Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 11AM 20170131 : vi

Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 11AM 20170131

You during this midday newscast. I should add quickly, kris, it wasnt sure if the inmalt was going to the Alameda County jail or going to kentucky. Okay. Im kris sanchez, sam brock here. Meantime our other top story, local reaction to one of the president s new policies. San franciscos City Attorney says that the local government will not be bullied by a newly minted president looking to crack down on illegal immigration. President trumps executive order tried to turn city and state employees into federal immigration officers. That is unconstitutional. That new lawsuit freshly unveiled this morning pits the city of San Francisco against the Trump Administration. Pete suratos is live. We heard a little bit of that. They say taking money away from San Francisco based on the sanctuary status is a constitutional violation. What else did you hear . Reporter yeah, good morning to you, kris. A very foergsful defense by City Attorney Dennis Herera as well as mayor ed lee calling that executive order unconstitutional. That would strip federal funds from San Francisco because of the sanctuary city status and i want to show you guys some video from that news conference. You can see the City Attorney and mayor flanked by lawyers on each side and they announced this federal lawsuit is calling on the courts to bring that executive order by President Trump to a halt. Now, they feel this is an example of over reach by the president saying the federal government cant force state and local governments to carry out itS Immigration policy. The lawsuit also requests a finding that San Francisco complies with the federal law. In the hopes of preventing the federal government from cutting off the federal funds to the city which amount to more than a billion dollars. Now, heres the City Attorney and mayor ed lee explaining the type of message this lawsuit they hope it sends to the Trump Administration. As i said last week, we are ready to fight to keep our city safe. Today is a prime example. The president s misguided executive directives, executive orders make our residents less safe and as a city we will fight back. And today we fight back. Obey the rule of law. Abide by the constitution. Were a nation of laws, not of men. There are processes and there are legal strictures that give a level of predictable that we all have to live by. You cant youre not emperor who rules by fiat. We all have to abide by the rule of law. Now, the shooting in 2015 by an undocumented immigrant puts San Francisco in the spotlight when it comes to its sanctuary city status. It is clear the city is willing to protect that status at all costs. San francisco would be the first sanctuary city to file lawsuit against the Trump Administration when it comes to this specific executive order. City officials have been in contact with other sanctuary cities, but no word if those cities will follow suit. Were live in San Francisco. Pete suratos, nbc bay area news. All right, thank you very much, pete. State lawmakers are proposing new legislation to make california a sanctuary state. If that bill passes, california would have three months to put together a full policy. Well, were tracking the first 100 days. How about the first 12 days . Some dealings this morning for president donald trump. We are hearing directly from the aclu after word came down that President Trump is keeping in place an executive order that protects the rights of the Lgbtq Community in the workplace. Trump is leaving intact a 2014 Obama Administration order that created workplace protections for lgbt community. In part, quote, lgbt have come under attack by this administration. If he is serious about being an ally to the lgbt community, it starts with abandoning fear and prejudice, close quote. Several of trumps cabinet nominees are a step close tore official senate confirmation. You see there the committee has cleared former Texas Governor rick perry for energy secretary. Montana congressman zinke as interior secretary. Betsy devos also cleared her committee. The Senate Judiciary is holding a hearing right now for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions. This is Senate Democrats boycotted the hearings of tom price and steve mnuchin. We got all that down. Also happening right now, bay area opponents, trump opponents, holding a march in San Francisco. They plan on walking from senator Diane Feinsteins office to senator Kamala Harris office. They are calling on democratic lawmakers to resist approving trump cabinet appointments and to fight republican crafted legislation in the gopcontrolled congress. This is just for starters today. For everything politics in the first 100 days of the new Trump Administration, you can go to nbcbayarea. Com for more. The Oakland Raiders plan to leave the coliseum for sin city has hit a road bump. Looking live at where the silver and black have been calling home for years now, the questions are really swirling about who will pay for this new stadium in las vegas. Thats really enticing the raiders to leave home. Las vegas billionaire pulled out of the project and today were learning the underwriter Goldman Sachs might be pulling out, too. Nbc bay areas bob redell is in oakland with more. Reporter if the raiders want to say goodbye to the coliseum and the city of oakland, the team will have to come up with an additional 650 