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KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition October 2, 2014

Came into play today. Giants winners of two of the past four world series are in the running again. Anne makovec is live at at t park this morning with more. Anne, you have the black and orange today. Reporter yes. I am representing everybody, excited for another orange october, the first game of the National League Division Season friday at 12 07 our time and fans could not be more excited. [ applause and cheers ] reporter they were glued to the tv and erupted in cheers at the 3300 club in San Francisco when the giants won the wild card game against the pirates last night. If they win the series against the nationals, they could play a National League championship series against the cardinals or dodgers but for now, fans are just savoring the start of another season. I think its a great game, shutout, pittsburgh, man, lets go, orange october, baby. Were in we made it all the wild card way, its going to go. Im a native san franciscans bay area. Giants proud, baby. Reporter this was the scene at at t park yesterday where fans came for another watch party. They are ready for the team to return to their home turf next week which they will do on monday and tuesday. Live in San Francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Thank you, anne. Happening today, traffic relief for a lot of drivers in santa clara valley. Its a little complicated though. Two of three new onramps are opening on i880 Stevens Creek boulevard in san jose. It includes the offramp from 880 and the new onramp to southbound highway 17 toward los gatos. The new offramp to Stevens Creek from northbound 280 and state route 17 is expected to open tomorrow morning. We are going to have to go down and drive it to figure all this out. Its a big deal that they got this finished because of course Christmas Shopping season is already almost here. And the interchange is crucial for santana row and valley fair shoppers. A lot of commuters must be happy this morning. It is a little confusing. Brian mentioned all those different on and offramps. The bottom line it should be better and hopefully wont be stuck in as much traffic as they also mentioned now that the holiday season, if you can believe it, is approaching. So yeah, hopefully those you will spend more time shopping and less time in the car. Lets go outside. Heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. A lot of people are stuck in cars unfortunately trying to get into San Francisco. Metering lights have been on since 5 41 and you are already stacked up through the overcrossings. Not seeing much slowing on the incline yet. Heres a live look at Silicon Valley ride westbound 237 problemfree out at milpitas to sunnyvale. Westbound 580 is also crowded coming through the livermore valley. And that lumber spill may still be out there. It spilled off a truck approaching the north flynn exit so its slow behind that blocking a couple of lanes. Drive time is already nearly a halfhour from the Altamont Pass to the dublin interchange. And this accident still even though its on the shoulder, southbound 880 approaching Alvarado Niles in union city, theres some sort of people looking at the scene, something going on in the area. So it is slow now in the southbound lanes from hayward into union city approaching the earlier crash site. That is your latest kcbs drive to work. Another check of your forecast, its heating up, heres lawrence. It is going to be some kind of day actually starting out cool in some parts of the bay area down in the 40s in the north bay valleys but by the afternoon the air is dry and its going to heat up in a hurry with the offshore winds and even places along the coastline. They are going to soar into the 80s this afternoon, well into the 80s inside the bay. And you will see some mid90s in the warmest valleys. So the heat wave on the way today, and tomorrow probably going to be the peak of the heat. Quiet now with offshore winds. Temperatures 47 degrees cool in santa rosa. 53 in san jose. But 62 now in San Francisco. As we look toward the afternoon we have a whole lot of sunshine coming our way in places like the coastline, they dont get many temperatures like this but about 84 degrees in pacifica, about 85 degrees in San Francisco. Thats the latest weather, back to you. Okay, thanks, lawrence. Developing right now, the family of jahi mcmath wants a judge to declare her alive again. The teen was pronounced brain dead 10 months ago after complications from a routine tonsil surgery. She is doing so much better physically. Her parents insist her condition is improving. After the 13yearold was declared braindead at Childrens Hospital, her family moved her to a facility in new jersey to keep her on life support. The familys attorney is asking judge to have her death certificate voided but experts remain skeptical. I would think that they would at a minimum need a independent Court Appointed competent qualified neurologist to verify that all the previous independent neurologists who have done an evaluation did so in error. If the judge decides in favor of jahis family taxpayers could end up paying for her care. There are no reports of injuries after a bus fire that snarled traffic on interstate 280 for hours. The shuttle bus for employees of los gatosbased netflix burst into flames last night near hickey boulevard in daly city. Firefighters were able to douse the flames quickly but the fire was hot enough to blow out some windows. A dozen netflix workers were on the bus at the time. Netflix sent another bus to pick them up from the freeway. All lanes were reopened by 9 30 p. M. Some parents in dallas are keeping their kids home from school today. Thats because several other students may have come into contact with a