,, space... right now...the most powerful hurricane ever recorded -- bearing down on me hurricane patricia and an impressive image from space right now. the most powerful hurricane ever recorded bearing down on mexico. good afternoon, i'm michelle griego. >> i'm brian hackney. frank mallicoat is off. a very big story developing along the pacific coast right

now. the west coast of mexico bracing for a storm the likes of which have never been seen in the pacific. hurricane patricia still offshore packing 200-mile-an- hour winds. it's bearing down on puerto vallarta. it's expected to make landfall in a few hours. people in puerto vallarta are preparing at this time. windows being boarded up, evacuations continue, tourists are trying to get out while they can. >> yesterday they were talking about a hurricane coming in and we have to fetch our connecting flights from mexico to the netherlands tonight. so we have to fly out. >> remember, this hurricane mushroomed out of nowhere. there wasn't a lot of advance notice. some hotels have evacuated their guests by busing them inland. and flights to mexico are being canceled at airports across the country. >> our lisa chan has been checking the boards at sfo. lisa. >> reporter: good afternoon. alaska airlines flight was

supposed to leave here to puerto vallarta at 10:44 a.m. but it was canceled. in fact, the lines at the alaska airlines desk were very short because no one on that flight even showed up. the airline contacted passengers with the cancellation. this was one of a dozen canceled flights between california and mexico because of hurricane patricia. >> my son was getting married down there. we were going to fly in today and spend a couple of days and the whole family together. patricia decided no. >> we decided to spend the night here rather than fly in. >> reporter: that couple is from australia. they are trying to get to mexico for their son's wedding. but they got stranded in los angeles because their flight was canceled. now, still no word yet on when flights might resume. live at sfo, lisa chan, kpix 5.

>> the last monster storm in the pacific was typhoon haiyan. it hit the philippines in 2013 one of the strongest storms ever recorded at that time killing over 6,000 people. roberta gonzales looks at patricia's potential. >> reporter: hurricane patricia the strongest hurricane on record in the western hemisphere anticipating landfall later this afternoon into the evening hours. more powerful than hurricane camille back in the late 60s. more powerful than andrew in 1992 and even stronger and potentially more deadly than hurricane katrina in 2005. there you see it right there off the gulf of mexico. approximately about 200 miles just off the manifesto coast. >> patricia is causing problems in the united states. drenching rain is falling in parts of texas today.

heavy rain triggered flash floods yesterday. dozens of people had to be rescued from their homes and their cars. developing news in the east bay. san leandro police officers were in a shooting this morning on 137th avenue near bancroft around 9 a.m. officers were called to a home on a report of a suicidal man armed with a gun. they attempted to speak with him as he sat in a parked car. police say there was a confrontation and at least one officer opened fire. the man was injured and taken to the hospital. he is expected to survive. no officers were hurt. san leandro high school was briefly locked down after the shooting but has since reopened. an early-morning fire forces five people from their san jose home. as kiet do reports the fire shows a problem unique to the bay area. >> reporter: this is not your typical east san jose house fire. this is connected to a much deeper problem. the bay area housing crisis. overcrowded homes catching on

fire is becoming more common place. check this video of residents trying to battle the flames with a garden hose. this started at 2 a.m. when the tenants saw smoke and flames and called the fire department. it was engulfed when the crew got here. a mad scramble to get five people an seven dogs out. they did it. everybody is okay and they are all together now. pg&e says the power was cut off back in march and the residents have been using gas-powered generators ever since. tenants say they have been using candles to see at night and that's what started the fire. this is not unusual in the bay area where rent is sky high. >> people don't pay their bills. they continue to live in the house without electricity. rents are high. as rents go up they put more and more people into the house to share the spokespersons. there's more property and more people to get out of the house in the event of a fire. >> when people see this and they hear you haven't had power for a couple of months, there might be a temptation to judge

you goo you just yeah, well, they can judge us all them. they don't know us. and they don't know what's really going on. >> reporter: the red cross has been helping residents to get back on their feet. kiet do, kpix 5. another fire in suisun city displaced nearly a dozen familiar police at 2:30 a.m. 11 of the 12 units inside the apartment building are damaged or destroyed. no word on the cause. the search continues in the east bay for a man who stabbed three employees at a market. it happened just before 8:30 last night at a winco store on north park boulevard in pittsburg. the suspect allegedly took some shaving razors and tried to leave without paying for them. some store employees confront him. >> they tried to stop him. he started swinging a knife stabbing everybody. he was saying, let me go. let me go. that's it. >> one worker was stabbed in

