coming for airport security. what you need to know beforu y. now that a bomb is a possibility for that russian airliner crash changes are coming for airport security. what you need to know before you fly. good afternoon, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego.

airport workers in egypt are on alert. investigators are trying to find out if a lapse in security allowed a terrorist to slip a bomb on board that doomed russian airline flight that crashed last weekend. as jonathan vigliotti reports, travelers say they are being inconvenienced. >> reporter: security guards carefully searched luggage and passengers at sharm el-sheikh airport. flyers called it a much different scene from a few days ago. >> the security here when we arrived on wednesday was atrocious. >> reporter: airport security has come under scrutiny since a russian jet broke apart over egypt last week. as investigators look for traces of bomb material at the crash site, some travelers said gaps in security could have made sneaking a bomb on board easy. >> at no point did a person go through any scanner. >> reporter: one saw a person

paying official to skip security. it's unclear if a bomb doomed the plane, the president says the u.s. is taking that theory seriously. britain's prime minister says the threat was beg enough to suspend flights to and from the town. thousands of stranded uk passengers are being slowly flown back home but some say not fast enough. >> we want too go home! . >> reporter: patience is running out as pressure mounts for an answer to what brought down the jetliner with 224 people on board. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. a tv news station in france is reporting the sound of an explosion can be distinctly heard during the flight. they are citing someone with access to the flight and data recorders. but france says they have not confirmed the report. >> so what does this mean for bay area airports? kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us at sfo with the changes in airport security we could all be seeing very soon. anne. >> reporter: yeah.

a lot of questions about this. at this point the feds are trying to come up with new security rules. a lot of them likely based at foreign airports. so we are still waiting to find out what these new rules could mean for places like sfo. >> don't necessarily need to have a suicide bomber on a plane to bring it down. >> reporter: it could be something placed on a plane by someone who walks away. congressman swalwell is asking for better screening at airports for employees. >> if you can touch the airplane, we want to know who you are and what you're bringing on board. >> reporter: most people we met boarding planes at sfo have confidence in the passenger screening system here. >> i think security is tight. >> reporter: the crash of the russian plane seems like a world away. >> security obviously would be different from the states. >> reporter: but the growing concern is the potential for an explosive to slip through screening at a remote airport which could then get on an american-bound plane. >> i would want to know a lot more about who are the airport

workers there. what do we know about their backgrounds and affiliations? >> reporter: as passengers hope their confidence in the system rings true. >> i'm one that always looks to the positive side so i never -- i don't get worried. >> reporter: and right now, there are know u.s. planes that end up directly in the part of egypt where that downed plane had taken off. live at sfo anne makevoc, kpix 5. >> airport official didn't want to talk on camera today until the new rules are spelled out. we are learning more about the stabbing of four people at uc-merced. police say the young man who went on that rampage had plans for even more violence. kpix 5's kiet do with the latest. >> reporter: call it teenaged rage. it's what the merced county sheriff said made faisal mohammad stab four people during a morning rampage on campus tuesday. >> he had gotten kicked out of a study group and was upset with one of the students, and apparently he took his anger to

the extreme. >> reporter: the 18-year-old uc- merced freshman wrote down names of students he targeted and other violent plans. >> he talks about going into the classroom and actually taking the students and handcuffing them with the zipties. he goes on to say that he is going to ambush a police officer trying and get their gun. >> reporter: authorities say there is no evidence to suggest that faisal mohammad's stabbing spree was tied to religion on terrorism although he referenced allah in his writings. the sheriff said the computer science and engineering major had elaborate ideas. among the things they found in his backpack bags of petroleum jelly. >> it looks like his intention for the petroleum jelly was to cut a hole in one of the bags and squirt the petroleum jelly on the floor as a kind of a slip and slide. >> reporter: back at wilcox high school in santa clara students are trying to make sense of it all. >> just really quiet or just holding back a lot of stuff and i guess maybe mohammad was just one of those people. >> reporter: the fbi has confirmed they carried out search warrants at his home in

santa clara and they found no evidence to suggest any kind of a link to a terrorist act. in santa clara, kiet do, kpix 5. it is back to business for the san jose restaurant at the center of last month's shigella outbreak. health officials inspected marisco's san juan number three restaurant and determined it no longer prints a risk to the public. officials say the all the food was thrown out and the facility sanitized. employees were trained on proper food handling. 200 people got sick last month. no idea of the source of the outbreak. some good news for the economy. job growth was up in october. employers added 271,000 jobs last month. that's the largest increase since last december. that puts the unemployment rate to 5%. the lowest it's been in 7 years. job gains make it more likely the federal reserve will raise short-term interest rates in december. so let's see how wall street is reacting on this last day of trading for the week. right now hohum.

