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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 11pm January 4, 2015

Live from the cbs bay area studios t is kpix5 news. I realize this has been the worst experience of my life. Tonight t planeful of passengers has returned to sfo. Im brian hackney. Im ann notarangelo. The epic delay started on the tarmac in abu dhabi where a nonstop flight to sfo took 12 hours just to get off the ground. Our Christian Hartnett is at sfo where he found frustrated and hungry passengers. Christian . Reporter yes, they finally made it here to sfo, but as you mentioned, extremely frustrated and many of the passengers very angry. Now, the plane was sitting on the tarmac in abu dhabi more than 12 hours because of delays but no one could tell them what was going on. Home sweet home, but for many, the feeling of land under their feet is bittersweet. This has been the worst experience of my life. Frustrated. Reporter tired faces, empty stomachs, and patience worn thin. Out of water, out of tissues, out of chocolate. Reporter air ways flight 183 lands after the 16 hour flight but only after 12 hours of waiting on the abu dhabi tarmac. Because of fog. Passengers took to social media. One passenger tweeted we have been stranded close to 11 hours now. No one deplaned, no food. Is someone looking into this . Family of the passengers waited all day to pick up their loved ones. I have been up all night wondering what is going on. I havent been able to get ahold of anyone at the airline. Reporter molly rogers anxiously awaited her 11year old daughter who was on the flight alone. 12 hours on an airplane waiting to take off. Nobody has told me anything. Reporter it finally turned to relief. I was missing you a lot. It was a long time for you to be on the plane yourself. I feel hugely relieved. Reporter now ehdah airways will probably have to pay dearly for this in fines. Lets put it this way. If this situation happened at a u. S. Airport, the airline would be paying about 27,000 per passenger. At sfo, Christian Hartnett, kpix5. The late arrival meant a long wait for people on the return flight to abu dhabi. Passengers showed up at sfo early this morning expecting to take off at 8 30. That obviously didnt happen because the plane got stuck on that tarmac 12 hours so they sat and waited and like their counterparts stuck on the plane, they were also frustrated. We got tired. We tried to sit there. They gave us like, some refund. Yeah, 15 breakfast. They didnt even give us accommodation. That man and his wife are headed to a wedding. They are hopeing to get there in time. It happens in three days. The airline says they are working to restore flight schedules an accommodate passengers as quickly as they can. Any change or cancellation fees will be waived. A couple of earthquakes rattled the Los Angeles Area tonight. Both were centered near caseic. One, 3. 0 at 7 15. The second, much stronger at 4. 5. It was felt from downtown all the way to oxnard. There are no reports of damage or injuries. Students all over the bay area head back to school monday. But one school at Newark Memorial High School had a broken water pipe and mark kelly shows us the damage is extensive. Reporter the superintendent gave us a peek inside the torn apart classrooms. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Reporter water filled this room like a swimming pool. Just under the Technology Run here. When they discovered it and opens the doors and the water rushed out of the flumes. Reporter janitors found the water four feet high. The culprit, the Fire Departments water main line which runs right under the school. For some reason, it gave way and it literally exploded. Reporter not sure what caused the fire line to pop, but he is happy no students were inside. They could have been hurt. One of the floors and one of the classrooms actually blew up three feet of cement. It could have been more devastating. Reporter crews have been working tirelessly to clean up the mess. Desks and chairs an props from the Drama Department drying off in the sun. Construction and work going on quite a few months. Reporter still, for students, no extra time off. School goes on, same place, same time. We will start school monday. Reporter the school says it will most likely be a few months before the classrooms are fixed. In newark, mark kelly, kpix5. Governor jerry brown is on the verge of making california history. On monday, he will be sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term as governor. He is also expected to combine his inaugural state of the state addresses into a single speech. On tuesday, the governor will head to fresno for the official Ground Breaking for californias bullet train. The initial 29mile stretch will start in fresno. It will link the bay area to los angeles. The tahoe queen is unable to sail tonight. It ran aground in lake tahoe, but the current problem is a mechanical issue. Coast guard has the crew inspecting the quinn. A former captain says despite what happened, people shouldnt be too worry. If anything, this will ensure nothing goes wrong in the future. The coast guard will typically issue a no sale until a diver can expect the hull. It is all about safety. That is what is going on now. Once divers have inspected the hull, any issues have been rectified should be sailing again. There is no word on when the coast guard will complete the inspection. Well tonight, police say it is a miracle a sevenyearold girl survived a plane crash. Her family was killed when their private plane went down in kentucky. Omar villafranca on her cold dark journey for health. Reporter after the crashing of the plane, sailor gutzler walked nearly a mile through the dense kentucky woods to the house. There was a little girl standing there with blood on her face. She said mom and dad are dead. We had a plane crash and the plane is upside down. Reporter it was cold, dark, and rainy. Wilkins said the little girl was crying and only wearing light summer clothes. She was barefoot. Had one sock on her feet. Brave little girl. Exstreamly. She done a heck of a job as far as im concerned. Reporter sailors family was flying home from key west florida to mount vernon, illinois in a piper like this one. This photo was snapped aboard the plane last week. Marty gutzler reported engine trouble a mile before it crashed just a mile from a small airport in kentucky. The crash killed gutzler, his wife kimberly, sailors sister piper. This play for her, he is going to need a lot of help. A lot of help. