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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6AM April 13, 2016

Thats a preview of the big announcement. Expect the official word to come today. Kiet do, kpix 5. Today the warriors will face off against the Memphis Grizzlies buy its no ordinary game. If they win tonight they will beat the record for the most wins in the regular season a record set by the chicago bulls. Jackie ward reports from oracle. Everybody is going to be want to be where in just a few hours. Reporter i wish i could stay here all day to be here for the game tonight because everyone has a chance of seeing history if they are are lucky enough to get a ticket. So of course we were here for the nba Season Opener which is nearly 6 months ago. Now people are still trying to pick up their championship gear from 2015, they are waiting for that banner to drop and now, number 73 is all that anyone is talking about. The season has been described as magical. It started with 24 straight wins, continued with a 54game home winning streak. Its truly been a strength in numbers season. Everyone wants chance to be here tonight but ticket prices are preventing a lot of people from making that a reality. It would be good to have some kid from the inner city to be able to witness that historic moment but because of the prices it wont happen. Reporter standingroomonly tickets, no seat, 400 each. That sounds steep enough, right . But thats until you hear that some tickets are upwards of 16,000. Steph curry is eight three pointers away from hitting the number 400. He is very comfortable behind this one. Now, if he hits 400 he will have smashed his previously set records which he broke about, oh, i dont know, 100 threes ago. Game time at 7 30. Well welcome the Memphis Grizzlies who in oakland. Eye jackie ward, kpix 5. Parking at state parks will be the focus of a conference which starts today in santa rosa. The California Coastal commission will consider charging fees for parking at several parks along the Sonoma County coast. Opponents say the fees could discourage people from enjoying the county coastline. Time now 6 03. Lets get a check of traffic with gianna this morning. I actually have some good news to report on this trouble spot we have been monitoring since 4 30 this morning. It was an accident eastbound 580 noncommute direction at grant line all lanes clears things moving nicely. 680 to the Altamont Pass only 15 minutes. Past there no delays. Westbound sluggish out of tracy. Westbound stays slow at least to greenville but no troubles connecting to 680 itself. Bay bridge pretty much a parking lot right now. Youre backed up into the maze with slowandgo conditions working your way near the metering lights. Just a bit across the upper deck into San Francisco, easing up. No delays San Francisco into oakland. South 101 off the Golden Gate Bridge right now, heading into the doyle tunnel you will see some delays because of an accident blocking one lane. Waiting on tow crews now but the Golden Gate Bridge itself not affected yet. Traffic light from marin to San Francisco. We begin with the long neglected Richmond San Rafael bridge opened in 1956 and before that was open you had to take a ferry from richmond to marin but today its functioning proudly and boldly out there now for 60 years as we look at the approach to the toll plaza, rather underused this morning. The numbers now in the 50s with 47 degrees at santa rosa. San francisco 52. The Oakland Athletics taking on the angels this afternoon. 12 35 p. M. Well find mostly sunny conditions for the fans and 65 degrees later today. Mid60s under partly cloudy skies and not a bad day really. We have sunshine on the way for today. But rain moving into the bay area thats going to be happening early on thursday morning. 24 hours from now roads will be wet. The meantime today looks okay and then by the time we head to the weekend it will be sunny and it will be warmer. Temperatures will approach 80 degrees by sunday in the bay area. So its all looking good. Today santa rosa hit 66. Same for fairfield. San francisco today 60 degrees. And 67 in san jose. Well have a look ahead at that warm weekend in a few minutes. First lets get the latest from kenny and michelle. The Contra Costa County Sheriffs Department is trying to track down a man accused of trying to run down some deputies. Investigators say that brian hill is on probation and wanted on suspicion of attempted homicide. Deputies were working on a stolen car case friday when they saw him in tara hills. The car was found abandoned later. A commission has come up with 120 ways to fix the jails. The blue rib been commission presented plans for greater accountability, transparency and civilian oversight. The main jail is where Michael Tyree a mentally ill inmate was murdered last august. The Commission Says the jails have been troubled for a long time in santa clara county. Right now, the sheriff has been running the jails and we have found as a commission that there are problems festering in that jail for years and years an years. Nothing was done until the death of Michael Tyree. But as an elected official, sheriff smith will likely stay in charge of the jails removing her requiring a county charter or a vote by residents which cant happen until 2018. In the south bay sunnyvale plans to raise its minimum wage to 15 even faster than the state can. The city council wants the change by 2018. By july of this year the wage goes to 11. Six months later at the start of 2017 the numbers go to 13. And by january 1, 2018, low wage workers will make the promised 