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KPIX KPIX 5 News Early Edition August 19, 2016

Roqui . Happy friday. Lets take a look at crashes. A very busy night overnight on the roads. Westbound 37 in vallejo at mare Island Bridge the crews are still out there clearing that crash right now. And then novato 101 northbound at san antonio road a major crash there took crews hours to clear it. It just cleared. A statue depicting naked donald trump has been taken down. Who would have thought we would start the news that way . San francisco Officials Say that this statue attracted so many people, it was spilling out on the busy street. The likeness of the republican president ial nominee naked appear yesterday morning at 17th and market in the castro. I am impressed. They should have done this a long time ago. Im sad they are going to take it down. Scott weiner a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors is hoping the statue can get a new location. A bar Near Union Square lefty odouls has offered to take it. The statue similar to other nude trumps that went up yesterday in los angeles, seattle, new york and Cleveland Ohio created by an artist by the name of ginger. Commissioned by an activist collective that made this video of the statue in collection. Two swimmers are going home but police in rio are investigating their account of an armed robby during the olympics. The two men with teammates lochte and james feigen claimed to have been robbed at gunpoint at a gas station in the city last weekend. Brazilian Authorities Say that the story is a lie. They released this Surveillance Video which shows the swimmers being confronted by security members after they reportedly broke down a door at the gas station. The swimmers could possibly be charge for falsely reporting a crime. A woman in newark is accused of taking keeping up with the kardashians too far to the point of stalking chris jenner. Kpix 5s betty yu shows us how strange things got before the fbi stepped in. Reporter they arrested 36 yearold christina a nurses aide for cyber stalking and hacking and according to the indictment in one text message to chris jenner she described herself as the best hacker in the world. Chris jeff ever has been been terrorized by a woman who hacked online and bombarded with her obscene and sexting. It details the harassment of chris, Family Members including Caitlyn Jenner and two assistants over six months in 2014. One email to chris read look somewhere on your car theres a tracking device, lol, lol. Well, you do like the cameras, dont you . I have private intermitt shots of you, too. The indictment also states that the woman claimed to have a sex tape of chris that she sent to a media website. She went as far as lying to federal agents. According to court documents, banksston told them someone has going to chris home to commit a massacre. On another occasion, she pretended to be chris on the phone and told the l. A. County Sheriffs Department that a Family Member was attempting to commit suicide at her home. Creepy and sophisticated. I mean, she doesnt strike me as a person who was an obsessed fan. She seems hostile and found every possible means of electronic harassment and done them all. Reporter in newark, betty yu, kpix 5. Chris jenners alleged stalker goings to federal court today in oakland. Some evacuations have been lifted in San Bernardino county even though a Massive Wildfire keeps burning. The bluecut fire scorched about 36,000 acres north of the city of San Bernardino. Its just 22 contained. About 34,000 homes and other buildings are still considered threatened in the cajon pass area. Firefighters are without some useful pieces of equipment known as super scoopers. Reporter flames on the top of this ridge are not far from the neighborhood below but that isnt motivating sherry continue bits to leave home just yet. Are you still staying there . Yes, still staying there. We have fire hoses back there. Everything that we need. We have been wetting the whole area down. Reporter firefighters say they cant force them to go but it is dangerous. Like yesterday, we had the smoke lay down visibility was impeded and you have people panicking trying to get out of the way. We dont want that. Reporter firefighters are already facing plenty of challenges. Air tankers were up in the air for a short time because of air turbulence grounding planes and helicopters wednesday afternoon. Even after the helicopter went up it was still too dangerous for tankers. Super scoopers arent part of the fight. They do just that. They scoop water so that means they need a large body of water in order to be effective. Unfortunately, in this area, we do not have a large body of water. My dad lives down in the canyon. Reporter mike murphy just picked up his dad as the flames hit the neighbors backyard. He was emotional. He didnt want to leave. He is pretty stubborn. But, you know, pretty had to force him to get in his jeep and leave. Reporter so they are watching, waiting and hoping just like sherry and her neighbors. Are you ready to go if you have to . Yes. Everybody is ready to go. Our cars are lined up and ready to go if we have to go. Hopefully we wont. Reporter try to get some sleep hoping that flow doesnt come any closer. In lake county we know the clayton fire has destroyed about 190 homes, two other buildings are also destroyed. As of last night firefighters had that fire 60 contained. They expect to have it fully contained by sunday. We all know that depends on the weather conditions and favorable conditions. [ music ] what do you think for firefighters dealing with that out there . Its going to be cooler. Thats good news but we know these fires have their own weather patterns, right . So they generate winds but we have a deeper marine layer that will add to recovery in the overnight hours. This smoke is taking its toll on the bay area. Right now a gray slate. Well keep you apprised of sfo airport delays. 