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Reporter omar villafranca, kpix5. The asian flight that crashed into the java sea was not permitted to flight the route it flew on sundays, the day it plunged into the ocean. Four massive objects have been found in the floor of the java sea. So far, only 30 bodies out of 162 victims have been retrieved. Uniformed officers gathered today to remember murdered nypd officer wenjian liu. He and his partner were ambushed in their patrol car last week. Officers saluted bill de blasio this week. Last week, they turned their backs on him accusing him of sympathizing with police protesters. Would you pay 600 a month to live here . Tonight, one mans plan to revolutionize the rental market by thinking inside the box. And we are looking toward the tallest skyscraper in the city. We will have a forecast for you including a record heat wave. Really. Coming up after a break. Female announcer its time to make room for the new mattress models during sleep trains huge year end Clearance Sale, get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempurpedic mattress sets at low clearance prices. Save even more on floor samples, demonstrators, and closeout inventory. Plus, free sameday delivery, setup and removal of your old set. Why wait for the new models . Sleep trains year end Clearance Sale is on now . Guaranteed your ticket to a better nights sleep the Storage Space in its devices. A federal lawsuit alleges apple is deceiving customers about the Storage Space in their devices. Plaintiffs claim the io8 Software Takes up eight gigabytes of software on the iphone. The plaintiffs are seeking 5 million in damage. Apple hasnt commented on the pending litigation. Uber is being sued tonight because people say the company is spamming them with text messages. One man says he got about 20 messages that urged him to become a driver for the ride sharing company. It is a Class Action Lawsuit which means that anybody who got a text from uber could be part of an eventual settlement even if they dont join in on the legal action. The suit is asking for 500 for violation and uber isnt commenting. It may be a new year, but when it comes to the bay area rental rate, it is the same old story. The region led the nation in rent increases. Average rent in san jose rose by 200 a month to just over 1,800. San franciscos average rose to nearly 1,600, but remember, that figure includes rent controlled units. And real estate website reports 2015 could be just as bad. David shows us the skyrocketing rents are the reason behind one oakland mans mission to change the way we live one shipping container at a time. For what i want to do, this is the dream house. Reporter before you judge this mans junk, think inside the box. What do you envision this place looks like in sixth months . It will look less like a junk yard and more like a garden filled tiny house community. Reporter if is a community, luke eisman is the leader. His idea is called box house. To convert shipping containers into tiny houses. It was born out of pure disgust because he felt the rent was outrageous. He was paying 3,500 a month for a two bedroom apartment with his girlfriend a year ago. Today, the average price of a twobedroom has jumped to 4,600. That is 1100 more than new york city making San Francisco the most expensive place to rent an apartment in the nation. So he left there and headed for oakland. Everybody agrees housing is broken. Everybody wants to live in an awesome city like oakland. We need to come up with something else. And im happy to be one of the many failures along the way to figuring that out. Reporter he and five friends each put up 35,000 on adown payment for this property. It has a warehouse intended for a commercial kitchen and two bathrooms plus 14 parking spaces. Each space has just enough room for a box house. The rent here . 600 a month. You can think of it as an expensive parking space or a cheap opportunity to build your ideal house. Reporter he bought a shipping container from the port of oakland for 2,300. He converted this 9200 square foot container into a box house with a solar panel. I have a minimalist kitchen. My one pan i use. Cast iron. A chest freezer. I have a fridge. Bed slash standing desk during the day. Dog area. Clothes, working shower, hot and cold. Reporter he has been flooded with email inquiries since launches a website two months ago solly setting imput. We are not against the idea, it is just very new. Aour building codes can be met, have at it. Reporter when it comes to the city and its codes, eisman says he would rather beg forgiveness than ask permission. It is totally absurd. But this is really a license for us to experiment. This is raddedly affordable and looks weird to everybody. But pretty fun so far. Well, if you are wondering where the rest of the restroom is, it turns out it is outside the box. For now, at least, he is using a compost bin and a bucket. Brian . Well, that is what my dad and his family had to do in 1940. Outdoors. We will leave that topic for another time. For now, we have clear skies. As we look out, kind of hazy today. The numbers right now, 39 degrees in con ford. Oakland 39. San francisco, the warm spot. 42 in san jose. 37 degrees in santa rosa. Out the door, we will have more clouds on sunday than we had today. We have the