o. an east bay neighborhood on edge after gunmen target two families. police say it is clear the crooks targeted them. breaking news out of

florida. a plane is on fire! smoke poured out of a dynamic international airways jet at the fort lauderdale airport today. the engine caught fire as the plane prepared for take-off. it was headed to venezuela. passengers evacuated on the runway using emergency slides as crews doused the flames. 7 people are hurt. not clear how many people were on board. armed robbers are targeting parents in san leandro after taking their children to a rural high school. let's join kiet do at the site of the second robbery in the washington manor neighborhood with the very latest. kiet. >> reporter: good afternoon, san leandro police say they were wearing masks and hoodies and these robberies were planned and executed and not amateur. tomas castillo had just dropped off his son at arroyo high school and hadn't been home for more than a few seconds when a man came up from behind and

pointed a gun at the back of his head. tomas instinctively grabbed the barrel. >> i grabbed the gun and then these two guys, don't do any foolish things. turn around. [ indiscernible ] put the gun on my head the back of my head. >> reporter: facing three armed men, tomas had no choice but to give up. the men walked into the sliding glass door in the back. the crooks saw and heard his wife calling 911, they took his wallet and ran. whatever happened tomas was not going to open that door. you were ready to die before you would let them inside the house? >> in my mind is just go ahead shoot me. i don't want to get them inside because as soon as they get inside, that's big problems. i got my two daughters and my wife inside. what can we do? >> reporter: this is the second time this month it's happened where parents are attacked after dropping their children off at arroyo high school. in both cases the victims were asian men and the crooks entered the houses through the side gate.

detectives are looking for a getaway car similar to this blue nissan rogue. >> one possibility is they are surveilling prior to the crimes or have some sort of information knowing that's fathers will return home after dropping the children at school. >> reporter: i see you patting your pocket. is that what i think it is? he used to keep his gun in his bedroom. now it's on him all the time. >> i want to survive. you want to shoot it out, let's go. your bullet. >> reporter: san leandro police have increased patrols with both marked and undercover units and they are pleading with the public if you know anything or you see anything suspicious, do not hesitate to give them a calm. we're live in san leandro, kiet do, kpix 5. today, three drifters accused in two bay area murders were back in court. sean angold, morrison lampley and lila alligood could get life without parole if convicted. authorities say they killed a backpacker in golden gate park and a yoga teacher in fairfax this month.

today's hearing was to appoint lawyers for two suspects. today the teenager suspected of killing 8-year-old maddie middleton was in court in santa cruz. 15-year-old adrian gonzalez had a preliminary hearing. he is being tried as an adult on murder charges. he pleaded not guilty. he is accused of tying up middleton, raping and strangling her and then dumping her body in a recycling bin back in you will. >> after a nearly three-month investigation, the city of rohnert park says the police officer acted reasonably in pulling a gun in an incident that went viral. >> this one really got a gun. you don't touch me. you don't touch me. >> officer dave rodriguez walked towards don mccomas and asked him to take his hands out of his pockets. when he refuse he draws his gunpointsing it down. yesterday the city said rodriguez saw suspicious behavior including mccomas

ducking behind a truck. a man tried to turn himself in for killing a woman but he was turned away. on monday hugo castro came to the county jail and a staffer called a correctional deputy. castro said he knew the location of a body. the deputy told castro to go around the corner to police headquarters. and castro followed those instructions on his own. police say they would have handled it differently. >> we would find out what this person is talking about, detain that person, notify the investigative unit if it's within our jurisdiction. then we would handle the follow- up investigation. >> police later arrested castro for the murder of his ex- girlfriend alessandra barlas. he led officers to the globe condo building on 3rd street downtown where her body was found strangled with stab wounds. some dramatic new video just released from a deadly biker shootout in texas back in may. a warning, it is graphic. surveillance video from inside the twin peaks restaurant shows all the chaos that unfolded

between the two motorcycle gangs and you can see bikers ducking for cover here. one man even runs through the patio and fires a shot towards the parking lot. >> the whole incident probably didn't last more than 90 seconds. seemed like an hour when you're laying there and people getting shot around you and bullets whizzing by you. >> nine people were killed, 177 bikers were arrested and charged with organized criminal activity. a bay area trader has gone missing in london and now his family is in the uk pleading for help. 24-year-old josh sanchez maldonado flew from japan to london last wednesday for a job interview. he was supposed to fly home to san francisco the next day but he never made that flight. future of raiders football will be in the spotlight during a town hall meeting hosted by the nfl this evening in oakland. ownership expressed frustration at efforts to get a new city stadium so the raiders are among three nfl teams looking

