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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM October 26, 2016

Garden apartment complex. Police say it was a coordinated attack by the owner. Investigators say he was targeting tenants he wanted to force high of rent to force out of rentcontrolled apartments. To do that to other human beings, there is empathy missing from there. Thats just greed. Reporter the plan backfired after he was captured on the complexs security cameras cameras. Take a look at this video. You can see the back window of this suv shattered after investigators say the owner shot him with a bb gun. Some people dont have any heart toward the people, the low income and this is really a shame. Reporter he has been charged with felony destruction of property and his son is facing a misdemeanor for allegedly attempting to sway a potential witness from operating with police. We need the citizens to call the police. Reporter is palo alto vice mayor larry moody has vowed to protect residents against what they describe as a campaign of fear and intimidation designed to drive them from their homes. I was very upset that a landlord would go to such lengths to force a tenant out just so they can claim some additional profits. Reporter the suspect is expected to make his First Court Appearance tomorrow and he will be arraigned on those felony destruction of property charges. Devin fehely, kpix 5 the landlord is scheduled to be back in court on misdemeanor charges in february. A chp officer injured after opening fire on a suspect this afternoon. We are learning it all started as a car chased down the peninsula. The officer was working on a car Theft Task Force when he saw a suspected stolen honda which turned into a pursuit and ended in a shooting. Chopper 5 over the scene as officers roped off area where three cars collided in the area of capital avenue and montana street. We saw what looked like bullet holes in the windshield of one of those cars. The suspect was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. It is unclear if the injuries were related to the shooting were the crash. Take a look at whats underwater off the coast of monterey. Thousands and thousands of golf balls. How did they get there . Offers at pebble beach are hooking them were slicing them into the ocean and as len ramirez tells us, its a big Environmental Program problem discovered by High School Students. Reporter pebble beach is one of the most beautiful places in america. Its golf is among the top places to play anywhere but just beneath the waters of the monterey bay is a not so pretty truth. As you can see, the plastic chips off into micro plastics, which the fish then consume. Reporter High School Students alex weber and Jack Johnston discovered hundreds if not thousands of lost, broken and unraveling golf balls while recreation diving. We got together and decided this was a huge environmental problem and we needed to change it. Reporter they went back for another dive, this time with underwater cameras. The video shows pile upon pile of golf balls hidden among the kelp beds and sharp rocks. They are hidden by dozens of golfers, hidden and forgotten until now. Owes expecting a couple golf balls but the whole seafloor was littered with golf balls. Its almost like getting punched in the gut because there is so much beauty potential just being ruined by these golf balls. It was surprising particularly since no one until these two intrepid teenagers, had brought that to our attention. Reporter the video posted on youtube got the attention of the Pebble Beach Company, which own the golf links and Monterey Bay National Marine sanctuary charged with protecting the sensitive habitat. Were going to find out just how serious this is and work to clean up. Reporter the two teenagers have jumpstart the cleanup on their own and started a gofundme page to help with their tuition to study marine biology. It is believed to be the first underwater cleanup of golf balls here in the 97 year history. Len ramirez kpix 5 the Pebble Beach Company says there is no way to stop errant golf shots from going into the water but it plans to sponsor yearly golfball cleanups. Venture capitalist peter teel is known for ruffling some feathers but now he is publicly apologizing for statements he made about College Campus wright. He wrote a book in the 90s called the diversity myth diversity on campus. He characterized them as sexual encounters later regraded later regretted. He tells Forbes Magazine today that he is sorry for his comments and that he regrets writing passages that have been taken to suggest otherwise. He is a member of the facebook board and recently mark struck a bird defended him after he took heat for donating more than 1 million to the donald trump campaign. That was after women accused him of making unwanted sexual advances. A heated race for the state assembly seat. Its the last seat held by a republican. Catherine baker and cheryl cook calio are lost in an expensive battle for the trivalley seat. Kpix 5 reporter melissa ken is in pleasanton tonight. Melissa, break this down, explain why this race is so important. Reporter you may not know but i am standing and ground zero in a clash over taxes. Assembly district 16 encompasses Alameda County and contra costa county. Right now, it is represented by Catherine Baker, a republican both democrats just one seat one seat shy of a super majority in the assembly, suddenly this district is a big target. Into the policies. Reporter Catherine Baker is a republican in a district full of democrats. About 40 are democrats but over 50 or 60 are not. Its a swing district and it will always be challenging. Reporter a challenge democrats are taking have on because there is more than just this district that state. Matt shoup is a republican strategist and says its all about stopping democrats from becoming too powerful in sacramento. With baker in office, it helped keeps democrats from a two thirds majority, which is needed to pass tax increases and change election laws. Republicans have wanted to prevent a democratic supermajority so they can continue to fight taxes and the democrats want to break that hold and be able to completely run through their agenda. Reporter we reached out to cook calio who is not available for an on camera interview but sent a statement saying the race is so important because the people in this district 1 change. Both parties have poured massive amounts of money into the race. Baker has raised more than 3 million. About 1 million of that is from the California Republican party. Cook calio has raised nearly 2. 