Transcripts For KTVU News At 5pm 20140215 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For KTVU News At 5pm 20140215

Rahl funding federal funding but butchering say it may be a while before it helps the consumer. Here at lawrences meat company theres a rush on valentines day. Even with meat prices high it been the best day in five or six days. Its like christmas for us, we get a extra business. Ed lawrence may have seen a rush on meats but price relief would be nice. Life cattle prices have been the highest in ever. And heres why prices have spiked. The cost of raising cattle is high because of the drought. Almost no natural grass means ranchers have to buy and truck in feed and supplements. Normally you wouldnt have to be feeding them hay. Im probably in excess of 20,000 in additional feed for this year alone that i wouldnt have had to buy. Hes encouraged of the prospect of 100 million injected into the industry but unless the weather changes it may not matter. It will help, my concern is the water, money wont make the water come up in the ground. Lawrence is hopeful for more rain but relief could help the consumer. If we can get it done in the nix 30 days we may see relief by summer, when red meat is in the highest demand. The rancher said the drought has caused rancherring to sell off carves cal haves to relief the cows. Calves. Our crews go through more. This is a live look at the president in fresno after touring the local farm. The president will fly to Southern California this evening and spend the weekend in rancho mirage. Even though weve seen a small improvement in the drought noah evaluates Drought Conditions weekly. On the left is the old drought map, look at the right. You can see parts of the north bay are out of the red and in a less veer drought. There could be more relief. What are you tracking. Showers in the fiveday forcast, lets look at percent of average. Were at 38 of average. 28 in san jose. These numbers have been improved after last weeks rainfall. If not for that we would have at 10 , 9 of average. This system to the north will bring more showers as we move toward the weekend. When i come back ill have the timeline for the showers, and well look at the 5day forecast, we need the rain and theres more coming our way. Its this weekend. Ill have the details. Weve created a section on the web site covering the drought. Well update details of the president s speech throughout the night. You will be able to read more about how much federal money is coming to california. Health officials confirmed 41 new flu related deaths in california. 243 flurelated deaths this season. Double the number for last years season. Here in the bay area 43 flu related deaths, including one new death in San Mateo County yesterday. Santa clara has the most deaths across all the counties with 14. Investigators are looking for include after making a discovery, the body of a man being eaten by dogs, more on the mystery surrounding the mans death. It happened late this morning in caipella, a passersby reported a man being attacked by two rottweilers, when the deputy got out of the truck the dogs charged him. The deputy shot and killed one of the dogs, the man died at the scene, Officials Say they are trying to figure out how it happened. Dont know when the death occurred, if the dogs were involved in the dead or if he was dead before. Were looking for witnesses and theres a dog outstanding in the area that we have officers looking for. So far no word on the mans identity. The area is near a bus stop, but school was not in session today. We have new developments in a case involving twins arrested following a stabbing in san jose. Prosecutor want to join the brothers cases for the next Court Appearances on february 24th. The 18yearold appeared in court this morning. Prosecutors originally charged the brother in the homicide. Hes now charged with accessory after the fact. They were charged in the stabbing of richard fan. Protesters rally outside an oakland billboard company. They are planning to put billboards near the eastern span of the bridge. Electronic billboards distract drivers and are too bright. They call the idea crazy. Its a Traffic Safety danger, a blight on the landscape, it will distract drivers. The protesters want caltrans to reject the idea or take Public Impact on it. An update to broken sewage pipe, news chopper 2 was overhead. At midnight crews installed and tested a new plastic pipeline replacing the broken section. 100,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the Russian River but it was diluted enough that Drinking Water was not affected. Uc berkeley is delighting if it will hold a clinic after riders were exposed to measles. The school has vaccines for those who want it and will announce if they will take forter action. Couples streamed into city hall ready to tie the knot. By the power invested by me. Its my pleasure to announce you spouses for life. This is the first valentines day since last years court ruling that opened the door for samesex couples to be married. We knew we would be together, the fact that we could make it legal and have all the rights and privileges and benefits of legally committed recognized union that makes it more special for us. Being here today, city hall, its accepted throughout the state, it just overwhelms me. I cant put into words how good it feels. One of the deputy marriage commissioners says valentines day is busier than others and half the weddings are between samesex couples. Firefighter and Community Members in the south bay are reeling after hearing a long time veterans of the San Jose Department is facing drug and sex crime charges. After speaking to those who worked with the man and to a Law Enforcement agent. We are outside one of the fire stations that the accused firefighter used to work with it. It is