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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm January 3, 2015

On it. Hard to say. They like the detour. They wouldnt mind it if it stayed that way at least a little longer. This is heaven. Usually you have to be on the road about 6 to have this in the morning. How is it different when you have no cars here. Quiet, beautiful. Of course drivers want highway 1 fixed faster but cal tran says dont expect that until spring time. Live in the county mark kelly kpix5. Thank you for that. If they catch drivers going through that detour they will get a 400 ticket. Im sure you all felt the frosty temperatures around the bay today and its not about to let up. We are in for another cold night. A freeze warning is on the way. Temperatures can drop into the upper 20s in some areas. Heres what some people woke up to earlier today, ice coated wind shields in several places around the bay. People had to scrape it off before heading out for the day. Brian, people will have to turn up the heat again tonight. Unless they want to suffer they will, yeah. Freeze warnings posted through midnight tonight through 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning freeze warnings in red frost advisories in blue. Nothing compared to when i lived in december of 1990 the temperature down to 14 degrees overnight. Nothing like that tonight. 32 in santa rosa 35 in napa and 35 degrees atrophy mont a little bit better than the past three nights. Fairfield and livermore will be below freezing and one more night. And expect temperatures to remain cold during the day too with a slight warming trend coming up sunday and monday. Views all the details when we cover the weather,. The drivers license. Hundreds of people waited in lines in the new dmv office in san jose. More people signing up for insurance. Christian hart with the question could that mean lower insurance rates for everybody else . Christian . Its a good question, ken. Undocumented immigrants what want a license need to be insured and its 15 uninsured one of the highest in the country adding insured drivers should reduce. We spoke with the department of insurance. Can could be a good thing for drivers holding off promising they will save you money on prime yum and those applying will take the fear out of driving for the first time. Its perfect because you go on the street and no fear to drive and. 24 million undocumented immigrants applied for licenses over the next few years and here at the dmv Processing Center a very busy day. Some kinks in the system but a lot of people able to get in and get attuned what we need to inside this building. Now overall today the first four operating hours from 8 to noon today the dmv says about 6,000 applications poted for licensed. Live in san Jose Christian hart kpix25. They accommodated the surge in applications. Some will be open on saturdays starting tomorrow. A state law that took effect with the new year gives a boost to businesses owned by people. Its goal is to help the businesses compete for certain contracts. The first of its kind legislation requires large Utility Companies to report how much they spend with lgbt owned firmed. A creative way thieves are sneaking into garages thursday woman had burglars break into her garage on christmas night while her i cannot mean sleeping. They stole two 15,000 bikes. Thieves cut a tiny hole in the window and used a clothes hanger to pull the emergency latch and manually open the door from the outside. Ryan shows us the effected 20 cent fix. And the fix is really cheap. This zip tie, what you do is you thread it through the emergency release latch and once you tighten it its a lot more difficult for thieves to pull the release. Livermore police mosted a how to video to do this. They say you can still open your garage dark door like normal but this will effect the emergency release. You would have to snip that zip tie to use that. Expensive wine stolen from the French Laundry restaurant is worth six times the original estimate. Turns out napa county sheriff shows a full 76 bottles were taken worth 300,000. The wine cellar heist was discovered the next morning. The wine is rare and raised questions if the thieves try to fence it. This is last day as oaklands mayor. She is leaving the city in much better shape. We sat down with the mayor who says she didnt get a fair shake from the media and her toughest critics. This is what im most proud of. I took on Police Reforms that were on ten years under judges orders. The previous mayors were afraid to kick the can down to her and redo you said the number of federally mandated Police Reforms from 50 to just a few tasks. For the first time the people we recruiting look like the city. 50 minorities and 60 speak a second language. More women. One of the reasons crime is on a downward trend. Murders are down 10 from when she took office in 2010. She wants team people to remember her as the mayor that pioneered oaklands ren nancy and named oakland the fifth best place in the world to visit. Bringing back the economy, getting the investment, getting the Chinese Investor for brooklyn basin. Reporter cant find any significance that im proud to say thats something she did. Its just not that there. Charles has been critical of her handling of occupying okayland. Some people blame the mayor for being soft around getting rid of city hall and question her leadership and lack of stability. Four Police Chiefs in four years and at least four city administratives who resigned. Remember all great for mayor a d minus. She says they treated her unfairly and used racial slurs against her. I was surprised there were fairly racist things that i wasnt prepared for. She admits she made mistakes but shes not apologetic. Im leaving the city in a lot better shape. In oakland kpix5. At noon on monday mayor will officially transfer power to incoming mayor elect. Its becoming a source of Neighborhood Pride and fear. Shaped like a moose head and Everyone Wants to know who would cut it down. A big money fight could mean new names for well known spots in a national park. And hes cute and