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KTVU News At 5pm December 10, 2014

He says they will welcome all these extra people. Back to you frank. Reporter john are there any protesters out there now and are you getting any indication that canceling the Council Meeting will cause any problems. Reporter the Old City Hall is on the other side of the block on Martin Luther king way. Right now there are no protesters there but we are expecting there will be some a bit later. Im sorry what was the second part of your question. Is there any indication that the protest will stop because the city Council Meeting has been cancelled or will the protesters still going to be out there if. Reporter theres expected to be a protest tonight. Its not exactly certain what the cancellation will do. The cancellation and heavy rain that were expecting tomorrow night could quail these protests a little bit and return the city to normal. All right, well well be out there all night. Thank you. John sasaki in berkeley. The reverend Jesse Jackson talked about recent Police Killings and protests that followed today. Jackson spoke to students at the Emiliano Zapata school. Its important that the message behind the protest isnt lost and he pushed for peaceful demonstrations. I was hoping that the protests here would remain massive, discipline, focused and unviolent. Im proud of people are rising up but im not proud that theyre destroying the city because of it. Reporter jackson went on to say that much of the discrimination based on minorities is not only rob roth joins us now. Reporter were in downtown berkeley, behind me you can see some of the plywood boards where windows used to be. But some leaders are saying this destruction has to stop. Scenes of protesters tieing up freeways. Unexpecting drivers stopped for hours. That destruction has turned many off to that message. A group of mostly black pastors said enough is enough. We are tired of other people. Determining their agenda who have used violent means to make it appear that they are concerned about the loss of lives. We realize that a life is more valuable than property. But the property is innocent people who have nothing to do with the loss of life. Reporter brown marched for civil rights with Martin Luther king in the 1960s and says that marks no resemblence of what has happened. We didnt just join to raise hell, but we wanted to bring our brothers and sisters forward. Reporter that change includes revising the grand jury system and better sensitivity training for Police Officers. We dont intent to paint every policeman with the same brush. But every department in the country has paint on it. Reporter still some people we spoke with said that perhaps the rowdy nature of the recent protests including spilling on to the freeways has its take. I dont mind delays, if its for that cause. Reporter reverend brown also announced Michael Brown sr. The father will be coming to the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on sunday. Frank. Rob, thank you very much. Rob roth in berkeley tonight. We are also hearing about a pregnant woman who was stuck in the back up during those protests as she was going into labor. This is a picture of her. Her name is adriana torrez. Thats her new baby with her. She wasnt the only person suffering a medical emergency while stuck in that traffic and that story is coming up at 5 30. A former uber driver is going to court in the death of a 6yearold girl. Today the mother of that young girl who died is speaking out about this case. Our David Stevenson has been following the story since it happened and david that little girls mother said the Ride Share Company should face charges as well. Gasia, she did. The mother of 6yearold sofia lui who was killed around september 21st says shes waited a long sometime for this day but is disappointed that uber isnt facing charges as well. The collision happened on this intersection. 6yearold sofia liu, her mother and younger brother were crossing the light. Lui was killed and her mother and brother seriously injured. Shes a happy girl, you know. Reporter Surveillance Video first obtained by ktvu showed that collision. Prosecutors are now charging musafar with vehicle manslaughter. The investigation focused on whether he was operating and distracted by the uber. He kept looking at the phone. He kept doing it driving. Reporter George Gascon says there wasnt evidence to support a felony charge. The elements that we have available to us will support the level of prosecution that were doing. Reporter musafars Attorney Says his client was driving carefully. It was a dark light and a busy night. He simply did not see the liu family. Even though i see him i cannot forgive him. Im so mad at him. Reporter lius mother says she will attend the arraignment tomorrow. Im glad the driver in charge, but what about uber. Theyre responsible. Reporter the liu family is suing uber and musafar arguing that he was working for them at the time of the collision even though he was without a fare. They also say that the app is a distraction to drivers and posing a danger. The Ride Share Company did not respond to our requests for comments this afternoon frank and gasia. David, i know after the death of the little girl, uber expanded its insurance policy to include drivers whether or not they have a rider in the car with them. If theyre logged on theyre now covered by that insurance. Reporter thats right. They have made some moves in the wake of this accident and other accidents across the country. The state department of Public Utilities has closely followed that. There are other organizations that say thats not enough and there needs to be more done. Thank you, david. Uber faces charges in its home city. The da announced the civil Consumer Protection lawsuit against uber today. Amongst