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Transcripts For KTVU News At 5pm 20150521

Happened and we are bringing in all the resources to respond. While they said this afternoon more than 100,000 gallons of oil might have spilled, together the two resulting oil slicks are 9 miles long. The area is rich with marine life. Here two whales are seen wimming. Swimming. A helicopter is used to scare them away. Recovering the spilled oil takes a lot of labor and consideration of wind, currents and weather. A slow process. But we want to make sure we do it right so we can get the beaches back to their condition. Again, this is a developing story. We will have more on this tonight at 6 00 p. M. And i will go back to the desk now. The bay area is not anone to the spill that Santa Barbara is immune to the spill that Santa Barbara is seeing. Our Team Coverage continues with ktvus john sasaki. Reporter we are across from the pipelines you can see there with a refinery nearby. Officials told me an il told me an oil spill could cause problems in the bay or residential neighborhoods. Reporter the Elementary School is a school where parents feel kids are safe and cared for. I love the school. The principal is great. The school, the program, everything. Reporter when i wont pointed out the when i pointed out the signs parents were shocked. Something could happen. As a parent, it is concerning. I feel worried right now. We need to talk with the principal about it. Or with the city. I dont know. We have to do something. Reporter officials told me the walls were constructed in deflect problems that might arise from a rupture. Construction crew whose dont call before they start digging. Reporter he says there is a web of pipelines that run in and around the oil refineries. There are lines that run underground all over the county, really. The bigger lines pose the most danger but a small line could pose just as much danger. Reporter protesting refinery money and politics, they say oil spills are a hazard. Thats a clear and present danger right now. If they expand, bringing in more and more crude oil by marine shipment into the bay we would then expect that that would increase the risk. Reporter those advocates added the peer is a major concern because any spill there could be disastrous. Officials at chevron tell me it is perfectly safe. Frank . John sasaki in martinez, thank you. For many people in Santa Barbara this is a grim reminder of a spill in 1969 that released 4 million gallons. The spill originated from blow off at a off shore oil rig. 3500 sea birds were killed and oil continued to pollute the beaches for months. Outrage galvanized the Environmental Movement across the country. Months after that spill the Environmental Protection agency was established by president nixon. The spill inspired the first earth day in 1970 and in 1972 the California Coastal commission was founded. New tonight, a woman in her 70s attacked in the middle of the day on mothers day. Now her family says she is in a coma. Ktvus mike mibach is live now, police think there is someone in particular who may know more about what happened . Reporter yeah. At the same time they are trying to figure out the motive because the woman wasnt robbed. Although they say she was beaten here in china town in San Francisco. Officers say it was between noon and 2 30 p. M. Sunday, may 10, mothers day, that afternoon the woman was seen walking here on the city streets and attacked. Police say she takes muni from china town and then back and on this day she told her family a woman beat her as she exited a muni bus in china town. She was adults by a black female, struck in the head twice. She did get off the bus and there was a Good Samaritan who came in contact with the victim and helped her sit down and recover till she walked home. Reporter walk home. But then three days later her family found her unconscious and she was taken to the hospital and that is where she remains. Police werent notified till the family called on them this sunday. At this time they do not know what bus line the woman was on. The key is we need speak to that Good Samaritan that helped her off the bus to sit down and recover. He might have witnessed the incident or if there is other witnesses that can narrow down the field of search. Reporter the victims granddaughter posted on facebook my grandma is in a coma, she leaving our family soon. And i ask of your help to come forward if you know anyone that witnessed this. They are looking at all Surveillance Video taken on the muni bus on may 10. If anything pops they will hand it over to the police department. How big of a factor do police say time is here . This happened a week and a half ago. Reporter i dont think sometime a big issue. It is that Good Samaritan coming forward and other individual whose may have witnessed because the information they could provide it is the information from the Good Samaritan who may know what line she was on, what intersection she was on and others who may have been on the bus or walking nearby. Thank you. An suv carrying fireworks caught fire this afternoon in oakland. The california Highway Patrol tweeted this picture. The suv was pulled to the side. We are told the car was carrying m 80s which are very powerful fireworks. This is what the suv looked like after the fire was out. Not much left. The vehicle was destroyed. It was just the driver in the car. He