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KNTV Today In The Bay March 19, 2016

Operated by Fly Dubai Airline caught fire. Bad weather may have caused the crash with reported wind gusts of 60 miles an hour at at time of the landing. Continuing coverage on the bart dilemma. No word yet on when things will return to normal for bart riders in the east bay. For now prepare for long lines, shuttle buss and awkward scheduling. Service between the concorde and pittsburgh station has been disrupted since wednesday when 50 cars were damaged alompk tng track. This all happened because of a power surge. The state senator says this bart problem was a train wreck waiting to happen. You begin to accumulate the resources and replace things when they get old. Bart has not done that. Coming out from pittsburgh to here its not that hard, but when they have to go back home its going to be a big deal for them to get back. Bart Officials Say engineers are currently take iing part fr eight different car trains to fix some of the damaged ones. Uber is trying to help out with the bart commuters during the meltdown. Its temporarily expanding its uber service to contra costa county. They are cutting rides to half price during commute hours. Uber pool allows you to share your ride and split the cost of your trip with another rider headed in the same direction. A Bay Area Community is battling noise in the night. Many neighbors say its coming from a cement plant just outside city limits. The Environmental Health department received more than a dozen complaints about the noise last spring. Folk says they are still struggling to sleep because nothing has been done to fix the problem. Im less productive, no question. You dent get a good night sleep youre less productive. They are hoping to turn the volume down. The company said the noise is due to a new exhaust stack and fan installed last march. New details on a sink hole. Rain in the forecast could delay repairs. Crews were making Good Progress but now pg e says they are working on ways to divert rain water. A sink hole opened up last sunday. A gas line ruptured and power lines were broken. 100 homeowners were told to snerlt place. Many were also left in the dark. This week marks four years since lamar disappear ed. A search is plan for her this morning. She was on her way to school when she vanished in 2012. Family, friends and volunteers will hold a search for her body on morgan hill. It begins at 9 15. A man was indicted for the death. His capital murder trial is scheduled to begin next month. Getting ready for the big earthquake is coming with a hefty price tag in San Francisco. The port of San Francisco says the sea wall is 100 years old. Its 3. 5 miles long and protects 700 acres of water front. Preliminary findings show the mold holding the wall in place is weak and could move during an e earthquake. That could mean disaster for a large portion of San Francisco. If the seawall is not repaired, Emergency Responders may need to step in. What were looking at is improving the condition of the mud around the seawall, strengthening it so the seawall stays in place. Major repairs are expected to cost billions of dollars. The living cities competition will help the port figure out financing. The final results of the study are expected next month. Turning to decision 2016 its all about the west for the next few days. Donald trump campaigned in salt lake city. Voters in utah and arizona will cast their ballots tuesday. Just four days after Mitt Romney Campaign ed with john kasich in ohio the former president ial nominee now says hes voting for cruz next week in utah. Thats because romney says cruz has the better chance to beat trump there and that is all hes concerned about right now. Romney not a big fan of cruz. Hes just hoping to force a contested convention and nominate someone besides trump. They know imnot a liar. But ted cruz, he walks in bible high, bible high, puts it down and he starts lying. I tell you what. You look at twitter, you look at your email to see whats the latest insult hes tossed my direction. I have no intention of responding like a junior high child. Cruzs campaign in utah heads to arizona for two more campaign events. And on the democratic side, Bernie Sanders is busy he will bow out of a conference convened in washington, d. C. Next week. Sanders absence is notable because hes the only jewish candidate to win a primary. Hillary clintons fundraiser will no longer been at a technology company. It was supposed to be held monday, but that raised eyebrows. They are under intense scrutiny after an investigation revealed its blood Testing Technology is not as accurate as claimed. The fundraiser is moving to a private home. Chelsea clinton is schedule d t headline the event. Much more ahead on today in the bay. Is this another troubling example of sexism in the gaming industry. The Party Microsoft just threw in the city that has the tech giant saying sorry. Comiccon comes to the south bay. We go oneonone with the man that helped make it happen. Thats coming up. Your time is 7 09. Lets take you outside to san jose from our camera there. Thats drizzly and quite gray, but we hopefully will get a chankang in pace. Outrage over at the a party in San Francisco. Microsoft under fire for hiring dancers in skimpy schoolgirl outfits to perform at a party in San Francisco. Christie smith has details on the swift action the company took just hours after the party ended. Its not necessarily appropriate. Especially when youre going to have such a diverse audience of attend tees there. An aspiring developer, her reaction to video and pictures that hit social media of entertainers in short skirts and tops for Microsoft Xbox division. She said in a statement i atended the event last night and to be completely honest i was shocked to see the girl there is. I avoided that part of the venue all night because it made me uncomfortable. The head of xbox released a statement saying this was not in line with