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KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition October 14, 2014

Reports the move comes as the first person to contract ebola in the u. S. Has received help from an ebola survivor. Reporter a dallas nurse has received plasma to fight ebola from the blood of american doctor kent brantly who recovered from the disease. 26yearold nina pham became the first person to contract ebola in the United States while she cared for thomas eric duncan, the liberian man who died last week. So far, its unknown exactly how pham contracted the virus. Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital say she wore gloves, gown, mask and shield while she treated duncan. The cdc is investigating but believes that at some point protocol was breached. The enemy here is a virus, ebola. Its not a person. Its not a country. Its not a place. Its not a hospital. Reporter president obama is urging National Security and Public Health officials to take Lessons Learned from phams case to ramp up the nations response to fight the virus. He spent much of the day monday meeting with senior advisers and talking with International Leaders asking for more assistance to help battle ebola in west africa. So far more than 4,000 people have died from the disease there. [ praying ] reporter parishioners at kneipp in a phams Family Church prayed for her monday night. Her mom said that she is doing well and she is okay. Reporter phams condition remains stable. The cdc says its monitoring about 70 healthcare workers who came in contact with thomas eric duncan. Kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. The cdc director says he wont be surprised if more of those who came into contact with duncan contract ebola. Now an update to the breaking news in San Francisco. All streets have reopened after a hitandrun crash that sent two people to the hospital. This is the scene at octavia and fell where a jeep and taxi crashed about 4 a. M. The driver of the jeep ran from the scene but Police Caught him nearby. More baseball playoffs today in San Francisco. We get to watch it. Heres a live look at at t park in all its splendor this morning. The place will be jumping this afternoon because the cards and the giants are going to go at it. Game 3 National League championship series starts just after 1 00 at at t park. The giants and the cards worked out at the ballpark yesterday. Tim hudson will start for the giants on the mound. [ applause ] thank you, roberta. Against the cardss john lackey. Boo the series tied at one game apiece. The weather will cooperate. I just saw that bunting. Whenever i see that, i get goosebumps, i really do. Its either opening day or playoffs. Who knew the season would end up like this at opening day . Down to the wire we go. We have storms heading this way, three games at home and each game should not be affected by the weather. In fact, lets take a look. 1 p. M. Cloud cover, breezy conditions, rain developing to the north should not interfere. Couple sprinkles. First pitch 63 Degrees Holding steady in the mid60s outline game long. Its live, hidef Doppler Radar. Its in search of precipitation. What you see on your tv screen right there is nothing but clutter being picked up by our sensitive radar. This is coit tower. Yeah its awash in orange. 56 degrees in concord. 63 San Francisco. Upper 50s to the north in santa rosa. This is an area of low pressure. It is diving from the north to the south. That little bit of light rain associated with it. Midday rain showers beginning in the north bay in the central bay by the evening hours and then towards san jose. Rain showers less than. 25 throughout most urban areas. Looks like a lingering shower tomorrow morning. Substantially cooler, you will feel the difference today. Another rain event friday and monday. Elizabeth . Yes. [ laughter ] present. In the house. All right. Yeah, were here. And were watching this traffic coming out of Solano County. I have to say if your commute is taking you that direction, youre trying to get into the central bay area, avoid 80 right now if you can. This is why. An overturned semi truck is in vallejo blocking lanes westbound 80 approaching hunter hill rest stop. Use 680 by foothill instead to get into the area. Westbound 80 jammed solid for miles beyond American Canyon. The accident has been there since around 3 a. M. Again they really dont expect to have lanes open by 6 30, it may be longer than that, second tow crew just arrived. They were waiting for that. Now were hearing they may have to offload the big rig. It was carrying packages. Just a quick note. We are getting first reports now of a fatal accident on westbound 780 to eastbound 80. Its causing delays counter commute coming up interstate 80. So full wrap of your traffic. Well have more coming up. In the meantime, back to you guys. Thank you. Happening today, more traffic gridlock in San Franciscos south of market area. Kpix 5s ryan takeo on the keynote speaker who is helping bring in huge crowds for the Dreamforce Convention this morning. Ryan. Reporter thats right, michelle. Hillary clinton is the headliner later on this morning. People already starting to trickle in here to Moscone Center. This is called the super bowl of cloud commuting. Ill give you a sense of where we are. Were near Moscone Convention center. Howard is going to be closed between 3rd and 4th streets. That is until saturday. Soma shuts down while a tech giant sets up a party. Tell me if you have heard that before. If you are around here you will see a lot of blue lanyard. 