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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM January 8, 2018

Fires, which gave them plenty of time to get ready and notify residents in the high risk areas. They put up 30 signs around town and mailed out 3,000 notices to homeowners. Weve done a lot of messaging to the community, making sure they knew the risks of the area. Reporter based on the storms forecast, the city has already scheduled street crews to work through the night tomorrow in case there are any major problems. Based on the conditions were anticipating tomorrow, you will likely see city crews checking the storm drain inlets and making sure the water is flowing like it is supposed to. Reporter another major concern is flooding here in mountain grove. The drain pipes are made of plastic and they melted during the fires. The storm drains in older neighborhoods like coffee park were made of concrete and steel so they didnt experience the same types of problems. Is there any concern about Hazardous Materials from the fires possibly spreading in the storm . Reporter we actually asked the city about that earlier today and what they said was the epa made site cleanup a top priority so thats already been done. Also, the city has been monitoring the Water Quality in some of the creeks nearby and said they havent found any signs of major contamination from the rains weve had in the past. All right. Katie, thank you. Sonoma county released a map showing the areas of concern as the storms move in. If you live in any of the highlighted areas, you should be prepared for possible debris flow. People in burlington can protect their homes from the rain by filling up sandbags. The city put out a station on california drive across from the high school. Bags, shovels and sands are provided. In San Francisco, the flood barricades are up at the corner of fulsome and 17th. The barricades help divert storm water away from overwhelmed drains. Where is this thing . Clouds have been building across the bay area for much of the day today. They soon could be delivering, in fact almost certainly will be delivering some serious rain. The latest on the high def doppler shows nothing in the moment. Theres a few light showers moving out right now. Low pressure is driving a system south of the gulf. Low pressure is off of los angeles, bringing subtropical moisture up. The two systems collide and we get rain and occasionally heavy downpours with total as much as 3 inches in the upper elevations of the north bay, 2 inches at the peak and east bay. That will be a mess, 3 to 6 inches of rain by Tuesday Morning and pretty good rain for the south bay. No wonder there are flood watches posted because of those burned areas in the north bay with 2 to 4 inches of rain now expected where once there was fire. So monitor the forecast, including this one. Well have the complete forecast coming up. More long lines today at San Francisco pot shops, a day after Recreational Marijuana hit the market in the city. After recent moves by the feds to ramp up enforcement on cannabis laws, how long will the lines last . We have a report on the haze of uncertainty hanging over the industry tonight. I think in terms of marijuana, i think in legalization, i think that should be a state issue. Reporter President Trump appears to be departing from candidate trump. Until a few days ago the rule was as long as a person is complying with state laws on marijuana they were safe from federal prosecution. This provided stability for the marijuana industry. Investors knew they would be safe as long as they followed state law. On january 4th the attorney general, jeff session, issued a moment, repealing the rules limiting federal marijuana prosecution. It said theyre unnecessary. Now marijuana cases have to be treated like any other case. That eliminates some of the industry stability. Its creating confusion. Reporter a Law School Professor is a former federal prosecutor. The u. S. Attorney can go after you, even if youre complying with state law but theyre not going to. They have other priorities. They have other priorities and they dont have the resources. Reporter state senator jerry hill agrees. I think right now its a lot of bluster. Well see if it turns into reality. Reporter of the person who could turn this into reality are the u. S. Attorneys, the chief federal prosecutors assigned around the country. The u. S. Attorneys have discretion. Thats what the sessions new policy says. Reporter now that the u. S. Attorneys have all this power and discretion to potentially prosecute marijuana cases, the question is of course who is the Northern California u. S. Attorney . Well, its a trick question, because we dont have one. Ours resigned effective yesterday. As for who gets to appoint that persons replacement, that would be President Trump, with confirmation from the senate. For people who are interested in the future of marijuana in california, that is the one to watch. Melissa caen. A martinez woman who caused a multipileup at an east bay interchange was probably high on pot and other drugs. Witnesses told investigators the woman was going more than 100 miles an hour up highway 242 in concord yesterday. She lost control near the highway 4 interchange and rolled her suv over the center median. Four other cars ended up in the wreck, four other people from the cars were taken to the hospital, three have major injuries. They are all expected to survive. The 35yearold suv driver was treated for minor injuries and arrested on suspicion of felony dui. Her name has not been released. Tonight its unclear what led up to a catastrophic wrong way crash on i5 that left six people dead. It happened overnight near woodland, northwest of sacramento. We spoke to a man who witnessed the deadly wreck. Reporter these are witness photos taken moments after a white chevy suv plowed into a silver dodge along northbound i 5 in yolo county. The driver of the chevy was on southbound i5 when they crossed over the median into the northbound lanes, colliding with the dodge. Jeremy morgan pulled up to the scene just after the crash and described everything he saw. Blowing horns, it looked like an explosion going off. Reporter the driver of the chevy was instantly