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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 5pm December 18, 2014

Kpix 5. We have posted a timeline of Ray Mcdonalds recent trouble with the law and the Police Response on kpix. Com. Youll find it within our top story. Tonight rain is threatening to mess up the commute for a second day in a row. Check out the green and yellow on hidef doppler. Right now, heavy to moderate rain is coming down over the bay area. Taking a live look now, rodeo beach in marin county, we sent our mobile weather unit to the coast to monitor the next round of rain and right now, right lane is falling as waves are crashing in. This is a popular surf spot. But no takers this afternoon as the waves are not coming in clean. This recent rain is being blamed for another north bay mud slide. Crews closed Tennessee Valley road to clean it up. It will be closed until at least tomorrow. Marin county declared a state of emergency because of storm damage estimated at a million dollars. The county can now ask the state and feds to help pay for the cleanup. Kpix 5s da lin joins us live from los gatos where all this rain has caused damage but you can also see the benefits. Da. Reporter yeah, liz. The south bay skies opened up about 40 minutes ago. You can see the light rain coming down, pretty cold, as well. And take a look at santa cruz mountains. The santa cruz mountains, gloomy skies headed toward this way moving in as we speak. Some places are unable to pick up all this rain in such a short time. It wasnt raining when this massive tree came crashing down in santa clara this morning. But the ground is so saturated, the tree uprooted and collapsed on to an apartment. No one was injured. Near fremont and niles canyon, chopper 5 captured small mud slides littering the roadways. They were quickly cleaned up. With the mud slide, the roof leaks come a contemporary fix we havent seen in a while. Mick cal recently put up michael recently put up a tarp to protect his roof. We had a minor leak through a vent tap. Reporter while some dread the rain others say its not enough. Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain. Thats all i got to say. Ha ha reporter this man has been walking his dogs at lexington reservoir for 15 years. He said the water level is a big improvement compared to the summer. From what i saw it when it was at the lowest, its a quantum leap from what it is now. Reporter runoff from recent storms is slowly replenish, the water supply. Take the lexington reservoir for example. Its at 30 capacity. Thats more than double the 13 it was at just a few weeks ago. You dont need water experts to tell you the bay area still needs a lot more rain and water to end the drought. Just take a look at the water line on this tree. At one point, this reservoir was all the way up to this level. I hope peoples mentality doesnt go back to wasting water. Its a precious resource. Reporter aside from the reservoir the south bay relies heavily on ground water. Despite the recent storms the south bay is still 100,000acre feet below normal when it comes to ground water. So even with this rain coming down, conservation is still the key. Live in the south bay, im da lin, kpix 5. [ no microphone ] it is raining right now in los gatos in the entire bay area. Tell you what, its coming down in pretty good order again just in time for the evening commute for a third consecutive night. Kpix 5 hidef doppler tracking that rain again. Look at the yellow. Thats that steady soaking rainfall. Perhaps not as intense not as widespread as yesterday but its still there for everybodys drive home. Its you in richmond, south through oakland, to hayward. Its south city in San Francisco, redwood city, los altos where we had some steady to heavy rainfall there. San jose its raining for you again. Fremont and livermore and dublin all getting in on the rain again. For the water year, not just the month of december, this is now all the way back from july 1, look at these numbers. San jose is double more than double your average rainfall for the water year. San francisco is almost double. And oakland is almost double. Sitting at 194 of normal. This morning we did something we havent done in nine years, doubledigit rainfall in San Francisco. Officially 10. 01 inches of rain and we still have almost half the month to go. First time thats happened since december of 2005 so its raining outside. We are going to talk about a big shift in the weather pattern though thats coming up in a few minutes. All right, paul. Well see you then, thanks. A stunning shift in u. S. Foreign policy. The president taking steps to restore full diplomacy with cuba after a half century of icy relations with the communist nation. Neither the american nor the cuban people are well served by a policy that took place before we were born. It comes after a year of secret discussions between the cold war enemies spurred by pope francis. The changes are sweeping. U. S. Plans to open an embassy in havana, ease the travel and allow for more business between the two countries, a ban on tourist travel to cuba can only be lifted by congress. But the president has promised to work toward fully ending the economic embargo. For now, at least, licensed americans would be able to return to the states with cuban goods like their world famous cigars. The changes came with the abrupt release of american alan gross who had been in prison in cuba for five years. