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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 5AM June 22, 2024

Just madly out of control. Reporter we got half a tank. Reporter jim came back to his house after he thought it was safe. As we drove back, the flames were still, um, spotty here and there. Within an hour or two after i got to the house i realized i shouldnt be here. Reporter firefighters from all over the bay area and Southern California in the air and engines and on foot furiously fighting the flames but Mother Nature fought back. This fouryear drought dry vegetation made for some serious spotting across the lines. Reporter despite firefighters best efforts, the wind picked back upbringing new life to the fire. Under the scorching sun triple digit heat, new flames ripped through hundreds of more acres. I have never seen flames so tall. 200300 feet. Reporter lake county with dry brush and rugged terrain makes it one of the worst landscapes for firefighters. Theres nothing stopping it. Its very rugged territory and impossible to be put it out. Reporter so far jims home is safe. Everything just burned. Reporter but stevens buildserness of ranch is gone. Wilderness ranch is gone. We have to face the Worst Nightmare to have your entire place burn up. Its just something you have to go through. Its not the end of the world. Reporter seems like youre pretty optimistic. I have to be. Reporter cate caugiran, kpix 5. Seven mobile homes burned to the ground and at least six others were damaged when a wind whipped fire tore through a community on Brannan Island road in the delta. This morning, firefighters are still working on hot spots there. The fire broke out late yesterday afternoon at a marina. It began at a nearby forest although its not clear exactly how it started. Several propane tanks exploded. By the time three Engine Companies got there, many trailers were destroyed. But they managed to save about three dozen units. Bart is closed this weekend between oakland and San Francisco because the transbay tube will be shut down. Kpix 5s anne makovec reports about why it is happening and as well as a partial shutdown of the muni metro. Reporter the best advice is to avoid unnecessary trips between San Francisco and the east bay. Plan for an extra hour if you do. We are talking about the closure of the transbay tube between San Francisco and oakland. Its going to be closed at the end of bart service tonight. No trains will run through it on saturday or sunday. The west oakland bart station will be closed. Bart needs to do maintenance and repair work on the tracks. Transportation officials have been planning this for weeks. We assembled a Public Transit dream team of Bus Operators consisting of buses from ac transit, muni, samtrans and golden gate transit. 94 buses in all. Reporter but the buses will come and go from the temporary transbay terminal two blocks from the embarcadero station. The chp says the limited bus bridge is intended to be a, quote, Lifeline Service to those with no other options. They wanted people to consider using ferries or driving across the san mateo bridge. Them. Driverses to avoid the bay bridge them drivers to avoid the bay bridge they want drivers to avoid the bay bridge. Starting tonight changes for muni lasting for the next six months. The Market Street subway and twin street tunnel will shut down at 10 p. M. To install communication systems. No rail service between the embarcadero and west portal stations. Muni will have buses running between 9 30 p. M. And 1 30 a. M. So again, that bart closure just this weekend the muni closure for the next six months. The bart closure though is going to be back in effect during the labor day weekend. Right now live in San Francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. Nothing like the bay bridge on a good weather weekend when you want to get over to the city at 1 00. Faget about it so come early if you are coming to the service. So far its looking good on the roads. I just checked in with mass transit. Bart, muni, caltrain, ace, you name it, everything is on time this morning. No delays to report systemwide there. Elsewhere though over to the freeways we go. What we have is construction on the eastbound side of 580 near tassajara near hacienda. Gets down to one lane there and then back up to full freeway there past the closure. Westbound Altamont Pass towards 680 light conditions. Slow out o tracy. 16 minutes to the dublin interchange. Bay bridge looking good. Officially the moon was full, a blue moon the second in the space of a month this morning. Here we are in the last day of july and the blue moon is looking red as it sinks slowly into the west. Numbers right now its mild. 63 degrees at concord. 62 at oakland and San Francisco right now 60 degrees with clear to partly cloudy skies over much of the bay. This afternoon well recover into the upper 80s inland. Not nearly as warm as its been lately. Today in the mid60s. Around the coastline just 64. Even the chance light however it is of a thunderstorm or two later this afternoon. Well have complete details but first lets get the latest. Heres frank. All right. Thank you, brian. A park in san bruno will likely be closed for a couple of morse weeks as crews work to repair a ruptured Water Pipeline in the area. The 54 line busted monday night dumping about 15 million gallons of water. It created a mess at the Crystal Springs road entrance to the Junipero Serra county park. A 1920s era pipeline is part of San Franciscos hetch hetchy water system. A superior court jury has sided with the port of San Francisco in its effort to evict a restaurant. The port sued sinbads restaurant which had been trying to stay at its current site a little longer to allow time to find a new location. Jurors