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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm June 12, 2014

Because of its discipline, because of its value. Reporter its an ongoing controversy in the bay area. In 2001 when then oakland mayor jerry brown founded the oakland military institute, he did so despite fierce opposition. In 2008, San Francisco voters had to save the junior rotc program from the chopping block. Tonight many expect a packed house on the latest decision about the program. We know at least two of the five Board Members are going to vote for the program. But we expect it to be a close vote. Well have an update at 10 00 and 11 00. Ryan takeo, kpix 5. The district will pay 100,000 a year for two years to jumpstart the program. After that it would reevaluate the program and ask for federal funds. The deadly rampage last month at ucsb could lead to changes for California Law enforcement. Proposed legislation would liar officers to Research State firearms records when they do welfare checks on people. The Santa Barbara Sheriffs Department has been criticized for not searching Elliot Rodgers apartment in april. He killed six people and himself. An austrian teenager unknowingly sent the twitter world into a tailspin today after playing with code. Kpix 5 reporter simon perez on the security flaw he exposed and how to protect your account from being compromised. Simon. Reporter allen, it only took twitter about an hour to fix the problem but during that time, some 40,000 people sent out tweets they didnt mean to. And according to one report, one of those people worked at the white house. Twitters app called tweetdeck allows users to monitor various feeds at once. Its kind of a desktop organizer. But around 10 00 this morning, this error message showed up on desktops. A hacker got users to unknowingly retweet this random code followed by a heart. Cnet Senior Writer Seth Rosenblatt says hackers have different motives. Sometimes its because they want password access. If you can get somebodys twitter credentials, for example, you might also be able to get access to their bank account if they are very lazy about using the same password for multiple services. Reporter but in this case it was done for fun once he figured out the vulnerability. You have to assume anything on the internet is public knowledge. It has been for some time. The most important number one thing i can recommend right now is set up two factor authentications. Reporter as an example, your atm card first level of security the card with the strip on the back. Second level, your p. I. N. You cant use one without the other. Twofactor authentication. Sending a text message with a p. I. N. Is a common second factor of authentication. Reporter twitter wasnt the only company hacked today. The notetaking service ever note had to explain its problems as did a site that helps gather and organize news. What makes you feel comfortable about it is even people like twitter can get hacked. Maybe its ignorance. Maybe i trust them too much. Reporter so about an hour after the hack was discovered, twitter notified its users by twitter of course to log out of tweetdeck, log back in and that should have fixed the problem. In San Francisco, im simon perez, kpix 5. Texas governor rick perry is set to appear at San Francisco Commonwealth Club in an hour. He is coming to california to lure business to his state. Perry was in sacramento yesterday. He tweeted out a picture of himself arriving in a tesla and made it clear he would like the company to build its new giga factory in texas. He pointed to too much red tape in the golden state. There is a real cause and effect here. Overtax, a overregulation, overlitigation. State lawmakers are considering legislation to relax regulations in order to entice tesla and other companies. The tesla giga factory could mean 6,000 new jobs. The city college of San Francisco has avoided closure for now. Proposed new rules will give ccsf two years to meet accrediting standards. The school was going to lose its accreditation at the end of july. This would have forced one of the largest schools in california to shut down. The extension is expected to be approved by the accrediting commission. In other headlines San Franciscos indeed officially out of the running to host the americas cup in 2017. The ceo of two time defending champion Oracle Team Usa says san diego, chicago and bermuda are still in the mix. He plans to narrow it to two locations by the end of the month. Cheers at a ribboncutting ceremony in San Francisco as riverbed technology opened its new global led quarters on folsom street. The riverbed specializes in improving performance of networks and applications. Its the second largest tech company in the city by revenue. City leaders are urging San Franciscos archbishop not to attend a rally in washington next week against samesex marriage. Mayor ed lee and dozens of others wrote a letter urging him to promote reconciliation rather than hatred. I think the letter is self explanatory. It simply says please dont participate in something that would be extreme and signal yet furthermore divisions in the bay area so we were hopeful that he would not do so. Mayor lee says he also plans to call archbishop cordileone to ask him personally to reconsider his participation. Former bart Police Officer Johannes Mehserle testified today in the oscar grant federal civil trial. Grants father has sued mehserle, bart and the other officers for the new years 2009 deadly shooting of his son. Mehserle said he pulled out his taser immediately when he got to the platform at the fruitvale station. He said two other officers had already drawn their tasers. His testimony focused on his firearms and weapons training prior to grants death. No bail for alleged chinatown gang leader raymond shrimp boy