Transcripts For KBCW CBS 5 Eyewitness News On The CW 44 2012

KBCW CBS 5 Eyewitness News On The CW 44 November 28, 2012

In the bay area city that will likely be the hardest hit. Reporter this area, i should say, once all the moisture roles off the pacific and hits the north bay hills they literally act like a wash cloth. For the next few days that wash cloth will be ringing out. This isnt the time to sit back and watch the clouds go by. Patricia of san ansalo is loading up on sandbags to keep the water out of her home. We live in a low spot at the bottom of a hill. A lot of water comes down. This is to go around the garage and some of the doors and also in the basement. David manages an apartment complex in larksbur. We made sure all the leave were swept up. And also taking all the furniture down on the decks. But its business as usual at the Christmas Tree lot at the bonaire shopping center. Weve had wind storms and rainstorms. And theyre lots of fun. People come out rain or shine. Jaime has been working at the lot every year for the past 33 years. He says he doesnt need to do much to prepare for the storm. In fact, he says bring it on. A rainstorm is awesome. It helps feed the tree. We hear the warnings year after year. But theyre worth repeating the words are always more slick the first few day of the storm. Load up on sandbags if you need them. And dont forget to clear out the storm drains. Well the rain is about to dominate. But Something Else will grab our attention in the morning. Before we get the rain well get wind. Theres a wind advisory in effect for round one. The first will get here tonight. Youre going to wake up tomorrow. The winds will be gusty. So calm outside right now. But by tomorrow morning well see wind gusts of 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour. Theres a high wind warning in effect. The rain is still several hours away. I think well see rain in the bay area. In San Francisco as soon as 5 00 tomorrow morning. So a messy morning commute with wind and rain. After that, the flooding potential increases. We have an atmosphere river heading our way. Everything is setting up perfectly for heavy rainfall to pile into the bay area for three straight days. This is our future cast model predicting where were going to go between now and friday. The colors in the north bay. More than four inch of rainfall by friday. In total were looking at the total of double digit rainfall. More than 10 inches of rain. If you want to check out the radar 24 hours a day. You can find High Definition Doppler Radar on our website. A couple driving in oakland found themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. And they caught it all on a cell phone camera. Cbs 5 reporter Christin Ayers tells us what happened next. A gunman pulled up. Two of them. There were words. Watch as one points a handgun. Once and then again. Police the say the men michael meadows and james crosby were wreckless drivers out for revenge. They wanted the couples cell phone. The woman in the car calls police. After more threats the gunmen drive off and so does the couple. But it does end there the couple drove to this area in east oakland. What they didnt know is that the gunmen followed them. One of the suspects opened their car door. Jumped inside. And pulled the gun again. The husband is able to push the suspect out of the car and tells his wife hit the gas and get out of here. Crosby and meadows opened fire. A bullet hitting the car but injuring no one. It took police only hours to track down the suspects. One of our officer was viewing the video and recognized one of the suspects who was in possession and firing one of the fire arms. They were lost during a high speed chase and later they were arrested. Theyre facing charges for assault with a deadly we and attempted robbery. In oakland, Christin Ayers cbs 5. Comedian cat williams is in trouble again. The chp says williams was spotted riding a three wheeled motorcycle on a sacramento sidewalk on sunday. Police say when they tried to pull him over he took off drive driving against traffic. The comic was arrested for assaulting a fan in oakland twelve days ago. And hes being sued by fans for a bizarre on stage melt down at oracle arena a couple days after that. The states broke. Universities are struggling. This is a surprise. U uc re gents approved a raise. Cbs 5 reporter juliette tells us its not sitting well with folks. Reporter uc berkeley officially named its tenth chancellor and with ate pay increase of 50,000 certainly fueling the fire tonight at a student protest. At 5 30 tonight police show up where six students are locked inside who are chained next to if doors some waving out a window to a group of supporters. Their demonstration is calling attention to the low enrollment of student of color. Nicholas dirks and his 11. 4 percent salary increase. They tried to barge in. Theyll seriously injure or maybe kill these students. The 50,000dollar pay increase isnt sitting well with many students on campus. But now you see, theres no money. We have to raise your fees again by 24 percent over the next four years. Which means six percent per year but at the same time we have enough money to give a raise of salary to a chancellor. Thats uncalled for. Jerry brown and senator leland also oppose the chancellor salary despite the 50,000dollar increase coming from private donors. He should lead by good example. And leading by good example would have been not to take this particular raise and say to the students were with you. We want you to get the very, very best. And were not going to somehow take all this money so that you can suffer. Before tonights protest chancellor dirks announced to day quote the best education comes out of a Diverse Community of people. We spoke to a protester on the 6th floor by phone. You can see her in the window as we talk. She said she hopes the new chancellor will