Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 11PM 20171111 : vimarsan

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News At 11PM 20171111

Right outside the Diamond Heights vim aj apartments this Morning Village apartments this morning, they called 911. Once he noticed looking he hunkered down in the bushing. Reporter from his living room window, police, swat, fire and animal control officers watched. We had direct a contact the whole time he was there. Reporter was he looking at you . He was looking, and when it started raining he hunkered down a bit. Reporter authorities fired two tranquilizer darts in the big cats back just before noon and carried him out. The puma project attached an ear tag and gps tracking device, then let him go at 6 30 tonight to the nearest suitable habitat at the Crystal Springs reservoir. Fish and wild life tell me the cat was male, 82 pounds, and about 18 months old. Thats about the age when they found New Territory and food on their own, and there was a decent likelihood that todays cougar could be the same one caught earlier this week on a Home Security camera. Tonight we talk to those that use the trail near the mountain lions new home. I guess its a little scary. I think we can coexist. Reporter and theyre glad everyone is safe. In San Francisco, kpix 5. A break tonight in a string of rapes and robberies around the bay area. Maria is live in san jose with whos under arrest and whos still on the run right now. Reporter and liz, this case is far from over. Investigators are still trying to identify a fifth suspect caught on surveillance camera. Take a close look at this man in this video. Hes the last suspect in an organized crime ring police need to identify. The same Surveillance Footage helped Police Identify jason shen and put him behind bars a few days ago. It was very close to where i live. Reporter she lives in an upscale North San Jose complex where the group killed a man execution style in september. Yes, some friends in the building mentioned they knew about people kicked out before. Reporter San Jose Police say the Southern California men also robbed and raped women in a 25 hour period, all locations were brothels. Im uncomfortable and restless. I was losing sleep. I think its a good thing theyre making progress. Reporter and the suspects face a list of charges including kidnapping and murder. Live in san jose, exist 5. Despite growing calls for Alabama Senate candidate roy moore to exit the race, tonight moore says hes not going anywhere. Veronica de la cruz reports that moore is breaking his silence however. Thats right. Ken, tonight roy moore denies allegations of inproper conduct with teen girl Improper Conduct with teen girls in the 70s. Alabama republican Roy Moore Says he has no intention of dropping out of the senate race. The former judge called in to Sean Hannitys radio show. These allegations are completely false and misleading. Reporter the Washington Post reported moore pursued teens in the late 1970s when he was in his 30s. One says she was just 14 years old. Today the Christian Conservative vehemently denied that, saying he never did anything illegal or inappropriate. I believe theyre politically motivated and want to stop a very successful campaign. Several Republican Leaders said moore should step aside if the allegations are true. Mitt romney wrote innocent until Proven Guilty is for crimes, not elections. Somebody is out to get him. I dont understand why it would take so long to bring it up. Its disgusting that a grown man would take advantage of a child. I think its all made up. Republican senators mike lee and steve danes who endorsed him both tweeted they were withdrawing their endorsements. Tonight Top Democrats including House Minority leader nancy pelosi say its time for moore to drop out of the race. Its interesting to me, not only the allegations against him, but the response from the republicans. Theyre really just going to have to say step aside. Alabamas special election for the senate seat takes place december 12th. And in another high profile case, tonight Comedian Louis c. K. Says the stories that he harassed women were true. He said it was power and i wielded it irresponsibly. Five women accuse him of inappropriate behavior. The women we spoke to felt it was the moment to speak. Theres this movement, this sense of solidarity that their stories now will get support. The distributor of his new film i love you daddy scrapped its release. Hes one of the worlds highest paid comedians, rake not guilty about 5 raking in 52 million last year, but in light of his admission, several companies have cut ties with him. Veronica de la cruz, kpix 5. And tonight there are new accusations against a movie director and two more actors, including oscar winner richard dreyfuss. A los angeles writer says he exposed himself to her in the 80s. He denies the allegations. And a former model says Actor George Takei sexually assaulted him 36 years ago. He says the star trek actor groped him after a couple of drinks at the actors condo in 1981. So far in response from takeis representative. And actress ellen page says director brett ratner harassed her and outed her as gay. More than two does men in the Entertainment Industry have been publicly accused of Sexual Assault or harassment since the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Tonight actor will ferrell says theres one good thing thats come out of Sexual Misconduct scandals rocking hollywood. Kpix 5s betty yu caught up with him at the napa valley Film Festival. Reporter the festival was almost canceled this year due to the devastating wildfires, but organizers said the show must going on, determined to show that napa is open for business, and