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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM December 24, 2016

No way to exit to get out. Reporter mike kelly is an expert in suing in these types of cases. He has been contacted by several people who have also lost loved ones in the fire. He says recovering money in a case like this is really difficult. Going to trial and getting a verdict for 10 million against a person or a business that doesnt have 10 million is not particularly helpful or useful. Reporter alexander says they will investigate to see what assets the defendants have. But according to gregory, this isnt just about recovering money. We just want justice. We just want justice. Reporter the families are also suing the city of oakland and the county of alameda. The chances of recovering from them is zero since state and local governments have immunity from liability in lawsuits like this. What can think expect to recover in terms of damages . Reporter they wouldnt say. But in cases like this kelly says wrongful death cases in california, juries typically award from 5 million to 10 million to the surviving families. Thank you, melissa caen in oakland. By the way, fire broke out in another warehouse in oakland today. This was in the 800 block of the 81st avenue, home to california leather creations. Some pallets and debris caught fire but the Fire Department says a Sprinkler System quickly put it out. An oakland family is forced to leave home for the holidays after a fire in their garage. It started last night on alhambra lane in the montclair area. A Family Member was parking her car when she saw smoked and yelled for everyone to get out. No word on the cause. An early Christmas Gift for the family of a South San Francisco Police Officer beaten unconscious last month. Doctors allowed him to go home today. Officer robby chon was attacked. He was chasing a suspect when the suspect hit him over the head with a skateboard. Officer chon will have extensive rehabilitation but doctors are optimistic. The suspect faces attempted murder charges. Stepped up security in Holiday Shopping areas including union square. Kpix 5s jackie ward is in the middle of that lastminute hustle and bustle. Reporter i didnt have to do any shopping today. I have gotten my done. But its crowded here. Not uncomfortablely so because of the rain probably and theres a bigger Police Presence than normal on a friday night because of all the lastminute shoppers. [ sirens ] were constantly looking at different risks all throughout the city. Reporter following the attack in berlin where a driver plowed into a crowded Christmas Market, killing 12 and injuring dozens more, the San Francisco Police Department has double checked their security plan and made the necessary adjustments. Additional patrols are in other parts of the area including union square. Officers in uniform an plainclothes. Reporter are you scared to be Walking Around a big tourist area . No, dont think about it. No. No. We have to be positive, 100 and not let, you know, terrorism not intimidate us. I think theres a lot more, um, fear mongering around the Holiday Season but i feel safe in the city. Reporter police are reminding people to be aware of their surroundings and that means staying off your smartphone. In union square in San Francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. A Record Number of people will be traveling this holiday weekend. Bay area airports have been packed. Things were busy at the Oakland Airport with long lines to check your bags but security lines not too bad. Travelers at l. A. X. Kept an eye on flight boards after storms delayed more than 130 flights there this morning. That caused a Ripple Effect of problems across the country. The weather has caused some problems all around the bay area. Just look at where this car landed. The driver hydroplaned on interstate 680 in fremont. Then he says he rolled over four or five times nearly landing in somebodys backyard. He is okay, but his dog ran away after the crash. Thats my girl right there and my daughters girl and she is our first dog. He grabbed his other dog before penny ran away the 10 yearold dachshundspaniel mix. In san leandro the storm knocked over this big tree on lorraine boulevard. The roof ripped up part of the sidewalk. Work crews spent several hours cleaning it up. Take a look at the high surf near Half Moon Bay today. This seagull didnt seem to mind the conditions. [chuckling] according to the National Weather service we can expect to see waves up to 20 feet at bay area beaches today into tomorrow. Rain was lighting up hidef doppler earlier today but now Brian Hackney is tracking some cold temperatures moving in and brian, we might see snow . Its not outside the realm of possibility with first things first. We had good rain and showers around the bay area and this kind of sets the tone for the rest of the night. Scattered showers in the south bay heading out of the area. A little bit off the north coast, and so from time to time tonight we could get a shower heavy at times but the rain is all turning into snow in the mountains. If you are heading for the hills, give yourself extra time. The gusty winds and delays likely with as much as three feet of snow at 7,000 feet and above. But the headline with this is the low snow levels that could affect us in the bay area. So to sum it all up, we have some showers tonight. And then the snow level over the weekend with the cold air coming in lowers the snow level to about 2,000 feet clearing, cold, dry for christmas. But a 2,000foot snow level means its possible we get a dusting