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KPIX CBS 5 Eyewitness News At 6AM December 10, 2012

Was trapped, was able to get out, but are there any injuries. No, the person was able to get out and its interesting what they did. One o. People inside the truck was of the people inside the truck was a volunteer firefighter. He hopped out of the truck with both feet together. Hit live wires and they were able to get out of the vehicle safely. The fire is out but this is what it looks like. Flames 20 to 30 feet tall outside of san leandro after a laundry truck hit some wire. With me now, i have josh walsh the battalion chief to talk about what happened. Explain what happened to this truck. Well, as you see, it destroyed with the fire. Reporter how did that happen . It became involved in fire after striking the electrical lines, it caught fire. Pg e was on scene. We elected to stay away from it. We had 12,000volts measured in the ground around the vehicle and left here, 5000volts in the ground, so we had to stay away from it. We decided not to put water on it to protect the buildings. And we were able to extinguish it. Reporter were any of the vehicles in danger. The fire was escalating and there was a chance for the other buildings to become involved. Reporter were some of them evacuated. 35 of the children were moved out of the area. Reporter okay, and just looking at the truck, if we can show you the truck right there. It looks bad. How lucky is it that these guys were able to get out safely. The fire train of the volunteer firefighter, he used the training and saved himself and his partner and they got out safely. Reporter reporting live in san leandro, Elissa Harrington, cbs 5. Thank you for that live report. Well, a man and a woman were found bound and gagged in the middle of a street right here at San Francisco. The two were found around 8 30 last night on brussels street in the bay view district. The man died about midnight. The woman is still being treated for life threatening injuries. San Francisco Police have no motive or suspects at this time. 6 03 now, in vallejo, dive teams will return to the waters to search for a missing man there. Family members say 77yearold philip maddingly was servicing a boat and habit been seen hasnt been seen since. 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, and surgery scars on his left arm. Rescue teams combed through the water and had to call off the search. A Grammy Nominated latina musician from the u. S. Is dead after her plane crashed in mexico. People were on t the small plane carrying jenni rivera went could be in rough terrain. 7 people were on the train. Her drivers license was found at the crash site. This morning riveras family is heading to mexico to try and identify her remains. Reporter how do you want your sister remembered. Every which way that we can. The good, bad, ugly, short, fat, nice, everything about her was great. I only have two sisters. Now i only have one. E played for the oakland as. This year she was named billbo rivera recently divorced esteban luiz a who played for the oakland as. Today is sentencing day for the woman who killed Nursing Student shell lei last year michelle lei last year. Giseleesteban, is accused of murder. Four months after she disappeared from a hayward hospital. Esteban was said to have killed her in a jealous rage over a man. And a man accused of kidnapping sierra lamar will be arraigned on new charges. Garcia torrez has been accused of three other attempts at kidnapping, taking place in 2009 and all in a safeway parking lot. He was employed at that safeway in morgan hill. For the third time this year, vandals have tried to silence a vallejo radio station. Community station kzct is operating online only. Vandals struck the stations transmitter site over the weekend. The o oater tornado is operator is wondering if the attacks are racially motivated. Im only one man. I can only fight so long, and like i said, this is community radio. A rational slur was racial slur was painted on the building during an attack earlier this year. Time is 6 06. Lets get a check on the weather. Liz has good news for us, because if you liked yesterday, youre going to love today. Were warming things up, getting close to record high temperatures today. Out the door, its a pretty wide temperature spread depending ongoing where you are. Low 40s in santa rosa and coming in at 60 degrees. A live look over the dublin pleasanton area. Were going to see a return of the sunshine by later on this afternoon. And these temperatures are going to cool down, especially in the north bay and along the coast by tomorrow. And we have rain chances by midweek, but for today, things are dry, middle and, yeah temperatures are well above average for this time of year. Were going to see 66 in oakland. Mid60s in San Francisco. And low 60s in the fairfield area. Today and tomorrow, were looking dry, but once again, temperatures cool off by tuesday. Its because of a storm system heading our way from the north and its going to bring rain showers tuesday night into wednesday. Thursday, friday and the weekend still looks to be a little unsettled as well. We will time out this rainstorm for you. In the meantime, lets talk traffic. Lets head to the bay bridge right now. No metering lights just yet. That will probably change shortly. Traffic is starting to back up just a bit. Youre going to need a few extra minutes if you are taking the bay bridge. Now, the san mateo bridge looks good. No delays to report in both directions. A little extra volume on the west side toward foster city. We jump to our maps. Im going to show you a brand new accident just reported. Dumbarton bridge. In the meantime, stick with the san mateo bridge. Thats a look at the drive back to you. Theres one more chance tonight for people in san jose to tell the city manager what she should look for in a new police chief. The last of four Community Meetings at 6 30. The next police chief will probably come from outside the city. Thats because no one within the department has applied for the job. The bay bridge toll l plaza is getting a new look starting tonight. Caltrans plans to spend 6 1 2 Million