follow through on creating a Diverse University as he cashes his checks but she says shes skeptical. Now the students on the 6th floor came down peacefully a few minutes ago. No arrests with the chancellors new open door policy they hope to be able to talk to him very soon about their diversity needs. The 15yearold suspect a deadly san jose crime spree will stand trial as an adult. He faces eight felony counts including murder and attempted murder of a peace officer. Police say he and 26yearold jonathan will banks robbed a string of san jose businesses on november 16th. Before killing 22yearold rory for his car. The crime spree ended in a police shoot out and left an officer hurt. A School Bus Driver saved a disabled students life after the bus burst into flames. A passer by snapped this photo of the bus as it caught fire this morning near silendale middle school. There was only one child on board but she was strapped in an electric chair. The flames had cut off the power. So he unbuckled the student scooped her up and carried her to safety. She did everything perfect. Above and beyond. And when i asked her what were you thinking . She says i wasnt. I was just thinking about this precious child that just had to get off the bus. She did it acosta didnt want to talk on camera. No one was hurt the firefighters were able to save the students wheelchair. Its an episode he wants to forget. An actor that went on a tirade trashing his hit tv show is now explaining himself. If youre sick of saying can you hear me now . Why going to church can improve your cell phone service. How a healthy Bay Area College student who never smoked wound up fighting lung cancer. About bashing his popular cs sitcom, two and a half men if you watch two and a half men, please st and a half men. I. Teen actor Angus T Jones says he sorry about bashing his popular cbs sitcom two and a half men. If you watch two and a half men please stop watching two and a half men. Im on two and a half men i dont want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth. Jones a recently converted 7th day add venntist says the sitcom does not mesh with his religious beliefs he makes more than 300,000 an episode. In a statement tonight he said i apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indifference too and disrespect of my colleagues and a look of appreciation for the extraordinary opportunity which i have been blessed i never intended that. More than 14,000 people in california will die from lung cancer this year. Many of them never even smoked. Tonight cbs 5s doctor share as story of a remarkable young College Student and star athlete who ended up in the fight of her life. Reporter in 2009 a senior jill had three goals. Graduate, win nationals, and beat cancer. It was so surreal. It was so unbelievable. The healthy 24yearold had stage four lung cancer. The type usually found in nonsmokers. The most common type seen in women. There are things that you think in the back of your mind could happen and youre always trying to guard your child from it. But lung cancer is not something that ever occurs to anyone. Parents mary and jim say jill was dealing with cancer but foremost she was living her life. And live it she did. She got a 4. 0 average her senior year. Lets beat lung cancer. She worked with the Lung Cancer Foundation to organize jog for jill. The charity runs to help raise awareness and beat lung cancer big time. And she got back to crew. She was going from chemo to practice in the rain. Pushing teammates to give it their all. When she says to a teammate you need to be tougher here. For it to coming from her who was battling for her life it had a profound effect on the team. It never took away her sunny side. Jill always had a smile in her voice. She could say one of the most demanding toughest things or harshest things possible but she said it in a way that inspired everybody. Her courage and determination made her the top 10 athlete of the year. Jill graduated wearing her medal and a blond wig. She died five weeks later in june of 2010 at age 22. Every day. Every minute. All through the day. All through the day i think of jill. Jills legacy lives on. Shes going to be part of our team forever. And i think, you know, shes definitely made our team and the women on our team made them better athletes. But more importantly made them better people. Trying to find a cure and to change the way the world views lung cancer. Its just like this little pebble thrown in a pond but these ripples are just growing and theyre so mighty. And i think eventually they will accomplish her mission. I think there will be a cure. Jills journey is now inspiring a childhood friend as she goes the extra mile searching for a cure. Kelsey harrison is running from new york to San Francisco. And 8 Million People are following the great lung run. Ill have that story tomorrow. Dr. Kim, cbs 5. Cell phone companies have come up with an unusual way to keep one the demand for service. Mark sugar man on the deal theyre making with a higher power. Reporter there never seems to be enough cell coverage for the calls were make. A lot of times the calls break up. People want antennas but they dont want them in their neighborhood and they dont want to see them. Well your prayers may have been answered. Church steeples make a wonderful location for a cell site. People dont like the obvious ones even when they try to dress them up. At canyon creek presbyterian the pastor says they make upwards of 30,000 a year for putting a site in the steeple. Many others are doing the same thing around the bay area. They do lose part of their Tax Exemption but still make money and Cell Companies love them. Its up in the air. Its giving good connectivity and people dont see us. Theyre the latest place towers are hidden in plane site. Theyre disguised as tree. Theres controversy no matter where they go. Churches as independent