Daughter about the shooters motive. He would ask them and if you are a christian stand up and they would stand up and he said, good. Because youre a christian, youre going to see god in just about one second. And then he shot and killed them. Reporter shock waves of grief are being felt from the picturesque logging community to the halls of congress and the white house. Our thoughts and prayers are not enough. Reporter president obama expressing anger over the last mass shooting. Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. With yet another shooting like this attention is back on washington and what lawmakers will or wont do about gun violence. Its the slaughtering of over 20 children back in 2012 if that couldnt get congress to act, i dont know what will. Now we are starting to get conditioned to this just being part of your daily american life. I hope that we act before we really, you know, start to see, um, daily mass shootings. The gunman came prepared with body armor and multiple guns. Kpix spoke to a childhood friend who was his stepcousin. He had had mental problems and he was he had anger problems and he took medicines for them. So investigators are now focusing on the suspects online activity. A myspace page apparently belonging to mercer has a photo of him holding a gun. There are other photos of the Irish Republican Army with descriptions glorifying the movement. According to mercers stepsister, he was born in england and later moved to the west coast. He meant a lot to me but its just [ pause ] he he all he ever did was put everyone before himself. He wanted everyone to be happy and no matter if he was sad or mad he would always try to cheer up everybody. Our sister station in l. A. Also spoke to a former neighbor who described the 26yearold as someone who kept to himself. A teen from the east bay may go in front of a judge today after he was accused of murdering his entire family. Kpix 5s anne makovec joins us live at benicia with more on the evidence that led to the arrest of this 16yearold. Reporter im in the quiet benicia neighborhood where the buchanan family lived. You can see the house here behind me with several lights on. The eldest son now sitting in jail waiting to be arraigned. 16yearold Nolan Buchanan was led out of class yesterday and arrested in the deaths of his family. Officers say he shot his father, his 8yearold half brother and his fathers girlfriend in the family cabin in El Dorado County last month and set it on fire. Investigators say the teenager lied as soon as he was told of their deaths. He told the officers that his father, his fathers fiancee molly and his 8year old halfbrother had driven to the greenwood cabin and that he had stayed behind. Reporter officers found evidence to the contrary. They impounded his pickup truck, they found his fathers wallet, the girlfriends purse and a gun near the familys Construction Business. The 16yearold will be charged as an adult. Live in benicia, anne makovec, kpix 5. California will launch its own investigation of volkswagens cheating on emissions tests. The decision to drop out of a multistate probe and go it alone means attorney general Kamala Harris can apply californias more string end environmental laws. This follows revelations that volkswagen installed software to allow diesel cars to pass tests while exceeding pollution limits on the road. Speaking of the roads, lets check in with liza on a friday. Hopefully a friday light. Huh . It certainly is for many commutes. Much lighter than usual. Good morning, frank and michelle. Hi, everybody. Between going to start off with the south bay. Silicon valley drive, northbound 101 is beginning to slow down a touch approaching Great America parkway. Once you pass this exit traffic picks up for the northbound commute through sunnyvale bound for 237. The bay bridge toll plaza metering lights are on. And traffic is stacked up for from about the 880 overcrossing. Usually at this hour, it would already be backed up into the maze. So it is much lighter than usual with traffic moving well across the bridge heading into downtown San Francisco. The Altamont Pass westbound 580 just a brief delay approaching and passing grant line. Those delays continue in pockets approaching vasco with another stretch of heavy traffic right at the dublin interchange. Its not backed up heading down the dublin grade. Eastbound 580 all the overnight roadwork has been picked up in pleasanton. Clear and cool out the door this morning clear skies making for a cooler start than the last couple of days. In fact, heres a beautiful shot of the bay bridge this morning. And current conditions, well in the 50s areawide. 56 in concord. 58 in livermore. 57 in San Francisco. 50 right now in santa rosa. Clear and cool to start then sunny and warmer today highs five to 10 degrees for some of the warmest locations although a chance of rain returns by the end of the weekend and, of course, i will detail the timing of that coming up in just a bit. First, back to you guys. Thank you. Castro valley man is in custody accused of killing his mother and stepfather in their home. The bodies of Laurie Thompson and James Hamilton were found monday morning at the chetwoodcrest mobile home park. Investigators believe 33year old Steven Thompson beat them to death. The motive is still unclear. Health experts have identified the source of a legionnaires disease outbreak at san quentin prison. Two cooling towers had high concentrations of the bacteria that causes the illness. A federal report blames a combination of sludge buildup and heat wave. 81 inmates and four employees got sick