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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 600PM May 23, 2017

Incident, it was certainly designed to cause maximum injury. At first, police were very cautious only calling the explosion, quote, a serious incident. Within the past hour that has changed. Evidence from the scene making it clear it was no accident and concert goers were targeted. Heres another new clip of video that seems to show the blast itself. It was taken from a block away from a man listen ting his car radio. Watch the lower right part of your screen. Now, can you just make out a flash of light and the echo of what now appears to be a bomb blast. There it is. Zoomed in look at the clip shows the explosion. The man in the car reacts right away saying, no, when he realizes what happened. Now lets take another live look at the live feed from sky news. The video is rather blurry, but you still see emergency crews around the area. You see some people walking around. This is a live look from outside the parking lot where the bomb took place and where the concert was. A controlled explosion on a second suspected device found at the location. A chaotic seen as parents are desperate to find their kid who is attended the concert. U. S. Officials now believe it was a suicide bomber that carried out the attack. Ariana grande is 23 years old. She is from south florida. The former nickelodeon child star was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine last year. Her exhibittist is publicist saying she was not injured. Allowing people access on the highly restricted airport property. Live at mineta for us. Maria. Reporter a signature repeatedly denied there was an on going investigation until today. Youre going to hear the response in just a moment. That is one of the gates here at signature. We are learning someone here gave out to access code who shouldnt have had it. One Security Breach after another, including a teen stow away on a plane from mineta to hawaii and a woman able to simply jump the fence. Concerning but it also continues to motivate us to ensure we have the safest airport possible. Reporter this time, one that went on undetected until a tipster came forward. The tipster told investigators he or she worked for google and techs from the company were passing along a code that opened the Signature Flight gate at mineta. A security issue that prompted an investigation by the tsa. The Agency Confirms the results and finds. Alqaeda has told us they want to come and get us and theyve done so through airplanes. Everybody knows if you want to get a lot of bang for the buck, so to speak, you take a commercial airliner down. Reporter they didnt have clearance to access airport property, which includes a background check. Kpix 5 security analyst jeff hart is familiar with the security level getting on to airport property. When i was employed with the bureau, i had an access badge for the San Francisco airport. But i also had to go through a clearance process through tsa and the security folks down at the airport. Reporter signature, which caters to business and private jets, denied an oncamera interview. Mineta has tried to step up its security in recent months but keeps landing in the spotlight. I think what we have here is a real good example of lackadaisical security mind set. Reporter here is signatures response on may 16th. We have received confirmation that the tsa has concludes its investigation and there were no fines or penalties issued, but today after continuing to dig on the story, we got this response from them quote, we can confirm there is an Ongoing Investigation by the tsa which Signature Flight support has and continues to cooperate fully with. I just heard from google just a few minutes ago. They say they are not aware of this case. You heard from google, but what about the airport . Did mineta have anything to say about yet another Security Breach that you uncovered . Reporter you would think mineta would want to talk to assure the public all is safe out here, but theyre going to decline an interview. This is between signature and the tsa. Maria, we appreciate it. New at 6 00, cal train will get the federal money it needs to go electric. The feds have signed off on hundreds of millions of dollars after an intense political fight. Emily turner in San Francisco. Riders welcoming the news . Reporter they sure are. Its a 2 million project that will give commuters more options and they will be able to get on bigger trains headed home. Its all good. We are very excited. Reporter it was a day of celebration for caltrans and its riders. Its great news, yeah. I think its good and more efficient. Reporter the project to electrify the system is back on track. It was frustrating and also scary. It can be very disheartening when youve worked on a project for so long and you think youre just right at the finish line and youre being told, not quite sure. Reporter all was set to go until trumps new transportation secretary pumped the brakes when she took office in january. Thanks to much lobbying on behalf of the project by local leaders and businesses alike, it got the green light today for 647 million. Representative anna calls it annaly luia moment. Riders are just ready to make the commute easier. Were always really packed and even theres times when its not really as crazy as other times, its still really packed. Reporter cal train has been operating on the diesel system for over 30 years. This new one will be better for the environment, quieter for those that live there and allow cal train to run more trains more