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a children's charity targeted by thieves, the famous bay area sports item they
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live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. and it's all ca now at 11:00 stealing from charity, thieves ransacked the office of make a wish and it's all caught on camera. good evening. i'm brian brian hackney. -- brian mack any. >> i'm juliette goodrich. the search is on for those who stole things meant to benefit sick children. joe vazquez is live now >> reporter: officials with the make a wish foundation tell me the burglars broke into their headquarters here through the emergency exit. dren ... kids battling diseases who come here to ma wish come true. this is the he batkid phenomenon ... the video surveillance shows two people going up the back share case, one wearing a -- staircase, one wearing a hat, another a hoodie. the person in glasses appears to urge on the other. they finally go up the staircase and ransack the san francisco offs of the make a
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wish foundation -- offices of the make a wish foundation. >> there's photos of the children all over everywhere you look. how they could come in here and do this, i just don't understand. >> reporter: this is the office that launched the batkid phenomenon, the child whose dream to be a superhero enraptured this city. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: giants outfielder hunter pence donated his beloved scooter to make a wish, the one that was stolen outside the embarcardero restaurant. >> i feel a lot of love from the city. >> reporter: a charity donor recently won it at auction for $40,000, but before she could receive it it was ripped off again. >> i'm just absolutely devastated to see that the scooter that hunter pence donated to us was stolen. >> reporter: the thieves spent an hour upstairs, then descended the staircase. the one in glasses carried the scooter, the other lugging bags of other donated auction items.
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>> i don't understand what you did. we're all so disappointed. please return the scooter to us. please return the auction donations that you stole so we can make some money and continue to do some good in the world. >> reporter: patricia wilson is the executive director. she tells me she has spoken with hunter pence and he is as appalled as she that is anyone would commit a crime like this. joe vazquez, kpix5. the man at the center of a bizarre legal saga is heading to federal court tomorrow. stanislav petrov was beaten by alameda sheriff's deputies in november and it was caught on camera as you can see. afterward he claim the deputies stole his necklace and gave it to a homeless couple. friday he was arrested in an fbi raid for guns and drugs in visitacion valley, but hours before the fbi came knocking that day there was a shooting at the same apartment. a san mateo man reported missing last week was found dead. the body was identified as 39-
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year-old michael shaffer, no word on the cause of death or where the body was found. police are asking for the public's help to find a group of vandals terrorizing a san leandro group who has shot out the windows of at least 125 vehicles running up $65,000 in damage. they've also taken aim at people injuring at least two. >> one of the people were hit in the arm and had to have the bb surgically removed out of the arm. another man in front of a church on bancroft avenue was shot in the head which caused injury to him. >> police say the suspects were driving a silver toyota 4runner. they say it has all terrain tires and is missing a gas cap. for dozens of usf students it was supposed to be one last get-away before classes started again, but just before they made it to lake tahoe this happened. their bus blew a tire and burst into flames yesterday morning on interstate 80 in placer county. luckily all 40 students who
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were on board got off the bus safely. the commute is changing for cal tran riders tomorrow. the transit agency is adding a third bike car on some of its trains allowing up to 72 bikes on board during rush hour. bicycle advocates say the change could mean fewer cars on the road, but, of course, more bikes. ng its timetable slightly.. schedule acc >> this is a win for everybody, not just bicyclists. it means that if folks can use a trine with their bikes, they aren't -- a train with their bikes, they aren't going to be on the roads clogging the streets. >> al transwill -- caltrans will improve it's schedule on accuracy slightly. b.a.r.t. will continue to run shuttle trains from pittsburg bay point to north concord martinez. the mass transit agency tested that stretch of rail yesterday and it's still not ready for full service. the portion of the track was shut down due to voltage spikes damaging trains. tomorrow governor jerry brown is set to make history making california the first state to raise the minimum wage
