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KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition February 18, 2015

Morgan has stopped the trains. The last one came through late november. And they dont plan on having any more crude come in until the prices start rising with a barrel of crude. Richmonds fire marshal says the company told him that with the price of oil so low per barrel, it is not Cost Effective to transport the bakken crude anymore. Also says the cars that blew up in West Virginia are the same models that come through richmond. Crews in West Virginia are letting it burn out. Work has begun on removing the railcars now. Most of the 300 people who were evacuated are back home now. An east bay teenager is set to be arraigned on rape charges this afternoon and prosecutors are going to try the 17year old as an adult. Kpix 5s anne makovec is in our newsroom with a look at the case against darrion miles, jr. Reporter he is set to be arraigned on eight felony counts this afternoon in martinez facing the possibility of life in prison. 17yearold darrion miles, jr. , is being tried as an adult. He is accused of kidnapping a Dominos Pizza Delivery Driver at gunpoint robbing and then raping her in antioch earlier this month. A Deputy District Attorney says the boy was wearing an ankle monitor at the time of the crime. He wont talk about miles criminal past nor what the ankle monitor data shows. But he says it is a key piece of evidence. I dont know from minute to minute but it will pinpoint his whereabouts during a particular time frame, thats correct. Innocent until Proven Guilty . Read some of the reports in the news, man. Read some of the comments these folks are saying. My son guilty. Thats miles father who says his son is innocent. He questions the Police Timeline of what happens and thinks the son and the driver are consensual sex. Right now miles is in police custody. His bail set quite high at 6. 5 million. Live in the newsroom, anne makevoc, kpix 5. An officer safety warning in effect in hayward after thieves stole guns and a bulletproof vest. Alameda county Sheriffs Department said it happened at 10 p. M. Last night in a home in parnassus court. Police are trying to track down the serial number on the rifle, several handguns and kevlar vest. The top labor official of the country is in the bay area for a second day. Labor secretary tom perez is trying to facilitate a settlement in the problem in the west coast ports. Some Big Name Companies like walmart, bed, bath beyond, j. C. Penney and honda are losing millions. Materials are sitting at the port of oakland and 28 other ports. Thats why president obama ordered labor secretary perez to come mediate. Theres a lot of people that are sitting at home not getting paid, period, because if we dont need the manpower, then they get to stay home. 20,000 dock workers are without a contract since july. Management accuses the longshoremen of deliberately slowing down productivity. The perfect time to say hi to liz and check traffic. How we doing . Okay. There are a few more accidents that rolled in on the last five minutes. They are on the righthand shoulder the one were looking at is in hayward southbound 880 at a street. This is the view in oakland where obviously it looks okay but the headlights are heading to hayward and this is where were starting to see the slowdowns. The accident again not blocking lanes. 30 Miles Per Hour as you approach a street but kind of sluggish now from 238 all the way past highway 92. But at least that crash isnt blocking a lane. Another accident coming in also on the righthand shoulder so theres no delay to this one northbound 101 at amphitheater parkway coming toward Mountain View. Yeah. Everything looks clear so far on our sensors all the way up into san mateo. And a live look at westbound 580 near dublin where its getting crowded but the biggest bottleneck is through the livermore valley. Thats kcbs traffic. Lets get another update on your forecast. Heres roberta. We have a marine layer roughly about 3,000 feet deep. Thats indicative of what we experienced during the summertime. But as a result of that very deep marine layer we have delays at sfo up to 47 minutes on some arriving flights. Good morning, everyone. Onshore, we have the king tides alert thats now in effect. Its another round of king tides and our official high tide this morning at 10 38 nearly 7 feet. And when its that high it goes really low so be very mindful of that as well. If you are Walking Around the embarcadero today you might experience some minor coastal flood there is with the water lapping onshore. We have gray skies at this hour. Temperatures into the 50s. And basically heres what we need to know today. Our temperatures will be at average. Its going to feel cool but its average. 67 degrees in morgan hill. 67 degrees in throughout the trivalley. 65 in benicia through american canyon. 50s and 60s across the northern portion of the bay area and upstream a little warmer conditions. Well have that full forecast. Frank, its straight ahead. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. A family canoe trip on the bay ended with two people dead. Larissa castaneda, her fiance luis ruvalcalber and his father guillermo headed into the bay off coyote point on monday afternoon noon. The woman is the only person who survived. The canoe started to sink and the trio abandoned it. Other relatives have been worried about how that 12foot canoe would hold up in the bay waters. I just thought they were going fishing. I dont think its a good idea going in that thing fishing. Its pretty small. In the middle of the night, guillermo was rescued but died at the hospital. His sons body was discovered tuesday morning. Larissa castaneda was rescued and is doing well this morning. The search is on for three men who robbed and shot an employee at a little ceasars in el cerrito. Security video captured two men walking inside while a third waited outside. Then one of them jumped on the counter demanding money. The other holds out the gun and shoots an employee in the arm. Two customers take cover. At the front of the store. The injured worker was then forced to empty out the safe. Detectives say the weapon was not a typical handgun. Its possibly a shortened shotgun. Hard to tell for sure. But it could be a weapon thats been sawed off essentially. The employee who was shot in the arm a woman in her 20s is recovering. San leandros only homicide of 2014 not solved but this afternoon, the Police Department will announce a reward. The City Council Approved a 25,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. 21yearold joel ramirez was found shot to death the morning of december 14 inside an idling car outside a home on kennilworth avenue. Police have no suspects and theres no word right now on a possible motive. A vigil is set for this evening to protest morality clauses in teacher contracts at schools in the San Francisco catholic diocese. 4 high schools in San Francisco, san mateo and kentfield are affected. Eight state lawmakers have written a letter to San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone urging him to withdraw those clauses. The clauses include forbidding teachers from such things as abortion, adultery, gay sex and masturbation. In the letter the lawmakers say this strikes a divisive tone which stands in stark contrast to the values that define the bay area and its history. The archbishop has not responded publicly. But in the past, he has written that catholic teachers must contribute to an atmosphere of holiness and virtue. You have a few more days to sign up for healthcare through covered california. Health officials extended the deadline from last sunday to this coming sunday an extra week there. The extension is only for those who made a quote goodfaith effort to sign up. Those who didnt sign up in 2014 face a 95 tax penalty and that will increase to 325 per adult this year. Time now is 6 09. More surveillance cameras will be keeping an eye on bay area commuters. How transit officials hope it will make the roads safer for drivers and pedestrians. From bank owner to show dog owner how patty hearst fared at the Westminster Dog Show. Well talk about rain and fog. And it looks like slow traffic in hayward. An accident approaching a street is not helping the morning drive. Well tell you how slow it is coming up. Female announcer president s day is over, but the savings go on at sleep train. 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One victim is stabbed and is dealing treated. More firefighters are needed by cal fire as the dry weather continues. So far they have received 1200 applications. 300 have been called back for an interview and only about 20 people will get the job. The ominous signs are already there. Just yesterday a tree went up like a torch on a grass fire on 680 in san jose. You are being watched on muni. More surveillance cameras are coming to the buses in San Francisco. Allen martin shows us how they are cutting down now on close calls. Reporter from the dramatic cash of the plane in taiwan to the meteor streaking across the sky in russia, dash cams have captured it all. In San Francisco, muni calls it drive cam. Shortens a lot of conversations when you simply say, oh, i have a video to show you. Reporter john haley is munis director of transit. He said drive cam is an invaluable training tool for drivers with close calls. Here a woman steps in front of the bus. Haley says when they started using it three years ago there was pushback. We could have done a better job of preparing everybody including the drivers and collectively bargaining units that were affected by it. Reporter drivers, passengers and other motorists have since found out drive cams use is a twoway street. This clip shows a car seemingly oblivious to the bus. [ beep beep ] reporter drive cam catches muni drivers making mistakes or behaving badly. The agency cites personnel and union concerns with not releasing the video but another driver dashcam was posted on youtube showing a muni bus running a red light on Park Presidio just as an oncoming car slammed on its brakes. Haley says Video Evidence or not, one accident doesnt mean a muni driver is fired. Oh, no. We have a very well defined collective Bargaining Agreement and a process for that and we of course follow that process to the letter. Reporter the company that makes drive cam says that muni bus accidents were actually cut in half the first year they were put into use. Get used to it. Muni has new buses on order that will have even more surveillance cameras. Each of those coaches will have 12 cameras including drive cam. Reporter so when you least expect it, smile. Youre on drive cam camera. In San Francisco, allen martin, kpix 5. Muni quick to point out drive cam doesnt work like the other surveillance cameras that are on board. It only starts recording when sensors detected a problem such as when the driver slammed on the brakes or if theres a crash. You can bet snoopy underdog and mr. Peabody are very proud today. I think so. A fellow beagle won best in show last night at the Westminster Dog Show in new york. Winning dogs name is miss pea. She beat out thousands of cars. Rockets owner is patty hearst. The heiress