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KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 5pm February 19, 2016

Distinguish and displaying 13 people and damaging four units. The apartment 11 was a complete loss and the next apartment has heavy smoke damage and lower units are lesser affected. When they said there was a fire i went to get my children. My priority are my kids. The vallejo county investigators are retreating as a crime scene and trying to determine how and where the fire started. Questions the Community Wants answered as they send the thoughts and prayers to the babys family. I could not imagine what this day is like. Vallejo firefighters are being tight lipped about the investigation and we dont know when the next update will be. We will stay on top of any developments. I want to let you know the red cross is stepping into help the families displaced by the fire. You feel so bad for the family. Thank you. A san jose man is behind bars accused of a crash that killed a bicyclist. Police arrested chris ataca yesterday. Investigators say that africaa was behind the wheel of his honda dellsol when the car hit a bicyclist. The 44yearold man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police accompanied the car abandoned a few blocks away from the accident. They spend several days searching for the driver before he was caught. The man accused of killing two people on twin peaks pleaded not guilty in San Francisco. 26yearold richard contrearas is facing two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Two young man from santa rosa were shot and killed and identified as 21 julio per dictionary rassa and 19year old rene mora, jr. And a third person was shot and injured. The shooting happened sunday morning. Contrearas was arrested in richmond on monday night in court today his bail was set at 5 million. Today demolition crews began to tear down one of several parm buildings teetering on the edge of a cliff in pacifica. Looking at the wrong video. We want to tell you about the pacifica thing. The Helicopter Crashed in pearl harbor. We will get to that in aminute. The Helicopter Crashed in hawaii. And this apartment complex teetering on going over the cliff. Our john sasaki has more. John. Reporter it has been the spectacle as this building was reduced to rubble. There is an excavator tearing things apart on this big truck waiting to haul this material away. I do believe we will have a full story for you right now. Reporter on Pacifica Esplanade avenue the action was quick and decisive. I on got up and walked the dog and saw it coming down. Amazing. Reporter the Property Owner had the building torn down in a matter of hours. It had sat here empty since 2010. It is mother nature. There is nothing you can do. But it it is amazing how much is gone. Neighbors did not know the demolition was happening until they saw the heavy machinery in the morning. People watched an excavator tear apart the building and put it in big rig containers to haul it away. There will be great sunsets. One woman says she is not worried about the future. I spoke to a friend that bought one of the buildings back here and he said we probably got a good 25 years. A woman that lives at number 340 next door to the south was seen a little unconcerned as to how this work might have happened to her home. I will never be able to afford this view anywhere. I will stick it out. This end of this building is the worse. I have got the best edge so im just going to hang out until they kick me out or i fall in, i guess. The next door building to the north, number 320 has been condemned since 2010 and city officials have secured funding to tear it down. That demolition could happen any day now. Julie, thats the latest from pacifica. Back to you. Traffic is finally moving again on highway 17 south of last gats on after a downed tree lasted to the afternoon. The tree came down at 10 00 in the morning blocking the northbound and southbound lanes of the highway and thankfully no one hurt and one lane in each direction reopened and it took crews from cal tran a few more hours to cut up the tree and clear the lanes. Want to bring in bill martin. Feeling better. Yes. We got rainfall last night. You probably heard it on the roof tops late in the evening afternoon and even thunderstorms. How much rain did we get . Morgan hill got over an inch, 1. 2inches and san jose over a quarter of an inch. The system rolled through and we got clearing but we have a few scattered sprinkles. As you look outside, the showers have ended for the most part but to the north, and the east of us, we got a little bit of activity, thats the system sliding through in the last few hours. Most of it now has gotten stuck in the mountains where they did receive two feet of snow. Productive for the lake tahoe area. Truckie got 16inches of rain. Up on the top two inches not hard to get. Out towards clear lake and santa rosa scattered showers. So this system is moving through. There is another system behind that has the potential to bring us a little bit more rain. Hopefully a lot more but a little bit more rain as we head to friday. We will talk about that next time you see me. We will see you then. Thank you, bill. More on that terrifying crash caught on cell phone video. This helicopter went down and it happened yards from the pearl harbor memorial in hawaii. The latest on the storms brought heavy snow to the sierra. Coming up next. A live report from the area as the massive storm caused significant problems. This latest round of storms has brought over a foot of new snow to the sierra and that snow caused minor avalanches. Joining us now is coop. Thats right. He is the Senior Communications person at heavenly. How is it looking up there, coop . Reporter fantastic. What a blessing for mother nature. 