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>> reporter: hundreds of people are here right now. that's for sure. the trump administration has now -- has to fight this temporary hold put on the travel ban but the anger about how it has been executed is steady. trump took to twitter today calling the ruling out of washington state a terrible decision. this latest temporary ruling applies nationwide and discredits any authority president trump's immigration ban held. >> nothing about the executive order is being implemented directly. >> reporter: this is an immigration lawyer in oakland and says today is quite and calm at sfo. >> yesterday a federal court in the state of washington suspended the ban. >> the volunteers behind me are calling all the airlines to make sure they know what's going on and getting their position like their statement are they allowing, you know, individual travelers to board planes that might have been affected by the executive order. >> reporter: at city hall,
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there's a louder presence. [ yelling ] >> reporter: members of the san francisco [ indiscernible ] like this person aren't amused. >> the hillary people and all that are acting like three- year-olds throwing a temper tantrum. and, you know, they need to be given a very long time-out. >> reporter: epstein says he supports immigration but he believes this is a safety issue. he also says that perhaps president trump could have implemented the travel ban more smoothly. >> frankly, i think it could have been executed better. i think a little warning to some of the people that would have been better so everybody would have been on the same page. >> reporter: all he wants is for these people to give president trump a chance. >> i would like that all these people who are going nuts throwing temper tantrums to give him six months to see what happens. >> reporter: and we just learned about a half-hour ago that the trump administration is fighting this temporary ruling and filed an appeal in san francisco at the ninth circuit court of appeals.
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live from city hall, jackie ward, kpix 5. i feel like me even just coming here is a good stand for the youth that are against the ban. >> crowd of hundreds showed up in castro valley today for the opening of congressman eric swalwell's new district office which usually doesn't gather a big crowd but swalwell says that a lot of the people are just venting anger and frustration. >> a lot of people here marched at the women's march and they are asking what can we do next? so we are directing that positive energy to make sure that this isn't just a one off that we continue to unite resist and reclaim. >> tonight uber's ceo travis kalanick says he is buying up plane tickets for drivers stranded outside the country on top of that the company has set up a $3 million legal fund to help drivers with immigration
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and translation services. over the past week more than 200,000 people have deleted their uber accounts after some claim the company tried to profit off a travel ban taxi strike at jfk last week. others were upset that kalanick was advising the president a role he has since stepped down from. meanwhile tesla's ceo he could is defending his participation on president trump's economic advisory council. some think he may be trying to help his own business but he says he is doing good-bye advising the president. he says during a meeting yesterday he nudged white house officials to talk about the travel ban and he also raised the issue of climate change directly with president trump. more on the president's first 100 days coming up including how a senate confirmation of his supreme court pick could impact high-profile cases in california. outspoken breitbart editor milo yiannopoulos is going to return to cal in the next few months to give the speech
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rioters shut down earlier this week. and students told our da lin today he should be allowed back under certain conditions. >> reporter: a part of sproul hall is still covered in plywood and before the university can put up the replacement windows milo yiannopoulos posted on his facebook today he is planning to come back to uc-berkeley to give his speech. >> i'm not surprised at all. he is a self-proclaimed internet troll. >> most of this is a publicity stunt. >> reporter: his wednesday speech was canceled after rioters broke out. >> he is here to stir things up and i don't think we should indulge him. let him come and give his speech quietly because if he is denied he can play the victim and get more publicity. >> reporter: some disagree with him but say he should be able to come back. >> we are not a community that wants to stop anyone's first amendment. so i think it's a great chance to redeem ourselves. >> reporter: one student says given the rioting, his return is just too risky.