million, this on top of the half billion dollar the team has already committed to its Las Vegas Stadium proposed project. This after Sheldon Adelson abruptly pulled out his su Financial Support for the project. A billionaire can casino owner is angry that the owner and authority excluded him from talks how it would be structured. Not entirely clear why he was shut out. In a statement the raiders praised him for helping the project advance this far. Davis told the nfl that he will turn to Investment Bank Goldman Sachs for that 650 million. But that is now in doubt. A source familiar with the stadium deal tells me that Goldman Sachs right now is not committed to any deal except for one that includes adelson, which means the entire deal could be in jeopardy. Add to that 24 of the 32 nfl team owners still must vote and approve such a move to vegas during their meeting in march. Ronnie lot, foermer raider himself has been trying to put together a stadium deal to keep the raiders at the Oakland Coliseum property. He tweeted out he and fellow investors will keep working to make that deal happen. Here in oakland, bob redell, nbc bay area news. All right. The raiders, bob, thank you very much. Hoping someone will make it rain for them to be able to get that deal completed. In the meantime we are preparing for the return of actual rain this week. Tomorrow the wet stuff makes a come back to the bay area. Lets take a live look from our camera in San Francisco right now where it is still a Beautiful Day and well turn to you. How much longer . You have until tonight. You have a few hours to get out there and enjoy your day. The south bay finally warming up in the 50s at 56 degrees. Trivalley at 50 degrees, and San Francisco still looking a little hayesy, 49 degrees, the north bay also in the 40s. And the east bay 50s. But today we will be warming up into those 60s yet again, expect a high of 66 in san jose. San francisco 60. And looking ahead, we are tracking that low pressure system that is expected to make its arrival as early as tomorrow afternoon. Here it is just offshore. We will talk about that and how much rainfall were expecting coming up in just a few minutes, guys. Thank you very much. Lets get you caught up on the latest in the sierra lamar murder case. The man being tried for her murder, it continues today. The attorney for garcia torres, the man accused of killing sierra lamar is going to layout the version, their version of what happened. The trial began yesterday with the prosecution side and opening statements. Lamar of course went missing almost five years ago when she was 15 years old. Her body to this day has not been found. The prosecutor told jurors lamar is dead and pointed to torres and said, this man killed her. Now to a developing story. We are learning new information about the suspect in that deadly mosque shooting in quebec city. This is the University Student alexandre bissonnette. He was charged with six counts of first degree murder and five counts of attempted murder for that shooting rampage on sunday. Some 50 worshippers were in that mosque at the time of the attack. Police say bissonnette is known for having farright nationalist views. Investigators, though, have not yet provided a motive. The Red Wood City Police Department today is paying its respects to a fellow officer who died from Natural Causes while on the job. This is new video of the pro session in Red Wood City. Officer silva getting full honors there. Officer silva died on january 20th. He was 57 years old. Police say the officers found him inside a police facility, unconscious and not breathing. He served 18 years on the Red Wood City Police Departments force. Today service is taking place inside the fox theater in Red Wood City. Up next at 11 00, the push for california to leave the union is gaining momentum. The next step for cal exit. Plus the surprising find when this plane landed and was inspected. What an Airline Mechanic found inside the planes nose. Plus ordering coffee with just your phone and the sound of your voice. Well take a look coming up in business and tech. An urgent search for an escaped inmate last seen near we want to update you on that breaking news in hayward right now. You see Law Enforcement out on the street in an urgent search for an escaped inmate on 880 in hayward. At the time of the escape the inmate was in the custody of Law Enforcement from kentucky. It is not clear whether or not that person was being extradited, but it appears that that person was being extradited to kentucky. We are monitoring this one. Jodie hernandez is caught in some of the traffic back up. She says this is definitely impacting traffic and you can see that the roadway there is closed somewhere in the area of a street and garden street. Were going to keep you informed on this one. Well, good news is that there were puppies everywhere at the nasdaq this morning. The bad news the markets are down again the second straight day. The nasdaq has dipped so far 29 points in early trading. The s p down 11 1 2. The dow jones dropped 180 points. The bull, bear and now the dog market. Two Bay Area Companies are laying off workers, an unusual announcement on what has been a very good economy otherwise. Scott mcgrew . Just moments ago, the white house said the new ban on select immigrants is neither a ban nor is it extreme. Scott mcgrew continues his look at President Trumps first 100 days. Good morning. It is day 11 and we saw all kind of unrest as you