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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm September 22, 2015

Now to danville. A teenager is looking at felony charges after he beat a manane School Parking man in a School Parking lot by the iron horse trail behind San Ramon Valley high school. Ktvus john sasaki is live that iron horse trail. Reporter people on the iron horse trail all the time. Man got into it with the teens in that parking lot. The iron horse trail doesnt get more peaceful. Perfectly calm. Safe. I see the same people every day. Reporter midnight sunday morning a fight erupted. Worrisome. You have to watch out. Reporter a father was heading home from work when he encountered teenagers. The man and one teen got into an argument. Words were exchanged between the two parties and then it turned into fight. The man ended up with the hospital ended up in the hospital. If someone ends up in the hospital, doesnt matter what started it. The end result should not be hospitalization. Reporter he was in the group that had the conflict with the man. He said something to set off the man but the man would not leave them alone. He was sorry, we didnt mean to disrespect you. Just kept coming at us. Walking towards my friend. My friend got tired and decked him. Reporter police said the teenager is charged with felony battery that causes bodily injury. I feel like the man should be charged. We told him we were 16. He didnt care. He threatened to kill us. We were like all right, you know . I feel like he should be charged. Reporter people are concerned for their safety. It is alarming to know that you cant ride down something, you know, around in your neighborhood without having to look around and really wonder whether you are safe or not. Reporter i talked with the police, the investigation is ongoing and they are still trying to determine who is at fault. The man is out of the hospital. This trail is safe and this was an isolated incident. Thank you. The valley fire has been burning for 10 days and it is now the third most destructive fire in california history. They counted 1800 structures destroyed by the valley fire. More than 1,000 of those structures were homes. Despite the hot weather crews managed to increase containment of the valley fire. It is now 70 . And look at this into. Even with all the losses the incredible losses, people are still giving thanks. We found this sign in middletown in the front yard of a home that was destroyed. Thank you firefighters, we know you tried. The death of a man found near the fence fault route a near the tassajara fire has been a suicide. It burned 1,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes. Cal fire hasnt determined the cause of the fire. The fire is now 30 contained. The butte fire in amador and calaveras counties is now 74 contained. This fire killed two people, destroyed 545 homes. Hundreds of other buildings. It burned 70,000 acres. There is good news tonight. All evacuations have now been lifted. Today we reported the twin pine casino was offering hotel rooms for evacuees. They are allowing the red cross to use its event center, not the hotel to provide the accommodations. Memorial is in place where kate steinle was shot and killed. There is a bench dedicated to her. In july she was walking with her father when a bullet hit her in the back. On the bench there is a plaque, whatever is good for your soul will do that. Juan francisco lopezsanchez is her killer. He pleaded not guilty to murder but a judge ruled there was enough evidence to try him. Traffic is flowing on interstate 680 after a crash about 4 30 a. M. This morning on the southbound side of the highway. The Highway Patrol says a car rear ended a big rig. A motorcyclist plowed into the car and thrown from his bike and killed. He was 39yearsold. We have an accident involving a car and a truck. And then another collision involving the motorcycle following the collision. A second big rig hit the crashed microscope and caught fire. Two other vehicles crashed. One lane was open during the investigation. That led to major back ups. The teenager accused of killing a 8yearold girl pleaded not guilty today. Ktvus janine de la vega tells us Maddy Middleton held a rally outside the court. Reporter an emotional morning that courthouse. The family of Maddy Middleton is still mourning her death. They handed out these stickers because they want the focus to be on her, not the suspect. Many came to honor the memory of his daughter Maddy Middleton. He organized a rally because he felt today should be about love, not hate. I understand people will have their feelings about it. Some people will want blood, i dont want that because then that just does it in her name. It taints her memory. Justice will be served. Reporter he chose not to go inside to face the teenager who is accused of raping and killing his daughter. Adrian gonzalez faced a judge and entered a plea of not guilty. He is charged as an adult. He luredhair into the apartment, carry lured her into the apartment and carried out the attack. It shocked neighbors. Friends say he was contemplating suicide and depressed. He still shows compassion. I have forgiven him. I dont want i dont want il will. Things will work themselves out. It is not up to me. Reporter he says the community has been amazing with all the support. He is not sure if he will be at all of adrian gonzalezs Court Hearings but the next one is october 29. We asked his defense attorney if she plans on filing for a change of venue, but she refused to answer. Janine de la vega, ktvu fox 2 news. The man accused of a kidnapping for ransom appeared in court today to face charges. New at 5 30 p. M. We break down what happened. And a Charter School forced to school amid concerns about a lack of employee background checks. Video of this fight outside levi stadium made headlines around the country and now the city would like to see major changes in the caul policy at alcohol policy at 49er games. Hot today, a heat advisory but it changes into the next 24 hours. I will have the specifics. Grow old with me let us share what we see just you and i grow old with me let us share what we see and oh the best it could be just you and i one week after