also granted the ports request that sinbads pay more than 71,000 in accrued rent. The port wants to clear the restaurant site to make room for an extended ferry terminal. An uber driver surrendered his license after hitting a cyclist in San Francisco. Police arrested Emerson Decarvalho on sunday. Investigators say the two got in a shouting match and then decarvalho hit the cyclist with his car. The victim was taken to the hospital with a punctured lung, broken ribs and collar broken rob bream. The man is out on collarbone. The man is out on bail. Governor brown is allowing parole for one of the men in the chowchilla case. Three men were convicted of kidnapping 26 children and their School Bus Driver back in 1976. The hostages were taken from the Central Valley to a clearing near livermore where they were held. The hostages managed to escape after about 16 hours. A former counselor at a saratoga science camp accused of molesting a boy is facing additional charges for a second victim. 27 Edgar Covarrubias appeared in a San Jose Court yesterday. He was arrested in may charged with molestation and making child pornography. The city of brentwood are hold a benefit concert for the benefit of Hayward Police Sergeant Scott lunger killed in the line of duty. He lives in brentwood. The concert begins downtown at Brentwood City Park tonight. Yesterday thousands packed oracle arena in oakland after a Memorial Service for Sergeant Lunger. His daughters were among many who spoke at the service. My dad was not afraid to die. He talked about it a lot. And he always said that dying is a part of life. And the only thing we can do is enjoy every day that we get. You fought day in and day out for what you believe in. You made whatever sacrifice including the ultimate sacrifice to make this world and mine a better and safer place. They said their fathers two great loves were work and family. Time now is 5 09. Will 1 billion fix the problem . Details this morning on the new plan to cope with the states crippling drought. Which will continue at least for the foreseeable future. We have highs today in the mid 80s. And a few changes today and tomorrow, as well. Well detail those in the forecast coming up. And ill tell you how to get around the bart closure over the weekend plus late running roadwork in san jo hey foster farms looks like you left these two west coast birds behind foster farms chickens california grown. You guys arent from here. Wrong we love yoga and sunshine and stuff. Well foster farms chicken has no added hormones. Well i wish you didnt have any added negativity ha high five yeah hes not going far. Theyre local. Introducing fresh and natural chicken. California grown with no added hormones. From foster farms. Simply better. Female announcer youre on the right track to save big during sleep trains triple choice sale. For a limited time you can choose up to 48 months interestfree financing on a huge selection of tempurpedic models. Or choose to save hundreds on Simmons Beautyrest mattress sets. You can even choose 300 in free gifts with sleep trains most popular Stearns Foster mattresses. The triple choice sale on now at sleep train. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep nice day in the bay area with mostly clear skies. Well hit 84 degrees at mountain view, 85 san jose, 88 livermore and 82 in santa rosa. Pacifica just 66 degrees. Here in the city, 69. Potential may be for a thunderstorm or two as we look live toward the city from treasure island. A nice start to friday morning. Thank you. The coast guard is trying to determine where an oil slick off the Santa Barbara county coast came from. A ucSanta Barbara professor believes that oil slick is from natural ocean floor seepage. A lab analysis should come back in a few days. The beaches are still open for swimmers and surfers. New numbers show californians are cutting back on water use. Good news to deal with the lingering drought. Statewide water use dropped by more than 27 perse in june compared with june of 2013. Better than 20 Governor Brown wanted us to save. One of the cities with the most impressive reductions in water use in june is los altos at 40 across the board part of an overall 35 cut in the Santa Clara Valley water district. As a whole the bay area saved 32 . Could 1 billion make a dent in the drought . Senator Dianne Feinstein has drawn up a bill for emergency relief to help droughtstricken communities. It would be used for water storage, desalinization and other projects. Win water expert believes the focus should be efficiency and getting more mileage out of the water we already have. Californias Party Problem is enormous. Its developed over generations and money alone isnt going to solve it. As for the feinstein bill, it will have to work its way out of the senate through the house where California Republicans have drafted their own plan. A wing part possibly from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is being sent to france for forensic analysis. As Hannah Daniels tells us, investigators believe it came from a boeing 777. Reporter the 6footlong flaperon that washed up on reunion island is expected to reach france tonight. Airplane experts there will be taking a closer look at barnacles covering it to see if they match something submerged for over a year. They will also be looking at any other markings on the debris. They will be looking at the deformation of the metal. Reporter they think it came from a boeing 777 boeing. They are less certain that a shredded suitcase found near the debris has anything to do with the flight. It doesnt seem to show the signs of having been in the water for a long period of time. Reporter if the part is determined to be from flight 370, the piece would provide the first real clue into what happened