killed along with five others who were riding in the silver dodge. Chp is investigating whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the fiery crash. Twisted wreckage and broken glass on a busy road in san ramon. This happened at about 3 00 this afternoon. Three females in one of the cars had major injuries. The chp helicopter was called in to a airlift one of them to the hospital. The man driving the other car has minor injuries but its not yet clear how the accident happened. A stretch of the road remains closed in both directions at this hour. The search is on in fremont tonight for a group of four wouldbe thieves who opened fire on two men during a botched auto burglary. There is a group with a key piece of evidence at the crime scene. Reporter its not a sight you see every day in fremont, heavily armed officers with k9 units swarming a neighborhood. A neighbor came outside to see a group of four people breaking into a car in the driveway. The wouldbe thieves pulled a gun and shot the homeowner in the hip and his housemate in the chest. It sounded like a couple booms, like two shots. Reporter a neighbor heard the shots and came out and heard the victim calling 911. That he got shot and the people ran away to the back. They ran on foot and evacuated the truck. Reporter the crooks took off running, but they left behind a huge clue. Getaway car. Officers surrounded the area and set up a perimeter, even flew their drone equipped with infrared cameras and found nothing. As of noon, they were combing over the scene for evidence. Neighbors woke up to a crime scene in shock and disbelief. I lived here my whole life. Its getting unsafe and this is not good. Maybe people will be more cautious, i think. Fremont is supposed to be a safe town. Its still safe but, i mean, it is what it is sometimes, right. Tonight police in richland say theyve taken two loaded guns out of the hands of teenagers. Police say the teens tried to toss the guns and the ammo from their car as an officer tried to pull them over for blowing through stop signs in the Iron Triangle neighborhood. The driver eventually stopped in the citys southern district. All four occupants of the car were detained. The suspects range in age from 15 to 17. Theyre all booked in juvenile hall. Police say one of the guns had been reported stolen. Still to come, the founder of a popular bay area Coffee Roaster quits his own company amid a slew of Sexual Harassment allegations. Many of you felt this last week but did you hear it . How local scientists captured the seismic sound. The new year is off to a great start for one bay area family. After church this morning they were blessed with a new car. Past each other. During t the sound of the pacific and north american plates moving past each other during thursdays earthquake in berkley probably wasnt in stereo. A team of geophysicists captured the jolt using a system of sensors and microphones set up under the cal campus. The epicenter of the 4. 4 quake was just a mile away from the sensors. The plates are basically stuck and theyre stretching, sort of the way a rubber band stretches and you never know when the rubber band is going to break. What we actually heard is more like the rubber band breaking. And the heywood fault is due for another break, but a big one, maybe magnitude 7. A major quake happens on average every 150 years. The last time it happened was 1868, 150 years ago. New at 6 00, the founder and coowner of San Franciscos four barrel coffee left the company after a series of Sexual Harassment allegations. In a lawsuit filed on friday, eight female exemployees accuse Jeremy Tucker of sexual assault, harassment, and creating a toxic workplace. The chronicle reports tucker agreed to severe all tie was the company. The companys remaining owners told the paper they take the lawsuit very seriously. They also say tucker had already withdrawn from his position as ceo in november. Next weekend is your last chance to drive yourself to mere woods before new parking restrictions begin. Starting tuesday, january 16th, visitors will be required to sign up for parking or to use the shuttle service. The goal is to reduce overcrowding. Reservations can be made 90 days in advance. If you park, the cost is 8. If you use the shuttle, its 3. A church is celebrating its birthday today. John ramos shows us the congregation saved up for just one gift. Reporter the congregation called the church at antioch celebrated their third birthday today. They had music, cake and gifts. Well, one gift, actually. A really good one. Our tradition is that we want to bless someone with an automobile. So weve done it for the past two years and then today makes our third time being able to do it. Reporter these are working class people for whom a gift like this can be lifechanging. So the church wanted to select someone who really had a need and they didnt have to look far. This years winner is one of our own, diana wollcot [ cheering and applause ] reporter diana wollcot is a single mom who in august was in an accident on highway 4. Her car rolled three times into a ditch. Diana escaped with a minor neck injury but the car was totaled. Since then, everything has been more difficult including having to rely on family just to get her 4yearold daughter to school. Look at this. Oh, my god reporter now this shiny suv will take diana wherever she needs to be, including perhaps a new job to replace the one she had to give up when she lost her transportation. I had to take jobs locally so i could uber or catch the bus. That was a struggle. Now i can venture off to different cities. Reporter they say god helps those who help themselves. Its good to know your friends have your back as well. Im so overwhelmed. Reporter do you think you changed someones life . Im absolutely sure we did. Reporter is that the best part . Thats why we do what we do. The pastor says it was dianas triumph over her difficulties that made her an easy choice to receive this years car. That is a cool story and great for them and the congregationf. For us, we have rain on the way. Things will change as we approach midnight tonight. Right now around the bay area weve got cloudy skies as weve had much of the day. Temperatures have fallen to 46 in santa