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KBCW KPIX 5 News On The CW October 7, 2013

Of fire engines in the righthand lane. We wondered how they were going to get off the bridge before the island and get over the side and down there and fight the fire. Obviously they did so. Theyve been fighting the fire for the last couple of hours. Traffic, of course, always when theres Something Like this, was backed up, two lanes eastbound were blocked for a while by fire equipment. A lot of traffic coming from both sides of the bay, we had traffic coming from the San Fransisco side, from the 49ers game, people going to the east bay and people in the east bay, i dont know if the raiders game is over yet or not but theyre going to have to come back through this as well. The only serious consequence we understand was the loss of a lot of vegetation here which is a lot of those bay trees and a lot of oily eucalyptus trees, and at one point the fire was moving from City Property up to federal property. That was a concern, it was a concern where we were standing the fire was coming to us. We took pictures as it came to us and then we got out of the way. Fortunately the firefighters jumped all over it and we understand from talking to a person a few minutes ago that the firefighters say the situation is clear, under control, and just about all done. As we prepare to enter the second week after Government Shutdown speaker of the house john boehner says the ball is in president obamas court. He knows what my phone number is. All he has to do is call. Neither republicans nor democrats show any signs of resolving the budget stalemate. They both continue to put the blame at the feet of their rivals. The house has passed four bills to keep the government open and to provide fairness to the American People under obamacare. The senate has rejected all four of them. The speaker said there arent the votes on the floor to reopen the vote. I bet there are the votes to pass it. Congress has until october 17th to raise the debt limit or face default. Lawmakers are getting an earful from the folks back home angry the two sides cant come together. As Julia Goodrich tells us, one congressman from the bay area is encouraging his constituents to speak his man. Reporter eric swavo got an earful. Im against obamacare because its another overreach of the federal government into our lives, diminishing our freedom and personal responsibility. I want my freedom back. Reporter ten months in office with an uphill battle to climb the congressman says hes trying to break down walls between republicans and democrats. Ive called a Bipartisan Group that i called, 15 republicans and 15 democrats, weve been meeting all week to try to come up with a by partisan approach to this. Reporter it is day six with a debt ceiling looming and talk of raising the debt ceiling is raising concerns more than ever. You said allow us to borrow money to pay our bills. Whats wrong with that statement . If we have to borrow money to pay our bills were in over our head. And we dont get in further and further and further by borrowing more and more and more. [ applause ]. Reporter there is a short term fix to get the lights back on. Lets pass a budget even if its 45 days, lets pass a budget, gets folks back to work, lets keep the government open. Reporter as it stands now 2. 1 million federal employees are forced to work without pay. That includes secret service who stand guard and protect our nations capitol like the agent who was air lifted to a hospital after a woman tried to ram her car through security barricades. His pay check is on hold. One thing that drew a round of applause at todays town hall when the congressman said hes refusing his pay check until federal employees are paid. The last federal shutdown back in 1995 lasted 21 days. Congressman smallwell is headed back to washington, d. C. First thing tomorrow morning understanding this is becoming a hardship for many of his constituents. National parks and agencies are out of commission as the shutdown continues. Well tell you about the closures specifically affecting bay area residents and tourists in 10 minutes. One person is dead after a violent crash in san jose. An suv was split in half by the impact. The suv hit a pole at high speed at blossom hill road and winfield before 2 a. M. The man who was driving died at the scene, two female passengers suffered serious injuries. Firefighters are trying to figure out what sparked a two alarm grass fire in a hilly part of larkspur this afternoon. Crews got it in control in an hour. Cal fire aircraft fought the fire by grabbing water from a nearby lagoon. No one was hurt and no structures were damaged. Pg e is shutting down a pipeline in san carlos that could be unsafe. A Court Ordered the shutdown after city officials received internal pg e emails casting doubt about the condition of the 84yearold pipeline. The utility says the line is safe but that its complying with the order out of an abundance of caution. The work should be finished tomorrow. And b. A. R. T. Negotiations had go down to the wire again. We are now four days away from the end of the cooling off period. That means we could see another strike at midnight thursday. Whats holding up a settlement. Reporter the threat of a b. A. R. T. Strike is looming large. Its inconveniencing this whole area. Reporter the magic bullet, a deal between the labor unions and its board. The unions have made clear to us that it must go their way or the highway. Reporter both sides spoke live on kpix sunday morning. People have come to the table with ideological shoulds in stead of what can be done and should be