Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Good evening, im elizabeth those windshield wipers are getting a workout tonight and the rain is not going away any time soon. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. Kpix5 chief meteorologist paul deanno tracking the storm for us tonight, paul . Scattered showers do continue. Its been raining in some part of the bay area the entire day since midnight and kpix5 hidef doppler continues to track rain falling now. Out towards the delta were tracking shower currently and seeing that rainfall move in from the northwest to the southeast. Kpix5 hidef Doppler Radar is showing that rainfall continuing to move through. Thats the 1 radar image i can show you now, rainfall totals from 1 inch of rain in the north bay down to about. 1inch of rain in the south bay. We will talk more about when the next round of heavy to steady rain moves in and what part of your weekend is going to be a washout coming up the. Tonight we learned a teenager who decided to skateboard to school changed his mind and hopped into a friends car to escape the rain today. He was killed in a car crash in the south day. Chp says the driver lost control, plowed into a guardrail on santa mos expressway in campbell this morning. Police closed the road about two hours during the investigation, unclear if rain contributed to that crash. The 18yearold driver survived. A stunning new revelation tonight in the oakland warehouse fire investigation, first we learned that building inspectors hadnt set foot in the place in 30 years. Now Christin Ayers tells us the news on fire inspections in general appears to be even worse. Reporter liz, tonight were learning city of oakland officials cant even confirm with any evidence that any fire inspector ever set foot inside that warehouse. When a ghost ship warehouse burned down killing 36 partygoers, its possible the city of oakland had never once inspected it for fire hazards. State law mandates year fire inspections of commercial buildings, but so far the city cannot find any record of any fire inspection ever. Kpix5 insider phil matier found out Oakland Fire Prevention Bureau is woefully understaffed. The pay records we found showed nine fire inspectors working the streets of oakland. Now you have to consider that there are 12,000 commercial buildings that need to be inspected every year under the state mandate. So thats quite a load. Reporter a 2014 Alameda County grand jury report found that 4,000 commercial occupancies go uninspected due to competing Oakland Fire Department priorities. When asked whether fire inspectors had ever entered the ghost ship warehouse, mayor libby schaaf said this yesterday. I do not know the answer to that question and i dont need to know the answer to that question to tell you that we can improve our fire inspection and prevention process. Reporter in afternoon her staff admitted they are still searching for any evidence that the building was ever inspected. The question rises if after five days you still havent found them, either youre having a problem with your records or they arent there. Reporter federal investigators are still on scene tonight as you can see. They have now requested a Forensic Mapping Team to create a diagram to map outside the inside of that warehouse as they search for more clues. Live in oakland cristen ayers, kpix5. Five victims had ties to uc berkeley and they were remembered at cal today. People wrote messages on posters with their pictures. Vanessa plotkin and jenny morris were juniors. Griffin madden and david cline were alums. Chelsea dolan hosted a show on the University Radio station. One by one family members shared stories. She told me that she loved this campus. She loved the Berkeley Community and i felt her presence as soon as i walked the campus once again and i felt her joy and spirit here. It still doesnt really seem real to me. We just saw her last week for thanksgiving. We were so blessed to have jenny for 21 years. Tmz posted this exclusive photo today as former ghost ship residents who escaped the fire reunited with many the man blamed for it, the leader of the collective darrell almena. You might suspect that are areas like the ghost ship all over the bay and as you might have learned, San Francisco has already started cracking down. Reporter in the wake of the ghost ship warehouse fire, what many artists feared is coming to fruition. We learned tonight San Francisco is investigating 11 warehouses that are allegedly being converted into illegal Living Spaces. One on their radar is here at 1660 jerrold avenue in the bayview. A punk rock musician and artist group known as cycle side lists this space as its permanent address, but according to the city, this place has not been inspected since 1986. Theres no plumbing and neighbors started complaining about People Living here illegally back in april. Theres folks in there and theyre artists like your oakland people. Reporter this man has lived across the street for years. He said there are People Living in there. Theyre respectful and theyre nice. I dont know how many people live in