135,000 are expected here this week. San franciscobased salesforce calls it dreamforce. Thats the name of the convention. Its a headache for drivers. But salesforce ceo bragged about shutting down the city. The city doesnt respect the drivers. They dont care about the drivers. They are going to reporter the ceo of the group said they are going to shut down the city, bragging about it. Thats bad if you live in the city. Certainly we have shut down howard between 3rd and 4th and we worked very closely with the city to minimize the impact. Reporter Hillary Clinton speaks at 9 a. M. Throughout the week, there will be several musical acts including william and bruno mars. Like we said, one big part. Live in San Francisco, ryan takeo, kpix 5. Salesforce says they plan to give away a million meals to the needy. The bay area is primed for a big earthquake. Thats from a new study that says four faults under Northern California could be in line for a quake of magnitude 6. 8 or more. They are the rogers creek green valley faults and hayward and calaveras faults. The study checks faults that appear locked where pressure is building for a big earthquake. Friday will be the 25th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. It was 6. 9. That 1989 quake killed 63 people and did 6 billion in damage here in the bay area. Two different polls show much different results in a Silicon Valley congressional race thats in the national spotlight. A poll commissioned by the campaign of ro khanna says he is in a dead heat with district 17 incumbent mike honda. It shows the two tied at 38 each. Im out there knocking on doors, doing town halls, going to forums. Im showing up. He really hasnt been present. The Honda Campaign says its poll tells a different story. It shows honda has a 15point lead. The Honda Campaign released a statement that says in part, quote, ro khannas campaign is clearly getting desperate which is reflected in the barrage of attack mailers distorting congressmans hondas record of delivering for his district khanna is a political newcomer that received a lot of support from the tech industry. Honda, who is seeking his eighth terms has the support of the democratic establishment including president obama district 17 includes parts of san jose, sunnyvale, cupertino, fremont and newark. Police are trying to find the driver of an suv involved in a fatal hitandrun at East San Jose about 8 p. M. Last night. A woman was in a crosswalk at mckee road and north 33rd when she was struck. She was thrown about 50 feet and died at the hospital. Investigators only have a vague description of the suv. They say it could have been a light blue, light brown or perhaps silver chevy suburban. New this morning, police have arrested nearly 50 protestors engaging in civil disobedience in st. Louis. This follows an officers Fatal Shooting of an unarmed black teen in nearby ferguson in august. Some occupied st. Louis city yesterday and called for officers to wear body cameras. They want a civilian review board. Officials say they are listening. At some point we have to have a rational discussion but everybody has to be involved for it to be legitimate. We all have to work to dismantle the system, that unfairly privileges some people over other people. No matter what the injustice is. Other protestors shut down a walmart. They hope a show of unity will bring about change they want. 6 10. North korea has released photos of kim jongun to end rumors about his failing health. The pictures may add to the speculation. Despite the drought the Half Moon Bay pumpkin weighoff was a success. Coming up the gourd that shattered north american records. Rain is moving back into the bay area. Good morning, everyone well track the storms together straight ahead. And the metering lights were switched on early this morning, 5 38. What does that mean . A good sized backup already through the maze over at the bay bridge toll plaza. The latest on this plus a hot spot in vallejo huge delays there. 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North korea leader kim jong un has reappeared after being out of the public eye. Tv showed images of him ending a media absence fueling speculation something was wrong. These pictures show him smiling with a cane in hand. The picture are not dated. So it may not put the rumors to rest. But the state media says they show kim visiting a new district. Happening today, San Jose Police department begins a new academy but will do little to help the citys efforts to rebuild its police force. The mercury news says only 23 recruits are expected. In the Previous Academy 29 recently graduated. San Jose Police Officers Association says all were offered jobs with the sjpd but only 22 actually accepted. 