this fight outside levi stadium the city is considering changing its alcohol policy during 49er games. Tomorrow the city counsel is set to debate whether alcohol sells should be stopped after halftime. Ktvus Tara Moriarty found out, the police chief says he doesnt think that will solve the problem. Reporter it got thousands of views on social media. Seeing the things made me sick. Reporter last mondays brawl with four 49ers fans atacked a vikings fan. Your behavior will not be tolerated. Reporter they are asking the city counsel to consider banning alcohol sales after halftime to help curve violence like this. It is a cooling down period. If it givers you an hour to sober up. Reporter some dont think it will fly. Beer and sports go together. I think the owners will protest. The fans wont show up. You could sit in your living room and drink beer. Levi stadium will lose money. I am not against cutting out alcohol early but i dont think it will solve the issue. I think we are dealing with a small percentage of fans. Reporter he says Staffing Levels [ indiscernible ] reporter fans need to understand the consequences. 49ers said as a result of the behavior the Stadium Authority is terminating his season tickets. The others will not be allowed back into the stadium. The chief said it was 49ers fans that helped catch the suspect. He wands to re wants to remind fans to use fans to use their cell phones if they noting any bad behavior. Notice any bad behavior. The issue goes before the city counsel tomorrow night. Tara moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. In Southern California yesterday, take a look at video that was taken. We will have that video in a moment, hopefully. Several 9ers fans challenged the steelers fan to a fight and the steelers fan walked away. Here is the video. The 9ers fans challenged another group and that is when new york giants fans jumped in. So far no arrests have been made. We are following developing news where there is a fire burning near north texas road and empire street by the Railroad Tracks. There are road closures. You can see hear from this video, the roof of one of the homes was on fire as well as the backyards of several other houses. All back up to the Railroad Tracks. The Fire Department hasnt confirmed how many homes are involved and how the fire started. Back now to the fire, the valley fire in lake county. Hours after the fire began donations started pouring in for those who lost momes some people looking to help homes but some people looking to help couldnt find any takers. Ktvus tunnel v has more tom vacar has more. Reporter this is where the red cross distributes aid to people woo need it who need it. But they tell me as do manies or, this fire came so hard and so fast and so quickly that it is unlike anything they have seen before. Reporter within thundershowers valley fire starting the red cross within hours of the valley fire starting the red cross was setting up. Get themane place them in a place. The place was buzzing with people. Thing there boosters who the boosters opened up their stand at 5 30 a. M. And began cooking. The local people will start helping. That is what Good Neighbor dos. Reporter others laid out neighbors do. Reporter others layed out clothing and food. It was a hodgepodge of help. But to some it seemed like no one was in charge. By the time the red cross became operational, complaints have been made, including an unwillingness to accept more donations of foods and goods. We have a surplus of items and we are encouraging cash donations. The volunteers may have layed a lot of things out, the red cross says it has to itemize, sort and inspect them so people who have specific needs could have the needs fulfilled. With the regulation we are under to respond, we have to be careful. That takes longer to do. And you have a lot of volunteers that need to coordinate that. People can say things that seem unsensitive. Reporter the red cross says it takes all of this to heart. Doesnt agree with all of it and will try to make changes necessary changes necessary to improve things. The first 48 hours were chaotic. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. We can understand that. Our chief meteorologist bill martin. Firefighters making progress on containment despite the hot weather. Glad to see that. Absolutely. The fire danger is high because it has been a drought and it is hot and dry. But the winds arent there. Looking in the north bay. Air quality. Spare the air day today. Wont have it tomorrow. The winds will start blowing tonight. Out of the west, northwest. That will clear out the atmosphere. Drop the temperatures too. Tomorrow will be temperatures will drop off. 10, 15 degrees cooler inland. Instead of triple digits, 80s and upper 80s. Pleasant. And we are a couple hours way from the official fall beginning. On wednesday. 40s inland. Along the coast, no fog. That fog off shore will work its way back to the beaches tonight. And that will be a mechanism for cooling. 92 san jose. Over night lows upper 50s. And low 60s as you go into the evening hours. Tomorrow, you see the fog in the morning hours. Along the coast. Right . Right there. Dense. Marine layer is squished down. 84 vacaville. These numbers are down from the triple digits of today inland. Good 15 degrees cooler in some places. You will notice it. Still warm around the bay. Not as hot. A nice day tomorrow. Fire danger falls away. Heat advisory goes away. Pair the air goes a spare the air goes away. Fiveday forecast, temperatures back into the 90s inland throughtume here. Tomorrow is the cool down through time here. Tomorrow is the cool down. Next week temperatures will begin to warm. Temperatures warm. Tomorrow cooler by a few degrees. Thank you. The owner of a Food Processing company will face a long term in prison, details butt how long about how long he will spend behind bars after a salmonella outbreak killed 9 people. And new at at the 6 00 p. M. Common core at the center of a new lawsuit. Why parents say officials broke the law when they implemented the testing program. New development in the push to ban fire places from momes. And the commute home is a homes. And the commute home is a slow go. Sky fox 2 above highway 4. A car on fire. Crews on the scene trying to put this out. Traffic in the area along highway 4 moving slowly on this monday night. Four people injured when a home exploded this morning. You can see why these pictures blew apart. One woman heard an explosion and rushed over. She got there before First Responders and found one of the injured. There was a young man, maybe had down syndrome sitting down. Bleeding, burned, i knelt down and prayed for him. 10 other homes were damaged. Investigators are looking at a gas explosion as a possible cause. A judge in georgia sentenced a former Peanut Company owner to 28 years in prison for a salmonella outbreak that started 7 years ago. A jury convicted the 61year old of faking lab tests for salmonella and knowingly shipping contaminated peanut butter. 