5 million and 1. 5 million is from the California Democratic party. It is by far the most expensive Assembly Race in this election and all that money can buy some seriously negative ads. But cook county wont show the lobbyists. In sacramento, she sided with the nra. Reporter one thing you want see is either side bringing up donald trump. I am voting for Condoleezza Rice in this race. I think she would have made a great president. She is a republican i would be proud to vote for and that is something i have made clear. Reporter more than 1 million has also been spent by independent expenditure committees and almost all of that has been for the benefit of baker. Having said that, it seems like every single day we see a report of a brandnew big check going to one of these candidates. The spending in this race is far from over. Melissa ken, kpix 5. Excitement out of oracle arena is reaching fever pitch. The team is going to face off against the San Antonio Spurs. Reporter Christin Ayers is live outside oracle. The new dream team, actually you are courtside. The team is going to join you in just a few minutes. We are courtside tonight and the clock is ticking. Tipoff is less than 90 minutes away. It would not be an exaggeration to say this is the most anticipated game in warriors history. You can feel it here inside oracle arena. Most of the fans told me they are here to see kevin durant in action alongside this Superstar Team of four years. The warriors have lofty expectations this time around. They want to see if they can win a championship again after last years elimination. Some vip courtside seats going for around 3000 a piece tonight but a spokesperson with gametime says there are deals out there for tonights game. Prices have been high for the last few months but this week they have come down significantly to the point where this is affordable and its history in the making, the first time youre going to see kevin durant on the court with steph curry and klay thompson. A game for the record books. Reporter he wasnt kidding when he said affordable. Some tickets are going for 60 tonight. Those are of course nosebleed seats but still a good deal overall. Fans are sort of learning they can wait a while and that tickets will be lower the closer you get to tipoff. Christin ayers, kpix 5. Yeah but there is nothing like the first game. Enjoy it. Reporter absolutely. Will do. Thanks. A new strategy to sniff out crime. The bay area city hoping to turn dog walkers into a Neighborhood Watch network. A meltdown at the dmv. Drivers turned away from their appointments and we have just learned new information about the outage affecting dozens of offices around the state. Their homes were saved from the flames but now a new threat, mudslides. Crews rushing to prevent a disaster in the santa cruz mountains. And there is rain on the way for the santa cruz mountains. Didnt get much from this first little system but wait until you see what thursday is going to bring. As we look at the bay bridge, the forecast is coming up after a break. ,,,,,,, enlisting dog walkers to work as crime watchers. Kpix fives Jessica Flores is at orange park. With why they want more paws on the ground. Jessica . Police and one bay area are adding pooch patrols. Dog walkers are being enlisted to be crime watchers. Jessica florez is that orange park. Jessica . Reporter its the newest version of Neighborhood Watch. Police are enlisting dog walkers and dog owners in hopes the Program Takes a big night out of crime. This way. Reporter this doug walker says she is already keeping an eye out for crime and herself San Francisco neighborhood. I am pretty concerned because i take my dogs out at night. Reporter now police want all dog walkers and dog owners to help them keep the lawbreakers away. People hanging out around cars, people looking into cars, people going into back entrances to houses. If you see something say something. Reporter the Police Department will actually train residents on what to look out for and how to report it. Usually you see what is out of place and you can tell right away. You start paying more attention to that person. Some of it is a little big brother like but i think as citizens we can keep our eye out. Reporter while police hope dog walkers sniff out crime, they dont want dog owners chasing down or engaging with any potential suspects. We dont want anybody getting hurt while they are recording anything. Community is great. An extra eye helps everyone out. Reporter extra eyes, ears, and dogs on the ground working to keep the neighborhood safe. The dog walking brigade, thats just another part of the whole piece where we are already out anyway. Reporter police have two training sessions coming up, one on december 1 and the second on december part of the whole piece where we are already out anyway. Reporter police have two training sessions coming up, one on december 1 and the second on december 8, both at 6 30 pm at the Police Department in south San Francisco. Jessica florez kpix 5 a student has admitted to drawing racist graffiti at a san rafael high school. Officials say the student was responsible for one of two incidents where racial slurs were found on the bathrooms at california high schools. In one case, whites and colored were written above separate