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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 4pm January 19, 2018

Details as the couple appeared in court and entered not guilty pleas to all counts of torture and abuse. As Jonathan Hunt tells us, the siblings who range in age from 2 to 29 were so severely malnourished that they appeared younger than their ages with the 29yearold weighing 82 pounds. He tells of what went on inside the home. David and Louise Turpin are being charged with several counts of torturing and holding their 13 children captive. The abuse and severe neglect intensified over time. The District Attorney provide providing a snapshot of the unimaginable conditions inside of the virtual prison saying the children were only allowed to shower twice a year. Food was rationed and they slept all day and were awake all night. The victims told officials the parents would chain them, beat them and even strangle them as punishment. The punishments would last for weeks or months at a time. All of the victims are severely malnourished and some lack basic cognitive functions as a result of the abuse. Police of providing more details about the 17yearold who exposed the horrific conditions. The escape plan have been in the works for two years. The team took one of her siblings with her but that child got scared and turned back. We are fully prepared to seek justice in the case. The couple is charged with 12 counts of torture, seven accounts of an abuse of the dependent adult and six counts of a child abuse and another 12 a false imprisonment and david is facing a charge of a lewd act on a child by force or fear. The bell has been raised to 13 million each. If convicted, they face up to 94 years to life in prison. In los angeles, Jonathan Hunt, fox news. For more on the arraignment and what we learned today about the case, we are here with our legal analyst. You are the defense attorney here. How do you defend the people. I would start with a prayer and start hiring psychological experts. I would have them examine examined to see if there was anything mitigating that i can present to the da and two presented in front of a jury. To do someing this depred, you cannot be wellbalanced bu thdeavity is not a good enough defense because to get the not guilty breezy by reason of insanity, you have do not understand what you are doing and they clearly did because how they hit it. There was sophistication to some of this. A 29yearold only weighs 89 pounds pick they knew nothing about society. They did not know what a Police Officer was. In a case like this, would you try and separate the husband and wife and maybe get the wife to turn on the husband . That would be tough. You will have two Defense Attorneys involved in the case pick which one is more culpable . Most of the time, everybody turned to the husband and said you were the mail and the strong one and why didnt you control this. The wife will say, he made me do this. If i were representing the wife, i would look for Something Like that to point at the husband. I dont think that will work for the husband. If the case goes to trial, which we are assuming it might unless there is a plea deal, would the kids be called to testify x if you are the defense attorney, how would you handle asking questions of the kids . You have to be careful. I have done it for a long time when i was a District Attorney and i prosecuted a lot of rape cases and some cases like this. You cant attack. I have been called a pitbull in the courtroom. I laser in on people. In this case, you have to become gentle and ask questions softly and get them to convey what they can to the jury and it will take a lot of witness preparation and it will take the victim witness unit of Riverside County to work with the kids to get them to come out of the shell. This type of depravity and torture not only does physical damage but it leaves deep, deep psychological scars that will last a lifetime pick they will be lucky if they get better behind this and are able to lead a full life. The prosecution would try to be very gentle. Right. Cross examining. Same thing. Can go after them. What do the kids have to do with it . They are the victims you may have to go after some of the das expert if they put an expert on but you cannot go out after the kids. The jury will hate you. 29 years old and 80 pounds and you are pounding away at them. They will bring back a guilty verdict which they will probably do in this case anyway. I dont see a lot of defense here. I understand everyone deserves a defense and everyone is entitled to a defense. If you are the defense attorney and they asked you to represent them, is there a time when you say, no, i dont like what you did. There has been a few cases in my career and i have done it for 35 years where i have turned people away and said what you did is so depraved, i will not defend you or give you my skills. As an attorney, we have an ethical obligation to defend people. We dont have to defend everybody but people say how can you do that or how can you do that . Someone in their family or someone they love is accused and all of the sudden the light goes on and they get it. In a case like this, you want to make sure the District Attorneys office does not go like a runaway train and abuse their rights for their civil rights or whatever rights they have in a case like this. That is important. What do we as Defense Attorneys do . We protect their rights and if we feel they are not guilty for the facts dont show it, we mount a defense in after a. In a case like this, it will be difficult. They better do a lot of talking with the District Attorneys office to see if they can bring the years down. Im sure they will be able to but to what end . 