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison because he was trying to establish Internet Service connections in cuba. 65yearold returned to the u. S. With his wife at his side. It was crucial to my survival knowing that i was not forgotten. Gross released was part of a prisoner swap. The u. S. Released three cubans jailed in florida for spying. In a phone call with cuban president raoul castro, president obama said that the communist country needs to end its abuse of citizens and allow freedom on the island. Now, several key lawmakers have blasted the policy shift. Republican senator marco rubio a cubanamerican from florida says it will do nothing to further democracy. It is a victory for the oppressive cuban government but a serious setback for the repressed cuban people. The white house has conceded everything and gained little. The news was met with passionate reaction in miamis Little Havana neighborhood. Some cuban exiles calling it a betrayal. They say a shift toward democracy in cuba should have happened first. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman shows us, local cubans are hopeful todays move is at least a step in the right direction. Reporter at san joses restaurant at a the [ non english language ] tasted especially good. Even better than usual. President obamas decision today leaves a very good taste in many mouths. I am really just so happy that its time for those changes to start. Reporter she left cuba in 2008 after she married an american and says her homeland is pretty bleak. Because of the embargo many of the things we take for granted arent available. It was hard with the embargo for people from cuba to come to the United States and we cannot have any thing from the United States to cuba and either the free commercial because embargo so its really bad. [ chanting ] reporter its a different story for many in miamis Little Havana where they say embargos likely end wont do enough for the cuban people. No request for a democratic election. And that is what the embargo was supposed to do. Reporter in Little Havana threequarter thought the embargo didnt work. I truly believe that the embargo and not having a Good Relationship with cuba has only hurt the cuban people. Not the cuban government. Reporter which is why the embargo was put in place more than 5 decades ago. And there is a gap in ages for this issue. There are some cubans that still older cubans who have the land deed that they are holding and they are hoping to get their land back in cuba. Theres a story that when the night before kennedy announced this, he told the secretary of state dean rusk, go out and buy every cuban cigar you can. Of [ laughter ] he knew. Well, he knew he was going to make the announcement. Thats the story thats going around. Maybe now well be getting more cuban cigars. The real ones. Yeah. And that cuban coffee. Cohiba thank you, mike. It was supposed to be a comedy. You want us to kill the leader of north korea . Yes. What . no one is laughing now. Breaking new developments on the sony hacking, how terror threats brought down a major movie release. You have one drunk man and one terrified homeowner. The middle of the night mixup that led to a painful hangover. Over the years i have saved thousands of dollars by using the credit card benefits. The perks of plastic. You may not even realize all the different ways your credit card can save you money. ,,,, ive hack attack new at 5 00, federal investigators say North Koreans did it. They are the ones behind that massive hack attack on sony pictures. This as sony decides not to release the movie that sparked the cyber attack. Kpix 5s veronica de la cruz joins us from the newsroom. Veronica, the fallout it just keeps getting worse. Reporter thats right. The hacker group the guardians of peace is escalating the threats. The most recent was physical violence against moviegoers planning to see the interview. The group posted a message online saying, the world will be full of fear. The movie is a comedy about an assassination plot against the leader of communist north korea. After major theater chains backed out of showing the movie, sony ultimately decided to pull its Christmas Day release. It baffles me that one of the most backwards countries in the world is able to have this kind of influence on one of the most powerful countries in the world. I think that a film like this should be shown even if theres, you know, a a a very slight chance that there might be some kind of bad repercussions. The guardians of peace cyber attack on sony began november 24. It released salaries of stars incriminating emails from sony executives, and 47,000 Social Security numbers. Two former employees are already filing federal lawsuits against sony. We learned recently the computer code for the hack attack was written in korean. And federal investigators are expected to release more evidence in the near future. Liz and ken . All right, veronica, thank you. Well, 45 terrifying minutes of turbulence. I flown millions of miles. This is the worst ever. Plates, glasses, even a beverage cart tossed around. New heart pounding video from inside the cabin. Nkers and a a tradition that tugs at your heart every time. Families get a christmas to remember thanks to some clunkers and a little elbow grease. ,,,,,, shot a drunk intruder. Afr the man broke into the wrong house looking for an exgirlfriend. A wild incident in benicia this morning a homeowner shot a drunk intruder after the man broke into the wrong house looking for an exgirlfriend. Police say the suspect smashed a sliding glass door at the home of an elderly couple on panorama drive. It was about 4 30 a. M. The homeowner yelled at the 24 yearold, the intruder to leave. But he didnt listen. Fearing for his safety, the homeowner shot the man in the leg. The suspect, um, named true hatch went to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. He was arrested on suspicion of trespassing and public intoxication. Police say the homeowner wont face any charges and he did everything right in protecting his home. New video captures images of a lightning quick burglary at a peninsula