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KPIX KPIX 5 News Sat Morn Edition July 15, 2017

Today as we saw this time yesterday. It is definitely going to be a warm one this weekend for folks inland. Concorde 61. 62 livermore. 62 san jose. Upper 50s for San Francisco. A heat advisory in effect this weekend for all of the area hills, east bay valleys including concorde and Santa Cruz Mountains seeing a heat advisory this weekend. We are looking at triple digit temperatures inland for the warmest locations. It continues through tomorrow. Full forecast coming up. First you headlines coast and bay fog to start. Heat inland. Mild to warm along the coast and bay. Fire. Just outside waikiki. Police say at least 3 people are dead. And a dozen people are hurt. More than 100 firefighters rushed inside the smokefilled building. I was in my unit for 510 minutes. Its so intense. Theres smoke everyehwere. In the fire escape stairs. Honolulus mayor confirmed that building did not have a sprinkler system. I was in my unit for five or ten minutes. As you can see, the smoke is so immense. There is smoke damage everywhere. In the hall. In the elevators. In the fire escape. Honolulus mayor confirmed the building did not have a sprinkle system. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Idge mall yesterday. Its ju start of the fire season and already firefighters in san jose. Are exhausted. And as kpix 5s maria medina reports most of these fires may be the work of an arsonist. nats of aerials from fire on claitor way in East San Jose acres of charred grass can be seen on reporter in East San Jose acres of charred grass can be seen on the hillside. And cal fire confirms they are suspicious. It is one of the busiest fire seasons we have had in a long time. Reporter the san jose Fire Union President says firefighters are exhausted. Folks are held over on mandatory overtime. They are not allowed to go home so they can stay here and keep san jose safe. Reporter even with the help from other fire agencies, they are not just running out of energy, but also resources. It is telling for us. When we put out fires it is not just water. It is folk. We are running out of buckets of foam. Reporter today another grass fire broke out. The number of fires this year is trouble even triple what they saw last year. We saw the smoke and we could see it in that area over there. Reporter many of the resent fires in the jungle in san jose and also on Mount Hamilton where john lives. He told us last week firefighters paid homeowners a visit. They think there is an arsonist causing them. Reporter we are a month and a half into fire season. It is a stressful time for firefighters. Reporter the peek of the season is months away. With 180 firefighters on duty every day covering 200 square miles it is overwhelming. Police say the mother kidnapped Mayalyia Booker yesterday afternoon. Near prince and sacramento streets. This is the girls mother. 34year old laquita davis. Police say she has quote diminished capacity. Any one who has seen davis. Or her daughter. Is asked to call 911. A cal student is behind bars this morning. Accused of nearly 3 dozen acts of vandalism. Some clasified as a hate crimes. But he says he is the real victim racially profiled by police. Neighbors in this upscale berkely neighborhood. Discovered a string of vandalisms. Last month slashed tires. And graffiti. Including slurs aginst white people. 21yearold ismail chamu. Has now been arrested for the vandalisms. But in a strange coincidence, ismail was arrested the day of the vandalisms for a separate crime. Sgt. Andrew frankle Berkeley Police dept. Our officers responded to a report of a hot prowl burlgary. Thats when somebody wakes up and theres someone in their house. Ismail was arrested a few blocks from the burglary. For our officers responded to a hot burglary. Thats when you wake up with somebody in your house. A few blocks from the burglary for carrying a switchblade. He said he was racially profile for being mexican and racially profiled for not speaking english. More information on how he was linked to the vandalisms is expect next week. It had swallowed up 2 homes yesterday afternoon the sinkhole is at least 200 feet wide and 50feet deep. But the good news this morning. Its stopped expanding. No one was hurt. But the neighborhood is evacuated until authorities are sure its safe. Here in the bay area. A sinkhole is finally getting fixed. More than a year after it first appeared. On monday. Crews will start fixing this gaping hole on rheem boulevard in moraga. The sinkhole opened up during the heavy winter rains in 2016. Fixing it wont be cheap. The repairs will cost the city more than 3 million dollars. As a result. Moraga has declared a fiscal emergency. Crews will work longer hours and saturdays to finish by october ahead of the next rainy season. A controversial Marijuana Dispensary owned by former oakland mayor jean quan now has the green light from the San Francisco planning commission. Hundreds of people showed up at a hearing this week. Some arguring a medical Cannabis Store in the sunset district would endanger children. But just before midnight friday. Commissioners approved the despensiary in a 5 to1 vote. Quan and her husband hope to open for busin just before midnight on friday commissioners approved the dispensary in a 51 vote. He hopes to open for business in 2018. Opponents can appeal to the board of directors. 300 extra to cross bay area bridges. It adds 9 on the barry bonds. Bay bridge. We explain some of the high Profile Projects that would benefit from the money. Reporter bay area traffic is legendary. And not in a good way. Proponents of the toll increase plan say individual cities and counties done a good job with projects. Now it is time for bigger solutions. We are involved in a traffic crisis. It is one of the worse places in the entire country as far as traffic is concerned. Reporter the plan is to ask all voters to approve a toll hike up to 3 on the seven staterun bridges in the bay area. The state has just released the list of specific planned improvement projects including 500 million for hundreds of new bart cars. 300 million for freeway expressway lanes. 