our values. It was wrong and will not be tolerated. We disappointed many people and im personally committed to holding ourselves to higher standards. Its not surprising. Josh samuels moderated a women in games allies roundtable at the Game Developers conference. He believes theres much more work to be done. Im willing to give companies the benefit of the doubt and say we did not want that. The university is becoming a concern for sure. I think Something Like having that at the Microsoft Party is a step backwards for that. Christie smith, nbc bay area news. Still ahead on today in the bay, expect big crowds in the south bay this weekend. A popular convention hits down on to san host for the first time. We talk to a legend in the Tech Industry who made it all possible. The first full weekend of spring is here. A mixed bag of fog and drizzle with some sunshine and rain for tomorrow. Well go over all over that in your forecast, coming up after this. Youre looking live outside right now at foster city. A little haze in the sky. Sun just coming up now on this saturday, march 19th. With that the doors opened at the San Jose Convention center yesterday. And fans rushed into comiccon. Its the first time the popular show is happening in the Silicon Valley. Whether its comic or film or discussion or laughs, this is about whats possible. So we welcome all of you to explore that in san jose. The event usually is in san diego, but this year tons of comic books, rare memorabilia and a greek friendly line up of speakers are all here in the Silicon Valley. And the cast of back to the future as well. A tech legend is responsible for bringing comiccon to downtown san jose. We know a bad one going here. They are getting their bad guys in order. Venders from all over the country ready to bring comiccon to Silicon Valley for the first time with everything from nostalgic movie cards to waxy famous people. Oh, my gosh, what that meant to me. I get chills just seeing what i am seeing. We spoke with the man who brought comiccon here. He says shows like this fire up the imagination of techies no matter where they are from. Think about the imaginary world that comics have to portray and imaginary worlds give us ideas of where to take the world. Thats what developing products is all about. Its also about big business u giving comic and movie fans what they want. Im from montana. I hope its good for a couple montanaens. As for the guy in the apple watch, after comiccon, what does woz expect from the company he cofounded . I hope something we dont even think of right now would come out of apple. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. We have posted some bonus videos, interviews with woz on nbcbayarea. Com. Just click on the top story box on our web page. Apples Marketing Team is working to prepare for the Product Launch event. As usual the company isnt really seeing any details. Analysts and tech blogs anticipate an iphone, smaller ipad pro and new bands for the apple watch. The event starts at 10 00 a. M. Well have full coverage here. Get out their bibs and melting the butter. Crabs are good to go. Crabs caught off the coast have tested safe. The state will now open the commercial crab season there next saturday. Lets get a check with anthony slaughter with a look at the weekend forecast. Big day today. I know you have your sons Birthday Party planned. We are going to see some sunshine. We have fog and drizzle this morning. Were planning for a Birthday Party. I want to talk about that crab. Thats some great news. You can see this morning we are waking up to cloud cover. We are going to see some sunshine later on this afternoon. 54 right now in San Francisco. Theres your drizzle. Even from emeriville, we have low clouds, but a few peeks of sunshine starting to come out. We will see temperatures back in the 70s. 68 degrees for the peninsula. 70 for the east bay. If youre headed to wine country, a mix of sun and clouds. 69 degrees and theres actually some drizzle falling this morning in the north bay. We keep in mind its going to be a little bit of time before we see that sun after 11 00 were good to go. Look at whats headed our way. Here comes our next storm system. And then all day long its going to be gray tomorrow with on and off showers. Well time this out and see what im talking about. Well have the fog that starts to at least break up as we head toward the afternoon hours. Tomorrow morning, well wake up to cloudy skies and then by 7 00, the rain moves into the north bay. By the afternoon hours, well see the showers spread into the rest of the bay area and well fall apart as we head into the evening hours. Not expecting the huge amount of rain from the storm system. Thats the thing to note here. Its going to be some light showers on and off through the day. Especially through the south bay. Maybe half an inch in the north bay. If you get to the peninsula and the trivalley, less than a tenth of an inch. This is not going to be a storm system. Maybe close to a quarter inch and in the north bay half an inch expected for places like santa rosa. The winds will stay calm. Its not until tomorrow when the storm system starts to roll back to the bay area. Well see our winds kick up around 2 00 in the afternoon. Thats when well see the strongest wind. Not talking overly gusty in the trivalley. Again, San Francisco, north bay, thats where youll see the strongest of the rain. Everybody else will see light showers. Thats when the snow starts to accumulate. All weekend long it will be dry. And really minor amounts. Not a big storm system. Only about 4 to 8 inches of snow across places near the sierra. Thats good news. At least were adding to the snow pack. As we move ahead after monday, it doesnt look like well have a whole bunch of rain in the forecast. Next weekend were going to stay dry. We have great news. The Drought Monitor came out and we have been upgrade d or downgraded, however, you want to put it. The Drought Conditions are getting better. We are now at normal drought, which is a d1 category. Thats the first stage of drought, which is great news. All last year we were in the extreme and exceptional drought. Thats d5, which is as high as it can go. Well see the rain continue to fall putting that dent in the drought. Tomorrow the showers push into the bay area and well continue with the chance of rain for monday. Breaking back out for tuesday and wednesday. 