24inches at the summit. About 9000 feet and 18inches at the base of kirkwood and 7800 feet. Even though over at heavenly 24 inches. We had a break, three weeks of no snow and back in business. Conditions fantastic. I can see how amped up you are. I know the week will be busy and if someone comes with their family, are the lines short . What can they expect. Reporter i was here on chair ten and i got 13 laps. Perfect midweek and the time you want to come up here. You want to get up here and drive slow. 8850 and chain controls at this time and once you get here you will have a fantastic time. Everything is easy to get to. Kirkwood did not feel like it was busy. With the last two systems a lot of wind and snowfall. We had some challenges this morning but starting tomorrow through the weekend. Fantastic. The system is moving towards utah and the next smaller one north of us coming through and great conditions all weekend. If you are here tomorrow you will be able to lap back and forth. For the week it will be fantastic. Blue skies. We heard concerns about the possibility of minor avalanches. Reporter there are different layers and we had a hard pack for the last few weeks and then sunshine and it firmed it up and this system caught us off guard and at 9 00 last night it looked like it would split. The combination of winds and temperatures rapidly dropping from 33 down to 19 degrees at the summit made it so where there was a slick layer and thats what we have the ski patrol to do avalanche mitigation and they have been doing that all day long. We did have some activity at glove rock and finish doing the safety routes. I know there was activity in alpine and squaw valley and heavenly and thats what we do. We manage snow and that is what the ski control is about. Ride with the friends always. You fall you got a friend to help you out. Bring a friend and come on up and you will have an amazing time. Come see me. I would like to meet you in person. Do you do night skiing up there . How late are the lifts open. Reporter we dont do night skiing here but bor rial does. You can head there and get night skiing. Is everything open right now . Reporter no but kirkland 2300 will be open and at northstar 3197 acres. You will have plenty of room and great terrain and fun snow. It is the time. It is february. We are getting started. We are at 343 a day and over to a 400inch river in lake tahoe. You are a good salesman. A lot of fun to be had. Coop, thank you. All right. Lets check the weather. Lets go to bill martin in the Weather Center for a look. Lightning last night. I heard it, yes. A lot of the it was cloud to cloud which is than cloud to ground. Cloud to cloud instead of cloud to ground. Numerous strikes and in the east bay and it was impressive stuff. Here is the rain totals. And you know talking about rain and snow. Typically it is the way it comes in. You can count on if you get an inch there is over a foot of snow. You can make that calculations above 6000 feet. We got 1. 2 in morgan hill and some areas of the Santa Cruz Mountains two inches of rain. They saw about oneandahalf feet of snow. Outstanding for the mountains and outstanding for us. This was a pickup from the el nino season. If it wasnt el nino there was moisture available that was not powerful. In el nino, i got to tell you, it has been a bust. El nino is there and hasnt gone away but the storms we are watching in the pacific. We got the giant surf. Lots of join surf. We had the biggest week in mavericks and giant surf is what is happening in the pacific and those storms did not get here in february. In the big el nino, back in 98 and 82, for february doing 230, 240 for an average and this february 38 . February, el nino has been a bust. El nino is not gun and el nino is still here and hopefully it will light itself out for march and it very well could and february was not a powerful el nino. As i pointed out, it typically is and at least the baseline samples, we got two ones to work with. And the two were 240 of average and this bun, thus far has been about 30 of average for february. So there you go. There is the Pressure Center and you see it slipping through. That system comes in and as we head to friday. And it brings us a chance of sprinkle or two as we head to tomorrow afternoon. Here is tonight. And then here goes tomorrow morning. And the commute and here goes check it out. There is the showers around 2 00. And it moves through quick. That could accumulate to the tune of maybe 10th of an inch or a quarter if we are lucky. Forecast highs tomorrow, cool and milder than it was a month ago and the fiveday forecast looks like that. So it is good. What is interesting about february. We were sitting there in january and we get to february and this is the big month for el nino and it is not gone. Still here and february most likely will produce something, february will produce something and we had big storms in the pacific and that is where the big surf came from but the storms did not focus on us. We could still get a lot of in march and april. Yes. We needed february to be big. We need every month to be a big month for the next two or three years. How about next week . We do. Towards the middle of next week. Something lights up. We will see. Right now it doesnt look super powerful but last nights system didnt look super powerful but delivered. It sure did. Thats kind of indicative of the el nino bringing power to the weak storms. Bill, thanks. Tourists catch a Helicopter Crash on cell phone video. Coming up. We will update out people onboard after this chopper went down in pearl harbor. Later at six. Tens of thousands of bridges deemed deficient. Serve of them happen to be in the bay area. What we are learning from a new report. Here in the bay area we have 7 of those that are lifted as structurally deficient. Developing news from hawaii where a private helicopter, take a look, crashed in the pearl harbor today. Five people were onboard. One person is reportedly in critical condition. A u. S. Navy spokeswoman says the helicopter made a hard landing as you can see and sank near the uss memorial. One tourist said boats are coming from everywhere. Investigators are heading to the scene. F. B. I. Agents searched a home in california as part of the investigation into the the mass shooting in san bernardino. Agents went to corona. Syed farooks brother lives there. Agents carried out evidence. Syed farook and his wife killed 14 people in a terrorist attack last december but his brother is a decorated navy veteran and served from 2003 and 2007 and not named as suspect. Sanctions against north korea. The new sanctions are meantime to prevent north korea from attending warheads and long range missiles as it continues to defy the un. The bill which was