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Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 10 20170222

Even though the rain is letting up in some locations. The problems are far from over. Kron4 chief meteorologist Brittney Shipp is tracking the trouble spots tonight. And we first told you about the san jose evacuations with a breaking news push alert we sent it through our mobile app at around noon. Be the first to know about breaking news when it happens with the kron4 news app. Coming up it is being called the new gold rush. Recreational pot. Well take you inside one of the first marijuana manufacturing labs in the state. Its right here in the bay area. Then a trip to the beach turns deadly in a flash. Where a woman was swept away by a rogue wave. And next a major update on the severe flooding that shutdown part of highway 101. When caltrans expects to have that stretch of road reopened. We need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. My names Scott Strenfel and im a meteorologist at pg e. We make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. So every single day were monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. During storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. Learn how you can be prepared at pge. Com beprepared. Together, were building a better california. Happening now a major update to tell you about flooding from coyote creek. Shut down a stretch of highway 101 in morgan hill. Crews initially said that stretch of road would be closed until tomorrow night. Now they are hoping to reopen the highway in just a couple of hours. Kron 4s alecia reid is live there tonight. Where crews have been feverishly trying to drain all that water. Alecia . The Water District built a damn to redirect water from the coyote canal. Now theyre reinforcing that with mixed gravel. They are working to get that highway reopened tonight. Pkgmore than 2 dozen trucks filled with soil and aggregate work to stop flooding on 101. Sot because the creek is so high we have so much water coming into the canal. Upwards of 4 feet of water seeped onto the freeway, causing it to shut down. Sot several hundred vehicles were backed up. We had to turn all of them around to get them off the freeway. Sot its scary and i just worry for everybodys safetycoyote creek topped its banks and drained into the coyote canal earlier this morning. Eventually the pressure caused a break in the canal all that water flooded the freeway. Sot at one point it was 34 feet. It was almost all the way up the jersey wall herevehicles have been rerouted all day and night. Sgt. Tom melden california Highway Patrol sot going northbound 101 to cochrane, then cochrane westbound over to monterrey road, then monterey road northbound to get back on the freeway. That caused a lot of traffic and frustrationsot its just been a long day. Im coming from big sur and all the roads there are caving insot its pretty bad but luckily i have some drinks, the radio, some food. While working to fix the current problem, the santa clara Water District is also preparing for future storms. Aaron baker Santa Clara Valley Water District sot we also have several breaches upstream that we have made and will make deeper once the dam is all the way there, so that the water can have a chance to exit and pond into this area instead of a very small covert upstream. Standupstandupat this hour the freeway is still being drained. Once all the water has been cleared from 101, caltrans will come in and clean up all the debris. The goal is to reopen the freeway by midnight tonight. Reporting live from morgan hill. Good news for drivers in the south bay. Highway17 has finally reopened after being blocked by a massive mudslide for nearly two weeks. Now all northbound lanes in the Scotts Valley area. Between vine hill road and sugarloaf. Have been cleared of mud a debris. This is what it looked like as crews worked to move all that mud off the road. Thanks to crews that worked around the clock. Lanes are now open to drivers. Toss weather flooding concerns continue President Donald Trump the antisemitic threats targeting our Jewish Community and Community Centers are horrible, and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to rootout hate and prejudice and evil. President trump delivered a direct condemnation of anti semitism today. His comments came after dozens of bomb threats at Jewish Centers across the united states. Also today the Homeland Security department laid out the Trump Administrations plans for aggressive enforcement of immigration laws. Pamela brown takes a closer look at what it could all mean for undocumented immigrants. Tonight the department of Homeland Security releasing anewa guidelines that could massively expand the number of people detained or deported from the us. Recently ice arrested more than 680 people in raids in just one week and said most of them were criminals. Sean Spicer White House press secretary everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time. The priority that the president s laid forth and the priority that ice is putting forward through dhs guidance is to make sure that the people who have committed a crime or threat to Public Safety are the priority of their efforts, first and foremost. Under president obama ice focused on deportation in three categories. Convicted