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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm August 9, 2014

Gaines believe it is possible. We have proximity that helps us out. We have a number of sites on point, i think 31 sites offered. Reporter tesla has not announced a specific kate where plans to announce the winner of the Site Selection competition. Tesla spokesperson said we appreciate senator gaines interest in tesla and his support for the giga factory. I am mark sayer in palo alto kpix 5. The state legislature could consider tax, investment and hiring credits as part of any incentive packets to bring that giga factory here. This just in. New video. Dozens of people gathered in San Francisco this evening to demonstrate against new u. S. Air strikes against iraq. President obama approved the new bombardment, targeting the Islamic Extremist Group isis. They say it brings more death and destruction. Protest is still going on right now. Here is the view from chopper 5 over the crowds. Earlier today, bay area sere january americans rallied in support of the u. S. Military action. They are asking the world to protect the asere januaries and the christians in that area. Assyrians in the air. Palo alto police are investigating a sexual assault. A man walking his pit bull walked near the stanford campus. Then, he touched a woman inappropriately. The victim took out her phone to call the police and the man ran away. Crews took two hours to move an overturned garbage truck in san jose. Three lanes were blocked for a while. Highway patrol says the truck driver lost control. He suffered minor injuries. The biggest Music Festivals of the year taking place right now and throughout the weekend in Golden Gate Park. Take a look. Kicked off today at noon. You can see tens of thousands of people already picked out their favorite spot. Tonights headliner, kanye west with. Whether youre attending or you want to stay awake, kpix 5s ryan takeo shows us how to navigate outside. As bad as it looks from chopper 5, organizers expect a lot more people. Tens of thousands, in fact. People coming out to Golden Gate Park to the polo ground to be able to see the headliners like kanye west tonight. We will show you video we took much earlier. Believe me, its really filled up around here. If you are showing up late, organizers have two main tips. Leave yourself plenty of time, take public transportation. Muni is treating this as a special event so they have 40 buses on the line. How about parking around here . Forget about it. In the last hour, we talked to someone who parked. He was driving around in circles and he finally found a spot. It was tough to get in. We drove circles for a good 15 minutes but then got lucky by someone going in. But there is a ton of people. It is a competition out there. People are driving around trying to get a park. Reporter you can count neighbors fighting to get a spot as well. Those who live near the polo p grounds have to deal with the noise. Also, that traffic is huge headache around here. They have streets closed. Unless those neighbors have tickets, theyre essentially trapped in their own house. Live in San Francisco, im Ryan Takeo Kpix 5. Whether youre going today lands or purposely avoiding the concert, check kpix. Com. We have real time traffic info. We have the band schedules, the event planning, you can follow us on ; to wit, r. For updates during the concert. If you cant make it to a game at the new levi stadium because cost too much, there is another way to get inside. A guided tour. The 9ers started tours today. 25 bucks you get to see most of the stadium. Plus areas average fan wont get to see like the united club and some of the 170 luxury suites. It is probably going to be the only time ill be able to be in here. This is amazing. The 49ers are also offering prizes for anyone who books a tour in august. We have compiled a full guide everything you need to know about the new stadium. And the first home game in santa clara. Just hop online. Some people may need to look in their own backyard. Kpix 5 reporter kip doe shows us some of their own water is going down the drain. If the Santa Clara Valley water districts own water inspectors were to hit the streets this week, they wouldnt have to go far in santa clara. Embarrassing . Sure. We like to be the model of efficiency. For the past couple days, weve been check up on the sprinklers. We found a broken head spewing water into the parking lot and multiple nozzles shooting water onto the concrete. I showed the video to the district which is set to hire a small army of water inspectors to go out and talk to home ownerses. Anybody who gets a knock on the door saying fix your sprinklers, i can imagine them saying youre a hypocrite. Well, were check our sprinklers as often as we can, fixing the problem as soon as we know about them. Practically everybody is guilty to some degree. We visited a dozen homes and businesses ail over the south bay and found overspray at every location. Nozzles that are adjusted propeller at first still need properly at first still need regular tuneups. Ron takes extra care to dial in the pressure of his system. His message to the water district. Get your own house in order first and then call upon us. Since february, the district says its cut its own water use by 29 , saving millions. As for their own overspraying, they are the first to admit, they are not perfect. Hopefully, when we go out and encourage people to fix their problem, they realize were just pointing out something that needs to be addressed. They fixed the sprinklers the same day we told them about the problem. They did the right thing. They estimate a couple dozen gallons of water per day were wasted. Maybe a little more. They expect those new inspectors to hit the