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>> they should definitely shut it down because even though we do have free speech, if it's causing violence to occur, that's putting people's life, like, at risk. >> reporter: this republican student is grad milo is coming back. he helped organize the initial visit. >> i find it very admiral. he is our symbol for free speech across the nation going from college to college. >> reporter: he says the university and campus state police to do a much better job for the next visit. >> i was with milo and walked with him to the balcony. they were throwing firecrackers and bricks at us. >> reporter: the students say the violence is unacceptable and hope the return will have a different outcome. >> a little more targeted effort to recognize members of this anarchist group and keep them from joining so the students can protest peacefully. >> reporter: milo has not announced the date for the return but says it will be sometime within the next few months. as for the university, they released a statement late this afternoon saying they can't
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stop student organizations from inviting speakers to campus. live at uc-berkeley, i'm da lin, kpix 5. since wednesday's riots preorders for milo's new book are number one on amazon's best- seller list. a san francisco sheriff deputy is accused of giving her department issued gun to a former inmate and is under arrest then making a fraudulent insurance claim that it had been stolen. 52-year-old deputy april myres is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy. her boyfriend antoine fowler was arrested thursday in oakland with the missing gun in his car. prosecutors say the two began a relationship after meeting last year while fowler was being detained at a san francisco jail. well, let's switch topics to the more savory issue of weather. scattered showers around the bay area [chuckling] today, some heavier than others. crowd got caught in a cloud burst in san francisco where the rain came down pretty good
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for a while. right now no rain. we have clouds in the post sunset hours here at the bay area. we'll dry out overnight. but more is on the way. there is another storm. the first one will produce rain and snow in the pacific pacific and rain in the bay area but not until tomorrow night. and the kpix 5 hi-def doppler showing not much here we have to go up north to find out where it is coming down and that's what's going to be spreading south and as it spreads south the rain in the bay area becomes snow in the mountains. above 6,000 feet they will get 6 to 10 inches at tahoe and a foot and a half at the sierra crest so of course if you are heading to the hills you could be slowed down n terms of how much and when does the rain move in? we'll have that in the forecast in just a few minutes but first juliette? >> san francisco's second largest park just became a lot safer for people passing through it. maria medina shows us starting today bikers and pedestrians no longer have to share the busy roads through mclaren park with speeding cars.
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reporter: it's been years in the making. >> congrats, everybody! >> reporter: today, a victory that brought out city, county and community leaders out into the rain to celebrate a street. >> wahoo! >> reporter: you see, what you're looking at right now is history. bicyclists and pedestrians using this side of manziel street near mclaren park for the first time ever without sharing the road with cars. >> if you wanted to cross over, you really better run for it. >> reporter: linda lives nearby and has driven on the road for the past four decades. she took issue with the 45-mile- per-hour speed limit for drivers who would gas it past pedestrians and bicyclists. >> everybody speeded up from one end to the other like a freeway. >> reporter: near the park? >> near the park. it was like get through this park as fast as you can. >> reporter: in the last five years the "chronicle" reports eight crashes on the street as well as a deadly hit-and-run.
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>> this road that we're on was dangerous. cars are driving 40, 50 miles an hour through here. >> reporter: but several years, a lot of work and $7 million later this side is shut to drivers and is now a pedestrian and bike path. >> and it's going to take a lot of time for some of the drivers to get used to the slower speeds. but i'm already seeing it myself. it was like a miracle. >> reporter: a makeover on manziel street that many say will save lives. in san francisco, maria medina, kpix 5. >> the majority of the money to pay for the renovation came from vehicle and gas taxes. a very different scene at a public park in the east bay where police are investigating a suspicious death. pleasant hill police responded to reports of a man lying in a field at roger smith park this morning and when they arrived, they found out the man was dead. so far investigators have not released his name or what they think killed him but he doesn't appear to be the victim a crime. ♪[ music ] a symbol of hate carved
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into a bay area hillside. tonight the town trying to figure out who did it and why. >> plus, thousands of prospective parents left in limbo after a nationwide adoption agency based in the bay area goes belly up. >> this is just a big rechargeable battery on steroids. >> and how tesla is feeding the power grid with battery farms. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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hillside. they found a giant swastika -- scrawled in the dirt by a community center spri police in danville are looking for the vandals who carved a symbol into a hillside. a found a swastika carved into the dirt by a community center on fountain springs circle. >> shame on you for this. but in fact, um, it's -- it's, um, something that does cause pain for a lot of people. and, um, we want to be pro- active and trying to do our best to find out what happened
