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KTVU News At 5pm December 19, 2013

Ktvu channel 2 news. The winner in atlanta claimed her prize today. Officials say she was driving to work when she heard the mega ball was 7. I am excited. Officials identified the winner as ira curry. She bought her store inside a Office Building at the last minute and the numbers she picked were based on family birth days. She will take home 120 million. The winning numbers were 8, 14, 17, 20 and 39 with the mega ball of 7. In addition to the two big winners there are 20 tickets worth 1 million each. Tickets that match all but the mega ball are the 1 million winners. The permanent fix is in place. The milestone repairs on the new bay bridge and one ked line that will deadline that will be missed. The new developments were announced an hour ago and ktvus tom vacar will tell us where things stand. Reporter that new eastern span of the bay bridge will stand for 150 years, fully completed. Without the broken bolts that led to the emergency repair. It is quite an accomplishment. We learned about the problem in the summer when bolts broke as they were being tightened. The solution, built a clamping system that would buy pass the bolts and hold parts together in a marriage earthquake. The remate estimated 10 to 15 million came in at 25 million but that is within money budgeted. 11 00 a. M. Today all major work on the permanent fix for the broken bolts on the bay bridge was completed and the shims were removed. The permanent fix are fully functional and the tempary fix that allowed us to temporary fix that allowed us to open the bridge have been taken out. Reporter they will continue to stress and test many other bolts it is removing to determine if they will last the planned century and a half and if the bridge could with stand the largest earthquake. We plan to show you the work tomorrow. Tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. More details now, a report quoted a engineer as expressing concerns about the structural safety of the bridge. They said hundreds of rods that detach the cable to its anchorage the tower to the foundation may be vulinable. Vulnerable and it caused the chairman to call for a full independent review of the construction of the eastern span. Continuing coverage of the pfeiffer fire. Firefighters are making progress thanks to calm winds. 850 acres have burned and it is 50 contained. 22 residents have been destroyed, no major injuries have been reported. Two firefighters have received minor injuries. Former firefighter is accused of starting a wildfire that killed one person and destroyed 50 homes three months ago. 29yearold Zane Wallace Peterson pleaded not guilty to arson and murder charges. Prosecutors say he started two fires in september that turned into the clover fire. That fire burned 12 square miles before it was contained. He is also accused of starting six other fires. He is due in court next month. Booming economy are leading to an eviction epidemic in San Francisco. Ktvus David Stevenson is live with the mayors push to put more Affordable Housing units on the market. Reporter San Francisco is seeing a lot of new apartment buildings going up along with the eviction rate. Reporter it is becoming a weekly event in San Francisco, protesters angry over rising rents and evictions as the Housing Market shows no signs of cooling down. Right now it is hard to find medium income housing. Hard to find to find anything forhead 3 thun dollars a month anything for under 3,000 a month. You will see a lot of kids running through. Reporter mayor ed lee said the city is in crisis. It is about taopen but guess what to open but guess what 2800 people applied for 60 units. Reporter 40,000 units are in the pipeline for development. The mayor ordered agents to expedite production, including affordable units. I dont want to lose any more of our current i want to preserve and enhance the existing Housing Stock in the city. Reporter Tech Companies must be a part of the solution. I think it is unfortunate some voices want topit one sector to pit one sector against the challenge. We 92 edsolutions for now we need solutions for now. The mayor said the city is looking at converting School Districts and parks appellants for new Housing Properties for new housing. Reporting live in San Francisco, David Stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. More details now. A law adopted in 1985 after the Supreme Court upheld it. It allows a landlord to go out of business by evicting tenants. The city requires compensation for tenants being evented under the ellis act. We are learning about a breach at target during this busy Holiday Shopping season and the secret service investigating. Officials believe the data was obtained via software on machines. It started over the black friday shopping weekend and may have extended to sunday. It involves an unknown number of customers but nearly all target stores are effected. Target hasnt commented. The nsa Surveillance Program should stay in place with adjustments is the finding from a Government Group reviewing the program that opponents say violates privacy. Ktvus john sasaki is in San Francisco with the recommendations. John . Reporter here in downtown you can see people talking on their cell phones and that is the behavior the nsa has been tracking but today the white house announced that its own task force is recommending the program be dialed back. The government should stop its collection of telephone data. In all they made 46 recommendations, some would increase over sight of the nsa. Data collection be done by new companies and obtained only in special cases. The recommendations dont go far enough but are a good first step. It recognized the growing consensus of the American People that