chow. Today a federal court judge rejected chows bail request despite pleas from his attorney, who says his client is a changed man. Prosecutors argued chow is a potential danger to the community. Chow is one of 29 defendants in a massive criminal complaint that includes suspended state senator leland yee. Chows Attorney Says he plans to appeal. San jose is cracking down on the hundreds of pot clubs operating in that city. The city has tough new rules. The clubs are going to have to be 1,000 feet from schools, parks and major businesses. They will also have to be at least 150 feet from homes. If the dispensaries dont comply in a year, they will have to close down. By putting regulations in place that make it up possible for clubs to operate, they are going that make it impossible for clubs to operate they are going to force another referendum. Another new rule they must grow all the marijuana they sell. How does your city stack up when it comes to the number of Police Officers . Well, the city of colma leads the bay area by far with 9 officers for every 1,000 citizens. Mike sugerman explains why such a small city has such a Strong Police presence. Reporter veronica, you wouldnt think in a city where the dead out number the living 1,000 to 1 we need such a big old building to house its Police Department. But it does we crunched the numbers and heres what we found. Every day 1,593 people wake up in the city of colma. And 1. 5 million dont. Colma is only 2. 2 miles square. Most residents are 6 feet under. Last year in colma, there were zero murders, not including those already here. There were zero rapes, zero arsons. So why are there so man cops . The town of colma is fortunate to have low violence. I have to give kudos to the Police Department for providing Quality Services to town residents. Reporter the commander commands 12 uniformed officers pounding the beat. That comes to 9 officers for every 1,000 residents. And in crunching the fbis uniform Crime Reporting numbers, its by far the most in the bay area. Its 3 times as much as the second highest in belvidere. We have the metro mall, the serra shopping center. Casino as well. Reporter thats why they need so many cops. Works out to the National Average if you use that figure. A lot of the commercial areas fraud, check cashing, shoplifting, stuff like that. Reporter richard roqueta helps runs the Colma Historical Society where the moto is its great to be alive in colma. The crime rate is twice the National Average, it started going up when the malls and auto row came in. Maybe the rest of the bay area can take some lessons from colma. Do you have any hints for oakland maybe what they can do on that . No comment. Not going to touch that. We are very fortunate here in colma. Reporter i dont blame him. The Police Budget in colma, 5 million. Average salary for a starting cop about 80,000. And right now, theres an opening. In colma, mike sugerman, kpix 5. Thank you, mike. To see hour you city stacks up for Police Staffing to see how your city stacks up for Police Staffing, we have the list at kpix. Com. At least colma can laugh at itself. Exactly. That was great. Well, the drought is leaving a lot of California Lawns brown. Its not good if you are trying to sell a house. How much people are losing because the grass just isnt green. The sky is partially blue but partially gray looking from sfo. Great shot of the fog rolling in once again this evening. Well talk about who gets the fog and low cloud cover tonight. And whats going to happen weatherwise as we approach your weekend. Thats coming up. You think thats ominous . How about talk of a super predator in the ocean . What could have eaten a great white shark . ,,,,, of styles and flavors, weve made it even easierety to order your favorite ice cream cake. Baskinrobbins new online cake ordering. Customers will be paying mo starting july first. Water rates will go up 9. 5 percent for customers in the entire distric east bay m. U. D. Customers will be paying more starting july 1. Water rates will go up 9. 5 . Thats for customers in the district. Sewer rates go up 8. 5 for customers in the western part of contra costa and alameda counties. The district says it needs money for previous debt such as building the system to bring water from the Sacramento River to help during the drought. The average customer who is using about 11 units of water a month, thats our average consumption, they are going to see a rate rise of 4. 50 on their monthly costs for water. The rate increases will also help east bay m. U. D. Pay for maintenance and replacement of old pipes and equipment. The contra costa Water District is saying well done to the concord public works department. Those workers using almost 40 less water than normal. In fact, they are exceeding the current target goal by 15 . The drought is now taking its toll on real estate. Reporter angelie hemphill says the cost of maintaining lawns is too much for some sellers causing them to take a hit on the sale price of the home. This is the worst i havestein. Reporter the front yards of some homes waiting for buyers in sacramento looks like they havent seen water in months. Initially it was a beautiful green lawn. This is what happened because they cant afford to water. Reporter sean austin is a broker with eagle realty who says the drought is affecting his business. Would you want to buy that house if you saw it on the market right now . No, not at all. It doesnt look so great. Previously we would talk about staging and painting and all of that. Now were talking about the cost of watering lawns. Reporter he says the seller has to either pay the higher thannormal cost of irrigation or lose money on the sale of the home. They are having to take major reductions. This particular house behind me took a 9,000 reduction because it needs to have all new