furry and can save your life. Why this golden retriever is a valuable member of a ski patrol. Female announcer its time to make room for the new mattress models during sleep trains huge year end Clearance Sale, get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempurpedic mattress sets at low clearance prices. Save even more on floor samples, demonstrators, and closeout inventory. Plus, free sameday delivery, setup and removal of your old set. Why wait for the new models . Sleep trains year end Clearance Sale is on now . Guaranteed your ticket to a better nights sleep that looks like a moose head. Locals painted the mo s colors this tree in napa is known as the napa moose. Its called that because of a growth on the side of the tree that looks like a moose head. Locals painted the tree but tonight the moose is no more. New at 6kpix is with a story of its mysterious disappearance. Its gone. Now its quiet and folks say its a shame. It was kind of a shock. I think its really sad. Who would do Something Like this. It looked remark remark alabama stately like a remarkablely like a moose. Over and over people playfully decorated it with giants, High School Colors and patriotic. Always fun and all thats left is saw desk dusk from a chain saw. A street side memorial. Mourners are stopping all day to committees rate. Cars havent and trucks drive by slowly but the tree was scheduled to be removed anyway in a few months to make rooms for new homes. There was a plan being hatched. First i heard about it. It seems her dad who owns the place must have forgot to tell her but theres a special place waiting for the moose anyway. As for a moose its gone but authorities think it might resurface some time soon because loose lips sink ships. Napa city counsel man tells them the person who took the moose can drop it off at any time at napa city fire station. No questions will be asked. Something very unusual on southbound interrer state 280 this morning a Mountain Lion was killed. The male cat was 80 pounds full grown. The driver kept going apparently may not have realized what happened. Animal experts believe the cougar may have been looking for a new home. Its a rare event so we dont see this happening often in the bay area and when we do more often than not its a young cat leaving its mother. The Mountain Lion had wounds and facial scars that suggested it recently fought with another big cat. Wildlife experts believe it could have been a fight over territory. The u. S. Coast guard has suspended persuades of the queen cruise boat that ran aground back in august and again early yesterday morning. 300 new years partyers were stuck in freezing temperatures for two hours but the no sale order has nothing to do with the grounding. The boat has mechanical problems. Well known locations might have to be renamey the hotel in curry village. The parks current Concession Company says it owns those famous names and wants to be paid as much as 51 million if another Company Takes over the contract and wants to use existing names. The park service is soliciting bids for the contract. With all the people heading to the snow this winter search and rescue teams are keeping a close eye on skier safety. Reporter angie shows us the newest member of the ski patrol team doesnt need special gear. Its not every day you see a dog riding the ski lift but hes part of the ski patrol tom here. Tucker the tenyearold golder retriever loves to be the center of attention and he can also save your life. A friendly dog who loves his job who is up every morning ready to go to work. Tucker is an important part of the ski team at tahoe resort. His Nose Knows Best when it comes to finding someone buried in the snow. Good boy. As humans we have a strong sense and when somebody is buried in an avalanche that scent eventually perk lates up. Tuckers owner and ski patrol says he uses it to sniff out someone in trouble and can do it better and faster than any human. His nose is 1,000 times more sensitive than a human nose and digging in the snow is less like a job and more like a game where the glove is a reward. We use the glove for two reasons. One if they were to come along to a hand they would close exposes it and dig it up so the rescuers would know fanned they see a hand that they can try and pull the person up. And beads search and rescue tuckers other role here at at resort is to be a teacher to the young skiers. Hes a good representative of avalanche safety and awareness. Beautiful dog there. Probably not a lot of snow in the immediate bay area but it feels chilly enough. It is chilly out there and if not snow then how about ice which is what we woke up to in walnut creek and heres the evidence of that. Below 30 degrees in some spots and idealist on the windshields. Those days are back in the bay area tonight and tomorrow night and after that we look for things to warm up pretty well and the numbers in the bay area 56 degrees in oakland 55 in morgan hill and San Francisco 52 degrees mostly clear skies hazy as High Pressure builds in a couple things happen. Temperatures warm up into the mid 60s by monday and tuesday so we begin to that will out. Its been punishing with the readings due for a major change in the eastern half of the country as they get the big polar plunge of cold air but for us we are dry to next week and the numbers in the mid 60s on monday and tuesday. Next chance of rain doesnt look like its coming in just a hint of it by next thursday. Between now and then sunshine hazy and indication that High Pressure is trapping pollution to the service as a result with the north bay and coast and central bay expecting unhealthy levels of pollution in the atmosphere so no wood burning. Overnight lows tonight freezing in santa rosa and Napa Fairfield 28 and livermore 30 degrees Mountain View 34 and Red Wood City 30 for an overnight low. We inch back towards the 60s with oakland at 58 degrees and santa rosa up in the in order by mid 50s for day time highs. Warmer days ahead sunday monday and tuesday. Mid 60s by monday and tuesday closer to the shore line a little bit cooler and cloud things up by thursday the no one