275 million for new ferries and more ferry service. 200 million to bring cal train to the terminal in downtown San Francisco. 125 million to ease the gridlock in the narrows between marin and sonoma counties. It is important to say what you are funding so voters know exactly what the money they are going to be putting into this will be going to. Reporter another 400 million is allocated for the bart extension to san jose. It will help pay for phase two of the project which extends bart here into downtown san jose and ultimately to santa clara. Three more dollars is really mean. It is brutal. Reporter not everyone who pays bridge tolls is happy with the plan. With residents of alameda and Contra Costa County paying two thirds of all bridge tolls. 3 million. Oh my god. It is too much. Exactly how this toll increase will be rolled out is not known. If it is on the ballot next year it has to pass by a majority vote. Artists with this summers burning man festival are using pine trees killed off by the beatles. The artists got in touch with pg e which is calling dead trees to the bay area where they are milled into lumber and used to build the temples burned at the end of the festival. It is a tragedy all these trees are dying. We are trying to make something beautiful out of a bad situation. Last year we removed 236,000 dead trees from near our infrastructure. Some of that wood you can see behind me. The temple is built inside an abandoned warehouse in west oakland. It will be shipped to nevada at the end of august. Ahead a san jose homeowner scared off this package thief. She is still on the loose. After seeing our story police decided to investigate. One of the Worlds Largest iceburgs breaks away. The alarming prediction about the bay areas flood risk. On todays Community Calendar. A volunteer cleanup day at the aids memorial grow in San Francisco. Show up at 9 00 a. M. In golden gate park. If you are looking for a new cat or dog the east bay spca is holding an adoptthon. You might see costume characters in San Francisco today. A trillionton iceberg has broken free in antarctica. And what it could mean for our rising sea levels. Kpix 5s john ramos spoke with some scientists. Who say we need to take action now. Or some bay area communities could pay the price. In november, nasa scientists discovered Antarcticas Larsen c ice shelf was cracked and only hanging on by a thread. Now that thread has broken m reporter in november nasa researchers discovered antarcticas ice shelf was cracked and only hanging on by a thread. Now that thread has broken. Making it the largest iceburg ever recorded. Ice shelves are already floating so they dont cause Sea Level Rise. It is the sheets of landbased ice behind them that have scientists concerned. If the ice shelves crumble the ice theaters tumble in the oceans. That could begin the process of raising sea levels around the earth. Reporter Sea Level Rise could spell trouble for lowlying coastal communities across the country. In the bay area alameda will be first to see changes. You can see water along roadways. Some roads may become impassable. Thats the on set of the chronic flooding problem. Reporter union of concerned scientists released a study today that identified alameda and East Palo Alto as the two places that will suffer the most from rises in sea level. Some of the scenarios are doomsday assuming a 6. 5foot sea rise predicting problems 80 years from now. Cities need to begin making decisions about how close to the water people should live or work. There is a limited time window they have to prepare for chronic flooding that brings really transformative changes to the communities and forces hard choices about how we are living. Reporter it may be hard to motivate people to remake their ways of life based on scary predictions of what could happen in the next century. Just seeing it is changing is only going to get us to go so far. If we see it changing, if we get that call to action well do it. Reporter perhaps it has started. No one really knows if anything we can do today will stop it. Climate Scientists Say changes are coming. We should be planning now if we are goin keep ourselves above water. Weigh about one trillion tons. Scientists believe it will begin to break up but thats a process that could take decades. The beaches north of the boardwalk in santa cruz are opening back up this morning. After a shark tried to bite a kayaker in the area this week. Officials posted warning signs all over the boardwalk after the incident. But brave surfers paddled out anyway. Surfer Bobby Missirian i dont think the probability of a shark attack happening is much different a few days after an attack than it is any other day. Santa cruz Fire Department capt. Britten miles we just think its safer to give people a little break and make sure nothing else happen before e water. Al i dont think the probability of a shark attack happening is much different a few days after an attack. Than it is just normally. We think it is safer to give a little break and make sure nothing else happens before letting people back in the water. Although there have been shark sitings in the area before, the Fire Department says tuesdays attack was different because it was a predatory attack. Time for a check of the forecast. It might be cool at the beach. It feels like beach weather inland this weekend. Golden gate has a mix of sun and clouds. Fog along the coast. 61 concorde. 