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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM July 14, 2024

Reporter another neighbor wasnt too surprised about the rest saying elder was a troublemaker and have gotten drunk multiple times and thrown up in front of their home. Looking at his instagram pictures it appears he came from a good family. The elder family released a statement expressing condolences to the family of the Police Officer. We are shocked and dismayed at the events that have been reported but have very little independent information about these events. We have not been able to have any indication with our son. I have always known he is a bit of a bad guy. Reporter another student is talking about the second suspect, Gabriel Natalehjorth had reputation for beating up kids. He would come up in stories of activities you wouldnt want your kids getting as a delinque reporter according to a School Website natalehjorth played on the lacrosse team. He is not active on social media. We went to his house, his family declined comment on the story. The audacity of going and doing that in another country is frightening. I think it is disgusting to kill a Police Officer when they are keeping everyone safe. Reporter Italian Police say they recovered the murder weapon from the suspects hotel room. They also say the two teenagers have already confessed. Keep in mind this has been a onesided narrative coming from italian authorities. U. S. Embassy in italy is closed this weekend and so far we understand u. S. Officials have not been able to talk to the two suspects. I understand you did talk to the suspects families. Have they been able to talk to their children . What are they telling you . Reporter i talked to fin elders mom and natalehjorths younger brother and both families are saying they have not been able to talk to the two suspects. They are respectful but they are also very stressed and in a bit of disbelief. They are saying that until we find out more information, we cant really comment on this case. You can imagine because of the high profile amanda knox case a few years back there is distrust of the italian authorities coming from some folks here in the u. S. They are going to try to gather more information before the comment on the case. As they should. All right, thank you. The other big story we are following this evening, it is hot. At least it is in parts of the bay area. Darren peck is here with the numbers for us. This is not an even heat maker. If you look at the map over my shoulder some places were very hot, pacifically the further inland you went. If you look at the coast or the city of San Francisco it was like nothing happened. I want to come in for a closer view on concorde and livermore. You can do a comparison there. Hayward only went 84. San francisco at 67. Just over those hills it was 100 and concorde and 101 in livermore and you can guess those areas shaded in purple are the exact areas that have been colored in yellow from the National Weather service for the heat advisory. If you are in yellow from fairfield to concord down to danville and into livermore you are not out of this yet. We still have one more day to go here. It will stay in effect until sunday. If you are out tomorrow and you notice you start to feel lightheaded, maybe you get a headache your first assumption should be maybe the heat is getting to you. Look for airconditioning, grab a drink of water and wait until monday. Monday is a tooriing toshow yo if you are already getting sick of the heat. This is exactly what we dont want to see on a hot day like this. A close call in Santa Clara County when a house fire spread to nearby trailers and brush. It started at 9 30 am on center avenue. Firefighters had it contained by noon. One person hospitalized for smoke inhalation. They dont know how the fire started. s noakes filtering down from a wildfire in oregon is taking our air quality from bad to worse. A spare the air alert is in effect for sunday. The smoke is not the only problem high temperatures and lack of wind are working together to keep pollutants close to the ground where we breathe it in. Turning to police, they say a longstanding feud between two neighbors has ended in the citys first homicide since 1995. The victim, 67yearold Patrick Leonard was shot to death in a garage on robin avenue around this time yesterday. Police say he was involved in a neighbor, 68yearold joseph. Joseph was arrested at the scene. Police recovered a gun in his home. They are testing to see if it is the murder weapon. Two burglary suspects under arrest after wild chase through two cities. Police think they were dressing as utility workers to get access to peoples property. David quinn of oakland and Brandon Harper of stockton were taken into custody shortly before noon yesterday. Police spotted the black nissan with paper dealer plates. When officers try to pull him over they sped away sides wiping another car. The nissan finally came to a stop in redwood city. One suspect surrendered in a police dog caught up with another man and a half mile away. The suspects had fake utility worker clothing along with stolen property, weapons and narcotics. From curbing crime to handling the homeless problem, barts new general manager has a big to do list. Melissa cane reports his focus is on one thing in particular. Reporter the new bart general manager, bob powers has only been on the job for two days but he already has his work cut out for him. According to a recent Alameda County grand jury reports, crime on bart is way up and ridership is down. It is 8 down since 2016. My vision is short and sweet. Customers must come first. Reporter he says bart has a plan to deal with crime and homelessness. The first order of business is to get a new bart police chief. The former chief retired in may. In the meantime powers says bart has been hiring Police Officers. We have hired 33 Police Officers in the last six months. That is more than we have hired the year prior. We