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to $15 an hour. the wage hike will happen gradually over the next six years. the measure does include a caveat allowing the governor to suspend increases during economic downturn or budget deficits. he said the boost is necessary to help thousands of california families. ve >> those who earn the least do need more. they're going to pay for housing and food and maybe college for their kids. >> governor brown made the comments while in oakland today promoting a ballot initiative that would help place convicts into the workforce after they're released from prison. investigators are working to figure out what caused the deadly train derailment outside philadelphia. cbs reporter kris van cleave spoke to some of the survives. >> reporter: federal investigator -- survivors. >> reporter: federal investigators are gathering evidence. amtrak said its train 89 was traveling from new york to savannah, georgia, when it struck a back low on the
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tracks. >> then there was a fire, a window bursted out and it was a bunch of dust everywhere. >> reporter: the train was packed with 341 passengers. nearly three dozen people were taken to area hospitals. their injuries were described as not life threatening. >> we have two deceased, but they were not passengers on the train. >> reporter: the accident lawsuited service along a -- halted service along a portion of the heavily traveled northeast corridor on one of the railroad's busiest travel days. >> we have the data recorder. the forward and inward facing video. >> reporter: residents who live nearby heard the commotion and ran outside to see what happened. >> i can't imagine somebody's husband, father, brother going to work maybe last night and to know that they won't come home today. >> reporter: passengers were evacuated from the train and taken by bus to the amtrak station in philadelphia. the derailment comes almost a year after another amtrak train jumped the tracks in philadelphia. eight people died in that crash. families rushed to the scene and embraced their loved ones. kris van cleave, cbs news,
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chester, pennsylvania. following campaign 2016 now it's down to the we're for the presidential hopefuls in wisconsin -- wire for the presidential hopefuls in wisconsin. with the primaries just two days away brian webb says the two frontrunners have some catching up to do. >> reporter: at a campaign rally in wisconsin donald trump said it's time for john kasich to get out of his way. >> you shouldn't be littering up the process. that's what he's doing. it's really a disgrace. i'll tell you. >> reporter: kasich tweeted that's not how a republic works, donald. we'll keep fighting till somebody reaches a majority of delegates. ted cruz made several stops in wisconsin sunday insisting he's the republicans' best shot at winning the white house. >> nominating donald trump would be a trainwreck. that's not fair to trainwrecks. >> reporter: a cbs news battleground ground tracker
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tracker poll shows ted cruz ahead of kasich and the same poll shows ted cruz ahead of hillary clinton. >> the truth is there is nothing we cannot accomplish. >> reporter: clinton campaigned in new york ahead of the april 19th primary. brian webb for cbs news. hillary clinton campaigned in new york and bill clinton was in california making this stop in los angeles on behalf of his wife addressing the crowd of union workers. he said california has been uncommonly good to his family. the event was held on the campus of the los angeles trade technical college. earlier in the day bill clinton and daughter chelsea were here in the bay area hosting a global initiative conference at uc berkeley. afterward they led a day of community service with students in oakland. they planted, painted and got their hands dirty. clinton said the day was a reminder that real change happens at the grassroots level. still ahead a new look at
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california's bullet train project, the real work happening right now. officers chase why one lawmaker is crying foul on the big budget plan. >> it was enough to stop traffic, officers chased down a run-away chihuahua on the bay bridge. so it's high tailing it to san francisco. >> have you heard about what's happening on wednesday? it's pretty amazing and we'll have the details when we cover the forecast after a break. ,,,,,,,,,,
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california's high speed rai tomorrow senator bob huff will urge a committee to re busted budgets and broken promises is how one state senator describes california's high speed rails. tomorrow senator bob huff will urge the committee to reject the latest business plan submitted to the state legislature. it has a plan to link the valley to the central valley instead of linking los angeles to san francisco. we've seen animation of that project for years but tonight something new. kpix5's wilson walker shows us high speed rail is already happening in the central valley. hen you're launching the la tructure project in >> what i would say, you've got to start somewhere and the central valley is a good place to start. >> reporter: this is true when you're launching the largest public infrastructure project in the united states, you have to start somewhere and somewhere is the edge of downtown fresno. >> in the fresno area there's about eight to 10 overcrossings that are being constructed to reroute roads over or under the