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and why. >> the vice mayor says the town is taking serious action to find out who is responsible. a nationwide adoption agency based in concord abruptly closed its doors this week leaving hundreds of would- be parents without children and without answers. we spoke with a couple caught in the middle. >> reporter: these are precious moments for the jenson family. jim and his wife spent a decade trying to make a family. jim says it was like christmas morning when they adopted two- day old alex six years ago. they used independent adoption center and had success everything was smooth. they had been on the list for three years waiting to give alex a sibling. >> there's so many kids out there who need a family. we have a lot of love to give. and we just want to complete our family. >> reporter: then unexpected devastation. this week they closed. >> it's horrible devastating
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heartbreaking a roller coaster and sometimes you just still can't believe it's really happening. >> reporter: they ceased operations in eight states with 1900 clients at various stages of adoption. >> haven't really any notice. >> reporter: jim and candy had invested about $15,000 and now the money is gone all of their important documents for alex and the potential adoption are now locked behind closed doors. >> they have our records of all of the shots, all his -- everything about him they have. his social security number all that. >> reporter: chaos and uncertainty for this tracy family and hundreds of others. >> we have nothing. we have nothing. >> reporter: christa from the bay area brought home her adopted baby two months ago. she is only through the first of six post-adoption steps to make it legal. >> we don't want anything to jeopardize our adoption. >> reporter: families holding
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tight to what they can. >> we'll continue to follow this. many families in the process of adopting for years are out of thousands of dollars. experts say they will now likely have to start over from square one. bart could start naming its stations after big businesses and, of course, it's all about the money. "the examiner" reports the transit agency is looking into corporate sponsorship of its stations to raise revenue. it's not clear how the naming would work exactly. probably they will name a station and get paid for it. the idea came up last week at a board of directors workshop. for now on it's just tesla. after 13 years they are shortening the motors part of the name and just tesla now. they branch out beyond electric cars. one area where tesla is expanding pouring homes. tina patel on the how the company's new battery farms are giving california's power grid a boost. >> reporter: these large white boxes he don't look like much but southern california edison says they could change the way
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homeowners get their energy in the future basically high-tech batteries. >> think about it as your cell phone. you plug your cell phone in to charge it. you use it. that little battery in there discharges and then you have to recharge it again. this is just a big rechargeable battery on steroids. >> reporter: the lithium ion batteries units were designed by tesla to help southern california edison take advantage of its renewable energy sources. now solar power generated during the day can be stored and used after the sun goes down. >> it's technology that wasn't there before. and we're now ready to deploy it where it's needed locations where it works. >> reporter: like this substation in ontario. the nearly 40 units here can hold enough of a charge to power 15,000 homes for 4 hours from the 400 units. tesla fast tracked the facility after leaks caused the shutdown a gas storage facility. >> from the day that they broke ground to getting it online by the end of last year was 88 days. >> we are clearly taking the
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lead not just on renewable energy but on battery storage as well. >> another big bay area tech company is celebrating a big birthday. facebook is officially a teenager today. mark zuckerberg and three other cofounders launched the social media site on february 4, 2004 on the campus of harvard university. back then it was the facebook. 13 years later facebook has grown to 1.9 billion users around the world. i know one co-anchor who can't live without it. shall be nameless. [ laughter ] >> i did not like that. >> not you. no, no. as we have a look at lake lagunitas, the spillway past to the smallest of the oldest of the reservoirs that marin county gets its local water supply from. and it is flowing fully today. so much so that they had to dump water out the spillway. as we look live toward the bay bridge, numbers around the bay area right now:
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the low pressure off the pacific northwest two low pressure system double-barreled lows will spread rain tomorrow night. we get away with much of sunday being mostly cloudy. we'll get a few peeks at the sun like we did before sunset tonight before clouds increase later in the day leading to rain over much of the bay area. after dark tomorrow for the most part. hi-def doppler anything out there? not really as the afternoon goes on. we just showed you we scoot up to the north coast. that's where they are getting the trinity mountains picking up a little bit of snow up there at the higher elevations and rain on the shoreline. winter storm watches posted at the sierra above 6,000 feet for tomorrow night through monday night. heavy blowing snow six to ten inches in tahoe and 18" over the crest on donner pass. travel delays will be possible. as per usual. on the futurecast you can see we have south bay doesn't look bad tomorrow before a shield of
