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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 5AM August 15, 2017

Many kids. West southwest winds at 13. And oakland. Backing up through there and otherwise 11 in the berkeley area and napa as well. Another breezy day. 17 in fairfield. The winds will be blowing out of the southwest 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Not as cool today as yesterday. But still, the below average. Youre away from the bay into the inland areas gradual warming through the week and then the overall pattern is not conducive for warm weather near the water at all. Todays numbers from the 60s in pacifica. No sunshine. To the low and mid 70s around the peninsula. And then up to about 80 degrees in santa rosa. Back in through occidental into healdsburg. Full forecast. 18 after the hour right now. The say good morning to jaclyn dunn. Good morning and happy tuesday everyone. If youre getting ready to step out the door and the ride has you headed along highway 37, look out. Weve seen loot of brake lights due to some construction. Caltrans keeping busy right now. We have some in the eastbound direction of highway 37. And that is between 101 and ratherton. Your drive times headed in the westbound direction, pretty slow as well. In the yellow, 27 minutes likely to be a little bit longer. Weve got one way Traffic Control along portions of highway 37. That should be all wrapped up by the 6 00 hour. Other than that, were looking pretty good. Take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza in the green. 12 minute ride, no delays smooth sailing into San Francisco this morning. Guys back over to you. Thank you. The violence at last weekends White Nationalist rally in virginia continues to prompt protests vigils and tough conversations across the country. The mother of the 32yearold woman killed saturday says shes in awe of tributes and the stories people have shared about her daughter Heather Heyer. She protected me on the school bus. She took care of me when others were giving me a hard time. And i was unaware of that. She didnt come home and tell me about that. She just dealt with that as a matter of normal behavior for herself. The man accused of ramming heyer with his car, 20yearold james fields jr. , was officially charged yesterday. Meanwhile, President Trump continues to face criticism for taking two days to explicitly condemn White Supremacists and other hate groups. Many people who took part in the rally are also being called out on social media. Waiter account is naming and shamming the twitter account is naming and shaming them. It likely cost a local man his job. The marches and countermarches all take over towns across the u. S. And the twitter user asked for help identifying any quote nazis marching in charlottesville. The Anonymous User posted photos, videos of swastikas and men who were shouting at that White Nationalist rally. And within minutes, names began to pour in and consequences were seen across the country including here in berkeley. On its twitter post yes youre racist boasts that cool white. The first person identified from the charlottesville march, no longer has a job. He was working at top dog a restaurant in berkeley, and the owner of the restaurant said white left the job voluntarily after being questioned about being at the march. The account indicates it was set up to call out racism. Kpix 5 Technology Analyst larry maggot says things like that are acceptable on social media like twitter but twitter policy specifies limits. The youre in and out if youre out in public you have no expectation of privacy. You can be photographed and be on television and you can be tweeted about. Youre not supposed to do whos called doxing. Which is where you take somebody that might otherwise be a private citizen and start exposing personal information especially where they live or the phone number. Reporter keep in mind you cant trust everything you see on social media. Amateur detectives concluded the protester there on the left was the Arkansas University substantiate professor pictures on assistant professor ficktured on the right, but they were wrong. The professor posted his own defense. Also university of nevada student says he was in fact at a rally that rally, but he said he got thres en s deoto atwas h posted. People all across the bay area have mixed views on this. Some say exposing and punishing people over social media this isnt fair, while others say supremacists should have to answer for their actions. What are some of the local leaders saying about this . Reporter well, you know, mayor lee joining with the Human Rights Commission today, theyre going to host their first of several community conversations. They want to open up the dialogue on racial ethnic animosity. The public sin violated today from is invited today from 11 00 to 12 30 at the office in San Francisco. