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KPIX KPIX 5 News At 6pm January 29, 2015

Asking, wheres mom. Thats the hardest part, what am i going to tell her . Shes just a little girl. I dont know. Only god knows. She cant see her kids grow. It sucks. Reporter marias 13yearold daughter has shown great strength today and shes been a strong big sister to her younger brother, and younger sister. A couple of times only has she broken down, in fact, one time i remember her screaming i cant believe shes gone. Ken, this is a tough one. Very, very, very sad. We talk about the victims, we forget the families and the friends and people left behind who have to go through such a tragedy. Ryan, thank you for that. Now this was the first of two deadly shootings in the bayview yesterday. Police dont know if the two are connected. No one has been arrested in either case. A memorial is going on right now for a young woman run over during what police think was a street race in san jose. It is taking place at a spot where 24yearold died monday. She was out on a job when two drivers came racing up the street. They crashed and slammed into her. One of the suspects appeared in court this afternoon. If t family lashed out. Faces several charges the family members yelled at hill as he left the courtroom. One of them cussed him out. I want to put justice done. I want to make sure these guys dont get a tap on their hands and let them go. The other suspect in the case gabriel is out on bail. Hes supposed to be arraigned in a couple of weeks. Well, tonight, a 6yearold boy in marin, who has been fighting cancer for most of his life, is facing a whole new threat to his health. One that his family shouldnt have to worry about. New at 6 00, kpix 5s on their plea to their sons school. Keep the unvaccinated kids homement and we shouldnt be talking about this. Reporter well as a lot of people are saying, in 2015, we thought wed eradicated measles, but theres a lot of people, well educated people, who have done a lot of research who are fearful. This family is getting a lot of attention because they cannot vaccinate their child. It is not an option for their son. And so he is at risk of getting the measles because of other parents who just choose not to vaccinate their children. Anne, you know, this is not uncommon. Recently, and as you mentioned many of these people are fairly well educated. Have been, you know, deciding not to vaccinate kids, not to vaccinate chir children for one Health Concern or another. And now were seeing this up tick in measles and its happening in a lot of places around the country. Not just here. Reporter right. And what were seeing is it is goz going down. In this area, theres 7 of the families are chosen not to imnice their children. Its causing a problem and as this family is finding, their concern is their child is at risk now. After years fighting leukemia, every moment 6yearold is healthy is treasure. But his immune system cant handle a measles vaccine. Hes relying on his schoolmates to keep him from contracting measles. Lets not have a sick kid. Lets immu nice our children. Reporter the highest opt out rate for imsagss in the area. 7 of the children opt out of thats vaccine about half of that for measles meeting 19 children at this school arent vaccinated. I am very concern. I had no idea that reed had that high of an antivaccination. Reporter panic for another. Who has a vulnerable child with a compromised immune system. Children are infectious for up to four days before they develop symptoms. We want to make sure that that protection is built in. Reporter to get kids vaccinated, they ban all unvaccinated children, except those with medical xemss. I think every child needs to be vaccinated from, you know, those kind of diseases or they shouldnt be a allowed to go to the school. A personal decision, i understand but you have to look at the greater good as well. Reporter if theres a case of measles at reed, all unvaccinated children, including brett, will be sent home for 2 is days, theres more to this. Measles mumps rubella polio, chickenpox, theyre gone. Lets not waste our time on those things. Lets cure cancer. Reporter the Health Department is seeing an increase in parents who are vaccinating their children. In large part because of as of january 1st, parents who decide that they dont want to vaccinate their child they first have to have a sit down face to face with their pediatrician who has to sign off on that agreement. Kpix 5. All right. The School District has experience with children who cant come to school because of compromised immune systems. Last year, during the flu season, one child went to school via skype. A Surprising New explanation for why a fighter jet buzzed berkeley yesterday. A lot of people heard it fly low, thundering over the east bay. One explanation is the flyby was a gesture of brotherly love. According to the website berkeley side, a cal student says his brother is a navy pilot who is moving to texas this week. The story goes, he wanted to fly over campus and say hello to his brother. Who reported the pilot lost his wing is kind of a salute, the navy is still investigating would not confirm that story. A Navy Spokesperson says its a training flight, and that the pilot was being directed by faa controllers. Well we learned late today a storm damaged section of highway 1 in marin county will reopen tomorrow. That trouble happened between mill valley and mooer woods right where highway 1 meets with the panoramic highway. The road was originally closed when heavy rainstorms caused part of the road to wash away last month. The crews had to build a new retaining wall with steel beams and back filled concrete. The road has been repaved and is ready for traffic. Other bay area headlines businesses are getting back to normal tonight after a gas leak forced evacuations in san jose. A construction crew busted the line near king road just before 1 00 p. M. Pg e came in and had it capped in two hours. San Francisco Police are on the hunt for a suspected puppy snatcher. They say this guy, punch a muni rider in the face last week and stole his pack back. Inside the pack back was the victims 4monthold pit bull, chester. If youve seen the dog or the thief, police want to hear from you. And tonight, well far go confirms the gold stolen in a crash and grab heist at San Francisco museum was real. Thieves got away with up to 10 ounces. After driving through the front window of the bilgd yesterday. The bank hadnt said exactly how much the gold was worth. Theres a moderate earthquake off the Northern California coast this afternoon but so far no reports of any damage. The magnitude 5. 