of snow up in the mountains of the bay area. So stay tuned on that. And speaking of White Christmas, veronica . Yeah. Brian, thank you for that. Its going to be a White Christmas in the mountains. Theres an avalanche warning in some parts of the sierra tonight. Reporter kelly ryan is on interstate 80. Reporter this snow is expected to stop tomorrow but caltrans Officials Say drivers need to be aware of the dangerous conditions that wont go away when the snow does. Snow began falling lightly this morning up 80 just before nyack. This tesla driver isnt worrying about chaining up because of frontwheel drive but you have to help your friends driving behind. A busy morning as travelers headed up to the sierra and beyond. Looks like this woman knows what she is doing. Her travel mates watched impressed and a little embarrassed. She has more experience in the snow than i do. Reporter on a road trip from berkeley to boise the trip began with a difference of opinions over chains. I said we dont need chains. I said we should check caltrans and get some chains, yeah. Here we are. Good thing we picked them up there because they are much cheaper. Up here they charge you 100 or something. Reporter have chains ready or pay more up here. Crews are making sure driving conditions are clear as the snow picks up. People need to know what they are getting into. These arent some little mountains in the middle of nowhere. These are the sierras and we get a lot of snow and traffic. Reporter caltrans stopped someone going over 75 miles an hour in a chain area recently which leads to impound, fine and time in jail. In miac, kelly ryan, kpix 5. With the cold weather, there is a bigger need for homeless shelters. You can imagine san jose shelters are offering more beds this week after temperatures dropped. That as the Santa Clara County medical examiner says the number of homeless deaths has doubled from just last year. When people are chronically homeless they generally have compromised health and they are certainly not taking care of themselves so when you add on that extra trauma of weather, often times their systems are just not built up enough to resist and so people will die because of exposure. Well, starting tonight, san joses overnight Warming Centers will be open from 9 p. M. To 8 a. M. Through monday. Two men suspected in a shooting death of a vallejo pawn shop owner are still on the loose. Kpix 5s emily turner has more from fairfax where the victim was an active member of the community. If i lost someone as close to christmas, i think i would be on my back and i dont think i could do a thing. Completely overwhelming. Reporter the crime itself is horrible but the timing makes it even worse. Just five days before christmas, tim polk was shot and killed when his vallejo pawn shop was robbed. His friend and an employee was severely injured. He was just a nice person. He is very approachable, and easy to talk to about whatever was on your mind. Reporter ann mulligan went to church with them. They were parishioners at st. Ritas Catholic Church in fairfax near where they lived known and loved among the congregation and community. Their shooters are still on the loose. The only description that we have are two males wearing dark colored hooded sweatshirts and again one of them was armed with a handgun. Actually they dont even know the motive. Reporter leaving many Unanswered Questions and immense grief just days before the christmas. It will be a holiday for prayers rather than celebration, the community says. Just to find some kind of clarity and peace around why, how, and how to move forward. Reporter st. Ritas has several masses planned over the holiday weekend. And you can imagine they will be on the hearts and minds of those in church. In fairfax, emily turner, kpix 5. The new year is almost here but campaign 2016 rages on. Coming up the new recount going on in san jose. Will it change the outcome of a hotly contested race . A driver severely beaten on a bay area street his attack caught on camera. Plus, california didnt want them but tonight arizonas governor is rolling out red carpet for the selfdriving cars of uber. Surveillance cameras show a pedestrian tryng to cross at 10th and harrison tuesday night. As you can see, the turning cars do not man is able a vicious beating, a pedestrian trying to cross at tenth and harrison tuesday night. As you can see, the turning cars do not yield. Finally the man crossed but a driver jumps out and runs through traffic to attack him. Police say the victims leg was broken in three places. His arm was broken, as well. If you have any information call police. A town is candidate who lost in san jose is still crying foul. Even after a recount. Kpix 5s kiet do reports, he claims legitimate ballots were left out. Reporter its been 6. 