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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 11PM November 23, 2016

Right now in parts of the bay area. The storm is just starting to arrive and theres more wet weather ahead for your holiday week. Live look outside in San Francisco, this is at pier 39. Pretty soggy in the city right now. Good evening im elizabeth cook. Lets get to chief meteorologist paul. San francisco one of the wettest spots but marin county Sonoma County napa Solano County you have been quite soggy the wettest spot currently from san fernando south to mill valley east of tiburon. em c Berkeley Emeryville and oakland getting steady rainfall. And next up as this front works its way south foster city san Mateo Redwood Mountain View and hayward. If your travels are going to take to you the mountains watch out. If youre leaving early tomorrow its actually motte a good thing because it will be snowing tomorrow morning in the sierra 5,000 feet. Clearing skies in the afternoon. High effort peaks we could see 10 inches of fresh snow tomorrow Winter Weather advisory in affect. We can tell you how much rainfall we can expect for the holiday week. Tonight two suspects both considered armed and dangerous are on the loose. They are wanted for the murder of a promising bay area musician. Joe vasquez reports investigators believe he was killed because of the color of his skin. Reporter ten days ago the body of William Simms was found right here on the street. The Sheriffs Department announced this is a hate crime murder. I dont think you understand it brings to the area. Reporter friends say simms was a gentle soul. A 28yearold gifted musician who worked at best buy. He was the best human being i knew and he didnt have an evil bone in his body. He cared and helped others any time he could. Reporter on saturday november 12th, investigators say 3 men attacked simms at the capri club beat him and shot him to de. Robbed him and left him to die. Sheriff officials have evidence that simms was killed because hes africanamerican. We believe given what we know the victim was targeted here and he was intentionally killed because of his race. Did they say anything to him regarding his race that leads you to believe that . I cant go into that level of detail. Reporter 31yearold Daniel Porter kelly of richmond is in jail without bail charged with simms murder, robbery and a hate crime. Detectives are asking for the publics help in finding two other suspects 32yearold ray simons of hercules and 31year old Daniel Ortega of navaid 0. Ortegas mother was also arrested for interfering with the investigation. The bartender at capri club had no comment other than to pass along that all the activity happened outside the bar. Friends and family of William Simms say its a shame people dont take the time to get to know each other before hateing someone for the color of his skin. If you get to know them youll understand who they are and youll get to know the kind of person they are. This guy im sorry. This guy was a great pressure. Reporter joe vasquez examine i, 5. Uc berkeley is warning students of a new sex crime on campus. This time a male student told police a man he met on the internet sexually assaulted him inside a coop room early this morning. So far no arrests. Tonight a showdown between the 49ers and the city of santa clara is in overtime. Its not about football, its about money. Betty yu is at city hall where dozens of people showed up tonight with a message for 49ers management. Betty. Reporter liz those people showed up tonight to back the city. The council just voted unanimously to send a notice to the 49ers giving them 30 days to hand over financial documents and if they dont the city is threatening to take over management of levi stadium. Many people packed Tonights City Council meeting wearing green arm bands and held signs that said follow the law a direct message to the 49ers to hand over financial documents. To the Stadium Authority which is made up of city council members. There isnt anything in agreement that would prohibit the Stadium Authority board, the elected officials from viewing these documents and have them be the property of the Stadium Authority. That makes absolutely no sense. Reporter mayor Lisa Gillmore called on the 49ers yet again to hand over financial documents auditors need to finish their job. Shes trying to ensure the 9ers arent using taxpayer money to run levi stadium operating costs. Which would be a violation of voter a roofed measure j. No convenient through the country has ever released this information. Reporter the 49ers say they have already let city staff and team of auditors review the documents at their headquarters and releasing them to the public would put the stadium at a competitive disadvantage. All the profits from nonnfl events go directly to the city of santa clara. If we release this information, then every promoter, every act will know what they get paid or what expenses go into this. Reporter the mayor disagrees. Shes threatening that city leaders would take the drastic step of taking management of the stadium over from the team. To say that none of these documents have been provided for 2. 