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live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. >> they survived a quake as big as the one in 1906, a biarea couple's terrifying experience in -- bay area couple's terrifying experience in the ecuador earthquake. >> crews are searching for survivors after the devastating 7.8 earthquake rattled the central coast of ecuador this weekend. more than 270 people are confirmed dead. more than 2,500 others are injured. kpix5's joe vazquez is in the newsroom with a bay area couple's story of survival in that quake. >> it's a couple from vallejo. they've been staying at a hotel on the pacific coast of ecuador. the hotel was damaged. they had to move to a nearby
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facility. they've experienced aftershocks throughout the day and described this entire ordeal as surreal. >> we're from the bay area. we fool earthquakes, but this was pretty intense -- feel earthquakes, but this was pretty intense. >> reporter: the couple is vacationing in san clemente on ecuador's west coast 20 miles from the epicenter of today's earthquake. here are some of their snapshots of the damage. >> a lot of things here are made of cement. the side walls have crumbled down. bricks have crumbled down on the size. >> reporter: they are healthcare professionals, she at ucsf, he as kaiser permanente. once it was over it was still dicey. >> we were really kind of scared because there was a tsunami alert. we didn't know how serious that was. we had no way to get out. we had no place to go. we had to go back to get our
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stuff. if the tsunami happened, i don't think we would have played it out. >> they are safe, but now coming back home will be a challenge for a while. the closest airport tower toppled over and many of the roads are closed. >> no surprise because the quake was the strongest ecuador has seen since 1979. we have the widespread damage and the race to find survivors in the rubble. >> reporter: with the daylight residents saw for the first time the full extent of the damage. near the epicenter in the pacific town of pedernales rescuers dug through crumbled concrete only to find lifeless bodies. the quake also claimed lives about 85 miles south in the coastal city of manta where today shaken residents surveyed the widespread damage. desperate workers tried digging with their bare hands to find survivors. three are alive and a girl is
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dead he said. last night onlookers cheered as this teenager was pulled from a crushed hotel in the city. this appear to be the moment the quake hit. customers in this store panicked as shock waves knocked items off the shelves and took out the electricity saturday night. people took refuge on the streets of the country's capitol. as far as 150 miles south of the epicenter the powerful quake caused buildings and roads in the city to collapse. first responders searched for survivors after a highway overpass buckled flattening cars. american brian bayer is a freelance journalist in ecuador. his apartment building was badly damaged when the quake hit. >> terror was my first emotion. i switched from a very casual mood to being in complete shock
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very quickly within seconds. on this night exactly 110 years ago we were spikes hours and seven minutes away from the earthquake that would turn most of san francisco into ash and rubble. 70 events are planned to remember april -- several events are planned to remember april 18th at 5:00 tomorrow morning the moment the quake stuck. were every. a shooting happened at the arco gas station on park street before 11:00 last knight. earlier in the day employees -- night. earlier in the day employees say the gunman painted graffiti on the gas station. they say he returned later at night. the employees told him to leave. he it, but the man came right back with a gun and shot two of their work mates in the parking lot. >> i heard the guy got shot in his leg and went this way and
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leo is holding his chest. i called 911. >> surveillance cameras didn't capture the shooting and police tell us one arrest has been made. a man was hit and killed on the shoulder of highway 101 this afternoon in san jose just north of allen rock avenue at about 4:15. the chp says the victim's vehicle broke down on the highway. as the driver got out to check out of the problem, another driver who told officers he had fallen asleep at the wheel sideswiped the car killing the man. chp officers say the driver then pulled over and called 911. no sign tonight of the two vallejo teen-agers swept out to sea off ocean beach. they were swept away in a rip current yesterday after wading in the choppy water with their friends. the coastguard said finding them alive is unlikely. despite warnings of the strong surf people hit the beach today. the crews patrolling say don't let your guard down.
