Call today. Comcast business. Beyond fast. Now at 11 00, nfl playoff fever has hit the bay area. Were just hour as way from the niners and vikings at levi stadium. Reporter niners and vikings fans are already celebrating. Well show thank you fanfare. San franciscos controversial new District Attorney cleans house. The huge shake up less than 2 days into his term. Plus after days about the cause of the deadly plane crash. He was just saying i need to save her, i need to chase her. A family dinner takes a terrifying turn when a man tries to kidnap a little girl right from her mothers arms. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, bay area landmarks lit up tonight with niner nation gearing up for the big playoff game tomorrow. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. Were just hours out from the 49ers and vikings match up, s a mark sayre is live where he actually found a sea of purple. Reporter indeed, veronica. Fans on both sides getting ready for big game tomorrow. The 49ers will actually have an official watch party here at san pedro square, and tonight nsfang tooovk n er arally chant the minnesota vikings. At the brittania arms. The vikings fans are ready and hopeful. I think they have a good chance of winning. I told my wife we need to come out here because we can beat the quarterback and put some pressure on him. I think we got a good shot. Reporter the vikings, led by quarterback kirk cousins arrived just after 4 00, but just a few blocks away, city hall is awash in the niners colors. Earlier at the stadium, fans lined up by the hundreds to win of8 s ir ayploff the game. They had to do their best imitation of the iconic slip and slide sack celebration on a rainy field against washington. Tickets have been insanity expensive. I cant afford them at all. So a chance to even get a pair would be lifetime experience. Reporter and no matter who wins the game tomorrow, another winner from playoff mania has been hotels, bars, and restaurants around the stadium and here in downtown san jose. With the niners having such a good season, the okedettyrofible,but toave plho ay fsfield advantage and see what we can do in the first round with the division sh oubefew 49ers fans mingled with friends from minnesota, equally confident in the s chances. You know what is this it eame feels great to be out here. They came a long way to take a big loss home. Thats all it is. Reporterth e but some resellerare offering tickets in the 200 range. The 49ers say theyre expecting about 72,000 people at levi stadium tomorrow. That would be the largest attendance in franchise history. Live in san jose, mark sayre, kpix 5. All right, mark, thank you. And meteorologist darren peck now with that big game day forecast. Is it going to rain . Not on the game. Yes, its going to rain tomorrow, but not when the niners take the field. Heres the ofalfostju clouds an temperatures in the mid50s. But if we look at the futurecast tomorrow and come into specific detail on clay, tomorrow morning early like 4 00 a. M. Early, 5 00 a. M. , 6 00 a. M. , there will be scattered showers in and around not only santa clara, but the bay area in general. There is rain coming for early tomorrow morning. You can see it on High Definition doppler. But its over by the time the game starts. Ill show you what it looks like for your saturday morning coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. All right, darren, thanks. Coming up, vern glenn will show us George Kittles special pregame ritual with his dad. Stay with kpix 5 and cbsn bay area. Well be closely following tomorrows big game, and for more playoff coverage you can head to kpix. Com. Developing story in San Francisco, the citys new da wasting no time making his mark. The betty yu on the major friday afternoon firings. Reporter major shake up at the San Francisco das office. Just days into his job, the new da reportedly fires multiple prosecutors. As i serve as District Attorney for the city and county of San Francisco. Reporter he says hes been ready to transform the das office since he narrowly won the race back in november. The former San Francisco deputy public defender ran a Progressive Campaign that included working to end mass incarcerations and Racial Disparities in the criminal justice system. Tonight in a statement to kpix 5, he said staffing decisions t put in place a Management Team that will help me accomplish the San Francisco. In the long term, any time you treat employees like they can be fired and they dont have value, its in the long term a real morale breaker for an agency like that. Reporter the chronicle reports prosecutors in the homicide, felony, and gang units were let go. Tony brass is a former San Francisco da and he said he was surprised to hear at enpeexnew da promised to focus on violent crime. Whats strange is that again these people are not being moved or demoted. Theyre being fired and told essentially their services have no use in the office anymore. Ive worked with these people both as a coworker and opponent. Reporter on wednesday the da spoke with my colleague, joe vazquez. Reporter what are your priorities, and do they involve firing any prosecutors . Firing people is certainly not a priority, but i want to make sure the office is set up to more effectively t the staff that do the croriticppal to the people that live in and visit the serve city. Reporter in San Francisco, betty yu, kpix 5. Barts new police chief getting to business with a new strategy for