prompting a lockdown. More trouble at the Santa Clara County main jail. Kpix 5 has learned the fbi is being called in to investigate me that latest allegations of guards abusing inmates. Len ramirez reports. Reporter the newest case of alleged abuse involves an inmate at santa clara main jail which came to light during the sheriffs investigation of the in custody death of inmate Michael Tyree last month allegedly beaten to death by three correctional deputies. The inmate survived in this case but the sheriff asked the fbi to investigate. Our willingness to bring in an outside agency, i hope, really demonstrates the transparency that we have been committed to providing to make sure that the public has a high degree of trust in with it is that were doing. Administration also announced that previous incidents that have been documented and already closed out will reportedly be reopened for more scrutiny. Reporter but the sheriff has come under attack by the president of the correctional deputies union. This harkens back to the salem witch trials from 1692. Reporter Lance Scimeca is shown in a Youtube Video in which he criticizes the sheriff for looking into past and present complaints. We are held to a higher standard and these complaints are going to be coming in. And we investigate those complaints and those complaints take us and the investigation takes us where it leads to. And to characterize it as a witch hunt i think is for me not appropriate. Reporter mr. Scimeca is currently on administrative leave on an unrelated case that he allegedly sent racist Text Messages to other deputies. He was unavailable for comment. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. California will become the first state in the nation to require lessons about Sexual Consent in high schools. Governor jerry brown signing legislation that would require School Districts to teach the yes means yes policy in place at state colleges and universities. That policy says sex is only consensual when both people clearly state their willingness. By next year schools will also have to include lessons on Sexual Violence prevention, as well. Time now 6 09. Amazon is taking aim at two Silicon Valley giants by taking products off the shelf. And a major achievement is reached in the middle of californias horrific wildfire season. And sunny and warm the story today. But rain returns. It is heading our way. Ill have details on when youll see the rain coming up. And we have brake lights for westbound 80 in the vacaville area an accident in the clearing stages near midway. Just by switching to progressive. So youll be bringing home the bacon in no time. Sorry. Get a free quote at progressive. Com. Good morning. Welcome back. Time now 6 13. Heres a live look at the bay bridge this morning. Mostly clear skies around the bay. Clear and cool to start but sunny and warm later today. Details coming up. A deadly wildfire in calaveras and amador counties now 100 contained. The butte fire burned more than 70,000 acres and destroyed 475 homes since it began back on september 9. The fire is blamed for two deaths. The cause is still unknown. Hurricane joaquin is pounding the bahamas with torrential rain and wind. The storms path is uncertain. Don champion shows us cities along the east coast are preparing. Reporter even without joaquin, a noreasterlike system is already whipping waves ashore from massachusetts to ocean city, maryland. The storm system will dump rain up and down the coast. Joaquin could add insult to injury. In the richmond, virginia area, officials have canceled the final days of the state fair. With the Weather Forecast and all coming through, i think its a good idea. Reporter in north carolina, boats in dive suits are on standby. At the National Hurricane center, meteorologists say joaquin has been hard to forecast because its in an area with a very weak steering current. Whats been the disagreement is whether or not the tropics [ pause ] [ no audio ] to pick up joaquin or if joaquin is going to stay down there long enough to miss that opportunity to take that off ramp and take a different one. Reporter along the new jersey coastline, which was battered by Superstorm Sandy three years ago, people are hoping the storm stays over the ocean. In proportion, were taking down things like our banners, moving in trash cans, battening down the hatches. Reporter even if joaquin doesnt make a direct hit, places along the coast could see rising water and erosion. Don champion, cbs news, new york. Authorities are trying to find out what caused a military plane to crash this morning in eastern afghanistan. It had civilian contractors working with nato on board. 11 people including 6 u. S. Service members were killed in the crash. Right now theres nothing to support the talibans claim that they shot it down. One of the three major Credit Bureaus is hacked compromising the personal information of 15 million people. Anyone who applied for t mobiles postpaid plan last month might be affected. Tmobile used experion to conduct credit checks on the customers. Experion is offering the cam cant two years of free credit monitoring and identity protection. Amazon going after two Silicon Valley giants to try to get people to buy the streaming Media Products removing apple tv and Google Chromecast devices from its Online Shopping platform. Amazon wants to increase membership of its own prime video service. Prime is not compatible with apple tv or chromecast. Amazon will keep selling other streaming devices as long as they support prime. Golden gate park will be packed today for one of the bay areas most popular