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KPIX CBS 5 Eyewitness News At 5AM November 27, 2012

The roads that are closed that we are able to confirm is jacklin road between arizona and campbell. They are closing off the road. We heard from our kcbs partners they wont expect to be open until 7 a. M. There was an officerinvolved shooting in the area. We are waiting for the Public Information officer to arrive on scene to confirm that but we heard that Milpitas Police were trying to pull over a man in a tan honda and then took off, jumped out of the car and reportedly fired shots at officers. Again, these are reports that we are hearing. We are waiting for Police Confirmation in the next cummins. We are hoping that we can confirm this more in detail but to give you an idea of the area right here, there are three schools here. A middle school, high school and Elementary School in this area so thats why they are roping off this area to make sure it is secure. But again these are just initial reports that were hearing at the moment. We are expecting Milpitas Police to bring out a representative hopefully in the next few minutes so we can give you a definite on what is going on in this area. Live in milpitas, cate caugiran, cbs 5. 5 02. A fremont woman suffered minor injuries when police say her boyfriend tried to hang her from a tree. The womans hands were tied behind her back. A noose was placed around her neck but police say when her boyfriend went inside she got her cell phone out of her back pocket and called 911. Had the officers not got there in time, what do you think would have happened . He would have killed her. He would have hung her from that rope. Police say 31yearold Daniel Howard used the woman as a shield when they finally arrived. He made a run for it but was arrested for attempted murder. Howards brother was at the home at the time and says he was probably high on meth. The woman was not badly injured. 15yearold is expected to be tried as an adult for a deadly crime spree in san jose. The teenager could go to court today. He is accused along with 26 yearold Jonathan Wilbanks of a series of crimes that happened earlier this month. Police say the two robbed four businesses, killed a man during a carjacking attempt, and had a shootout with police 10 days ago. Two wouldbe robbers had a surprise when they went into a Jewelry Store in East San Jose and started shooting. The woman behind the counter apparently had a gun too. She fired back. No one was hit by any of the gunfire near king and story roads. But the two suspects ran out, sped away in a black suv without any stolen jewelry. A San Francisco sheriffs deputy pleaded not guilty to bank robbery charges. Prosecutors say fingerprints and Surveillance Video linked 36yearold the man to a holdup of a bank of america. He is free on bail. Its 5 04. Lets check the weather. Apparently we need to get the galoshes out. Armageddon is coming maybe the canoes, too. Today looks okay but its tomorrow and thursday and friday and saturday and sunday that things get wet in the bay area. Quick look at the numbers show that its a mild start to your tuesday morning. Readings mostly in the mid40s to mid50s under overcast skies. Not much fog. We can seat bay bridge this morning in the headlines increasing clouds and winds pick up rain spreading south tonight. Late tonight in the north bay and then around the mid time of the morning commute tomorrow. You always hate to say 8 00 tomorrow morning because you cant call it that closely but sometime during the morning commute tomorrow morning the rain will spread into the central bay area tomorrow. Today we set the stage for this. Low pressure thats spinning out of the south and that will increase the clouds, rain and wind for wednesday, thursday, friday. Forecast highs for today not bad. Low to mid60s. Its in the extended forecast that we get wet and we stay wet. Rain and wind gale watches posted and it will stay wet through the weekend. There is flooding potential with this. Well have more in a few minutes. We need to get a traffic update so heres elizabeth. Toward the bay bridge usually the best indicator of how traffic is flowing across the bay area and it looks okay right now approaching the pay gates. You may have heard us mention at the top of the hour Treasure Island is shut down. Police standoff since 11 00 last night. So on the upper deck, you may notice a few cars there. On the offramp towards Treasure Island but its not impacting traffic on the upper deck towards the tunnel and up the incline. A live look at traffic conditions on the upper deck on live drive time sensors still all green across the upper deck. Heres a live look past the Treasure Island commute. A couple of cars moving at top speeds towards the skyway. Police activity an officer shoved shooting that stretch of jacklin road still shut down between arizona avenue and campbell street. They are still looking for a suspect. That is a check of traffic. Back to you guys thank you. San jose is asking the public for help in choosing the citys next police chief. The city is Holding Public hearings to talk about a replacement for chris moore, who will retire at the and of january. Moore has been chief for only two years. The head of the Police Union Says his successor will have some issues to deal with. Our Police Department is falling apart. We have more people leaving. We have another two going to los gatos on top of 3 who went to redwood city another three or four who went to santa cruz. The Fresno Police chief and the sacramento chief are two of the people mentioned as possible candidates. 