there. Reporter another neighbor said she went inside for an art open house and saw a space similar to ghost ship. A lot of life. We talked about have a lot of clutters like what happened in oakland. Reporter San Franciscos department of building inspection received five new complaints this week about warehouses being potentially illegally converted into Living Spaces. There are 11 that they will be investigating in the next couple of days including this one on third street. Some complaints specifically mentioned fire hazards. Others mentioned underground nightclubs. Building inspectors say they sympathize with people who have nowhere to go, but they cant risk a repeat of the oakland tragedy. In San Francisco susie steimle, kpix5. We will have continuing coverage of the warehouse fire on air and online at www. Cbssf. Com. Ht a little girl kidnapped from a trader joes in the north bay, thankfully shes okay tonight, but what happened is pretty scary. Police say a homeless woman walked into a trader joes in santa rosa, grabbed the 4year old girl and walked out with her. The childs mother chased the suspect and yelled at her to put the girl down, which she did. Officers later arrested the woman. They say she is a 41yearold transient from lake county. Tonight there has been an arrest after a string of sexual batteries at san jose state university. After releasing these surveillance Photos Police got a tip and believe this guy is behind at least one of the groping incidents in the Student Union monday afternoon. Yesterday another woman said that she was groped in a stairwell at duncan hall. In all there have been six cases of Sexual Battery since midoctober. Police say the suspect they arrested is a student. Tonight a new conflict of interest for donald trump, kpix5s allen martin tells us the president elect will stay on as executive producer of his Reality Tv Show the apprentice. Tonight its unclear how much mr. Trump will be paid for this or what it will mean to have a sitting president on the payroll of a tv show. Youre fired. The show has not aired in two years, ever since trump announced he was going to run for president , but the Celebrity Apprentice returns to the airways early next year on nbc with a new host, former california governor arnold schwarzenegger. Because nbc also reports on trumps presidency, this presents a major conflict for the network. Nbc cut ties with trump shortly after his campaign started when there was a furor over the comments he said about mexican immigrants, but also remember that it was about five months later that donald trump ended up hosting saturday night live and that drew a lot of criticism on nbc including some members of congress. Trump hosted the show for 14 years. He claims hes been paid more than 213 million for the show over the course of its run. Allen martin, kpix5. The president elect is making time for the apprentice, but hes barely making time for president ial intelligence briefings. According to sources, the president elect is getting just one briefing per week on average. Thats far fewer than other president elects on average. Donald trump talked about being times person of the year in iowa today. They talked about a divided nation and then they have to give me the cover and go with this stuff, a divided nation. I said i havent been president. What are you saying that for . But you know what, were going to bring the nation together. This fast food ceo is trumps pick for the labor department. Andrew putzer strongly opposes large minimum wage hikes. He says its bad for business. During a high powered ladies night Hillary Clinton confined to Dianne Feinstein that she is resigned to her loss. Cnn reports they had a private dinner tonight in the centers hideaway office. It was Hillary Clintons first trip back to the capitol since the election and among her first public speeches she took an opportunity to raise a red flag about all the fake news circulating on the internet. Bipartisan legislation is making its way through congress to make its response to foreign propaganda and Silicon Valley is starting to grapple with the challenge and threat of fake news. Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg insists that fake news on facebook is not to blame for the outcome of the election, but she says facebook takes the concerns seriously and theyre taking steps to stop it. Trash piling up along san jose freeways, tonight the city plans to threaten the state to clean up the mess or pay the price. R officials initially so why does the water suddenly smell and taste so bad . Bay area water officials initially blamed it on sediment. Well, tonight they have a different explanation. Shoot an ad. Tonight ere they thinkin photographers snuck into this bay area transit tunnel, even dodged trains just to shoot an ad. ,,,,,,, hill is accused of usi closed captioning for this newscast is sponsored by Living Spaces furniture. A san jose teacher arrested for having sex with a student, trudy hill is accused of using her position of authority to draw a 17yearold boy into a sexual relationship. Hill is a teacher at santa teresa high school. Police