criminals, Public Safety threats and those who recently crossed the border illegally. Under the Trump Administration anyone who is even aaccuseda of a crime such as a dui is eligible for deportation. A nd the new memos make clear immigration agents now have broader discretion to decide awhoa to round up. Cnn rode along with ice agents in 2015 when they targeted an undocumented criminal at this auto shop in chicago when another an undocumented immigrant working at the same shop took off running. He had no criminal background so ice let him go. Nats good luck to you man. But under the new guidelines that same man could be detained and possibly deported. That was pamela brown reporting. The memos also end the practice called catch and release thats where people caught for being in the us unlawfully, are released while they wait to go before an immigration judge. Professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is out as an editor at breibart news. The controversial speakers resigned today amid a firestorm over comments he made on sexual relationships between boys and men. Yiannopoulos has made a living off of publishing offensive statements. But these comments proved too much even for his friends and colleagues at breibart. After the comments surfaced. Yiannopoulos condemned pedophilia. Saying, he misspoke. And added that, he himself was a victim of abuse as a teenager. Yesterday the comment scandal prompted a publisher to drop his book deal. Still ahead a very close call for one bay area family. Well show you the damage after a redwood tree crashed into their home. And next a principal stabbed at an east bay school. What we know about the person now in police custody. Police have a 20yearold man in custody after they believe he went to a private school in berkeley. And stabbed a staff member there this afternoon. Authorities say, angel juarez was arrested. After witnesses positively identified him as the stabbing suspect. Officers say, at about two in the afternoon. Juarez came to the private School Called via center on sixth street in berkeley. Thats when, they say, he stabbed a staff member. And then took off down university avenue. The extent of that persons injuries is unknown. Police found juarez running over the interstate 880 overpass. And placed him under arrest. A california man who used a woman he took hostage as a human shield from Police Gunfire will spend life in prison. It happened after a bank robbery in stockton back in 2014. The hostage 41yearold misty holtsingh was killed during the nearly hourlong chase and shootout. The suspect didnt speak in court today. But as kay recede shows us the victims mother did. wednesday july 16th my daughter was taken from me. through sobs. Karen farmer tries to talk about the day she lost her daughter misty holt singh. i canut do it. I canut do it. while her emotions eventually overcome her. There are no words. No tears. Not even a glance from the two men found responsible for mistyus death ium going to lose it, ium going to lose it. cousin kristine kosher eventually reads the letter. But still jaime ramos and Pablo Ruvalcaba remain unphased. thereus an empty place at the table at every holiday. on tuesday. Ramos was sentenced to life in prison the fact that mr. Ramos will never see the light of day was sufficient for us at this point. while ruvalcaba will spend the next 25 years behind bars. The San Joaquin County district attorneyus office says on july 16th. 2014. Ruvalcaba drove ramos and two other men to rob this bank of the west. They took misty as one of their hostages. she begged and pleaded for them to leave her that her 12yearold daughter was in the car waiting for her. a shoot out with the Stockton Police department went down. The only survivor was ramos. as for you jaime ramos i will never believe you used my daughter when the bullets started flying. it was tough, you know. paul singh. Mistyus husband tells us. Life without her has been rough on him and their two kidsthe emptiness will always be there. But we will always remember misty for the most amazing person she was. while he finds some solace that her killers are behind barsit doesnut replace the hole now there. Doesnut replace the life he could have had. If misty was still here. Technically ruvalcalba will be eligible for parole in about 25 years. However, the Deputy District Attorney says that may not necessarily mean that heull be released from prison. Coming up if you plan on taking a trip to the snow soon. Beware. We are tracking major problems on just about all roads headed to tahoe. Then new at ten a california gets ready for Recreational Marijuana. Well take you inside the multiMillion Dollar bay area lab ready to help fill the demand. And next neighborhoods underwater and hundreds forced to leave their homes. We are live in san jose with [one is the loneliest number that youll ever do] nobody likes a dog with bad breath. Thats why theres oravet dental hygiene chews. Oravets dual action approach cleans teeth and gets to the underlying cause of bad breath by blocking bacteria to help prevent plaque and tartar. For a cleaner mouth everyone can love. Ask your vet about oravet chews. 