Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition 20140328 : vi

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition 20140328

Again expect some delays before and after tonights game. But you have a while for that. In the meantime you have to get to work today and so far everything still looks good at the bay bridge toll plaza. And at 5 01, the overnight roadwork should be clear from the incline toward the tunnel. Usually is by just about 5 00 in the morning. We have not seen any delays yet leaving oakland, no metering lights. And i want to show you a quick look at highway 4 where the ride looks good from antioch into concord. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. All right, elizabeth. Thank you. Leland yee is out of the race for secretary of state but resisting efforts to vacate his state senate seat. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is outside the indicted senators San Francisco home. Eys political future could be out of his hands this morning. Reporter as far as we know, senator yee is still inside his home. He hasnt made any public appearances since leaving a federal courthouse on wednesday and kpix 5 has learned that he is fighting to keep his job and isnt backing down despite calls to resign. Now, according to a capital source familiar with the discussions, yee has told Senate Leaders he would like to take a leave of absence but he is not formally requesting paid leave. A spokesman for Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg said he couldnt confirm those conversations but said senator steinberg did repeat the two choices he gave yee that he should resign or he will be removed by his fellow senators in a vote. Leave. Dont burden your colleagues and this Great Institution with your troubles. Leave. Reporter meanwhile, yee is no longer a candidate for state office. His attorney read aloud a letter the senator wrote to the secretary of state. Right now, we do have a live look at the capital. As far as that vote is concerned, it hasnt officially been scheduled yet and regarding that leave of absence, that has to be formally granted. Reporting live in San Francisco, back to you in the studio. Cate, has Something Like this happened before . Reporter well, michelle, we do know that in the past, two other democratic lawmakers were allowed to were granted a leave of absence in the midst of criminal troubles but it appears in this case, that might not happen. All right. Cate caugiran live in San Francisco, thank you. And remember to join kpix 5 and kcbs radio today at noon for a live webcast and twitter chat about the yee investigation answering your questions and examining the impact of this bombshell case. Use the yee chat and watch live. There is new information about the missing malaysian jet and it means that the search area has changed. One of the planes in a new search area spot some objects today but couldnt confirm they are from the plane. They are looking at radar information and now decided the plane was going faster than previously thought. That means two things. It would have run out of fuel faster but it also means the plane could have been closer to the west coast of australia so that means that the search planes that go out about 680 miles northeast of where they were looking yesterday can spend longer in the search area because they wont run out of fuel as quickly. Six ships are also headed to that new area. Now to developing news out of Washington State. Officials say the number of dead in that massive mud slide will likely rise substantially. As teri okita reports, more than 200 rescue workers are battling physical and mental fatigue in the search for victims. Reporter the search continues for survivors of victims of the Washington State mud slide. More than two dozen people are known dead, many more have yet to be located. 90 people continue to be currently missing or unaccounted for. Reporter searchandrescue crews have not found any survivors since saturday. But they have been here every day from dawn to dusk using heavy machines and bare hand to search for live in the chaos. If you could imagine houses, trees and a bunch of mud put in a blender and run for a bit and then dumped back on the ground, thats what it looks like. Reporter exhaustion is just one problem facing rescuers who have to fight through waist deep mud to reach the slide area. Then theres emotional fatigue. Going through the rubble, i see the exact same things at my house, my little ponies, thats what makes it tough. Reporter pete stewart who has been helping search crews since saturday, his seven children have classmates among the missing. My 6yearold all she knew is her friend wasnt in school monday, wasnt in school tuesday, not in school today. And they had its like a memorial in the class for that girl. Shes never coming back. Now she understandses that. Reporter the cub scouts are raising money for slide victims. They say they just want to help in what little ways they can. Teri okita for cbs news, arlington washington. The body of a fourmonthold girl was found yesterday not far from where her grandmothers body was recovered on sunday. A montana newlywed gets 30 years in prison for push her husband off a cliff 22yearold Jordan Graham was sentenced yesterday. Investigators say that she admitted to luring her new husband cody johnson to Glacier National park and shoving him off a cliff last year. She pleaded guilty to Second Degree murder. The victims family wanted life in prison but they say that they are still happy with the outcome. A fair sentence i believe