9 deaths linked to the outbreak. In st. Louis police have no plans to arrest uber drivers who defy taxi cab regulators. Uber started operating in st. Louis friday and they provided 5,000 rides on the first weekend. They demanded more background checks that includes finger printer but uber said the their process is sufficient. The dow is up 125 points. The nasdaq is up 1 point. The s p is up 8 points. Kidnapping for ransom case heads to court. The suspect made his first appearance in a courtroom today and coming up, we will tell you about the request his attorneys made. Another republican candidate dropped out of the race today and there are calls for another republican to quit the race because of what he said on the campaign trail. And a Charter School closed after an investigation found it did not complete all the property background checks. What the superintendent said he would do next if the school doesnt take immediate action. Matthew muller made his first appearance in court today. Ktvus henry lee was that hearing. Reporter he showed up in court, he did not enter a plea. This was his first time to answer to the charges to the kidnapping. And at this point this was the first time we saw friends and family pack the courtroom. One of the issues was whether or not he should be shackled. His attorney said he doesnt think that is necessary. One thing to argue he is a danger, a flight risk, there is a presumption they are a flight risk and a danger but shackling in court is very difficult to work with them as your client and they didnt produce any evidence that he was a problem in court. He acted appropriately at all times there. Did the judge decide anything . Reporter no. That will be tabled for a couple weeks. Today the attorneys haggled over whether this is a situation where he is a danger to the public and a flight risk. The judge said it is clear from the complaint he is a danger so he will remain in custody. We were talking earlier, you said it looks like looks like he works out. Reporter you could see his muscles. This is the first time i could see him clearly. In state court he was covered up by the courtroom box. Today we saw him. Physically fit. Very easy to believe he could be capable of committing a kidnapping as the prosecutors say. You mentioned for the first time his friends and family were inside the courthouse. I know you werent able to talk to the family, but you spoke with a friend . Reporter the friend said everyone who knows him is devastated. They do not recognize the person in court as the person they know and love. They suspect Mental Illness may be responsible for these actions. At this point they are standing behind him and he will be in court. What happens next . Reporter within two weeks we expect the prosecutors to return a grand jury verdict and at which point he intends to plead not guilty. Henie l henry lee, thank you. Police are searching for a mugger who stole a womans purse. Happened before 7 00 p. M. Last night on middlefield road. She was attending to her baby when a man tried to grab her purse. He punched her in the side of the head, and ran away. Witnesses tried to run after him but couldnt catch him. Reporter apple is pulling dozens of popular apps that had been developed in china after they were infected with malware. Dozen of apps were infected after developers used corrupted software. We chat is a chinese mobile messages app used by 600 million users. The developer had their apps infected and that it made it on to the app store. All of the aches were apps were developed in china and used in china. Apple said they have taken steps to address the problem. There are new developments in the republican president ial race. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker announced he is dropping out and he urged others to do the same thing to simplify choices for voters. Some are calling for ben carcken to quit carson to quit after remarks he made about muslims. He is wrong to assume and say reporter calling on ben carcken to step aside carson to step aside after he said he would not support a muslim for resident. They said he is unfit to lead the nation and others argue he was goated into a game. This is a question to paint republicans as the bickted side of the issue bigoted side of the issue. Reporter Carly Fiorina shot ahead of him after winning praise for her performance in the last debate. That is going to mean more scrutiny for her. Already you are seeing more critsome of her. Donald trump criticism of her. Reporter donald trump remons in front remains in front. You develop a headache. Reporter good news for hillary clinton. Her lead widened over bernie sanders. Hillary clinton in louisiana today warning republicans against repealing obama care. I am not going to let them rip away the progress we made. Reporter today donald trump pledging not to take a salary if elected president. In washington, Joel Waldman Fox news. Donald trump is still the frontrunner. 24 . Carly fiorina has jumped into second place after her strong showing in last weeks debate. 15 after being 3 at the beginning of the month. Ben carson now third. 160 students did not go to school this morning. Why their school was shut down and what the superintendent threatened them with today. And the pope in cuba, the policies he has been critical of. And back flow to the car fire on highway 4. You can see it spread to the hills

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