15 an hour if all goes as scheduled. A bill to add a 2cent per ounce tax on sugary drinks was pulled ahead of a scheduled vote and is dead. The author determined they didnt have the votes to get it passed. The Beverage Industry has spent 400,000 lobby against it. The u. S. Navy is going green. The Navy Secretary ray mabus was at a conference in sunnyvale on tech and climate change. The military is the Worlds Largest user of fossil fuels but yesterday he announced they will now require all vendors to report their output of Greenhouse Gases and work to lower their overal output. A unique event for injured u. S. Service members is under way again in the waters off santa cruz county. Operation surfs sixth annual event runs three monday at cowles beach in santa cruz and several beaches in capitola. Operation surf takes injured Service Members from iraq and afghanistan wars and uses surfing for therapeutic recovery. The possibility of a contested Gop Convention is growing more likely by the day and some of the worlds most notable thinkers are teaming up to search for alien life. Details on the groundbreaking collaboration. Back on earth we have a sunny day in the bay area after we dispense with the Early Morning clouds but things are changing by this time tomorrow morning. 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There is new video showing that smith and his wife may have hit the suspects car and tried to take off. Police say they found a loaded gun in smiths car. Legal experts say the possibility of a hitandrun along with guns found in both cars could form a selfdefense argument for the defense. In the event it could be established that will smith says he was advancing towards him he has no chance to reaserbs i believe im in danger, so ill shoot, shoot, soot, thats going to be the argument. Toxicology tests on smith wont be back for six weeks. Hayes is being held on Second Degree murder charges with bond set at 1 million. Campaign 2016, donald trump heads to pennsylvania as his rivals amp up their rhetoric against him. Reporter don champion on trumps push there and the democrats efforts in new york. They disenfranchise the voters. Reporter he called the partys president ial nominating system crooked and fended off criticism about his campaign. You could have had a Better Organization on the ground. Reporter i dont know if it would have mattered because it was totally set in stone. Thats the way it was. Reporter his top rival ted cruz is unleashing harder attacks calling trumps tactics like a mobster. But the presidency should not be la cosa nostra. Donald keeps hiring people with records of dirty tricks, lies and threats of violence. As we have seen more and more of my message be able to be communicated, we are getting bigger crowd and that will translate into delegates and delegates will translate into momentum. Reporter on the democratic side, a new quinnipiac poll Shows Hillary clinton with a 13 point lead over Bernie Sanders in new york. Still putting up a fight, sanders rallied to supporters last night in poughkeepsie. This campaign is not just about electing a new president , its about transforming america. Reporter new yorks primary is april 19. Don champion, cbs news, new york. For the first time in years president ial candidates care about our votes here in california. Being the last primary on the calendar usually is often a schmoozer but this time its going to be the grand finale. We are seeing in district after district huge numbers of republicans planning to vote. Candidates are hoping to woo unregistered voters. Our primary is june 7. Today the senate will take up a bill to ban tobacco use within 250 feet of a youth game or practice. That would include traditional cigarettes, ecigarettes and chewing tobacco. It is being called the most ambitious search for alien life in history. Some of the worlds brightest minds including facebook founder zuckerberg are joining the board of a 100 million project called breakthrough starshot. Billionaire russian investor yuri milner and famed Physicist Stephen Hawking announced their plans to send thousands of tiny space probes to our nearest star system. The spacecraft is about the size of a stamp, weighs less than an ounce and can carry cameras. It would be built to operate like a sail with the wind power coming from lasers on earth. I think its not just for me, its for every person i believe on the earth that, are we alone . Thats the question. If were not alone, where is other life in space and can we communicate with them . After the spacecraft are perfected and launched they should reach the star system within 20 years. Pretty cool to see what they can find if anything. Who knows. How are the roads . A little better in some spots. Live look at the san mateo bridge. Not too many delays. 