a safer system. Chief alvarez promoted after 22 years as the deputy chief and says one of his main priorities is tack violent crime, much related to perslional electroni theft. And hell start with staffing. Starting monday well deploy a newly created team of 12 Sworn Police Officers who will be dedicated to only riding trains and walking the platforms in the system. And he also expects to fill all the open vacancies in the department by the end of the year. House hunting for the homeless. Tonight Sonoma County getting an earful about a plan to buy 3 homes that would be used to shelter People Living in a sprawling camp. Kpix 5s Andrea Nakano is in santa rosa where neighbors sounded off at a town meeting. Reporter time is ticking for those living along the trail. They have until the end of the month to move, but the question is where will they go . The answer sparked both compassion and outrage at this town hall meeting tonight. Thall st. Ofd for on reporter nicole is a trail resident. She thought shed be on the streets for a couple of weeks after her divorce, but weeks have turned into years. When youre judged every single day because youre homeless, you dont think anybody really thinks of you as a person anymore. Reporter while she spoke up on behalf of those living along the trail, residents voiced their concerns about a plan to provide a shelter for the homeless. One of the proposals is to buy 3 large homes. The safety of our children, i have 2 little one, we cant walk on the trail. Reporter the county is looking at 2 properties in santa rosa roughly a Million Dollars each. They just pander to the homeless. Its disgusting. And we have no say. Reporter annie lives just blocks away from one of the homes, and shes concerned about how a shelter will impact hetysan knigow inehor hborsomet odhas. To be done. Open to all solutions, just we wlywint. Alrehave homes, People Living right next to us. The United States has a huge homeless population, and if we do something its only going to increase. Reporter it was comments like those that gave nicole hope that this community can at address homelessness. We need simple things, minimal things that dont cost a lot of money and maybe a little humanity. Reporter theyll also vote on a location for an emergency shelter. The vote is expected to take place next tuesday. Ix santa rosaakan new developments irant. After ys of denials, iran is admitting that their military unintentionally shot down that ukrainian jet liner and killed all 176 people on board. The Iranian Military is blaming human error for the shoot down and claims the plane made an unexpected turn towards a sensitive military base. The boeing 737 jet liner went down in a fiery crash on wednesday. It happened just hours after iran launched missiles at u. S. Forces. A total of 57 canadians were killed in the crash. And were learning that one of them was a College Student studying in san diego. With family in iran s kill ongsidher whmoer e en shd sister. Campaign 2020, Bernie Sanders now leading a tight race in iowa. A new poll released by the Des Moines Register and cnn shows sanders edging out his democratic rivals with 20 percent. Senator warren is 3 points behind him followed by Pete Buttigieg and joe biden. The Iowa Caucuses take place in 3 weeks. Back here now in the bay area, the man acquitted in the killing of kate steinly wont be back in court next week. A judge delayed it until he undergoes a Mental Health evaluation. The judge has questions about his mental competency. He was cleared of the murder in 2017, but federal prosecutors charged him with gun possession. Some of the 13. 5 billion fund for california wildfire victims now at the center of a tug of war between lawmakers and fema. The money is the trust set aside by pg e to pay claims to homeowners devastated by the fires in 2017 and 2018, but now fema wants a 4 billion cut of it. 2 north bay congressmen sent a letter to fema urging the agency to drop the bid. Fema issued a statement saying in wert , have no interest in reducing the funds that pg e owes its survivors. We are interested in ensuring that taxpayers dont bear the burden of pg es responsibility for the billions of dollars fema provided to assist individuals and communities. Coming up, a pizza night turns into a desperate night to fend off a kidnapper. A family accounts the terrible ordeal. And a marijuana milestone. How one Santa Cruz Company is giving you the chance to cash in on the weed economy. And in the fees of certain death, this house cat we tried to get the politicians to deal with the problem. But they wouldnt. So we took it to the voters and forced big tobacco to pay its share of healthcare costs. We fought Oil Companies for new clean air laws and closed a billion dollar Corporate Tax loophole to fund public schools. By going directly to the people we got results. Thats not something you see a lot of from washington these days. 