frequently. Something both cal train and its riders say is long overdue. Electric ones will be quicker and probably hold more people. Theres only so long you can put a bandaid on a system. But better for the passengers, better for the environment and better overall for the region. Reporter now that they have the money, the project is ready to. G they have to notify their contractors. But they could have shovels in the ground on the project as early as next month. New at 6 00, an official vote behind closed doors to determine whether the contra costa da will be out of a job. Kpix 5s Juliette Goodrich outside with the latest on the noconfidence vote. Reporter this vote happening late today. Were talking about the Board Members and its union comprised of more than 88 members voted a majority no confidence in its da. Heres the latest from the unions president. Today the members said that they have no confidence in mr. Peterson by a majority vote of our membership. Reporter is this a first for the county . To my knowledge, this is unprecedented in the Contra Costa County history. Reporter he has already agreed to pay a hefty fine for spending his Campaign Money on personal expenses. The da spent more than 66,000 of Campaign Contributions on travel, hotels, restaurants and movie tickets. Peterson admitted he was guilty, repaid his campaign and paid an additional 45,000 fine to the commission. But today, hes paying the price again with the latest no confidence vote. And this vote is for every member of our community who is concerned and wants to get justice. Its for our victims who want juries to be able to judge their cases free of distraction from mr. Peterson. And its for the criminal defendants who wonder why one standard applies to the District Attorney and another applies to them. Reporter aside from a written statement admitting he broke Campaign Finance rules hundreds of times, the da hasnt been willing to talk since december. And today, peterson was not in his office before, during or after the vote. And it doesnt end here with this no confidence vote. In fact, the court will have a special prosecutor to review the case. Should he be convicted, he will be asked to step down immediately. Many today are calling for his resignation a sap. She turned herself in in connection with a crash that killed a three year old boy. 40 year old yarni [ indiscernible ] surrendered to the chp. She was allegedly driving drunk when she crashed into a car. Three year old elia dun was killed. Her bail set at 3 million. She faces up to 11 years in prison. A third person is now under arrest in connection with the death of miss flo. Sheriffs deputies arrested Perla Arreola friday. She was booked as an accessory to murder and for conspiracy to obstruct justice. She disposed of some of the items stolen from miss flo. They say she later lied to investigators about the evidence. She is due in court tomorrow. Two other people have been arrested in connection with miss flos death. A bay area father disappears and now an unsettling clue. His familys desperate search for answers. Is this the future of transportation . A look at the latest vision for a flying car. What air bus is designing here in the bay area. Finally, embracing their new home. The long saga to get dozens of birds to start nesting on the bay bridge. , this sunnyvale shepherd has a nose for trouble. We introduced you to kodiak, a highly trained arson dog. He can sniff out mere traces of fire starters. Gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid. Doing in minutes what could take humans hours. Its a 365 day, 24 7 operation. Expect original reporting from kpix 5 news. Expect more. ,,,,,,,, new at 6 00, air bus is out with fresh animation of what its flying car may eventually lookly. An office in san jose is working on it. Kpix 5 is in san jose with a look at how close developers are getting now to making an airborne car. Reporter were live outside of their offices in downtown san jose. Theyre the latest company to come out of the wood work with their own flying car personal aircraft type of vehicle. They are differentiating themselves from the pack by putting a dollar figure on how much it would cost to fly in their selfflying taxi. Theyre saying somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 an mile. Yet another video of a flying car is out and rather than keeping it secret, air bus is laying it out there in plain site. This is an all electric single seat aircraft designed to be used as an automated flying taxi. Designers envision sensors all around the plane to help avoid inair obstacles and yes, it has a parachute. It was dreamed up here at air bus bay area think tank which has embraced Silicon Valleys put it all out there mentality. Tech analyst tim has been keeping an eye on flying vehicles for years. You just cant just take a brandnew car, give it wings and then give a guy the keys and say go fly off. Reporter that has not deterred the valley. Earlier this year, uber said they will Start Testing its selfflying taxi by the end of the year. And alphabet has plans for a large google cofounder larry page is taking deposits on this personal flying vehicle. However getting these vehicles past all the faa red tape is going to be tough. Do you think pressure from Silicon Valley can force that kind of change quickly . Not really. Reporter he thinks it is possible within 5 to 7 years. But a selfflying taxi, keep dreaming. I probably am a party pooper in the sense id like to have it, it would be great to have one of these vehicles, but im also a realist. Reporter so the other key is they have to drop the cost of these