the allegations is that uber operating illegally at airports and is not testing its app for accuracy in calculating customer fares. Uber has refused to comply with laws that protect consumers from fraud. Gascon says they will agree to make changes and pay a fine. Side car is still under investigation. The Senate Intelligence committee today released a highly anticipated report on how terror suspects were tortured by the cia in the wake of the september 11th terrorist attacks. Mike emanuel tells us the documents show most of the enhanced interrogation techniques were ineffective. The cia mislead the white house, congress and the American Public about interrogation techniques use on terror suspects according to a long held Senate Intelligence committee report. Its been very difficult. But i believe documentation and the findings inclusions will make clearer how this program was morally legally and administratively misguided. Reporter five years in the making, the report exposes a brutal look at the cia and tactics used after the september 11 attack. They found they are often mishandled and led to no useful intelligence. Torture produces more misleading information than actionable intelligence. Reporter records show that some detainees were not allowed to sleep for weeks and told they were going to be killed in their sleep. Many of the republicans in the Senate Intelligence committee viewed the report as flawed and put out their own document criticizing senator feinsteins study. Sometimes good people make mistakes. We have corrected the problem, we have interrogation techniques now that i think can protect the nation and live within our values. Ahead of the reports released the Obama Administration stepped up security at u. S. Facilities abroad to protect against any retaliatory strikes. On capitol hill, mike emanuel, fox news. Whats your reaction to the report and do you agree with the findings, doctor. I agree with some of the findings. I do believe its true that torture is an elegitimate way of getting information. Its a problem were still living with today. I also think that the whole question of whether or not torture works is the wrong question. The real question is are we willing to live as a country that values absolute safety above Everything Else that matters to us. Dr. Gordon that actually leads to a follow up question. Here. When you look at these terrorists they dont play by any rules, they have no problem flying planes into buildings. If theyre not playing by rules why should we play by rules . Thats such a good question. The reason is were not terrorists. And if we allow ourselves to stoop to the level of the terrorists then theres really nothing to choose between us. The big prize is that we remain a country that is governed by laws not by fear. A country that is governed by human values not by terror. We let the terrorists win when we descend to their level. Whats to stop us from saying, okay we wont do any torture here in the united states, but were going to send these prisoners to other countries where they do allow torture. Another good question. And in fact, there isnt anything to stop us right now. When president obama issued his executive order in january of 2009, he ended the so called enhanced interrogation techniques. But he did not end what is called extraordinary rendition, sending people some where else for interrogation. And in fact, the u. N. Committee against torture is very concerned about the standard that the u. S. Applies when we still, which we still do send people to other countries for interrogation. And it was part of their report issued last week about ways that the u. S. Is not complying with our duties under the convection of torture. Thank you for speaking with us tonight. While protesters stopped traffic, there was a woman who went into labor. And she wasnt the only one. A Bay Area School program that is so successful students all across the world read about it in textbooks. What makes this Fish Hatchery program so remarkable. A powerful storm is making its way to the bay area. Im laying out where and when a Flash Flood Watch will be in effect. Subway. Eat fresh. Days after the city of san jose emptied out a homeless encampment, another opened up and is dew to be cleared. This is the third fire in the jungle since that encamp. Was cleared out on thursday. Since that sweep about 2,000 people have splintered off and set up camp near the tolly community library. I dont know why the city is doing this now. Reporter city officials are now planning to conduct a sweep of the new homeless camp friday morning. The Carolina Panthers cam newton is hospitalized tonight in fair condition after a car accident. It happened earlier today just a block from the Panthers Stadium in charlotte. The team tweeted out today that tests show cam newton suffered two fractures in his lower back but no other internal injuries. Hes expected to remain under observation at the hospital for the night. Its not clear how long hell be recovering or how many games he might miss. Britains Prince William and wife kate on their last day of their quick trip to new york. Right now the couple is attending a black tie event. We just received this picture of the duke and dutchess arrived for a gala event. Joe walven now has more on the official visit and the symbolic significance of the trip. Reporter Prince William and wife kate visiting the 9 11 memorial museum. Visiting the twin towers once were. Its actually a serious point to this trip. Its about transferring william into more of a statesman. Reporter will and kate also visiting the empire state building. The last planned event is a 10,000 a seat event tonight. The star studded gala benefits the university where the two first met. Tom hanks is going to be there. His daughter went to st. Andrews and youre going to see the gliteroty trying to meet william and kate. Reporter todays event followed a busy monday for the couple. The prince met with president obama during a solo trip to washington. The royal couple also chatting with former first lady and secretary of state Hillary Clinton and chelsea before the two sat court side to watch the Brooklyn Nets play the cleveland cavaliers. The duke and dutchess also chatting it up with jay z and wife beyonce and james lebron, king james. In new york, joel walman, fox news. Looks like its raining there in new york. And a lot of rain is on its way to the bay area. