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KPIX KPIX 5 News Sat Morn Edition September 9, 2017

The storm has claimed the lives of at least 20 people in the caribbean and has left thousands homeless. Cbs News Reporter meg oliver is in miami where they are preparing for irma to hit. Meg. Reporter devin, the wind and rain is starting to pick up at times here in miami, but high winds are already battering the keys as Hurricane Irma continues to pound cuba. Heavy winds, rain, and surf will batter the north coast of the island all day. It will then turn north towards florida where more than 5. 5 million have been ordered to evacuate. Tony is fleeing key west. We are worried about the people we love who didnt get out. Reporter among the biggest concerns, storm surge. Think about it. 6 to 12 feet. That is taller than some homes and its going to rush in. You are not going to survive this. Reporter Mass Evacuations have turned freeways into parking lots. Lines at gas stations snake into the streets. Its estimated nearly a third of the pumps in floridas metropolitan areas are empty. Losing power after the storm is also a big concern in florida. One Utility Company estimates that about 9 Million People could be left in the dark for weeks. This is barbuda where Officials Say almost every building on the island was damaged, if not completely destroyed. Everybody will tell you the same thing. Everyone is in the same situation. Nobody can help one another. Reporter now there is a rush to try to evacuate 1600 residents, even by barge. Another powerful hurricane, jose, is expected to barrel into the area this weekend. 25,000 people have lost power in broward and miamidade counties. There are there are 260 shelters open right now. Its estimated more than 100,000 people could end up in them by the time all of this is said and done. Well, meg, so much attention has been focused, and rightfully so, on preparing the areas where the storm is headed next. What about the relief efforts in the areas its already hit in the caribbean . Reporter such a good question. The caribbean is still reeling after more than 20 people were killed. The state department has told cbs news that there are planes on the ground in san juan and they have started to fly to san st. Maarten to rescue people before hurricane jose roars in. Another hurricane for these devastated islands is hard to black believe. Landfall tomorrow night . Its expected tonight and into tomorrow morning, in fact. So right now you can see all of the rain thats coming down across the florida keys. We saw the raindrops on our live camera from miami. So its already affecting florida. Of course, cuba getting inundated right now along with the bahamas. Here is another view of the futurecast. You can see how massive of a range its going to be impacting. So bringing not only just rain, obviously. We have been talking about the storm surge, the strong wind gusts, but expecting tornados to come out of the hurricane. So thats also going to cause more damage. I will track this for you now. Winds sustained at 130. A category 4 hurricane. You can see where the watches and warnings are across southern florida and the keys. So this is this afternoon. The next few hours still hanging out around cuba, then by late tonight, 11 00 our time, around midnight for florida for our type, it will impact the florida keys and then by tomorrow morning, Early Morning thats when we are going to see it start to really inundate florida. Its moving more towards the west coast now of florida the way the spaghetti plots have been showing this. It will stay a category 3 into georgia and go further into the southeastern portion of the united states. I am also going to be tracking jose for you. I will bring that to you later on. Two major airports, Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood International airport and miami are shut down. The Message Boards at sfo show all flights in and out of miami canceled. We spoke with a few of the final passengers to make it out of florida yesterday. As we took off, when we were finally in the air, this one person just did a slow clap and the whole plane went with it and did the slow clap with him. I think there was tension not just because of the storm, the flight before us in the same gate got canceled because they didnt have enough flight attendants. Now, one flight that made it to florida, this loaded c130. It took off from Moffett Field yesterday carrying members of the air National Guards 129th res u wing. Many of them just got back from texas where they saved more than 100 people from the floodwaters of hurricane harvey. I dont know. Harvey, its like they came in afterwards. This time they are going in beforehand. The mission in florida is expected to be similar to the job they did in texas. They are also bringing two helicopters with highly trained para rescuers on board. Starting today, you can donate through the app store and itunes. To mexico where the country is recovering from a 12 punch. A deadly earthquake and a roaring hurricane. The death toll from the 8. 