this is a problem and the government should not be holding and maintaining data so they could run future inquiries on innocent people. The recommendations are unrelated to a judges ruling on monday the nsas practice of collecting phone records is illegal. They have sued to stop that practice all together. Live in San Francisco, john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. The Health Insurance industry announced it is giving people who sign up under the Healthcare Plan an extra 10 days to pay premiums. Instead of paying on new years eve they will have till january 10. They made the decision voluntarily. Drag races and side shows are spreading and neighbors are fred up. New at 5 fed up. New at 5 30 p. M. The call for help residents say falls on deaf ears. Offered as a convenience, but there is a catch. We will show you how electronic receipts come with conditions you might not be aware of. A wind advisory that will put an tend to the spare the air night in a a Bay Area High School is hoping luck is on their side as they hold their first big fundraiser since armed robber made off with their last fundraiser. The Community Response helped helped the band end on a high note. Ktvus robert handa shows us how generosity rescued the band and save the bingo game as well. Reporter here at the school in an hour doors will open for a bingo game people werent sure would be held but the game is on thanks to the determination by the school and support from the community. Reporter Oak Grove High School director making sure they are ready to go a rome where the band will play after christmas followed by performance in new england. [ music ] reporter the robber made off with 5,000. But in the weeks since the band continued to perform while the Community Responded with fall and large donations, totaling 15,000 and counting. Uplifting that people care enough to spend time, spend money, this canning about our thinking about our program and helping them out. Reporter they will donate this check for 5,000 to the school tomorrow. They said seeing students made the difference. Seeing all that online and how much it meant to them it helped us reach out and wanted to help them. Reporter the director says the extra money will help pay for an off duty police officer, surveillance cameras and other measures that bingo game but she said the support means the most. Kept me going and he gave me 100 donation. This is huge. So, i mean that kind of response is priceless. Reporter tonights game starts in 2 hours. He hopes people will come out pointing out it is the same tradition but with more security. Live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. San Francisco Police are looking for two men who stole an texas atm stole an atmal and led them on a stole an atm and led them on a police. It woke opneighbor who call up a neighbor who called 911. Pulled the van up to the front, threw the machine in the back and drove off. Police followed the van on the bay bridge where it turned around. The suspects then drove the wrong way on the bridge and got away. The atmp and the vam atm and the van was found later. A warning on youtube about a package thief in san jose caught on camera. It begins with the woman getting in a white car and walking towards the house. The second camera shows where she walks up to the door, puts a package inside her shopping bag. According to the poster the package was stolen about 3 00 p. M. Yesterday. California Wine Merchant accused of passing off cheap wine as pricy wine was convicted of fraud today in new york. Prosecutors say he would dilute wines wines and repackage them and sold it for thousands of dollars a bottlal bottles. The Oakland Police department held its motor santa today. Merry christmas. You want to get a picture with the police chief . Yeah. All right. Here we go. Big smiles. Priceless. That is officer jim gordon there. He passed out toys to the kids. One mother said it was quite a sight riding on a police motorcycle. We were stopped in traffic. When we pulled up we seen santa. When we seen him on a motorcycle it was better. This is their 7th annual toy give away. The toys were bought by the traffic decision and the Motorcycle Drill Team division and the Motorcycle Drill Team. New information on a story we showed you last night, the Charity Christmas for everyone had a rush of donations. For 28 years the group hosted 3,000 people for christmas dinner, giving out toys and clothes and blankets but the charity struggle to get donations so the community is stepping in to help. Since last night they received 36,000 in donations, including one single donation of 20,000. Weather at the beginning of the week was about the warm weather and the sunshine but according it our chief meteorologist bill martin it is going away. Temperatures back into the low 60s but we are cooling and the winds pick up as well and we have seen our last spare the air night for a while. These are the numbers from today. There is your 65 in morgan hill. Warm spot. 62 fairfield and 58 in mountain view. You get the picture. Nice kind of mild day today. Here come the clouds. You have been seeing them all day. Green showing up there. We had reports of sprinkles today. Very light. Nothing big. A drop or two. That front slides through and then what happens is the Pressure Gradient kind of wraps up behind it and the winds get going. At midnight a wind advisory if the north bay and east bay hills and wind gusts in the Higher Elevations 40, 50, 60 Miles Per Hour in the hills of the east bay. It will be breezy along the coast as well with wind gusts 25, 35 Miles Per Hours and off shore a storm warning for gael force winds off the coast. Above 3,000 feet, 60 Miles Per Hour, and napa and oakland breezy conditions. When the winds go winds come up, air quality