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now at 11.. 11 seconds from disaster. tonight, an aviation expert tells kpix 5: we escaped catastrophe at s- f-o.. but just barely. 11 seconds from disaster, tonight an aviation expert tells kpix5 we escaped catastrophe at sfo but just barely. good evening. i m elizabeth cook. i m ken bastida. andria borba is live at sfo tonight with some new details on that near disaster. reporter: late friday night there were four airplanes stacked up on the taxiway here at sfo, three united airlines flights, one philippines air flight, all filled with fuel and more than 1,000 passengers when that near miss happened. when air canada flight 759 was descending from the skies to sfo, california insurance commissioner was on board. he knew something was wrong with the landing. as we were about to land in san francisco, suddenly the plane stopped descending and instead sharply began a very steep climb with the engines laboring. reporter: after the climb and banking around the san ....
11 seconds from disaster, tonight an aviation expert tells kpix5 we escaped catastrophe at sfo but just barely. good evening. i m elizabeth cook. i m ken bastida. andria borba is live at sfo tonight with some new details on that near disaster. reporter: late friday night there were four airplanes stacked up on the taxiway here at sfo, three united airlines flights, one philippines air flight, all filled with fuel and more than 1,000 passengers when that near miss happened. when air canada flight 759 was descending from the skies to sfo, california insurance commissioner was on board. he knew something was wrong with the landing. as we were about to land in san francisco, suddenly the plane stopped descending and instead sharply began a very steep climb with the engines laboring. reporter: after the climb and banking around the san francisco bay the pilot had this to say. nonchalantly came on the intercom and said that there s been a little more traffic at the ....
conditions, cal trans sent out this video with the caption in case you re wondering why interstate 80 is closed. that makes it clear. the storm is exiting. the bad news, we continue to see streams and creeks on the rise. you can see the back end of the steadier showers moving through the heart of the bay area. so we ll zoom on into street level. light showers after what had been a wet evening. from san ramon to hayward. you ve go a lone downwapour the. this evening we re seeing light showers out there right now. we do have a flash flood warning to talk about in alameda county along the alameda creek. this will go until midnight tonight. the river, or i should say the creek, rather, is overflowing its banks. we continue to see numerous flood warnings in the north bay. we have numerous flood warnings. this means we already saw water ponding on the roadways in these areas and will continue to see that as we go through the evening hours. watching our rivers as well. t ....
be former mayor jean claude and her husband. they want to open the dispensary in san francisco s sunset district. they say that check they chose the location because the chinese community is underserved. amber, the opposition at this dispensary is coming from numbers of the chinese community. reporter: that s right. we are at 32nd avenue. the empty storefront behind me is the proposed site. ambres are upset saying this is not an appropriate location. this was once a pharmacy. now, former oakland mayor jean quan and her husband plan to open a cannabis club that serves the chinese community. our community doesn t have access right now. reporter: access that would be modeled after the apothecary. hume says it will be professionally operated in a safe environment. as a gerontologist, he says he sees many elderly chinese women suffering debilitating pain and marijuana is an alternative to prescription painkillers. we need a bilingual and bicultural location. repor ....
b.a.r.t. station. in both directions, not stopping at walnut creek, all because of that man who was threatening suicide at that walnut krek station. this is what b.a.r.t. had to say about that. we want people to understand the severity of this and while it s very frustrating to not be able to get home, we need to make sure this person doesn t harm himself. it s frustrating, but it s unforeseen, and i m going to be fine, i m going to get hom, so think positively. and the people we talked to here all had that sort of same mind set that we couldn t foresee this happening, these strange things sort of happen periodically and we ll just ride with it. there are still cars coming, picking up people who have been riding b.a.r.t. to the lafayette station, we re told the trains are going to be crowded for a while and there may be residual delays, so you should be prepared for that, if you re coming east. prepare for crowded trains and a bit of a delay, but the crisis is ove ....