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KTVU Ten OClock News August 30, 2014

Drones, to a statewide ban on plastic bags. And historic regulations on ground water now there are none. That 71 2 billion water bond passed two weeks ago. And just letter on this week, the governor signed a kill bill sponsored by senator leno. This is a serious new epidemic of crime. Reporter and today senator leno spoke on behalf of a new 300,000 tax credit for californias Film Industry aimed at stopping the exdouse of film projects to more generous states. This is a unique bill. It has accountability in it like weve never seen before. Reporter a ban on plastic bags is about to head to the governors desk. Perhaps the most controversial bills before lawmakers, new regulations on ground water now essentially unregulated with aquafurs running dry. Its necessary that in this extreme drought that we reporter some call the ground water bill which passed tonight historic. Others called it a rush job. We havent had policy hearings on this stuff yet we can have far reaching policy that reverses 150 years of water policy. Reporter this final session will be the last for some termed out lawmakers. The bay area senator cornin is leaving after 15 years. There could no better way to leave than knowing youre leaving with the state better off than when you started. Reporter well as for that bill to ban the use of plastic shopping bags here in california. Were actually still waiting for a final vote in the senate on that bill. It is expected to pass lawmakers will be here past midnight for some last minute votes that mainly housekeeping theyll be back in january. In sacramento, ken pritchett, ktvu news. More details on the other last minute bills. The assembly passed a measure that allowed Police Officers to get a restraining order an take guns away from people who are at risk of committing crimes. The Senate Unanimously passed a bill that requires better security around the states electric grid. One other project lawmakers hope to get done involves tesla. Theyre hoping to convince the electric car builder to build a mega planet. And ktvus amber lee live for us tonight outside of levis stadium in santa clara. This punishment is unusually hard. Reporter some say the punishment is hard however they say alden smith should be punished but question a nine game suspension. Big dreams of playing for the nfl on the football field at santa clara high. These students are scrimmages and learning their parents say from mistakes made from professional athletes such as alden smith. I show them, look you see that. You cant play, theres no tolerance. Reporter johnsons son is 27, from fathers to sons skwr tz thats whats going to happen to you if you follow in those footsteps. Reporter a series of missteps off the field will now keep smith on the sidelines for more than half the season. The nfl says it is suspending the defensive linebacker for violating the leagues Substance Abuse and personal conduct policy. Nine games is too much for anybody thats been in trouble for so many timeless. So you know, so many times so you know, they have to do something. Reporter smith has been arrested for dui, drugs and weapons charges, along with being belligerent with the tsa. The team said smith has continued to show growth. We will continue to support them. Nfl players are portrayed because they have the baby mama drama. I dont think its always a positive spotlight. Reporter Shandre Smith number 84 plays wide receiver for santa clara high. Shes also the center of lewis moore. The single mother says shes thought her son that being in the spotlight, actions have reprocautions. Everything you do, whether its facebook, or in real life everything you do is going to come back and haunt you if you dont do right. Reporter because he took that step, they thought his punishment would not be so harsh. Reporting live in santa clara, amber lee. Nascar driver tony stewart says he is ready to race this weekend for the First Time Since he was involved in a deadly accident with another driver. Fellow drivers and nascar officials welcomed back stewart today at the atlanta motor speedway. He spoke publicly about the deadly collision three weeks ago when his car struck and kill kevin moore jr. In a car crash three weeks ago. This is something that will affect me forever. This is a sadness and a pain that i hope no one will have to experience in their life. Nascar Officials Say they cleared stewart to drive even though the investigation into wards death is not complete. The United Kingdom raised its Terror Threat level in response to recent events in iraq and syria. The move is meant to indicate that a terrorist attack is highly likely but added there is no evidence to suggest an attack by isis militants is imminent. The terrorist who executed american journalist james foley is just one of more than 500 british people who have gone to iraq and syria to fight with isis. He calls it a bigger threat to our society than ever. This is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home that we can hope to ignore. Meantime there are reports that Syrian Rebels have recovered a laptop belonging to an isis fighter. Files on that laptop seem to indicate the laptops owner was in the process of planning an attack involving biological weapons. Five people claim Law Enforcement violated their rights. The lawsuit asked for 40 million in damages from the city of ferguson, st. Louis county and local Law Enforcement. The plaintiffs are accusing police of assault and robbery and making false arrest during the unrest that followed the Police Shooting of michael brown. Were also learning about one of the officers that was deployed to ferguson earlier this month. Were learning he has resigned. During one of the protests, lieutenant ray alberts was caught on camera pointing an Assault Rifle at protesters and threatened to kill him. Caltrans is keeping with its habit of