the back, all are expected to survive. officers searched for the knife but didn't find the suspect. also in pittsburg a deadly crash closed a stretch of the pittsburg-antioch highway. police say a car overturned near loveridge road about 11 p.m. the two people in the car were ejected. one was killed. the crash brought down some power lines forcing the road closure. at last check it's still shut down. a warning today about a potentially fatal counterfeit drug used to treat anxiety. public health officials are warning people not buy xanax on the streets of san francisco. they say the counterfeit pills contain an opiod that can cause overdose and death. four people have overdosed this month after taking the fake pills. one person has died. now checking some bay area headlines another earthquake rattled san ramon this morning. the 3.2 hit just before 7 a.m. it's one of five overnight and one of hundreds since last week. the number of people sickened by a shigella outbreak

has now reached 141. infections have spread from santa clara all the way down to santa cruz. the source of the outbreak has been traced to marisco's restaurant in san jose. they are closed. and kids in alameda county can start riding the bus to school for free. the county is trying a pilot program for most middle and high school students. a $2 million contract with the san francisco company was approved by transit authorities yesterday. ac transit will pay more than $2 million to an oakland bicyclist. andria borba shows us the surveillance video that led to that payment. reporter: it was july 17, 2012. cara mcclendon was riding her bike on san pablo avenue in emeryville when an ac transit driver taking a turn three times faster than that agency's internal regulations allowed plowed into her. >> at the moment of impact, the speed's around 15 miles an hour. >> reporter: we are showing you ac transit's own surveillance video of the crash from driver lynn jackson's bus right up until the moment of impact.

[ impact ] >> impact was cara's face on the windshield of the bus. >> i just killed somebody. >> reporter: cara suffered multiple face fractures and mild traumatic brain injury. doctors placed her in a medically-induced coma for 12 days. >> cara knows that she will never quite be the same. >> get the ambulance here! >> reporter: the ac transit board recently approved a $2.5 million settlement for cara because of both the crash and the bus driver's past problems. >> this bus driver almost from the day she started work there was a history of insubordination, of yelling at supervisors, on the few occasions yelling at vehicles on the roadway. >> reporter: and six weeks before cara's crash, her attorney says the driver had almost the same problem, taking a turn well above ac transit mandated speeds. the speed of the turn dumped a bus passenger out of her seat. >> a one-page letter in her file that had some medium role in the discipline process but

no discipline, no training of any type, no taking her off the road. >> reporter: he says cara is getting on with her life and is back on her bike ready to move on from the ride that changed everything. in alameda county, andria borba, kpix 5. >> efforts to reach ac transit for comment were unsuccessful. after a lengthy benghazi hearing, hillary clinton is back campaigning. her return and which candidate has now dropped out. >> the 9ers beaten and embarrassed on national television. that's not the 9ers. wait until you see the snarky picture that seahawks fans are spreading around social media today. >> good afternoon, from the kpix 5 weather center. we do have a hurricane and it will impact our local weather. the details as the news continues right here on kpix 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

police say the bus collidedh a a developing story out of france where a tour bus crash has killed 43 people. police say the bus collided with a truck in the country's wine region then burst into flames. no word on the nationality of the tourists, only 8 people survived most with serious injuries. it's france's deadliest road crash in 30 years. after 11 hours of grilling on capitol hill, hillary clinton is back to the campaign. reporter craig boswell with the latest on that and the latest democrat to drop out. reporter: hillary clinton didn't show any signs of fatigue as she addressed the democratic party women's leadership forum. >> as some of you may know, i had a pretty long day yesterday. >> reporter: clinton spent 11 hours thursday being grilled die members of the house select committee investigating the

2012 deaths of four americans at a u.s. compound in benghazi. >> i wanted to rise above partisanship and reach for statesmanship and that's what i try to do. >> reporter: if republicans were hoping to score a knockout, they didn't. >> there were times where she turned on and you said what does this have to do with the central question? that was a challenge for a committee that even republicans have said has a partisan leaning. >> reporter: clinton's performance thursday helped shore up support among many of the female democratic voters here at the leadership forum. >> i respect her. highly different level. think she is the bomb.com. >> reporter: her performance pushed out a challenger. >> i decided end my campaign today. >> reporter: formerry. governor lincoln chafee says he is not ready to endorse anyone, the former rhode island governor. >> i'm going to wish everybody well and watch the issues and root for the democrats. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders and governor martin o'malley are clinton's only

remaining democratic challengers. craig boswell, cbs news, washington. >> and congressman paul ryan says he is running for speaker of the house. last night the wisconsin republican formally declared that he is a candidate after getting support from three major caucuses within the gop. that includes the hard-line freedom caucus which has held back its support initially. ryan is likely to be elected speaker next week. well, we have the tv ratings from last night's 9er game about 400,000 people in the bay area watch the game on thursday night football here on kpix 5. >> 9ers fans watched and cried as the seahawks delivered blow after blow beating the 9ers 20- 3 at levi's stadium. this was a nationally televised game. so of course there's a little national humiliation. check this out. >> this is what a seahawks fan of northern california native who moved to seattle texted to a news producer today. the difference between marty mcfly in "back to the future,"

