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live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. a traffic discovery giving grieving family some answers. they have found the body of jada jenkins. good afternoon. i'm kenny choi. michelle has the afternoon off. officials delivered the devastating news to the young woman's family a short time ago. investigators say a man discovered her body while he was walking his dogs near alameda creek and niles canyon last night.
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the 18-year-old college student had been missing for more than a month. she was driving home on a stormy night when her car plunged into the creek. her car was found upside down in the water but no sign of her body until yesterday. breaking news, a person has been rescued from underneath a bar train -- bart train. it happened at the macarthur train station in oakland. trains are not moving in any direction there and the station is closed right now. no word yet on when it will reopen. new at noon, less than an hour ago governor jerry brown proposed new measures to bolster the state's flood management systems. kpix5 reporter anne makovec tells us what we can expect. >> reporter: governor brown is talking about very big investments but where that money is coming from is still up in the air. the governor said today that california has $50 billion in unmet needs when it comes to flood management so he is announcing a short and long- term plan to try to take care of some of it. he wants to invest $437 million
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immediately into flood control and emergency management. much of that would come from the state's general fund. he wants engineers to come up with disaster plans and updated flood maps. he wants to increase dam inspections and he wants to push the president to streamline the environmental review process for a fix at oroville dam. this is all prompted by a real scare there earlier this month. heavy rains caused lake oroville to rise until the water began to pour down the emergency spillway. almost 200,000 people were evacuated after a hole developed in an eroded area of the spillway. the governor says it was a wake- up call when it comes to aging infrastructure statewide. >> these liabilities are a serious cloud and we have to take them seriously and do more than chip away at them. we have to make substantial investments. >> environmental groups warned about 12 years ago that the nation's tallest dam in california was an imminent disaster. and those warnings about the
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oroville lake went largely ignored. as part of the time line on the governor's plan, he says his request to the president to streamline those environmental reviews in oroville will go out immediately. the state money, though, has to be passed through the legislature and there's no deadline for that. in the newsroom, anne makovec, kpix5. >> anne, thank you. in san jose thousands cleaning up their homes and the city trying to help them. today and tomorrow free dumpsters will be placed on several streets that were hit hard by the flood. shelters not accepting pets but the san jose animal shelter will temporarily take them. help center for flood victims opens tomorrow at the sure cowa community center as 3800 people still under mandatory evacuations. here's a look at where those mandatory evacuations are, they are highlighted in red near oakland road and rock springs. the area highlighted in orange is under an advisor evacuation but some roads leading to that area may be blocked.
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today we are getting our first look inside those damaged homes caused by the flooding in hosni earlier this week. many victims say they won't be able to return home for months. kpix5's maria medina is in san jose with an update on all the cleanup. >> reporter: 4000 flood victims still under an mandatory evacuation order and for many it was an emotional day. how does it make you feel to see this? >> oh, hard to describe. >> reporter: he returned to his home for the first time to see what was left. >> the living room. >> reporter: despite remaining under a mandatory evacuation order, people who live here in rock springs slowly made their way back only to find many of their belongings destroyed by the muddy contaminated mess. >> we are going to see people are starting to get cleaned up, process beginning. >> reporter: henry, one of the 80 crew members that make up the city's neighborhood cleanup program. today is their first day out in the flood zone to help victims remove and throw away debris.
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yesterday crews pumped water out of the street so they could go door to door to assess the damage while some in the evacuated areas got the green light to return home, many others will need to wait until this weekend. in the meantime, those who aren't heeding the evacuation order are returning to see what belongings they can salvage. for ramone, what mattered to him most fits into a plastic bag. >> my daughter's doll. >> reporter: oh, has your daughter been asking for it? >> yeah, all the time. >> i'm sure they want to get back to normal. it is going to be a little while. >> reporter: and city leaders promised to help these flood victims back on their feet again. this weekend they are opening up a local assistance center at the shirakawa community center. one stop for them to ask questions and get the help they need. today san jose city leaders are thanking first responders and firefighters for working around the clock to get flood
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victims to safety. mayor sam ricardo visited a fire station to thank firefighters in person today. he shared many of the few stories of heroism from this past week. >> everybody jumped in in a big way and we should definitely join the thousands of our residents in gratitude to them and to the many other first responders who came out. we know the police were out there patrolling the neighborhoods throughout the night. >> more than 350 people were rescued from their homes without a loss of life or serious injury. and today dozens of horses rescued from the flooding are getting topnotch care from veterinarians. they were stranded earlier this week when their owns had -- owners had to pick up and leave all of a sudden. at least 28 was rescued yesterday and brought to dry land. vets say none of the animals appear to be injured. and in the north bay, sir frances drake boulevard near white hill in fairfax is back open in both directions.