wasnt hurt. No word on how the fire started. Nfl owners could vote on whether to move a team to los angeles. Right now three teams are in talks to move to los angeles, the raiders, the chargers and the rams. One of those teams could play home games in an existing stadium during the 2016 season while a new stadium is built. Nfl commissioner roger goodel wrapped up the owners meeting in San Francisco by saying the league is significantly further on relocation than they have been in years past. When asked about the raiders roger goodel said he hasnt heard anything new on plans in oakland. We need to have a proposal from the people here about how they will keep the raiders here in oakland and do it on a basis that is going be good for the community and the team. Long term. That proposal is necessary to have soon. The rams are in discussion to build a stadium and the raiders and chargers are planning a joint stadium. Many juicish organizations are concerned. They asked jewishs ors are concerned. Ktvus rob roth is outside the meeting in San Francisco live now with more. Rob . That meeting today the issue was when does freedom of speech crossover into hate speech and at the semitism anti semitism. Reporter leaders told the board today that for tests on many campuses become anti semmetic in tone. Making it a hostile environment. Assaults. Discrimination. Discrimination against jews who are running for student office. Clear acts of antisemitism. Reporter 600 people signed a petition and delivered it today. It urges uc to provide training for staff to identify the behavior and come up with policies to address it and it demands they adopt u. S. State Department Definition that acknowledges rettic that can cross the line. Not okay to move into language that delegitimizes israel. Reporter some argue it is not antisemitic and such viewstient be silent. They are committed to making sure everybody is feeling safe and welcome on our campuses. Reporter they didnt take any action today. Rob roth live tonight. Thank you. B. A. R. T. Crews found and replaced a broken piece of equipment that caused delayed today. B. A. R. T. Says the damage occurred where trains cross from one track to another between the west oakland station and the lake merritt station. This is video. The break happened at a point where nearly all of the lines converge. When something happens there it causes system wide delays and frustration. I am on the train, they tell us, sorry, everybody got to get off because they made this train a San Francisco airport train. Now i am standing here for, like, 15 minutes waiting on another train. Frustrated. And his case was typical. Passengers had to deal with delays of 20 minutes to an hour. Good news caltrans had today about an important rod that failed on the bay bridge and now there is another problem. New information on what was in osama bin ladens compound the day he was killed. There was a job application for potential terrorists and some of the questions on the form are chilling. And tonight we hear from steph curry about the girl who stole the show last night. Talking bute chance for sprink about a chance for sprinkles for thursday. When they will occur and when. 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Something that could have weakened the bolt. The bolt shows a fracture which will be examined to determine why it broke. But the testing wept on and on and on. Lets take every one of the rods that we can, load them up and do an earthquake proof test. And that is what we have done. The result, with a dozen rods left to test every one performed as designed to with stand the highest earthquake expected. This is really, really, really good news. The bridge is so over built with 100400 bolts providing additional redundant safety margin. It is not a concern. Now what is not so cut and dry is why there is water in various places. The concern is, if the salt water, if it is that, that could set up corrosion that could cause the bolts to fail in the future. We will examine that issue and what he has to say about that at 6 00 p. M. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. There have been so many questions about the building of the bridge, bottom line here, is the new bridge safe . Reporter at least from what we know, it is safe and so over built that you will have certain start up problems and the broken bolts that happened on the highway portion, was inexcusable. In this case, all the 421 bolts, they are all working the way they are supposed to. It doesnt appear the other bolts that tested and passed the test, it suggest the bridge will stand up to a big, bad earthquake. Tom vacar, thank you. Her dad may be the most valuable player but she is stealing the spotlight. We are [ laughter ] we are both supposed to that is too loud, daddy. I know. Be quiet. We defend well. She is two years old. She waved to the reporters. She joined her dad at the podium. A lot of people calling her the most valuable daughter. I was nervous when she started to run around. But i think she had a good personality about it and everybody loved it. I dont know if i will do it again but it was a good time. He said his daughter is a cloud at home but this morning she walked on by like it was nothing. Hope he brings her up again [ talking at the same time ] our chief meteorologist bill martin. I got a tiny sprinkle i saw little drizzle coming down and tomorrow we have a shot for