1 magnitude earthquake is now up to 61 people. It was one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit mexico. Hundreds of buildings toppled when that quake hit late night thursday, and last night many people pulled their mattresses into the streets so they could sleep, fearing dangerous aftershocks. And hurricane katia made landfall last night. Winds recorded at speeds up to 75 Miles Per Hour before it was downgraded to a tropical storm. The area being pelted with rain and wind and its in danger of flash flooding. Protesters are fighting to push a conference out of Alameda County. Urban shield is the Law Enforcement trainings expo held at the fairgrounds every year. The Sheriffs Department says the conference is preparing First Responders to serve bay area communities, but pictures taken by the Alameda County task force at the Convention Show show officers shopping for high powered rifles and facial recognition tools. The kind of technology that protesters say authorities dont need. Urban shield is militarized policing. Its the ideology and the equipment. The Alameda County Sheriffs Department says this years conference is focused on disaster preparedness. Stopping a violent protest before it starts. Berkeley police want permission to use something that has been off limits to them for 20 years. Pepper spray. Now they are asking to use it if needed during Upcoming Events at cal. Next thursday conservative commentator ben shapiro is set to speak. The university is beefing up security. Cal plans to set a perimeter around six buildings, including Zellerbach Hall where shapiro will appear. We need to be prepared. We will do whats necessary. The school is working with berkeley p. D. There will be a special area for people to hold peaceful profits. Authorities want to prevent violence like this. Later this month yiannopoulos planning a free speech week for four days at cal. As for berkeley p. D. s pepper spray request, the city council will talk about it next week. A flea outbreak in the bay area. What exterminators say may be behind this. A Vital Transportation link between two bay area cities. Now drivers could soon be paying a toll to use it. The bay area highway in need of repairs and how much it might cost you. First, on todays community calendar, the Mountain View art and Wine Festival kicks off today and runs through food. Food, music, art, and of course wine. Huge crowds are expected at San Franciscos jpop summit. Its one of the biggest japanese pop culture events in the world. It starts at 11 a. M. And finally, if old cars are your thing, lorinda is the spot to be. Check out a free classic car show from 10 to 3. Welcome back. Health Officials Say they have linked two cases of hepatitis a to the jails in santa clara county. Hepatitis a is an Infectious Disease of the liver. An inmate and a staff member recently contracted this virus. We dont know whether the cases are linked together, but given that there are outbreaks in santa cruz and san diego county, we have really leaned in and are offering vaccinations to both inmates to prevent further cases. Health officials point out this is not an outbreak. The last case reported of hepatitis a at the jail was in 2012. The bay area is apparently in the middle of a flea outbreak. We spoke to exterminators who say there is a bag log of calls. One resident tells us that fleas are invading his apartment. Tried to buy some carpet powder to kill the fleas. Sold out at target, petco, the other pet store. Cant get it. A local exterminator says the recent hot weather may be to blame for all the fleas. Googles Free Community shuttles are sticking around Mountain View a while longer. They Just Announced they are renewing the service to the end of 2018. This program started in 2014 and was only supposed to last a couple years, but after a slow start ridership has increased by 60 last year. The shuttles work with an app and riders say they running on time. For free, thats good. Use it. Why not . I think its great. I think its something that is very much needed in the community. Many of the shuttles are all electric, but in the recent heat wave that led to one downside. Drivers cant run their air conditioning, oh no, because they drain the batteries. Drivers on highway 37 may soon have to pay up to prevent future flooding on that roadway. The busy highway runs between novato and vallejo and experienced problems touring the wet winter. Some sections were completely underwater. Transportation experts say flooding will likely happen again, so they are raising money for improvements with a toll road or toll bridge. With sea level rise, and 37 is below sea level, we better do something. The toll plan is a work in progress. Drivers could pay 3 each way. The most expensive option has drivers paying 7 in each direction. City leaders are talking strategy on how to ease traffic. The council heard a string of complaints from locals this week. They say the Navigation App is bringing a surplus of drivers on to their streets. The trouble stems from highway 17. Waze reroutes people through last gat owes. City leaders have tactics to lessen the problem. The big topic that comes up quite a bit. Caltrans is willing and able, they will work with us on metering lights. They would like to put that on all of the freeway entrances. Those metering lights would regulate the flow of cars. Another proposal, adding a roundabout. Right now there is no timeline for the possible changes. Okay. Lets talk about your forecast right now. It looks like a foggy start to the day along the coast and the bay. Look at golden gate. Cant see it. It is there. Yes, its socked in. We have that marine layer bringing us all kinds of fog and drizzle. Here is our dublin camera. Not to worry. Things will be warming up nicely today. Concord 63, oakland 63, 62 livermore, San Francisco at 61 degrees right now. Heres what our temperatures are going to be doing. Over in the east bay today it likes temperatures staying warm. We are warming up compared to what we were yesterday. 