done. Reporter the last negotiation session ended yesterday afternoon without touching on the big issues of wages and health care. The two sides cant agree on how far apart they actually are. B. A. R. T. Says its 89 million. The union say its 30 million. Weve argued on the monies. We have a moved and made many leaps. You continue to bargain in good faith. Its caving in or accepting a strike. Reporter Political Insider willie brown says things dont look good. This is deteriorated beyond anybodys real control. Most of the time when you have these kind of labor disputes, there are identifiable Power Sources that can ultimately be the adult in the room. Reporter and its the riders caught in the middle. Just having this uncertainty all the time and the fact that it happened and it happened again and its constantly up in the air, its a very inconvenient thing for people. Reporter the two sides were advised by an independent mediator to take today off. Theyre back after it tomorrow. New legislation aimed at cleaning up San Fransiscos city parks could have a broader impact than intended. A city supervisor wants to unify and enforce parks closing times. In an effort to cut down on vandalism. Opponents say about 5,000 Homeless People sleep outside on any given night in San Fransisco and passing the legislation would hurt them. Crews in Southern California built containment lines around a fire in san diego county. It broke out near camp pendleton. It quickly burned around the base and there were evacuations. It was a deadly day in cairo, egypt. Crowds from egypts two rival camps, supporters of ousted president and backers of the military that deposed him, poured into the streets and turned on each other. Todays death toll was the highest on a single day since august 14th. International chemical weapons experts started dismantling and destroying syrias arsenal today taking the first concrete step in eliminating the country weapon stockpile by mid2014. They have nine months to purge the weapons program. It includes more than a thousand tons of chemical agents and precursor agents for mustard gas and nerve agents. Officials in mexico say the driver of an out of control monster truck that crashed into a crowd of spectators at a show tested positive for alcohol. Amateur video shows the driver climbing a dirt mound and then careening into a crowd yesterday. Eight people were killed and 79 others were injured. The government isnt saying how much alcohol was detected. The driver is being detained on suspicion of manslaughter. You can see debris strewn around the ground. Investigators are working to determine if the air show violated any safety rules. Here in the u. S. , a multicar accident sends one well known driver to the hospital. Tracy garcia reports several fans were injured. Oh, no. Oh my goodness. That is a horrifying ride for franchitti. Reporter his car became airborne in turn five at grand prix of houston. The four time indy car champion made contact with another car, leaving the roadway and hitting the fence. A third car then became involved. I was hoping hes okay. That was a big hit. Reporter this video shows the fence shaking and fans ducking when the impact occurred. A large portion of fencing flew into the grand stands along with debris from the car wreck. Road crews rushed to the site. Franchitti has two fractured vertebrae and a broken ankle. We come here to race and we dont like to see anybody get hurt. Reporter the race promoter and indy car released a statement saying fan and Driver Safety is their top concern. The crash is under investigation. Franchitti is separated from his wife ashley judd. She tweeted saying thank you to fans and she was on her way. A 9yearold raises National Security concerns with a solo trip to vegas. How long it took before he was discovered. And tourists and locals out of luck. The impact of the Government Shutdown on popular weekend attractions. The weather turns cooler for the bay area. Still nice tomorrow. Well be in the mid70s around the bay but theres a whole pass l of changes coming up for midweek. Well discuss those and the earthquake in the east bay when we come back. ,, to thsuffered in silence. Hoped. And lived in a state of fear. Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. Thats what officials at minneapoli. How did a 9yearold boy manage to stow away on an airplane . Thats what officials at minneapolis st. Paul airport are trying to figure out. Somehow the boy who was a runaway snuck past checkpoints and security agents and got on to a night headed for has vegas. He was questioned and stopped in nevada. All of this since 9 11 has been to keep us safer and it has. But still we have gaping holes and this was a perfect example of it. The boy was taken into protective custody and was returned to minneapolis. Delta and the tsa is investigating the incident. If you havent noticed hr many popular spots in the bay area are temporarily closed during the Government Shutdown. We look at the impact its having on tourists and hoe kals alike. Locals alike. Reporter in many ways todays closure of bay area parks was only a problem if you planned to drive to them. The road up to the marine headlands was blocked but that was enough to prevent people from bird watching. Theres no reason why they just close it because its pretty much selfserve anyway when you get to the park. Reporter but the same road was open if you wanted to walk or ride a bike. It made for a great like but some people were questioning the logic of the whole thing. Its not the governments property or right to shut it down. Its the parks and all of that belong to the people. Reporter do you think thats been lost