20, 30, 40 years in prison suspect do you think it will go to trial . I think that will be a plea deal. This would be a train wreck if it went to trial and we call it a slow play. You go to trial and it you know that we have no real defense. They will have the kids to put up. They will have Scientific Evidence to put up to show the stunt of growth. Basically at the end, you will hate these two. You would absolutely abhor him. I would not surprise that if they dont say excuse me and can we vote. Michael, as always, thank you. Youre welcome, frank. Two people were rescued near mavericks this morning when the boat capsized. They tossed them into the water. They were not injured and usually high surf is creating dangerous conditions and keeping emergency crews extremely sy today. Crews rescued two surfers who got caughtin the powerful waves and in santa cruz, the Fire Department came to the aid of a swimmer who was reported to be in distress. Officials say he is being treated for hypothermia. The high surf warning is in effect for tomorrow at 4 pm. We are seeing a lot of rain across the bay area. For more, bring in our meteorologist. This connected to the giant surf. This is not a High Surf Advisory which we typically talk about. This is a high surf warning. And elevated area of concern. This is a big swell impacting the bay area coastline pick you saw the video out of mavericks. In this area right here, you get the swell work its way into the area. We will take a look at the reports. The waves right now are around 19 to 23 feet. These are just the buoys. As it approaches, it gets amplified pick that is the surf we saw in the video. The rainfall totals with some areas picking up significant amounts. Mill valley has half of an inch of rain. Santa rosa has 2 inches. These amounts are tapering off for the rest of the area. Napa oakland and fremont has picked up half of an inch of rain in terms of rainfall. The book of the rainfall has been focused to the north coast as we coming closer. Green to show you on the radar. This is light to moderate activity in the north bay. More of a downpour here as expected throughout the day. Here is the coverage from santa rosa to sonoma and clearlake and we could have snow levels coming to 3500 feet as the cold air moves in. For the central portions of the bay, scattered showers. Closer to the Santa Clara Valley and not must much action here. Outside right now we have the raindrops hitting the camera lens. We have overcast and fog out there and what roadways that could impact your commute plan for tomorrow in San Francisco has a chance for showers. By 12 00 is a better bet into the early portion of the afternoon. By 3 00, partly cloudy skies. Tomorrow we will add in the possibility of a few isolated thunderstorms. Here we go as we take it into tonight possibility of showers and did not a lot of action in the morning. Late morning into the afternoon hours we could have cells develop and that could be the chance of a scattered thunderstorm moving to the area. The break for saturday and possibly a stronger storm as we head with the second half of the weekend. More coming up and a few minutes. Father is absolutely heartbroken after a man driving a pickup truck crashed into his family and unfortunately killed his four yearold daughter and injured his wife and other child who was only two years old. The suspect is in custody and facing murder and other charges. Henry lee joins us from Childrens Hospital where the sibling is being treated. Henry, he took to the talk to the father. He is absolutely heartbroken. We caught up with them minutes ago as he was leaving Childrens Hospital in oakland to see his wife at a different hospital. He told us that even as he is grieving the loss of his daughter, his twoyearold daughter is showing no signs of life because of an alleged auto crash. Pink balloons, flowers and stuffed animals sits near the spot where the fouryearold cluster life in antioch. The girl was riding with her twoyearold sister and their mother and their truck when a man in a stolen white truck ran a red light and slammed into them. The crash happened on summers real road or highway for a wednesday in antioch the suspect was trying to get away from a sheriffs deputy at the time of the crash pick the Officials Say the deputy had just turned on his lights and sirens and there was no active pursuit. He was arrested on suspicion of murder and evading arrest. Wellwishers including some who witnessed the crash, paid their respect at the memorial. It breaks my heart. I have a fouryearold granddaughter. It makes me sad. I prefer the family. My son son and i played prayed for the family. It stays in my mind because i saw it. I saw the little baby. I saw them doing cpr. It kills me. The little girls father is on his way to see his wife at the hospital she suffered a broken back and other injuries and is are heartbroken and in grief y over losing their fouryearold daughter and from the looks of things, most likely they will probably lose their twoyear old daughter as well. The latest from Childrens Hospital, henry lee, ktvu fox 2. You dont know what to stay say in a case like this pick that was my question when you said the twoyearold showing no signs of life. Is there any hope for her . It sounds like there isnt . At this point, the father said they are going to do additional tests at Childrens Hospital. Some of the best doctors are here at the hospital doing everything they can to save the little girls life. The father told me they are trying to set up facetime phone with the mother and child but so far there is no response at all. Henry lee outside of Childrens Hospital in oakland. Nicu, henry. Warning to keep people from falling victim to a scam that pops up. Amazon has released the city where it wants to build the Second Headquarters and that bay area was not on the list and we know why straightahead. We can now simulate the exact anatomyh care, of a patients brain before surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for seizures. And if we can fix damaged heart valves without open heart surgery, imagine what we can do for an irregular heartbeat, even high blood pressure. If we can use analyze each patients Breast Cancer to personalize their treatment, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. Amazon