6 of the recruits reportedly did not attend graduation ceremonies because they had already accepted jobs with other departments. Were in dire straits. Right now, essentially for every one person we hire and at least temporarily keep, we lose two to resignation and retirement. Over the past six years the police force has gone down from 1400 to a little more than 1,000 in a city of more than a million people. Officers have been resigning or retiring at a rapid pace in response to pay and benefits cuts. Its the top issue in the mayoral race this year. Drought didnt keep a grower from producing a record pumpkin for the big Half Moon Bay weighoff. Yesterdays winner came in at over one ton. Thats something to cheer for. 2,058 pounds shattered the record for biggest pumpkin. Its worth more than 12,000 to the grower. He plans to use the money to repair earthquake damage at his home. I bet it cost thousands to just get it to the contest. He said that his lawn is now brown because he used all the water to grow the pumpkin. Yeah. Thats the big daddy. All right. Lets take you to vallejo. I want to show you these live pictures. We are beginning to right this big rig. Thats progress. They are hoping to have lanes open by 6 30. They are getting there. In the meantime, people are just stuck in a big traffic jam. Its a mess getting out of Solano County. Westbound 80 jammed solid to red top. Theres been a new crash in the backup at American Canyon so this whole thing happened about 3 00 this morning. And then, we are just getting word of a new accident also in vallejo. This time a fatal accident involving a pedestrian. Its right there westbound 780 to eastbound 80. Thats causing some very light delays. But its been a mess now trying to find alternates. The best bet is to use southbound 680 if you are trying to get into the bay area. The metering lights were turned on early. No reason why. But at 5 38 a. M. , they switched on the lights, and youre jammed solid through the maze. We have been talking about this since last week actually. Its going to continue through saturday. Howard street closures between 3rd and 4th. We have a number of things going on. Its a mess anyway and then we have a giants game this afternoon. And westbound 580 very slow already through the Livermore Valley. Thats your latest kcbs drive to work. Roberta has big changes in the forecast. We have been wanting it to rain. What happens . We have three baseball games slade for the city by the bay and what happens . We have rain in the forecast. Let me move out of the way so you can see coit tower. Currently air temperature in the 50s and 60s. Its currently 63 degrees in San Francisco. Upper 50s in san jose where the winds are slight but will be increasing out of the southwest up to 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour along the peninsula and coast. We have rain developing in the north baby midday. More rain we have rain developing in the north bay by midday. We have more rain in the San Francisco bay area. We have rain at 2 p. M. In the far reaches of the north bay. It gradually slides south towards San Francisco but should move into the city by the bay towards the end of the evening commute. Well have some mostly cloudy skies throughout the day. How are we stacked up rain wise . About a half inch of rain expected in the north bay over the next 24 hours. 25 around the peninsula. Lesser amounts to the east and to the south with about. 15. More nuisance than anything across the santa clara valley. But this is a very important system. Its got its job cut out know of it. It has to punch a hole in the dry air mass, kick open that storm door for more rain on friday, then again on monday. Todays highs, boy, youre going to feel the difference. 60s and 70s. Out of the 80s to the low 70s in san jose. So well have a lingering shower early tomorrow morning and mostly cloudy and breezy and cooler on thursday, and then friday more rain likely. Then again another system at the tail end of the weekend. That is the tuesday forecast. More news slated right after this. ,, i love having a free checked bag. With my united mileageplus explorer card. I have saved 75 in checked bag fees. Priority boarding is really important to us. You can just get on the plane and relax. I love to travel, no foreign transaction fees means real savings. We can go to any country and spend money the way we would in the us. When i spend money on this card i can see brazil in my future. I use the explorer card to earn miles in order to go visit my family which means a lot to me. Good morning, everyone. Some called it a trap game for the 49ers. Its exactly what they fell into in the 1st quarter in st. Louis. Austin davis thrust into the spotlight after sam bradford and sean hill got hurt. The touchdown. St. Louis up 140. Davis was simply unstoppable in the first half. But momentum took a big swing right before intermission when Colin Kaepernick hit Brandon Lloyd for an 80yard touchdown with 14 seconds left. 1410 rams at the break but that really turned the tide of the game. The airshow took off in the second half. Kaepernick buys time and hits boldin, 1714. 49ers in front. Colin kaepernick 343 yards and 2 touchdowns. 9ers minutes to go rams had to go all the way but davis packed picked off by dante johnson. 49ers beat the rams 3117. They are 42 on the year. The giants prepare for todays game 3. They are going to face the cardinals john lackey who was starting against the giants in the playoffs for the First Time Since beating San Francisco in game 7 of the 2002 world series. Lackey says there is one major difference in this giants line up. One thing i notice about 2002 you faced a pretty good lineup club barry bonds. Yeah, he was pretty good. You intentionally walked him four times in that series. Wouldnt you, geez [ laughter ] as you look at this line up, who concerns you the most . No offense but they dont have barry bonds. That is true. But its important to remember that barry bonds never did win a world series. The giants pitching by contrast much better today than it was in 2002. So game 3 today. Ill see you from at t in tonights 6 00 news. Go, giants see you later, everybody. Play of the day nhl the lightning and canadiens at montreal. Watch this. Room to wind, fires, on the rebound here we g

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