filled with people trying to take in the serious charges levied at a friend. San jose 20 year veteran served a various roles, we covered some of the drills. The 53yearold was a Community Outreach officer and took part in many drills. For some people that worked with him, they were stunned to hear he was arrested for possession and sale of drugs and sex charges including soliciting children over the internet. I was shocked but my about actions with him and watching him he was not involved in the drills. It didnt bother me too much. According to a department of justice spokeswoman a tip led to surveillance and his arrest. We had undercover agents that were purchasing methamphetamine from quests a, we identified a victim related to the sex charges. He was arrested for oral copulation and molestation of a 17yearold. He was arrested last night and seized his computer and other belongings there and at his home. We were shocked. We share a wide range of emotions. Some are feeling anger and some are sad that the department of introduce is game inning the hard drive searching for drug accomplices and other 2nd crime victims. Coming up more about the suspects activities in the community. Robert honda. Busting a shark fin operation. The slap to wrist after confiscating a ton of shark fins. Im tracking when a burst of rain could dampen the weekend. The rush to learn to repurpose resources during the drought. Turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and theres nothing really good around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of living off the taste of the air turn around, barry finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack and fiber so my wife wont give me any more flack i finally found the right snack. Live pictures, president obama meteor cade just motor kate just leaving. He was talking about the drought and the aid hes promising. More than 200 million to california to help deal with the drought. Hes on his way to airport where hes set to head down to Southern California. Moore on what the president promises, all of that money and how it will be used coming up later in the newscast. A 28yearold oklahoma man using hundreds of feet toes extoward california is under arrest. Work, to get him extradited. Hes run a revenge porn site. Forcing victims to pay 250 to remove photos of themselves which was posted by xes. A Elementary School teacher allegedly served food laced with marijuana to other teachers. She accused of serving a marijuana laced dish in november. Eight people became sick. Shes free on bail. She was ordered to return to court april 11th. The Chinese New Years parade is a day away and workers putting the final suchs on touches on the floats. All built around the theme the year of the house. Horse. Organizers say as many as 20 people have worked six weeks on the float without a day off. We spoke with the man in charge of building the floats for years. Some of them are leaping into the future with taking flight like the cx float. These horses respect the terra cotta warrior floats in china. Some are based on paper cuts. She was talking with the floats they are building. Some of the pretty floats that make up the parade. Now we want to play a quote from the man whos been behind the scenes for years. Have to be crazy to want to do this, yes. I have snorted so much glitter and styrofoam im not sure something functions normally. He takes us behind the scenes of what it takes to build the floats and the woman he has chose to take over once he retires. Why shes the perfect fit. Thats coming up at 5 55. The parade is tomorrow. Juli hayer in will host the event. You can watch the parade right here tomorrow night at 6 p. M. Or follow along the twitter. She was a pioneering pilot who refused and ground. Now part of the main drive leading to the Oakland International airport is dedicated in bessy colemans honor, the first African American female pilot. Bessy coleman was from texas but had to learn how to fly in france. She returned to the u. S. In 1921 and is credited for inspiring generations of aviators. Women were not allowed to get a pilot license in the united states, thats why she went to france to acquire her license, i was taken aback by that. Coleman shot into stardom as a stunt pilot. She died in a crash at a florida airshow. Transit authorities started the work, they are putting in a third light railtrack a pocket track to store trains and bring them into service when things are backed up. Construction has been underway on levy stadium. It will be open for the football stadium. The first event will be a soccer game on august 2. If you want to see what the stadium looks like, i got a tour, they showed the interesting features including how some fans will be allowed on the roof to watch the game. You can see that piece by going to ktvu. Com. Last weekend was a washout. This weekend different, but theres still rain were looking at. Precipitation in the forecast, and theres more rain, but it looks like it will be light, not a game changer for the parade or the weekend. Heres the system im tracking, far northern california. You see it here. Thats the jet stream and thats the focus of the very moist flow that was with us last weekend. We had a foot of rain in some places. The rain is staying north of this line. Well see showers tomorrow evening and afternoon in the north bay. Valley fog returns again. Were going to see more fog tomorrow morning. That fog is causing problems for many. Be ready for valley fog nights and morning, the computer model tomorrow, thats saturday, mostly cloudy at 8 00 a. M. , and mostly cloudy in the afternoon, not rainy but cloudy, on the afternoon hours around 4 00, 5 00, showers move into santa rosa and move south. Ill roll the model through saturday night. Partly cloudy in the afternoon, the rain forecast as this rolls