Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Saturday Morning Edition 20

Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Saturday Morning Edition 20140125

Staying warm, were going to see things cooling down later on next week. Well talk about the seven day forecast in a few minutes. Developing overnight a car loses control and slams into two homes in antioch. Witnesses say the car was speeding when it crashed into the corner of the first house. Check out the damage there. A part of the wall is no longer there. The car then flipped, struck the second home and landed upside down on its front yard. The woman inside that home slept through the entire ordeal. She has dementia and she doesnt sleep so she takes sleeping pills and i walked in there and checked to see if she was okay. I asked her if she was okay and she said yes and went right back to sleep. Before hitting the second home, the car took out a pg e power box. That knocked out power in the area for a bit. Police do not suspect the driver was under the in plus of drugs or alcohol. They say speeding was the cause of the accident. No major injuries were reported. Well an Elementary School teacher is now facing poisoning charges. Kpix5 andrea borba has details on what the woman is acused of doing that landed her in jail. Reporter the trouble began on november 21 at a party involving several from Matthew Turner elementary. It was a pot luck. After the party several of the 20 people there began feeling ill, seriously ill. One of the party goers was rushed to the hospital with severe reactions, she was hospitalized. The very next morning another party goer was taken to the hospital because she continued to feel like she was under the influence of something she wasnt sure exactly what it was. Hospital blood tests confirm the presence of thc, the active ingredient in marijuana and it wasnt just the Holiday Party goers who ate the food. One of the attendees took some of the food home and their 15 year old juvenile ingested this food and game ill. Thats when a Police Investigation began and the person who brought the allegedly laced dish was identified as 47 year old theresa badger, an Elementary School teacher. Witnesses told detectives after the party badger admitted to them she put pot in the dish. Her neighbors say the charges, three felony counts of poisoning, dont fit the woman and mother they know. What im hearing from you guys is totally out of character. Theresa is about as shes kind, shes a dedicated teacher. Shes someone who keeps to herself. The Police Department is not commenting on exactly what item badger may have brought to that party saying they still have people to interview in this investigation. Kpix 5. Badger did not speak with arresting officers about the alleged poisoning. Shes been booked into the county jail. There may not be a video record of the events leading up to the accidental shooting that left a bart Police Officer dead. According to the San Francisco chronicle officers on scene were not wearing their lapel cameras or did not have them turned on. Bart patrol officers have had the cameras since last summer and they are trained to use them in any enforcement action. If you capture some event or an object on video and its a system that cant be tampered with, its in also refutable what you see. Plain clothes detectives are not required to wear the cameras but uniformed officers are. At least two officers in uniform were on scene during tuesdays search in dublin. Tom smith was killed by friendly fire. Other headlines this morning a 14 year old oakland boy wanted in the murder of his sister is still on the run. Police say the teen shot and killed 17 year old Justice Toliver over an argument about laundry. Neighbors say they heard two or three shots from the families chinatown apartment. Surveillance cameras recorded the boy leaving the complex. One person is in the hospital after a car jumped a sidewalk and smashed into a bus shelter in San Francisco. This happened at about 10 00 p. M. Last night at 30th and mission streets. The victim suffered serious injuries. Theres no word on what caused the driver to lose control. Flu related deaths are on the rise in the bay area. Three more were reported in santa clara and alameda counties yesterday. There were 50 more confirmed flu deaths in people under the age of 65 throughout the state, as of last week. So far 33 people in the bay area have died from the flu. 95 in the state of california. Last flu season the state had 106 deaths. Theres a new controversy relating to the eastern span of the bay bridge. A whistle blower is accusing caltrans of brushing aside safety concerns during construction. Mike morgan, an engineering geologist told state lawmakers his supervisors covered up structural problems. In a report, commissioned by the state senate, a project official reportedly told an engineer not to document concerns but to voice them instead. Caltrans says this adds up to a difference of opinion, not a cover up. After it was discovered, it quickly became apparent to me that the problem was being kept secret and ignored or covered up. I have no evidence or no reason to believe that there was any coercion or anything like that and bullying to make determinations. Well caltrans says the bay bridge is structurally safe and the quality was not compromised. There will be another Senate Hearing next month. That one dealing with possible reforms for caltrans. New details on high speed rail. Governor brown told the state Supreme Court to clear the way for the projects financing. The Brown Administration asked the high court yesterday to overturn two lower court rulings. Those decisions blocked the state from selling more than 8 billion in voter approved bonds, and required a revised financing plan. The governor says the rulings