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KPIX KPIX 5 News Saturday Morning Edition May 23, 2015

Macavioch. Mark has the morning off so im here. We have a lot of people around. We thought we would get you weather first with fog and low over cast over the golden gate bridge. Theres drizzle at the higher elevation. It seems things will be warmer than yesterday. Some clearing opposed to yesterday. Well get more of that today. Temperatures to begin your saturday morning are mostly in the 50s around the bay area. Were looking for things to be cloudy areas of drizzle to start out with and then partly cloudy mild again today and a warming trend ahead. Stay tuned and well have the complete forecast in a few minutes. New this morning a two alarm fire has forced 10 people out of their homes in San Francisco. It was in a threestory building at Fulton Avenue near argue boulevard shortly after 4 30. Two people were taken to the hospital. Round two of the san mateo bridge closure continues through the memorial day weekend. Crews are working to repair the surface. The bridge is scheduled to reopen monday at 5 00. A lot of people in the bay area will be traveling. Before you bag your bags what you need to know about the roadways. Watch. You know, theres just no sugar coating it, getting around some parts of the bay area for the Holiday Weekend will be a pain in the neck. Lets start with where we are right now. This is the san mateo bridge. Starts tonight at 10 00 caltran will shut out down completely. The full close your ure will allow crews to re surface the entire span of the bridge. They will also do electrical work. The lines between fruit dale and College Theme will be closed all day satellite and saturday and sunday. Fremont and daily city will be closed also. A free bus will be available but it will add significant travel times so plan for that. This is all for on going rail projects. Back out here at the san mateo bridge, it will reopen monday at 5 00 a. M. We have another bridge closure, the Oakville Cross road bridge in napa county. An earthquake on thursday did some damage to the bridge. Its over the napa highway between highway 29 and the silverado trail. It wasnt supposed to close until summer but the Public Works Department shut it down. Freemont and corey lakes are closed because of bluegreen algae. Its most likely caused by a draught. A gesture by farmers. They will cut water use by 25 . The state was threatening to impose the first cuts in 35 years. Agriculture accounts for 80 of the water ground. In the bay area vandals hit a dam in fremont and wasted tens of millions of gallons of water. The water is gone and the dam is going to cost millions to replace. This is what the dam looked like before vandals sliced it up yesterday. The rubber barrier now flattened under a pool of water. Now the water has poured out. Sgltsz it hurts inside. Thats going to cost a lot of money to replace it and time. We need this dam because its a recharging pond. When fully inflated it reached 13 feet and stretched 210 feet across the channel. The water lost is enough to supply 500 homes in this neighborhood for a year. Its challenging times and during the draught worse of an act. Alameda workers and police checked out the damage this afternoon. The district said a new dam will cost 3 million. It was already working on replacing the old now. Now it be speed up the project. What would you say to this vandal or vandals . What would i say . I wouldnt say anything but if i caught them id slap them a few times. The district hopes to have a new dam in place by the end of the year. It also says it doesnt think the loss of the water will have longterm impacts on the supply. Oakland has a new plan to crack down on violent protests. We saw the first use thursday night. Protesters were march ing but when it got dark the Police Officers said they had to stay on the sidewalk or face arrest. We have a right to peacefully assemble. Thats a constitutional right. Where he dont have a right that says you can assemble until 8 00. Were just making better use of the laws that we have. The city is responding to businesses complaining to protests ending with broken windows and looting. Aaa predicts that americans will travel more on this memorial day weekend than in the past decade. Theres good news and bad news about gas prices. This is great weather. They have already seen a lot of ups and downs at the gas pumps. In the stations in arizona in the morning we see one price and go back an hour later and see out price. The gas prices are up 77 cents from january. The National Average is still 2. 73 gallon. Thats below last year at 3. 69. Drivers are enjoying some of the lowest price in 5 years. Gas prices are cheaper because the cost of crude oil is so much lower. Crude oil prices are 50 a barrel less than summer. Its estimated americans will save 80 billion on gas by the end of the summer. Thats about 400 per household. The one major exception Southern California where refinery issues have kept prices high, around 4 a gallon. That puts a cap on how far some californians are traveling. Pulling this trailer i can get 8 miles a gallon. His holiday get away limited to one tank. Chris martinez cbs news los angeles. In the bay area prices are droply slightly. In San Francisco the average price of a gallon of regular is going for 3. 80. In oakland and san jose its 3. 78. Its funny how they got us trained to think that 3. 