it's for a wrongful death lawsuit filed against four police o the shooting d a central trial began in san francisco this morning. it's for a wrongful death lawsuit file against four police officers involved in the shooting of alex. good afternoon, i'm michelle griego. >> and i'm frank mallicoat. the city is shooting for the wrong

evident death of their son. jackie was at the start of today's proceedings. >>reporter: calling on spirit and stomping out the evil. >> supports gathered before the civil wrongful death rally. his parents were greeted with a lot of hugs. their son was killed by police two years ago. >> getting to this victory and we believe any reasonable juror is going to look at the physical evidence and the logic of this case, and they will have to decide in our favor. >> the former teacher remembered him as a kid who wouldn't afraid to eminent his happiness. >> at that age, they run out -- [indiscernible] while they're growing up, but he couldn't help

himself. he would break out into a smile whenever he tries. >> he was armed with a taser shot weapon, something the lawyers say was necessary for his job. the district attorney office said they mistaken the weapon as my pistol and he pointed it at them when they asked him to show his hands. >> it's a shock to the city of san francisco. and the police needs to be arraigned. >> gorge says all four police believes their lives were in danger and he's not sure much could be done to prevent the shooting. >> the parents say there's no -- police officers say they're not allowed to comment once a lawsuit is filed. jackie ward. jury selection in the trial took place this morning. opening statements expected to begin this afternoon. happening today, criminal charges filed against san

francisco jo guards accused of making inmates flight in glad ator matches. the announcement was made against two deputies and one former deputy. the deputies forced inmates to fight each other for entertainment and gambled on the matches. a preliminary hearing for three deputy charged with killing an inmate. yesterday, graphic photos of michael reid were made public for the first time. the images shows the inmate's body hours after he was found beaten to death. and the deputies charged on his murder are out on $1.5 million bail. in san francisco, sacramento -- the health department issued an order to vacate last week. and throughout the morning, a number of agencies have been helping the homeless pack up their belongings. >> so far so good. everything has been going really well. the crews came out this morning at

12:00. and they're still on it. 80% of the encampment down here has been cleaned up and the goal is to achieve 100%. >> the public works department is steam cleaning the sidewalks. they're encouraging the homeless there to move to the shelter. a woman is recovering after she was struck by an ambulance in san francisco. a fire department spokesperson says the ambulance was responding to a medical emergency this morning when it hit a woman walking across the street. she suffered minor injuries and ten minutes earlier, a fire department vehicle was in a crash with a motorcycle on i-280. nobody was hurt. it's the biggest single day of voting in the nominating process for the presidential race. super tuesday is in full swing in several states. as -- they hope to raise doubts that -- >> voters are winding up at

polling stations in super tuesday on a record turn out. polls show donald trump with a significant lead over his opponents and most of the 12 states holding republican primary and caucuses. >> trump, 97%. >> there's people that won't ace supporting him, but they can't wait to vote for him. >> cruz believes he'll win his home state of texas hoping to make it a two-man race. >> what we'll see, what i believe is trump coming out both with a significant chunk of delegates. >> clinton is hoping to land a knockout blow to senator bernie sanders. sanders voted earlier this morning in his home state of vermont, but he's looking for more than votes today. >> the goal is to end up with as many delegates as we can. >> there's 859 delegates at stake for the democrats, but

polls shows clinton with a lead of 20 points or more in six southern states. she shifted to the general election. >> i will stand up and fight for you through this campaign no matter who the republicans nominate. >> clinton will have a really on march 15th. weijia jiang. eyewitness news. the presid a face-to-face meeting today with the senate republican leaders vowing to block his supreme court nominee. this was the first time the leaders met since scalia death. they want the president to fill the seats if the the democrats are urging the republicans to stop blocking president obama's efforts. >> all we want them to do is fill their constitutional duty,

and do their job. at this stage, they decided not to do that. >> that came the same day that scalia's family had a memorial in his honor. the familiar -- they included a will which the al qaeda leader claims he had $29 million in personal wealth and wanted the bulk used on jahadi. apple is fighting an order by the government to unlock the iphone of one of the san bernardino shooters. lawyers for the tech giant says creating a tool to unlock the phone will -- the fbi director believes it's unlikely to set a legal precedent. santa clara have -- a