landscaping. Reporter and he says he has even had buyers back out completely. When we got some disclosures, the cost of what they were paying to irrigate, it became a big issue for the buyer and they canceled the property and bought a property with a low a drought tolerant landscape. Reporter he says even with a Housing Market on the rise, the drought is dropping prices. And he believes it will only get worse as we head deeper into the summer months. I dont see it getting better. Reporter in sacramento, angelie hemphill, kpix 5. Alston adds now might be a good time to look into drought resistant landscaping if you are trying to sell your home anytime soon. A finish rescue operation is under way in a creek near gilroy. The department of fish and wildlife workers and volunteers trying to catch hundreds of steelhead trout. Those young fish are stranded in the low water cant make it to the ocean because of the drought. Theyre in trouble right now. Bigtime trouble. If we dont rescue them, they die. And theyre protected under the federal endangered species act. The rescuers are using small electrical charges to nudge those fish into their nets and then into a tank truck. They will be released three miles upstream in deeper water. Rescuers hope the trout can get back to the ocean next spring. So great white sharks may be one of the worlds most feared predators, right . It turns out theyre actually not at the top of the food chain. Kpix 5s don ford on the hunt for the super predator that actually devours them. Reporter its one of mans most primeval fears. Being eaten by a great white shark. Dramatized here in the film jaws. But documentary filmmakers say the tables may have been turned. Something attacked one of the great white sharks that they had tagged something big, something unexplained. Question came to mind is what did that . it was obviously eaten. Reporter the electronic tag washed ashore and revealed that the nearly 10foot shark was dragged to the bottom of ocean in a matter of seconds. These are the jaws of a juvenile white shark. Reporter a Senior Scientist for aquatic biology at the California Academy of science and one of the nations top white shark experts that had depth, was 30 degrees warmer purportedly than the water in which it was swimming. Reporter shark tags like this one suggest it was inside another animal the doctor once saw an orca whale killed a great white. Just grabbed this white shark, played with it, killed it, ate its liver and tossed it out. Reporter no one saw what happened to the great white in australia. Mans most feared predator has enemies, too. The documentary on it airs june 25 on the smithsonian channel. Ate the liver like Hannibal Lecter have a shark for dinner. Youre not supposed to be selective in the ocean. Exactly. Weird. So where am i going swimming this weekend . Not the ocean the thing around here is the water is always cold and right now its like 52, 53 degrees offshore. Thats why when we get the flow of air coming off the ocean, it does get quite chilly around here. We are seeing that play out currently. A peek outside at sfo with the cloud cover building just off to your west. It will be foggy at sfo in 60 to 90 minutes. Temperatures kept down today by the onshore flow. Livermore 81. San jose 79. Napa 78. San bruno 73 today. Highs only in the 60s for richmond and San Francisco so our cooling trend does continue. Current temperatures now with our live Neighborhood Network 85 weather stations throughout the bay area. At oak knoll, 73. There is a big area of low pressure to our north that will bring rain and thunderstorms to the pacific northwest. No rain for us. But things spinning like a top and feeding in the onshore flow when the ocean is cold which isty year round and we get a flow of air from the ocean well be cooler, as well. Without the onshore flow it would be like 90 every day but tomorrow, a lot of 60s and 70s as that low makes a close pass. Once that ocean influence goes away, temperatures go back up. Earlier sunshine starting friday, less fog and warmer weather. Nice weekend. High temperatures tomorrow 60s. San francisco 61. Oakland 66. Fremont wont hit 70. Concord 77. San jose 75. Santa rosa 74. Tomorrow will be the coolest day of the week because of the onshore flow decreasing on friday. We warm back up. Weekend looks nice. 80s inland. 70s near the bay. Near perfection, not hot, not cold and well keep winning weatherwise for the first half of next week. So no rainfall out there which is par for the course and really pleasant every day will be nice to get outside. So far you are two for two so thank you. This time of year [overlapping speakers] next winter im not sure. [ laughter ] thank you, paul. At first it looked like a botched play. The ball bounces off his glove, he has to go after it but the throw that comes next has everyone amazed. We asked an expert, how did he do it . Plus, talk about a super fan. This world cup watcher drove from San Francisco all the way to brazil. ,,,,,,, ot a sports fan. Every now and then the sports world gives us something that is truly hard to believe even if you are not a sports fan. Dont need to be. It happened last night. People still kind of shaking their heads over this. So today we ask how did he do that . Down the left field line. Cespedes wont get it. And it rolls off the sidewall and they are going to wave home kendrick. The throw to the plate is there. Oh, my goodness. He got it. Are you kidding me . wow. No kidding that was oakland as left fielder Yoenis Cespedes with a throw for the ages. An unbelievable throw all the way in the air. Reporter just as soon as it reached home plate, experts were crunching the numbers. My name is alan nathan. Im a Professor Emeritus of physics which means im retired. And i spend much of my consciou

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