improves. We have had a lot of spare the air night in a row, right, a lot. Over 11. Broke the old record by six or so. Tonight is the last one or tomorrow or today, from here out the air quality gets better. You see it Getting Better now. Partly cloudy skies tomorrow. Breezy and windy at times. Especially in the hills. And especially at the coast. Highs for tomorrow, lots of upper 50s, not 60s. Upper 50s. 59 in san jose. The fiveday forecast with your bay area weekend in view windy tomorrow, late tonight through tomorrow afternoon, breezy on friday and temperatures start to go up saturday and sunday. Not hot. Mid60s. A warm up. Where is the rain . There is no rain. It will be dry. Bay area this weekend, next week, we are running dry. Headline will be the wind advisory at midnight tonight. Throughout the day tomorrow. In the hills, sky line boulevard, you will notice the winds. Thank you. A new wrinkle in the b. A. R. T. Contract, contract, contract, the new problem. But sign, sealed sealed and delivered, the budget vote in washington. We will break down thegreement. Julie haener is here now for what we are working on for 6 00 p. M. Children sexual abused sexually abused, why church is found partially responsible. The feral cat problem plaguing one district and why the effort to stop it is called a waste of money. These stories and much more coming up new at 6 00 p. M. Heres to a whole world of happier holidays. Time to enchant, delight and amaze. Safeway will help you gather everyone round. A smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. Starbucks is just 6. 99, thats a cup of good cheer. Get sweet clementines for 4. 99, enough for everyone here. Turns out this season less is really so much more. So make your holiday merrier than ever before. Safeway. Ingredients for life. B. A. R. T. Is facing another contract glitch. This time it involves the ask me union. As cost saving measure b. A. R. T. Changed the time it takes new hires to vest in medical insurance from 5 years to 15 years. B. A. R. T. And the union were back at the barthenningtable bargaining table today. B. A. R. T. Says the clause allowing for six paid weeks of family leave was a mistake. B. A. R. T. s board is expected to review the contracts during tomorrows meeting. Two year budget is headed to president obama. The Senate Passed the plan today on a 6436 vote. Devastating cuts to education, medical research and defense jobs. The plan restores 63 billion in cuts and reduces the deficit by 20 billiondollars but they oppose the cuts affecting military retirees. Provision included in the deal that mistakenly include disabled retirees will be addressed following passage of the bill. Law makevers to revisit the deal next month makers have to revisit the deal next month to avoid a government shut down. Picture the 49ers new stadium with a sticker that says intel inside. The computer chip maker announced today it signed a deal to provide the Technology Inside the 9ers new levi stadium. It will be a preferred Technology Partner for computers, Technology Ask security equipment. And security equipment and there will be a plaza offering a Fan Experience zone. No word on how much intel is paying for this. Side shows found a new spot in the east bay and receiving a unfriendly welcome. Drivers doing donuts in parking lots including this one and racing in the streets, what neighbors are seeing and what police plan to do about it. Students get a look at what some are calling a second chance. The Bay Area School at the center of a internet hoax, the christmas greeting prank. Complete bay area News Coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5 00 p. M. Neighbors say it happens night after night but police havent stopped it. A side show and spectators found a new spot at a business park. Business owners contacted ktvu channel 2 news saying they are concerned. And ktvus rob roth spoke to people who said they want this to stop. Reporter we are in a parking lot off fremont boulevard and you can see tire marks all around. Those who work here say street racing has been going on every night. When the police come reporter this man asked us not to show his face but she describing a he is describing a nightly occurrence here, drag racing. Here. Reporter he says drivers use the parking lot where he works works as a staging area. You can see the beer cans. Mixing drinking and driving. Sooner or later someone will get hurt. Reporter this is Surveillance Video from a parking lot. It shows headlights from 100 cars on fremont boulevard. Neighbors say it began about a month ago but it is growing. We drove along fremont boulevard and saw tire traction every few feet tracks every few feats. They are driving fast and it cause lot of trouble. Reporter police say they only recently become aware of the problem, they plan to target the area with officers. We will bring in officers in the late night hours to go down to that area to look for speed contests, reckless driving and vehicle equipment violations. Reporter police say they dont know where the drivers are coming from but they say stepped up enforcement begins tonight. Rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. More details now, side shows are common in oakland. Police there announced a contract down earlier this year. They are generally spontaneous gathering or word is spread through text messages. Police tried to increase presence at locations where side shows tend to happen on weekend nights. Sweep for registered sex offenders led to an arrest. He was taken into custody for illegal contact with a child. They checked on three registered sex offenders but he was the only arrest. They plan to change how they review their programs and events after a fatal shooting. The dec

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