man who was later diagnosed with ebola. That patient developed symptoms after recently traveling from liberia to texas. The hospital in dallas now admits that it mishandled the case when the man initially reported feeling sick. The hospital then released him. Texas and u. S. Health experts say they are confident they will be able to contain the virus. Hong kong police are warning prodemocracy protestors not to surround and occupy government buildings. Authorities say there will be, quote, decisive enforcement if Public Security is threatened. Student leaders have vowed to occupy government buildings if hong kongs chief executive does not step down today. Time now is 6 07. The nfl is dealing with another accusation of Sexual Assault. And this time, a former 49er is the target of the investigation. Longtime customers in San Franciscos flower mart are making a lastditch effort to keep tech businesses from taking over. Their new plan of attack. It is looking like a very hot day around the bay area. How long will this heat wave stick around . Well talk about that coming up. And if you are riding to work instead, so far mass transit looks great. In fact, bart has 42 trains all on time. Take a check of the roads, your drive to work, its all after this break. ,,, it was art that brought us together in the first place. And its working its magic once again. Here it means more than lines or pictures on a page. Its a way of life. Its music and color. The more we give in to the magic of this place, the more wed like to stay. Oaxaca. Live it to believe it. Kiet do joins us live with e latest. Breaking news in santa clara where police say a home burglary turned into a stabbing. Kiet do has the story. Reporter we are live on the 3100 block of cabrillo avenue in santa clara near lawrence expressway and el camino. Police say it was a bold and unusual crime for the city of santa clara. They are relatively safe here not a lot of stuff like this happens here. But at 3 00 this morning, they say that a man entered the home through a kitchen window and thats when he woke up one of the people who lived in the house. They had a confrontation in the kitchen. There was a struggle. The suspect had a knife stabbed the victim a couple of times and fled. Thats when they called 911. When the officer got there, they surrounded the scene and then they found the suspect. He was hiding in th bushes. He gave up easily no fight. The victim is in the hospital in serious condition. Thats the latest from the scene. Well have an interview with the Police Department spokesman with more details. But all in all, a good catch by Santa Clara Police as they catch a man who started a burglary and turned into an assault. Live in santa clara, kiet do, kpix 5. A former 49er player is under investigation by police in texas. Cj spillman of the Dallas Cowboys is being questioned after a report of an alleged Sexual Assault at the team hotel last month. Investigators say the report came september 20th at the Gaylord Texan hotel. That was just before the cowboys were flying to st. Louis to play in this game against the rams. Spillman is cooperating with police and has not been arrested or charged. An alarming statistic on Sexual Assaults on university of california campuses up by almost 50 last year. Every, Single School except uc San Francisco reported an increase. Universities across the country including cal are being scrutinized for their handling of Sexual Assault cases. A thorny issue for San Francisco flower mart might have a possible solution. Current tenants fear that the Tech Industry will soon take over the space. So they plan to ask voters to decide what should happen at the site. The mayor is on their side saying that he likes the idea of hanging on to some of the citys historic businesses. A lot of the tenants have been at the flower mart for decades. Middle school in berkeley has a special mission for boys providing them with life lessons teaching them to be upstanding citizens and gentlemen. The east bay school for boys is this weeks cool school. Reporter the east bay school for boys has 92 students and they are all boys. Every class begins with a handshake. Every lesson designed to engage with the idea that boys engage more when theres a direct connection to the real world. Boys have a lot of energy. Boys like to have their minds engaged along with their hands. Reporter the school created four core Pillars Incorporated in each class, self, prep, work and life. Self is inner growth and taking care of themselves through eating right and exercise. The students play basketball, have Competitive Team building exercises, and even built their own [ indiscernible ] to release some energy throughout the day. Prep is readying themselves for high school and eventually college. They are trying to teach us to, um, be able to interact with people and just be our best selves and be able to help other people. Reporter the work pillar is evident everywhere especially in shop class through building and design the boys are learning collaboration and empathy. When an idea doesnt work, they use wows and wonders instead of harsh critiques. They throw out a couple of wows, wow, i like this detail right here. I wonder how youre actually going to attach them and make it strong . Reporter the students even build their own decks and are now working on a community bench. Before i came here, i was, more, like, about me. But now i have learned to be more about, like, helping others. Reporter which leads to the fourth pillar life where all the skills will lead to these boys growing into good men. I wasnt there yet. I feel like im pretty good. I feel like i know when like its appropriate to do this and when its not. He says he doesnt feel like he is there yet but he is well on his way. Yeah. He doesnt seem like 8th grader . Yes. Thats something s he