It happened around 2 30 this afternoon at Hayward Executive Airport located west of 880 and north of highway 92. We have new information tonight from jana katsuyama. You heard from that Sheriffs Office in the past hour and they confirmed the name of the Flight Instructor who died. Reporter they did, frank. The Corners Office tells me the victim has been identified as wayne prodger. Here are photos of him. We understand he is a 62year old man from sunnyvale. Friends that i spoke with tonight tell me that he was a loving and caring husband, father of three grown children and he loves to travel. He was the owner and chief instructor at the vertical cfi helicopters Flight School and was borrowing a helicopter from a neighboring Business Today here at the airport to get the lesson. Reporter the call about Helicopter Crash about 2 30 monday afternoon brought hayward fire and Police Vehicles rushing to the Hayward Executive Airport. It was a robinson r44 helicopter that crashed at the airport. There were two people on board. It was an instructional flight. Was a Flight Instructor and student. Airport manager says the student walked away from the wreckage and was rushed by ambulance to Eden Medical Center but the instructor did not survive. The city says the helicopter is registered to a Company Called pacific helicopters. At their offices down the street the doors are closed. Others who work in the business and were shocked about the news of the fatal crash. Is really disturbing because we see each other every day. Reporter he says it is a close Airport Community where everyone knows each other. Christmas and for summer barbecue we get together. I am hoping and praying for the family. Reporter the airport was briefly shut down. The faa arrived to help investigat flights were eventually allowed to use the two runways, rerouted around the crash site on the taxiway. The airport manager says it appears the helicopter was practicing hovering maneuvers but it was unclear who was operating it before it crashed. There are two sets of controls and they have a Center Instrument panel that both pilots can save and two sets the flight controls on either side. The robinson r44 is probably the standard for flight training. There is a 44 and 22 that are widely used and widely respected. They are the Gold Standard when it comes to instructional flight. Reporter tonight here at the hayward airport we understand the crash scene is being secured and guarded. That is because the National Transportation safety board is sending an inspector out here. The inspector is expected to arrive by 8 a. M. Tomorrow. We understand from the airport manager that these are 44s do not have black boxes so they want to be relying on evidence they find they are amiss the records. Jana katsuyama in hayward. Sonoma county Sheriffs Office is investigating the death of a pedestrian on the smart train tracks. It happened just after four this afternoon in roller park just north of the Golf Club Drive road crossing. Train service was stopped in the area as investigators processed the scene. This was the first person to die on smart train tracks in the last two weeks. Two of those deaths were ruled suicides. This also comes as new Pedestrian Safety gates are being installed at smart chain crossings to alert pedestrians and bike riders that they are nearing the tracks. A fastmoving grass fire burned 47 acres and destroyed two structures in san jose. It began about 11 this morning and the born road and East Foothills and the evergreen neighborhood. The fire started at the bottom of a steep hill. The flames destroyed a arby sub were evacuated as crews worked to contain the fire. We have done everything as far as i can tell keeping the weeds down. This kind of stuff we dont on that. Crews had the fire out by this afternoon but remained in the area throughout the evening to make sure hotspots didnt flare up. Crews are having a tough time reaching fire burning along minds road near the santa claraAlameda County line. The flames broke out in the remote rugged area around 6 50 tonight. So far the fire has destroyed one structure. It is not clear if the structure is a home or born. No injuries have been reported as of this time. In marin county, he may have dodged a disaster when a house fire spread into wildman. It was up high on a ridge in fairfax. Narrow roads, hundreds of homes nestled in forests. The only thing missing was the wind. Fairfax where a firefighters helmet camera tells the story about what happened. Reporter when the call came in about 11 00 last night, crews came out and looked up in the could see the hills glowing. This fire was a beacon in a few ways with some lessons learned. Reporter from a firefighters helmet camera, a house ablaze on crest road high on a rich. The home already a loss in the two men who live here safe. The priority was halting the spread. Only a few hundred feet and open space. Saint anselmo is just have hours beyond. The neighborhood below crest road is home to thousands of people. The chief encounters some of them on his way to the fire. Many were packing their cars or just fearful of what was going to occur. Reporter alerts went out but now evacuations ordered. People fled anyway. I think next time going on foot might be the better choice. Reporter this neighbor describes the scene on roads that are tight to maneuver. Now at smoke, fire engines and fear. We were driving down the hill in panic and all the other people too. It was getting great locks because the trucks are coming up and people were trying to get out. It was pretty crazy. It was challenging. I think we witnessed multiple people hitting multiple cars