90 concord, 90 fairfield, 89 in pittsburgh and brentwood 91. These are aboveaverage temperatures now especially the east bay. You are experiencing more heat today. So heres what we are looking at right now. We have some thunderstorms that came through the sierra bringing down some lightning, some flash flooding, actually, even some hail near tahoe. We have a little bit of a storm system, a slight low just off of the coast. Its actually moving south. So as it moves towards l. A. , its going to bring them a chance of thunderstorms and high humidity in places like san diego. For us its going to allow the high to roll on in bringing our temperatures up. So tomorrow will be another hot day. This weekend will be a hot one. Then what happens is interesting. This low is actually going to pop right back up. So usually those lows move east. In this case, its going to move north into our area, which is why we have this. Chance of thunderstorms for monday and tuesday for all of the bay area. We are expecting to see that storm bring us a significant amount of instability. For the next couple of days 99 for your high in the inland areas. Maybe triple digits for some spots. Yes, we are going to see those again. Tomorrow on the bay temperatures in the low 80s. Along the coast the beaches will be nice in the low 70s. Drizzle in the morning and then the sun sure to appear by the afternoon hours. Monday, tuesday is the day of action. We have a lot of cooling coming up wednesday, thursday of next week. Devin. Thank you. The city of oakland is calling a foul on the golden state warriors. The city Officials Say the team still owes them more than 800,000 for this years championship parade. The city also wants a quarter Million Dollars for the first parade in 2015. The warriors were supposed to pay for the parades by last month, but the city says no money has changed hands. Now, the warriors say the bill for the 2017 event somehow tripled from early estimates. The team wants to meet with the city to sort out the costs. Good morning, everybody. I will be brave. I have a plane to catch. You wont believe the moving pictures that ive got. And, hey, when the panda is happy, everybodys happy. Ill explain what happened last night. United airlines waits for no man. Local baseball for you. A couple of thrillers last night. First off, chicago. Giants Pablo Sandoval hasnt had a hit in three weeks. With the white sox last night, he took care of that. A threerun homer. Stopped an 0for39 streak. The giants win 92. In oakland, down a run. Powell at the plate. Hero time for powell. A leadoff blast. Tied it up at 8. Three batters later runner at second. Jed lowrie blooped one. Marcus siemian crossed the plate and the as won to 87. Their tenth walkoff win for the year. Got to get some football in. Raiders. Derek carr fired up. Tennessee texans. I will see you in the locker room. First games for both since each broke their legs last christmas. Its okay with carr. Mariotta is a little rusty. I hope he waits a week, you know . That would be nice. He is a good athlete. He is doing everything that tennessee asks him to do. I hope he doesnt show up until sunday. Titans slight favorite to win. Roll the ball out and see what happens. 49ers an underdog as they host carolina tomorrow. College football saturday today. Stanton an underdog at usc. A favorite to beat weaver state. Thats it. I am on a plane flight. See you later. [ laughter ] a well known clothing company, they got a start here in San Francisco. It has announced its closing hundreds of stores. 200 gap and Banana Republic stores are shutting doors in the next three years. The first gap opened in San Francisco . 1969. Its unclear which locations will close. Sales at both stores have been in a slump as they face against rival brands. They will invest in brands that are standing out from the back. They plan to open 300 new stars. Amazon wants to open a Second Headquarters somewhere in north america and its asking cities to submit their bids. The online retailer based in seattle will spend more than 5 billion on the new corporate campus and create up to 50,000 fulltime jobs. Amazon says the new location must be in an area that has a highly educated labor pool. Oakland mayor libby schaaf said in this statement here, were excited to explore the amazon hq2 project and the benefits it could bring to our community as well as our region. A decision could come next year. People go to starbucks for coffee. What about fertility treatments . Some women are taking jobs there in hopes of becoming a barista will help them get a bay bridge. Reporter shannaya and nick want children. Four years into their marriage, she couldnt get pregnant. What did that do to your marriage . Two years ago exactly this time, was the first time i heard the word divorce. Thats where starbucks came in. Reporter yes, she said starbucks because she learned the Company Offered an unusual benefit. Coverage for in vitro fertilization. On coverage it cost 20,000 per cycle with most couples going through two to three rounds before getting pregnant. Did it sound right that starbucks would have this coverage . No. I mean, you think barista, you think 18yearolds working to go through school. Not a 27yearold woman tying to have a bay bridge. Reporter yet starbucks covers 20,000 for ivf and related medication for all eligible employees. That includes parttime baristas, who make on average around 10,000 a year. Now we have added so many things. Reporter starbucks executive lucy helm. Its been part of who we are, that if you work here and put in the time, you are going to get the benefits that make you a full partner. Reporter do you hear feedback from the people who work here about this . It is really important to everyone. I think its something that were all very, very proud of. Reporter but business professor craig gartwait with the col og school of management says its not just about making employees happy. In the end, starbucks is a forprofit publicly traded company. This is part of a Cohesive Strategy they have to attract and retain talent and to advertise to their customers that they are, quoteunquote, a good company. Reporter it has to be other than a nice place to work . No question that in todays retail world, in which fewer people are out and about shopping, places have to be a destination. Yeah, of course, its a Business Case for bringing in more customers becaus

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