And joins us from on board the hornet. Reporter the festivities are just about to begin here on the uss hornet. A lot of these people have not talked about 50 years it turns out it takes a whole village to pull this off and get those astronauts to the moon its estimated at 400,000 people worked all across the country on the apollo 11 mission. Some of them right here in the bay area. To understand why nasa chose to touch down on this particular spot on the moon in a place known as the sea of tranquility and why it designed the lunar lander the way that it did, we have to go deep deep into the bowels of the nasa Research Center in Mountain View and into one of the worlds premier hyper velocity impact testing sites. Welcome to the ranger. Reporter charles is the facility manager and explains the device built in 1966 is basically a gun range on steroids. We use this gun to shoot at targets and a blue chamber. A very high speeds to simulate what happens when meteors and asteroids impact a planet or moon surface. Reporter with highspeed cameras mounted everywhere this is where the targets are placed. Reporter researchers the material that replicated the moon surface on the charge of the gun with compressed hydrogen to shoot small projectiles at insanely fast speeds. This gun shoots at about 70 kilometers per second which is just under 16,000 miles per hour. One way to think of it is if you were to travel that speed you can fly from San Francisco to new york and under six minutes. Reporter nasa scientists are then able to better understand how and why craters formed the way they do. This information went on to help with landing Site Selection and the lunar lander design. It is very cool. It makes the job very fun at knowing that not only are you working in a place that has this long history but you get to be a part of history. Reporter the work and nasa continues to this day with the goal of getting humans to mars and back. Researchers are developing heat shields to survive reentry temperatures of 2400 degrees fahrenheit and slowdown spacecraft of going 27,000 miles per hour. That village is still very much alive and thriving. Was happening here can influence what can happen, you know, where we can go, how fast we can go. And how we can get back. Reporter and, that is a live video feed from Kennedy Space center where there is a gala happening right now to celebrate the 50th anniversary. His was organized by the san jose based cisco providing a lot of the videoconferencing to connect all of these people after all of these years. A great day, all in all to celebrate and honor the men and women who took part in the a lot apollo 11 mission. We are live in alameda, kiet do , kpix5. Before the apollo landing was the lunch. Today crowds gathered at the Kennedy Space center to reef visit revisit history. 50 years ago did today cheering at the exact moment apollo 11 letter launch pad 39 letter a. A rocket carried astronauts neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and Michael Collins on the 225,000 mile journey. It was the beginning of Historic Mission that many consider one of mankinds greatest accomplishments. Their success expanded humanitys understanding of our celestial neighbor and most importantly it taught us something about ourselves. That together we can accomplish any goal. Nasa has set its sights on returning to the moon in spite of cost overruns and schedule delays. It expects to have another man or woman walking on the moon by the year 2024. We have a section on our website dedicated to coverage of the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission that includes a photo gallery, timeline and interviews with key pay players involved. You can find online at kpix. Com underneath the apollo 11 tab. Tonight Norah Odonnell will anchor a primetime special on the apollo anniversary. It is called man on the moon and it starts at 10 p. M. Right here on kpix5. Not to our top stories at 5 30 a magnitude 4. 3 earthquake rattled the east bay this afternoon. It was centered in the heel hills east of black lick black hawk. Moment later a 3. 5 aftershock followed. More later more on a little known fault linked to this quake. The fire started in vegetation along highway four. It did not take long for the Storage Units to go up in flames. No one was injured. Two substeps suspects are salt in an robbery. Police released in these photos of the men, both wearing black hooded sweatshirts. Authorities say the suspects took the victims backpack and shoes. The incident happened yesterday morning at the west Campus Parking garage. Protest in new york after federal prosecutors announced they will not bring civil rights charges against a Police Officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of an African American man. What we want . The decision comes five years after gardners death. Some of his last words were i cant breathe. The cases focus attention on Police Treatment of minorities across the nation. My son is dead. My granddaughter is dead. And all you are saying is sorry . You have my condolence . Keep your condolences up. And do the right thing. Diblasio you and your administration, step up. Get those Police Officers off the force today. The attorney for the ny police day nypd says they are still facing internal police proceedings and that could cost him his job. Police in baton rouge have arrested a man suspected of killing a wellknown civil rights activist. 38yearold Jermaine Bell was taken into custody and charged with firstdegree murder. He is suspected of suffocating Sadie Roberts joseph last week and stuffing her body in the trunk of a car. Police are investigating a motive. They say bell was one of Robert Josephs tenets. The victim was widely known for charity work. A 27yearold man was charged today with the and murder of an oak scientist in greece. 