that were trying to get out the way. It was a chaotic event. Reporter and even to learn from says that she. Time to signup for county alerts, plan ahead. I think the fear level is here and education level is here. Our job is to bridge the gap. Reporter the neighbor nears the fire shot this video from his driveway. To squeeze appear. I was trying to spray the trees because there were emberse i told him im sorry for what happened and what he was going through and he felt sorry for the threat he posed to the neighborhood. He said he was worried it was spread. Reporter everyone was worried. What happened in other communities, other counties always fresh. We can put the metric high school. That will be the predetermined evacuation center. Reporter why been ready is so important for First Responders and the people they might need to say. At this fire wouldve occurred in october with a little bit of wind, the results wouldve been different. We dont want to be one of those that look back and says i wish we would have. Reporter a look down from a drone operated by a 14yearold neighborhood toy. Something that helps with the containment was the homeowner the dry grass in the front and back of his property recently. The cause of the fire is undetermined but suspected to be electrical. Reporting live in fairfax, Debora Villalon , ktvu fox 2 news. Down to the crisis at the border. Teaching concerning people seeking asylum. The Trump Administration announced that migrants coming to mexico must first seek asylum there. Kimberly join is now with the latest effort to reduce the number of people from Central America arriving at the u. S. Border. Reporter the u. S. Attorney general says the United States is a generous country but is being overwhelmed by the thousands of migrants at the southern border. Detention facilities are dangerously crowded but many migrants say they are to school scared to stay in their own country. Reporter President Trumps new plan would make migrants who pass through the United States mexico border and eligible for asylum. This is a reversal of decades of u. S. Policy. Is set to go into effect on tuesday. This is a Shocking Development but it is not recently. Reporter monica farmer is executive director of Lawyers Committee for civil rights, a nonprofit that provides legal help immigrants and asylum sickles. We can just arbitrarily say that you have to go into another country and seek asylum and be denied before you can come and apply for asylum in the United States. We simply cannot do that. Reporter the aclu says the new role is unlawful and they plan to sue. It will impact migrants from countries such as honduras, guatemala and el salvador. If they arrived i land you have to apply for asylum in mexico instead. This is one to send a clear message to people considering coming up illegally to this country to overwhelm our borders with the hope they will get by the first hurdle and then disappear into our interior. Reporter in San Franciscos Mission neighborhood, immigrants we spoke with said the new policy is unfair and inhumane. There is a lot of crime, problems in our countries. A lot of bad situations. Reporter this man works at a Grocery Store in the mission. He says he is a u. S. Citizen but originally came here from palestine illegally because of what he described as terrible conditions in his home country. He says many asylumseekers come to the u. S. To escape unsafe conditions and poverty, and search of a better life for their family. They risk their families to come here and they dont do it just for fun. They want to work. Reporter in a letter to democratic colleagues, House Speaker nancy pelosi wrote, this cruel and antiimmigrant administration is overreaching and stacking the deck against asylumseekers by limiting their rights to due process under our laws. Is being fraudulently abused right now and is part of what is cross the crisis at the border. Stroke their limited exceptiots denied asylum in another country and victims of what is considered severe forms of trafficking. Amber lee, ktvu fox 2 news. The house of representatives is considering a vote tomorrow to formally condemn President Trump after a series of racially charged tweets targeting for Congress Woman of color. Credit for residents alexandria ocasiocortez, ilhan omar , Dustin Johnson to and Ayanna Pressley responded to the tweets today in a press conference. They say the tweets from the president are the latest example of the bicep rhetoric coming from the white house. If you are not happy here, you can leave. Sadly this is not the first nor will it be the last that we are discussing bigoted language from the president. One of the four congresswomen, Ayanna Pressley of massachusetts said the president s twitter attae designed to distract from that socalled callous, chaotic cu robberies and theft caught ng up, we show the video of the crooks in action. Is significant warm up today. You noticed it in the north bay. What is happening in the next couple of days . We will have the forecast in the five day after the break. Powerful and dangerous explosion rocked the neighborhood. How witnesses described what happened. Its no ordinary day for our family at dennys. Its crepe day. A Family Tradition we started about 22 minutes ago and now we can continue that tradition at home with dennys delivery. See you at dennys or dennys. Com a large explosion in Southern California killed a utility worker who showed up at a home to investigate the smell of gas. The explosion happened just after noon in murietta and riverside county. The Southern California gas company says it appears a contract who is doing work on the property