free music festivals. Hardly strictly bluegrass starts this afternoon. The threeday festival features more than 100 musical groups on several stages. It was conceived by the late Warren Helmut 15 years ago. His Family Foundation still pays for it. It ends sunday with a performance by Emmylou Harris among others. Kind of hard to be in a bad mood when you listen to banjo music. You start tapping your foot. Some people more so than others i guess. I guess so. Bluegrass not on your ipad . Not at this point. Just hip pop. We are going to talk about this mornings commute this friday drive in the Silicon Valley. Just chugging along there. Northbound traffic approaching Great America parkway. Expect sluggish traffic now approaching and passing this exit. Its going to be sluggish on and off heading towards 237 through sunnyvale. So the rest of the commute also is going to be slow for you. If you are planning on making the bay bridge drive westbound traffic no longer friday light. It is backed up from beyond the 880 overcrossing with a 20 minute drive time between the carquinez bridge and the maze. The san mateo bridge has been fine. We havent had any major issues for this commute. All overnight roadwork is picked up and westbound traffic looks great now across the span heading into the foster city area. Meantime, if you plan to make the 880 drive and need to catch a flight at the Oakland Airport its wide open just outside of hegenberger. 880 rolling well now through san leandro. The earlier roadwork which delayed that commute leaving oakland into san leandro thats been picked up so its now wide open both 880 and 580 moving well through the east bay. Now, if you plan to make the commute on i80 in the vacaville area, there is an accident in the clearing stages. It happened westbound 80 approaching midway. At least one lane of traffic is shut down. You can see traffic slowing down to 17 Miles Per Hour for some spots. Thats a look at kcbs traffic. Now to julie. Thank you, miss liza. Clear well, mostly clear and cool out the door this morning. Temperatures right now in the 50s. Pretty much areawide. 56 concord and san jose. 50 the cool spot in santa rosa this morning. What to expect over the next 48 hours . A lot of changes. First off, High Pressure building offshore and that means temperatures will be building, as well. Sunny and warmer today and tomorrow. Temperatures topping out five to 10 degrees above what we saw yesterday. But sunday another upperlevel low drops in from British Columbia and as it does, it really switches up the forecast bringing with it clouds, shower chances and blustery breezy conditions. Right now, the weather models painting much of the rain to our east and to our south. We do still have a chance of showers 20 to 30 around the bay area so keep that umbrella handy and it is going to feel gray and blustery out there as i mentioned. Could even see snow in the high country. That really could help us. High temperatures today you wouldnt know the snow is on the way. 85 in fairfield. 84 concord. 85 in livermore. 69 pacifica. 80 redwood city. 81 your High Temperature today in san jose. Sunrise today 7 06. Sunset 6 51. A lot of changes today. Sunny, warm. Tomorrow the transition day a few more clouds by the second half of the day. Saturday night into sunday we increase the chance of showers, breezy, blustery conditions. Gray skies. And then monday we dry out. Temperatures gradually warm as we make our way through the next workweek. Back to you guys. Thank you. 6 19. The Napa Valley Wine Train is facing a multimillion dollar lawsuit. Why a group of women who were kicked off the train says they suffered more than just humiliation. Reporter and im dennis odonnell. Tim hudson makes his final start. We have the highlights and the warriors will be withou good morning. The warriors spend the off season celebrating their nba tight. But not everyone with the team enjoyed their summer vacation. To be honest the last couple of months have stunk for me. Im not kidding. Um, i have had a rough go physically this summer two back surgeries and it hasnt been fun. It wasnt the summer that i was envisioning. Steve kerr is taking a leave of absence from the warriors as he continues to recover from back surgery. There is no timetable for his return. In the meantime, luke walton is now the head coach of the golden state warriors. Tim hudson making his final start before riding off into the sunset. Dodgers already had a 10 lead when kendrick singled to center. Hudson left the game to a standing ovation in the 3rd inning. Dodgers beat them but that couldnt spoil his capping off of a 17 year career. Big Ben Roethlisberger out with a knee injury. Steelers taking on the ravens in overtime. Roethlisbergers replacement michael vick crushed going for it on fourth and 2. The ravens quickly got it within field goal range for kicker Justin Tucker from 52 yards out. And how about, the ravens get their first win of the season in pittsburg, by the way. Raider fancy know you want to see oakland win their second straight road game taking on chicago right here on channel 5 on sunday. Well see you with the 5th quarter following that morning game. Im dennis odonnell. Have a great weekend. Incredible catch by ranger Josh Hamilton over the shoulder as he is on the run and he got it and he has a nice little finish there. He is fine. So are the rangers. Texas won 53 and clinched a playoff berth. Your play of the day. Hundreds of evacuations in the valley fire, people evacuated return home to find their homes looted. It wasnt because of the fire. 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