is life. She took his life, she owes her life. I feel that i can move forward from this. She tried to change her plea before sentencing but the judge didnt go for it. San franciscobased pg e says it expects to face federal criminal charges. The potential charges would be in connection with the 2010 explosion and fire caused by a faulty gas pipeline in san bruno. Eight people were killed, dozens of others were injured, and 38 homes destroyed. I have always said that the death of eight people because of the ineptitude of a public utility not watching what theyre doing is criminal. Pg e released a statement saying its accountable for the accident and has learned that safety must always come first. In other headlines around the bay area this morning, an emeryville man is charged with murder after he allegedly killed a u. S. Marine while drunk driving in fremont. Police say 23yearold Alexander Yohn hit and killed 23yearold andrew silva with his mini cooper early thursday morning. Im sorry, early tuesday morning. Silva was on a motorcycle. Yohn crashed into a utility pole while running from officers. A woman was arrested for trespassing at the San Francisco airport for the second time in a week. Investigators say 62yearold Marilyn Hartman was spotted at a baggage claim without a boarding pass. A judge had ordered her not to be on airport property without one since she has a history of trying to sneak on planes. One of them sat down next to her and said you know youre not supposed to be here. She realized she is not supposed to be there but unfortunately, she just keeps coming back. Police say hartman has tried three times to get on planes to hawaii. Once she actually made it on the plane before she was caught. Happening today, members of congress and local leaders will meet at Los Angeles International airport to discuss Lessons Learned from a deadly attack. A Security Officer was killed and three others injured by a gunman at l. A. X. Last fall. You might remember that story. The suspect has pleaded not guilty to 11 federal charges. If you have been to the pump lately you probably noticed gas prices going up and they are across the country and right here in the bay area. A gallon of regular in oakland 3. 93. In san jose, its about 3 cents higher. But in San Francisco, that same gallon of gas, get this, costs 4. 03. Thats it up 18 cents from last month. Oh, there were rumors about this. Fleetwood mac fans rejoice they are putting the band back together. The surprise reunion 16 years in the making. Coming up. Reporter and old School Public shaming. It is the latest strategy to stop people from distracted driving. Its coming from an unlikely source. Tell you about it next. Its live, its hidef Doppler Radar and its fired up ready to track the next incoming storm. Well do it together as the news continues. And we have better news now for the downtown san jose commute. That crash on northbound 280 all lanes are now back open. Well have all your travel times to work after the break. ,,, to dinner. T impossible to get them to sit down thats why we have. Kfc dipems a kfc dipems bucket, 20 extra crispy tenders. 6 awesome sauces. I mean hes sitting still, this is kind of miraculous. Yeah. I heard about progressives name your price tool . I guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of options to choose from. Huh . Im looking at it right now. Oh, yeah . Yeah. Whats the. Guest room situation . The name your price tool, making the world a little more progressive. You can go your own way theyre back Fleetwood Mac the Grammy Award Winning Group that announced a keyboardist and singer kristy mcvie is rejoining the band after 16 years away will be reuniting with mick need wood, stevie nicks, lindsey buckingham. And former husband john mcvie. They will be on the road this fall. They will be at the s. A. P. Center in san jose november 25 and the oracle arena in oakland on december 3. Tickets will go on sale april 7. Didnt they all date each other . That was the thing. Great albums come from that kind of thing. Exactly. Fleetwood mac is trending this morning on twitter. Also trending now, australia. Australian authorities have announced a new focus in the search for the missing malaysian jet. Teenaged mutant ninja turtles. The trailer is out. Autism cdc, the cdc came out saying one in 68 children has autism. A 30 increase from just two years ago. Lwren scott model and Fashion Designer left 9 million of her estate to boyfriend mick jagger. Remember, you can follow us on twitter at cbssf. Well, the threat of hefty fines is not doing the trick so maybe public embarrassment will stop people from sending Text Messages while driving. Mark sanchez joins us live from San Francisco with the store anne makovec joins us live from San Francisco with the story of one maps approach to discourage distracted driving. Reporter i have one of the socalled twits standing here behind mere, texting while in traffic. This is one of several billboards you can see around the city of San Francisco now part of a new strategy to stop distracted driving. These billboards show distracted drivers caught in the act not only texting also some of them eating or putting on makeup. They werent put up by Law Enforcement or Safety Coalition but by a lone Graphic Designer who started taking picture as a passenger in a vehicle and putting them up on a website he called twitspotting. Com. For every person picking their nose 20 people were texting. Better to learn this way than getting in an accident. Reporter brian singer paid for these billboards by himself. He