5 years is just wrong. Its misleading, its inaccurate. Its not fair and its not right. Its simply not the truth. Reporter and tonight the team sent a statement to kpix5 calling the mayors actions frivolous an accusing her of playing politics. The team says the contract they signed with the city does not require them to release proprietary information to the public so no matter how many times the city asks or threatens it will not do so and it believes its in the best interest of santa clara residents and taxpayers that they dont. Live in santa clara belt he yu kpix5. The city of oakland says it has a framework of a plan to keep can the raiders from leaving for las vegas. New details are being released weve learned it includes a new stadium and the group led by former nfl hall of Famer Ronnie Lott will pay for it. There is a willingness and ability to put forward the private funds that we believe it will take to build a stadium but being responsible to the public dollar. There is still the issue of who will own the land that the new stadium will sit on. Meantime the raiders owner still has his sights set on a move to sin city. To the peninsula now where police say they have just busted a brothel. Cops say it was operating right across the street from a high school. Reporter along busy 20th avenue in san mateo, this home across the street from Sara High School is quiet tonight lit only by a porch light. For the past month though neighbors say the now earlyty house was bustling with activity. Particularly late at night. Foot traffic, people coming and going people texting, cars moving in and out, many per night. Reporter the home and its occupants were busted yesterday for what san mateo pd calls. Operating a house of ill fame. Reporter in noncop speak running a brothel. Neighbors sue lefler says there were something odd about the home the moment the moving trucks arrived on halloween. It didnt have garbage pick up the moving trucks dropped off we dont miss that. Reporter the home sits a block from san mateo city hall. Neighbors filled out Online Police reports about the suspicious activity and the subsequent investigation led to two arrests. In an era where see something Say Something is the motto, sue lefler has this to say. Never underestimate the power of your good neighbors. Now the van M Police Department i working with the women who were at that home to get them the help they need. New information about a man found dead outside a home in san jose last week. Tonight police say he was murdered by his own wife. Investigators beef 57yearold cook none new enkilled her husband and took her own life. She was found in a car on south white road. Her husbands body was found the next day last thursday in the evergreen neighborhood. An autopsy determined he died from blunt force trauma. No word on a possible motive. Tonight donald trump touched down in florida. Hes spending the thanksgiving holiday at a mansion in palm beach under tight security from an elite air force bomb squad. Tonight the president elects physician positions are in transition. Trump seems to be backing away from some of his Biggest Campaign promises. Reporter during his Campaign Trump pledged to put Hillary Clinton behind bars lock her up he said again and again. Tonight he says that is no longer a top priority. At trump rallies trump threatened to put Hillary Clinton in jail. Special prosecutor here we come right. I win were going to a point about special prosecutor. Reporter in a meeting at the New York Times reporters live tweeted the conversation, mr. Truthful said this, i dont want to hurt the clintons i really dont, she went through a lot and suffered greatly in many ways. He added i think it would be very, very divisive for the country. Mr. Trump also chain his tune on the issue of Climate Change during the campaign he left no doubt. A lot of it is a hoax. Reporter but today trump told the times i think there is oso connectivity between humans and Climate Change. I would bring backwater boarding and id bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. Reporter thats trump during the Company Campaign on the issue of torture. He told the times he changed his mind. The billionaire businessman also suggested he could help strike a Peace Agreement between the israeli and the jews with the help of his jewish soninlaw jared kushner. Regarding his business dealers any potential conflicts of interest he told the New York Times he believes that the law is on his side. Veronica de la cruz kpix5. Mr. Trump also defended his senior counselor pick steve bannon. He told the times quote if i thought he was a racist or alt right any of the things terms i could use i wouldnt think about hearing him. So is trump really against the altright . Political reporter melissa cane says trumps actions will speak louder than his words. Reporter there kind of thing is one of the reasons why we look so closely at who mr. Trump is appointing to various positions when you have people saying Different Things or youre observing things donald trump is denying we look to tangible actions. We look to who hes actually pointing to positions. Trump did not announce any additional cabinet appointments today but he is considering former primary rival dr. Ben carson for secretary of housing and urban development. Tonight bee saw lots of people in San Francisco taking a stand against hate. A big crowd came together for a peace rally and vigil in japan town. Organizers say they want to show solidarity with people who have been victims of hate crimes since the election. In oakland tonight a wall once covered with hope and inspiration is no more. Kpix shows us what happened. Reporter its not far from oakland lake her rhett and its called a love wall. Lisa klein says it drew her in. I found myself driving here just to look at it. Reporter people spontaneously posted messages of comfort and hope. Words of encouragement for peace, for love. Reporter in a hats of days the wall had taken on a life of its own with hundreds of notes, a physical tangible answer to a facebook posting. The one thing thats going to save us is not posting angry word on facebook. Its not talking down to other people. Its trying to find out what