in is going to be in the north bay, a after 1 2 of rain, late saturday, early sunday. Im saying it has an impact, but not on your life. You will get to do a lot on saturday, do a lot of stuff sunday afternoon. I think the weather will be okay. 60 in napa. You will notice a cooler daytime high. 65 in morgan hills. The fiveday forcast which the bay area weekend in view. Evening showers, sunday morning rain, increasing clouds on monday, tuesday a chance of showers again. You get the picture, on saturday the parade. That will go off without a hitch, take a jacket. There may be sprinkles at the end. Well be there. Julie is doing it on channel 2. It will be hosted lye. Theres the fiveday forcast. Go to the parade. Watch it on tv, weather should be fine. At the end it will be sprinkle a little bit. The crew gets wet. Were looking at breaking news impacting the evening commute for bart. Theres a tree thats fallen on the tracks between the Pleasant Hill and concord station. The tree hit a bart train. That train is damaged and taken out of service. The result is delays for the bart system to concordPleasant Hill line. The San Francisco sfo daly city line is impacted. A tree hit a bart train between the Pleasant Hill and concord station. Much of the system impacted. At least 15 minute clay. People are trying to remove the debris. We hope to bring you live pictures of whats holding up the commute. Tonight theres new action to catch a criminal, the steps that Wildlife Groups are taking to find who shot and killed three sea otters. How Berkeley Students want to push for change in another hemisphere. What were working on for 6 00. Thieves target a School Parking lot and break into cars. 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The rally comes a day after student protests in venezuela led to the death of three demonstrators, they were part of a crowd of thousands protesting the policies of venezuela president. They are also protesting the censorship . Venezuela. The government is preventing the media from reporting on the violent clashes. More on the president s visit to california and the millions of dollars in aid heading our way. A state band on shark fins is broken. And the business of gray water is booming. What it is and how you can help. Continuing coverage of breaking newses in the east bay where a tree fell on a bart train. At this point we dont have word of injury but it is calling a major delay for the evening commute. The tree fell on a train between Pleasant Hill and concord station. This runs all the way to sfo. What is the situation right now. How bad are the delays. The delays are 20 minutes because we are single tracking. When youre single tracking on a busy line you of major back ups. We havtrack open, we were able to remove the debris. The other side is not as able. We have trues on the scene. The trains go 55 miles an hour. Did the tree just fall as the train was coming up under it . Its still unclear when the tree came and when the train came and hit the tree. I know it happened a little bit before 5 00. I was on the train behind the incident train, the operator said everyone has to get off at Police Interest hill, Pleasant Hill. Theres a tree down. It became clear we would be able to single track around the incident which is the preferable method. I know there was some damage to incident train and weve taken that train to a yard to get a better inspection. Theres two trains that maybe people had to get off and on to another train. People want to get home and we apologize. Were working to get the tree out firefighter way. Right now as you say 20 minute delays on the pittsburgh bay point line. How long do you think until everything is cleared up. I dont want to give estimates and have it not happen. Be patient, we have crews working on it. Hopefully we can get it out of the way quickly. Rewe talking an hour or two hours or 20 minutes. Some sense of how long . I dont of a sense, i apologize. Fair enough. Thank you for joining us. The breaking newses is that the bart commute is delayed 20 minutes from pittsburgh bay point and ends at sfo area. 20 minutes delay and it appears theres no resolution. Theres delays for the immediate future. This is one of the key lines. Keep that in mind. Unfortunately on valentines day the friday evening commute delays on bart as a result of a tree hitting the train. No injuries that we are aware of. The president spent three hours in fresno. Spoke at 5 00 at a small farm, the president s goal is to address those hardest hit by the drought and offering aid. Life stock disaster assistance. 5million for emergency watershed protection and 3 million in water grants for rural communities. You have been going through the speech, tell us about the help coming our way. It comes in the way of 180 million in federal aid, much of the money of particular interest in the central valley. Ranchers and farmworker wholl suffer in the drought. Air force one landed in fresno, the president spent little time there but flew out to dusty ag land and sat with Governor Brown and senators boxer and feinstein, then she toured a farm and then delivered remarks to federal actions hes setting into action. The speed at which the money will be delivered. Ranchers will be able to apply for relief in april a process that normally takes a year. California is our biggest economy, california is our biggest agriculture able producer, what happens here matters to every working america. The president was here to listen and said this drought was a very challenging situation and would be for some time to come. Weve seen criticism from republican lawmakers a senator said it was a dog and pony show and wants the president to push for more water storage which has been opposed by environmentist and democrats and the presiden

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