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Reporter frightening moments when a homeless man tried to the 6yearold right out of her mothers arms. He was saying i need to save her and take her. Thats all he was saying. Reporter they were having pizza at venice beach for the first time saturday night when a man they say appeared to be on drug said the girl looked like his niece and he needed t th e girlke, her uncle grabbed him and pushed him away, but he didnt stop there. He tried yet again. The father and uncle wrestled the suspect to the ground polic i got scared. I started bawling my eyes out and crying. Hes messed up. Im helping my brother hold him down, but he was hard to control. He kept pushing up full strength and dragging us with him. Reporter he said it took 6 officers to restrain the suspect before hauling him off to jail. We love you so much. So much reporter she says her daughteris still traumatized by what happened, but gets betters each day. The family wanted to speak out to remind parents to be vigilant. They say the incident wont stop them from returning to venice beach, but. Maybe go duriday, not at night time. Ng t the guy messed with the wrong family. In the meantime a bay area ride share driver was arrested in a violent attempted rape after a 2 year investigation. 43yearold Richard Silverio was arrested. He offered to give a woman a ride and drove her to a business and brandished a knife at the victim, tried to rape her before she broke free. He now faces 4 felony charges. He was a contracted driver with a ride share company, but not on duty during the crime. A san jose Cannabis Grower breaking new ground. Golden seed has become the First American marijuana cultivator tobe cleared for a public stock offering. Investors could previously by shares in canadian growers and american marijuana retailers. Golden seed will start sharing shares for 100. One of San Franciscos last remaining all Girls Catholic School is closing its doors. Mercy will close at the end of the school year. The sisters blamed decreased enrollment and lack of funds. A look now at sea cliff state beach in santa cruz county. Come tomorrow, the fishing pier and nearby campgrounds will be closed. The reason . The king tides that could cause some flooding. Theyre expected to hit the coastline this weekend. Checking in with darren peck right now on what kind of weather weve got for the weekend. Interestingly ken, its not only king tides because well also noticing the surf pick up. Be totally unrelated, just happens to be happening at the same time. So let me just talk about the High Surf Advisory thats also an issue starting tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. And goes through sunday afternoon at 3 00. We could see breakers up to 20 to 24 feet along the coast, so keep that in mind too if youre headed to the beach. High def doppler is on tonight, and were seeing the rain up on the far northwest coast. Ill skip ahead in the futurecast to the overnight hours, and by the time we get to 1 00 a. M. , were seeing spotty scattered showers ju popping up across the bay area none of it is real heavy. Theres light mist. 6 00 tomorrow morning, we still have spotty showers in the south bay. And thats kind of the end of it. As we get into the late morning, the clouds hang around. It will still look like it could rain throughout the firs half of the day tomorrow. Any rain we get will be really light. Those are the numbers. 001 inches of rain for nevado. Thats about it. This is very familiar. Weve had a couple of systems come through like this. They come in during the darkness of night, by the morning theyre done, and they dont leave a lot of rain. Well see 2 more like that in the sevenday forecast, and then next thursday things get more interesting. Ill show that you in a second. First here are the morning lows tomorrow. Mid40s prmuch bay area wide. Et stay relatively warm. Thatty changes. By sunday morning were back in the mid30s, so bundle up. Daytime highs tomorrow in the mid50s. Okay, a bunch of rain icons on here. Monday wont get a lot. Monday morning is when it comes. Tuesday not much. About a tenth of an inch. Thursday, thats the one. Thats a more meaningful storm meaning it will be widespread rain that comes through in the middle of the day and gives perhaps a half inch rain. Like an actual storm that give good rain. It will also get windy and get cold enough that snow levels come down to some of the higher peaks around the bay area getting a light dusting of snow. Weatherwise late next week is when things get interesting. Mary will have more on that tomorrow morning, or monday morning because tomorrow is saturday. Thanks darren. Up next, this cat takes bravery to a whole new level. Check out what this feline does when it comes Trump Obamacare is a complete and total disaster. Let obamacare implode. Nurse these wild attacks on healthcare hurt the patients i care for. Ive been a nurse leadship can make because i saw what Mike Bloomberg did as mayor. 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Thats styles from deep, and stanford crushed call 7248 with connecticut and oregons loss, rankings will jump. If the 49ers offense is going to be clicking tomorrow against the vikings, tight end George Kittles play is going to be a factor. Did you know part of the all read a letter frprom ehis dad . What about before this eve of his first career playoff game . Yes, im definitely expecting something a little extra. The last game for seattle, normally its about 4 pages, and it was a 6 pager, which the more the better. I exert a short story this time. How about a book . 1 35 kickoff tomorrow. If i see you at levi, come up to me, give me knuckles. Can i do that now . Yeah pound it right here and just to be that guy, kpix, were actually hosting a playoff game tomorrow. We have ravens and titans at 5 00. Go ahead, be that guy i just said it, it came right out of my mouth. Im wearing niners re the late show is up next. Thank you for watching. 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