layers moistening up a little bit. There could be patchy fog. You will see that in a minute. First, we have High Pressure over the west coast. That will bring temperatures up a little bit at least. Even at night. But that High Pressure over the west is also causing stagnant air to get trapped at the surface. So the pollution levels are going up a little bit. That is why we have had a spare the air day today and tomorrow. The north bay, the coast and central bay. And in the santa clara valley. So, no burning in the fireplaces. Future cast shows the high clouds coming in over the bay area tomorrow morning. Some clearing, some high clouds, some clearing. So some high clouds coming over from time to time sunday. Numbers coming up a little bit tomorrow. Mid 60s by monday. The first week of january, into record territory. So, we will see if that pans out. We will turn it around a little bit. Toward the end of the week, we will get a chance of rain thursday. Overnight lows tonight. Santa rosa down to 34 degrees. 38 at napa. 39 at fairfield. Tonight the first night in a while we havent had frost advisories and freeze warnings. They are not posted for tonight. For tomorrow, we are looking at 60 for livermore. In san ramon, 61 degrees. Pleasanton, 61 as well. By the shoreline, we will look at halfmoon bay. 62. Here in the city. 59. In oakland, 63 degrees. Santa rosa 60. Napa, 56. Vallejo, 60 as well. Extended forecast calls for a few more clouds tomorrow. A mix of patchy fog. Some high clouds lateener the day. On monday, we warm it up into the mid 60 region for monday and for tuesday and for wednesday. For that matter. On thursday, we have some rain coming into the bay area and we turn it around friday and saturday. You get a chance tonight, head outside. A beautiful sight of the full moon. And then two weeks from tonight, new moon, we will be talking about the highest tides of the year. Higher than we had last month. I know it is only january. Higher than last month. More king tides are coming in about two weeks. Ann . Gary . We will stay cold tomorrow. We have more playoff games. Yeah. Right through tomorrow, lit be a big one here on our channel at 10 00. Cincinnati and indy. That is what we are talking about. Im excited. All right, the nfl playoffs are underway. Could arizona get it done with their backup quarterback backup . And brother jim on hand to see his brother john. A lot of action coming up in sports. Bulldog you dont need superpowers to help someone. Sometimes, all it takes is a warm heart and a cold nose. Thats why mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to Train Service dogs for people with disabilities. I would never imagine a life without an assistance dog ever again. I relied on people a lot. He helps me live a more independent life. 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There is jim harbaugh rooting on his brother john and the ravens. Third quarter, ravens leading 139. Joe flacc o gets out of trouble. Early fourth quarter. Ben roethesburger. Eight minutes to play now. 2815. He is able to get rid of it but the pass is intercepted by torell suggs. Check out the replay. He grabbed it with his legs. Look at that. That is odd. Harbaugh, the other harbaugh . Very next play after the flacco pick. Baltimore wins. Ravens advance to play new england next saturday. How about the cardinals . They had to go with ryan lindley quarterback. Cardinals marian greiss looks like he fumbles. The play was reviewed and ruled that the ball did cross the goal line. Arizona led 1410. Cards leading 1413. Cam newton got it to fozzie whittaker. After the cardinals fumbled the kickoff, it is more newton and more panthers. 2716 the final. It is carolinas first post season win since 2006. Raiders news, looks like the team will get to interview denver defensive coordinator jack del rio for the head coaching job. He is believed to be one of the favorites for the job. He was the head man in jacksonville from 2003 to 2011. All right, more sports on the way after a short break. We hit the hardwood for College Hoops and the sharks try to stop the blues. Where they successful . We will find out after the break. Female announcer sleep train thanks all those who helped make a difference last year for thousands of california foster kids. Thank you for helping foster kids. Thank you for the School Supplies thank you for the new shoes. Thank you, secret santa and thank you for donating money. Announcer your generosity proves that while not everyone can be a Foster Parent anyone can help a foster child. Thank you thank you gracias por su ayuda [baby cooing] thank you. Star joe thornton. Hes for the first time in over four years, the sharks played without star joe thornton. He is nursing an injury. The sharks have lost three of four coming into tonights game. Joe pavelski with a tough angle. And he is able to go top shelf on that one for the score. His 20th goal of the season gave the sharks a 21 lead. Second period, tied at 22. Here is t. J. Oshie. Defense had no answers for him. Blues had a bunch more and won this by the count of 72. All right, down south to la for saint mary. Great start for the gails. Aaron bright taking the ball down and boom, you are going to give tout me . I will take it. He led the gails with 24. Second half at mc up 11. Carrie carter with the nice pass down low to garrett jackson. They win 7263. Gails are 40 in wcc play. A frustrating night against byu. First half cougars up 3273. Kyle collinsworth threw the lane and slammed it home. They shot 74 in the first half. Second half, it is a 27 point lead. Tyler hawes hits the three. One of 15 byu threes. Cougars win. Maples pavilion. Stanford opens up pack 12 play against colorado. Second half. Cardinals leading by just three. Amber orange takes off goes down the lane and scorings. 4847. Cardinals win 6255. Finally, lindsay sand the cal women. Brittany boyd with the

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