7 quake was centered about 40 miles southwest of eureka, people reported feeling it as far as red bluff. 159 miles away. Just last march a 6. 8 magnitude skak struck quake struck in that area. There was no damage on land. A report card today on californias recovery, the Credit Rating Service Standard and poor says state finances are balanced because sacramento is raining in the spejding. Analysts are ek coing governor jerrys a Rainy Day Fund and pay down debt rather than spend the current surplus. An up a beat status update today from facebook, beaten profit and revenue forecasts again. The 7th quarter in a row the men low park company beat wall street expectations. People visiting to smartphones to look at the site might have something to do with it. Facebook made big gains in mobile advertising. Mobile devices are changing the way that companies works. A vast majority, were talking about above 80 of the daily and monthly people who come to that service, are doing it on a mobile device. Wall street a partialityly didnt like what a he didnt like what it saw. The stock is down 2 after the closing bell. A rough day all around for stocks all three markets dropped sharply, for the second day in a row. Today, it was the federal reserve, hinting at rate hikes the rate hikes that made investors sell. Still ahead a lawyer put in handcuffs, her office says this completely uncalled for. But police are sticking to their guns. New clues in a womens mysterious death along highway 29. The leads from a mexican restaurant. Stopping the stin ch, what some north bay homeowners are doing to keep away a foul summertime smell. Some of you love this weather. Some of you think this weather does stink. You want some rainfall around here. It has not rained in san jose, widespread, in about 35 days. 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At that point i was told i was interfering and i would be taken into custody. Kpix 5s police are really sticking to their guns here. Reporter right, and their side of the story is that an investigator spotted the two suspects and thought that they p were wearing the same clothing that had been described in a recent burglary. And thats where kr he wanted to take pictures of them and talk to them. And thats why the cops tonight are saying theyre staying with what they feel they did right. What they have to say. An active criminal investigation. And essentially, at this point thats all we have. Reporter police arent apologizing, the public defender is outraged. Do we know how unusual this is . Reporter nobody at the hall of justice can remember this happening, any time before. As a matter of fact, we talked with peter king, the former deputy, public defenders also a former member of the police commission, and deanno heres what he had to say about the incident. Hes interfering with her duty as a lawyer violated the civil rights of her client and it was a totally illegal inappropriate thing which ive never heard of, ever having been done anywhere in the country. Reporter but youre going to hear a lot about this case in the days to come. Both sides like we said are sticking to their stories and the photos are going out viral theyre already going across the country. So once again San Francisco has got the country talking. Liz. Once again. All right. Phil, thank you. It could be a possible break in the case of a woman who was killed in the north bay. Newly released video shows 57yearold maria cruz hours before her death. She is seen with two men at a mexican restaurant, last november. At one point, she is Holding Hands with with uno of these one of these guys. Hours later, her body was found on the side of highway 29 near mount st. Helena. If nothing else, one of these two men can give us information to determine how she got out to mount st. Helena from the santa rosa area. Right now these two men are being called persons of interest, investigators say she had injuries consistent with being run over by a car. Dozens of birds are getting a new lease on life today after nearly dying from a mystery goo. Theyre among hundreds of birds that were found coated in the substance over the last two weeks. The goo was breaking down their feather structure causing hypothermia. The first group to spread their wings in the bay after a rest rescue operation to save them. Their feathers are impacted in this way and they have to be cleaned. A lot of their rewater proofing depending op how they work to realign the feathers. 