it's up barely -- up a point now. there you go. toyota is making a big investment in silicon valley. specifically, on artificial intelligence and robots. the company plans to spend $1 billion on research. toyota says the research will go beyond self-driving cars and involve everyday use like robots to help the elderly and people in wheelchairs. the new company will launch in january with 200 employees at a facility near stanford and another site near m.i.t. in cambridge. this morning, president obama rejected an application to build the keystone pipeline. the project has been under review for seven years. the pipeline would run from canada down to texas and louisiana. it would carry 800,000 barrels a day of crude. the president says the project would undercut america's global leadership in climate change. >> the pipeline would not make a meaningful long-term contribution to our economy.

the pipeline would not lower gas prices for american consumers. in fact, gas prices have already been falling. shipping dirtier crude oil into our country would not increase america's energy security. >> the decision to reject the pipeline was made ahead of a big meeting on climate change the president will be attending next month in paris. the second phase in construction on san francisco's central subway project begins tonight. so that means you can expect street closures and some detours in the area of 4th and king streets through next saturday. major traffic disruptions are expected over the next week. not just for drivers but for muni riders, as well. crews will be installing tracks for the new subway that will connect with existing muni lines to chinatown. road closure in that area begins at 10:00 tonight. the subway is expected to be up and running in early 2019. sacred heart kicked off its holiday food and toy program in san jose this morning. families lined up around the

block to register. through the program, low-income families will receive christmas toy boxes and thanksgiving turkeys. the organization received a record number of participants this year. staff say their rental crisis makes it hard for family to meet their needs. and then there were 8. two gop presidential wannabes have been bumped from the upcoming debate. we'll tell you why. >> it's been years since we have seen snow in the mountains this time of year. the signs today this could be a big year for the ski season. >> from the kpix 5 weather center, good afternoon, everybody! we have bright sunshine today. but we are tracking rain for the weekend. we'll track it together as the news continues right here on kpix 5. >> and can owning a dog help with kids with allergies? we'll put our questions to dr. jill chase and that's covey. you will meet him and much more when we come back.

comes together for homecomi. todays special event is allo say thank you to the brave people who fought the de is the fire-ravaged community of middletown came together for homecoming. today's event is to say thank you to the brave people who fought that devastating "valley fire." that fire started on september 12 and killed four people destroyed more than 1200 homes. also today, san mateo firefighters will give out bicycles to some of the kids who lost theirs in the fire. california is changing the way it carries out the death penalty. governor jerry brown agreed three years ago to switch the method to a single drug lethal injection. new regulations will be released today. the process lagged due to a national shortage of execution drugs. families of murder victims sued the state jump-starting the switch. however, california has not put an inmate to death in almost 10 years. the decision now enters a 62-

day public comment period. campaign 2016 now. a mild mannered republican presidential candidate is lashing out at the media. it's about a story ben carson says is just not true. weijia jang has more. >> reporter: dr. ben carson insists the story he has told about himself as a violent teen are true. >> this is a bunch of lies! this is what it is, a bunch of lies attempting, you know, to say that i'm lying about my history. i think it's pathetic! >> reporter: on the campaign trail, carson talks about a time he tried to stab a friend but the boy's belt buckle saved him. he uses the story to say god entered his life and took away his anger. cnn wrote about the incident but can't find any evidence the event happened. carson says cnn couldn't find the victim because the name is fictitious. >> we talked to people who knew him in elementary school junior high school, neighbors, high school classmates. >> reporter: but the carson campaign now admits that at least one claim in his

biography is false. in his book, gifted hands, carson wrote that he received a full scholarship to attend west point. his campaign now tells cbs news he never sought admission. carson''s story of overcoming poverty to become a reputable neurosurgeon has resonated with voters and is at the top of the polls with donald trump. they both have gained support in iowa and are in a virtual tie for the lead. marco rubio and ted cruz have also made big gains. weijia jang cbs news, washington. >> former new york governor george pataki was also left off of next week's debate. happening now, two americans are doing some maintenance work this afternoon in space. the astronauts are embarking on their second spacewalk in nine days. they say they are installing a cooling system at the international space station. one of the astronauts is scott kelly. he is participating in a year long space expedition.

ski and snowboard season starts today. the tahoe/truckee area, boreal opened this morning. it joins mammoth and mount rose which opened on wednesday. the early start is all thanks to monday's storm which brought more than a foot of snow to parts of the sierra. it looks like rain this weekend. here's roberta. >> good afternoon, everybody. we have the abundance of sunshine today, visibility is unlimited and what you can expect the remaining portion of the day is the blue skies to continue with the gentle west breeze five to 10 miles per hour. bright sunshine throughout the day. and we are tracking rain that will arrive on under, albeit a chance of a slight chance of shower on saturday in the far reaches of the north bay. high pressure in command and it will be in command for the next couple of days with the dry conditions. but this area of low pressure sometimes what happens is you get this renegade shower in the north bay for saturday. otherwise, this front is right