the difference between him and 49ers fans, that flight stopped going back to 1985. that of course refers to the heyday of the 9ers. and, of course, now that we have our merry little laugh, this season the 9ers have won two games and lost five. >> ouch. they can still recover, though. they can still bounce back. now here's roberta with the weekend forecast. good afternoon, everybody. this is what we all need to know as we slide into our afternoon and look ahead towards the weekend. we have some coastal and bay fog. it's going to linger for a while. otherwise sun/cloud mix today through saturday. a little cooler sunday. this is really interesting. first off we have hurricane olaf right there. i want you to keep thinking about that but meanwhile i want to turn your attention just for a minute or two over here towards patricia. this is the most powerful hurricane on record in the western hemisphere. it is now poised to move onshore manzanillo about late this afternoon as a category 5 hurricane with 200-mile-an-hour winds. we'll keep a watchful eye on

that most powerful hurricane. meanwhile we are under the influence of a blocking ridge of high pressure. remember olaf? it's going to end up being the remnants of olaf that moves into the northern half of the state of california by wednesday producing some rain showers much-needed rain here and some very muggy conditions. that's the long- range forecast but as far as today is concerned, 80s in throughout the central valley, 76 in ukraine. low 70s in monterey bay with the sunshine. sunset tonight at 6:23. today we'll be in the 50s. today's high 60s beaches, 70s bayside, 80s peninsula up to 86 degrees in gilroy. that's our outside number. west onshore wind that's why we have some of the lingering fog up to 15 miles per hour. there's your saturday and sunday. rain wednesday. boo thank you at the of it zoo 65 degrees in oakland. make it a great day. ,,,,

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hey, it's friday and that means we're answering your pet questions with our veterinarian dr. jill chase. and, um, you have -- well, jose is to get right into it before we even see jill, jose asked us by email we have a small dog

scratching all over but he doesn't have fleas our ticks. so what do you do about a dog that's scratching but there's no fleas or ticks? >> where they are scratching is important. so he mentioned the dog is scratching all over so fleas have to be high on my list. ticks don't cause scratching but fleaings absolutely do and, of course, if you live in the bay area that's the number one thing. so even though he is not see a flea it doesn't mean it's not fleas. they live in the environment. we have talked about this before but it bears repeating. they spend very little time on the pets. so not seeing fleas doesn't mean it's not fleas. >> okay. but let's say it's not fleas and the it's not ticks. >> right. so then other reasons for itching all over would be things like inhalent dermatitis where they are allergic to something they have inhaled only we sneeze and cough. they tend to itch. they often times though will itch more around the face and paws but it's on the list. and food allergies would be another one that i would be thinking about with itching all over. and then contact allergies. sometimes wool carpets are a problem. they lay on the wool carpet and it's new to the household and

all of a sudden they are itchy all over. >> do you treated them with an antihistamine? >> so they do have a small histamine reaction. we actually have more of a histamine reaction. so antihistamines work great for allergies. dogs have something called slow reacting substance of anaphylaxis that responds to steroids. when you bring your pet in we use steroids like prednisone to help with itchiness. >> but one way or another this is not a self diagnostic problem, you should see your vet? >> yes. just because when they do itch, they sometimes create microlesions on the skin that can be infected so sometimes they have to be on antibiotics, as well. >> this is quincy. >> he is five years old. he is a rescue dog. and very cute. right? a little nervous today but maybe next time he comes on he will be a little less nervous, a little dachsund, chihuahua -- > i don't know for sure. i would love to do dna testing to find out.

>> dr. chase, good to see you. and you can send us your questions about your pets' health and well-being. just email pets@kpix.com or on our facebook page, and we'll have our pet expert give you an answer every friday right here at noon. thank you. on today's job market report, jill schlesinger has tips on unique jobs in the healthcare industry. >> reporter: the country is awash in pink as we mark breast cancer awareness month. but if you want to make a difference all year long there are a couple of professions to look into that you may not have thought of. cytotechnologists are disease detectives. they spend a lot of time peering through microscopes looking for abnormalities in cells helping pathologists diagnose cancer and other diseases. unlike pathologist, cytotechnologists don't need to attend medical school but require a bachelor's degree. in california, you also need a license. wages for cytotechnologists closely track the broader group of laboratory technologists. in the bay area these workers can expect to earn over $93,000 a year. another healthcare job you may not have considered, biostatistician. anytime you read about a health related finding like an effective cancer treatment or link between behavior and

disease, those numbers were crunched by a biostatistician. you may land an entry level job in the field with only an undergraduate degree but typically will need more advanced education. the average salary is $75,560 a year. i'm jill schlesinger for kpix 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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