time we might be talking about a drop or two of rain. Between now and then not much. Okay good. Stockton street winter walk in San Francisco is set to close on monday but it may not be gone for good turns out artificial turf covers the stretch of stockton street and its the area where crews are working on the central subway project. The pedestrian plaza went up the day after thanksgiving much to the delight of those still using it. I love it. I think its really fun and nice not to have the traffic and it attracts people and its fun to come out here. It brings a lot of people and i hope it stays. I like it. You dont have to mow it and she may get her wish. Officials are considering a return of the winter walk due to popular demand. The rose parade was yesterday but today people are still enjoying the floats in pasadena through tomorrow for folks to see and people driving from all parts of the country to see these displays. They want to get up close to the incredible details on the floats. I think its the craft manship of the flowers. On t. V. You dont realize how much work goes into it until you are up to it. Still ahead setting the record straight the you tube video says its on the up and up even though a witness says this was all a hoax. And you could call it karma the series of unfortunate events that have this bike thief thinking twice about doing it again. vo at jennieo, we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride ten miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco, made with jennieo ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. mom id feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. woman i think that theyre light and theyre just fresh tasting. vo its time for a better taco. kid the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. vo make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey at a store near you. Night. Just before midnight, a man left his unlocked bike outside a restaurant. Another man who was drunk took the bik a thief got a lesson in karma last night just before midnight a man left his unlocked bike outside a restaurant. Another man who was drunk took the bike and rode off with it but he only got across the street before losing control crashing into a trash can. You can see him falling to the ground. Lost a couple of teeth splits found him and took him to the hospital. The bike was returned to the owner. A new twist and story to the internet video that first melted hearts and showed a homeless man spending is hundred dollars to feed homeless people. But now charges the whole thing was a hoax. Reporter jeff went in on the center of this controversy. The men in this viral video are fighting back about whether its genuine. You tube personality gave ken 100 as a social experiment. A camera captured the homeless man going into a liquor store and buying food that he then handed out to odd people at a park. Its a shame that he did something to where my life improved and his life is kind of getting messed up. Thats because a man who claims he witnessed what happened says it was all staged. I was there. He didnt follow him. They drove him there. I think hes a hater. Haters got to hate. The only reason he would see us get in the car would be after the film. Adding to the controversy his own brother reached out to us saying he choses to live on the street despite an inheartiness from a mother and stepfather. Hes sitting on 150,000 in the estate. He says the condo is left in my name however its probably going to have to be sold to pay off debts. An on line fundraiser has brought in 100,000 to help him who we learned has a lendy arrest record in orange county. A donations on the 21st and will all go to nickel who told us he plans to donate a significant force of it to three homeless shelters. Say someone is skeptical and wants the donations back would you give tax payer back to them. Yes i could understand. In the meantime they are looking for legal action to prevent anyone from making a negative comment about the video. That was jeff reporting. More than 30 Million People have watched that you tube video. Calling out county supervisors. A self approved pay raise has them on the hot feet seat but county workers say they need to dial it down big time. Check out this tangelled mess. The unusual weather that sent drivers slipping and sliding. Right name wrong address a mix up sends a box full of Hollywood History to this womans home. Female announcer when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight. Because they went to sleep trains ticket to tempurpedic event. Choose from a huge selection of tempurpedic models including the new tempurchoice, with headtotoe customization. Plus, get 36 months interestfree financing, two free pillows and free sameday delivery. Are you next . Make sleep train your ticket to tempurpedic. Your ticket to a better nights sleep now these county supervisors may be forced to give it back. Welcome back, im ken they voted to give themselves a big big pay raise. Now the county supervisors may be forced to give it back. Welcome back. Im elizabeth in for veronica. Supervisors voted to raise their own salaries by 33 last november and county workers saying thats unfair. How the thousands who agree with them are fighting back. This group of county workers is angry and judging by the amount of signatures a lot of others are too. The group know that 33 showed 39,000 signatures today and delivered them to the clerk. The lack of leadership in terms of asking others within the county to make sacrifices while you are pursuing self enrichment is a crisis of leadership. If the group has 25,000 over find signatures county supervisors must revisit the 32,000 raise they approved a couple of months ago. If they dont the issue will go to a special election. The supervisors argue others before them have passed on approving small raises here and there and the 33 raise is overdue. Weve been behind for so long. With their raise andnew salary of 129,000 they now jump to the fourth highest in the region behind santa peculiara alameda and son yoma. 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