say the relationship happened from august to november this year. So far police do not believe there are any other victims. Hill surrendered to detectives today and later posted bail. A new ad from a big bay area Clothing Company has a lot of people talking tonight mostly saying things like what were these guys thinking . Veronica de la cruz shows us. Ken, the north base is head quarter in alameda and out headquartered in alameda and outfits people for some adventures, in this case a trek through the muni tunnel. It shows a photographer wandering through the muni tunnel taking pictures as another guy films him. Trains run through the train 22 hours a day and the images show the photographer talking himself away in an alcove as a train flies by. A lot of people might think they can either outmaneuver or train or even outrun a train, but thats something that is just not possible and its just an unsafe situation. And the ad starts with this big disclaimer, warning, do not attempt. Clearly they did not take their own advice and muni is saying the crew didnt even have permission form any of this. As to whether or not they plan to press charges for trespassing, muni tells us they are still exploring their options. Veronica de la cruz, kpix5. Tonight san jose has a new plan to get rid of the trash piling up along its freeways, but betty yu tells us its not the litter bugs theyre going after. Reporter san jose highways are literally getting really trashy and city leaders are fed up. We have five freeways that go through the lengths of the city and every entrance and exit is covered with litter and were not seeing any help from the state of california. Hes saying hold caltrans responsible. I would declare the property as a nuisance and fine them because if they cant keep up their minimum commitment of cleaning them, they should pay a fine. Why should san jose residents suffer . Reporter he has already written a memo to discuss whether the city can fine or bill a state agency for not maintaining or cleaning property. Caltrans says it does when it can to clean up, but garbage pops up as soon as its picked up. The mayor also pushed the agency to make cleanup of 10 freeway hotspots a priority. The memo will go before the city council at its next meeting tuesday. The City Attorney will look into potential Legal Options the city of san jose can take. In san jose betty yu, kpix5. Eals with the city berkeleys new mayor gave his inaugural address to city council tonight pushing an overhaul of how the city deals with the homeless population. Jesse aruguin wants to set aside public land where Homeless People can legally camp and he wants to create navigation centers, places that have fewer restrictions than traditional shelters. Part of what well be looking at it how we can expand shelter and Warming Centers and we particularly want to look at how we can create navigation centers, similar to what San Francisco did, to not only provide shelter but services and then get people housed. The mayor says he believes the issue is particularly urgent now that its getting cold and wet outside. A new explanation for the smelly and bad tasting water flowing out of some bay area taps for days, as cbs5s julie watts tells us, utility officials now say they know the source of the problem. Reporter its clear something is different about the water in San Francisco and parts of the peninsula. Last week people began complaining via social media that the water smells like a swamp and it was creating a Burning Sensation on the sides of the tongue, even blamed for diarrhea and stomach issues. If you like, theres some water to share here. Id be happy to have some myself. Reporter to demonstrate the public utility administrator took a swig. He admitted folks at puc noticed a change in the taste, but its safe to drink. He said they manually test the water over 100 times a day from various locations. Yesterday the tests revealed a byproduct of algae they believe came from the San Antonio Reservoir, though they have not found any blooms. As for those reporting Health Issues . There is no Clinical Evidence this causes health effects. Reporter he said its common in many other water systems. Theyre not sure what caused it, but they stopped taking water from the San Antonio Reservoir today and are ramping down from the treatment plan. The taste and odor issues should begin to dissipate. Now quickly that happens depends when the water moves through the system flushing the other changes out. Julie watts, kpix5. There has been a devastating decline in the giraffe population. Tonight its being called a silent extinction. Experiments tell us the population dropped as much always 40 since the 1980s. Thats as 40 since the 1980s. Thats gone mostly unnoticed until now. The reason for the decline . Humans illegally hunting them and destroying their natural habitat. Giraffes are listed as vulnerable on the list of endangered species. A superpod of dolphins in monterey bay. A crew on a whale watching boat captured the video tuesday. Scientists expect its a feeding frenzy that gets so many fish swimming together at the same time. Pretty amazing stuff. A lot of water around the bay area right now, paul. Yeah. A lot of waterfalling from the sky and rain will be falling in your backyard tomorrow, saturday and three more days coming up in the extended forecast. Tonight its vallejo. Youve been the hotspot of some steady to light moderate rainfall. It has been a pretty much nonstop rain event from Oakland Hills north through concord, also pacheco, fairfield, vacaville and napa valley picking up ail few rain showers as well. It continues to rain north and east of San Francisco. Rainfall totals just in since 11 00 last night, nearly 2inch of rain in both maraga and mount tamme. San jose had a whopping. 