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yesterday evening an unstable media hillside prompted -- muddy hillside prompted the closure of the boulevard in both directions. let's get a check of the weather forecast with roberta gonzales. >> good afternoon, everyone. we started off our day chilly with clear skies. right now we have been noticing the influx, the increasing clouds. look at those big billowing puffy, fluffy, cumulus clouds in the distance. gorgeous view from sutro tower looking north. another view this morning. you can see the flag is on the fly, the wind are under 10 and -- the winds are under 10. clouds sound the port of oakland. temperatures this morning, 29 degrees in santa rosa, 31 in napa. through the bay side, oakland, san jose to the south and redwood city around the peninsula, the futurecast illustrates we will be noticing increasing clouds, we have rain that wants to enter the picture by tomorrow afternoon. we will continue to track the rain and tell you how much to expect for the weekend. and, kenny, that forecast is
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coming up later on in this newscast. >> roberta, thank you. this just in, the trump administration is ramping up its war against the press. this time blocking several outlets from today's white house press briefing. the "new york times," the "l.a. times" and cnn was among the news organizations excluded from the meeting. so far no immediate explanation from the white house. president trump is doing something conservatives haven't seen since ronald regular gan -- reagan that happened at cpac. >> reporter: conservatives gave an enthusiastic welcome to their republican president. >> now you finally have a president, finally. it took you a long time. >> reporter: last year then presidential candidate donald trump was a no show at the annual conservative political action conference. and when the billionaire businessman took the stage six years ago, many didn't take him seriously. >> our country will be great
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again. >> reporter: now president trump is plunging to make -- pledging to make good on the conservative campaign promises that helped him get elected. >> we will reduce your taxes, we will cut your regulations, we will support our police. we will defend our flag. >> reporter: many conference attendees we have spoken with are optimistic about president trump. they freely admit he wasn't their first choice but they like what they have seen so far. >> yesterday i sat in a room and they actually asked how many people supported trump before the election and 40% of the people raised their hand. how many support him now? 100% of the people in the room raised their hands. >> reporter: conservatives are eager to see tax reform and the end of obamacare. >> the bottom line, we are changing it, we are going to make it much better. >> reporter: with republicans also in control of congress, conservatives are energized about making big strides with their agenda. weijia jiang, cbs news, oxon
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hill, maryland. caitlyn jenner has a message for the president after the white house rollback of obama era transgender protections in public schools. >> from one republican to another, this is a disaster and you can still fix it. you made a promise to protect the lgbtq community. call me. >> the transgender activist took to twitter to call out the president despite being a vocal supporter of his campaign. representatives from companies like apple, google and facebook are also voicing opposition to the move. they are calling it a step backwards for equal rights. still ahead, we are learning more about the deadly chemical use that killed a north korean dictator's half brother and what police are saying about the women who rubbed the banned nerve agent on his face. and bad news for b.a.r.t. the problem they are facing that could lead to higher fares or less service for its
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of north korea's leader was killed developing in malaysian right now, police there say the half brother of north korea's leader was killed by vx, an extremely dangerous nerve agent developed for chemical warfare. adriana diaz has the details from beijing. >> reporter: malaysia police put a name to the substance these women smeared on kim jong- nam's face that killed him in less than an hour, the lethal poison vx. officials found it in swabs from kim's face and eyes but don't know where it came from. malaysia police chief. if the amount of the chemical brought in was small, he said, it would be hard for us to detect. vx, one of the world's deadliest chemical weapons,
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according to the centers for disease control. it attacks the body's nervous system causing paralysis that leads to sufficient indication, even -- suffocation even in small doses. shawn norte is a toxicology expert. >> these agents are known as knockdown agents so they can knock down people fairly quick. if it's in a high enough concentration it's fate al. >> reporter: fatal and hard to find. but intelligence agencies believe north korea has stockpiles of chemical weapons including vx, an an saying the -- accusation the north delays. still looking to question seven suspects believed to be in on the plot including a diplomate. north korea is refusing to cooperate. their embassy tried to block kim's autopsy and called malaysia's investigation untrust worthy and politically motivated. >> that was adriana diaz reporting and now that the poison has been identified, kuala lumpur airport is being swept for traces of it.