rosa. Heres whats happening, low pressure thats plunging out of the gulf of alaska is plunging south. Low pressure is bringing up moist, subtropical air which is what weve seen all day today over california. When the systems merge, one acts like a pair of steel grips. The other acts like a sponge laden with moisture. When the grips squeeze that sponge of moisture, we will get rain and bigtime, starting tonight. Future cast shows an inch anda half to 3 inches in the north bay, 1 to 2 inches in the east bay, 1 to 2 inches in the south bay, in the Santa Cruz Mountains it will just unwind, from 3 to 6 inches by the time all is said and done on tuesday. Flood watches are posted for the north bay burn region. Flash flood threat, mudslide, debris flows, so well stay on top of this. Southerly winds will range from 15 miles an hour to 60 miles an hour at some of the bay area peaks. There are wind advisories posted for the bay area. Winds will gust to 50 plus in the afternoon and evening, especially, introducing the threat of downed trees and power lines. The future cast, we will begin to have some light rain overspread the south bay tonight at 9 00. By tomorrow morning, in time for the commute, we begin to get first more light showers and then some of the more powerful stuff coming in monday noon and evening and again for the evening commute, wham, we get showers, some of them heavy downpours at times. It wont be unrelenting rain. Well get a break from time to time. In terms of the storm time line, its like this. From now through midnight, a few light showers in the south bay which will spread north. Tuesday well get rain spreading from the coast to inland with a few downpours here and there. Monday afternoon through monday night, winds will pick up and well get more rain. It will be breezy tomorrow afternoon. There are also winter storm warnings posted in the mountains. Snow, as much as 3 feet at the sierra crest. Showers tonight will spread north and east after midnight mostly. Rain and wind for monday morning, through tuesday midday. Then well dry it out through midweek. Overnight tonight the numbers will be near 50 degrees, the daytime highs tomorrow with the clouds around will be in the low 60s, upper 50s and in the extended forecast wet on monday, rain and wind will spread south. Tuesday we have a threat of thunderstorms and as we head toward the weekend partly cloudy skies and it doesnt look like more rain coming in after wednesday morning. Well have more in the next 20 minutes. But the bottom line is expect wet. Dennis. Who out there can remember why john gruden was named chucky . And wild card weekend continues in the nfl, whos moving on, whos moving out, next. The saints w here we are, dennis, take it away. Its one of those moments that i say in between the commercial breaks is the best part of the show. Anyway, the saints won both regular season games against carolina by a combined 31 points. Would the third time be the charm for the panthers today in the wild card game or would the 38yearold drew breeze get the 30 against the division rival. Ken jane junior scores from 80 yards out and new orleans takes this 70 lead. Jump to the fourth quarter. Alalvin camara gets one from 2 yards out. Cam newton to christian mccaffery, 56yard touchdown to cut carolinas deficit to 31 26. Weve got a game. Two minutes left. Saints go for it on fourth and down from midfield. Breezes past was intercepted by mike adams. He should have knocked it down. Thats a 16yard difference with fourth down. The panthers have the football. 10 seconds left. Carolina facing fourth and 23 from the new orleans 34, newton going to be sacked by big bo belle and that is the win. Saturday, atlanta will be at philadelphia and new orleans will be at minnesota. The second game was a matchup of drought busters, the bills are playing in the playoffs for the First Time Since the clinton administration. Jacksonville in the post season for the First Time Since the george w. Bush oval office appearance. Jacksonvilles first playoff appearance since 2007, if youre scoring at home. Final seconds of the half, 30 bills, blake border rushed for 88 yards. This 12 yards gets jacksonville into field goal range. Final minute of the third quarter, jacksonville going for it on fourth and goal, touchdown and jacksonville up 103. Under two minutes left, still 103, tyrod taylor was forced to leave the game with a concussion. So it was up to the rookie, nathan peterman, to lead a comeback. Bills drive into jags territory. This pass was tipped and intercepted. The play was reviewed to see if the ball hit the ground and it was upheld. Good call. Jacksonville wins 103. Thats their first playoff win since 2007. It sets up the matchup, tennessee will be at new england and pittsburgh hosts jacksonville. You can see both those games right here on the big 5. Tonight on game day, a look back at john grudens first run in oakland including how he got the name chucky. We had a guy at oakland, he went the wrong way on a handoff, and i just kind of lost my mind. Theres 80,000 fans calling you and idiot. I just had a breakdown of some kind. Harvey williams, if harveys listening tonight, gave me the nickname chucky and it stayed with me ever since then. Thats one of the best nicknames alltime. That puts john kingdon, hes going to explain why gruden wanted to return to oakland and why his second tour of duty should be much different than his first. I dont think the sharks Brandon Dillon will be wishing Matt Hendricks a happy new year any time soon. This cut the deficit to 21. Winnipeg power play, they ed in 41. Sin an ppjoseti finishes the road trip and 122. Arizona state against sanford, fourth quarter, sun devils find a wide open player for the basket. Grand canyon state took on arizona. They knock down the 3 to give them the lead. The bears hung on to win, 53 51. Ohio state beats number one Michigan State today on the mens side. You have a full plate tonight on game day. Yeah. And that plus i, tonya. Have you seen the movie . I have seen it. Have you seen it . I did. We interviewed christie yomaguc ci. You learn a lot about tonya harding. Coming up in the next half hour, youve never seen a weather related pileup

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