tonight they had support from a hollywood a lister. I know a lot of people are dispoliced and still picking up their lives displaced and still picking up their lives, but tonight its starting to come back. Reporter tonight the Film Festival honored will ferrell. The 7th annual week long event brings 50,000 people to wine country. Were bait to lure people back, and its working. This place was dead two weeks ago, and its busy and bustling which is great. Reporter the festival is donating 10 percent of the ticket sales to wildfire victims and its sponsor lexus is donating another 50 grand and a thousand free passes to those effected. Today we saw reminders of the damage. Charred hillsides behind still stunning vineyards. For anyone directly in the path it was really horrific, but entire valleys, infrastructure, restaurants, theyre untouched. Reporter none of the festival venues were destroyed either. Ferrell took time to address a serious topic tonight, hollywoods problem with Sexual Assault and the growing list of men accused of abusing power. Im glad people are feeling safe enough to come forward. Reporter and i think were seeing consequences, people are losing their jobs, powerful people denied opportunities. As somebody in the business for a long time, what do you want to see more of . Well, obviously there needs to be openness, accountability, obviously a lot more respect out there, and i think its a great wake up call for all of us in the industry. Reporter in napa, betty yu, kpix 5. Nights big benefit concert at atandt park raked in 17million dollars. Top musicians banded together for wildfire victims and tonight we can report last nights big benefit concert at at t park raked in 17 million for wildfire relief. And even more help is pouring in tonight. One man has made it his mission to haul away all these burned cars in santa rosa for free. He has his work out cut for him. The man is joe cream. He returns an auto dismantling business. Each burned car in coffee park is loaded onto his truck and sent to his junk yard scrapped. Joses its much more than a job. His daughters home burned in the wildfires, and now hes giving back. Meantime tonight, some people if santa rosa are being in santa rosa are being warned not to drink or cook with the tap water. The notice went out to 13 homes on crown hill drive and fur ridge drive. They found slightly elevated levels of contaminants after the fires. Theyll notify people when the water is safe again. Police say a trio of Armed Bank Robbers in brentwood are in custody today. The robbers held up the bank of agriculture and Commerce Community bank just before 1 00 yesterday afternoon. Based upon the Surveillance Footage and witness statements, Police Arrested these three suspects. They also recovered evidence from the crime, including bank cash. No one was injured in the robbery. One. Is really something. Watch weve shown you lots of videos of package thieves, but this one is really something. Watch as this guy walks up to the door of a house on arbor street in glen park, grabs the package, then opens it right there in the entryway, looked what he saw, stuffed it in his jacket and walked away. When the homeowner returned today all that was left was the empty box. If you know who the person is, police want to hear from you. The last visible remnants of old bay bridge will go out with a big bang tomorrow. Be imploded sometime between 6and8 a. M. Expect possible traffic delays. On is about the final two concrete piers will be imploded between 6 00 a. M. And 8 00 a. M. Expect possible traffic delays. When its about to happen chp will have to halt traffic on the new span for a few minutes. President trump is beginning a full day of meetings at an economic summit in vietnam. Hes gathering at the asia pacific cooperation retreat. Putin is also attending. They exchanged hand shakes and also crossed paths yesterday at the summits welcome gala. According to the white house theyre not expected to have a formal meeting together, but aids say an informal meeting is possible. And tonight oaklands police chief under fire for working with ice. Shes accused of lying about a raid, and now kpix 5s Christin Ayers reports the plot thickens. Reporter tonight at Oakland City Council, members convinced the city is trying to hide the details of an august ice raid contained in this report. Im really worried about a cover up here. Reporter Oakland City Council member Rebecca Caplan thinks the city is trying to hide some. The raid happened weeks after the city Council Voted to have police sever ties with ice, but there police were to control traffic while ice detained a man. Critics say by assisting, police may have violated sanctuary city policy. We voted against them colluding with ice. Reporter just this week there was an internal Affairs Complaint filed against the chief over the incident, accusing her of untruthfulnesses. Caplan and councilman brooks demanded a report from the chief to find out why the police participated. It was scheduled to come to the Safety Committee next tuesday, and now theyve canceled it which is totally unacceptable. Reporter thible motion to remove the a the motion to remove the item from the agenda came from Council Member washington. She said shedly delayed it to she delayed it to give more time for the investigation, but caplan spells a rat. If nothing wrong was done, why stop the report . Reporter tonight oaklands Mayors Office issued a statement saying they respect the Investigative Office and has complete confidence in the chief. In oakland, Christin Ayers, kpix 5. Tonight a federal june says judge days a bay area woman whos son killed a sheriffs deputy can keep her home. She put up her Castro Valley home as collateral