kidnapped in berkeley 1974 her grandfather is the late William Randolph hearst. And rocket was voted top toy dog. Beautiful dog. She pranced around sporting a signature blue bow in her hair. How many, um, brushes do you think that many. [ laughter ] beautiful hair. I was watching one of the interviews and they use one of those flatirons. Really . Yes. Theres a lot of product at the westminster. Hairspray, the whole nine yards. More than us . [ laughter ] really . Have you seen the makeup room . Thats the best in snow. Because it was snowing outside. Oh, really . Its all coming back down to weather. And traffic. We got a few issues out there. If you are traveling southbound 880 at a street there is that accident that i mentioned and now kcbs reports there may be injuries involved unfortunately. So we are seeing a bottleneck there and im not sure if emergency crews are blocking a lane because the actual activity of the accident is on the righthand shoulder. But look at the delays. 15 Miles Per Hour right now. Now its backing up into san leandro beyond 238. So its kind of a growing hot spot if you are trying to get to the san mateo bridge. Westbound 580 we are seeing our usual congestion. Nothing kind of out of the ordinary. The drive time is up to about a halfhour from the altamont pass. So show you on the sensors where the bulk of traffic s its really from 205 even all the way to vasco now. You can see 25 Miles Per Hour as you pass the livermore truck scales but its sluggish. We like to call it slowandgo out to 680. Once you clear 680 then youre fine. Bay bridge it is stacked up now through the maze. The metering lights were turned on right before 5 45. Cash and fastrak lanes slow. Good news, once you get on the bridge we are not seeing slowing on the incline all the way to San Francisco. San mateo bridge westbound 92 everything is fine. The overnight roadwork is cleared. Obviously that ride trying to get to the san mateo bridge on 880 is backed up because of that accident. And eastbound 92 everything is fine up and over the highrise. That roadwork though you may still hit roadwork from foster city boulevard to clawiter until about 11 a. M. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. With the forecast, heres roberta. We have clouds now. Taking a view from San Francisco towards the bay bridge, we do currently have temperatures into the 50s. The winds are nonexistent. This is what we pretty much need to know today. Sfo right now delays at 47 minutes due to the low clouds and fog on arriving flights. By the end of the workweek well have an offshore flow. Hey, do you believe in miracles . Our longrange computer models suggest we could see a miracle march. Right now forecasting 20 days of rain in the forecast. Were going to watch that daily but right now lets take it one day at a time. We have a king tides alert for coastal flooding. Water onshore on the embarcadero with minor coastal flooding at 10 38 with the high tide nearly 37 feet. We have a marine layer at the coast with a summertime weather pattern and they tule fog a wintertime weather pattern in the Central Valley slimming throughout the back door of the trivalley. So our futurecast is the most difficult thing in the world. Im telling you to forecast when the fog is going to dissipate. By 1 00 this afternoon we should have partial clearing and then the fog quickly moves back onshore by the eng by the evening commute, foggy start on thursday. Offshore flow by the end of the workweek. Above average temperatures by the weekend. Have a great day. Time now 6 20. Deep freeze turning deadly. How dangerous low temperatures are affecting people from the gulf all the way no everybody deserves 73 fares. Because wedding season can get expensive. Book your low fare now at southwest. Com. Good morning, everyone. The struggling sharks ran out of hockeys hottest goalie last night. Renee was 1411 over the past 16 games. Glass isnt the only thing broken. San jose needs a fast fix. Predators up 21 in the Second Period smith knocks to home to make it 31 and then 41 nashville. Predators scored five unanswered after falling behind 10. That was enough for the nashville goalie renee who stopped five shots in this sequence right here. He finished with 42 saves. Predators win 51. Sharks lead the final playoff spot by just 2 points. Arod suspension is over. The yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is set to return to the field after being suspended for the entire 2014 seasons for using performanceenhancing drugs. Yesterday arod released a happened written letter to fans apologizing for his mistake. The yankees still owe rodriguez 61 million for the next three years. He is 39. He will be 42 at the end of the contract. Im dennis odonnell. Are you ready for baseball . Well see you tonight. Oh another beagle . Play of the day, the Westminster Dog Show is worth another look because this beauty its the victory lap for miss pea a beagle who won the prestigious best in show award the first beagle to win top honors. And she is beautiful. I think uno won it a couple of years ago, actually. I could be wrong. Well get back at that. Its 6 25. An Oil Train Disaster in West Virginia causing closer scrutiny of similar operations here in the bay. How the accident led to a discovery that shocked environmentalists and safety officials. All coming your way. And im kiet do live in santa clara. President obamas executive order on immigration is now stalled in the courts leaving we live in a pick and choose world. Choose, choose, choose. But at bedtime . Why settle for this . Enter sleep

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