Transcripts For KPIX KPIX 5 News Sunday Morning Edition 2014

KPIX KPIX 5 News Sunday Morning Edition September 28, 2014

Smashing a toy train. Anything to get noticed. We have someone live in studio to discuss it. This is a little scary. Two people arrested this morning for a string of Early Morning fires in the city. Were going tell you what was targeted coming up. All right we have a lot in store, but lets take a quick check on the Weather Forecast this morning. A live look from the roof cam and you can see a little bit cloudy. Your weather headlines for today and were going see the fog moving out and then a mild afternoon and then the temperatures are below normal and then a warming trend ahead. A closer look at the forecast coming up. A fire bug is behind bars and fire investigators believe that an arsonist started six fires last night. Now the first was a dumpster and then it got worse from there. A house and a car also badly damaged. We heard someone saying that it was arson and someone said fire to the fence in the back. I really do not know. You i saw rumors but glad that everybody was out. Fortunately nobody was hurt. Theyre holding a press conference on an arrest later on this morning. Stay with kpix 5 for the updates. Now tomorrow night the Public Meeting on the rail safety thats a community conversation. Now it comes as they weigh in the application to receive and process the crude oil by the rail. Representatives and the union specific will be there and it starts at 6 00 at the board of supervisors chambers and tomorrow we will get an update in the deadly shooting in San Francisco. Officers shot a man to death on thursday after he refused to put his hands up. Earlier a woman had her suv stolen at gun point and they lead them on a chase across the two bridges. The meeting happens at noon at pier 1. The shaking is over but the remains remain after the earthquake. Folks are ready to move on but the federal help to get them back on the feet is slow and coming. Senator and congressman Mike Thompson visited and they will ask fema to get the application process for grants and loans on the fast track. I cannot walk down the street without somebody grabbing me and say here is my personal story and we need help. I am troubled that there are still people that have though the been able to get back in the homes, and its been a while. Its been a while. Quake losses are estimated at more than 400 million. Governor jerry brown has signed a measure to provide the stop gap funding and the doctors senator it will keep the debt ridden hospital open until february. So the cost of the Health Care District now has more time to try to come up with the new partners and new funding. Thats a look at the top stories and back to you. New you problems with the eastern span of the bay bridge. The hits keep oncoming. The commission in charge is going to meet on tuesday to see what do about the problems. Yeah, one of them maybe leaks and resulting in the giant steel rods that anchor the tower at the base and theyre in danger of corrosion. Now the problem has been found in all of the 12 rods that have been inspected. They have drained that water but do not know whether or not the rods have been damaged, so to check you cut them in pieces and its going to be impossible because of the way that the tower is structured. They have a real problem on the hands. Its not the first time that we had the situation. No, never. We had the cracked bolts before it opened and then it was almost impossible to fix them, so they had to build around them. Yeah, theyre going to take on the you issue and he is in studio and were going talk to him about thisment cooing up in a few minutes. Corrosion is caused by rain. O obviously there was going to be rain. We did not prepare for this . Were going sit down and talk about this. Also the terminal thats another transportation nightmare in the making. Speaking of transportation its back to the bargain at the golden gate bridge. Thats after a one day strike. Talks are stuck at pay raises. Keep in mind that the last three contracts these members have had are concessions ton lower wages and no wages on Lower Health Care and quality or Higher Health care premiums. Here is the district contract proposal as it stands and a nine percent pay raise and workers have to contribute another 2. 1 on the program. Now the union on the other hand wants raises on 11 percent and additional 1. 5 contribution to the health care. This is a debate that were seeing all over the state up and down. Its interesting because this strike was not a full strike. We thought that the bus drivers and everybody else was going to go out as well. Yeah, thats what was amazing. It was affecting about 4500 commuters but the traffic was only ten percent over normal. I think that maybe the result of the bar strike that did not go over well with the public. Rather than the full shut downs the partial shut downs and we will see partial and it will be inconvenient and it will not be cripple. Jan, by the way while were on the subject. Yeah, Court Workers are on the verge of their on strike possibly. Theyre fighting over the pay and benefits and the union has been negotiating and theyre nowhere near a deal. Yeah, a lot of it is the health care contribution. Anybody out there whether youre an Public Employee or have your on plan, were seeing the rates go up and o up and up. A strike would hurt when it got to the court system because theyre already backed up. We will see if they come to a deal. All right. Now were moving down for a different problem. How about this. An all you can fly airline is costing too many headaches. Yeah, theyre going to be holding a Community Meeting about it this week. This is a problem and the airline surf air has been taking off from the San Carlos Airport and flying over for about a year. People who live there have been raising hell and saying that its getting too