makes you the same as other people as opposed to different. Reporter thats what the wall was supposed to do, but today that all changed. Cell phone video shows a man riping the post outs from the wall while others tried to stop limb. Instead of knocking the messages off post your own message. Reporter that seems more difficult than ever with the speed of recent hate crimes locally. San jose student attacked an n a parking lot. Bathroom walls vandalized with ray effort and homophobic graffiti. The a County District Attorneys Office a under toed this. The a County District Attorneys Office rate crimes hotline. Reporter in ten different languages. The wall in owning land is bare except for a sign directing people to a second location. Five post so far but thought for long if people here can help it. I had the impulse to put out boxes of post its and pence for more people to add. Reporter kristin airs kpix5. California voters have narrowly approved a ballot measure designed to speed up executions. The tally was so close it took two weeks of counting since election day to figure out which side won. In the end it passed by 250,000 votes. Proposition 66 aims to speed things up in several ways. It designate trial courts to hear petitions challenging Death Penalty convictions. Prop 66 also limits how many petitions a defendant can file. And it expands the pool of lawyers who are laud to handle take kind of appeal. If you have an iphone or ipad youre going want to hear this next warning. A malicious video is circulate taking can cause the devices to crash in a matter of seconds. The site everything apple pro posted a demo. First a user clicks on what appears to be a harmless link. Then a video pops up of a man doing a magic trick with a deck of cards. Within 10 seconds the operating system freezes. A british newspaper says versions going all the way back to ios 5 are a hard reset fixes the problem. In tennessee federal investigators are at the scene of yesterdays Deadly School bus crash trying to figure out what went wrong. A tow truck hauled away the wreckage of that bus. Yelleds crash in chattanooga killed five children, four girls and one boy. Kpix5 allen martin shows us there are some serious allegations against the driver. Reporter Police Arrested the bus drier and charged him with five counsel. Vehicular manslaughter. Investigators say 24yearold Johnthony Walker was driving well above the speed limit of 30 Miles Per Hour when he lost control. Jasmine mateen lost one of her three children. She claims that she complained to the school about the drivers drinking and driving. My daughters right before the bus flipped, that he was speeding around a curve and asked them are tuolumneall ready to die. Reporter the bus had two cameras onboard. Investigators will review that footage. Alan martin kpix5. Other students are hospitalized in intensive care. Back in the bay area bart is rolling out new police troll desks in time for the holidays. Right now they are set up at two stations in San Francisco powell and civic center. The goal, according to a bart spokesperson prevent crime and make commuters feel safe. Thousands of people driving across it every day. Tool risks come from all over the world to admire it. The Golden Gate Bridge thats a bay area icon. But we discovered some important Maintenance Work hasnt been done in decades. Why thought . Kpix5 Jeffrey Schaub got answers starting across the bay. Reporter this may look like just a simple work site. Reporter but its not. These are caltrans bridge pagers hunkered down on a plat perform suspended midair. Painting and repainting the underside of the western span of the bay bridge, a process thats been going on for over 9 decades. If we dont paint the bridge then the bridge rusts. Reporter i. Reporter thirst they grind down the seem smooth it out apply two coats of primer and two coats of paint they have to do all that because they play thought be back here again for 20 years. If i were to tell you that the cable on the Golden Gate Bridge has not been painted in its entirety since 1937, would you be concerned about that. I would be very concerned. If you didnt paint the cable could there be corrosion up there . There would be lots of corrosion. Reporter and it shows. This is a sidebyside aerial view of both bridges. The golden gate virtually the entire length of the cable houseing think of it as a long tube shows wear and tear. You raise a good point jeff. Reporter to find out why the iconic beauty is so badly in need a make over. sat down with Golden Gate Bridge general manager dennis mulligan. We have different time frames for different components of the bridge based on whats needed for those components. Muscle began says the cable casing they look bad but the 27,000 individual p steel strands inside are pristine. But that could change from moisture seeps inside if the outer tube roads away. The bridge district has known about that threat for decades. Its one small step foreman. Reporter in 1969 while kneel armstrong walked the moon, a cult ants Engineering Firm walked the brim an ish this report recommending the main cable be painted as a. M. That never happened. Now that the entire cable had only been spots painted since the 1930s. Five far years with great fan fare the district announced that the bible cable would be painting and they started the week. But then absolutely stop. Russ bridge engine fierce denounce the handwriting rails needed to be replaced. It was all over the media. My hunch is that the engineering he veil weighs had not been done at that point it was not phone that the hand ropes were approaching the end of their youll full service. 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