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high clouds comes in after sunrise, then here comes the rain by this time tomorrow night. we'll expect showers during the newscast at 6 p.m. on sunday. i trust you will be tuning in to see the latest on the hi-def doppler. it will dry out overnight tonight. do you want the super bowl or hi-def doppler? no-brainer of the mostly cloudy for most of sunday and the rain will republican by tomorrow night. -- the rain will return by tomorrow night. winds out of the south to 30 miles an hour. and then for the hub check heading to atlanta:
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>> so it will look wet eventually for sunday. break on monday some lingering showers more rain on tuesday. wednesday we get mostly cloudy skies. thursday we get more rain. and then we'll finally begin to clear out as we head toward the weekend. so be prepared. there's more rain on the way but tomorrow night. now for the latest in sports, i believe, we have mr. glenn. >> great. >> coming up, still to come, car companies racing to snap up silicon valley startups but we have learned autonomous technology is only part of what's driving them. >> anybody feel like partying? come on! come on! anybody! hey, there was plenty of that on the maple pavilion floor last night. and that feeling carried over into today. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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but one ad will be a little different. hing a new car, you will see a lot of car commercials during the super bowl tomorrow but one ad will be different. instead of burning a new car ford is pushing its plan for the future instead of pushing a new car. betty yu reports.
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♪[ music ] >> reporter: ford's 2017 super bowl commercial has nothing to do with a flashy new car or truck. >> ford is developing new ways to help you move through life. >> reporter: it's about the automaker's vision for the future. a world in which people will get around easier and faster using ford's new technologies and services. that means ridesharing, electric cars, bike sharing and self-driving cars. the 90-second spot airs before kickoff and features a san francisco-based chariot. >> ford is thinking about the bigger picture and thinking down the future. >> reporter: he is cofounder and ceo of chariot. a ridesharing app and service that uses crowdsourced routes. ford recently bought the 2-year- old startup. >> ford is an american icon. they are a global icon really. and they have already in these four short months been able to provide us a tremendous amount
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of resources. >> reporter: what started as a 12-person team has grown to 40 in the office. by the end of the year, chariot plans to expand to eight cities and double its fleet to more than 250 chariots in san francisco alone. >> it enables us to differentiate our products in the marketplace. we look at it as a way to enhance the ownership experience or the riding experience. >> reporter: ford may be headquartered in detroit. but it found a home in silicon valley. its center in palo alto is dedicated to all things tech. this division has seen so much growth in the last year ford is expanding to two buildings across the street moving in, in the fall. they are not the only one buying silicon valley startups. general motors bought a company which makes self-driving car software. >> this makes sense for established companies especially ones from outside of silicon valley who want a toe hold here. >> we are going further so you
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can. >> reporter: in ford's case, it's all about trying to go further faster. >> i think one of the reasons they acquired us was here was this scrappy startup with very limited funding and we had to figure out how to source vehicles, insurance, live tracking, ticketing platforms and we were able to do that in less than two years. and so we provide ford a head start. >> reporter: in san francisco, betty yu, kpix 5. >> no matter what happens during the super bowl tomorrow, you will never see a "hail mary" longer than that one. astronauts threw this epic pass right up the gut of the international space station in honor of the big game. not a bad pass. when you factor in the speed of the orbit the ball traveled about 564,000 yards. good luck beating that, mr. brady. >> long after we're gone i predict there's going to be a domed stadium on the moon and
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it will cost $100,000 if you want to see the game and it will be a little floating hotels. >> way down the road. >> it will be so far off. like the jetsons. >> finally. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> crazy. we have some college basketball up for you top. i know that we're in a tvs rating period. the needle was definitely moving right around campus last night at stanford. first of all, tara vanderveer showered with confetti after a stanford team last night locked in vanderveer's career win 1000. 58-42 over visiting usc. get this. she is only the third division i coach to crack the 1,000 win club joining the late great pat summitt of tennessee and duke's mike krzyzewski. and according to coaches mom rita, finally. it was about time! >> she came out to go to a concert and she stayed with a friend and the friend has to leave tomorrow to go to atlanta for a family situation. and so my mom was like i want to be staying with you until you get this 1,000 so i told the team, let's get it! [ laughter ] >> you know? i love my mom but she's got things to do and i got things
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to do! so mom you can go homele -- so mom, you can go home tomorrow. >> here's the coach back at maples watching the men in silver defending against utah. kyle made it look easy. utes up 4 with 8.5 left. tied at 60, corner pocket three gave the cardinal the lead. pinkins had 14. the lead 6 now with 4 minutes left travis a pivot machine scored a game-high 26. stanford won 81-75. 4-7 now in pac-12 play. diego today was a day at the beach. first half th-ranked gaels the shores of san diego ... hm! look what saint mary's did to usd. calvin herman son hitting a three pushed the lead to 13.
