It takes its toll on the cliffs of point reyes. New signs of wear and tear are making a hiking trail potentially dangerous. The cliffs are beautiful and deadly. The National Park service says a fissure developed along a chimney rock trail a popular photography spot featured today in the San Francisco chronicle. We are visiting california for the holidays and we just figured we should come out here and have fun. A fun day outdoors can be deadly when a cliff face clasp. In late march local teacher died when a portion of rock collapsed days after the park service warned hikers about unstable cliffs. Wet weather has a lot to do with this. With rain theres erosion on the trail and wet soil whats more than dry soil and will probably slump weighs more than dry soil and will probably slump into the ocean. Hikers are asked to follow the signs and stay safe by staying on the straight and narrow. We just followed a trail and yeah, look out for sketchy parts of the trail. Were just going to follow
Judge signed off on a settlement. Comcast will pay 26 million and promises to recycle all of it ewaste from now on. Im not a hero. Im just an ordinary person who connected the dots, tried to do the right thing. Reporter in a statement tonight, comcast said we have devoted considerable time and resources toward our Environmental Compliance and have taken a number of steps to improve our practices. We will continue to invest in the education and training of our employees. Now, california has a law that rewards whistleblowers. In this case out of the 26 million, he will get a maximum of 5,000. He says its not about the money. Its about doing the right thing. The power of one. His job is protected and the whole thing . Well, he actually left his job by choice in 2013. So now he is going to start a new job. All right. Da, thank you for that. Well, muni has its share of problems but this is probably the last thing you want to hear. The buses are catching fire. After a couple of close calls,
Tonight this is one of two twisters, that touched downn live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tornadoes hit close to home tonight. This is one of two twisters that touched down in northern california. This is something we rarely ever see around here. Two tornadoes in one day rare. Two tornadoes on Christmas Eve in california . Very rare. One tornado touched down in modesto. The other one in El Dorado Hills east of sacramento. This is cell phone video. Reporter lemor abrams show us us the damage. Reporter it came from highway 50 where drivers spotted a strange white column in the sky. But it was more than a winter cloud. We could see it rotating. Reporter this grandfather and grandson team flew a Remote Control airplane right into it. We could see a funnel cloud forming over folsom point over the lake from this side. And we could see lightning as it moved through. Reporter a mean mix that wreaked havoc from folsom to El Dorado Hills. It is moving to houses. Well, mayb
Temperatures tonight and a cold, fastmoving storm dropped rain. San jose,. 3 inch rain. And earlier tonight, snow at 2500 feet in the Santa Cruz Mountains and more snow around mt. Hamilton. We will see the showers come down the coast overnight tonight through about 9 00 tomorrow morning. There is a chance some of those Peninsula Hill top areas above 2500 feet might get a dusting of snow. Not a lot of rain but you may see showers between now and 9 00 tomorrow morning. Patchy frost in the north bay. But the coalest temperatures as we get into the weekend. The freeze watch for the Central Valley and bay area as temperatures drop through the 20s and low 30s as we move into the weekend well have more on how long the cold blast is going to stick around and another chance of rain come sunday in the forecast. We are getting you images of the tornado that touched down in El Dorado County a few hours ago over the El Dorado Hills and folsom lake at 4 00 p. M. It left behind a trail of damage, roo
The problem, old mattresses that people simply leave on street corners. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran on the cleanup plan. The problem now is that you dont have anyplace to put them. What could you do with a mattress . Reporter you see them under freeways, sidewalks and front yards. Everywhere they are not supposed to be. Its a health problem. They attract rodents. They attracted mold, germs. Reporter this is state senator Lonny Hancock talking about the mattress problem nearly 30 years ago. In 2013, she coauthored a new mattress recycling and recovery law giving birth to the byebye Mattress Program offering californians a place to drop off old mattresses free of charge. If you go ahead and have a place to dispose of em and its free, why not . Reporter before the program would cause 20 to 35 to dump them. But cities and organizations like goodwill would pay because of Illegal Dumping. They just come in and dump em at times when were closed or when were on break. Reporter this goodwill