damaged a natural gas line. 15 people were injured and taken to the hospital including three firefighters. I heard the loudest boom i have ever heard. I first thought was earthquake but it only lasted the second. It was like allow boom that shook my house, rattled my house. The gas company says disciplinary investigation shows the contractor did not file a request to have the gas lines marked as required by law. New at 10 00, stolen in under three minutes. Thieves get into a landscapers unguarded trailers stilling all his equipment. The landscaper was on the job at the time. This pickup and told trailer parked in the driveway of a customers home on tenant avenue in south san jose. Azenith smith is there tonight with Surveillance Video of the suspects taking all of the items. Reporter security cameras were installed three days prior to the crime and captured the thieves in action. The trailer was looted, parked right in his clients driveway as they slipped into the backyard for a few minutes. Reporter the 56yearold gardener equipped with an old lawnmower. Most of his tools heavy and old with the exception of a just purchased blower after burglars ransacked his trailer last tuesday at 9 a. M. He immigrated from vietnam in 1990 with nothing, started a in years ago. All his tools gone in minutes. Only two, three, four minutes. Reporter home Surveillance Video captured the brazen theft. You can see have edging the clients home and he walked into the backyard. 30 seconds later a white truck drives by and makes a uturn. Two men get out and open the trailer. One heads to the front of the truck and then goes to the backhauling equipment away. To edge tremors, blower and lawnmower. As they drive off, he comes chasing after them. I am very sad. Reporter he didnt lock his trailer thinking he would be gone just a few minutes. He estimates the loss of 2500 a year. They are his livelihood. That is all he knows. If he can have his equipment, i dont know what you would do. Reporter his family described him as hardworking and honest. His equipment is everything and without it you would be able to pay for gas to get to and from or be able to put food on the table for him and my mom. Reporter they see it as a crime of opportunity and to suspect that these work in the neighborhood. Neighbors are surprised. I guess i am but in todays climate people take advantage. Reporter he now change down his equipment and locks his trailer every time. His family is competent someone will recognize the crop is and they will get caught. My dad worked hard for the equipment. Its not like someone just put it on his lap. Reporter he says he has had his equipment stolen before but not to this extent. His family is thankful nothing worse happened. Of go fund me has 2 news. 3. 5 magnitude earthquake shook the south bay this afternoon. The usgs says it happened at 1 45 with the epicenter about 10 miles north of morgan hill along the calaveras falls. Many people in the san jose area reported feeling the quite there been no reports of any damage. The good old days returning to Yosemite National park following the settlement of a longrunning lawsuit over naming rights. Several yosemite landmarks had to be renamed in 2000 after the Park Service Award of its concession contract to a new operator. The Owner Operator sued sing it owned name. A 12 million settlement reached today will allow yosemite to restore the historic names. You want a hotel will be the one he again after being the Majestic Yosemite Hotel for the past few years. Curry village, the wawona hotel and other properties will also revert to the original names. We are checking in temperatures for today. 95 santa rosa, 94 fairfield, 93 antioch. Warmer by 5 to 10 degrees. Tomorrow it is going to be just like this. A significant increase in temperatures today but tomorrow will follow suit with what we had today is first temperatures and cloud cover. The fog got pulled away from the coast because of strong wind. We had wind gusts at sfo at 45 miles per hour. It ripped up the fog but now you can see the fog is back along the coast. It will be there tomorrow morning and temperatures have cooled accordingly. The greens represent the robust seabreeze that is out there. 70 in fairfield, 67 san jose. It is much cooler along the coast. There is the fog. It is a little shallow. It appears more shallow than it is it is right at the base. It is a little deeper than that. This probably 1300 feet deep. There is of the fog moving back in the bay in San Francisco tonight. Tomorrow will be a Beautiful Day about the same as today. Then we start to call out. Details on the rest of the week after the break. The town of paradise is growing again with the first time to be rebuilt following last years massive fire. Today the town issued their first certificate of occupancy for a rebuilt home to the sinclair family. They lost everything during the camp fire. Their home was among one of the nearly 19,000 structures destroyed including 11,000 homes in paradise. Since then paradise has lost more than 90 of the population. Town officials are hoping people come back. They also say they have hired more staff to help with permit applications for new homes. Ahead at 10 30, sentencing day for a minute killer. We dont have them but we hate what you did. The sentence he got for killing a young couple sleeping on a beach 15 years ago. Coast guard crew behind this open water takedown arrive home in alameda. The impact of their threemonth mission at sea on the war on drugs. At comcast, we didnt build the nations largest gigspeed network just to make businesses run faster. 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