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as for how the two female suspects survived, people exposed are at less risk if we wash it off quickly. new orleans is launching a $40 million security effort to fight a dramatic spike in crime. in the final months of 2016 murders jumped 54% compared to the same period last year. to counter the trend the city might hit bars with restrictions mandating they shut down their doors at 3:00 a.m. and they are adding a new surveillance program modeled after other major u.s. cities. >> those cameras will see into a realtime crime center that's going to be outfitted in downtown new orleans. >> what do you say to those folks, you know you are there, who are going to say this will lead to profiling? >> it's a crime deterrence plan. >> the mayor says tourism industry will help pay for the plan with the city paying for the rest. developing news now we have learned ferry officials approved a sublease between golden gate ferry and the blue and gold fleet. the ferry lines which run
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between san francisco and tiburon will share services. expected to start within the next couple weeks. fewer people are riding b.a.r.t. and that could force the agency to make some tough decisions. b.a.r.t. collected data between july and december of last year. they report a 4.2% drop in ridership mondays through fridays. weekends also taking a harder hit with a 9% drop. the agency already has a hiring freeze in place and may also consider hiking fares or cutting back on service to make up for that lost revenue. more problems for troubled retailer jcpenney. the department store announcing it will close up to 140 stores in the coming months. it's unclear how many jobs will be lost by the closures. jcpenney is expected to reveal which stores will close next month. time for a check of our forecast with roberta. >> what a difference a few days makes. the week started off this workweek with storminess, historic storms that rolled to the -- through the bay area on presidents and on tuesday. now we are wrapping up this
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workweek with some increasing clouds. we have mostly sunny skies early this morning and now the clouds have been pushing into the bay area. that's a beautiful view of the embarcadero. this is san jose, good afternoon to you in the santa clara valley. we have cumulus clouds drifting across the horizon at this hour with san jose 40 to 53 degrees, it is still cool in san francisco after bottoming out this morning at 41, it's now 50. it's 51 degrees in santa rosa after dropping all the way down to a frigid 29 degrees early this morning. obviously there was some frost. three things i want you to remember for today and through the weekend, scattered showers for your saturday, very minimal precipitation, snow level drops down to 2500 feet so, yes, we should have some snow at mount saint helene, a few snowflakes. sunday dry all day long, cloudy side, but then on monday morning scattered showers and then the dry weather pattern begins. couple different weak disturbances out over the pacific ocean, otherwise we have this area of high
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pressure, it is weak, this area of low pressure is going to take it over and we will become mostly cloudy for your saturday. here's our futurecast and you notice the clouds are increasing, green on the screen means you need an umbrella but this is lunchtime on saturday, for reaches of the north bay and then it kind of dissipates, hit and miss, by 7:00 saturday night and then it clears out. so sunday mainly is dry, maybe a little bit of an activity as far as a shower is concerned over the mount hamilton area and then we start to see light rain showers by sunday night into your early monday morning. so very light showers, no flooding anticipated. it's a great getaway friday, heading to the central valley, no actually fog -- now tully fog, temperatures in the mid- 60s. going into a high today of 32 degrees there and if you're heading to tahoe, you need the chains, they are essential. more snow in the forecast saturday and on sunday. wow. our temperatures across the board today, about 8 degrees below average in throughout the trivalley, 55 mountain view,
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sunset tonight at 5:58. overnight tonight freezing santa rosa, 40s in san jose, extended forecast does call for again mainly cloudy over the weekend, few scattered showers through monday morning, then the dry weather pattern and, boy, doesn't 60s sound good again? that's a look at your friday forecast. have a great weekend. >> thank you. coming up, it's friday and that means we've got our pet expert here with tucker. we will show you what you need to look out for on the skin of your furry friends. and what's cool about your school? you can e-mail your nominations to us, coolschools@kpix.com, we come and feature -- we may feature your school on the broadcast. we will be right back. ,,
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tackle issues that pet owners may be facing with their furry friends. to s. dr. every friday we check in with our pet expert to tackle issues that pet owners may be facing with their furry skin. today's topic, skin bugs and dr. jill chase joins us now with tucker. a warning for some of the viewers out there, we are going to show some pictures of his skin bumps so in case that makes you feel uncomfortable you can turn away. >> the reason i brought tucker in is because what i do is being a detective. the owner calls, says they see a bump on the animal's skin, i look at the bump and in tucker's case there was a history of the fact that he had had a tick and that maybe it was related to the tick bite, which is certainly on my list. but when they brought it in, it
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actually could be two types of tumors so we have been watching closely and i brought the photos in so you could see what it looked like in the beginning and then what it looks like today. so it started out looking like this, very innocuous pink bump and no number on it or anything like that -- no fur on it or anything like that, almost like a pimple. now it's gotten smaller and got a scab on the top of it. do you want to look? >> yeah. it looks a little better. >> it's hard to see. but anyway, little bit smaller, flatter, looks like it might be going away. the question is, if this happens what should be done. normally what we will do is depending on what we think it is we can do what is called a fine needle aspirate, which we stick a needle into it and get some cells out of it hopefully and then have the lab look at it or biopsy the tissue and find out what it is and then if we think it's an infected mass, we will start with antibiotics and see if it gets better. in tucker's case, the jury is still out but i'm starting to think it probably was related to the tick bite, that it needs
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to actually go away for me to think that and there is one tumor that we see in young dogs and that can result by itself. >> tucker looks a lot better right now. thanks so far for joining us here today. if you have any questions about your pet's health and well- being we want to hear from you, e-mail us at pets at kpix.com and we will have dr. jill chase come every friday and answer those questions here at noon. we will be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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how sewage districts plan to stop the problem. at story and mor recent storms sent millions of gallons of sewage into the san francisco bay. how sewage districts plan to stop that problem, that story and more tonight at 5:00. and that is going to do it for kpix5 news at noon. >> wow, it's been such a long week, hasn't it? >> it has. >> with a lot of rain and flooding and we wish you well out there, especially in san jose. as we say goodbye, enjoy the weekend, tucker.
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