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high speed rail alignment. >> reporter: about 4 miles away highway 99 is getting moved 100 feet to the west to make room for future tracks. to build infrastruc something about half an hour to the north just east of madeira you'll see something that really does look like the makings of a train project. >> there's this really cool infrastructure going on where you've got the columns and the pilings in the ground and now this guideway the train will run over. >> reporter: there are now about a half dozen work sites in this stretch in the valley, the first in a long line of so- called construction packages that will eventually be stitched together between san francisco and los angeles. >> so we'll have about 120 miles of construction underway here in the valley by the end of this year, 2016. >> reporter: but no matter how much the state digs in the opposition isn't going away. >> i guess what you might call a slow motion trainwreck. the only question at this point is how far do they go before
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they stop? >> reporter: attorney stewart flashman went to court to stop high speed rail, but he's hardly an anti-tax anti infrastructure guy. in fact, he believes in big public projects. >> there's infrastructure and there's infrastructure. if you're going to have building infrastructure, it's got to be infrastructure that does something useful, not digging holes in the desert. >> reporter: flashman thinks design and funding questions will overwhelm the project long before it's ever really finished. >> i wasn't quite sure where the hell we're going to get the rest of the money, but don't worry about it. >> this project is going to fail and when it fails, everybody in california will be turned off to the idea of high speed rail and say oh, no, we tried that. that's a disaster. we're not going to do that. >> we needed a long straight stretch to start testing trains. >> reporter: as director of design of high speed rail in california, he knows there are plenty of skeptics and unanswered questions, but he's also convinced the state is on
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the right track. >> if you look at what's going on and what's going to happen in the next two or three years, you'll stand back and go wow. >> reporter: the california high speed rail authority was established in 1996 and 20 years later we finally have something that exists as more than an idea, right? you can actually point to this and say here comes high speed rail. now this leg of the project without any problems is set to roll in about the year 2029. so maybe it's best we call all of this the end of the beginning. in madeira county, wilson walker, kpix5. >> the current estimated price tag for the project is now $64 billion. this head from a serra stat was found yesterday. it was . junipero serra lost his heads some months ago. this weekend it washed ashore on the monterey surf. it was discovered at low tide along the coastline at monterey bay. investigators say it belongs to this statue of june pharoah serra at the -- junipero serra
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at the monterey bay. shortly after pope francis made serra a saint and it literally surfaced this weekend. a wild chase on the bay bridge and tonight the suspect is in the doghouse literally. kpix5's mark kelly explains. >> he was running into the city and didn't want anything to do with us. >> reporter: late or just lost? we can't say, but we do know this 10-pound chihuahua was no easy chase for chp. >> running and the little guy was going and he wasn't stopping. >> reporter: officer lou williams said the hot pursuit lasted about five minutes, but the little black dog brought 7 a.m. traffic to a halt and with no paw cuffs in the squad car catching him required officers to get a little creative. >> they don't really teach you this stuff at the academy. i had to use my jacket to distract him. the motor officer came up and took him into custody. >> reporter: chp says once they got the little guy off the
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bridge they noticed he had no id, so they had no choice but to take him downtown. >> he was angry. he was not happy to see us. >> reporter: the chihuahua has likely ran his last bay bridge sprint. he'll be spending his days with san francisco animal care and control until his owner bails him out. >> it's never dull around here. >> reporter: in san francisco mark kelly, kpix5. >> well, the chp says it's a good reminder to get your pet microchipped or the very least tagged. san francisco's rock and roll half marathon today drew more than 9,000 runners ending their 13.1-mile trek near city hall. they raced near the most famous city sites and ran across a stretch of the golden gate bridge. there's a lot of different ways of measuring the drought as rainfall totals, snow, all that sort of thing, but here's another way. they built folsom dam in 1955,
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holds 1 million-acre feet of water. it was so low at the height of the drought you could see mormon island, the submerged town when they filled the dam 1955, so it was very, very low. today the parking lot at folsom lake is flooded. that's good news and one sign of how much water we've gotten in the bay area this year. the bay bridge and numbers now, concord 56 degrees, livermore 52, san francisco 54, san jose 55 degrees, santa rosa 51, still mild monday, but big changes coming. tuesday the numbers begin to really climb. by wednesday we'll be in the low 90s inland, record highs for the bay area midweek. you won't know it heading out the door tomorrow, might even be drizzle along the shoreline in the early going heading back to work monday, but later in the week you'll be able to feel it as low pressure gets shunted