something more than drizzle. It will be light showers. Really just more nuisance showers. I dont think it will add up to anything. If you look outside, there it is. That is monday. Sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday. And now probably a bit of thursday as well. There is the cloud cover. The cloud cover will be with us as long as the rotation is with us. Usually it is the opposite direction. I will show you. That is the rotation. That is why things are like they are. Normally you get a high that rotates this way. Gives us a fair weather pattern. But that isnt happening. We are getting clouds, showers and thunderstorms for a couple days in the clear lake area, you can see active lightning here. Active lightning around clear lake. Getting down pours. Underneath the cells. Which is great. We are not getting anything. Just seeing strong winds and cool temperatures. 29 Miles Per Hour winds. Coming 29 Miles Per Hour gusts out of the fairfield area. You look at the 20 Miles Per Hour northwest, san jose. That is sustained winds. One of those days. One of those weeks. That is how it will go until we get to the weekend here and things warm up. Right now there is warmth. Right . Upper 70s in the central valley. That is cool for them. You expect 80s and 90s. 60 San Francisco tomorrow. Exact same forecast for tomorrow. Same thing today. Rotation. Drizzle, clouds. Drizzle. Sprinkle or two. That is how tomorrow morning goes. Tomorrow afternoon, maybe, right . Hamilton collects the moisture. That is what you will need to get them to light up. If you gate mountain, like up here, you need enough to fire things off. Mountains, lake tahoe, getting stuff. This week, this pattern i would love it if it would rain but it is not enough to really rain. Highs tomorrow, where they were today. That is on the high end. Numbers my house, sun didnt come out for a long, long time. I bet temperatures didnt get above 65 degrees. 64. 85 this time of year. There is the fiveday forecast. Dont get worked up about the showers. The humid weekend, the weather looks good Holiday Weekend, the weather look goods. Thank you. Ahead here, why a shuttle for tech workers has been shut down in San Francisco and the documents seized from osama bin ladens compound. Julie haener is here now for what we are working on for 6 00 p. M. Coming up, a verdict is in tonight. Jurors reached a decision in the murder trial of a man charged with killing a federal investigator. Also thrown out. The efforts to destroy several tons of Illegal Tobacco products. These stories and much more coming up new at 6 00 p. M. 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It is the largest penalty of its kind in u. S. History and it comes after the largest banks admitted they illegally manipulated Global Financial markets. Now with more on the crimes and the fines. Reporter 5 major banks will pay billions for millions. Jpmorgan chase, citigroup, barclays and the royal bank of scotland will plead guilty to antitrust violations. Attorney general Loretta Lynch scolded them at a Washington Press conference. Their actions inflated the banks profits and harming consumers, investors and institutions. From Pension Funds oo major corporations to major corporations. Reporter they will pay 2. 5 billion in fines. The largest fines in the history of the justice department. These figures reflect the conspiracies, and its significant impact. Reporter ubs is pleading guilty for inflating the libore rate after they found the bank violated a 2012 agreement. They will pay 203 million fine. Banks that cannot or will not clean up their act need to understand the nonprosecution agreements carry real consequences and will be enforced. Reporter no individuals face charges. Attorney general Loretta Lynch says the investigation remains open. In washington, fox news. Asking for flexibility in the middle of the drought. Why some cities say they need break the rules and if they cant playing fields will die. And a new discovery, the strange phenomenon involving dead zones. How they could threaten ocean life. Bulldog get a queen serta set for just 397. Save up to 300 on tempurpedic breeze. And get up to four years interestfree financing on the entire tempurcloud collection the Memorial Day Sale ends monday. Mattress discounters new at 5 00 p. M. Some cities are asking for flexibility when it comes to walter restrictions. They say if they dont get exemptions playing fields could end up dying. Ktvus am ktvus allie rasmus with more. Reporter if you give us flexibility about when to water we will cut our water use in other places. Some of the playing fields are used year round. You can see there is a game going on right here. The city says if they dont wattther fields regularly they will be water the fields regularly they will become useless. Reporter part of his daily routine for the parks department, he checks thousands of sprinklers. The spark one of 8 fields with irrigation that uses potable water. When school is out the fields are used all across the city. The fields get 50,000 hours of use year round. A resource the city would like to protect but they need to be waters four times a week. That conflicts with new water restrictions. Water twice a week. Maximum. Reporter now cities have asked them for flexibility. We will review these things on a case by case basis. First of all they need t

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