announced the cities and the bay areas did not make the cut. My in san jose with why the company left the Silicon Valley off of the list and what experts say this could be good news. Reporter heather, there was 238 bits submitted to amazon. One was from san jose and a collaborative bid that including five cities. Both of those were rejected and amazon will look elsewhere. This afternoon i spoke with the council who put in one of the bids. The cities are concord, fremont, oakland, richmond and San Francisco. They get a call from amazon explaining the seattlebased Company Already has a presence in the bay area. That is the main reason they will look elsewhere. We want to show you a map of amazon they released of the cities that make up their 20 finalist. La is the only city in california being considered on the west coast. After austin texas, the vast majority are east. One in toronto canada. Experts say it is a way for amazon to be more academically politically diverse. It is a political good cover because they are spreading the wealth by employing people in different states and at a time when tech is being scrutinized and it is probably smart to be employing people from other parts of the country besides silicone valley or seattle. The news comes a day after apple announced it is expanded with a new campus outside of california. Experts say the cost of living and traffic have been deterrence but they say Silicon Valley is a great place saying they have seen job growth. The council was not surprised to see amazon go elsewhere but they were disappointed. They are planning to use the bid and hope hopes to get other companies. They plans to announce with the final location will be later this year. Heather, you mentioned what you could be go good and any workers not coming could be help for the housing shortage. There is fewer people and less competition. One way to look at it. Thank you very much. Apple employees could get big bonuses. Bloomberg said apple plans to give employees 25 hours worth of stock as a bonus after the Company Received a tax break because of the new tax law signed in december. Apple will start issuing the stock to employees worldwide in the coming months. Researchers are looking at the concussions and bring conditions called cte has coming up with surprising results. A physicist joins us live after the links to chronic brain damage and a pretty surprising conclusion. It is not about concussions but hits. I am joined by one of the physicist at the laboratory. Thank you for joining me. Okay, we have been focusing too much on concussions then . Perhaps. One of the main results of the study was that concussions and traumatic brain injury seem to be distinct entities. That is, you can develop brain injury and never have been concussed. You can be concussed and get traumatic brain injury. The concussion is not a prerequisite. The study seem to show that for impact that some cases traumatic brain injury occurred and in other cases it didnt. This is important because it means that you probably shouldnt use concussion as a sole criteria for determining injuries to protect the athletes. More needs to be done because it is not strictly a concussive issue. Is this about the repetitive hits. Definitely. If you hit your head, that is bedding dont do it again. How do you say that to a professional Football Player . I wouldnt say it ta professional Football Player. I like football. Am not saying that football people should stop playing football with the athlete need to understand that they are potentially engaging in risky behavior and as long as they understand it i would say okay. You can stop playing completely and that is a rational. We have a better understanding on to hell how to prevent concussion with possible diagnostics and therapies and ways to mitigate. I know you look at the brain of athletes who are deceased. When you got under the microscope, what did you actually find . I am not an md but what it seems and diet the hallmarks from this disease which is the purging that surround the neuron goes rogue and doesnt want to be there and comes up and accumulates around vessels and you get these tangles of bad stuff. Think of a collects cable that collapses. We have a study that shows this lack of connection between concussions and cte and where do we go from here . There is things one can do. One of the things is a localized loading is responsible for the concussion which is different from a global loading. Your head is globally loaded where impact is local and that gave rise to the concussive things that we saw and consistent with the experimental observations. One could develop mitigating strategies to redesign and deal with concussions. The development of traumatic injury is a separate issue. That is acceleration based. Whether it is impact our blast, the head acceleration gives rise to the condition. How do you minimize that . That is tough. Especially when you are talking about a sports such as football and you are talking about soldiers as well. Soldiers and kids. Football players and professional athletes can do what they want and that is okay. We have a special responsibility to the war fighters and kids pick we have to keep them safe into everything and exactly how we will do th, we understand a littleit. It is a hard problem. Not easy. Thank you for coming in and explain the study. I appreciate it. Frank. Learning more about the extent of confusion in hawaii among officials after they falsely warned people that an incoming missile was heading toward hawaii. The president heads to pennsylvania for the gop tax plan as workers work to avoid a shutdown. Details on the four on 2 in a moment. Congress has more than 24 hours to agree to a short term spending plan or face a Government Shutdown at midnight tomorrow. This afternoon it appears they have the vote to pass a bill that the senate is less certain. The proposal includes funding for the Child

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