said it was worth the investment of a few thousand dollars all part of social pressure, he says. He has also gotten interest from Law Enforcement and nonprofits nationwide that may want to expand on his idea. Live in San Franciscos richmond district, anne makovec, kpix 5. What do you think, good idea . It couldnt hurt. I dont know that its going to make any difference but it cant hurt. I see it all the time. Hopefully no one is out there texting and driving this morning, liz. I hope not. It is one of our biggest complaints we get in our drives me crazy segment which will be coming up in a half hour from now but a lot of folks dont like to see that on the roads. In the meantime, so far this morning, were doing okay. If you are traveling to the sierra doing some Long Distance traveling for the weekend getting out of town there are no chain requirements. Different story than yesterday. No chain requirements on highway 50, interstate 80 or highway 88, as well. Heres a live look outside right now. Richmond san rafael bridge traffic flowing nicely all the way past the toll plaza and into marin county. So far no delay at all. You can use that bridge with barely a delay and if you are in the south bay this is a live look at northbound 880 approaching 101. We were concerned for a while that a traffic would cause delays but it was removed from lanes on northbound 280 quickly. Also better news for the walnut creek drive. If you are traveling no problems on Ygnacio Valley road that accident cleared. Westbound 24, 65 Miles Per Hour heading into lafayette. Remember kcbs when you hit the roads at 106. 9 fm or 740am. That is your latest kcbs traffic. More on your forecast friday forecast, heres roberta. Elizabeth, you were talking a moment ago about chains and tahoe and not needing them at this time. But over the weekend well definitely have some snow developing. We are going to have it developing as early as later on this evening. Good morning, everybody. Lets head outside and take a look at what you can anticipate today. It looks like for the most part again we have a baseball game at 7 05. Theres a chance of rain. But more than likely it will be mostly cloudy and 60 degrees. Otherwise, live kpix weather camera looking towards the transamerica building. We have mostly cloudy skies. A couple of raindrops earlier theres a chance of a couple of sprinkles throughout the day for the most part mostly cloudy and turning breezy. Temperaturewise we are into the 50s and into the 60s. What you can anticipate for this friday it will be cloudy with few sunny breaks. It will turn breezy. And then in the north bay begins to develop some rain showers later on tonight, wet saturday, dry sunday, area of low pressure pushing up against the pacific northwest. Then takes a nosedive to the south and as it does so its going to tap into some subtropical moisture so a very showery system moving our way with up to an inch of rain expected in the wettest locations of the mountainous areas of the coastside. And also the north bay. So lets go ahead and play it out like this. You can play along at home. This is our futurecast. Rain to the north by lunchtime then gradually sliding to the south, evening commute looks relatively dry so does that baseball game. But nevertheless, we will have the rain showers move in overnight. Saturday morning, 9 00, moderate to heavy precipitation along the peninsula and the san mateo coast moving across the bay as well then lingering showers saturday, breezy, southerly winds. A lingering shower possible sunday but looks like the dry day of the two coming up. All right. Winter weather alert with a warning in effect for up to 12 of snow above 5500 fee in the greater lake tahoe area. Your numbers up to 70 degrees. 71 towards gilroy. Rainout saturday a lingering shower possible sunday and then more rain likely on monday with unsettled air mass on tuesday through thursday so brian, you would agree with this, its late coming, but its here. Yes. I mean, like the billboards, its probably not going to help much but its better than nothing. Well take it. Ill take a good inch of rain. Thanks, roberta. We have some good news this morning for people who want to spend part of the summer at San Franciscos camp mather. There were worries the camp may not operate normally this year because of the drought and the rim fire but the water system has been checked and the supply deemed safe and reliable so people who want to go to camp will be getting letters saying its a go. If youre interested in a souvenir from the sochi olympics we have 10 dogs arriving from washington, d. C. They made headlines during the games. Rescue groups started taking dogs out after reports that russia was planning to put them down. More than 50 dogs were taken home by the olympians and more are headed to the u. S. And they will be available for adoption. 5 19 right now. A beautiful buzzer beater play by the philadelphia 76ers wasnt enough for the win. The team still close to making history. Well tell you why its nothing to brag about. Im dennis odonnell. How does your bracket look this morning . Could a Johnny Dawkins technical foul fire up stanford in their question for the elite eight . 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Edmunds next chance to compete is tomorrow in the free skate program. This video is from her performance at the sochi Winter Olympics where she finished ninth last month. Good morning, everybody. The cinderella story for number 11 day done or number 10 stanford would come to an

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