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the score bottom right. nine points. that was nine points. it was 40-9! and then emmett buried the three. saint mary's won this game 71- 27. the lowest point total in program history for san diego. i feel sorry for those guys. 27 points in an entire game? for saint mary's to go in there an do that to them? those are somebody's sons that they just embarrassed. >> san diego's shot was that like a tourism industry -- >> puts you in the mood. soften you up before the mighty blow. 71-27. >> coming back later. >> thank you. coming up in the next half- hour a high stakes battle over the supreme court pick. how a neil gorsuch confirmation could impact cases in california. >> and later, red light camera citations skyrocket in fremont. only on "5" how the city may have set a ticket trap for drivers. ,,
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u-c berkeley students say they are open to the idea of having the right- wing writer milo yiannopoulos come back and give a sp our top stories tonight, uc- berkeley students say they are open to the idea of having milo yiannopoulos come back and speak as long as security is stepped up. campus officials canceled his event last wednesday after riots broke out. today milo yiannopoulos said on facebook he will be back in a few months. thousands of protestors are gathered right now outside san francisco city hall challenging both the president's travel ban and its implementation. a temporary block is in place. here in the bay area hours ago the justice department filed an emergency appeal at the ninth circuit court in san francisco. >> in the meantime, wendy
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gillette shows us confusion is mounting at the nation's airports. >> reporter: president trump's travel banff people from>> reporter: some travelers from 7 muslim dominated muslim countries.countries can now travel to the united states after a federal court judge in washington state issued a restraining order on president trump's executive order that bans their entry. >> reporter: a state department spokesman says up to 60,000 foreigners whose visas were electronically canceled had that action reversed but it's unclear what's being done to help those whose visas were physically canceled. the decision by the federal judge appointed by president george w. bush drew the scorn of the commander-in-chief treating the opinion of the so- called judge which essentially takes law enforcement away from our country is ridiculous and will be overturned. when a country is no longer able to say who can and who cannot come in and out especially for reasons of safety and security, big trouble. but as the affected travelers once again resume flying to international airports, including here to jfk airport in new york city, it remains unclear how long the judge's order will hold. the department of justice says it will seek an emergency stay of the order. saturday afternoon, protestors marched in washington demanding
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a permanent end to the travel ban. tens of thousands also packed the streets of london some carrying signs that read, fight ignorance not immigrants. wendy gillette for cbs news, new york. . president trump's supreme court nominee is sparking a showdown on capitol hill but in a speech to the federalist society in philadelphia today, vice president mike pence says he believes neil gorsuch will be confirmed and soon. >> president trump and i have full confidence that judge gorsuch will be confirmed. but rest assured, we will work with the senate leadership to ensure that judge gorsuch gets an up-or-down vote on the senate floor one way or the other. >> kpix 5 political reporter melissa caen tells us that gorsuch confirmation could mean big changes here in california involving guns, immigration and
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teachers. >> reporter: while democrats in the senate may delay and filibuster president trump's pick for the supreme court, neil gorsuch, it remains likely that he will be confirmed. probably in time for the october 2017 session. every state in the union will be impacted by a new supreme court. but california could be hit especially hard on certain issues. hearings at the supreme court aren't happening very much these days. it's been nearly a year since justice scalia died leaving the court with a 4-4 split between liberals and conservatives. it takes five votes for the court to agree to hear a case. so court hasn't agreed to hear many and the ones it does hear aren't controversial. but that's all going to change. >> by nominating judge neil gorsuch -- >> reporter: if and when judge gorsuch is confirmed there will once again be a conservative majority on the court. for california the stakes are high. >> i think california's in for a rude awakening. >> reporter: the professor is a