seems years ahead of his time. They all are. Its great. They are getting they are being taught some good lessons there. Thats one cool school. It is. We want more though. So e email your nominations to us at coolschools kpix. Com. We may come and feature your school on the show. 15 minutes after 6 00 on this thursday morning time for the family to gather. [ laughter ] thats right. Warm and cozy. Hi i always want to go to lawrence first. But lets talk traffic. We are seeing a few slowdowns out the door. Northbound 101, you can see it just past the 280 680 interchange so speeds are downat 44 miles per hour. We usually see slowing at this time of the morning and nothing unusual here sadly heading to the bay bridge toll plaza. You know, the metering lights are turned on at 5 41 so earlier. And unfortunately, its too late to beat the rush. Its already stacked up through the macarthur maze and even a touch of slowing now on the sensors from the incline towards yerba buena island. If you are a Silicon Valley rider, so far everything looks great on westbound 237. No major delay leaving milpitas out to sunnyvale. And heres a live look near the dublin interchange. Obviously the slowdowns have now started in the southbound lanes. 680 leaving pleasanton through sunol grade and then the usually commuter traffic out the livermore valley. We can show you a live look now at the commute direction. All those headlights, thats the commute westbound 580. The drive time, there it goes, 28 minutes from the Altamont Pass. There was a lumber spill approaching north flynn. That is now cleared. But there are some heavier delays out to vasco. Mass transit, got to say, everything looks good. Bart systemwide, on time. That is your latest kcbs drive to work. We even have heat advisories in effect today as this heat wave continues. Today is going to be hotter as High Pressure really takes over. The air is much drier this morning so its going to heat up in a hurry. Heat advisory for the entire bay area extending not only today but also into tomorrow as well may have to be extended into saturday depending how fast temperatures cool down this weekend. Today sunshine and temperatures off and running. Clear all the way to the coastline. It will be warm to hot outside. The cooling may begin with a sea breeze starting late in the day on saturday into sunday. Maybe a return to some fog, too. But for now, we are fogfree as we have High Pressure overhead and those offshore Winds Continuing to keep us nice and clear. Also cranking up the temperatures at the beaches going to be a beautiful place to be if you can get there today. Numbers there right along the coast will be in the 80s. Swells three to five feet out of the northwest and looks like well start to cool down near the beaches over the weekend. 85 today in half moon bay. 84 pacifica. 87 in san mateo. And about 86 in union city. A lot of 90s showing up in the interior valleys and plenty of sunshine. Then inside the bay 86 in alameda, 85 San Francisco and daly city. Your sunrise time 7 06. Your sunset 6 51. Looking out over the next couple of days, tomorrow may be just slightly hotter and then we may begin to cool slightly along the coastline on saturday and sunday. Then everybody cools down more fog and low clouds on the way. I think thats going to feel pretty good toward next week. Thats a look at weather, guys. Back to you. All right, lawrence. Thank you. Hundreds of San Jose Police officers threaten to leave if one city councilman becomes mayor. Coming up at 56 30, the candidate response. And im dennis odonnell. Coming up, its not often that Colin Kaepernick and alex smith take a back seat to anybody but the giants saved their season last night. Well take you inside the clubhouse coming up. ,, whoa yeah i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv and the tablet worked just fine but i wanted to see if the phone will work as well. So i shrunk sharon. Every channels live just like on tv but its my phone. Its genius. Shh im watching tv. Tiny sharon is mean. Im right here. Watch any channel live on any device around your home. The x1 entertainment operating system only from xfinity. Its a place youve been before, but its not on any map. So go out there, lose yourself, and find the truth. Were all born wild. Lets keep it that way. The 2014 4runner. Toyota. Lets go places. Good morning, everyone. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat has played out now for the bay area teams. The agony for the as came two nights ago. The thrill for the giants came last night. Largest crowd in tnt park history. Nobody was raising the jolly roger by the end. Marquis matchup of the night reigning mvp Andrew Mccutcheon against Madison Baumgarner, got him swinging in the 1st inning. The pirates starter was allowed just four earned runs in all of september. He gave that in one swing of the bat to Brandon Crawford in the 4th inning, the first grand slam by a shortstop in playoff history. That kind of league was insurmountable for pittsburgh against baumgarner. He struck out 10 pirates. Basis loaded in the 7th inning belt drives home a pair with a base hit up the middle. 70 San Francisco. Belt with three rbis in the game. There was little question it was the giants night especially when they were getting defensive gems like this. The panda rolls over the rail, makes the grab, to rob Russell Martin and hold on to the baseball. Baumgarner came out for the ninth and then got neil walker to pop out to end the game. A complete game fourhitter for baumgarner who hasnt allowed a run in his last 16 postseason innings. Bruce bochy said he would have needed a tractor to get his pitcher out of the game. Friday against the nationals game 2 also in d. C. , games 3 and 4 are at home on monday and tuesday. Baumgarner when he

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