for her sons bail, but he failed to show up in court. Then he was involved in a shoot out and later died. Today the judge said nicole cooperated with authorities during the search for her son, and the judge says the court finds it appears that justice does not require bail forfeiture. He also said theres no evidence nicole had a role in her sons decision to skip bail. So would you want to stay in an airbnb with a convicted kidnapper living in the basement . Millions of people stay in airbnbs when they travel trusting its safe and usually it is, but what one customer found out might make some of you want to do extra homework before you book. Reporter nothing prepared this french tourist for the terrifying night spent at an airbnb in this house in daly city. Inside there were like 20 minute. Reporter online it looked ideal. Clean, conveniently located, and best of all cheap. But when she arrived, she found a house of horrors. A guy came if the bedroom and was looking at me and touched me. Reporter she called the police after male guests made advances to her in her bedroom and walked in on her on the shower according to her friend that came to pick her up. They watched her naked in the shower. Reporter the two friends were even more shocked to hear what we had to tell them. Did you know the person who rents this home has a criminal history and spent over a decade in prison . Yeah, i didnt know that before. Now that i know that, its incredible. Reporter incredible but confirmed. Their airbnb host who lives in the basement served 10 years in state prison for kid map thing and beating the mother kidnapping and beating the mother of his child. Heres his mug shot. He got out three years ago and set up shop. Carol says she never saw him that night and no charges were filed, but it turns out hes not the only one hosting on airbnb with a criminal record. Does airbnb know about your background . Your criminal history . This man served seven months in state prison for felony drug charges. And the host of this beautiful cozy diamond in the rough if los angeles is also a felon in los angeles is also a felon serving time currently for petty theft. In a joint investigation with our affiliate in la, we found people convicted of serious crimes offering places to rent on airbnb even though the companys policies forbid it. Every host and guests in the United States gets a background check. Reporter the global head of trust and Risk Management for airbnb. Unfortunately for us, the background check system is broken. A lot of counties dont put all the information online, but thats why we dont just rely on them. We have a lot of tools to instantly evaluate hundreds of different signals looking for anything suspicious. Reporter he says 25year old drug convictions like phillips dont disqualify a host, and phillip says hes turned himself around. I did things a long time ago i regret, but this is a second chance. Reporter but what about the others . We had a background check on him that came back clean. I guess his charge was from about 15 years ago and i think in california, um, due to compliance that governs what information you can get on people, thats outside the window. Reporter the problem is thats simply not true. California law does limit the information you can get about a persons criminal history at 7 years, but thats 7 years from the date of disposition, release or parole meaning even the most basic background check should have uncovered the checkered past. Our research was able to verify it or uncover it, so if we could, how come you didnt . Were investigating that. Reporter not reassuring news for customers. They make you feel on their website that everything is verified. Its just a terrible situation that needs to be remedied. Reporter im here from kpix 5. You dont have anything to say . He didnt want to talk to us. In daly city, dave fehely, kpix 5. Airbnb refunded carol right away, and the hosts post has been taken down. And we were able to find the convicted host through Research Funded by the hotel industry, but we independently verified every name and criminal history. Its the weekend, and its now dry. Good timing for mother nature. We clear things out tonight, stay mainly dry for the weekend, but showers and late rain fall return next week. Tonight the mid50s. 55 in oakland, and San Francisco 58. The radar, somewhat active over the past couple of days with scattered showers, the atmosphere has comedown now. Upper 40s in san rafael and fremont, 52 San Francisco. At t park tomorrow, part of bay area science festival discovery day, ill be out there tomorrow morning, stop by the kpix booth and say hi, tomorrow sun and cloud, nice outdoor weather for a pretty cool set of exhibits. And the veterans day parade tomorrow at noon, mostly sunny, 64 degrees. Our low pressure area that gave us the front, seems like a long time ago, but we got steady rain fall about 48 hours ago, the front is finally leaving. It will be in western montana by the morning, so we get to see things calm down. Sunshine, yeah, i think well get a little sunshine tomorrow. Not full sunshine, but partly sunny skies both tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon. Gradual increase in cloud cover especially in the north bay on sunday. Look when the rain comes back. As if its waiting for the weekend to end, rush hour monday morning, the rain starts. So good timing there. The entire weekend dry. Get back to work on monday, may not be saying good timing when youre driving slowly to work on monday, but there it is. Rain chances, we have two next week. One on monday and another on wednesday. High temperatures running a little bit below average tomorrow.

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