04 inch of rainfall. 52 degrees is your low, some showers tonight. Mild in concord 48, mild in redwood city 52, San Francisco 54. Clouds and a flow from the ocean has eliminated that cold tap of arctic air we had earlier this week. We can keep this setup all winter and be fine for our rainfall deficit. High pressure centered south and west, low pressure centered north and west both aiding and grabbing each pacific storm, throwing it right toward Northern California. The question is when does the next big storm giving us steady rainfall arrive . The answer is not tomorrow. Clouds, yes, but just scattered showers throughout the morning and afternoon. It is late tomorrow night into saturday morning when the heavy stuff comes back especially for marin, napa and sonoma county. That heavy rain tapers off to showers by saturday evening. The clouds are gone. What a difference. Saturday morning its going to pour, sunday morning crystal clear, should be a Beautiful Day to get outside. Rainfall we expect saturday 1 2 inch in san rafael up to 1 1 2 inches in ukiah and nearly 1 inch of rain in redwood city. Highs tomorrow livermore and fairfield 62, oakland and san jose 63, humid, cloudy, dreary with scattered showers around. Saturday morning is the washout part of the weekend. Showers by saturday afternoon. Sunshine is back on sunday. But we arent done. Next week tuesday more steady rainfall with rain wednesday and thursday. The past couple years weve had wonderful januaries. We havent got off to a very good start. This is the best start to a rainy season that we have had in six years and its still coming. Hope its a good sign. Yes. They were crying tears that looked like raindrops at rickys tonight. Thats because they were watching the game in kansas city, so much on the line tonight for the raiders in kc and once again they dug themselves a huge hole. Could they climb out . Kickoff next. ,,,,,,, kpix5 news is sponsored by your Northern California toyota dealers. Could not afford to do so at the afc lead was at stake tonight in freezing kansas city oakland already lost to the chiefs at home and could not afford to do so at arrowhead. Carr and the raiders trying to stay warm, temperatures in the low 20s, chill factor minus 12. Mid2nd quarter already up 14 3. Tyreke hale, this guy 5 8 but plays so much bigger, two touchdowns tonight, 213 kansas city. All points coming in the 2nd quarter. Early 3rd quarter now 2113. Khalil mack strips it. Oakland recovers. Its turned over on the first two possessions of the 2nd half. Bad snap, marcus king forced to pick it up, huge opportunity goes by the wayside. Two minutes left in the game, same score. Oakland drives in the chiefs 20 yard line, but carrs pass to seth roberts on 4th and 1 broken up and that would do it. Carr threw for a season low 117 yards, 4th and 6 after the penalty, of course. Kansas city wins 2113. The chiefs won both games against oakland. We didnt throw it and catch it the way we typically do and well have better days for sure. I feel sick to my stomach, you know, when we put Something Like that out there on film and it hurts. I can promise you that. Im not worried one bit. It just sucks. We have to take it. You have to take the punch, but im not worried. I think well bounce back just fine. Up next who else would lose tonight . 12th ranked st. Marys or the warriors who had a huge ,,,, utah jazz, four starters we uries. Hashtag the nissan sports report coming up next on kpix5. When you play the warriors, you better have all hands on deck. Unfortunately for the utah jazz four starters were out on injuries. Warriors continue a road trip in utah, golden state up and its a 291 run. Are you kidding me . Three minutes left off the turnover. Kevin durant goes in for the dunk plus the foul. Had he some harsh words for the fans. Golden state got sloppy at the end but went on to win. St. Marys playing most to texas, arlington, should be a cakewalk i think, but arlington with good ball movement. Mavericks upset the gaels 65 51. Thats their first ever win against a ranked opponent, gaels uncharacteristically sloppy, 31 combined turnovers in the game and not good. That 12th ranking slides down,, our next newscast is tomorr morning at 430. D kenny choi late show with Stephen Colbert is next, our next newscast tomorrow morning at newscast tomorrow morning at 4 30,, 8drw how else do you think he gets around so fast . 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