will delay construction and could hurt other voter approved projects in the future. Musics biggest night, the 56th annual Grammy Awards happen this sunday and you can watch right here on kpix5. Frank malaco shows us a Bay Area Group that really knows how to pull strings could get a grammy win. Reporter outside this oakland home crews are tearing up the street. Thats why its hard to believe inside this is going on. This is not your Mothers Chamber music. We go pretty hard core on a lot of the stuff we play. From jazz, rock, funk, blues, they play everything, but classical music. Now, one of the two compositions the groups rehearsing could bring home grammy gold both nominated for best instrumental. I should play the lottery because what are the odds of pulling one grammy nomination, its phenomenal. Yeah, i think the really cool pieces that are very different. One work titled california pitchers was composed by a renouned big band leader gordon goodwin. With this, the quartet swings. Right from the beginning, thats a big band. Thats the horn section, you know . The second nominated work is written by six time grammy winner vince mendosa. I get to start the whole piece with what could be akin to a funk guitar meeting the strings. Thats the piece. Called funky diversion its down right funky. Mendoza in particular is different from anything ive ever played. Only five works are nominated for best instrumental so the odds are in their favor but winning isnt as important as just sharing the vibe. We really wanted to bring new music from the west coast to the rest of the world. Kpix 5. [applause] and there is some buzz around another Grammy Nominated musician from the bay area. Laura sullivan from belmont is making a name for herself in the new age genre. Well that song is from sullivans Grammy Nominated album loves river. Sullivan and her husband produced the album from their home studio. This is my seventh album release and just thrilled to be honored with this nomination. Its just very very exciting. So the grammies start at 8 00 tomorrow night, our own betty yu will be on the red carpet and behind the scenes. You can watch her live reports here on kpix5, and you can check out all of bettys pictures from the big show on our website, kpix. Com grammies. No snow in the sierra taking a toll on tahoe businesses. How the summer like Winter Weather is prompting people to change their travel plans. An interesting new exhibit at the San Francisco zoo is not about the animals. What bay area animal lovers are waiting to get the dirty school on animal poop, up next. ,,,,,, welcome back. 12 minutes after 7 00 a live look at downtown san jose. Partly cloudy but it should be a pretty nice saturday ahead. Looking to the ama super cross event going on at odotco colosseum all day long with the big race at 7 00, partly cloudy and 65 degrees. Well developing news in the ukraine, antigovernment riots are spreading all across the country. Crisis escalated this week when two activists were shot dead. The opposition says they were killed by riot police. The government denies that claim and accuses protesters of capturing two Police Officers. Both people are angry over the governments decision to shun the European Union forecloser ties to russia. Happening today, a small bomb goes off in cairo as egyptions mark the third anniversary of the up rising that toppled long time president s regime. No one was hurt in todays explosion but people are realing in the aftermath of four bombings yesterday that killed six, so despite attack supporters of the military backed government and growing islamic insurgents were out protesting on the streets today. Starting today the San Francisco zoo is going to Great Lengths to explain the dirty truth. Its called the scoop on poop. A new exhibit that goes into the benefits of waste, yes were talking animal waste. Poop trivia, poop games, youre going to learn how animals use poop to build hopes and houses, how its used by us. Weve been using poop for centuries to fertilize our crops and we make things out of it. Youll learn all of this when you come to scoop on poop, the science of what gets left behind. The idea of the exhibit came from the kids who officials tell us questions about waste are the most often asked at the zoo. A big dog show happens today and tomorrow at the palace, the Golden Gate Kennel Club dog show starts this morning at 8 30. More than 1500 dogs will take part covering about 135 different breeds. Judging goes on throughout the weekend along with dog dancing and a dog fashion show. Thats always fun to watch. Well willet hoe is hurting without snow, the wine country is having a great winter. Kpix 5 shows us why nappa wine makers are saying cheers to the warm weather. Reporter if youre a Glass Half Full kind of person youll love how this story goes down. 75 Something Like that . And its very strange. They are in nappa celebrating their anniversary. Normally they choose tahoe. Not this year. We love to go up there this time of year but theres not enough snow if you want to go and play. Here are snapshots from the sierra today. If you like open slopes, it was a good day, but the only snow was man made. Thats not good enough for this couple from sacramento. Since its nice enough this time of year no snow means that people are more likely to come here than they might be otherwise. Overall nappa is seeing nearly 25 more visitors than last winter. January is supposed to be slow around here. Normally, some of our staff get a little board sometimes. You wont see wine ares complaining. Its great, so much fun having people in here. This weekend it will look like a different season in wine country, and with the warm temperatures, it will feel like one too. Beautiful and sunny, [laughter] perfect, yes. Just perfect. The only thing missing will