streets by the end of the month or the beginning of september after training. A debate over possible new regulations for drones is heating up. A state Assembly Panel is hearing testimony on the growing use of drones by journalist and police. Our reporter was there. Drone technology is opening up the skies and a pandoras box. That is why ucla state lawmakers held hearings on the future of the manned aircraft. These things are cheap. People buy them all the time now. If businesses and media and Law Enforcement and reporters get to use them, the sky could be full of these things. Technology is getting ahead of the agency. Am zone is already testing drone deliveries. We havent seen a law that say this is is illegal. We have been in touch with different organizations. Their primary concern is safety and education right now as they work out their rules. It is a legal gray tear yager. So gray the lapd and the Sheriffs Department are not using drones. Although they believe tear craft would be a tremendous benefit in search of rescues and pursuits able to go undeticketed. That is why the acou is calling on lawmakers to act now to insure police dont use drones to spy on citizens without a warrant. The approach is dangerous in that it does allow for a lot of privacy violations to occur while were waiting. In los angeles, kpix 5. Last week, it was the lapd who was spied on. A video was shot above the hollywood division. They say the laws are so vague they didnt know how to respond. Still ahead, tweeting from the inside of a hurricane in hawaii. The Bay Area Technology that is sending back images from the heart of the storm. We will have the latest on the tropics. Is it a bigger storm, jewel owe not that far behind. Find out why that storm will be different. And, find out which day we have a rain chance right here in the bay area. Thats coming up. Did you hear about the abominable ice cream man . Whats that . Hes a crazy ice cream eating monster who loves creamy delicious tillamook ice cream. whispering seriously . door creaks hes fast. Tillamook ice cream, tastes better because its made better. ,,, sure. Hey canyou bet this . Thats our new interactive speaker wall. sup . Thinks its a speaking wall. This can even dim your lights. Your 3dprinted girlfriend will love that. Real mature. There you go. A laser drone for cats. I wish i had lasers. I dont. Pew pew pew. The new radioshack is finally here. The store of your past is now the store of your future. Come see one of our remodeled stores and get a free portable power charger with a 15 purchase. So will they. The idea is to beat the tag at their game. As kpix 5s da lin shows us, i graffiti painted over walls. The idea is to beat the taggers at their game. Kpix 5s da lin shows us it is actually working at one of the most challenged bay area neighborhoods. Take a drive in oakland. You cant miss the graffiti. It is all over. Even churches are defaced. It makes businesses look bad. The neighborhood looks bad. Mostly volunteers spotted a war on graffiti by adopting four blocks in the New China Town district, an area plagued by tagging. The face of oakland, tim hang of oakland has to change. They paint a, spray and i document the pray, knowing it is temporary. Tomorrow this will be tagged. Guarantee, the team will be back. Every time the taggers spray paint their walls they will wipe them clean. In fact, they will come back to these four blocks every week. You have to learn from the tagger. What do they do . Theyre persistent. They go back. So you have to be persistent . Yes. Thats name of the game. They also have nicknamed. This is erase. I just painted that wall. It gets frustrating. But now i dig it. I come to work, i cant wait. I am debombing. These guys bomb. I debomb. They have a track record to be optimistic. They kept a two mile stretch free of graffiti. Even the walls next to the railroad tracks. And this battle, delay have already seen good signs. A neighbor came out and painted over his walls. Beautiful thing. That gives me chills. Thats nice. I love it. Im going to shake his hand right now. In oakland. Im da lin kpix 5. All the paint for the project is donated. Volunteers help keep it going. The group plans to expand once they have recruited more help. Tropical storm slams the shores of hawaii. A hurricane is still out there on the way. The storm brought 60mile an hour winds, breaking apart homes and splintering some trees. It was like dominoes last night. You couldnt keep count. I was in the kitchen making dinner. Just heard heard a big crash. Governor brown has sent emergency assistant to help in hawaii. The California National guard will be out there for four weeks as well. A Bay Area Company has developed a new way to get into the eye of the storm. These stills are being captured by a row b. It is sending back real time information on that storm. As the hurricane makes its way across hawaii offshore, liquid robotics of sunnyvale has a small robot making big news. You can actually tweet the vehicles, get status, weather information, real time photos taken. So were going to ride right through the hurricanes and collect realtime data. Did you hear that . The vehicle robot is tweeting photos at the Water Surface from inside the hurricane. These shots show the wall of clouds approaching. Waves building and the wind picking up. Theyre called wave riders. The company has sold dozens of them worldwide. The department of defense, navy, environmental assessment, mapping the sea floor, tracking whales, looking for bad guys, those kinds of things. It is powered by solar panels and a unique set of wings that captures wave energy. It propels and thinks for itself with a small onboard server. Traveling at sea for more than a year. Then, theres this. An experimental live video feed. Not quite ready for prime time but getting close. All these robots traveling worlds oceans are supervised here in the pilot and command center. No one seems concerned that they are riding out the storm. This is not the first hurricane for our wave riders. One of them went through a category 4 hurricane earlier this summer. 