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office is apologizing for retweeting the account of a white supremacist. He was pronoting a News Conference he was holding on the events in charlottesville. Spencer has been a major force behind White Nationalists rallies nationwide. The Sheriffs Department waiter apologize later apologized saying quote a confed statue was pulled down in front of the Durham County courthouse a crowd of protestors cheered as a confederate statue was pulled donned in front of the durham down in front of the Durham County courthouse in North Carolina yesterday. The statue bent out of shape with protestors kicking and spitting on the civil war monument. Further damaging it. Protestors say that this was in response to the events in charlottesville over the weekend. A sigh of relief this morning for the people of guam. Kim jongun appears to be backing off the threat of an attack on the u. S. Territory at least for now. The north Korean Leader finished reviewing plan to fire four missiles at the island. State run media says he will wait to see what the quote foolish yankees do next before making a final decision. We were happy the rhetoric is starting to calm down perhaps from kim jongun in not at least pursuing at the moment his threats to fire missiles at guam. And nobody wants any confrontation beyond the peace that we enjoy today and this row sort destination. South korea and china are now making a renewed push for the u. S. To find a diplomatic solution. Today, uc berkeley sees a changing of the guard with a new chancellor taking the helm after the old one was forced out over multiple scandals. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores is live with the details. Reporter good morning, thats right the new chancellor takes over today annoyancing her plans and announcing her plans and priorities at an event at 11 00 a. M. Also introducing her new cabinet. Carol christ, shes one of the oldest ever and also the first woman chancellor for uc berkeley. She was previously the president of Smith College and a vice chancellor at berkeley in the mid 1990s. The outgoing chancellor nicholas derks stepped down amid budget problems and criticism over how he handled Sexual Harassment scandals at the university. Now christ is taking over just as uc berkeley has become center stage for protests against conservative commentators. Violence erupted this year when Milo Yiannopoulos was invited to speak on campus. Christ says one of the Top Priorities is going to be reclaiming cal as a home of the Free Speech Movement shes planning the make the next school year the year of free feature and invite different do you wants to debate one another. Also student diverse city is a top priority. Also the university faces more than 100 million budget shortfall. Shell also be tackling Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault claims and how the university deals with that. Its a lot to tackle in the next year. But the university is going to be paying her about half a Million Dollars to take on the job. Reporting live in berkeley, im Jessica Flores, kpix 5. Time now 5 09. Federal agents say theyve thwarted terror plot modeled off the Oklahoma City bombing. Well have details on the frightening plan. Plus a program that gives protection to undocumented immigrant children from deportation. Turns five today. Still it faces some challenges. Ill explain straight ahead. Good Tuesday Morning from the Severe Weather center 9 where yet again today another unseasonably cool day inland. How long this cooling trend will last. Its been a pretty quiet start so far for the Tuesday Morning commute. Well have all the details on what the backup looks like coming up. The ok new details about the young man who allegedly tried to pull off a similar plot to the Oklahoma City bombing. A confidential informant says 23yearold jerry drake very nell was upset with the government and wanted to strike back. The informant reportedly linked him to an undercover fbi agent who pretended to get him what he need to make a bomb and then blow up a bank in Oklahoma City. But the device he allegedly tried to detonate friday failed him. He was arrested the next day. Authorities say the case represents a frightening trend. We have violent people who are on the fringe who are angry, who feel a call to action. Who feel like their response is the answer. And too often that response is to kill a lot of innocents. Varnell followed the three percenters. He appeared in court yesterday for the first time. Today is the fifth anniversary of the deferred action for child hoot arrivals childhood arrivals or daca. Kpix 5s Sandra Osborne is live in san jose this morning where many are worried that this could be the programs last milestone. Sandra . Reporter hey, good morning to you kenny. Yeah the program is definitely under scrutiny by the Trump Administration and several states,sen the states in fact are ten states in fact are actually putting pressure on the president to end this program. However here in california lawmakers are urging the president to keep this going. This program was started back in 2012 under the obama administration. The program is the deferred action for childhood ail rivals. It gives arrivals. It gives protection to the children who are undocumented immigrants brought by their parents to america. It gives them protection to go school and even get a drivers license. Recipients are often called dreamers and there are 240,000 of them right here in this state. U. S. Senator Kamala Harris of california is urging with President Trump to continue with the program. She and the other senators say this in a letter weve already invested in them by healthing them in the american schools reporter now today, on the fifth anniversary of the program, theres a demonstration planned in washington, d. C. Here locally, in san jose, a member of the board of supervisors is actually holding a Media Conference to not only celebrate the fifth anniversary, but to also talk about the success of some local recipients. That happens at about 9 00 this morning. Reporting live in san jose, Sandra Osborne, kpix 5. A new lawsuit claims Harvard University discriminates against asians. Attorneys are trying