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>> ocean beach is not a swimming beach. it's an extremely dangerous beach with a lot of currents and wetsch action. for kids it's really an -- wave action. for kids it's really an ankles only type place. >> ocean beach does not have active lifeguards on duty. if you're caught in a rip current, swim parallel to the shore. there is a plan to tear down an apartment building and reach place it with apartments and businesses, what some call an impossible challenge to find an affordable place to move to. >> reporter: kim brown and her neighbors refuse to leave quietly. in about a year all of them will have moved out of the reserve on winchester boulevard in san jose. can tear down the 200-unit complex and build 600 units with businesses. while the r sa n't be re >> kathy jones sold us out. >> reporter: but where they will be is a question many say they can't answer. >> every single day i wonder where i'm going to go. >> reporter: the reserve is rent controlled and kim and her neighbors say finding housing
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around the same price in the area seems almost impossible. >> i don't feel i should have to live like a college student as an adult, you know, in a room in somebody's home. >> reporter: they've got until may next year to move out so the owner can tear down the 200 unit complex and build 600 units with businesses. the new development won't be rent controlled, but it's part of the city's plan to build more housing, but the tenants say it doesn't matter. >> five years from now that will be great, but what are you doing about the 500 plus people being evicted? >> it's nice they're trying to renovate the city and all this, but we don't have anywhere to go. >> reporter: the renters are offered relocation packages, but many say it's simply not enough knowing they'll just be moving somewhere that's much more than they pay now. >> it's going to force me to live somewhere i don't want to live, somewhere i don't feel stay of or it's going to force me to move so -- safe or it's going to force me so far away
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i'm going to pay more in gas anyway. >> reporter: the refund includes refunding the tenant security deposit, but for some they say it's just $100, not enough for moving expenses. they are offering more money for those who make a certain income, but many say they simply don't qualify. on to campaign 2016, a lot of delegate are up for grabs in new york's primary tuesday and the presidential hopefuls are fighting hard for their support. we have the latest from brooklyn. be trailing hillary clinton by in the new york >> we're going to win this thing without being dependent on wall street or big money interests. >> reporter: democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders may be trailing hillary clinton by 10 points in the new york primary. that's the gap in the lead of the cbs news battleground poll. the vermont senator received a
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rock star welcome. the two candidates criss- crossed new york's five boroughs sunday. hillary clinton salsa danced in brooklyn heights and then campaigned on staten island. >> i am sick and tired of people who view our country through a negative lens. >> reporter: tuesday is crucial not only for the democratic candidates but the republican front runner. >> we have to win by big numbers because we have a system that's absolutely rigged. >> reporter: polls show donald trump holding a commanding lead in new york. a big win tuesday would give him the bulk of delegates and put him on the narrow path to the one thousand 237 he needs. brazil is one -- 120,037 he needs. brazil is -- 1,237 he needs. brazil is one step closer
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tonight to impeaching their presidency. rousseff's presidency has been tainted by an oil scandal as the country endures a crippling recession. police in london are looking for the person who slammed a drone into a british airways plane. the drone hit the front of the aircraft as it headed from switzerland to london's heathrow airport. 132 passengers and five crew members were on board. the plane landed safely at heathrow. engineers looked at the aircraft and cleared it for its next flight. it is 100 times stronger than heroin. >> a plan to protect californians from a deadly drug and what could stand in the way. >> how earthquake volunteers are getting as ready as they can. >> record heat in the bay area including the south about a, which is what we're looking at here, and now rain -- south bay, which is what we're looking at here, and now rain.
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southern california recycli yard. more than a dozen thick black smoke could be seen for miles from this fire at a southern california repsych lung yard. more than a dozen -- recycling yard. more than a dozen vehicles burned. it happened in sun valley. no one was hurt. in san jose crews fought off one of the first brushfires of the season. there are reports the fire started along a eucalyptus grove on coyote creek.