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin. Looks like were going to get inundated. Were going to get good rain. Were a couple of days out. Were talking about it early because its a good sized storm and we need rain. Dont be overwhelmed by all the reports its going to be a big storm. Its going to hit pretty hard thursday morning. But were not seeing a ton of rain before it and not seeing a ton of rain after the big hit. So were not expecting big river flooding or things like that. But there will be inconveniences. Downed trees, there will be a high wind warning in effect thursday morning. Maybe 8inches of rain in the santa cruz mountains. This is over a couple of rains. And up in the Russian River basin the they could see several inches too. If there was something behind it like a big storm behind it then you would have to start worrying. Looks like this thing is not one and done but close to that. Its a big one and it has a lot of moisture streaming in. You can see the track of it now. And its trajectory. I always look at it as a fire hose. Its the jet stream. But if youre watching your car, and this thing is jet streaming right at us, whats happening now is high clouds are coming in ahead of this lower level moisture. Were not seeing rain yet. Well probably start to see showers when the atmosphere gets real real wet all the way to the surface. Spinning the radars right now. Youre not seeing really anything. Some green showing up there. I suspect thats not a thats a false return there in san jose. Could be a little bit of drizzle though. I wouldnt be surprised. But the idea being tomorrow night this time ill be showing you significant rain occurring around point arena at this time. By about 10 00 tomorrow night, were looking at heavy rain potentially in santa rosa now. The new models suggest a little heavier rain earlier in the evening. The main hit still, late, well actually early thursday morning through midmorning. So thursday morning right. So the 8 00, 9 00, 10 00 Something Like that. This is the forecast for tomorrow. You see the drizzle showing up. This is wednesday afternoon. Tomorrow not that dissimilar from today except the clouds. And this thing starts to shove into the marina. Were going to see winds down to sea level maybe 40, 50, maybe 60 Miles Per Hour. System rolls in, it brings us quite a bit of rain. One to 4inches for urban areas. Thats a big deal because of how we say in the urban areas youre talking about you know, no run off. Not easily getting into the creeks. Arizona is set up very well for drainage. But when you get to a town like san jose and you get two inches of water in a few hours youre going to be ponding and minor flooding. I suspect this is whats going to be going on thursday morning. I would try to avoid that commute. Its not going to be the Early Morning commute. Its going to be the mid morning commute. Going into labor because she is stuck in traffic while protesters are blocking the freeway. How this new mom and her baby are doing tonight. And we learned she wasnt the only person who needed help. What emergency recordings reveal about the response. Now to julie haener whos in the newsroom with what were working on for 6 00. It has given way before under heavy rain. It is a daring and risky how water act thats designed to save life and property. The careful operation to prevent another landslide on Telegraph Hill. And frequently associated with the protests against Police Killings of unarmed black men, the reason richmonds chief felt compelled to join with demonstrators today. These stories and more are coming up at six clock. Coming up at 6 00. A new York Design Firm has been chosen to create a new park near the presidio. Landscape architect will design the 13acre park in San Francisco. Heres a look at the designs for the project including gardens with sweeping views. Its all being created at the site where the old doyle site is being rebuilt. Heartbreaking new details about a deadly plane crash. The private plane lost control and damaged three homes in gather sburg washington last night. Tonight were hearing a mothers body was found with her arms around two small boys inside a home that was burned. Three people on the plane also died. Investigators plan to remain at that crash site for several days collecting evidence. No word yet on the cause. The house of representatives is moving on a drought relief bill to help farmers here in california. However it could be headed for a roadblock. The house today passed a bill designed to give state and federal agencies authorities to move more water in the coming months to the states farm bill. Authorities call the bill a water grab designed to help farmers at the expense of others particularly the states salmon industry. The senate is not expected to take up the legislation before congress adjourns. Many lawmakers will likely have to start over next year. Despite all the rain weve had. East bay mud voted in favor of voluntary conversation and a possible surcharge for rate payers. They also agreed to buy water from a facility along the Sacramento River if it is needed. That water would be paid for from a new 14 surcharge on rate payers bills.

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