15 minutes between 880 and 101. Heres a wisconsin in effect but its gusty as you work your way across the span. Drive times okay out of hayward into foster city. Hayward southbound into fremont, slower speeds but moving along nothing major there. Southbound 680 from the benicia bridge down to highway 24, 13 minutes. We have wind advisories for the benicia bridge and dumbarton bridge. South 680 loading up in walnut creek over to 24. We have reports of an accident westbound 80 at gilman. No word if any lanes are blocked but one vehicle may be facing sideways so its causing a distraction as you work your way along the eastshore freeway this morning. And, of course, as you head towards the bridge youre seeing brake lights here. 24 minutes carquinez bridge to the maze. Metering lights are on once you hit the bridge with the backup to 580 as well so slowandgo out of the maze and through the metering lights. It is still slow off 580 westbound out of tracy. Stays sluggish to greenville eastbound looking better. We have this earlier accident again thats cleared and once you get past that things look good making the connector to 680. Brian over to you. We are going to start with a view from the vacaville cam. Sunrise about a halfhour away. Numbers cooler than yesterday at this time. Santa rosa 47. And concord 53. Heres how it looks this morning. Low pressure is in the gulf of alaska. More traditional direction than that low that we had last week that gave us rain over the week. That was in southern california. A cold front at midnight so showers will spread south overnight but linger long enough to mess with the morning commute tomorrow. Today on the futurecast you can see plenty of sunshine popping out. So well have brilliantly blue skies but look what approaches overnight. That cold front. It will spread a quarter inch of rain by this time tomorrow. So a sunny mild day today. Rain early thursday and then sunnier and warmer starting on friday. A little cooler than average today with numbers back a few degrees. San francisco 60. Oakland 64. South bay will get sunshine later mid60s will do it. Out in the east bay the numbers will be in the mid60s, as well. 67 for walnut creek. Pleasant hill 66 degrees. And for petaluma today 65. San rafael 65. Ukiah sunshine and 66. Extended forecast looking for showers tomorrow morning. 70s by sunday and monday. So have a good one. Plans to build a New Elementary School are on hold africans causing toxins are found in the soil. Im dennis odonnell. Coming up, did you see the video of a goalie who wants to run away and hide . I have the video. And the hottest rookie in baseball took on the giants last night. The big story coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,, good morning, everyone. Red cross rookie trevor story is the story of baseball. Hit seven home runs in his first six games. But the real story last night was the trevor that plays for the giants. Colorado Rocky Mountain high. I have seen it rain fire in the sky, hunter pence tworun shot gave the giants a 31 lead. But trevor brown subbing for buster posey, he hit two home runs last night. Trevor brown has three hits this season. They are all home runs. The other trevor, he was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts, courtesy of jeff samardzija. Giants 72 winners. Mike trout and the angels spent yesterday afternoon with the wars before taking on the as last night. Bottom of the 7th. Semien connects his second home run. Nice catch by the fan. As 41. Top of the ninth, the lead is going, going, gone. Angels come back to win 54. The as third one run loss of the season. Southwest is offering hot deals on flights and Michael Roach might want to get away. He kicked the ball into his own net he is a goalie for a tahiti team trying to clear it and instead, kicked it off the side of his foot and in for a goooooooaaaaal goooooooaaaaal goal, goal, goal, goal okay. Tonight is history night. At our 5 00, 6 00, 10 00, 11 lock 11 00, all our sports will come from the oracle arena. The warriors go for the record. Im dennis odonnell. See you tonight. Kobe bryant will play one final time tonight in los angeles. The black mamba announced in november that this season woman his last. Tonights game will wrap up a spectacular 20year career for the 37yearold. Kobe won 5 championships for the lakers and became the nbas third all time scorer. Play of the day from the nba, Oklahoma City at san antonio. The thunders dion waders would be impressive. Twohanded jam. But the spurs went on to beat Oklahoma City 10298. It is 6 25 right now. The fbi was able to access the iphone of the San Bernardino shooter without apples help. Now we might know how. Reporter and one of the most well known hightech moguls in the bay area is doing something unheard of. Donating a quarter billion dollars to create a cancer fighting dream team. Warriors try to hit 73 regular season wins. Were live from oracle arena. And the federal government is ramping up efforts to prevent a widespread outbreak of the zika virus. A little sting in the air this morning temperatures cooler but you want warmth . Wait until this weekend details coming up. And 880 near the coliseum looks good now but that will change later on. Ill explain. Good morning, it is wednesday, april 13, im kenny choi. Im michelle griego. Time now is 6 29. We are counting down the hours until the warriors take the court with history on the line. Kpix 5 reporter joins us live inside oracle arena. Reporter i think its going to be louder in here in about 13 hours. Even 12 hours from now. Steph will be on the Court Warming up. This is a shirt thats explains tonights motto not on our ground. So a fan designed this tshirt and won a contest. Its on every seat. All fans will get one. This will be the consecutive sellout streak. Lets start with the big numbers. Right now its at 174 consecutive games and they are expecting another sellout tonight so this will mark the third consecutive regular season with 41 sellouts. Even the players are taking note of how much the tickets are going for. A lot of people are talking about the prices there. Draymond green wants to buy some tickets and give them to underprivileged kids in oakland. What i said i meant. Give these kids a chance to witness history. Reporter coach kerr says this is the time and place to make history. Its the last game of the season, 19,596 l

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