to relocate to l.a. tonight's meeting begins at 7 p.m. it will be held at the paramount theater. new at noon, san francisco mayor ed lee is launching an initiative to not just reduce but to eliminate hiv/aids in the city. today he announced funding and a plan to get to zero. the goal is to reach zero new hiv infections and eliminate deaths from aids eventually. the health department is teaming up with multiple organization and foundations. >> we want to have zero infections and deaths. we certainly want to have zero stigma, perhaps earlier than 2030. and the declaration just demonstrates our commitment to doing so and we're glad to do it. but we're also going to back it up with serious money. >> the city will contribute $1.2 million this year to the effort. well, it's official. the next speaker of the house is wisconsin congressman paul ryan. today's vote marking the end of john boehner's 25 years in the

house. the last five of which he served as the speaker. boehner officially leaves his congressional seat on saturday. speaker ryan is now second in line to vice president joe biden to become president. today china's ruling communist party says it's putting an end to the controversial one child only policy and will now law couples to have only two children. it was implemented in 1980 to slow population growth. it was relaxed in 2013. china says today's change is a pro-active response to the issue of an aging population. right now population is 1.3 billion. another whoops for apple. why many people are sounding the alarm today after an update caused them to oversleep. >> more trick than treat. the fight over a popular haunted house in the east bay. now a compromise. >> we should all have the opportunity to run for president. >> good. all of us, each and every one

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out how a 175- million doll blimp broke loose and drift more than 150 miles. ed blimp dragged i the u.s. military is trying to figure out how a $175 million blimp broke loose and drifted more than 150 miles. the unmanned blimp dragged its tether as it floated from maryland to pennsylvania yesterday. it knocked out power lines leaving thousands of people in the dark. the high-tech blimp is now dangling precariously among the trees where it landed in rural pennsylvania. >> in two pieces it impacted. a lot of it is hanging in

security into the trees in the ravine. >> the cable tether that anchored the blimp is an inch thick and designed to withstand hurricane-force winds. it could take up a week to recover it. it is considered the biggest trial yet for a balloon powered internet system. mountain view-based alphabet that's the parent company of google says it will launch project loon next year over indonesia. they are considered an alternate way to offer internet service to the country. instead of stringing miles over 750,000 square miles, indonesia's three biggest mobile network operators will partner with alphabet on the new project. a lot of people are now blaming their iphones for making them late and with good reason. apple's newest software update is causing people to oversleep. it has to do with the new overnight update feature which asks if you want to install the latest operating system while you sleep. if you say yes, after the install is complete, the phone restarts and switches off any set alarms.

well, social media erupted with complaints like this one. the night every. single. time." an example of the struggle r parking in san fra : >> or be like us and not sleep at all. >> all right, dude. hey, an example of the struggle for parking in san francisco. a man in sunny side he hired a landscaping company to create a new parking space in his yard. it's entirely illegal. he says he has 15 days to get the proper permits or he may have to restore the land to what it was before. the show will go on in the driveway of a home in albany. as kpix 5's cate caugiran reports, the city is allowing a halloween haunted house to operate despite objections from

neighbors. >> this albany 15-year-old will get his wish to keep on haunting. after nearly two hours of neighbors going back and forth -- >> it was always incumbent upon us to basically push back to what we considered some normal peace and quiet. >> i have gone through all the proper channels. >> when construction is going on, it's loud. >> reporter: the planning commission denied the appeal to shut down the haunted house. but with the condition it only be open for two days. as you can see it's more of a mess and sam only has days to put together the perfect childhood nightmare in time for halloween. that's theme of this year's haunt. it's in the backyard keeping scary things hidden from view. gary tried to appeal the decision and hopes this doesn't burden his family in the years to come. sam's mother holly says this. >> continue to have [

indiscernible ] enjoy the haunted house. not to annoy our neighbors. >> reporter: cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> the haunted house will raise money for the local food bank. snuck outside a couple of minutes ago and looks fine. >> how did it feel? >> great! >> our weather watchers are all over the bay area and they can tell me what it's like in their neighborhood. let's check it out. right here, 75, that's nice. 75 so says jim in napa. thank you very much. let's go ahead and go across the board here and see who else is the roing. orinda 13 miles an hour. breezy today. in novato, dana has 73 degrees. it's our live weather camera at coit tower. with the passage of yesterday's cold front, we have pristine conditions good air quality. we also have unlimited visibility. temperatures in the 60s and