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founder and director of the center for constitutional jurisprudence at chapman law school. he says california could benefit from what he calls a constitutional court. >> i think quite frankly a constitutional court is going to allow the state to go their separate ways as the constitution originally envisioned. so if california wants to experiment with a marijuana law, you know, they ought to be able to do that. >> reporter: but the state wouldn't be totally free to experiment. >> there are some areas that are clearly given to the federal government like the power over immigration. so this latest push to make california a sanctuary state won't go too far. >> reporter: then there are individual rights. >> california tries to overly restrict gun possession as they have done i think you're going to see pushback on that by this court. >> reporter: the executive vice president of the united educators of san francisco, part of a california federation of teachers. the cft wasted no time
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denouncing the nomination. she agrees that california gun control laws could be in jeopardy. >> there are several objections. one is the affordable care act. the other is gun control especially as educators that is just huge for us. >> reporter: in fact, a case challenging san diego's gun restrictions has already been filed with the supreme court. california teachers unions are especially concerned about another challenge to their collection of union dues. last year in the friedrich case the supreme court failed to get a majority needed for an opinion on the issue. but then next legal challenge may result in unions being unable to require public employees to pay dues. >> we know that there are cases already in the pipeline. >> reporter: despite all this, solomon remains hopeful that california will find ways to deal with the coming decisions. >> it's going to be tougher and i feel like california needs to lead the way. >> reporter: gorsuch will be investigated by the senate
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judiciary committee. dianne feinstein is the highest ranking democrat. so we'll probably see a number of questions on these issues that are important to our state. in the newsroom, melissa caen, kpix 5. coming up a sudden spike in red light camera citations in one bay area city. >> i didn't have a chance to react. >> that's the smoking gun. >> only on "5" why fremont is being accused of setting a ticket trap for drivers. and because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, we've created access from at&t. california households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for home internet at a discounted rate of $10 a month. no commitment, deposit, or installation fee. visit att.com/accessnow to learn more.
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canada's rocky mountains await. call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. up. only on 5: allen martin discovered somethin anyone to know. if you paid a fine for a red light ticket in fremont, listen up. only on "5," allen martin discovered something the city didn't want anybody to know. >> reporter: they loin up before dawn waiting to get -- they line up before dawn waiting to get into traffic court trying to get a break on the ticket. >> i'm not looking forward to paying. >> reporter: he got one last october. >> the yellow turned so fast to red i didn't have a chance to react. >> reporter: it happened at
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mothery and farwell. >> sometimes you see something that's going on. >> reporter: jim has made it a hobby to monitor red light cameras across the state. recently he saw a pattern of citations at that location that he considered suspicious. it started when a new state law required cities to lengthen their yellow lights for safety reasons based on the actual speed of traffic rather than the posted speed. on august 1, 2015, when the new law took effect, ticketing at the intersection dropped dramatically to an average of 54 red light runners a month. then suddenly the cameras started churning out an average of 280 tickets a month from february through october 2016. just as suddenly, the ticket count took a nosedive back down in november. jim noticed a similar pattern up the street where an average 17 spiked to 177 tickets and
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then plunged down suddenly. >> why did that happen? >> reporter: sifting through documents, he discovered two sets of timing charts for the two intersections he considers suspicious. one shows the yellow lights timed at 4.7 seconds. there's a line across the chart and the word, superseded. the second set of charts shows the yellows timed at 4.0 that the change was made on february 1, 2016. that happens the very same date that the cameras started cranking out red light citations in record numbers. >> they shortened the yellows. that's the smoking gun. >> reporter: shorter yellows can produce more red light tickets. but if the city did change the timing on these yellow lights, there's no sign of it now. we came and put a stopwatch on them and both yellows timed to 4.7 seconds. so what happened? >> we had student interns that were helping us. >> reporter: hans larson is fremont's public works director. >> unfortunately in a few cases, you know, some of the information that was on those pieces of paper, you know, weren't accurate and don't represent, you know, what was