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Alvarez was walking with three other friends, along the shore near schoolhouse beach. When it happened. This helicopter used a long line to hoist her out of the water and take her to a hospital. Where she later died. In vacaville. One family startled after a giant redwood tree falls on top of their house. Damage to the now totaled peach tree avenue home. Looks to be thousands of dollars. Billy mitchell says the tree came crashing down at around four oclock late sunday afternoon. While he was watching a Golf Tournament on tv with his father and friend. His mother was in the kitchen baking. The tree crashed through the living and family rooms. Luckily not hurting anyone. Mitchell says his grandfather planted the tree nearly 60years ago. Crews were called in to remove the redwood. Which is said to have been unhealthy and weak. Trt 20 across the house the mitchells are staying in a hotel until the roof is repaired. Now to the sierra. Where traveling to the lake tahoe area has been an incredibly difficult task tonight. It has been snowing hard. Grant lodes has been monitoring the problems there. And is here now with the latest on the winter storm warning. Still in effect. I80 eastbound has just reopened to Passenger Vehicles only. I80 eastbound is still closed to trucks. I80 westbound is still completely closed. Its still snowing hard. The winter storm warning lasts until 4 00 tomorrow morning. A foot and half of fresh powder is expected in some places. Drivers. Some more exoperioenced than others driver im from utah so im used to this, but i feel badly for people who arent earlier tonight. Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe was shutdown for a while because the chp was concerned about an avalanche in myers. Tonght traffic is back moving. With chain controls in effect. Check earlier shows further west on highway 50. Towards the sierra foothills. Part of westbound 50 gave way today. Still ahead caught on camera. 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As the cannabis industry ramps up to begin selling legal Recreational Marijuana in california next year. While most associate marijuana with something smoked. A growing part of the industry involves turning the plant into an oil. But that process involves chemicals and can be dangerous. Kron4s Maureen Kelly gets an inside look at a lab in berkeley that is believed to be the first permitted marijuana Manufacturing Company in the state. here we do closed loop c02 extractionthe chief science officer of bas research is taking me on a tour of their multi Million Dollar lab. That looks like any other pharmacutical company. Complete with workers in white coats. Examining and testing vials full of medicine. Except in this case. That medicine is marijuana. They use the raw product. Which arrives in cheech and chong sized bags. The plant is ground down. And put into equiptment that extracts its essence. And it comes out like this this beautiful golden substanceits liquid gold alright. Because cannabis oil is a huge part of the marijuana business in california. The value of which is projected at 7 billion dollars once legal recreational pot sales roll out. The sticky goo already gets put into all sorts of products sold in medical marijuana dispensaries. From edibles like spaghetti sauce. To topicals treatments like bath salts. The same product is also what goes into the extermely popular vape pens. In colorado, where weed was legalized in 2012. Cannabis concentrates make up 60 percent of the market. Verses smokable buds 40 . Right now these products are currently legal for those with a medical marijuana card to buy. But that market is about to get a lot bigger in 2018. A lot of people are going to try cannabis and more and more of these companies are going to need to get permits to do the right science to make the right formulathats the founder and ceo of this berkeley lab. A chiropractor who got into the cannabis extract business because he was concerned about what else might be getting into his patients medicine. We are making safe product , we are making sure there are no pesticides in any of our oils hes put millions of dollars into not only the equiptment that they use to test the oil for purity. But also into safety precautions. All needed secure a permit from the city of berkeley. Dr. Le believes they are the first in the state to get the legal blessing of their city and in the process may have created a blueprint for his burgeoning industry. Being the first is not easy but being the first is a huge responsibilityits believe there are thousands of these labs already operating in california. And only a handful have permits. And thats a problem. Because there are many ways to make this oil. Natsand some methods use easily explosive butane. Butane is basically lighter fluid bas industry uses co2. A non flammable solvent. Which was part of their agreement with the city. But they still use a closed loop system, blast proof freezers and specialized equiptment to remove fumes. The Police Department have come in the fire marshal has come in different mayors for different cities have come in, why because its safe to work here when you are dealing with a pungent source material like pot. There needed to go beyond thinking about fire supression. And take steps to supress the smell. For a place that processes nearly 1000 pounds of cannabis every month theres only a slight smell of weed in t

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