59yearold Suzanne Eaton was found dead on the island of crete where she was attending a conference. Greek police say the man confessed to killing the molecular biologist. The suspect allegedly hit her twice with his car and then sexually assaulted her and dumped her body in a cave. A second man has also been detained. A former president of peru has been arrested in San Mateo County on corruption charges. Alejandra toledo was the peruvian president from 2001 2006 and then later moved to california. He is wanted in peru as a part of a massive scandal that has across latin america. Toledo has been accused of taking more than 20 million in bribes for construction contacts. He has denied all wrongdoing. Facebook stirring up controversy on capitol hill with its plan to launch a Digital Currency. Some in washington are calling it a potential National Security threat. Facebook close it cause it libra, it is the plan to take on cryptocurrency. A facebook executive explained to skeptical lawmakers how the Digital Currency would work. And, how it could help millions of consumers. Wouldnt it be easier and safer if people can securely and inexpensively receive money transfers through their smart phones, just like they do for so many other things today . Members of Congress Already concerned about how the social media giant handles user data saying not so fast. After all the Times Facebook has abused the Publics Trust and you know that. You really think people should trust facebook with their hard earned money . One expert Cyber Security expert says it is not necessarily a bad idea but maybe a bad fit. This is the right idea the wrong company that is the main theme of for it. It was in the company other than facebook that we would have different questions. Reporter Financial Consultant tyrone ross says lawmakers are missing the point. Facebook is coming out saying we have to. 2 four billy we have to. 4 billion people we want to provide Financial Services to these people but we wanted to do it through new technology. Reporter President Trump has already weighed in calling cryptocurrencys highly volatile and based on thin air. His administration is concerned that libra will be missed used to launder money and finance terrorism. They are scared of crypto because now the u. S. Financial system has competition. And what they are looking to do with it libra is regulated so that now that they can tax it and they can track it. Some lawmakers are open to the idea. To announce an advance that we have to strangle this baby in the crib. I think it is wildly premature. Facebook faces an uphill battle convincing lawmakers and regulators that it can be trusted with our money. Another senator says the question isnt whether the u. S. Should take the lead on Digital Currency, and why facebook before the Company Fixes its other problems. Sisters joined at the head finally separated after a 50 hour surgery. How doctors use Virtual Reality and a 3d printer to pull off the dangerous operation. See you later alligator. How chicagos new celebrity was finally wrangled with the help. Coming up at 6 00, lake tahoe facing a problem it has not seen in years. Too much water. It is reshaping the beaches. I am Elizabeth Cook and the live news desk. An update on the highway 87 overpass fire we told you about earlier this evening. Caltrain officials tell us all lanes are now officially open. This fire broke out inside a tunnel and burned so hot it took special crews hours just to get inside. Here is traffic now at 87 and willow street. An and see still a little slow in both directions as traffic gets moving and of course we are in the height of the evening commute right now. It is just now getting up to full swing. Youre also told there is no structural damage to the overpass itself and while we still do not know because the crews did find debris left in the tunnel where the fire originated. At the live news desk i am olympic lisbeth cook. Planned parenthood said it will stop taking federal money to avoid complying with a new antiabortion role. The trumpet ministrations order bans taxpayerfunded familyplanning clinics for making abortion referrals. Planned parenthood lawn the target of antiabortion activists is pressing congress and the courts to overturn that role. Planned parenthood says it will tap emergency funding to stay open for now. Meantime the president of planned parenthood has been forced out after eight months on the job. Her departure approved today by the board after disagreements over the direction of the organization. 52 sisters can now see each other eye to eye after a Successful Surgery to separate their school. Skulls. The complicated surgery was done in three stages over five months, surgeons use of Virtual Reality to see inside the twins heads to practice before the procedure. And a 3d printer created models of their brains. Each sister supplied the others brain with blood and a piece of plastic was inserted in their heads to keep their brains and blood vessels apart. The last two months after the last operation on the brain it has been a little bit of a stormy time but they are hanging in there. Reporter the girls mother says she is great for her little ones have a chance at independence. A graphic scene in the netflix show 13 reasons why was just cut nearly 2 years after it aired. The show tells the story of a teenager who leaves behind 13 taped recordings after killing herself. Her suicide is played out in season one. But now after talking to medical experts, netflix has decided to edit to the scene. The shows creator tweeted about the change writing our creative intent in portraying the ugly, painful reality of suicide in such graphic detail in season one was to tell the truth about the horror of such an act and make sure that no one would ever wish to emulate it. But he also explained that they agreed with netflix to reedit at the scene think it will help the show do the most good for people. Especially vulnerable young viewers. The nominations are out for this years emmy awards and game of thrones just broke a record. Bodyguard. Game of thrones. Killing