Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 5 20141004 : vimar

Transcripts For KNTV NBC Bay Area News At 5 20141004

Theres a big crowd surrounding the water fountain in eltoro elementary in morgan hills. Temperatures soaring into the 90s. It feels like theres nice weather but it feels really, really hot out here. Reporter when it gets this hot Morgan Hill Unified School district ironically operates under a socalled rainy day schedule. You can drink some water if you have a water bottle. Reporter water and a little less play in the direct sun. Fair amount of our teachers will put kid at lunch in their classrooms so theres basically a huge array of air conditioned classes they can go into. Reporter lloyd webb is the principal at live oak high school. He says coaches will lighten up on conditioning and shorten practice to avoid injuries and dehydration. We look for kids who appear tired, because sometimes they wont tell you. And then we pull them aside, give them water, let them rest. Reporter road crews braving the heat for a paycheck tell us the october heat wave isnt so bad. But over at cal fire, battalion chief scott wiig knows how dangerous hot weather can be. Dries things out, makes it tougher for firefighters to get up and down the hillsides. So we increase our staffing to make it easier to put fires out. Reporter fire Officials Say this is not the weekend to be out there mowing your lawn because any spark can start a really serious fire. There is a breeze out here tonight which does help slightly. But not good for any possible fire danger. In case youre wondering, acorns are up by 7. Michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. You can track the temperatures in your specific neighborhood on our website. Put in your zip code and your personal forecast will come right up. Thats at nbcbayarea. Com. It is spreading. Enterovirus has hit another bay area county. Today San Francisco confirmed its first case after alameda and solano counties reported their first cases yesterday. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith is live in San Francisco with more on this health alert. Reporter the department of Public Health here in San Francisco just got the positive test results today and thats why theyre making the information public. They say this case in San Francisco involves a child, someone under 18 years old. A San Francisco resident who was admitted to the hospital for two days. That was in september. To a hospital outside of San Francisco. And has since been discharged in Good Condition according to Public Health officials in the city. Enterovirus d68 is a viral infection that now is circulating widely in the u. S. With 14 confirmed cases in california. As you said, San Francisco joins Alameda County and Solano County with three other children who have tested positive or are recovering. Health Officials Say it typically causes mild coldlike symptoms. Can cause serious illnesses for those with respiratory problems like asthma. They say its not frequently diagnosed but has caused the occasional outbreak. Even if the enterovirus infection were to lead to hospitalization, we would expect that the individual would recover from their respiratory illness and do fine. The advice to parents really is the same as the general advice we give to parents when dealing with colds and flu. Reporter they say if there is respiratory distress, youll want to seek medical attention right away. There is no specific vaccine and if a patient is admitted thats when the testing is done. Outside the bay area a child did suffer some practical sister, but officials here caution that its under investigation if theres an actual connection to the illness. Again, doctors stress this is not meant to be alarming, but rather, to make families aware. You want to take the same precautions you do to stop the spread of a cold, washing your hands with soap and water. Reporting live in San Francisco, Christie Smith, nbc bay area news. A south bay elementary schoolteacher is accused of sexually assaulting one of his students. John lloyd was arrested yesterday. Hes a fifth grade teacher at paradise elementary in morgan hill. Police say he assaulted a female student several times inside of a classroom. Theyre looking for other victims. The school is working with police to notify parents. A 20yearold cal student is under arrest accused of Sexual Assault at a fraternity house. Berkeley Police Arrested the student at his house on fraternity row. Hes accused of assaulting a woman last friday night. Police are not saying which fraternity. Police say it was one of three attacks reported on the same night last week and that the other two are still under investigation. Did you see the game . A little bit of torture but ultimately a lot of smiles. The giants survived game one of their playoff series against the nationals. This afternoon in washington, d. C. , how about joe panik, the rookie, the lefty among the giants heroes. He delivered the first run of the game. Panik added a key triple later in the game. The nationals made a comeback but giants slammed the door in the ninth inning. Giants win 32 and game two of the fivegame series is tomorrow afternoon. Game three shifts to San Francisco on monday afternoon. Election day is five weeks away. One of the most talked about races in the country is in our own backyard. Congressman mike honda will face off against ro khanna in their one and only debate next monday night. Theyre fighting for the 17th Congressional District which is the Silicon Valley. Ill be moderating monday night 6 30, airing the debate live on nbc bay area. Congressman honda seeking his eighth term. Whats the future of the Silicon Valley . We want to hear from you. Go to our Facebook Page and ask a question youd like answered by the candidates. We might use your question next monday night. A multimillion dollar problem and the san mateo transit district, 2. 