to prove their case with the help of records from a bay area high school. Mont Vista High School in cupertino is one of four schools from the country turning over records. The school 180 asian american. Is is 80 asian american. The lawsuit claims they need to score higher on the sats to have the same chances of being accepted compared to other students with the same qualifications. Time now 5 15. Lets get a check of the roads this morning with jaclyn. Good morning. And you know what . We are tracking a new accident and this is in the south bay. I was just bragging about how great the south bay was looking. But an accident northbound 101 just approaching 880. It does not appear to be slowing really anyone down. Well take a look at your ride as you are approaching that and you can see speeds in the green and your travel time remains in the green. 20 minutes as you make your way from fellier up to san antonio. Just past that accident there, 101 right near north first street. Traffic doing okay in both directions. No trouble getting through that stretch. Heading into San Francisco, were still nice and quiet. Were seeing few slowdowns on the 280 extension. Nothing to write home about. Over at the bay bridge toll plaza, still no metering lights so thats good news there. East shore freeway still running right up to the limit there and smooth sailing heading across the upper deck into San Francisco. The only slowdowns we are tracking this time around is for folks coming through the altamont pass. Westbound 580 between 205 and 680, youve got 28 minute ride. Thats in the yellow. We also have a high wind advisory in mace for drivers. Place for drivers. So highway 4 and 101 looking a ok. All right. The countdown is on. To the Solar Eclipse and for more on that, tell us all about it. Roberta. Weve been trying to give you a pack of the day for boy at least the last month or so. And todays fact for you is as far as totality is concerned, the region most likely to have the clear skies will be central oregon. Remember, the total Solar Eclipse begins just after 9 00 a. M. In the lincoln city area of oregon. Or salem. And then travels along a 70 mile wide swath for totality all the way into charleston, South Carolina. Just ending after 2 00 in the afternoon. We have more facts, you may enjoy by visiting us online at cbssf. Com solareclipse. Now as far as the bay area is concerned, this is going to be our big problem. The overcast skies for mondays Solar Eclipse. Were banking on partial eclipse for the bay area. But thats going to be away from the coast. Where you will be the recipient of that fog horn. Temperatures right now 53 in santa rosa to 60 around the oakland area. This is most notable. In antioch and in fairfield, linda and jerry both reporting clear skies at this early hour. Otherwise its overcast in napa and hayward and its notable because those are the places that will be able to view the panel eclipse on monday. Youre going to have to go pretty far inland the Discovery Bay area, brentwood to antioch and tracy. Great places but along the immediate seashore in San Francisco, you are going to be socked in with that right there. Our marine layer is roughly about 2,000 feet deep this morning, its producing localized drizzle and we will have that brisk afternoon wind again out of the southwest 10 to 20. And occasional gusts up to 30. And then gradual warming beginning tomorrow all the way through friday. This area of low pressure it developed out of the gulf of alaska and it dropped in a southerly direction. Ushering in some of the cooler air but High Pressure is going to begin to build in strongly. Over the next few days. 83 at the State Capitol today. 73 in the high sierra. No clearing in monterey bay. No sunshine in pacifica at Rockaway Beach through moth beach into monoterra. Otherwise, under 70 at the lip of the bay today. We will realize low and mid 70s across the peninsula. Up to 80 degrees . Santa rosa. A little bit warmer than yesterday by a couple of degrees thats about it. With the outside number of 87 thats in clear lake and cloverdale. Otherwise, inland temperatures begin to realize summery levels by the weekend. Okay. Michelle. This is some fun stuff. Mooch is in the news again . Yes. The moochs late night interview somewhere what were talking about today. And its trending. Stephen colbert grilled Anthony Scaramucci on the late show last night and heres what he said about his relationship with reince priebus. What is going on . Were you brought in just to get rid of him and sean spicer . I dont want to say it that way. Was it part of your job . Say it like the mooch. Say it like the mooch. There was no [ booing ] right. So give me some mooch here. So the mooch of long island would say there was no love lost there. Look at the picture. There you go. Scaramucci was fired after he ranted to a new yorker hous coremmunications director was only on the job for ten days. Scaramucci tweeted this after the show. Went into the lions den and came without a few scratches but still standing, i appreciated the opportunity. It was pretty funny. Well, the purple one is getting his very own shade. Prince is being honored with a custom color. His estate teamed up with Pantone Color institute to create love symbol number 2. It was inspired by his custom made piano. And brace yourselves, belieber, Justin Bieber Just Announced a new song. Kenny excited about this . Our traffic producer is. The singer shared the news on twitter. The song titled friends will drop on thursday

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