62 livermore as well as san jose. It is warm inland. We are talking triple digit later on today. The ridge has returned. High pressure over Southern California. Bringing much warmer conditions our way. We are definitely going to see a little bit of a warm weekend as we head through the next few days. Things to remember, saturday and sunday will be hot inland. No record highs this weekend. But temperatures will be more than ten degrees above average. Ten to 12 degrees above average this weekend. Well see the ocean influence return next week. Thats will help bring temperatures down across the board and around the bay area. This weekend certainly hot. We have a heat advisory for folks inland. A little bit cooler if you want to find cooler temperatures along the coast. High temperatures for this weekend forecasted above average. We are talking triple digits in concorde. 74 San Francisco. 89 san jose. 82 oakland. Upper 90s on the south bay. Inland east bay temperatures well in the triple digits for antioch. It will feel warm around the bay. 81 alameda. 78 burkeley. 74 San Francisco. Mid to upper 60s along the coast. 90s for much of the north bay. Triple digits further north lake port, clear lake and cloverdale. If you want real hot weather head to the california state fire. 105 there. Aids walk in San Francisco with patchy clouds on sunday. Golden gate park 64 degrees. Triple digits for saturday and sunday for the warmest spots inland. 70s by the bay. 60s along the coast. We start to cool down to near san jose norms next week topping out with 90s for the warmest spots inland. 60s by the bay and the coast. Next, a favorite comfort good getting unhealthy report. Good morning and welcome back. Its time for our top consumer our collaboration with pg e is centered around public safety. Without pg es assistance, without their training we could not do our mission to keep our Community Safe. Anytime we are responding to a structure fire, one of the first calls you make is for pg e for gas and electric safety. Its my job to make sure that they have the training that they need to make the scene safe for themselves and for the public. Its handson training actually turning valves, turning systems off, looking at different wire systems all that training is crucial to keeping our Community Safe and our firefighters safe. Together, were building a better california. Good morning. Time for our top consumer watch stories. W seeing ai app uses the Smartphone Camera to detect and describe objects and people around its user. The app is available for i phone in the us. And five other countries. Honda is recalling more than onemillion of its honda accords the Company Received multiple reports of battery sensors catching fire in the engine. Honda says the sensors may not be sufficiently sealed against moisture and things like road salt. Which could cause them to short. The recall covers 2013 to 20 16 accords and. Its a kid favorite mac and cheese. But a new report is raising questions about a chemical found in the cheese powder. Its a fan favorite among kids of all agesa for some, one of the few foods theyll eat. But a new report is raising concerns we tested 30 different cheese products, and 29 out of the 30 they are allowed under regulations that are 30 years old. Reporter they are chemicals used to make plastics soft. They are not added to food but absorbed during processing and packaging. It is not as simple as saying never eat mac and cheese again. Reporter the cheese findings arent surprising. His Research Shows a link between phthalates and an increase in blood pressure. While it is difficult to avoid them, you should attempt to reduce exposure. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables imparticular is a great way to avoid contact with food packaging. Reporter for most a life without processed foods is unrealistic. For those who cant stop eat processed foods, what can you do . The best thing consumers can do is demand change from the companies. The groups petitioned the f. D. A. To regulate phthalates in food and are calling on consumers to Petition Company like kraft to reduce phthalates. They say the levels found were below what quote scientific authorities identified as acceptable. Th is a large scale model of star wa. A planned new addition to the disneyland. And disney world theme parks. The model was unveiled this week in anaheim. But the real life versions. Are expected to open in 2019. Thats if for your consumer stories this saturday. Now lets get to your sports round up. Heres andrea nakano. We first broke the story. Of the homeowner, who caught a pair of package thieves in the act. Top of 6th span with clutch hitting gets the single to bring the in the run. Giants up 43. Next inning buster posey adds a crucial run. He sends the ball deep to center. Giants lead 53. To the bottom of the ninth inning. Bases loaded. Sam gets the fly out to right. Giants hold on for the 54 win. It is bark in the park night with the oakland as taking on the cleveland indians. With trade rumors swirling sonny pitches six shutout innings. Bottom of 5th as hitting 20. Davis takes it deep against the old club. As win 50. To the American Century celebrity tournament in lake tahoe. Steph curry giving the Warriors Front Office a care. He is tied for 23rd after the first round. That start today is his first since injuring his shoulder in a dirt bike accident. We first broke this story of the homeowner who caught a pair of package thieves in the act. Now police are hot on the case. Coming up, their hunt for the porch pirates before they try their luck again. A push to protect drug sniffing k9s. Good morning, im devin fehely. And im julie watts. Welcome back. It is 7 30. Good morning. We want to begin this half hour with a traffic alert. Three lanes on southbound 880 are blocked near the coliseum. A dump truck is overturned. We are working to gather more details. Well get them as soon as they come in. We want to start off with a quick check of your forecast. It is going to be a warm one especially for folks inland. Right now we have fog and low clouds over the golden gate. Temperatures already in the 60s for concorde and livermore

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