now forecast to push through the bay area beginning early on sunday morning. here's our futurecast. you can see we do have the return to the low clouds, the patchy fog along the san mateo coast by the lunch hour on saturday. then that is the front that slices out of the north bay across the golden gate bridge by 6, 7, 8 a.m., maybe even 5 a.m. in the north bay. and then as the day wears on, the front passes to the south so the bulk of sunday is dry. this is the center of the area of low pressure that will push through overnight on sunday night into monday making for a very messy morning commute. meanwhile, temperatures across the state today 60s in the central valley, 47 degrees in the greater lake tahoe area, make sure you take the chains there. sundown at 5:06. before then, 60s from the beaches to our inland areas. low 70s around the cloverdale area. there you have the rain event on sunday into monday. have a terrific weekend, everyone. a newly published study shows kids who grow up with dogs or other animals may be at

lower risk for asthma. researchers think it may be linked to the hygiene hypothesis. kids exposed to some germs might develop a stronger immune system. let's talk about that with our pet expert dr. jill with cubby. >> cubby is a little nervous today. >> i grew up with four or five dogs so i should be healthy forever, right? >> i think so. >> it helps, right? >> i actually -- this is not a scientific study but everybody i know in my life who has grown up with pets are not allergic to animals so i think there's merit to the study. >> so if you are exposed to the germs kind of like a flu shot you get a little bit and you build up an immunity. >> yes. >> tell us about picking out a dog and the breed. does that matter? >> yes. in general, if people have allergies and it's been established they have allergies or asthma there are some dogs that have hair not fur and they

are considered hypoallergenic, portugese waterdogs, poodles, those are dogs that people tend not to be allergic too because they have hair not fur. you know, we are not proposing that everybody rush out and buy -- get an animal -- >> you're going to save your children if you get a couple of dogs and a cat. >> if you are an animal person and enjoy having pets and you're thinking about having children, new family or whatever, i absolutely would think that it would be a great idea to get a dog or cat. >> it's a process, too, because i remember i never had a cat. i have had one for 16, 17 years. but the first year, i was sneezing and wheezing like no tomorrow but i guess you eventually kind of catch up to it. >> i have heard that anecdotally. i have heard people say the same thing they're not allergic anymore. there seems to be something to that. >> okay. how's cubby doing? >> so far, so good. >> come on, buddy. there you go. good boy. >> i got a lick. >> that's good. >> some good information. so when in doubt, maybe a doing

is a good thing. >> i think so, yes. >> thank you, dr. jill. if you have a question for dr. jill, he might pets@kpix.com and we'll have dr. jill answer your friday right here at noon. cubby and i will be right back. stay right there. ,,,,,,,,,, i am totally blind.

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tree arrives in new york's well, you know the holiday

season is upon us when the giant christmas tree arrives in new york's rockefeller center. the 78-foot ten ton norway spruce was cut down wednesday in upstate new york and delivered today. the annual tree lighting takes place on december 2. always love seeing it lit up. >> think it's what, 49 days away. >> is it? you have been counting every day. >> 50 was yesterday. >> have you done any shopping? >> nothing. >> not a thing. >> give me a month or two. >> a couple gifts but that's it. this is a popular feature in mexican cooking, i would know, because the mild flavor complements other ingredients. fresh grocer tony tantillo takes us shopping for white onions. >> reporter: well, today's tip of the day is going to be is going to be with white onions. i use them all the time. don't overcook them or burn them. if you cook them right nice and translucent. when you cut them up, they are fantastic. they lend so much to so many different recipes. but selection and storage is very important with the white

onions. let's talk about selection. when you buy them, nice and white. all the way around. very important. free from any sprouting whatsoever and any cracking. bring them home, one more thing, too, make sure that skin is translucent, outer skin. when you bring them home store them on the counter or in a cool, dry place not in the refrigerator. would the white onions, like i said, for sauteeing, the beginning of many recipes, yellow onions, but i prefer the white. i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. and always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. and they look beautiful, don't they? >> especially sauteed! yummy. well, if you are a political junkie, now is the time to make a living at it. jill schlesinger shows us the positions now opening in time for the upcoming election year. >> reporter: the presidential election is now just a year away and if you are a political junkie, there are a couple of careers to consider. political scientists study the origin, development and operation of political systems and are often called upon to offer analysis and context of election results. the field is expected to expand

dramatically. but because it's a relatively small occupation, the rapid growth will result in only about 1400 new jobs by 2022. another career to consider is survey researcher. these professionals plan and develop surveys and polls by creating the best worded questions. they then analyze and interpret the results. here in the bay area, survey researchers earn more than $56,000 a year. the job requires at least a bachelor's degree with a strong foundation in statistics and analyzing data. i'm jill schlesinger for kpix 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

save big money on car insur. how to know if pay-by-mile right for you. that story coming up at 5:00 a reward for driving less. the tracking device that could save you big money on car insurance. how to know if pay by miles is right for you. that and more at 5:00. >> and that's it for kpix 5 news at noon. it's the weekend! >> yay! have a good one. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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