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actually done out in the field at the traffic signal. >> reporter: he says even though it may look that way, the yellow lights were never actually shortened. people will hear that and say, oh, really? blaming the intern. it was the intern who caused the stock market crash. was the intern who -- i don't know if they will buy it. >> i think what we're talking about is what's written on a piece of paper. the issue here is, you know, is the yellow timing out at the intersection in compliance with state law? yes. >> reporter: as for the spike in tickets over nine months last year he says it's partly just more traffic. but also -- >> we consider this the rebound effect. and people will get used to, okay, there's more yellow time here now. i will use as much of it as i can. >> reporter: back at the courthouse, rohan wasn't too hopeful the judge would give him a break when we met up with him. >> if worse comes to worst --
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>> reporter: who knows. after this report things could change. in fremont, allen martin, kpix 5. >> look at the line outside that courthouse. rohan appealed his ticket. allen will keep us posted on what happens in his case. still to come, a spectacular explosion is caught on camera as a mexican volcano blows its top. >> wow. look at that. and back in the bay area, we have our own kind of cloud on the way which will produce rain again within 24 hours. the forecast is coming up. >> ahead, the nfl awards a newhall of fame class announced. and -- a new hall of fame class announced. khalil mack got a lot of reasons to enjoy his mack quarterback sack now. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. you can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. right now,% on the ultimate limited edition bed.
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rolling as mexico's colima volcano blew its top this morning. take a look at the massive plume of smoke and ash rising above its crater.. the explosion check this out. cameras were rolling as the colima volcano blue its top this morning. take a look at the massive smoke and ash rising above its crater. the explosion could be seen for miles in mexico but thankfully no one had to be evacuated. geologists say the volcano has seen increased activity since october because of a new lava dome. people in russia are checking out the world's first ice library.
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the books are actually etchings on the walls. consisting of more than 1,000 short phrases in various languages. the library will stand until april and then it's going to melt. [ laughter ] >> well, okay. we have more snow on the way and more snow melt on the way. rain for the bay area, as well. up on the north coast of rain starts in 24 hours and it will be here at 6:00 tomorrow night beginning in the north bay and spreading south. as we look toward the bay bridge and concord right now, 58 degrees. we are all in the 50s. now from high atop the west coast here's that low that's spinning off of seattle. they get rain and snow. by the time it gets down here we just get rain up to 1.5"
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overnight sunday night. it will fall most of it after sunset tomorrow night up around lake county and then it begins earlier tomorrow afternoon. we'll get wet. here we are tonight overnight hours tonight. and then sunrise a lot of clouds around and watch what happens towards the end. there it comes. by 6 p.m. we have widely scattered showers. forecast for the bay area. tonight heavy rain at times. we'll dry out overnight. it will be mostly cloudy for most of tomorrow with rain returning to the bay area by tomorrow evening. overnight lows tonight we'll see it mostly in the 50s and sun-up tomorrow morning at 7:10 a.m. high temperatures tomorrow around 60 degrees for much of the bay area. extended forecast is calling for rain by tomorrow night and things turn wet again on tuesday after lingering showers on monday. sunday night west. tuesday, thursday, rain again. next weekend looks dry. high pressure builds in dries us up but we'll have to wait a
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week for that. here's vern glenn. 7:10 a.m., huh? >> you got it. the crockpot will be going at that time. that's for sure to get reddit gort super bowl. nfl, awards are being handed out as i speak tonight in houston. congrats to matt ryan the league's mvp, the falcons's quarterback. the raiders khalil mack has been named the league's defensive player of the year in his third year he had 11 sacks, force the five fumbles and a pick six. he beat out broncos von miller and became the first raider player to win the award since lester hayes in 1980. this year's hall of fame class does not include former 49ers receiver terrell owens. that's a snub two straight years now despite ranking second in league history in receiving yards and third in touchdowns. 7 more have made the hall of fame class. highlighted by running back tomlinson and davis.
