captured a picture of melville being helped from an suv to an ambulance. it s going to be very difficult to know if it s a single sea lion that s attacking swimmers. reporter: melville says he will swim closer to shore and he warned fellow swimmers. learn about these majestic creatures. learn to respect them, learn to give them distance, learn to defer to them. there s a different reasons why a sea lion would attack. it could be a young sea lion being territorial or it could have been sick or feeding near by. a red flag warning is in effect for all the bay area hills. bryan acme joins us. a bit unusual for mid-december. it doesn t happen often. but it s been a few years. warnings have been posted area wide. the combination to the north, high offshore. strong winds right through sunday morning. that s why there are wind advisories posted. we re going to have these conditions through sunday morning. we re going to have the complete forecast coming up. tonight pg &
across the state. in just a matter of days, this fl now at 11:00, the deadliest week for the flu. tonight, we learn dozens of deaths across the state in just a matter of days this flu season. good evening, i m elizabeth cook. i m veronica de la cruz. kpix 5 maria medina live tonight in san jose with the warning from health officials. maria? reporter: yeah, we may have seen the worst of the flu season here in california, but it is not over yet. i started feeling symptoms around tuesday. at school, i got dizzy. reporter: lindsey rouis is a number of patients testing for influenza. this flu season is shaping up to be one of the worst in decades. back in 14 and 15 back in 14 and 15, 50,000 people died from the flu. we re on track to reach that level and potentially exceed it. reporter: today the cdc announced the flu of pneumonia caused one out of ten deaths in the u.s. the cdc reported ten more pediatric deaths for a total of 63 this year compared to 20 this
comes to cal in two days. and tonight: prot now at 11:00, this conservative commentator comes to cal in two days. tonight protesters have a very good reason to keep the peace. good evening i m elizabeth cook. i m ken bastida. tonight police in berkeley have a new tool to reign in the rioters. joe vazquez reports. the city just gave their officers the power to pepper spray. we have those on the left and the right who agree. it was a heated contentious emergency meeting of the berkeley city council. please do not walk down this path of unintended consequences. reporter: as the mayor proposed changing the police use of force policy. we need to solve this problem and it needs to be solved in a way that prevents those to gain a stronghold. reporter: to allow police to use pepper spray on a crowd. this will be the right thing. preventing people from getting physically hit. reporter: so far this year there has been one violent crash after another in berkeley. the
spray. we have those on the left and the right who agree. it was a heated contentious emergency meeting of the berkeley city council. please do not walk down this path of unintended consequences. reporter: as the mayor proposed changing the police use of force policy. we need to solve this problem and it needs to be solved in a way that prevents those to gain a stronghold. reporter: to allow police to use pepper spray on a crowd. this will be the right thing. preventing people from getting physically hit. reporter: so far this year there has been one violent crash after another in berkeley. the mayor and police chief say they need to allow cops to use pepper spray not for crowd dispersal, but only when demonstrators get violent. reporter: the city council approved the measure 6-3. this is a tool we are being granted to trust in our council and community to use for those very difficult, violent confrontations that may occur in the future. reporter: for ex
officers responded from one of the nearest police stations in corning 20 minutes away. that s where kpix 5 juliette goodrich is tonight. juliette? reporter: ken, four people were killed, ten others injured. tonight we re getting our first look at the youngest victim, a 6-year-old little boy at the uc davis medical center tonight in the hospital room. you can see him there. fortunately he s in stable condition and expected to go home very soon. now tonight we re outside the corning police department where corning officers were a part of this shootout that eventually killed the gunman. 43-year-old kevin neal is known to officers. he ran damly picked randomly picked targets. sarah gonzalez was one of the targets. reporter: what did he do? he shot through the front windshield. at you directly? right. what was going through your mind? at that moment nothing until he left. reporter: towards a rancho elementary school where her daughter ariana goes to school. he