nonprofits could be unduly influenced. She worried it could help the companies in lobbying efforts. Utilities say heavens no. They want to provide Better Service from up above the tree line. A gorgeous night in the bay area. And this is the view from chopper five earlier tonight. Beautiful view of downtown San Francisco. Its going to be a big change tomorrow. I have to get up in chopper five. That what a heck of a nice view. I it will you what were going to see wind gusts quickly going from nothing to about 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour. Tomorrow morning. It will be wet and win i do tomorrow. Flooding rainfall is looking more and more likely because were getting closer to the actual event and the computer forecast models arent changing. Saying a lot of rain is coming to the bay area. Flooding rainfall likely to begin now as soon as early thursday evening with several straight day of rainfall. That peak outside its gorgeous. Enjoy the calm while we have it because after tonight its going to be bumpy weather wise for several days. How much rainfall . Six to eight inch of rain by sunday. Clear lake, six to eleven inch of rainfall. In San Francisco three to six inches of rain by sunday. And walnut creek three to five inches of rainfall. It all begins tomorrow. High definition doppler is picking it up right now. When the rain comes it will bring wind with it. 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour in the city. Along the coast. Higher hill tops we could see 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. Whats going on . We have a lot of areas of low pressure way out to the west. Thats going to help steer all the moisture out there. But its going to get consolidated first and steered toward the bay area. All these pieces are coming together and this puzzle is being created for all this rain to move into one spot right into the bay area. So tomorrow morning were windy. Were wet. Then a bit of a break. Tomorrow afternoon, the first half of thursday will be dry. Then thursday night the heavy rain comes back. From thursday night all the way until sunday well have heavy rainfall likely and significant rainfall totals by the end of the weekend. Its a high likelihood well see flooding especially north of the golden gate. Watch out the north bay this weekend. 63 the high for San Francisco and liver moore. Windy to start then things calm down. Extended forecast, we get that break early on thursday. Then the heavy rain moves in. Were wet friday through sunday with clearing skies by the top of next week. But prepare yourselves for flooding coming up this weekend. Sports is coming up next. Coming up thieves waiting for the delivery truck. The new things you can do to protect your holiday loot. Mber you can stay in and share something. Or you can get out there with your friends and actually share something. The lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. This is the pursuit of perfection. Cbs 5 reporter julie watts s us what shipping com. Dont let grinch steal your holiday presents. Because its that time of year. Julie shows us what shipping companies are doing to keep thieves from swiping your packages. Reporter officer david blake says so called porch pirating rises dramatically this time of year because theres so many deliveries and packages are easy pickings. They may be driving around neighborhoods and looking for packages and seeing whatever they see on the porches. There are many options to protect your packages this holiday season. The old standards have them delivered to your work or neighbor whos home during the day. And take advantage of signature requirements. If those arent an option most Delivery Services will hold your package for pick up upon request and both the Postal Service and ups provide several methods of package tracking. Take the steps necessary to ensure that either someone is there that youre able to track that package to assure it doesnt spend an unnecessary amount of time out in public view. Its not just Delivery Services, amazon is now delivering to lockers at fixed locations. You will have to take the time to pick it up. But better you than someone else. You can also ask them to leave your packages in a safer hidden location. Like behind the house or behind a gate. On a personal note we asked our mailman not to have any packages unattended after having two stolen in one week. The 49ers lose another player for a weekend. But they wont be losing their starting quarter back for a long, long time. Sports minute, next. Woman oh tullys. How do you always have my favorite coffee . Well, inside the brewer, theres a giant staircase. And the room is filled with all these different kinds of coffee and even hot cocoa. And youll always find your favorite. Woman 2 with so many choices, keurig has everyones favorite. I just press this button. Brew what you love, simply. Keurig. Just a week after call fired ted the search for his replacement is intensifying. Former raiders head coach hue jack man told the Bay Area News Group that its a golden opportunity. Jackson also said hes not been contacted by cal but he was targeted as a possible replacement. Another report said jackson could interview with the school this week. Meanwhile 49er line backer signs a contract. This guy is a stud. He leads the team in tackles with 129. Was not all good news however. Kendle out for the year with a torn acl and the same game that Kyle Williams tore his acl. Injuries are going to open the door for the 49ers first two draft picks neither has seen the Playing Field so far this year. But you know what makes a areal lie good football team, sometimes is the depth. When you start losing those pieces you start losing football games. Well well see now wont we. Were going to take you back outside. If it was the raiders youd be all over it. Enjoy that. ,,

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