be the fruit on the vines. So wine makers are happy today but some told me that theyre worried about how the dry weather might affect next years wine. In nappa, kpix5. Nice assignment, ryan. 15 minutes after 7 00, our current conditions, chilly out there and partly cloudy skies, upper 40s, lower 50s in most spots of the bay area and today we are going to be warming up into the mid 60s, low 70s, another day of unseasonably mild temperatures. We are going to stay dry and warm throughout the rest of the next week, taking a look at your seven day forecast. The possibility of a cool down though toward the end of the week and we may, we may see the possibility of a shower at this time next week so we have our fingers crossed for that. Start the countdown. Well most everyone can download an app, but can you create one . Kristin airs shows us a group of young girls in oakland can and theyre getting high profile support. Reporter like most 9year old girls, they love dolls. It shows the condition, the price. But unlike most kids her age, butterfield created an app for doll lovers like herself. Its called doll finder. You can like sell and buy doll products. Butterfield is a member of black girls code. In oakland nonprofit that teaches Young African american girls how to build websites and create apps and computer games. Like the one Rebecca Taylor made. A game about a guy named larry. Its the brainchild of Electrical Engineering kimberly brian. We like to think of ourselves as the girl scouts of technology. She did the research and found out black women receive only about 3 of bachelors degrees in Computer Science. We hope to really be able to tap into changing the ratio for women of color and really making a difference in what the face of technology looks like. In two years the nonprofit has taken off. There are branches all over the country and one in south africa. Some of the girls apps are already available on sites like google play. I just downloaded doll finder and the news keeps getting better. Black girls code just one microsoft prestigious price for 50,000. The money will allow brian to hire more staff and buy laptops and tablets for the girls to learn on and hope that they will pursue tech careers, that seems to be working. I want to be a Computer Science engineer. In the future i can be an entrepreneur. I would like to make an ipad but i think thats too hard, because im only 11, so in oakland, kristin airs, kpix5. Brians ultimate goal is to reach 1 Million Girls of color by the year 2040. In just two years shes already reached 2500. I cant believe i did it. [applause] graduation is even more special considering the tremendous obsticles she faced along the way. Well be right back. ,,,,, the Great American novel. So you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. So you can finish the Great American novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. So you can big wave contest yesterday. Well the mavericks came and they were intimidating even for twiggy, the South African won the big wave contest yesterday. Mavericks organizers say the waves were up to 40 feet tall. The waves are pretty big. Theyre a couple 20 footers id say but every time youre about to get to your feet, it just looks undoable. It looked like theres no way youre going to make it and you know what, i saw guys going on waves in the semifinals that was just outrageous. And not a bad price. Twiggy takes home 12,000 for coming in first place. That is so scar it. They are risking their lives out there. For a closer look at the city that hosts mavericks Robert A Gonzalez has a report from Half Moon Bay. Part off our weekly feature called where is roberta highlighting unique places all around the area. Reporter welcome to Half Moon Bay. A wayne, coastal town where a little over 13,000 people are lucky enough to call it home. It is world renouned for its pumpkin festival and its mavericks surf contest. Big big big big big, bigger than big. But Half Moon Bay is also known for its long stretches of serene shoreline. Oh, i always come out here, come down here two or three mornings a week and walk. And great food. Fresh season crab and fish. Its every day. Residents of this Charming Community live a lifestyle that many think no longer exists in california. Neighbors care about each other, and there is a real sense of community. Everybody knows everybody. I mean, ive lived down here since 1966, so these guys here were little kids. Sure the building swells want to lay awake at night. Theyre pounding the last two or three nights its just pounding and taken me awhile to figure out what the noise is. But it is the mild Winter Weather thats causing an uptick in business and this historic city in san mateo county. Its actually helping the fish so the fishermen can sell all the fish they catch so yeah its a lot more tourist which is really helping out Half Moon Bay. Any fears for the lack of rain . This is gods country, yes. Cant believe it. You feel sad about it. That was Robert A Gonzalez reporting. For more on Half Moon Bay and where robert a should go next visit our website at kpix. Com and look for wheres robert a. Well most of our students rising above are growing up without their parents. It almost happened to nancy pume. In high school she was told she would lose her mother, a single parent but now four years and a College Diploma later its a different story. Reporter watch the home video very carefully to see nancy fong break new ground. She joins her brother as the first in their family to graduate from college. Im super proud of myself. I cant believe i did it. With a degree in business management. Her family and her students rising above mentors at her side. It means that im changing my family history, im creating new pa

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