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a california bill to crack down on the distribution of the deadly drug fentanyl will likely come down to dollars and cents, kpix5's anne makovec with the roadblock to a proposal meant to save lives. >> reporter: the drug fentanyl has already killed at least 10 people in the sacramento area this year, many people thinking they're taking the painkiller norcross, but many people are taking fentanyl that's 100 times stronger than heroin. >> you can take a hot pill that might have a grain or two more of fentanyl in it and that could cause someone serious injury. >> reporter: the pills are being sold illegally. >> i had been prescribed norco for a good year or two. it was a really high percentage of people who started using from a medical condition. >> reporter: leaving otherwise upstanding citizens to turn to the black market when their
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bill runs out. a new bill would add three to 25 years of prison sentences to dealers. >> we want to get it off the street because nationwide it's become such a horrible thing. >> reporter: the san mateo district attorney spoke about the bill sunday morning. >> it brings fentanyl and cocaine in as the worst drugs that we're dealing with for addiction. >> monday as he hearing will be in front of the senate appropriations committee which analyzes the financial impact of the proposed legislation and the bill's author says that will be the tricky part. the more jail time criminals face for breaking the law, the more money it takes to keep them there. >> i think that's going to be the issue the legislature will wrestle with. there's a cost factor on the other side am from our side on the prosecutors, we -- side. from our side on the prosecutors, we like it. >> reporter: phone calls from opiate addicts have doubled. some relief today for pregnant women concerned about
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the zika virus, a top official from the national institute of health said there's been no local transmission of the virus in the united states but says that could change this summer when mosquito season gets into full swing. for now officials continue to urge pregnant women to stay out of countries where there are outbreaks. pennsylvania state capitol all lit up tonight in green because governor tom wolf signed a medical marijuana bill into law. wolf was greeted by cheering crowds. pennsylvania is now the 24th state to legalize medical marijuana. the u.s. military getting ready to join relief efforts in japan after two powerful earthquakes there. rescuers spent the weekend pulling survivors like this man from flattened buildings. the quakes killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds more. the first quake struck thursday night magnitude 6. if you've followed by a 7.3 -- 6.5 followed by a 7.3 early saturday. san francisco mayor ed lee
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offered his condolences to the victims of japan's quakes. >> people of japan have been very helpful whenever there's been big tsa earlies that happened here -- disasters that happened here. >> mayor lee extended thoughts and prayers to earthquake victims victims in ecuador. on the eve of the anniversary of san francisco's great quake it was time to practice for the next big one, kpix5's john ramos with how crews are getting ready to respond. >> reporter: for a lot of people at san francisco's marina green, the day started out as a complete disaster. >> thank you for coming to the drill today. >> reporter: welcome to the citywide neighborhood emergency response team program training day which was created after the earthquake where the neighborhood pitched in. >> it became chaotic and we said we've got the people
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willing to do it. now we just need to, on them, educate them. >> reporter: much -- need to organize them, educate them. >> reporter: much of today's education took place at a middle school where people waited in restrooms and classrooms for nert search and rescue teams to find them. team members had to assess danger, close off a gas line and shut off power upon entering. they worked on lifting heavy objects to free and evacuate an injured victim. back at the command center, a new innovation, command center monitoring twitter feeds from both rescue teams and the general public to better focus its resources. >> if you imagine 1989 today, you can kind of guess that the worst damage in the city will rise to the top fastest. >> reporter: the most predictable thing about a disaster is that no one can predict exactly what will happen, but a lot of lessons were learned after loma prieta and perhaps the most important one was this.