Dollars to give the toll plaza a facelift. The work will be done during overnight hours over the next six months. Stepping out. Okay. 6 09 we could find out this morning whether bay are area crab fishermen will be bringing in their catch anytime soon. They will meet at 10 00 in San Francisco to plan the next move. They have been on strike since wholesalers tried to cut the price they are paid crab. It was hard to find crab at this weeks crab festival down on the water. Do you have any crab left. No, we dont. Theyre all out. Whatever we got, whatever they can get. Crabbers were getting 3 bucks pound when the season started in november. Wholesalers want to cut that by as much as 75cents. Todays fedex is anticipating its biggest shipping day of the year. Theyre not shipping crabs, though, i dont think. They expect to handle a Record Number of packages, due in part of a big jump in online holiday orders. Cate cauguiran joins us at the fedex facility in San Francisco where we can see right behind you work is under way. Reporter and yes and already hit, its, well, not its peak exactly but employees showed up to get the packages on the their way to a holiday destination. Today fedex is expected to send out 19 million packages. We have some video of them hard at work now, this is supposed to be the peak of what will be another record breaking shipping season. The company told us they expect to ship 280 million packages between thanksgiving and christmas. And fedex says this is thanks to the increase in online shipping or ecommerce. Online holiday sales will increase by 17 this year and that translates to millions more packages to send out. How do they get it all done, aside from the hundreds of employees that on staff today, they also have 90,000 vehicles and we arent talking just vans and trucks and cars but boats and g o ondolas and electric tricycles and here at this fedex location in San Francisco, theres only one of about 1800 across the country. Heres a fun stat for you, the machines here can process packages about 200 per second. Thats a lot of holiday packages to be sent off. Hopefully including own, frank and michelle. Electric tricycles whats that. Sometimes you have to get to your destination and a car cant get through to a simple road. Thank you. 6 12 now, a hospital and fares about the health of Nelson Mandela. Shocking video, a girl throwing punches at a bus stop. How one of their parents is accused of egging them on. And a new theory about add, the condition during pregnancy that can raise a childs risk when we come back. Whats up . Im chris. And im erik. Both were the fruit guys back in 1998, we had this idea to deliver fresh fruit to offices in downtown San Francisco. We built these wooden crates, filled these with fruit in my onebedroom apartment. The fruit guys has been with bank of america since they first started. We work with them to help them grow and succeed. Were coming up on 50 employees and delivering to thousands of companies every week. I would definitely say this is a fruitful business. Georgia. This fight happened at a bus stop in thats a father telling witnesses not to stop this girl fight in georgia. The fight happened at a bus stop in georgia with a couple of 7 7th grade girls. One girl gets out of a van at a bus stop and immediately fighting with the student. The neighbor eventually broke up the fight. It broke my heart to know that parents would allow this to happen. And for my child to be there with nobody. The parents who dropped off their daughter at the bus stop have been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and they have charged the father with battery. Thats a tough one. And everythings on video tape. Switching gears now, 6 16, lets get a check on the road. It is starting to get busy out there. In fact they just turned the metering lights on at the bay bridge toll plaza. Traffic is backed up through there so extra time needed as you head to the bay bridge towards the east shore forecast. Not backed up to the maize yet. Freeways. Not backed up to the maze yet. Westbound dumbarton bridge getting word of an accident. Traffic is slow as you approach the scene. And westbound 237, no delays just yet but extra volume as you work your way making the connector road between 880 and 101. This accident reported off to the side possibly blocking one lane. Reported some activity there off the freeway on surface street. Expect chp to be in full effect through there. And northbound 280, reports of an accident blocking lanes. No chp on the scene just yet. We are hearing from some that that traffic a little as you approach the area. Looks like 85, though, problem are free as well as highway 17. We have this picture perfect shot of bay bridge, and you can see it because theres no much fog over the bay. Temperatures are mild right now outside. Oakland coming in at 60 degrees. But then look at santa rosa where were getting reports o of fog and 39 degrees there. Pretty wide temperature spread as you wake up this morning, just kind of depending on where you are. By this afternoon, everyone should see center line. See sunshine. And pretty mild conditions. Check out the numbers. In some of our inland shot spot thes. Looks likes through tomorrow were going to remain dry and time things out with future cast. We have big changes coming by midweek. Tuesday night, well freeze here at 10 00 p. M. Were watching this low system. Its a storm to the north and will bring rain showers tuesday night, and wednesday afternoon and wednesday evening should clear out of here. Were not expecting whole lot of rain with that system, possibly a half inch, likely less. Its going to quickly move out of here, but things remain unsettled through the weekend. Were going to enjoy the mild temperatures temperatures well above average. Close to record breakers in some spots. 66 in oakland. Mid60s in San Francisco. 