300 birds were captured over the last two week, 100 died in captivity. The rest are still recovering at rescue facilities. Well, it may be a scenic, aeshg but there is a catch lagoon in the north bay is notorious for stinking up neighborhoods. Its at spin kerr point and those who live near it are getting tired o the stench. New at 6 00 don ford with how far theyre willing to go to fix it. Reporter it looks beautiful right now. But anyone living anywhere close to this lagoon knows whats in store this coming summer. The water dries up. Leaving behind dead the dying and rotting plants. It smells like rotten eggs. The stench is unbearable. Reporter now the bay Point Homeowners Association is paying for a study to see how they can prevent this summer stench. How much is it going to cost. 35,000 for a study. Reporter an engineering study will look at how water can better flow through the lagoon. Because this is a wet scompland the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse might have been sighted, the process becomes complicated. The point of getting things done expeditiously. Reporter the smell is nothing new. No, it has been there at least for 20 something years. Reporter this satellite image shows how large the lagoon is compared to the surrounding neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that may breathe easier if the lagoon can be flushed on a more regular basis. The city is working closely where the association to help find a solution. This study will be starting next week or two as soon as we sign the paperwork and enter in an agreement. Reporter the homeowners session says they hope it will be done and have something to do with the summertime stench in 90 days. Don ford, kpix 5. Something that hadnt been seen in yoement National Park in a century. The park confirms this is a photo of a Sierra Nevada red fox. Park biologists have actually spotted two of them in the backcountry, since last month. To give you an idea of how unlikely that is, the fox is so endangered there may be fewer than 50 of them left. Wow. Thats a sight. I tell you whats more amazing snow on the ground. Thats even more amazing than seeing the red fox. 8,000 feet. Way way up high. It is strange how this winter has unfolded. A ton of rainfall, we couldnt make it stop raining for a couple of days. And then it stopped. Oh, did it stop. Since before christmas. And we have been waiting ever since we will wait impatiently for rainfall. Because its not coming over the next week. We do have a beautiful evening. Going out with you family. The san jose camera there. Santa rosa, you hit 70. Oakland, san jose, fremont San Francisco in the mid to upper 60s. We should be in the mid to upper 50s and you know, we shoe should see something on the radar from time to time. O for january oakland San Francisco and livermore. So where is the ridge now . And is there anything close to give us rainfall . The answer is the ridge is really close and nothing else is close enough to change that. We have this strong ridgeful we do have cloud cover from santa barbara, it is socked in with clouds and showers in there as low pressure scoots by to our south. Not making it here, our friends a few hours to our south with see showers overnight tonight but none for us, because the ridge, like a force field that Mother Nature has plopped down on top of us, since christmas eve. Santa claus left it. Heres the ridge hanging out stronger closer over e the weekend. I know some of you broke some record highs on saturday. You may do it again this saturday. We will have highs in the low 70s away pr the water. Our only home for rainfall is that the ridge, which is forecast to move to the south, allowing storms to get closer by next monday, will actually move more to the south. If that happens this rainfall here may make it into the north bay. That is the only chance for rain in the next 7 day, a 10 or 15 chance at that. Mid 50s again tomorrow. 66, fremont 65. Watch out for fog for you in napa con ford, livermore toward the delta. Sunshine in the afternoon. Partly sunny skies, mid 60s everywhere. Warmest day saturday and sunday. Mainly sunny skies. Baseball try outs in your town. It will be mild for the kids and stay relatively mild next week, a tad cloudier, not really cooler. The average high is about 58 degrees in the bay area. Not one day over the next week that will at least be 510 degrees above average. So we are warm, we are dry. We are waiting for a change. Its got to change. It has to change. It has the to change. Ill keep saying that, it has to change. Right now, were completely unsure as to when it is. Not the next week. Maybe the week after. Were all getting a tan. Were going to be tan town. Thats true, we are. January. Middle of summer. You have a nice looking tan. With california still so deep in drought not a skroek, and its no surprise that conservationists dont plan to let this idea slide. There is now a petition going to keep this giant water slide from coming to california this summer. It was originally slated to stop in 15 cities. Including six here in the bay area. Utah based slides of city has already dropped a half dozen of those dates. Still ahead no laptops allowed. Why this east bay cafe is making you 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. Find the tempurpedic thats right for you and see why theyre the most highly recommended bed in america. Plus, get three years interestfree financing. Sleep riskfree with sleep trains 100 day money back guarantee. And of course, free sameday delivery. Are you next . Announcer make sleep train your ticket to tempurpedic. Your ticket to a better nights sleep at Kaiser Permanente everything you need is under one roof. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Okay, a little easier. Become a member of Kaiser Permanente. Because together, we thrive. In an area so heavily invested in tech a computer ban is probably the last thing youd expect to encounter at a bay area business. But as kpix shows us, oakland cafe trying out that idea is enjoying surprising success. Reporter when the actual cafe first opened in oakland the staff noticed something alarming. No one was talking to each other. We would be working bind the counter and looking at the dining room at a sea of laptops. Reporter people sat her alone, didnt order much and took upmost of the seats. I felt like i was out of place, trying to have food here. Reporter so five years ago the cafe did the unthinkable. They imposed a no laptops policy on weekends. What we

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