computer store. It happened at the epc Computer Solutions store in belmont friday. In the less than a minute one of the burglars made off with thousands of dollars worth of laptops and electronics. The second suspect waited in the suv getaway car. It appears the crooks knew exactly what they were looking for. And San Francisco police are searching for clues linking four suspicious car fires early this morning. They all happened within a couple of hours starting at about 4 a. M. In the noe valley and castro neighborhoods. Theres a look at one of the cars completely gutted and charred from the flames. A big clue could come as investigators check for what was used to actually set the fires. Real scare on an American Airlines flight from south korea to texas. Passengers holding on when the plane hit some terrifying turbulence. Take a look. No fun. The shaking lasted for 45 minutes. Flight 280 at the beginning of its journey to dallas when that rough turbulence caused chaos on board. Meal carts overturned, drinks splashing up to the overhead luggage bins, belongings flying around everywhere. Show me the bowl that hit your head. Oy. All of a sudden, theres just this big drop and food and plates and everything started just flying all over the place. The pilot had to make an Emergency Landing in tokyo. 14 of the 255 people on board were hurt. Several had to be taken to the hospital. No one, though, had life threatening injuries. Tonight the fed is promising to be patient about raising Interest Rates hinting they could hold near zero for another 6 months or more. Wall street was thrilled. The dow surged 288 points on the announcement. The nasdaq added nearly 100. And the s p 500 had one of its best days it had its best day of the year with a 40point gain. An early christmas surprise today for five needy bay area families. One, two, three pull it up whoo [ applause ] mike auto body in antioch gave each of them a rebuilt car. Its a tradition that the auto shop is proud to have kept up with for the past 14 years. What were looking for are families that just need that extra little push. Theyre down on their luck. If you want somebody that is trying to help themselves help their families and help them better their lives we have done this story before. What a great idea, great guys. Many of the families were overcome by the generosity. Some cried, said they were thankful to finally have some reliable transportation. This warms my heart. This is amazing. There are people out there that care for the small people. We mean something to somebody. Through the years, mikes auto body has donated more than 45 cars. Gray cloudy skies hang low over the marin headlands. Its raining at rodeo beach right now. Gray and rough waves are rolling in right now. Paul deanno is here to tell us where the rain is right now. Tell you what, its here again. Its the timing. It is the evening commute. Monday and tuesday and wednesday, folks are saying, can i just get a normal drive home . Tomorrow. Not tonight. It is raining outside. Another slog across the bridge in marin county where its raining right now. Mid to upper 40s. Santa rosa 53. San bruno 54. Oakland 58. Look at this again, 680, 280, 880, dumbarton bridge, heavy rain north to milpitas and newark toward fremont although we are seeing a little rainfall over San Mateo County right now. Theres plenty of rain that stretches up to santa rosa and livermore and dublin Marin Napa Solano counties. We are soggy once again. Wont be as much. Wont be as long with the rain as it was yesterday. Two to four inches of snowfall at 4,000 feet. Travel with caution. We seem like we have rain every day. We have. Today we have less of a tropical tap. Notice the rain is coming down from the northwest rather than coming up from the south. Less tropical moisture. The atmosphere is not as juicy. We wont see as much rainfall. Most of us getting less than. 25 of rainfall. Thats a sign the first sign that the atmosphere is changing patterns over top of the bay area and northern california. As we have a ridge of High Pressure building in. Tonight, scattered showers. The heaviest rainfall will be between now and about 7 or 8 00. Scattered showers overnight. Then a ridge of High Pressure begins to build in. It wont get here entirely. On friday your storm will pass to the north blocked by this ridge. Well get light rainfall coming up on friday morning into friday afternoon. After that at least a week break. By 8 00, 9 00, 10 00 tonight scattered showers which will continue overnight tonight. As we look at tomorrow, the morning commute will be dry but the roads will still be wet and here comes the last the last rain moving through beginning at 3 00 or 4 00 in the morning on friday. So we have rain tonight, rain again on friday, rain in between. Well find a mainly dry day tomorrow. So tomorrows evening commute will be the first one this week without a soaking rainfall. Highs tomorrow on a dry day, san jose 62 degrees. Partly sunny skies in the afternoon. Redwood city 61. Fremont 62. 58 for walnut creek and antioch. 60 for pleasanto. Mill valley 57. Dry sonoma 58. Lakeport high 51 in Beautiful Lake county. We are dry tomorrow, one more round of rainfall coming up on friday. Cant believe im saying this but we need a break from the rain. Saturday and sunday dry, a couple of days leading up to christmas next week dry. Probably a week without rainfall but longrange prospects say the rain will likely come back after the new year. It will be nice to have a little break. We need it because of the flooding. The rain is welcome news. We want more but lets give a break in between. Especially during the holidays when everybody is out on the roads. Thank you. The credit card, a shoppers best friend this holiday season. 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