getting work done over the long Holiday Weekend. This time its a seismic retrofit project in San Francisco. Debora villalon is live at the road closed overnight getting some much needed retrofit. Reporter a 24 hour operation, both here and about a half mile down where theres an identical construction zone. Tearing gaps in this freeway to replace two 50yearold hinges. Its the sound of concrete breaking up and for caltranss the sound of long awaited work getting done. There are benchmarks all across the project. Right now were actually, were going on time. Reporter on time to get a hinge like the one berubber replaced. Hinges allow the road to expand and contract and shift without breaking during an earthquake. More relevant than ever after this weeks quake. But this retrofit has been on the board for years. How can we make it safer . Its something thats been planned this is more like maintenance thats been planned for a long time. Reporter interstate 280 carries about 1,600 cars each day in and out of San Francisco. Heavy ware and tear and after the recent quake, the elevated freeways got another inspection. They came back and looked at this. There wasnt anything that stuck out to them. Reporter losing a key artery northbound into San Francisco south of market neighborhood caused traffic to back up during todays get away. Vehicles are being diverted. Drivers coming into the city for the weekend should allow extra time because unlike earlier closures for hinge replacements, over memorial day and the fourth of july the giants are playing at home. On the bright side the last two times caltranses tackled these projects, they reopened not only by their deadline, but with hours to spare. What we always build in some time because once you start a job, it just kind of like, working on your house. You discover dry rot or something. Takes a little bit more time to do that. Reporter down below an immense pile of concrete and rebar. Crews have new concrete to pour, new rebar to place. And the target to reopen tuesday 5 00 a. M. In time for the morning commute. Reporting live in San Francisco, debora villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. New at 10 00, late word of the south bay traffic track coach facing multiple charges of having sex with a minor. Officers the arrested francisco lopez. Lopez is a track coach and campus assistant at san jose high school. He was booked on three felony sex offenses involving a minor. No further information was immediately available. Tonight were hearing from a pilot of a small plane after a scary moment in the sky. The plane was carrying a the pilot and a passenger. The single engine plane landed on its wheels. The planes fuel pump quit as the pilot was coming in to land and he had to think quickly. I figured, im not going to make it. If i can get it a little bit but im still losing power. I had to pick a place to land. Youre trained in this every time you fly. Reporter both the pilot and passenger walked away from the incident uninjured. Found in his car with a mask and a baseball bat. I dont think theres ever really any call to taking a baseball bat to another human being. The attack on an unsuspecting woman that led to an off duty Police Officers arrest. Ill detail when the cloud cover will clear up. Next, after a week of clean up its time to come together as a community. How music is helping the healing process for families hardest hit by the napa quake. Female announcer when you see this truck, female announcer it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight because they went to sleep trains ticket to tempurpedic event. Choose from a huge selection of tempurpedic models, including the new tempurchoice with headtotoe customization. Plus, get 36 months interestfree financing, two free pillows, and free sameday delivery. Are you next . Announcer but dont wait. Sleep trains ticket to tempurpedic is ending soon. Your ticket to a better nights sleep music and signs of strength in napa tonight from those whos lives were shaken most by last sundays quake. Its been quite a week in napa. The 6. 0 quake did more than just rattle nerves it disrupted many peoples lives. But the disaster has given a community to show its resilience. Cara liu live where thousands of people came together tonight to show support. Reporter still more than 100 people lingering out here in this outdoor napa amphitheater right now. This was not just another summer concert, this is a Community Coming together five days after they were rocked by earthquake. Musicians played at Memorial Park like they have most fridays this summer. But tonight was so much more than a final summer concert. I just want normal again. And for napa city nights is normal. Its what we do every friday night. I just wanted to kind of feel like things are back to normal. Reporter people brought their lawn chairs to gather with their neighbors. I really think that what people need is kind of a fresh start emotionally. Because when the ground moves underneath you it feels, it unsettles you. Reporter earthquake trauma is still very fresh for many. Its sad, its the first time ive come downtown to actually see. Its pretty sad to see how our town is affected. Its sad, peoples livelihoods, lives. When you go to bed at night youre thinking of that night when the earthquake came. Reporter but theres also commitment to help each other regroup and rebuild. We really want everyone to know that napa is not dead. Were all here. Were not going down without a fight. Reporter napa strong, thats what weve been hearing out here. Napa strong and we have certainly seen many signs of that. Live in napa, cara liu, ktvu news. An unexpected problem is emerging for people cleaning up the damage from the earthquake. Window glass left shattered on sidewalks and on the streets can be recycled. It turns out this type of glass melts at higher temperatures and experts tell us it must be disposed of in garbage bins. The glass thats coming out of a window is not a food grade glass. You can typically recycle a food grade glass like a bottle. Theres people who lost their water. 