150mile per hour winds. It was crazy. We continued to produce Real Time Data the whole time. Favor of its kind glimpse of the power of mother nature. And it has worldwide audience thanks to the power of social media. In sunnyvale, Don Ford Kpix 5. So cool isnt it . Stomach doesnt feel so good. Yeah. I know. Reporter it is co. Technology, where we dont want to go, send a drone. We want the information, not the stomach uneasiness. Yeah. Hawaii really dodged a built. Julio will likely be a near miss. Reporter here is live look at whats going on right now. The big island still getting 30 mile per hour wind gust. Honolulu 29 Miles Per Hour wind gust. Yeah, it is breezy, but the worst of the wind is now finished. We saw wind gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour. Look at that guy off to the right. That is julio, a category 2 hurricane. This is where were 90 certain the path of the storm will stay within and it misses hawaii to the north. It will be windy again. It will be wet again. But a direct hit likely will not happen. The National Hurricane center saying julio will be a near miss. Back here in the bay area, bevellening in the south bay. You have made it to the weekend. Pretty warm away from the water. Antioch, vacaville, 98. San pablo 65. Video of a super moon from last year. You will notice, this weekend the super moon, or the moon will be big because its physically closer. The closest super moon of the year will happen this sunday night. The moon will rise just before sun set. Should be a beautiful shot. If youre saying hey, it looks bigger, thats because it physically is. It will be about 20,000 miles closer than normal. Will you see it because of the cloud cover . Yes. Low pressure will be here this weekend. Sunday night you will see the super moon. Monday, that is the one chance we have of not only increased cloud cover but rainfall. North bay, east bay away from the water slight chance of a thunderstorm. Pulls up a little tropical moisture. Humidity will be here for the top of next week. Very pleasant day tomorrow. Saturday, get outside. Livermore warm, not hot. San jose perfect. 80. Redwood beech 80. 80. Napa 81. Mid 70s near the bay. Not a bad forecast at all. It will be chilly. San francisco, mid60s,ish. Plan on being surrounded by a lot of people and hearing good music. No hurricanes though. Reporter no. Thanks, paul. Still ahead, it is a haven for homeless bay area kids. The help it has already given hundreds and why it may not be in danger. ,,,, female announcer sundays your last chance to save big during sleep trains triple choice sale. For a limited time, you can choose to save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. Or choose 300 in free gifts with sleep trains most popular tempurpedic mattresses. You can even choose 48 months interestfree financing on the new tempurchoice, with headtotoe customization. The triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep find a bed to sleep at nigh new at 6. Kpix 5s well, it is the only place in Alameda County where homeless kids can find a bed to sleep kpix 5s Christin Ayers says it is on the verge of closing if something doesnt change fast. When i first got to dream catchers, i didnt know how i was going to do it. Haven for homeless teens like this. If these walls could talk, delay would tell heart breaking stories like the one elijah tells me about his step dad. He says i cant wait until you get 18 so you can get out of my house, stuff like that. My mom used to say i wish i would have abort you. For six years elijah says his stepfather made him sleep on the floor even though he had a bit. Before graduation, elijahs stepfather kicked him out. I slept in the parks for a night. It was so scary. A friend fed elijah and brought him to dream catcher. In Alameda County we have 2,000 homeless kids and only eight beds for young kids 13 to 18. You heard that right just eight quay beds for 2,000 Homeless Children in Alameda County. Other cities like San Francisco and chicago have 300 beds. The teens who come here, 700 so far this year, are often escaping abuse. Some have been forced into prostitution. Others abandoned by addict parents. On a shoe string budget dream catcher gives the teen simple things. Foods, bed, a check to check facebook and do laundry. Without dream catchers i dont know where i would be. But elijah and other teens could soon be homeless again. The man who owns the dream catcher home is struggling to pay his bills and needs to sell the place. To buy it, dream catcher needs 100,000 for a down payment. We really need this money in the next couple weeks or the landlord is forced to sell the building. Without these beds, workers say the teens who need them will fall through the cracks. Turned away from adult shelters where minors legally are not allowed. Elijah has already started his own landscaping business and wants to get into carpentry next. A dream he worries wont survive without dream catcher. I came here with nothing. Ever since i been here i accomplished a lot of stuff i didnt have at home. In oakland, Christin Ayers kpix 5. To find out how you can help the dream catcher, go to kpix 5. Coming up in our next half hour, the crisis in iraq escalates. Why president obama says dust military is ready to take the u. S. Military is redty to make more action if needed. What the ncaa cant stop College Athletes from doing and how it could mean big bucks. ,, no rush, andy. ,, come on. 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