toilets. I knew there was races and that i never thought it would occur out here. I o i thought we were welcome to the school but it made our whole group feel unwelcome and unsafe. The principle is working with different groups to talk about what to do moving forward. This is homecoming week this week so one of the things were looking at is can make do something related to unity through one of the events. The school is working with the Police Department to find the other suspect who is responsible for the graffiti. A pilot is dead after a small plane crashed in the heels in the holes and crashed near koech or pass and nortonville road. The crash sparked a grass fire, which was quickly brought under control but the plane disintegrated. A small amount of wreckage scattered in the area now. Investigators say the plane may have clipped power lines. No one besides the pilot was on the plane. A british air flight from San Francisco to london had to divert to vancouver when the entire crew became became ill. The super jumbo was met on the ground by ambulances last night. All 25 sickened crew members had to be taken to the hospital. All have been released. None of the 400 passengers was affected but no word on what made the crew sick. A new civil lawsuit is looking for someone to blame for food contamination that sickened hundreds. Lawyers held a News Conference today detailing the lawsuit which alleges that the Sofitel Hotel was negligent in their food preparation. The incident happened at an ncaa convention in 2014. Investigators do not believe the food was intentionally tampered with. With callous disregard for the wellbeing of the individuals to me is punitive. The outbreak may have stemmed from contaminated salmon and 127 people became violently ill. In the santa cruz mountains, the door be scorched dirt from the loma fire has led to mudslides. We went for an off road tour to check out the road with geologists. Reporter now that they, of the loma fire is over, its time for Brutal Honesty on the limits of what humans can do against mother nature. Do you think you will be able to stop a month slide from happening . We cant stop a mudslide, we can just reduce the chances one will happen. Reporter we got an up close look at the mudslide dangers. The open authority took us on a 4x4 cooler. During your wildfire, crews used bulldozers to clear vegetation and cut socalled bulldozer lines it for stopping flames but all that exposed dirt can come sliding down in a heavy rainstorm. So the agency has begun the hard, dirty work of recovering the dozer winds with vegetation. This line is as long as a football field on a 450 slope. If there is a downpour, hopefully the branches and leaves will help prevent disaster. These are some of the effects we are looking at for the suppression activity. Reporter but there are already signs of trouble. This happened just after one storm. The water instead of going into a defined channel is cutting down in the road bed itself. Reporter they are also repairing the line by laying down haiti and seeds from native grasses. If all this looks expensive, you are right. The agency will be requesting about 1 million in emergency funding. If we dont make the investment now, we could spend millions on the road. Reporter baron hill ors home is at the bottom of a steep canyon. The threat of mudslides keeping you up . Nothing keeps me up at night. Im too old for that. Reporter in the santa cruz mountains, kit dale kpix 5. We are all looking at the forecast. There is more rain on the way. This was a gentle does. Its the first of three shots we will get. The second shot is tuesday. [laughter] self they wont pick up any rain today, it will pick it up on thursday. Showers in the north bay but not much. They never was much in the south bay. Just from zero at san jose airport to a 10th inch. It will be dry tomorrow but rain comes in early thursday morning just in time for the morning commute. On wednesday, by tomorrow afternoon, you can see generally clear skies around the bay area and the numbers back in the mid70s. Should be a Beautiful Day tomorrow but watch what happens on thursday. This is right in time for the morning commute on thursday and then unlike the storm, this latest thing, this storm, they got an inch and a half in santa rosa so unless they got rain. With that last system, it can done here and swept to the north. Here is the difference. Watch this as we roll it on. Wave after wave of rain comes in off the pacific right out of the west. Finally by friday at about midday, we begin to clear it off. We will get from 1 to 2 inches and more in the mountains. That is a pretty good does. Tomorrow looks nice. We warm up and get some sun. Quickly we get this rain hitting as early thursday morning and at last throughout thursday. It lingers into friday and then we get another storm another shower coming in on sunday. Its onagain offagain type of rain. In terms of forecast highs, the numbers will be in the mid60s in San Francisco with a 73 degrees temperature in concord, oakland 70 degrees. Down in the south bay tomorrow, sunshine and temperatures in the low 70s. We will get increasing clouds. By wednesday night, a chance of rain. Tomorrow looks nice in east bay. The numbers will be in the low to mid 70s. 71 degrees in danville, 70 force in livermore and in the north bay, a little bit cooler but a Beautiful Day tomorrow. We will have some clouds, some sun and temperatures in the upper 60s him than for ukiah and clearlake, in the upper 60s. Tomorrow is nice, increasing clouds and rain in time for the morning commute on thursday. It lasts through the day into the evening. We will get some pretty good cells by thursday evening. Lingering showers and friday, saturday looks like a break about a 30 chance and more rain sunday. Maybe again on tuesday. It looks much more like january than october. The ground is going to get saturated. Before hallo

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