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to the north. high pressure over southern california begins to send a ridge straight over the bay area, so monday is mild. tuesday warms. it will be downright hot on wednesday and on futurecast we have just a whisker of low clouds tomorrow morning and stay that way through thursday, hardly a puff of low cloudiness as we establish an offshore flow and dramatically warmer temperatures by wednesday. tomorrow very nice. temperatures come up about 5 degrees, a few low cloud around -- clouds around -- clouds around, not much. 68 yosemite, 61 degrees lake tahoe, san francisco tomorrow a little above average, concord well above average, mid-70s tomorrow. san jose 73, oakland 71, do it by the numbers for monday, looks nice, mid-70s in the south bay, plenty of sunshine
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there and in the east bay as well. 680 corridor numbers in the mid- 70s, a little bit warmer for antioch and pittsburg, north bay nice after low cloud burn off, chilly near the shoreline at bodega bay, 61 degrees, 70 at petaluma. warming up in ukiah 73, 74 windsor. the extended forecast, record heat midweek a possibility as numbers go from 70 five inland tomorrow -- 75 inland tomorrow to 82 tuesday to 92 wednesday and thursday we begin to cool it down. friday there's a chance of showers come in. look at how the numbers drop in one day between thursday and friday, drop like a set of car keys out there. mean time we've got sunshine and plenty of it. back... in honor of autism awar to san jose now where some people were breaking a sweat while giving back in honor of autism awareness month. the fitness studio lift offered donation classes today. all the proceeds from bar and spin classes will go towards
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the charity autism speaks. the fitness studio has launch lift gives, a monthly initiative that will benefit different causes. >> the studio is sort of surprised of this idea of lifting your body both physicality but then lifting a heart, a place that when you come in and leave, you feel good about what you did, you feel good about yourself. so lift gives is an opportunity for us to do that for people that don't walk through the studio. >> the next lift gives event will support a charity that helps domestic violence victims. team hosted -- and beat -- e the warriors also showed their support tonight. oracle arena was lit up in blue for autism awareness as the team hosted and beat the portland trail blazers. still ahead ticket sales for the summer olympics lagging, what may be keeping fans away and how officials in rio plan to get people on board. >> reporter: at the bottom of the hour after the newscast it is gameday from oracle arena where the warriors try to run
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the blazers out of the gym tonight, highlights and reaction on this one, baseball preview for the a's and the giants. jake peavy from the giants, the new relief pitcher for the oakland a's, all that and more on gameday, bottom of the hour. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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wambach was arrested in pord just after two o'clock this
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mo retired u.s. soccer star abby wambach has been charged with dui. she was one of the most decorated u.s. soccer players in the world having clinched two olympic gold medals and a world cup title. four months before the olympics in rio brazil has a big problem. only half the tickets are sold. fear about the zika virus appear to be cutting into sales and doesn't help the brazilian economy is on the brink of collapse. the government is actually thinking about buying the remaining tickets and giving them to public school children. "tony hawk" and fellow pro skaters took over soma's skt afternoon. it when san francisco was the prize for skaters, fellow pro skaters took over the skatepark this afternoon as part of a fundraiser for hawks foundation which builds skateparks in low income community and, in fact, had a hand in building this park. >> i think skateboards are vastly important because it
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gives the kids a sense of belonging. it gives them a place to really hone their skims, find other like minded people -- skills, find other like minded people and build a community. >> since 2002 the tony hawk foundation has helped build nearly 600 skateparks countrywide. next who won big at tonight's acm awards in vegas. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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country music awards" includ some big-name acts, includi this duo: dolly parton and katy perry sing it was country music's
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biggest night. >> there were some big name acts including this duo. ♪ jolene jolene jolene i'm begging of you ♪ . >> country lend dolly parton -- legend dolly parton teaming up with katy perry singing renditions of parton classics. jason aldean won entertainer of the year. chris stapleton won album of the year and best male vocalist and miranda lambert took home the win for the best female vocalist. we will be right back. ♪ i don't understand how you could easily take my man but you don't know what it means to me jolene ♪ ,,

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