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jason taylor safety kenny easily, also selected kicker morten andersen and cowboys owner jerry jones. on to the super bowl tomorrow. the pats are favored by 3 over under 59 with the falcons. the paid brady has put his father on media lockdown after brady senior criticized commissioner roger goodell for suspending his son in the "deflate-gate" scandal but despite the gag order brady became emotional earlier in the week when asked about his dad. >> i think my dad is my hero. because he is the one that i look up to every day. and, um --[ pause ] >> my dad. >> the other spotlight story was shanahan and his backpack mistakenly lifted on media night by veteran art spannedder -- by veteran scribe art spander who has a similar backpack. he had shanahan's game plan in
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it and had it for a half-hour before team officials reached him. >> i said what's going on? he says you have shanahan's game plan. i says, well, now that means he has my computer! and i --i would rather have my computer than the game plan. one, i didn't know i had a game plan. and if i did know it, i wouldn't have read it anyway. and third, if i did want to read it i wouldn't know what it said. hey, check out big bird cookie monster. 16th hole gallery at the phoenix open. hideki matsuyama sent the crowd into a frenzy on the 16th hole with a tee hole near the pin. set up a bird. he is in third place trailing former cal bear ben an. he had a six-under 61. one stroke lead into the final round looking for the first career tour win.
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and available in stores right now but you see draymond green? he is on a blanket. teammate mcgee had blankets made up and handed them out to each member of the team. so there you go. "dubs" are in sacramento tonight to play the sacramento kings. so they go up by 80. they win the game against the kings and on the way back they can have the comfort of sleeping under the derailment derailment blanket. >> thank you. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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england patriots take the field at n-r-g stadium tomorrow. in houston tonight the stage is set for "super bowl li." the atlanta falcons and patriots take the field at nrg stadium tomorrow. and both teams will be looking to make history. >> cbs 2's don champion tells us this game is going to set a
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record no matter who wins. >> reporter: patriots fans call this super bowl an opportunity for redemption in the wake of the team's "deflate-gate" scandal. the patriots quarterback could cement his place in history with a record fifth super bowl win and would be the franchise's fifth championship since 2001. >> i want to win because i want to win. and you know, our team has put a lot into it. and we want something to show for it. >> reporter: as much as brady and the patriots want to cement their place in history, the falcons want to make history. they never won a super bowl. the team lost its only appearance in 1999. >> does that loss still haunt you? >> yeah because i remember the plays. >> reporter: bob was on the falcons squad that year and admits off field drama led to the loss in miami. >> the stuff that we had to
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manage that week and the amount of guys that you had to say keep your focus hat on? >> reporter: 80-year-old bob whitlow played on the first falcons team and hopes perhaps the numbers are in atlanta's favor in their 51st season the team is playing in "super bowl li." >> i think they're peaking at the right time. they seem to be getting better. >> reporter: football fans in houston and around the world will find out when the falcons and the patriots take the field sunday night. don champion, cbs news, houston. and when fans show up tomorrow they will have these guys watching out for them. alameda county canine deputies are part of a national team patrolling nrg stadium. they also worked super bowl 50 last year at levi's stadium. >> thank you for watching. see you at 11:00. >> for news throughout the night the latest news and weather, always on cbssf.com. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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>> it's every parent's worst nightmare. your child is born with a deformity -- a face no one wants to see. in poor countries, over 200,000 children a year are condemned to a life of pain and rejection,
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hoping for the miracle that will change their lives forever. >> imagine if your child was born with a terrible deformity -- a cleft lip or cleft palate -- a gaping hole in the lip or the roof of their mouth. all it takes is a simple surgery to repair, but what if you're too poor to afford that surgery? you'd be helpless, left to watch your child grow up ridiculed and rejected. that's the heartbreaking reality for parents and children in the world's poorest countries. their only hope is to somehow get this life-changing surgery

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