personal aircraft. Right now they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 to 200,000. But they probably have to make these aircraft a lot cheaper. Lets talk about things that really fly. Finally the cormarants have moved into their new homes. The new housing made just for the birds. Reporter crossing the bay bridge, you dont see them. Theyre under you. Suddenly, in the last few weeks, theyve decided to move into special roosting areas. I thought it would be 40 this year and a hundred next year. To have 700 in the same season that the bridge was available where the old bridge was not available, thats the beautiful thing about it. Reporter they are sea birds. They swim under water for food. For years, caltrans and biologists tried to lure the birds off the old bridge as it was being torn down. At first, they didnt want in this case to do with the new bridge. We did with all the usual attractions, sound decoys, nests. And then we did that into time. Reporter time was key. It took time. But in the end, it also took getting completely rid of the old bridge. Theres been a lot of criticism about the amount of money thats been spent. Almost a half a million. But theyre iconic to the structure of the bay bridge and we wanted to make sure we accommodated them. Reporter some say that figure is much higher, closer to a Million Dollars for the cormarant condos. Biologists say the next step is to declare the berkeley city pier as the next nesting area. Don ford, kpix 5. Weather for the birds. Just like all the other housing, very expensive in the bay area. Just like us birds, just like us. At the berkeley marina, it was 55 degrees yesterday afternoon. 6 miles away, you were 90 in the oakland hills. 96 today in livermore. Look at San Francisco. Golden gates foggy and mid50s at the golden gate bridge. 88 for napa. Half moon bay, 68 degrees. We have a ridge of High Pressure thats keeping the heat around inland for now. As soon as it leaves, theres something patiently waiting its turn to move in which will enhance the onshore flow and cool everybody down. 24 hours from now, its beginning to exit. The onshore flow gets stronger and the heat away from the water will be finished by wednesday morning. Overnight tonight, we have an onshore flow near the water. That will lead to low cloud cover and fog. It will migrate inland overnight. Mountain view 57, san jose 58. Livermore 60 for an overnight low. Highs not as warm tomorrow, but still above average. Concord 85. Napa 85. Fremont 81. Look at San Francisco. Staying in the mid60s. The beach staying in the 50s. So not as wide of a temperature spread. Look at the temperatures dropping. By thursday, mid70s inland. By friday, low 70s inland. Near the water, the temperatures arent going to move much. 50s at the beach. The heat away from the water is done after tomorrow. Thats your forecast. Thank you. A man in a trump hat removed from a flight as passengers chant lock him up. Will the raiders show derek carr the money . The star quarterback weighs in on his contract. And why the best punch from a boxing match came from the corner man. Next. Enter sleep number and the semiannual sale going on now. 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What do you want me to say . The sky is falling. The sky is falling. Its a weird thing you with kenny. Always come around when we lose. If you were busy this weekend repairing your car window that refused to go up, heres what you missed. Cal prada. James hahn was two back on the final hole. Oh, my goodness. He couldnt believe it. Look at the announcers when they were watching the shot. They couldnt believe it. Tampas Kevin Kermeier being reminded what goes up must come down. The ball he hit lands right on his head. Indy500 qualifying. Sebasteien loses control, crashes into the wall. He would be lucky to suffer only a crashed pelvis. Jose [ indiscernible ] disqualified after hitting durell after the bell. And finally down the stretch in the preakness. Heres Cloud Computing going for the upset. Cloud computing has defeated classic empire and the preakness that was as good a stretch run as youre ever going to see. Cloud computing, 131 longshot. Wins it. Cloud computing is that a Silicon Valley horse . It seems to me on a 2 bet, computing yeah. On a 2 bet 26. Thank you very much. Cloud computing. No triple crown. Coming up in our next half hour, an update on our breaking news. At least 19 People Killed after explosions at an Ariana Grande concert in england. And the feds layout their plan to punish sanctuary cities. And a bay area father missing for more than a week. The clue raising new concerns for his family. Who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Youre watching kpix 5 news. Our top story at 6 30 is breaking news. Young concert goers targeted in what u. S. Officials now say was a suicide bombing attack in manchester, england. Many of the victims appear to have shrapnel wounds and a u. S. Law enforcement source tells us that two explosions contained bombs that had nails. There are few details at this hour. What we do know is there are reports of at least two loud bangs going off inside the manchester arena. Reports say a concert by pop star Ariana Grande just concluded when observers said they heard what they characterized as explosions. And then everyone started running and screaming and crying. Didnt know what got on. Everyone was trampling over us. It was just awful. Reporter police told people on social media to stay clear of the area. Police cars, ambulances and riot vans were seen outside the arena and the com

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