50s and 60s out the door. Air quality report, the east bay will be hit hard again today. Yesterday, boy, you could see the air that you breathe. It wasnt a good thing. The soberanes fire to the south, also the chimney fire in San Luis Obispo. And also the fire that continues to burn in the Sequoia National forest is causing unhealthy levels of pollution in the air. Temperatures today with the smoke and the haze in the Santa Clara Valley in the 80s. Otherwise, 70s and 80s across the peninsula. No sunshine at the coast due to the deepening marine layer. Otherwise east bay is going to be uncome for the as far as the smoke is concerned. 87 degrees in pleasant hill. 90 livermore down two degrees from yesterday. So we are starting a trend going downward. 60s to 90s. Temperatures topping off anywhere from 77 degrees in rohnert park, 82 windsor, 91 cloverdale. Lower lake Area Temperatures in the mid90s. 10 to 20mileperhour winds in the late afternoon. The weekend forecast is coming up. Roqui . Thanks, ro. Let check the Road Construction throughout the area. First, posey tube closed until 5 a. M. Use park street or high street bridge as an alternate route. And lets take a look also at westbound 92 from the highrise to the end of the san mateo bridge. The right lane is closed right now but looks like traffic is clear heading into the peninsula and then lets head to our bay bridge, carquinez bridge to the maze westbound will take you about 20 minutes into the toll plaza looking clear. For the first time the state department is admitting there was a link between a 400 million payment and the same day release of four american prisoners. That happened in iran in january. Kenneth craig has new details reporter the state Department Says the 400 million cash payment the government made to iran came along with a catch. Iran wouldnt get the money until the prisoners were freed. We of course sought to retain maximum leverage until after american citizens were released. That was our top priority. Reporter the four freed americans were Washington Post reporter jason, former u. S. Marine [ nonenglish name ] american businessman [indiscernible name] and a pastor [indiscernible name]. Republicans and the president ial nominee donald trump have been critical of the obama administrations secret plan. He said we dont pay ransom. But we did. He lied about the hostages. Openly and blatantly. Reporter u. S. Officials insist the money was not ransom. They say it was owed to iran as part of a failed arms deal 35 years ago. State department Officials Say they waited until the americans had left iran on january 17 before handing over the money. Craig boswell, cbs news, new york. The state Department Says the money was from a military equipment deal made with iran in 1970s. A week after a massive tree branch fell on a San Francisco woman, her husband has learned she will never walk again. 36yearold [indiscernible name] used to take her two daughters to Washington Square park. She was there last friday watching her girls play when a tree branch snapped and sadly landed on her head. The tree limb weighed 100 pounds and dropped from a pine tree. Her husband says that the impact fractured his wifes skull and broke her lower spine. Doctors told him that she will be paralyzed even if they can reconnect her spinal cord. I asked the doctors whether she could walk again. [ through translator ] they said no because her lower spine was separated. The chance of her walking again is zero. Her husband says that their daughters, who are only 5 and 9, are too upset to show up for school. A hiker is recovering this morning after she had to be rescued from the Pacific Crest trail. 66yearold tara steele was hiking near brave lake when she started having a stroke. She was able to activate her emergency locator and a chp helicopter rescued her. She was airlifted out to the Community Regional Medical Center in fresno and is expected to recover. Authorities are investigating a big pot bust in sonoma county. This is the sheriff departments drugsniffing canine jag this is front of 108 pounds of marijuana. They made the bust during a traffic stop in windsor wednesday night. Jag sniffed out duffel bags with the stuff inside. The men had jailed. In just a few hours a new exhibit is opening at the San Francisco zoo. Its going to feature two endangered lemurs. I find this really funny. Their names are karen and neil lemur. They are only found in the island of madagascar. The new exhibit will also feature a lemur forest at 1. 5 acres the biggest lemur habitat in the country. A ribboncutting ceremony at 9 30 a. M. [ music ] 4 42. Still ahead the future of uber. Could drivers become nonexistent . ,,,,,,,, uber is getting ready to roll out selfdriving cars. Len martin tells us the next time you get an uber there could be no one behind the wheel. Uber getting ready to roll out selfdriving cars. Allen martin tells us which city gets to try out these self driving ubers first reporter talk about sticking out in a crowd. The uber selfdriving cars with their sensors, lasers, radar, cameras and gps antennae in clear view have been on the streets of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, for months now. But still, they are head turners. Because of their success on the street, the bay areabased company is taking its testing to the next level, carrying passengers. That is a selfdriving car. Selfdriving . Selfdriving car. Okay. Would you ride in it . Um, after probably about a few months of people actually doing it and not dying, [ laughter ] reporter the testing period is uneventful but uber understands there could be hesitation. I have never ridden in a selfdriving car so i dont know that i would trust it. Reporter so it will be an option. Riders selecting the self driving vehicles when they summon an uber using the app will get a free ride instead of the usual dollar thirty a mile. Ubers ultimate goal will be a totally autonomous taxi but for now there will be a driver behind the wheel ready to take over if needed. What an experience its modern, you