eve. Ozark. Poser. Succession. And this is us. Game of thrones has a 32 nominations. That is the highest for any show in a single year. And cbs shows, the amazing race, the late late show with james gordon and the late show with Stephen Colbert were also nominated. We do have the full is on our full website full is on our website kpix. Com. California the city of los angeles grappling with a rodent problem. A group called reform california is asking Governor Newsom to step in and declare a Public Health emergency. Just outside l. A. City hall, look at this, the area lined with rat traps. In a new study, pest control experts predict dire consequences if the problem does not get resolved. This this report should be a shame on local government officials who have known about this crisis for the past several months. But have tried to sweep it under the rug. Because we do not clean up this mess. Our citizens are going to start contracting diseases that are dangerous. Officials say filter from the growing homeless encampment is luring more wrath to the city. A wild Animal Adventure in chicago is now over. A five foot alligator has been captured after calling a city park lagoon home for more than a week. Residents are flocked to catch a glimpse of him swimming around in there. They nicknamed him chance the snapper with the help of a wildlife expert he was reeled in safely with a fishing rod. We need a quiet, we needed to have the place shut down for a little while and let the animal relax so he would give us an opportunity. You look like an alligator expert. Listed on not know how he ended up in the park but they suspect he was somebodys illegal pet was released. Chance when i live out his days in the zoo or possibly a sanctuary. s chance the snapper, i like it. Everyone generally believes that it takes a lot of water to grow certain crops. But there is one group of farmers in the south bay using an ageold technique to produce crops without a drop of irrigation. So, how do they do it . What was the last time you water these plans behind us . 10 years ago. You think this will never work but the plans just thrived. 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We are following breaking news this evening the Supreme Court has confirmed former Justice John Paul stevens is died. He was 99 years old. He served on the nations highest court from 1975 until 2010. He was nominated by republican president gerald ford. He was known for his liberal leaning decisions. Will have the High Court Decision to allow terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay to plead for their freedom in u. S. Courts. At the time of his retirement he was the second oldest serving justice in the history of the court. Will have more on that coming up later this evening on our news on kpix5. But now let us check on the weather. We are just writing the line here for very typical uneventful weather. I want to show you what that means. For small we go to the top and would take a look at mark and look at the clouds that have just shown up if youre with me at the top of 5 00 i was saying i was hardpressed to find many of these clouds off the coast. But this is the time of day when the marine layer will literally materialize out of thin air like this. We are shooting to see the develop off the coast. I will switch. Firstly that the numbers up in front of that gray. Here is what we did for daytime highs primus just as hot as yesterday although on a technicality we were a little cooler in places. Concord we brought it down a coup sasa94 today. Yes a little bit of a drop but not as much as we would like. That take a look from the view of the top of the Sales Force Tower looking at the top of the camera that sits on top and you can see the clouds that have developed off the coast just like last night. These are going to start to get thicker and will come on shore right in line with the forecast in the way we have had it, here comes the surge. We were not as a few of these clouds making as far as the tri valley later on tonight. But the stomach into 6 a. M. Tomorrow you can see we have our typical areas in and around the bay. That is going to burn all the way back to the coast and were going to have another very sunny day for wednesday. Itll be a lot like today. We are kind of getting this mixed bag of perfectly clear skies throughout the afternoon and then right about now, the marine layer starts to redevelop ended surges on shore. We get the clouds overnight itll happen again. Wednesday night going into thursday and then clear that back again and get more sunshine going in thursday. We talked about the low clouds and fog, highs will stay near seasonable. Minor cooldown towards the end of the work week but let us talk about tomorrow. It would take a look at daytime highs. 86 for morgan hill, 78 Mountain View. Temperatures once again writing the 90 degree line on the inland valleys. And as we check out the east bay and marin temperatures and the mid 80s and all the way up in the north bay temperature to the mid90s the farther you go in mind. 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We have Team Coverage beginning with Juliette Goodrich live near the epicenter for us. Reporter here we are a lot of people talking in this area asking the question did you feel it . I have gotten so many responses ranging from yes it was a jolt to just a rolling motion and other said what earthquake . This was gracies first earthquake, she thought it was a truck rolling through the hardware store. I was upstairs and i was just chilling up there and the tv was shaking and i wasnt sure what was happening. I thought one of our machines was like driving to the store, which i know is not true but that is what it felt like. melissa works at this clinic i was on the phone at the time. It was just a role like that is all it felt like, it did not shake or anything like that. Just like the ground was rolling. Did you stay put orchid underneath the desk . . No i