63 if youre out in concord. Heres a look at your forecast over the next several days. Today and tomorrow were staying dry, but temperatures will feel quite a bit cooler by tomorrow and then the rain rolls in tuesday night into wednesday morning. Thursday looks pretty dry and once again, things look unsettled for the weekend. Thats a check of traffic and weather together. In your world this morning, a u. S. Military member was killed yesterday while rescuing a Colorado Springs doctor kidnapped by the taliban. Insurgents captured Dillon Joseph on wednesday outside kabul. This is home of his video of his home in colorado. President obama and defense secretary leon panetta are praising the operation and the Service Member who was killed for their efforts. Protesters continue to demonstrate outside the president ial palace in cairo. Opponents are calling for a boycott of the constitutional referendum scheduled for saturday. They say the new constitution was pushed through without input from any group other than the islamists. Former South African president Nelson Mandela is in the hospital this morning. Those around him are giving few details about the condition. A statement over the weekend revealed that the 94yearold antiappar tide hero had been admitted to the hospital. He became south africas first black president. Children who are deprived of oxygen in the woman are more likely to develop attention deficit disorder. A new study says children of these women have a 16 higher risk of eventually being diagnosed with add. Its 6 21 right now, a must win game for the 49ers, could Collin Kaepernick rebound against the miami dolphins. And you can call it one of the worst free throws ever, who took it, why did it happen, were going to show you when you come back. ,,,,,, you wont take my life. You wont take our future. Aids affects us all. Even babies. Chevron is working to stop mothertochild transmission. Our employees and their families are part of the fight. And were winning. At chevron nigeria, we havent had a reported case in 12 years. Aids is strong. Aids is strong. But we are stronger. And aids. Aids is going to lose. Aids is going to lose. Good morning we have a good looking day on tap. Mid to upper 60s, your temperatures. The mild weather wont last long. Big changes coming as early as tomorrow. A look at your 7day forecast coming up. And the metering lights are on at the bay bridge toll plaza. Getting word of stalled vehicle just past the toll plaza. Golden gate bridge not showing any delays. Traffic and weather together every 10 minutes you havent the 49ers at home against every 10 minutes. The 49ers at home, up by 3 at the half. And the 9ers first touchdown of the day, number 50 of his career. Late in the game, its kaepernick to the rescue, how about 50 yards, bottle run. Hes gone. The 9ers beat the dolphins 27 13 for the 9th wino. Win of the season. And philadelphia quarterback nick fouls the rookie is going to get rid of the ball, and watch the wide receiver, great catch, one handed and look at that baby right there. Part of 7 catches for that receiver. The eatingest eagles went onto win their first since september 23 september 23rd. Might be one of the worst free throws youve ever seen. It didnt even make it halfway to the basket. Brian okam, a 7foot center, he slugged it off and went back to the game. They went onto beat western carolina, 70 to 54. I bet they were all laughing at him. How would you not latch. These there to rebound and thats it. Tes the season to ship. And the prank call that ended in a nurses tragic death, what the two djs are saying. And a scare morning for two men r that were stuck in this laundry truck. How they got out, coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,, two people have been found bound and gagged in the middle of a San Francisco street. A bizarre discovery promises a homicide prompts a Homicide Investigation in San Francisco. The plane is totaled, nobody inside survived. Mexican american super star jenni rivera dies in a plane crash. Most of you people that know my sister, she was a very strong person. Theyve started to tango now, and anytime you have two guy in there doing that you have to get it done. The fiscal cliff standoff, the deadline for an agreement is closer than you might think. Fedex is gearing up for a busy day. And a bay area station is taken off the air by vandals for the third time this year. They took expensive equipment. Crab fisherman try to bring an end to a week long strike. It would be great to get out there and put money in our pockets. From across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on Eyewitness News this morning. D im michelle g hi everyone, and good morning, its monday december the 10th. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. New this morning, a dangerous situation is under control in the east bay. Cbs5 reporter, Elissa Harrington l is in san leandro where live wires landed on a laundry truck this morning. Two men were inside this laundry truck when it happened, and they had just seconds to escape. The fire is out but heres what it looked like in this picture. Flames were about 20 to 30 feet high and it took firefighters an hour and a half to put it out. Were just outside of camp sweeney which is a residential facility for juveniles. The men were here picking up laundry from the camp when they nabbed the live snagged the live wires. Both men were able to get to safety. They hopped out of the truck and ran away. Just feet away is actually one of the dorms for those juveniles, about 40 of them were evacuate evacwaited and brought to the dining hall. As a result of power lines hitting the laundry truck, thats how the fire start. Reporter there are no major outages to report and the juveniles have returned back dorm. The situation is under control and safe but there is a crew out here monitoring the situation. Elissa harrington in san leandro. A man has died several hours after he was found tied up on a San Francisco city street. He was unconscious found bound and gagged in the middle of a street. The woman was ago also bound and gagged on brussel street. Dive teams will search for a missing man last seen in solano county. 77yearold philip maddingley was servicing a boat unmerry land. Hes described as 6foot tall. 200 pounds and, surgery scars on his left arm. They combed through the waters yet but later had to call off the search due to rough currents. Sentencing is sch

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