know . Technology is advancing. Our computers are smarter than we are right now anyways, so why not trust the computer with you . Reporter the Current Fleet of fords will grow dramatically over the next couple of months as 100 selfdriving volvos join the motor pool. Allen martin, kpix 5. Uber says it plans to start picking people up in pittsburgh sometime over the next several weeks. No word if and when well see them in the bay area. I guess free sounds good, though, right . The question, though, yeah, would you do it . Do you trust this stuff . [ music ] nothing sever free. [ laughter ] nothing. Nothing is ever free. Those rides are free if you get picked up. Do you trust it . Would you do it . I would try it, sure. I agree with one of the ladies. Computers are probably smarter than a lot of the crazy drivers out on the streets right now. Trust the robot instead of the driver, yeah. Human drivers. I would take that over a man any day. Lets go to the forecast. Its not the computers. Its my forecast. [ laughter ] just kidding. Actually we get a lot of data coming in from our goes west 10 satellite and ingest need our computers and this is what it says for friday morning. Im just joking today. Kind of feisty on a friday, right . Sure temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Good morning, everyone. San jose at o 1 san jose at 61 degrees. Everyone is overcast at this time. I havent seen east bay air quality this bad in at least a decade when we had the smoke and haze work its way in from the redding area into the eastern portion of our bay area. Now its the soberanes and the chimney fire in San Luis Obispo. That smoke is going south and slipping up to the north clipping the east bay trapped by the diablo mountains. Another day in which you see the air that you breathe. The northnorthwest winds at 5 in hayward now generally under 10 except hayward which is breezy at this very early hour. Variable winds later today out of the westsouthwest 10 to 20. Low clouds at the coast, minimal drizzle this morning along the immediate seashore. This marine layer is not quite as expansive as it has been in the past 48 hours. But nonetheless, there you have it with this intrusion into the trivalley. It will back off earlier today. Meanwhile, the lower lake fire 92 degrees couple of degrees cooler than yesterday. Winds still kicking up to 20. The relative humidity dropping off to 22 with a firefighting efforts. Minor changes today. Im just dropping the temperature by a degree or two and thats it. We have this area of low pressure cut off the coast. That will be enhancing our marine layer daily as we progress through the weekend. High pressure still in command of our local Weather Forecast. End result is today we are talking about 96 state capital. 82 with thunderstorms a strong possibility in the high sierra boch through yosemite. Official sunup at 6 28. By the time it sets tonight, here are the temperatures we will record in the weather books. 64 pacifica. 60s around the rim of the bay. Couple of degrees blow average. 76 degrees mountain view. 88 in concord and low 80s in the san jose area. Our extended forecast does call for 88 degrees by sunday which is seasonal. Thats your Weather Forecast for friday. Heres anne. Donald trump expected to tour flood damaged louisiana today. 13 people have been killed since the flooding began in louisiana. The red cross calling it the worst u. S. Disaster since hurricane sandy. Louisianas governor says he hopes trump plans to volunteer or donate money for the relief effort. At least 20 parishes across the southern part of the state have been declared federal disaster areas. I have a 15footdeep canal behind my house and it was dry the day before. You thought were you okay . I thought i was okay. About 80,000 people have applied for federal disaster assistance. 11,000 people are in shelters. We may not agree but a new study says that some people in the bay area are not very nice. Oakland was ranked the third unfriendliest city in the world. Thats according to conde nast traveler. The dubious distinction was based on reader surveys. Some call the city scary. Oaklanders say its unfair. They say that the city is turning itself around and new restaurants are opening up everywhere. The other cities in the top 3, newark, new jersey; and tijuana, mexico. Time is 4 50. Something that looks like a big blimp is flying in the sky. Well take you inside. And whats cool about your school . Email your nomination to coolschools kpix. Com, and we may come and feature your school on the show. Theres a big vote today. In mountain view. Linkedin stockholders will vote on the proposed merger with microsoft. The Companies Announced the deal back in june. Its worth about 26point2 billion dollars. If approve a vote in mountain view. Linkedin stockholders will vote on the proposed deal with microsoft. Its worth 22. 6 billion. If approved it will close this year. The odds are low of owning a home in San Francisco but a new study shows that our chances are worse than expected. Paragon realty crunched the numbers and found that nearly nine in ten households cannot afford a median priced property in the city. That may be because this category of homes clocks in at 7,000 a month for a mortgage. The other hurdle to be in the running for that kind of home, you usually need to make more than 250,000 a year. That puts us out. [ laughter ] if you hope to buy a used car, turns out their price tags have soared. Consumerwatch reporter julie watts tells us why it is now so tough to snag a cheap ride reporter new car or used . Use. Why . To save money. Reporter thats harder to do for some used car buyers as edmunds latest used Vehicle Market report found, used car prices have hit an alltime high. The unlikely reason, there are too many on the market. We have so many like off lease near new vehicles entering the market that overall average is at the highest its ever been. Reporter bucking the tradi

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