20 remaining breaks were repaired today. As of this afternoon 153 buildings have been red tagged as unsafe to enter. About 900 more are yellow tagged meaning people who live or work there should use caution. Sundays earthquake is considered the likely cause of a mysterious flow of water that has suddenly appeared in Wild Horse Creek near cordelea. Neighbors say the creek is dry up until last weekend. They worry two large reservoirs that are above the creek may be leaking and sending water into the stream. The city of vallejo asked state inspectors to take a look at that dam. Today the inspectors determined there are no signs of cracking. I think what happened was that the shaking opened up some of the fishes that are in this rock material. And i think we have pockets of ground water. My suspicion is that its going to drain down. City officials said the tests show the water in the creek is chemically different than whats flowing in the reservoirs. The last Major Department store in downtown oakland is closing its doors this weekend. Ktvus rob roth reports on the changing times and the citys hope that new businesses will take its place and be a better fit for the area. Reporter at this sears its almost closing time. Everything must close and is going including the clothing rack. Come sunday there will be no Major Department stores in a downtown that once included such major retailers as magden and of course sears. We really dont have much to shop from in oakland. Theres not very much. Whenever anything leaves we miss it. Reporter but theres hardly any tears being shed for the departure of sears. Many people see Department Stores from a different era. Theres more hipper stores with restaurants on the down floor with Tech Companies in higher floors. Oakland has been courting Tech Companies. This is wow. What a great opportunity. Reporter new by the mens warehouse also closed this month. Its hard to determine what will take its place. Theres a push to have Smaller Stores such as allen wood, a clothing store. Its time for something smaller and room for small and more businesses in oakland. Reporter but some residents still see fewer shopping options. What are you going to do now . Reporter go out of town. Thats the only thing i can do. This Community Needs stores and businesses. I like downtown. Its kind of sad. Reporter the store is expected to undergo a renovation and should reopen in 12 to 18 months. Rob roth, ktvu. A lot of clouds streaming in off the pacific. This is from that hurricane that brought all the swell to southern california. Its just kind of gone north. Its not a hurricane just a subtropical moisture. Just pushing our way. As we go into the evening hour its going to be cloudy. Thats why it feels a little sticky out there. Humidity is up. We have fog right along the coast. As we look in a little closer you have fog in nine bay area you have clouds in all nine bay area counties. Sfo is 12 and nine in Mountain View. Kind of light winds. Still 80 in antioch. 69 in fairfield. 67 in livermore. You can bet its sticky and muggy. Even in San Francisco you have 61. Thats because that subtropical air mass that comes in warms everything up. Overnight lows tonight are going to be most likely in the 60s in many places. Its going to feel kind of muggy. Tonight here we are. Heres the clouds. As we go into tomorrow. See the high clouds, they clear out. The fog pulls in along the coast and we will see temperatures tomorrow that warm just like today maybe a degree or two warmer in the fog right along the coast. When i come back, were going to be looking at the long range Holiday Weekend. Tomorrow a lot like today. A little more humid and it clears out with temperatures a degree or two warmer. Then we come back and talk about your sunday and monday. And what may have turned out to be a case of mistaken idea. You dont take matters into your own hands and act violently. The twist in the case, the person was an off duty Police Officer. Bulldog if youre like me, youve been working like a dog all year. But dont camp out til labor day to reward yourself. Mattress discounters labor day sale ends monday rest those tired bones on a queen size serta mattress and box spring set. Right now, theyre just 397. Get 48 months interestfree financing on the entire tempurpedic cloud collection. Not to labor the point, but this sale ends monday. Mattress discounters a Bay Area Police officer is under arrest accused of attacking a woman with a baseball bat while off duty. The officer is a 30 year veteran of the Walnut Creek Police department. The victim is expected to survive. Ktvus allie rasmus found out what makes the case even more unusual is the victim and alleged attacker apparently did not even know each other. Reporter 2 00 a. M. On august 16th. People on wilson and clinton avenues in richmond woke up to a commotion outside. We had already gone to bed and just keep hearing a banging or something kind of hard to describe. Reporter cara found out later that something noise was the sound of a violent attack. The Police Officer said it was probably the gentlemans baseball bat hitting the car across the street. Or hitting the woman. Reporter 53yearold Gregory Thompson a walnut creek Police Officer is accused of beating a woman with a baseball bat. Thompson is a 30 year veteran of the police department. The victim didnt know thompson she just happened to be walking through the neighborhood after her car ran out of gas. We dont have a motive in this case but were looking at the possibility that maybe there was a mistaken identity. That maybe someone else was supposed to be targeted. We dont know at this point. Reporter the empty home near where the attack happened belonged to thompsons parents. Even if

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