buddhist monk wants to build a temple. complaint about noise and the size of the crowd has stalled the project. the new date hasn't been set for a vote. clearly 150 customers without power after a truck crashed into an electrical wire. they said they weren't surprised by the crash. this happened before two years ago. an suv plowed in that same house. supervisors in san francisco plan to vote on whether to raise the age to buy tobacco from age 18 to 21. it would apply to all tobacco products including e-cigarettes. it would -- still ahead, a frightening scene and it's caught on camera. a child falls out of a moving van in the middle of traffic. in a few hours, what's next

for astronaut scott kelly after spending nearly a year in space. >> he's been sending beautiful sunlight photos on twitter. thank you for that. we've been looking at the blue skies. the rain is coming. we're going to track the storms together as the news is coming on kpix 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

all caught on camera. it happened on a busy fr anghai over the a scary scene in china as a child falls out of a moving van and it's caught on camera. it happened on a busy freeway west of shanghai over the weekend. incredible. the rear door popped out and the young boy popped out. the toddler got up and was running towards the van. another driver picked up the 2-year-old and he was reunited with his grandfather driveing

the van. andrews is re-- andrews is suing the hotel after a guest secretly made nude videos of her and posted them on the internet. andrews told jurors how the videos have affected her relationship with her family. >> i was picking fights with my family and irritated. i would -- they said you need to talk to someone. i'm so screwed up. >> michael barrette spent two ae a half years in prison for recording the video. they say barrette is solely to blame. scott kelly is coming home tonight early today. he tweeted a number of photos from the iss showing his last sunrise while in space. nasa says kelly's

health held steady. once he's back at home, he'll conduct studies to determine --. starting today, some of your the sunday parks recognized destinations have new names. the awana hotel is the majestic yosemite hotels. curry village are getting new names. it stems from a dispute between the national park service and delaware north. the company that owns the rights to the name. it wants more than 50 million for the name and not everyone -- for the names and not everybody is happy. >> it doesn't make it right. >> john dodge remembers visiting the hotel during her wedding week end. she and her husband took a picture by the a sign after getting married in 1977. new at noon, state water officials completed the latest survey near south lake tahoe.

it's 83% normal. the water experts say the readings are the best they've been since march of 2011, but below the predictions of the so called godzilla el nino. >> more coming this weekend. people in the city are split about whether it's good or bad. kpxi christian airs explains. >>reporter: the article is featured in a magazine for australian airline. a shot lake merit and a headline makes oaklanders cringe. visit oakland ceo says the headline was shown on a slide at a tourism conference in san francisco last week. >> one of our teams took a snap shot of the screen and posted that to her facebook because she was so proud that oakland had made this big panel presentation at the state's conference. >> online, some people mistook it for a visit oakland campaign. >> it has nothing to do with visit oakland or the city of

oakland. >> the backlash begins. comments calling the headline insulting, horrible, stupid. city councilwoman brooks weighed in. oakland is magnificent and not the wild side. i didn't and don't approve. people we spoke to in oakland says there's truth to the headlines. >> you can take it the wrong way or it can be a wide side. >> visit oakland has its own campaign, but they say it's uniquely oakland. [ music ] >> a new video that made a splash at the tourism campaign. she gets why some people were offended. >> how we talked about oakland and promote oakland, it's important to all of us that that's a positive thing for all of our community. >> in oakland, christian airs, kpix 5. let's check with roberta on the weather. >> it's stunning. we had a --

we had record breaking temperatures. today, we have similar conditions. down a couple of degrees cooler. everyone is talking about the rain. gorge and dana. i want you to take a look here. 75 degrees. that would be right there. charlie, and charlie, what do you have to say from vallejo? a nice day for golf. it's nice for anything and ever. thing. look at this. i just heard frank. he go es, oh, boy. yeah. and we have a west wind at 12 miles-per-hour, temperature wise. we're into the 60s for the most part. 64 in san francisco. and typically the average high, 61. today, if you suffer from allergy, it's going to feel uncomfortable with a high pollen count. high clouds today. and mild temperatures and sun and clouds increase for your wednesday. we do have showers in the north bay