noisy and getting worse. They pay 1,400 for unlimited flights and the company Just Announced that theyre ordering 15 more planes for the fleet. In many ways this is all you can eat buffet. The worst that you can do is run out of air. A group is formed to buy them quieter planes. Its called calm the skies and meeting on tuesday night. Well, talk about a problem commuter problem that most people do not get unlimited flights. Everybody has to get to work somewhere and somehow. Thats a meaning to mass transportation. The threat could be a terminal project and another big project thats got complicated. Find out how San Francisco could be making thousands of dollars off what is supposed to be free parking. [ music ] , developers over the transbay terminal project. It started out as a replace for an old bus station. But it has mushroomed into a mae project with highrises and an underground train station. In return for being allowed to constrt the highrises. The builds agreed to help pay for the transbay center. Now they s the 200 Million Dollars they wants is too much. Youve got too many people floating around in the clouo make any rational deal. Developers brought in former mayor willie brown to help broker a new deal. Only to have it fall apart. The result now is a giant game chicken the developers can up the funding. While they can block them from opening their buildings. Joining us San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener w also sits on the metropolitan Transportation Commission f the bay Area Supervisor e have quite a stand off here anne does weather anne does weather anne does weather anne does weather are really were important for the region. We up zone and we are allowed higher limit for buildings with the understanding that they you would faye the fees and extend the train. Thats all that were asking for. They have exploded and thats what were thats where we want to move. Well the idea it seemed that it was very very ambitious and raised the question should we and can we do ambitious things like this . It was going to be paid for this part by allowing developers around it to build and build and build and contribute. It was a domino and one fell and you now theyre all seeming to fall. Did we over reach and are we expecting too much . Not at all. The whole purpose of creating the limits and increased density in the downtown area is because we would have a complete neighborhood and all the you supports infer structure and the development would pay for that supporting infer structure. Nothing new and its in everyones limit to get this bill to get the center done and to get the train downtown. And already its over budget and taking money from one to feet into the other. We saw this in the bay bridge that the cost of it just went through the roof. Now we have continuing problemmings with the books. Are these projects too big . No, not at all. If we ever get to the day in california where were not building big important transportation projects, thats a problem. These are so important for the economy and quality of life and every major transportation project in the history of human kind has ended uptaking longer and being more complicated and more expensive than we thought. The golden gait bridge took longer and it had 100 lawsuits surrounding it. Its nothing new and were going to work through it. For us paying for it why is it that after this time all that you can say about the project is that its not going to be done on time and schedule that you thought that it was and its not going to be done on the cost schedule and then when its done youre going back and redo it. Well, we have had the problems on the bolts and bay bridge. A lot of these are redone the way that we thought that it was going to be. The cost issue when we get into an economy and structure cost go up and things get more expensive and we just have to get it done. Its not optional. Its so important for the future. What happens if you do not get the money from the developers . What happens to the project . I think that we will. The argument is very strong. Thats not just the funding for the project. Were going work hard for years to put together the funding to get the train downtown. So even with the Development Money youre still going to be coming back and asking for more . We have to put together the funding over time to get the train downtown. Yeah, the high speed rail is not here yet. Yeah. Another massive transportation project. Sometimes i think that if we had some of the fights that we had today back in the 50s or the interstate highway system was built, we have to get the Transportation Systems done. Okay. We will keep can an eye on that and the wallets and have you back. Back to you guys. Okay. Lets take a live look at the east bay from the w cam. A little bit of patchy fog out there and the sun has been out for about an hour and the temperatures are warming. Were going to see sun and some clouds and cooler temperatures this morning. More sun and warmer weather into the next work week. Lets take a closer look at the highs today. Only about five to seven degrees below average. Moving to the east bay and mostly in the 70s in a warm spot and 80 degrees. 