5 million in public money mishandled. Whos being held accountable . Reporter we first exposed whistleblower concerns at the agency that runs cal train. Our reports revealed a series of fake expenses that added up to 2. 5 million and trigger abandon audit by the d. A. Now were asking, whats happened to the people in charge . It all comes in the wake of the ceos announcement he is retiring just two months after the public paid 51,000 for his masters degree. Now some riders want to know what theyre doing to stop this happening again. You basically say, im keeping my money. This was human error. The agency says it has improved oversight and increased Staffing Levels and its returned the 2. 5 million from the hidden reserve into the general fund. Tonight why only one board member is speaking out about what we found. We investigate tonight at 11 00. Now to continuing coverage of the ebola outbreak. This afternoon top federal Health Officials urged americans to remain calm saying they are confident they will contain the deadly virus. Meantime the nbc prelance photographer diagnosed with ebola in liberia will be flown back to the states this sunday. Ashoka mukpo became ill while working with dr. Nancy snyderman. He has not shown any symptoms and mukpos parents say his symptoms at this point are still mild. Theres the honest fear that he becomes sicker before we have a transto transport him and thats a big concern that we have right now. Dallas hazmat teams are decontaminating the apartment where Thomas Duncan was staying before he was diagnosed with ebola. The cdc is keeping an eye on three other possible cases in d. C. , maryland, and georgia. So is the pay area ready . Health Officials Say they have a plan in place just in case theres a diagnosis here. Nbc bay areas Mark Matthews is live in San Francisco with that part of the story. Reporter were at San Francisco general where the epidemiologist here tells me San Francisco general is ready and her confidence based on the fact that here in the united states, we have a first World Medical system as opposed to west africa, which does not, and which is dealing with the epidemic. We have pictures of San Franciscos General Hospital inside lisa winston the epidemiologist says this hospital and every hospital in the bay area is already equipped to deal with Infectious Diseases far more contagious than ebola. Its very similar to the way we isolate patients for other diseases. And the types of equipment that we need to keep our Health Care Workers safe are like the types of equipment that we use every day. Reporter winston says any singlebed hospital room can be transformed into an isolation room and the department of Emergency Services says paramedics already have the necessary equipment and training. What theyre going over now is identification, being aware of what a case of ebola might look like. At the airport, a spokesman for San Francisco international tells me that customs and Border Patrol agents are also trained to handle arriving passengers that are showing symptoms of disease. The spokesman said there isnt a lot of concern at the airport right now because there are no direct flights between west africa and the bay area. At yesterdays Global Health symposium at ucsf, some of the worlds leading Infectious Disease experts said the attention properly belongs on west africa. Thats where the disease is spreading. Not here in the united states. Coming up tonight on nightly news, a special update on ebola, including a conversation with dr. Nancy snyderman. Nbcs chief medical corresponde correspondent. Shell talk about the deposit of her news team and the progress of that cameraman. An eyeful for golfers on the peninsula today. New information on why we may be seeing more Mountain Lions. A water main break floods homes. What San Francisco is doing to try to stop this flow of water. Then at 6 00, the Investigative Unit exposed how he took more than 1 million from investors and never gave it back. My whole lifes savings was stolen. Now the punishment por a prominent bay area man who made a fortune vanish new at 6 00. A girl is recovering from serious injuries after she was hit by a car near mckee road and checkers drive near Independence High School in east san jose. Police had to close the area for several hours while they investigated this crash. The driver did stop and cooperate with police. No word yet if hell face any charges. The girl is expected to survive. Another Mountain Lion sighting on the peninsula. The big cat was spotted this morning near the Green Hills Golf Course in millbrae. Thats wa few blocks from 280. The Santa Cruz Puma project has found the drought is driving Mountain Lions closer to populated areas. You see the video here, researchers trained