around 9:00. satellite and radar is interesting. we have this area of low pressure. it is a frontal boundary. it comes across the northwest section of the state. this air of low pressure, i'm really impressed because it has weak dynamics associated with it but it's going to cause a series of storms to move into the bay area. here's your future cast, and watch it. here's tonight's evening commute. a hit and miss shower near inverness. on wednesday, as we progressively go through your day, here's your evening. the rain showers pretty modest in the santa rosa area and across the golden gate bridge. a half of inch of rain could accumulate. a tenth of an inch in the santa clara valley. we're seeing lingering shower and a renegade shower for your friday. all in all, over the

next 6 to 10 days, we're expected 4 to 10 inches of rain. a foot of rain in the coastal ranges. tomorrow's temperature, 60s and 70s. with the rain on saturday, ones up to 40 miles-per-hour. we'll probably need hydro advisories for urban -- on saturday night. moderate to heavy rain on sunday and monday. >> it has been a while. >> it has been a while and we're going to smock to the sun. let's see how the market is doing today. look at that. >> that's great news. the d ow is up 331 points. >> yay! coming up, michelle dear and the fans here. details on an official shelter for the performing right here in the bay area, coming up. we want to invite all you pet lovers out there to answer questions about their health and their well-being. we'll have our pet expert give you an

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an igger venu some of you weren't able to get tickets in oakland paramount over the weekend. you're getting another chance and a much bigger venue. the singer announced this morning, he'll perform this friday march the 4th. tickets go on sale at 4:00

p.m. our time via ladmission.com. [ music ] >> big honor for the sounds -- they play on march 25th. they're the biggest act to play since 1959 revolution. the performance will come three days after president obama visits the country and the rolling stones calls the show a landmark event. ford is out with this year's list of the richest people in the world. bill gates remains at the top for the third year in a row. he has a net worth of $75 million. zara came in second followed by warren buffet. if you try to load up on more veggie's, broccoli could be a good option. >> [indiscernible] explains how to get the most out of the super food. >> this time of year, broccoli

is good, because it may get sweeter and it's nutritional values. let's start with a selection of storage. you want to make sure that green color is all the way around. a little purple is okay, but not too much. they cut them? stock. it ends and you have the crown of the broccoli. although a lot of people use that stock for broccoli sauce, sometimes you want the flowers. when you bring them home, store them in a plastic bag, but open up the plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator -- store them too long, the nutritional value will deplete. 200 vitamins for the day. this is a super fruit. i'm tony, your fresh grocer. if you love puppies, you're

going to love this. >> lots of puppies and it's a puppy explosion. these are sheep dogs. their mother gave birth to a record 17 puppies a couple of weeks ago. so many puppies to feed. neighbors pitched in to help out with the babies. as cute as they are, they're hard workers. they protect live stock and the owners of mom and dad said they're spoken for and they'll be petting their farms on their own soon. >> a remind, if you have a question, e-mail our hotline. you see it there. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

have a great afternoon. ============b r e a k ============== michelle, at 4:00, what are you going to be doing? >> i'm going to be in front of my computer trying to get tickets against oklahoma. >> i'm going with you. >> have a good day. >> bye, everybody.

>> wyatt: looks good on you. >> steffy: i can't wait to show it off. being engaged to the son of jewelry designer sure has its perks. >> wyatt: yeah? >> steffy: yeah. >> wyatt: you got that right. mom likes to say that i memorized gemstones before the alphabet. >> steffy: i know your mom's gonna freak out. >> wyatt: yeah. >> steffy: but in a good way, of course. >> wyatt: yeah, i would have called her last night, but i just -- i kind of want to tell her in person. >> steffy: yeah. um, actually, uh, you should know that i -- i called liam. he didn't answer, of course.