are already having 13 vacancies in the Police Department and it used to be 40. Reporter he wants to prevent criminals from getting into the stations area the system is testing gates to fair l. We are raising railings on perimeters and increasing pressure so you cannot walk up to the gates and open and walk through. Reporter preventing fair ioalso part of a four part plan to deal with the homeless. We are going to expand our elevator attendant program to all four stations. We will have Homeless Outreach teams at all five stations. We will continue to harden the system and we are having discussions with the board on an ambassador type program. The concept being more presence in the trains. Reporter melissa cane, kpix 5 news. Help is on the way for drivers in several bay areas. The milliondollar push to fend off car burgers. The nature photo so spectacular it got National Geographics attention. And the husband of one of our former colleagues makes the catch of the day. And get a shout out from pablo. Hey, mike. Check out this timespace wormhole i created. Hows it work . Let me see your togo, and ill show you. Burt you have my lunch. Introducing togos new hot chicken trio. The new brewpub chicken with grilled chicken, bacon, and fresh avocado. The hot buffalo chicken with franks redhot wings sauce. And the tangy barbecue. The new hot chicken trio at togos. How far would you go for a togo . Several south and east bay cities getting an infusion of cash to combat car breakins. Devon tells us where the money is going and where it is coming from. Reporter several bay area cities have seen a dramatic spike in the number of car breakins in recent years but the problem is many of the Police Departments dont have the money or manpower to do much about it. Assemblyman hansen shoe said he wants to change that. They need more help. Other cities are saying that they are or the assemblyman hopes the extra 750,00n jose will help put the brakes on car breakins. We want to address the issue from the prevention side and also provide the pd some additional funding. Reporter he was able to convince lawmakers to dip into the state surplus freeing up money for Education Programs and extra officers to battle what he describes as an epidemic breakin. Im excited to have more capabilities in our Police Department. Reporter San Jose City councilman said he is cautiously optimistic about what can be accomplished with a onetime grant. He fears police will never truly make a dent in car break ins unless there is a re examination of recent criminal justice reforms which make the case is often classified as misdemeanors difficult to prosecute. A lot more needs to be done at the state level to make sure that when we catch criminals they actually get some punishment. Reporter the assemblyman hopes the cities to get the money will use it to drive down the number of car breakins and he could then use that data to convince his fellow lawmakers to fund the program for another year. Perfect weather today for the start of berkeleys music in the park summer concert series. We spotted plenty of season out and about enjoying the sunshine. Some decided to lie out in the grass at Civic Center Park while others enjoy the music while getting fresh brewed at the farmers market. I think that is the beauty of california. Our weather and fruits and vegetables. I couldnt hope for anything better. I love this music. Perfect weather, great feeling coming out of yoga. The concert in the park series runs one saturday a month through early october. The first group of birds rescued from a fallen tree in oakland is back in the wild this evening. International bird rescue of fairfield released a total of eight snowy grits and egrets and black crowned night herons at the mlk junior shoreline yesterday. They were among dozens of birds rescued early this month when eethey called home in downtown oakland split and fell and many of the birds are still too young to be released. This is also from the wild kingdom bureau. A wild encounter caught on camera in monterey bay. Felix cortez talked to the marine biologist who snapped the photo. I get to see a lot of crazy stuff but never this. Reporter chase decker was the marine biologist and photographer for sanctuary cruises when he got the spectacular image of a sea lion inside a humpback whales mouth. A lot of people on the boat have never seen a will. The fact that they get to see something so amazing, it is mind blowing. Incruise on a feedfrenzy whenthe free act of nature happen. I was hoping i got the photo. I was so ecstatic. I captured a moment i may never see again. Reporter decker posted the picture on facebook for all to see and it has gone viral. There are some internet naysayers. People keep saying this is clearly photoshop or taken on a dock in the sea lion was put in the whales mouth. Reporter humpback whales dont eat sea lions. They grill, plankton, and small fish. Decker said there were also hundreds of sea lions in the feeding frenzy and this unlucky sea lion didnt get out of the way quick enough when the humpback swam up to eat lunch feed. When the whale went back down the sea lions went off. He may have a little pp st ptsd. There are a lot worse things to worry about. It has a lot more on his mind than being in the whales mouth for a few seconds. That was felix cortez reporting. The photo is getting worldwide attention. National geographic is interested in riding an article. Welcome to darren peck who joins our weekends now. We have a mix of things. Whether you are inland or the city have a range. This is a perfect example of how different the weather can be across the bay area inland locations to the coast. Some of us are under heat advisories for one more day. Others didnt get out of the 60s particularly in the time lapse of the low clouds that were coming in over the Golden Gate Bridge. A beautiful display of what happens when you pull in the low clouds and you keep San Francisco humid from having to live with the realities that everybody else did