm. A giant sinkhole swallowed the street. 20 feet wide tonight and its getting bigger. We havent had two days of rain like this in six years and theres more in the forecast tonight. We are not completely finished with the rainfall yet, still scattered showers, absolutely nothing like the thunderstorms and heavy rain that we had 24 hours ago but still the radar is pretty active. Kpix5 hidef doppler showing rainfall for you, walnut creek, concord, pleasant hill, a new batch of light to moderate rain in san jose and milpitas and also near pacifica and half moon bay. The widespread very heavy rainfall is finished. 7 inches of rain in los gatos, morgan hills three inches, pleasanton and martinez 2 1 2 inches, officially downtown San Francisco 4 inches of rain in the past three days, more in burlingame and novato 5. 37 inches of rainfall. More rain over a twoday period than we received in
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight this car crashes through a bay area macys and keeps going right into shoppers. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. Im allen martin. Ken bastida and Elizabeth Cook are on assignment. Andria borba is at the new park mall in newark for us tonight. Reporter take a look behind me. You can see about six hours later, investigators are still on scene here trying to figure out exactly what happened. And i spoke to one Police Officer just a short time ago. When he arrived on scene, it was so chaotic, he saw a smashed doll house on the sidewalk and department know what what he was walking into. This honda fit cut a path through the parking lot and 80 feet into the macys mens department. She was moving at speed when she went in. Reporter there were no signs the driver tried to stop in the parking lot and that the braking skid marks only start inside the department store. Alameda county firefighters think the driver had a medical ep