some captive cats to walk on treadmills for motion studies. Special collars also track and measure how the animals move. All the data creates profiles which shed light on how and where local Mountain Lions interact with humans. Test of thousands of people are gathered in Golden Gate Park right now for the kickoff of the hardly strictly bluegrass festival. The festival has a reputation for good weather but temperatures today just down right hot. Many people were prepared for this heat, bringing everything from hats and extra drinks. A lot of water. A lot of ice. And hats and towels to cover the head. Gatorade. We had to become ingenious with some shade. The hardly strictly bluegrass festival, widely known as one of the best free Music Festivals in the country, seven stages and more than 100 musical acts and more than 700,000 people are expected this weekend. So its free, its warm, and its here in the bay area. Perfect. Perfect conditions, right . Lets get a check of our microclimate forecast. For some maybe a little too hot around downtown San Francisco. At the music festival, today was nice. Temperatures for hardly strictly bluegrass will get nicer through the weekend. By sunday, that doesnt look bad, temperatures starting to drop into the 70s. The sea breeze makes a return. Right now no ocean ac in San Francisco. You see the temperature there. 92 degrees. 90 in san jose. Downtown San Francisco weve been seeing these really warm temperatures, chose to 91. And the wind relatively light. Youve got the giants flag atop of downtown not moving around a whole lot. As you look at your network from Weather Underground over downtown San Francisco, upper 80s toward north beach. Civic center and the plaza near 91. As you head west were seeing mid 80s. The wind for the most part offshore. Youve got to the clear skies. Right now in ocean beach and the same story as you head to the east bay. The heat not limited to San Francisco. Clearly we have temperatures soaring into the 90s around places like alamo, san ra more, livermore. These locations, trivalley, will see some of the hottest temperatures. Alameda 86. Weve had sunshine, no low clouds or high clouds, very dry conditions. Thank goodness the winds are not too strong, otherwise wed have red flag warnings. The direction of the winds important, still offshore for now. That pattern will begin to reverse as we go into the weekend. In the meantime, heat advisory will continue through 9 00 this evening and then start again tomorrow from 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. For our inland locations away from the coast and the inner bay. Were going to begin to see changes here. Hot temperatures for tomorrow. But Coastal Cooling as we wait for the return of low clouds during the day tomorrow. This is very important to reestablish the marine layer which will start to develop during the day tomorrow. Patches of low clouds returning hinting at cooler changes that should begin to arrive as we wrap up the weekend. Sunday starting to see cooling pushing inland as we get into monday. In the trivalley or areas south of san jose you probably will have to wait until monday or tuesday to see some real relief from the heat. Hour by hour tomorrow, instead of mid 90s around parts of San Francisco well top out close to 86 around noon. Cooling as a weaker sea breeze begins to develop as we head towards tomorrow evening. San jose heating up in the south bay. Well see numbers again in the mid 90s for tomorrow, then eventually dipping back into the 80s and 70s with a very subtle sea breeze reaching the south bay. High temperatures tomorrow, hot around san jose. San francisco mostly 80s. North bay mid 90s. Same trivalley as you look at the fiveday forecast. What youll see, hot temperatures for san jose into sunday, cooling into monday, tuesday, wednesday. Same in San Francisco, temperatures really drop for sunday. North bay and trivalley locations, youll probably have to wait until monday or tuesday to finally break out of those 90s. Keep in mind for Outdoor Events this weekend, including san jose states home game tomorrow evening, may be close to 90 around kickoff time. Also sunday afternoon, levis stadium, early afternoon start at 1 25, could be another hot start before the breeze picks up toward the second half of the game with the 49ers. Another twist in an ongoing story Getting National attention. The family of jahai macmath wants a judge to declare her not dead. Doctors declared her brain dead last year following tonsil surgery. Nbc bay areas Jody Hernandez is in San Francisco this evening. As you know, this is a delicate case legally and medically. Whats the status right now . Reporter thats right, raj. It was an Emotional Press Conference that took place at this San Francisco law firm. The mother said that shes known all along that her daughter is not brain dead. She says now she can prove it. Im leaving and i have a heartbeat, as long as she has one, i will never, ever let anybody disconnect her. And she responds. Reporter winkfield says she finally has proof her 13yearold daughter jahai macmath is not brain today. Her attorney dolan presented what he says are the findings of independent Brain Research experts who performed brain imaging and other tests at Rutgers University medical school. 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