on this day. This is why San Francisco only went to 67 degrees for the daytime high today. Lets leave that you behind and i will shut you live. I will put the numbers in front of it. Now look at concord, 99. If we want to take a look at where it mattered today in terms of the heat, these were daytime highs. Concord 100, livermore 101, antioch 100, santa rosa 94, napa 95. Close to records but not quite there. We missed it by three in concord, one in livermore, antioch six, santa rosa five degrees, and napa and 95 also missing by four degrees. Heres the important thing. What happens tomorrow . We will compare todays numbers with where we are going for the second half of your weekend. When we look at these numbers they are a little better. We are going down a couple of degrees. Livermore will be 96. In napa it will be 89. I did some math. A few degrees cooler. This is the beginning and it will get a lot cooler on monday. Heat advisory that is in place that i showed you at the top of the newscast. That stays in effect until 11 pm tomorrow night for inland valleys up through fairfield. If we look at the rest of the bay area for tomorrows daytime highs theres that beautiful bright green strip along the coast showing temperatures not t of the upper 60s. The onshore wind will keep us cool. San jose we will get you out of the 90s and bring you back down to 89. It will be 78 in oakland. To show how things improve on monday look at that drop. By the time i get to early next week we are down below average for concord at 85. If you are going to the gilroy garlic festival tomorrow, it will be hot at 97. We will have a lot of people running on the streets tomorrow for the marathon. If we were having a marathon in the bay area, the best place to do it is in the city. It will be in the low to mid 60s when they get started. In the sevenday forecast that trend continues for the next several days with a nice cooldown for next week. And similar stories for the bay. We will be in the upper 60s to low 70s. E witake it. You love local bay area nfl football, then im your guy. Raiders and 49ers th little noise today. It was day one of training ca. Mos in, in santa clara to napa, they were ready to go. Reaction just ahead, too. Up to 20,000 runners will hit the streets tomorrow for the San Francisco marathon. They will head out along the embarcadero just before dawn. The 26. 2 mile course will take them across the Golden Gate Bridge and back. Through Golden Gate Park and the mission before returning to the start along the embarcadero. Have marathoners can choose to run the northern or southern half of the course. They wont cross the bridge. Road closures will be in place citywide through midafternoon. If you are driving into San Francisco tomorrow, plan ahead and give yourself some extra time. Now the Emmy Awardwinning burn. So i have to pay you every time you say that . Because its true. We have the nfl up top. I was charged up when they reported on friday. I am in a lather today because the whistle blew to start practice at all 32 Training Camps. The 49ers at their santa clara headquarters, the 2019 edition. Coming up is number 55 in white. That would be linebacker dee ford signed in the offseason to attack the quarterback. General manager John Lynch John lynch spoke about the investment on the defensive line and the newly acquired pass rusher was asked about the topic of expectations. We definitely embrace it. Every defense is the heart and soul upfront. At least he wanted to be. We understand what the expectations are but we have to put in the work area this is the time to do it and we are doing it. What are the expectations you have of yourself . Work every day and the results will take care of itself. Vincent asked why i say that way . It is my omars to al davis. We will capture the legions of players running up and down the field nonstop this morning. Roughly 9noon. Raiders made some major upgrades on both sides of the ball. Jon gruden acquired 21 free agent signings. Derek car held minicamps of his own in bakersfield to get ready. Antonio brown did not practice today. Signed autographs, did jim work. Day one of Training Camp is where all the optimism is at its highest. Where does it start . With a veteran quarterback. We are laying a foundation that we want to turn around and win 16 games just like everybody. That is everyones goal. What we are doing right now is laying a Good Foundation with solid people. In my heart i definitely believe that they believe we can win. You know what im saying . We can beat everybody. When you get to feel that throughout the whole team and that goes out to the other meeting rooms, not just the quarterback that carries way more weight. The best of the nhra is back in sonoma. That means the dragracing king, john 70 years young is still beating these kids. You will hear an update in the moment. He has a record 149 career wins. He would like an even 150 which is easier said than done. The sport is very humbling. You will be on top one day and on the bottom the next. I have learned to take your punches in the nose and love it. What i really love is going 330 Miles Per Hour. He went into the fourth round tonight. 327 Miles Per Hour in 3. 9 seconds. Let this marinate for second. There is a skateboard star who is 13 years old and she is one of the 12 best skateboarders in the world. Give me a shot of the eighth grader who happens to have her skate park in the backyard to train. She is headed to the x games next week in minneapolis. The extreme games is the grandest stage in skate boarding. She qualified last week in china. She did it coming back from a broken arm. I think it honestly helped me. Not that i needed it or wanted to break my arm, but it motivated me. This year i am in it. I am ready. She is on the elevator up in her career. She has 13 sponsors and skateboarding is now going to be an olympic event. If it started today, she would be representing the united states. She would be

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