5 weeks since the election and jimmy nguyen with airing his frustration with the department. It is very frustrating that in this case, these people could make me the winner of this race but the registrar of voters wont count the votes. Reporter it was a tight race but out of the more than 34,000 ballots cast and an automatic recount, the registrar declared sylvia arenas the winner by 87 votes. These are the actual 200plus ballots that have been invalidated because the signature on the envelope does not match the signature on the Voter Registration card. Nguyen wants them counted. What has this done to your faith in the system. I still have faith in the system. I hope our elected officials hear your news report and then figure out what we can do to help these voters. The law doesnt allow knee do what jimmy is asking. Reporter the registrar says the signature comparison process is rigorous but flexible. For example, these three signatures would not be considered a match because of the different style. But take a look at the second and fourth ones. Even though its not exact, there are similarities and so it will be accepted. Those 200 invalidated ballots did not pass muster and by law they cant even be opened let alone counted. As for accusations that they are disenfranchising voters we are open to any changes that the legislature makes to the elections code and well follow whatever law is decided and given to us. Reporter david nguyen casted one of those invalidated ballots. He and jimmy have known each other for years. He learned the signature didnt match the one on final only after a jimmy nguyen volunteer came to his house and told him. Had the volunteer not come i would have gone on the rest of my life filling out this ballot by mail and just assuming my votes were going to counted. Reporter sylvia arenas spokesman Patrick Mcgarrity didnt mince words. These are desperate theatrics of a campaign thats loves twice. Reporter if jimmy wants a second recount, he will have to pay for it. It will cost about 1,600 a day. He says that Campaign Donations are coming in to help cover some of that cost. And he says he is considering legal action. In san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. A huge victory for arizonas governor. Today in phoenix he welcomed ubers fleet of selfdriving cars. Uber rolled out the fleet in San Francisco last week but it refused to get the permits so the dmv revoked the cars registrations. Reporter dennis welch from kpho in phoenix tells us while arizonas governor laid out the red carpet for uber not everyone is excited. I want to welcome uber to arizona. Reporter governor ducey today hailing the arrival of ubers selfdriving cars. California may not want you. We want to you know that arizona does want uber. Reporter not everyone was celebrating this new technology. Im frustrated. I need to be making money right now but im down here just looking at my replacement. Here we go. Reporter pete baldwin drives for uber. For him they mean less money and no be. What they are going to do is slowly phase us out. They have already its already having a hard enough time earning money because they flooded the valley with uber drivers and so my income has dropped over 60 . Reporter representatives declined to comment about the potential of drivers losing their jobs to automation but ducey who campaigned on creating jobs says technology is nothing to fear. Its the same mentality of the buggy whip manufacturers. The Automotive Technology has employed the industry i think the worlds changing. I think there will be jobs available. Were always going to have the Service Economy with us and thank goodness we are. Reporter little comfort for this uber driver who worries technology will leave him behind. Hows that going to help me this week, next month, when these cars are pouring in . Brian hackney in for chief meteorologist paul deanno. It woke me up last night middle of the night raining hard at my place. First thing i thought of was, damn, that hackney was right again. Brians always right. Damn it [ laughter ] like the good old days when we used to blow these things. Actually well have a few scattered showers tonight and a dusting of snow potentially. You will see that on kpix 5 hi def doppler but not immediately. First looking over the city of San Francisco right now. Beautifully lit up city hall and right now concord 49. Livermore 48. San francisco 50. San jose 49. Chilly in santa rosa and it will be the watchword of the weekend. We are getting a few scattered showers and then it will be clearing and cold over the weekend. Christmas day does look dry but we have to dispense with this low and this moisture coming out of the north eventually the entire flow shifts around to the northwest which is a drier but colder direction and thats whats on tap for tomorrow afternoon. You can see mostly okay days with saturday. Clouds and cooler. Showers in the morning and temperatures tomorrow only in the low 50s for the bay area. Kpix 5 hidef doppler a little bit there. Over the peninsula and offshore. This is the road to Mount Hamilton at lick observe above san jose. This could be some of the precipitation falling as snow and thats why we might wake up to a dusting tomorrow of snow on the mountaintops. That would be fun. Game forecast tomorrow and a game broadcast on channel 5, 52 degrees when oakland takes the field just after 1 00 tomorrow afternoon. And Merry Christmas to all and it will be a nice day on sunday with temperatures ranging from 50 to 56 degrees. A distinctly cool weekend for the bay area. It will be cool tonight, too, with santa rosa down to 32. 40 in san jose. And 44 degrees in San Francisco. We do no better than between 50 and 56 degrees tomorrow. In the extended forecast, after a chance of lingering showers tomorrow morning, the headline beginning saturday afternoon and through next week will be cold. Overnight lows will be cold but it looks like after tonight, tomorrow morning, it will be dry. Heading to the mountains, though, take extra time. Its been cold. Thats been the headline. We promise not to wake kenny up anytime soon. [ laughter ] thank you, brian. Theres a battle brewing in your Grocery Store over who can use the term milk. Whats at stake coming up. And a peaceful ending to what could have been a major disaster. The hijacking of a passenger jet. ,, did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. 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