70s in in the north bay and upper 60s in the central bay. Five to seven degrees below normal. Were going to see a slight warm up tomorrow and then well above average starting midweek and were finishing off the work week with plenty of sunshine all around. Looks good. Its not too often that you you get something for free. When you do, you want to take advantage of it. In case of free sunday parking the city seems to be keeping this free be a little secrete. Now it will remain so until the city installs new smart meters. Whether its professionally done or not, were to just cross out something or professionally cover it with a sticker, not everybody would believe that. The new smart meters will run about 500 each to replace. The 49ers mcdonald will today despite domestic abuse. See why he will not be in Court Tomorrow or any time soon. We will be right back. [ music ] ,,,,,,,,, embattled attorney general stay in the shape up in the Obama Administration this week. Eric holder resigned and in the process for a new attorney general a couple of big names from here in the bay area are getting tossed into the mix. Including us president and Homeland Security chef. The exit comes late in the game. Thats right. We sat down with the Political Insider and asked them okay what does this mean for the president and what does it mean for anybody taking the job. So what does this do in terms of the Obama Administration and the Justin Department to have the chef Law Enforcement agency say that i want out of here and leave everybody in a stance . Well, its a lame duck stance. One thing that that i heard was that you see interesting. Well, it would have been great for her but you now she got the job. Yeah, she would not just drop that. This is the east coast media. Yeah, then the east coast media. The fact is the Obama Administration has some very Big Questions out there that holder started with regard to security and terrorism. So basically this job no matter if offered to a californian is not a political step up is that what youre saying . Yeah, its about something going to the the care taker job and sort of going into retirement. Its not a harris thats got a huge career out of it. So eric holder says that she not going leave until his replacement is confirmed. So could he have a very long wait in washington with the republican. Its a head lock by the president. He maybe there a while and the thing is that they want to get this confirmed before the lame ducks or during the lame duck sessions because theres a strong chance that they will take the senate and then whoever is going to be confirmed can be a lot tougher. Well, if nobody wants to job, who is going to take it . Well, you get a care taker to sit louisiana youre doing is finishing up what the holder and administration had or inherited the headaches. Its not a steppingstone. She may not want it now but maybe years from now you. Exactly. Also if eric was not the only person in this. Were having a chance of the guard there. I do not think that anybody else is rushing in for it. Could there be a strategy involved in having eric holder as a lame duck and having him do some things while Everybody Knows he is about to step out any way. I like it. Youre getting matt on us. [ laughter ] youre out the door any way. Exactly. Take these with you. You know how that works. Poplar rides have to answer to the District Attorney by tomorrow. Hear the multiple problem that is they have with the private taxi services. We have a lot coming up when we come back. [ music ] welcome back to kpix 5 t, sunday morning. The time is. Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix 5 news. [ music ] welcome back the time is 7 56. I am ann and we have a lot to talk about in the next half hour including the attempted out of San Francisco fire chef. It turns out that a lot of firefighters have no confidence in the leadership. The question is whether its about the leadership or the lack of Ambulance Service in the city or both . What is the city going to do about it . Speaking of cities the oil race is running, but is it really running that hard 6789 were going to sit down with the insiders and say what is it going to take to get them off the ground. A big face off under way against the Ride Sharing Companies. The whole sharing company as cities try to figure out how to regulate them. We have the deadlines coming up. We will talk about that. We have the District Attorneys stepping in here and raising questions as well. Okay. You can see lee have i stadium and big game today for the 49ers there. Temperatures right now in the upper 50s and low 60s all across the bay area and then the cool spot and then its about 10 degrees cooler than we normally see this time of the year. Mild afternoon sunshine and a little bit of cloud and warming trend ahead into the next work week, and we will talk about that coming up in a few you but here is mark with the headlines. Looks like theres a couple of fire bugs on the hand. They believe that two arsonists started fires. They made the arrests this morning. The first blaze was set on a dumpster and it got worse from there. A house and a car on san antonio avenue badly damaged. Now several cars on park street also hit, but the good news is that nobody was hurt. We heard somebody saying that it was an arson and somebody said fire to the fence in the back. I saw rumors, but i am glad that everybody is out. Now. Now Police Used Tear Gas to try to clear thousands of protesters in hong kong. It sent protesters running but many came right back. The students and others have been camped out on the streets outside a government complex all weekend. Now theyre demanding that a election be held without interference from beijing. A pain staking for survivors. At least 30 people are feared dead. Thats a poplar clipping spot and about 250 people were scaling the slopes on saturday when most of the clippers made the way down the mountain safely and the value can know e is in central japan. A patient exposed and will be amitted outside of washington. Now the american doctor had volunteered at a Treatment Center and that person is being admitted for observation and to take part in the clinical study. The nih says all safety precautions are being taken at this time. Students at North Central Texas College are mourning the loss of softball players there. A bus hit a bus as it was traveling. 15 students and a coach were on board on the way back from a game. 11 students and they were hospitalize and the safety board is investigating the accident. Thats a look at the top stories.

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