know at airports all over the country. I know a lot of our viewers all right. That was not the right clip. We will try to get that for you by the end of the day. Meantime twitter will announce measures this week to crack down on harassment. The company has been criticized for not protecting some users from online abuse. There are not specifics on this, but the measure could include fixes to news and block people, also to stop repeat offenders from creating new accounts. All right. Uber has been feeling the heat on twitter and elsewhere here, kris, for the First Time Ever more people downloaded the lyft app than the uber app. That comes from tech crunch. Customers outraged at ubers response to President Trumps travel ban, delete uber. That circulated over the weekend. While new york taxi drivers were boycotting jfk airport saturday, uber continued to send drivers to pick people up. They eliminated surge pricing as well. Some say uber was trying to undercut the taxi drivers strike and take advantage of the situation. New at 11 00, an Airline Mechanic made a disturbing find in the an American Airlines plane. This is it, this is 31 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated 434,000. Authorities say that on sunday the plane flew from colombia to florida and then on to oklahoma and thats where a mechanic saw what looked like a clump of insulation or bricklike object and called the Sheriffs Office. A rash of license plates plaguing an east bay community, they want help in finding the thieves who are taking plates from parked cars. Those thefts are happening mainly in the broad more neighborhood. Since january 20 23i1st, many o these are happening at night. We could have a real criminal out there stealing these license plates with the intent to put the stolen license plates on their car or on the cars that theyre using to commit crimes. Police say they are hoping that a homeowner will come forward with Surveillance Video at this point. Detectives say they dont understand why anyone would want to steal so many place. Kris, cal exit gaining steam again if it sounds familiar. Getting it passed is not going to be easy. A proposal for california is he session, backed by a group known as yes california was approved by california secretary of state. That means the proponents can start collecting signatures in support. But experts say its not that easy. If you argue that california should be separate from the rest of the country because california has a unique culture that doesnt abide by the current politics in the rest of the country, what is the next step . Surely there are pockets within california that feel out of sync. Supporters still need to collect over half a million signatures in order to place the measure on the ballot in 2018. Even if voters do say yes, the rest of the state would then have to approve the is he session. Teetering on the edge no more, demolition crews tore down that Apartment Building dangling on a cliff in pacifica. Looks very different today. The city red tagged the building at 310 esplanade last year and since then officials have been waiting for the Property Owner to take it douchlt Property Owner didnt do anything so after the recent storms the city felt it had to act. I cant believe how much they d. I had to take my daughter to school and we came right here and they were almost done. So, they did it very quickly. The city will take legal steps to seek reimbursement for that 300,000 demolition project. It is also in the process of applying for state and federal dollars to sure up the cliff side below. And this came just in time as we know that weve had dry Clear Conditions the last couple of days. But its going to get wet again by tomorrow night. It is. You have a few more hours to enjoy the dry condition. Make sure you make your way outdoors. Look at this shot in San Francisco, 51 degrees. Were still on the cooler side in terms of those temps. Point arena looking a little bit cloudy i. Were seeing a little of that misty hazy look. Weve been seeing it all morning and it is only going to get darker as we begin to see those clouds roll in thanks to that low pressure system that is expected to make its arrival early tomorrow. San francisco right now at a nice 51 degrees and expect to warm up into those 60s. Now, heres a quick look at your day planner. By about 2 00 we should be at 58 degrees along the bay. Inland 65. By 5 00 thats when youre going to start noticing that cloud cover. Thats because we are expecting to see some overnight fog as well. So, if you do have a late night drive, please make sure you leave a little bit earlier and be careful out on the roads. 49 degrees by 9 00. You will see overcast skies, inland 54 degrees. Lets talk about the next 24 hours. Here it is. Thats that system thats sitting offshore that will be making its arrival. As of right now, the hour by hour outlook shows it arriving as early as wednesday afternoon. So, by about 10 00, we should see sporadic here and there showers. Fast forward, though, through wednesday night into early thursday morning and right now the models are showing the heavy est est downpours to come in. Between 4 00 and 6 00 a. M. , what will pickup is the strong dpus at this winds, anything from 15 to 35 plus miles an hour. That is not going to be a great commute. Fast forward to thursday, we are going to get periods of on and off again rain through friday morning as well. Fast start through

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