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>> generally people panic because they don't know what they're doing. i think after this experience we know what we're doing now. hopefully we can be helpful to others. on this night 110 years ago exactly there were a few scattered showers around the bay area. it was a cold april 17th when san franciscans went to bed with no clue that within a few hours at 5:12 in the morning there would be a moderate earthquake that woke some people up. it was felt throughout the bay area. it wasn't a big deal. then it was followed 15 seconds by playing dude 7.8, the largest quick that ever -- by a magnitude 7.8, the largest quick that ever shook the city. a distance 300 miles the earth broke and somehow within twitter or modern technology on that evening april 18th , 1906, newspapers across the country were able to report already that san francisco had first been flattened and then burned by the after effects of that
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magnitude 7.8 quake. this was the headline in cleveland in their final edition that night. this was the headline in the pittsburgh post saying earthquake and fire, hundreds dead. in three days by april 22nd it was reported the swirl of fire finally ending and hopes running high in san francisco, but to go back to that day, the afternoon of april 18th one of the most stunning is a view from russian hill of the city literally going up in flames and you see the expression on this woman's face? it's almost like they're having a party like that was a big one and it was and it will all happen again on a city that as we look at it live tonight seems just as tranquil as on
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that april night 110 years ago today. celebration tomorrow morning at 5:12 a.m. at latta's foundation as per usual, temperatures in the 60s in the bay with the exception of san jose at 70 degrees now, santa rosa 59. here's how it looks as we look down towards san jose, we set some record highs, santa rosa 84 degrees, san francisco 81 degrees, so not quite the cold weather and scattered showers they had then. we get one more warm day. things cool a little bit for monday. then by the time we head toward the end of the upcoming week it looks like it's finally going to get wet again. by friday it looks like showers. futurecast shows by thursday afternoon low pressure sets up off the pacific northwest and by friday showers overspread the bay area. meantime plenty of sunshine, temperatures well in advance of averages with readings mostly in the 80s, 80s in the south bay, mid-80s for the most part. in the east bay we start out with sunshine and finish with
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temperatures near 90 degrees at antioch and brentwood, north bay not quite that warm. low to mid-80s in the north bay, mid-80s from ukiah and windsor. more significant cooling tuesday, wednesday, thursday clouds leading to rain in the bay area on friday and saturday and sunday nobody is agreeing what's going to happen next weekend. what we can say is it does look wet friday. so have a good warm monday and be prepared. still ahead keeping thousands of runners safe, the all out effort to secure tomorrow's boston marathon. >> i'm dennis o'donnell. coming up next on gameday all sorts of questions like can the sharks win at home? >> we've got to have another story line here. >> how about this story line? will jeff play? >> it sucks to watch obviously, especially in playoffs.
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agents to secure the race route. 30,000 people are expected to run the 26-mile course with 1 million spectators along the way. backpacks have been banned. so have drones. the west palm beach zoo will reopen tomorrow after a deadly tiger attack. a tiger killed zookeeper stacey konwiser while she worked inside a big cat enclosure friday. zoo officials say she didn't appear to do anything out of the ordinary. still ahead own a tesla for a fraction of the normal cost, the model hitting the auction block. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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the fantasy film took in mo than 103-million dollars in its opening weekend. the jungle book got off to a roaring start at the box office. the fan is i film took in more -- fantasy film took in more than $103 million. second place was barbershop, batman versus superman, dawn of justice and zoo tomorrow why. a rare -- zootopia. a rare tesla edition went up for auction. >> it got the once over from elon musk himself. the car is up on ebay, starting bid $9,000. that's the starting bid. >> you take the front seat. i'll take the back. >> we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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everyone..welco me to gameday..i'm d better this is lexus' gameday on kpix5. >> good evening, everybody. welcome to gameday. i'm dennis o'donnell. the a's fared better against the world champs than the giants did against the division champs, reaction from the a's clubhouse upcoming. >> at what point will the conversation begin regarding the possibility of two bay area world champions at the same time. but we begin with the warriors who virtually everyone on the planet with the exception of maybe charles barkley expects golden state will be final bound. that's if and i mean if steph
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curry stays healthy. the warriors put a 26 point beatdown on the houston rockets yesterday in game one of the opening series, but did it come at a cost? steph curry tweaked his ankle in the 2nd quarter and didn't play much after halftime. as benign as the injury appeared to be, everyone holds their breath when he has issues with that ankle. he had a couple surgeries the first few years in the league, but since he's been fine. will he be fine for game two tomorrow? here's knack knack. >> reporter: as soon as media members walked into -- here's andrea nakano. >> reporter: as soon as media members walked into the room, his status for monday's game has not changed. >> it sucks to watch, especially in the playoffs. you want to be out there playing. i'm like a kid in timeout on the bench. right now you don't see a sc
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