to the plane. Hannah daniels, cbs news. Uber is trying to flag down a new demographic. Retirees. The Ridesharing Service is actively court, the seniors for new drivers. Im awake, dont worry. Older drivers are likely to be more cautious and reliable plus its good for retirees to want to work on a flexible schedule. Whats so cool is all you have to do is check in. Im kind of board. Im going to turn on my fine phone. It was perfect. Its convenient. I love anything thats convenient. Makes my life easier. Im going to make your weekend commute a little easier by helping you navigate around the bart closure happening this weekend. It happens saturday and sunday. Connects oakland to the embarcadero stake, the transbay tube. Thats what will be shut down for maintenance. Now, they are suggesting to use the san mateo bridge. Youre going to see some delays on the bay bridge throughout the weekend for folks driving in instead of using bart. Bus bridges will be in place, as well. They are running 94 buses over the weekend. But again they are expecting mass delays through there so do plan for that. Ferries would be a great alternate to get across the bay over the weekend. Ace looking good on time this morning. Westbound 580 busy. A little slow out of tracy as you work your way westbound. Eastbound though we are seeing some delays. Just checked in with caltrans. This road color every closure will be here until 6 00 so we have another 45 minutes eastbound 580 near hacienda. Looks like youre down to one lane in spots. Causing a backup. Westbound 680 not too bad. No delays into s peninsula commute very quiet. Northbound as you work your way towards sfo looking good. Southbound no delays into the south bay. Drive times are in the green so everything in the clear on 280 and 92. Lets get a look in san jose. We have a camera set up here near a road closure. San jose at 280 looks like actually they are going to turn that to there it is. Construction off to the side. Northbound 280 looks like it is closed at the connectors for 17 and 80 so you can access 280 but cant connect over. Heres brian. Here i am indeed. As we have an unusual sight in the skies above the city of San Francisco this morning. Now, whats unusual about this moon . Maria will be filling us in on all the details as she rhapsodized about this well, you will in a minute. I will. [ laughter ] current readings around the bay area. We have 63 degrees in concord. 62 at oakland. Livermore 65. San francisco 60. Oakland everybody is mild this morning. Mostly in the mid60s. And as we have a look at the numbers this afternoon, mid80s inland. It sounds better than that 107 at livermore earlier this is week. 76 around the bay and 64 for the coastline. Heres whats happening. High pressure over the Desert Southwest sweeping the subtropical moisture over the bay area but theres not that much. It doesnt look like thats much of a chance of thunderstorms here. Slight chance 20 sticky for a while after saturday. Low pressure reasserts itself. Well get an onshore flow, cooler marine air means it will feel like regular weather on sunday. The national hotrod show, sonoma nationals this weekend 800 degrees. Mostly sunny and nice out there at sears point where we used to call sears point. Oakland and cleveland at the coliseum, partly cloudy in the 60s. Bay area much closer to average. San francisco 69. Concord 86. South bay mid80s. Morgan hill up to 90 degrees. Go over to half moon bay, 67. 66 at pacifica. Plenty of sunshine mixed in with a little subtropical moisture. A few puffy cumulus clouds and 84 at san ramon. Livermore just 88. Just 88. 88 at fairfield. 82 vallejo. Up in the north bay plenty of sunshine after low clouds this morning 79 petaluma 82 santa rosa and 82 at sonoma. Up by ukiah 96 degrees today and clearlake still smoking at 98. Extended forecast, a few clouds from time to time but the numbers still warm. Near 90 in the warmest spots inland. And well cool off into the weekend. It will be humid today and tomorrow. But most of the rest of next week looks like pretty typical for this time of the year. Now the song that was popularized by lorenz and hart back in 1934. 1934. It actually existed, believe it or not. Yes. It was a year. You were 3 or 4 . Something like that and i was singing this tune. Blue moon. All right. Blue moon, two full moons in one month. Thats what it is. There you go. Take a picture right now. Whats with the red moon . When it goes away, 2018. January. We got to wait another couple of years. We are going to move along now. It is 5 20. Electric automatic tesla giving away a free car while winning it. Might be a little hard. Well explain. And im dennis odonnell. Coming up, the giants make a latenight deal to improve their pitching staff. And should john brody be in the nfl hall of fame . His teammates think so and youll hear why coming up. In todays jobs report, Jill Schlesinger looks at what to expect from an employee background check. Reporter employee background checks are more sophisticated these days. Companies are doing more than calling to verify your work history. Legally, Companies Must get your consent before they start digging. However, federal guidelines allow employers to access credit reports as long as they have a compelling business rationale. Here in california, companies are prohibited from using Credit Information in employment decisions. Prospective employers do have to follow guidelines if they find something negative in your background check. They must send you a letter raising the red flag and have to provide a copy of the report. The employer must give you time to correct the record or explain the issue. And if the company decides not to hire you, based on what they found, it must send an ad

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