5 07. The terror attack on the u. S. Consulate in libya will be the focus as susan rice holds meetings with key lawmakers. The u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations has been criticized by some republicans for comments she made shortly after those attacks. At the time, she said at tax stemmed from a protest against an antiislam video. Rice is considered a possible nominee to replace the outgoing Hillary Clinton as the secretary of state. Meanwhile, lawmakers on capitol hill are jockeying for position right now in efforts to fix the federal budget and avoid the dreaded fiscal cliff. If they dont reach a deal by the end of the year, tax hikes and across the board budget cuts will automatically kick in. Susan mcginnis has more on todays efforts to get democrats and republicans a little closer together. Reporter president obama will begin a media blitz this week highlighting his efforts to steer clear of the fiscal cliff. He will first meet with Small Business owners at the white house today. At the other end of pennsylvania avenue, fellow democrat senator dick durbin will give whats being called a major speech laying out a case for a bipartisan deal. Durbins a member of the senates gang of 8, four democrats and four republicans who have collaborated on ways to reduce the nations debt for 2 1 2 year. Democratic senator mark warner is also in the gang and says democrats are willing to put entitlements like medicaid and medicare on the negotiating table. The math just doesnt work anymore not because the programs are bad but because thank goodness were living a lot longer. Reporter republicans are also signalling they are more open to compromise. They say they will agree to raising tax revenue by limiting deductions for the wealthy. Without compromising our principles we recognize that while democrats dont run this town neither do we. Reporter but the two sides remain far apart on the main sticking point. Republicans oppose any increase in tax rates for the wealthy. The president refuses to sign any legislation extending the current tax rates to the top 2 of earners. The president has been in negotiations with House Speaker john boehner and has said he is willing to put almost anything on the table except social security. He wants to deal with that separately next year. But republicans want all entitlements included in talks. They want the president to make the first move with an initial proposal. Susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. Many cities are looking to cut pension costs in light of budget problems one bay area city is looking to buck the trend. Antioch leaders are considering increasing Retirement Benefits for future employees hired from other cities. The goal, to entice veteran Police Officers to come to the city. They are not going to want to come from a 3 [ indiscernible ] because it adds years until they get to retirement. Tonight the city council will take up the idea of increasing pensions. New Rating System puts San Francisco at the top of cities when it comes to protecting rights of the lgbt community. The Human Rights Campaign gives San Francisco, san diego, long beach and l. A. Perfect 100 scores on the antidiscrimination efforts. Other bay area cities ranked lower. Vallejo had only a 52 out of 100. Concord 64. Richmond 65. And santa rosa came in at 59. Later today two city leaders who were assassinated 34 years ago will be remembered in San Francisco. Mayor George Moscone and supervisor harvey milk were killed on this day back in 1978. They were shot by former supervisor dan white. Today there will be a ceremony on the steps of city hall featuring San Francisco gay mens chorus that will be followed by a candlelight march to milks former camera store in the castro. I was at cal when that happened. You remember that day . I do actually. Rebecca moscone the mayors daughter was in class with me that day. Its hard to believe it was 34 years ago. Time now 5 11. Coming up, without a life jacket. A man holds on for dear life for seven hours. And its a sand dune debate. The Little Flower some say should keep a daly City Development from going up. And they are great on the gridiron and off. Coming up, meet the Pop Warner Team taking another shot at the national title. [ female announcer ] now deliciousness can happen at almost anytime. Thanks to new jif chocolate flavored hazelnut spread. Now anytime of the day can be delicious time. Choosy moms choose jif. Capsized. Man tread water f when we came the on scene this was the only thing he