70s. we just lost our camera. this was the view earlier just moments ago. the university of california lawrence hall of science, what a spectacular view! you can see all the way to the farralones today. warm through saturday then the temperatures drop. the coast is clear. we have high pressure from the west. as it does so it's butting up against the departing area of low pressure so we have that pressure gradient a northwest breeze to 20 miles an hour breezy this afternoon. temperatures across the board right now 71 in fresno. 60s in monterey, climbing just a couple more degrees. and currently 48 degrees on the south shore going up to a high of 53. a beach hazard statement has been issued. >> if you plan on walking the beach today, be careful about the beach hazard statement. >> sunset 6:14.

sun-up tomorrow morning at 7:33. smack in between, nearly 70 in pacifica. 70s for the most part in the bay area. 80 the warm spot. the extended forecast, i want you to look carefully at the weekend because we do have a chance of rain in the forecast by sunday. and speaking of sunday, that's when we turn our clock back an hour. >> yay! we get a free hour of sleep. >> we want you to be one of our weather watcher. just visit us online at cbssf.com/weatherwatchers and report the weather in your neighborhood then we become bf fs. >> and you buy me presents. >> no, they can invite me over for apple pie. >> sounds good! >> just lost two weather watchers! [ laughter ] kidding. a young girl born in china and adopt in the u.s. at 10 months old is setting her sights on the u.s. office. she wants to be president. current law is that only u.s. born citizens can be president. she testified in massachusetts. she asked lawmakers to change the constitution so that one

day she could run for president. >> she said, that's not fair. and i said to her, what are you going to do about it? she said i'm going to change the law. >> just think of all the great candidates that would not be able to serve our country because of a law that came into existence over 200 years ago. >> she wants congress to amend the constitution so that natural born citizens will include foreign-born adopted kids just like her. you go, girl. we'll be right back. i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com.

costa families well, today's tip of the day is going to be is with portobello mushrooms. texture is out of this world. the flavor delicious. but selection and storage is very important when you buy them, remember they should have a nice light brown color all the way around. very important. and nice and thick. when you bring them home, simply store them in the refrigerator right away. now, if you have a chance, ask the produce manager for a brown paper bag because a brown paper bag all the mushrooms in the refrigerator will last longer. in plastic they will decay faster. now, i put these in the broiler with olive oil and salt and pepper, for about 3 to 4 minutes. and at the end, i make a nice sandwich with some bread, roasted red peppers an mozzarella and that's it. it's beautiful. i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. and always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy.

>> really, you don't like them? >> i don't. >> got to try them. when contra costa families can't afford enough food they often rely on the white pony express. sharon chin introduces us to the woman behind the organization. and this week's jefferson award winner. >> reporter: the white pony express rides to the rescue with free groceries for low- income families. when one of its charity partners calls for food, volunteers try to deliver from this weekend warehouse within two hours. anna villalobos says the people show serves at monument impact community resource center in concord couldn't be more grateful. >> they feel happy. they feel, you know, that somebody cares for them. >> reporter: white pony express helps feed 65,000 people in contra costa county on a regular basis. dr. carol weyland conner found the fast growing volunteer

group in they are the. as the spiritual director of sufism reoriented, she is committed to ending port of. >> it redistribute wealth. >> reporter: in the last two years the program has delivered 2 million pounds of food that is equivalent to 1,600,000 meals. hundreds of volunteers keep it running 7 days a week. they peck up food and flowers from about 100 donors like grocery chains and distribute the item to some 50 charitable organizations which then give the donations to clients like blanca. >> economy is no good in this area so -- >> reporter: besides food, they deliver gently used clothes, toys and books to underserved neighborhoods. dr. conner desires to serve the whole person according to erica brooks, the nonprofit's vice president of growth development. >> i think that her sole focus

for all these programs is about delivering love. >> reporter: dr. conner also founded francis in the school. the program named after saint francis of assisi produces renaissance style fairs to inner city neighborhoods around the nation. >> the guiding principle is to give the best you can. >> reporter: so for giving her best to serve low-income families through white pony express and francis in the schools, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to dr. carol weyland conner. sharon chin, kpix 5. >> you can nominate your own local hero for a jefferson award online at kpix.com/hero. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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