78 is a bargain. Luckily were just working on weekend so we wont be among all the travelers. From home to work, from home to work. Spectacular costumes will be on display for a carnival in San Francisco. Today a party is planned. It continues tomorrow with a grand parade features floats. The Golden State Warriors will be back on the court not in game 3 of the playoffs. Game 3 will be played in houston tonight at 6 00. Coming up, thieves rip off a Bay Area Apple store without stepping inside. Firefighters plunge through a roof into a inferno. The frantic rescue caught on tape. Look at the skyline of San Francisco. The Transamerica Pyramid is piercing the cloud deck. The forecast coming Oakland Police said man kidnapped for ransom has been rescued. He was found in the trunk of a car yesterday morning in heyward. Police tracked the victim to a home where they found two men driving away in a buick. Officers tried to pull the car over. They crashed. Officers fouvend the kid found the kidnapped man inside the trunk unharmed. Today marks a somber day near the Uc Santa Barbara campus. It marks one year since Elliot Rogers went on a rampage and killed his three roommates before killing himself. He posted killing videos on you tube before the rampage. Four firefighters who fell through the building of a burning casino in los angeles are expected to recover. Fellow firefighters rushed in and dragged them out. One of them suffered second and third degree burns. The chief said they were cutting holes to vent the fire when the roof collapsed. He said its a dangerous part of the job. The man convicted of killing chandra levy will get a new trial. Her 2001 disappearance created a National Scandal after the 24yearold was romantically linked with congressman gary. Prosecutors say they are prepared to retry them. 296 emails sent to and from former secretary of state Hilary Clinton have been released. They were all turned over last year to a Congressional Committee investigating the attacks in benghazi, libya that left four americans dead. Nancy cortis has more. The emails capture the confusion in 2012. The libyans confirmed his death clinton wrote. Should we announce tonight or wait until morning . A top aide wrote back, we are awaiting formal confirmation from our team. The last day clinton got a call. The attacks he said were inspired by an internet video on the profit muhammad. 18 hours later he sent a new analysis. Its a group that planned the attacks for approximately 1 month. Many of the emails have been heavily redacted, including this one. One talking about raw tds. Top aide Jake Sullivan assured clinton you never said spontaneous or characterized the motives. Marie heart summed up the emails this way. They do not change our understanding of what happened before during or after the attack. Republicans argued theres a reason for that, in a statement Benghazi Committee chairman noted that clintons private email account was exclusively reviewed and released by her lawyers so theres no way to know if the selfselected Public Record is complete. Traveling in New Hampshire clinton responded. It is the fact that we have released all of them that have any government relationship whatsoever. Clinton has always said that she did not sender receive classified material on her private account. Just before the state Department Released the emails the fbi determined that two sentences in one of the emails while not considered classified at the time it was sent should be labelled as classified now. Cbs news, capitol hill. On this saturday morning its time to take a look another how things are shaping up. Mostly over cast skies throughout the bay area. Later in the day a better burn back than yesterday. You couldnt tell it by looking over san jose right now. Over cast, mostly cloudy skies and the readings in the 50s. San jose 58 degrees concord 55. That low pressure has plagued us and it will slowly slowly begin to move east. A few thunderstorms in the sierra. Weve gotten build ups over the coast range. You can see that in the future cast. See down there around clear lake and the napa shoreline . This is at 3 00 this afternoon. You can see by santa rosa it wouldnt be a surprise to see a few complex showers this afternoon. Up in the north bay maybe a few showers today and then the northerns come in and just scour us out. If this is to be believed well get better clearing tonight. We shall see. So heres what we expect some drizzle this morning, especially at the Higher Elevations. That will dissipate soon. A sun and cloud mix today. Warming inland especially. In fact, warming inland only sunday and monday. The coastline remains cool. Forecast highs for today down in the south bay 70 degrees. Look at pathland bay still in the 50s. 69 san jose. Over in the east bay all the way up to 76 degrees at brentwood Pleasant Hill 72, walnut creek 70 degrees. 75 in santa rosa. Maybe a shower up around napa and Sonoma County. 69 for nevada. Extended forecast, well go with status quo. Clouds at the shoreline and better clearing. Look what happens later in the weekend when temperatures will be back in the mid 80s inland and even the bay will have sunshine breaking up. Wait until midweek for that, today we get better clearing. Its nice to see the sunshine again. Its been gloomy. It has been. Sorry about that. Its been a gray may june bloom. Theyre all accurate. Thank you. Several people are behind bars accused of stealing more than 100,000 worth of stuff from a Shopping Mall in san jose. Marina medina reports the suspects didnt even go inside the store. It was a high priced theft that four expected criminals nearly got away with. They hit the jackpot either by coincidence or knowing what they were with were able to get their hands on. These four men were out the oak ridge mall tuesday. Not to go inside but their operation took place outside. The men broke into a fed you fedex truck and got the goods. The men drove off but little did they know someone saw them and called police. Officers said the men tried to run but didnt get far. All of them were caught. Thats good now inmates in san jose but all are from the l. A. Area. The question is, what were they doing here and did they make any other stops along the way . You have to have no no conscious to do that. Pretty crazy. The suspects face a long list of charges including grand theft and resisting arrest for fleeing from police. We reached out to fedex