overwhelmingly approved by both houses of Congress Last week comes as the u. S. And china are trying to negotiate additional sanctions against north korea. China which is north koreas al lie has been resistant to imposing new sanctions that it says could devastate north koreas economy. The white house announced that president obama is going to travel to cuba next month. It is a highly anticipated and also highly controversial trip. Mike emanuel has the report from washington. Reporter president obama is going to cuba, the white house announcing the visit. It is scheduled for march 21st and will include one meeting with cuban president rowall castro. There is promise for the lives of the cuban people and thats the core of our policy. The president has made restoring ties with cuba a key focus and leading to embassies and closer ties. Now the president is bringing his own agenda to havana. It has been occurring that way on human rights and we have had conversations with respect. Most republicans are criticizing the president for visiting an anti america dictatorship. It is traumatic that the president is building legacy here when you have a different view than the castro regime you are put in prison. The white house says progress is being made because of the new american outreach but it wont happen overnight. We will seek additional concrete steps that we believe advance the interest of the united states. The house says the goal is to persuade allow makers to lift the trade embargo but republicans have said that is a nonstarter in congress. In washington, mike emanuel, fox news. The woman known as the serial stowaway has been arrested again. This time 64yearold maryland hartman was picked up in chicago. Police were alerted by electronic monitoring bracelet that she has been forced to wear as part of probation. She had been ordered to stay away from chicagos airport as she tried to sneak past security in ohare. Yesterday was the latest of arrests. She has been caught sneaking on to planes including San Francisco. The mayor of oakland calling on the governor of california. Why she is counting on Governor Brown to keep his words. Mattresses and needles dumped outside of a school. How that trash ended up there and parents are upset. The problem of Illegal Dumping has reached another level. It involves an entire truck load of trash and dumped in front of a school. Ktvu henry lee talked to neighbors and in oakland. This is pathetic. Why would someone do that . Reporter i dont know. It is cleaned up but the stench is overpowering and the parents could not drop the kids off where they normally would. Mattresses and old lottery tickets and needles. Smelly filthy garbage. Someone dumped this trash. Special needs students and their kids were forced to take a detour to get to school. I had to park way down further than where i usually park at. How important is it to you to get closer to the school with your child . Well, it is really important because of his motor skills. He doesnt walk normal like everybody. It makes me upset because i am coming every morning to drop off my kids, they have special needs and we have to go around the school to get him in. It is not good to see that trash. It is like somebody took a truck and dumped it. That is what happened. A neighbor said he saw a dump truck pull up and spill its load. He thought it was mulch at first. I dropped my son off and there was trash up and down the street. Huge. Like a mattress and all kinds of stuff. It was disgusting. Crews used a bulldozer. Oakland officials are investigating. Reporter now officials confirmed today that this is not the first time that this has happened. There has been a couple of incidents before that. Howard county had trash dumped. If you report Illegal Dumping in oakland you may get a reward up to half of the fines that they collect. Back to you. Henry, im curious, do they think that they just dumped it there because of the opportunity or is someone here perhaps angry at the school for some reason . Reporter we dont foe if there is a vendetta or someone thought if i dump it someone will pick it up. It is not good. Are their security cameras that may have caught this . Reporter it is unclear. We spoke to neighbors but it was not obtained on brookwalter avenue. Henry lee, it is disappointing. Thank you. Deliberations are now under way in the trial of three students at San Jose State University who are accused of hate crimes against a black student. Three students are accused of harassing donald williams, jr. In 2013. The case went to the jury this morning. Prosecutors say the defendants targeted williams by calling him nicknames and hanging a Confederate Flag and putting a bike lock around his neck twice. A family of fremont is safe after a grandmother jump into action after a fire broke out. The woman was able to grab her grandson and warn others. Reporter there is a sense of relief that no one was hurt. There is a sense of loss because the family worked for over the last 20 years went up in smoke. Reporter this woman awoke to a nightmare yesterday. Reporter she said the window to a bedroom explode and she felt the heat. The home she shared with her grandchildren was on fire. She says her first act was to grab her oneandahalf grandson and run while yelling for the others to get out. We definitely diverted a tragic situation by the fact that mother was able to people feel the heat from the fire and get everybody outside. The Fremont Fire Department responded quickly and the home was a loss. Investigators have yet to pinpoint a cause but believe it started outside. If the fire started inside the house and there was heavy smoke involved she may not have woken up at all. Reporter the Fire Department doesnt believe the home had working fire detectors and only four of the ten members were home at the time and most of the other kids were at school. The woman was napping with the toddler because she works nights stocking shelves at the dollar store. She says everything is gone. All she and the children have left are the clothes that they are wearing. A go fun me account has been set up but the family said it would be nearly impossible to replace all that is lost. Reporter also rescued is dogs and chickens. The f

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