was holding on to. He probably weighed up to 220 pounds and unfortunately, he was unable to get to his life jacket when the vessel capsized. Lucky guy, too. This man tread water for 7 hours off the coast of florida until fishermen came to his rescue. He was in a boat with his brother when it capsized. His brother swam to shore to get help while that guy clung to the top of a cooler and waited as he was taken to the hospital to be checked out but he is just fine though. Very lucky guy did not have a life jacket but that cooler top apparently saved his life. 7 hours treading water. He is lucky. Time now 5 15. Lets get straight to elizabeth who is monitoring a lot this morning but apparently obviously the breaking news were dealing with on Treasure Island. You cannot get on the island right now. If you have been watching since early this morning, there was a Police Standoff late last night so they remain shut down. Its not impacting traffic on the main lines of the freeway on the upper deck or lower deck. You may see police cars but the main lines are moving at top speeds from the pay gates to the skyway. On city secrets in milpitas, there was an on city streets in milpitas, there was an officerinvolved shooting. They shut down this stretch of jacklin road. Closed between arizona avenue and campbell street. It is close to milpitas high. That stretch is closed until further notice. The main lines of the freeway, westbound 237, a live look through milpitas, it is still very light through the Silicon Valley towards san jose. We are seeing a lot of green traffic sensors. Bart always a good option and so far, so good all bart trains still running on time. Our biggest difference from yesterday is really the fog. Lets check some of the live traffic cameras. Free and clear this morning through the dublinpleasanton area. [ music ] and that was music for brian. Here i am to tell you that elizabeth is right. Theres less fog this morning than yesterday morning. Out the door, the numbers are a little bit mild. Proceedings are only from the mid40s to the mid50s. And so thats not so bad. But this is all the calm before the storm. The storm arriving about 26 hours from now in the bay area. And gale warnings are already posted for the offshore waters. The blue that you see there refers to wind advisories that will be hoisted in the bay area tonight. Offshore wind gusts up to 55 Miles Per Hour and over the Altamont Pass and pacheco pass and through the hills, its going to be windy the north bay, santa cruz mountains, all of that thats tomorrow because of this low pressure thats out in the eastern pacific is going to be heading toward the bay area. Thats a warm direction so its not going to be this this first go is not a cold storm. We get clouds, wind and rain. This is a model of whats going to happen over the next 24 hours. This is today. Clouds, clouds, clouds. This is tonight, watch the left hand side of the screen. Wham this really well defined front begins to move into the bay area just offshore at this time at 5 00 tomorrow morning. If you are heading out of sfo today, okay, mostly cloudy, southwest winds. Heres some of the main gateway destinations. Pretty good weather in the southland and in new york they will get some rain. Pinpoint forecast for the bay area numbers in the low 60s today. Cloudy skies and then get ready to get wet. Increasing clouds lead to rain on wednesday. On thursday, we really get hit as well as friday and saturday. Finally on sunday and monday well begin to ease it off but look out we could get flooding in the bay area. Not so good. Theres a big sand dune dilemma in daly city. Environmentalists, developers and residents are all at odds over a big sand hill near mill side park. As cbs 5 reporter joe vazquez shows us, its all over a rare flower thats blooming there. I dont think building houses up here is progress. Reporter environmentalists Ken Macintyre with San Bruno Mountain watch shows me a rare flower in bloom. This is the endanger plant. About 50 of the total World Population of this plant is on these dunes. The rest is in the presidio in San Francisco. Reporter they grow in the ancient shifting dunes above daly city in particular they grow on the hillside above a neighborhood that just recently experienced a frightening mud slide a major pipe burst sending 48,000 gallons of water and sand down the hill burying more than a dozen cars, narrowly missing the houses. Now some neighbors worry the hillside might be compromised so they are paying special attention to a development at the top to build 8 homes on an acre in the middle of the dunes. Even before the mud slide ken had already been negotiating with the developer to change his mind. We hope to purchase it. We would like daly city to back our effort to purchase this and then accept it into their park system. We have to do all we can to make sure we maintain open space at San Bruno Mountain. Reporter a daly city councilman says the council will do Due Diligence before any approval or disapproval. 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