to see if apple got its products back or whether the driver followed protocol in leaving the truck alone. They said they dont release details about customers or security procedures still ahead shes grown up too fast, taking on a job taking care of siblings and her school work but one big dream is looking for one of these . Yoplait. Smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. As we have a look at the san mateo bridge, its closed until monday morning at 5 00 a. M. Were starting off mostly over cast. The east lake Music Festival will be mostly cloudy and mild today. The temperature about 65 degrees. Finding the money to pay rent and buy food can be stressful for adults but what about if youre a teenager. How one student is handling her big time responsibility and working towards big dreams. After school precious goes to work. She wants to save enough to go to the prom. I wanted to be able to do what a normal teenager does for senior year. Most normal teenagers dont have any concerns like precious. Electricity the internet. Thats hard for me because i have home work to do and most of it is done online. I cant do that if the internet is off. Money is month to month. She lives with more her father in richmond. He just got a job but before that her dad was unemployed which is why her job is so important. Precious grew up with very big responsibilities, helping first with one sister and then three more siblings. As i got older when i was 6 or 7 i learned how to change a diaper i learned how to give her her milk and heat up the milk. I did that with all my siblings. She keeps all that inside when she goes to school. This is where precious shines. Shes the kid with the good grades shes the kid that comes in early. Shes the girl who smiles. I think creativity is her special talent shes just expressing her emotions through her art work. She can code and shes a computer geek. She and her father built one out of old partings. She parts. She wants to de sign video games. I want to do the coding, the artist the business, marketing. Im hoping in 5 years shes going to be back here saying im done with college, look at this job i have. In 10 years she may be running the business. She will got through college. This fall shell go to the new York Institute of technology. She wants to set an example for her brothers and sisters. Give them the confidence and pride that they can do whatever they want to do too. I want to give them hope. I want to be an example for my family. Kpix 5. You can to find ways to help students like precious go to kpix. Com. Police said they have never seen anything like that. The bizarre hourlong slow speed chase that tangled traffic. All hands on deck to rescue in the California Oil spill. The Emergency Operation giving some birds a Second Chance at life. Plenty of clouds in the sky a bit of a dreary and cool day but change is on the way. Well be right back. Welcome back on this fine saturday morning. It is what time is it . Its 7 30. Were right on time. Mark kelly has the morning off. Memorial day weekend. It is. Weather never sleeps. Thats why were going to take a look. The high point in solano county. We know its 2,700 feet up there so the inversion layers will be below that. It is. Nice to see blue skies even if you have to go to the top. Concord 55, oakland 53 livermore 57. Its going to be a fairly over cast start to your saturday morning. The forecast is coming up in just a minute. Round two of the san mateo bridge closure continues through the weekend. Its closed right now. Heres a live look at the bridge. Crews are working to repair the surface. The bridge is set to reopen by monday at 5 00 a. M. In oakland another traffic alert. Bart will not have Train Service between fruit vale and coliseum station. They are offering a free bus bridge but a lot of people will be trying to work their way around these closures. Bay area roadways are expected to be clogged this weekend. The bridge closure use dunnbarton or bay bridges or highway 237 as alternative routes. Also eastbound highway 92 onramps from edge water and metro center in foster city will be shut down, west ward in heyward from industrial boulevard will be closed. Another traffic note, doyle drive closure has been delayed. It was supposed to happen next weekend. The final closure before the new there it is. The new roadway date has been pushed back. Caltran said it has to be certified first. The oakville road in napa county is closed down too for good. Its over the napa river between highway 29 and silverado trail. The bridge wasnt supposed to close until the summer. Crews were going to completely replace it. The Public Works Department decided to shut it down early and indefinitely after thursday nights 4. 1 magnitude quake. Corey lakes is closed for swimming. Thats because of a toxic bloom of bluegreen algae. Theyre common but toxic runs are rare. Its mostly caused by the drought. 10 people were forced out of their homes in San Francisco this morning after a two alarm fire ripped through their building. The fire on fulton street near argue boulevard started shortly after 4 30 this morning. Two people were taken to a hospital. We dont know the extent of their injuries. We have no word on the cause of the fire either. Ire dpdz landland is poised to be the first same to nationalize samesex marriages. Early numbers show the yes campaign will likely win. Official results are expected this afternoon. The fight over the nsa collection of phone records is coming down to the wire. Mitch mcconnell is calling for lastminute session on sunday, may 31st, the day before the patriot act is set to expire. The fbi admits no major terrorism cases have been cracked with the patriots snooping power. Congress has voted to extend funds for highways and mass transit programs by 2 months. This is the 33rd short term patch of that Program Since 2008. The pro

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