70s in the forecast in the south bay today for the pool party. I hope. Looking forward to it. Today in the bay is back after this break. Coming up i have been calling it my pet project. Many many homeless are unable to go to shelters because pets are not allowed. The projects happening thats meant to change that. Its a story that will make you bay area proud. Living on the streets can be a dangerous life for many homeless. Keeping a pet can be a lifesaver. The animal can be a barrier to getting vital services. One shelter has come up with a creative solution. Today in the bay has this mornings bay area proud. With the exception of service and companion animals, dogs are not allowed in homeless shelters for obvious reasons. All those animals in the dormitories can be a recipe for disaster. So home first decided to give them their own place to sleep with a little help from the neighbors. That james would soon be losing that home without money for another. When we found ourselves out on the street for a couple days, he really got me through. So like u many homeless pet owners, james and gunny faced a dilemma. Shelter, not an option for those with pets and parting with the dog, thats not an option either. Lucky for the pair a plan has been in the works at home First Reception Center in san jose. Thanks to one special dog lover. Im excited about that. All they needed to carry it out was a generous donation of labor and just came this month across the street. Volunteers spent an entire day turning an outdoor patio at this shelter for humans into one for their animals. Half a dozen kennels were assembled and secured. And patchy ground nearby cleared out for them as well. How am i going to e get out . Those people and animals in their times of need. This does more than just allow pet owners and their animals a temporary roof over their heads by giving the homeless a safe, secure place to leave their animals during the day it frees them up to pursue jobs and services that may hopefully one day lead to something more permanent. The materials alone that home depot donated were worth 3,000. Garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. Finding solutions. If you know something doing something nice for others, garvin would love to hear from you. Go to nbcbayarea. Com and search bay area proud. Up next on today in the bay, some shady activity thats creating problems around the bay area. And does this man look familiar . The evidence that has east bay u police believing theres a serial bank robber on the loose. Why let someone else have all the fun . The sometimes haphazard, never boring fun. The why cant it smell like this all the time fun. The learning the virtue of sharing fun. Why let someone else have all the fun . Thats no fun. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Good saturday morning to you. Its march 19th, 2016. Take a look at that beautiful shot of san jose outside right now. The sun is up. A little bit drizzly out there. Temperatures mostly mild today. Thanks for wake iing up with us. Im vicky nguyen alongside anthony slaughter. With a look at that forecast. A big day. Twins turning 3 today. Need the weather to hold up for that Birthday Party. 2 was quite a whirlwind. We finally made it to 3. Were waking up to some clouds and drizal and thats the grayness of the day as were starting off this first day of spring. The first full day will be tomorrow and were expecting some showers for tomorrow. Today will be dry. Were talking about the clouds and drizzle. After 11 00 well see the sun come out. 72 degrees for the south bay u. Youll see the sun 58 there. 70 for the east bay. 68 for San Francisco. If youre headed to wine country, 69 today. Well see some sunshine by 11 00. Well see you then. To developing news overseas. Officials say 62 people are dead after a plane crashed in southern russia. No one on the ground was hurt. We told you the story was breaking news. Bad weather may have caused the cra crash. The most wanted fugitive from the terror attacks in paris is finally in police custody. Authorities in belgium capture ed him during a raid in brussels. He was one of five people arrested in connection with the november massacre that killed 130 people. He has been on the run for four months. He was one of ten isis members identified by investigators as suspects. Each one has been killed or captured. Authorities now hope to get some answers from their wanted man. They will be looking at other coconspirators. Who are other members of the organization. French prosecutors will seek extradition for him for the november 13th attacks. To continuing coverage on the bart slowdown. Still no estimate for when things will return to normal for bart riders in the east bay. For now they are going to have to endure long lines for shuttle buss and awkward scheduling. We have been reported. The bart problem was a train wreck waiting to happen. Bart has not done that. Coming out from pittsburgh to here, its not that hard. When they have they are trying to fix some of the damages cared. They will hold a search for her starting at 9 15 this morning. Prosecutors have filed felony charges against the San Jose High School track coach accused of having sex with two students. Hes a former graduate of the school himself. Hes accused of having inappropriate relationships with two girls ages 14 and 17. As soon as it was reported we immediately took action. Immediately notified cps askand discontinued his employment. We immediately called them up and it was handled. He was arrested

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