on both sides of the 0001aisle in. Reporter yes. Reporter people walked in and including chris and burne who came up here for a wedding ceremony. Totally ridiculous. Its just a parking lot. I dont know why they couldnt leave the gates open. Im surprised they had someone come and close them. Reporter it was the same story at the beach where people still enjoyed the sand and surf even if the parking lot and restrooms were shut down. Not big things just annoyances. If you want to come out here and go to the beach. Come out you can get on the beach for sure. But you wont be on the beach without having received this message from faraway that something is happening in our government and that, you know, we have to be aware of and pay atex to. Reporter closed roads and gated parking lots. At many of the Bay Area National parks the government is telling the people to take a hike and thats exactly what theyre doing. John ramos, kpix five. Those people who walked past the gates were treated to a great day. Want to get you up to date onto earthquake that struck 45 minutes ago over in the east bay. And it struck at 9 26 p. M. Tonight, 3. 1 magnitude it was two miles east northeast of downtown burle. The fault is not overdo, but it is do. The last time it snapped was in 1868. 140 years, that would be 1868 plus 140, 2008, its due. No bigger threat in the bay area that affects more people than earthquake faults, and that one in particular. Does it mean anything . No. Its reminder that its there and one of these days its going to go. Right now temperatures mostly in the 60s in the bay area, 63 in concord, 68 in san jose, theres proof in that live shot its dark out. Wind speeds outs of the southwest and its shifting to a more moist direction. The onshore flow returns in the next 48 hours and as a result temperatures will begin to come down as we reestablish the sea breeze and High Pressure will be leaving and it will be knocked down by a succession of low pressure troughs coming in. Tomorrow morning start out the door with temperatures in the upper 50s. This is the first in a series of troughs on the way than will cool things down a little bit tomorrow. Still a pleasant day. Numbers in the low 80s inland. Not as warm tomorrow as it was today. Another warm day on monday. Tuesday the numbers come down some more, sunshine. Cooler by midweek as temperatures collapse by wednesday. Livermore from above normal saturday, sunday, monday, and then well below normal tuesday and wednesday. Wednesday only in the low 70s. Thats going to be a big change. In terms of sky conditions, these high clouds are floating in from low pressure are on the coast line. More clouds toward sunset tomorrow night. Tomorrow in san jose, 79, morgan hill at 73. East bay the numbers in the low 80s tomorrow. Livermore warmer than that, 84. And right around the central bay, San Fransisco 67, oakland, 73. Look ahead and well see numbers dipping inland tomorrow but then really come down by wednesday. Around the bay numbers in the low 70s, out of the upper 630s by wednesday. High pressure rebounds for the weekend but it is going to get cooler midweek. You heard it here first. Nice fall weather, thank you very much. You think of buckingham palace, prim and proper, find out what rowdy events the queens home will play host to and why its being welcomed. ,,,,, mom . Did nana ever give you cheerios when you were a little kid . Yeah, she did. Were cheerios the same back then . Cheerios has pretty much been the same forever. So. When we have cheerios, its kind of like we are having breakfast with nana. Yeah. Yeah. Associated with formal even. Runners, party animals, and music lovers to san jose to thousands turned out for the. The rock n roll Half Marathon for serious runners, party animals. Thousands turned tout for the race which went through downtown and several neighborhoods. 14 local bands played along the race route. Some of the fasters times have been at this race. Buckingham palace is usually associated with formal events but tomorrow the queens home will be hosting its first ever soccer match between amateur clubs, it will not be open to the general public and the queen is not expected to attend. Prince william arranged the match as part of the celebrations of the 150 anniversary of the football association. The queen is at coliseum watching the raiders. 49ers try to move back above the. 500 mark and an update on an indy car driver who survived this horrific crash. The minute is next. ,,,, [ yodeling plays ] [ hans ] toaster strudel [ angelic music plays ] dont overthink it. [ hans ] warm, flakey, gooey. 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Suffered a spinal fracture and concussion. He will remain in the hospital overnight. 13 spectators had minor injuries. Franchitti will be okay. The safety that goes into the capsules that they sit in, completely framed in, amazing he walked away from the accident. I dont like seeing this this. Ill be here until 12 00 tonight watching the nfl and talk about it. See you at 11. Bye. ,,,,, female announcer the savings really stack up during sleep trains during sleep trains inventory Clearance Sale. Save 10, 20, even 35 on a huge selection of simmons and sealy clearance mattresses. Get two years interestfree financing on tempurpedic. Even get free delivery sleep train stacks the savings high to keep the prices low. The inventory Clearance Sale is on now guaranteed sleep train you ticket to a better nights sleep and these are the ones youll love on a school night. Pillsbury crescent dogs. With just a few ingredients, you have an easy dinner. Pillsbury crescents. 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