involving a tesla bus.. that killed an alameda county deputy. now at noon, investigators are getting ready to release new details on a crash involving a tesla bus that killed an alameda county deputy. good afternoon, i'm michelle

griego. >> i'm kenny choi. the deadly crash happened at the height of the morning commute along interstate 580 west of tracy just after 7 a.m. traffic was delayed for a few hours but the road is now open. kpix 5's allen martin has the latest from investigators. >> reporter: the story of course still very much developing. law enforcement is going to hold a press conference shortly. we'll show you a live look outside the dublin chp facility where officers will update us with the very latest and when that happens, we will go right to it. but first, let's walk you through this morning's events. we have video from chopper 5. the alameda county deputy who was killed was riding in that vw beetle. you can see the extensive damage to the back end of it. it's pretty much destroyed. investigators say this bus contracted by tesla slammed into the car near grant line road. no one on the bus was hurt but the deputy riding in that car was pronounced dead at the scene. minutes after the crash, chopper 5 caught this.

the first responders had draped an american flag over the deputy's body then then stand back and salute. just about an hour ago, chopper 5 was overhead as a procession was seen heading westbound on 580. law enforcement officials bringing the deputy's body to the coroner's office in oakland. you can also see there were other local law enforcement on the overpass paying tribute as the procession made its way down the freeway. finally, at the coroner's office, officers could be seen hugging embracing each other, grieving the loss of one of their colleagues. tesla sent out this statement about the crash which reads in part: again.. we are awaiting a new conference by law enforcement and we will bring it to you as soon as it happens. in the news room allen martin kpix 5 a serial arsonis >> again we're waiting for a law enforcement news conference. we'll have it as soon as it happens. in the newsroom, allen martin,

kpix 5. a serial arsonist could be targeting cars in contra costa county contra costa. 10 recently. flores reports. >> reporter: all these car fires are connected according to officials. they are being burned overnight in front of homes like this one here in walnut creek. you can see the tires, it's completely melted. and it's burned through the entire car. >> it's like i could barely see the window across the street there was so much smoke. >> reporter: david is one of the latest victims in a case of suspicious car fires across contra costa county. his acura parked in front of his home went up in flames around 2 a.m. neighbors called 911. >> if it had been left to me, it probably would have ended up in my house because i was asleep. >> reporter: just as crews battled back the flames in walnut creek, a few miles away in lafayette, firefighters responded to another car fire making the total 7 suspicious car fires this week alone.

one in martinez, two in walnut creek, two in lafayette, and two yesterday they brentwood. firefighters say no one has been hurt. >> the one yesterday did start to spread to one of the houses right under the bedroom of a child so this is extremely dangerous, we're taking this very, very seriously and we want to, um, catch the person or people involved. >> reporter: police haven't identified a suspect. county firefighters say the fires have been happening for months. at least 10 since january. apparently, random acts of arson. threatening families fast asleep in their homes. >> that's what clicked immediately. >> this has to be the guy that i just heard about. now it's happening to me. >> reporter: contra costa county fire protection district says outside agencies are now involved in the case and investigators are asking the public to report any suspicious activity in their neighborhoods. reporting in walnut creek, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. police have been canvassing the affected neighborhood collecting surveillance video. there's a push to fire the

contra costa county district attorney. he reportedly spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on himself. district attorney mark appearances admitting to making more than $66,000 of his campaign money and spending it on himself. district attorney mark peterson. he used it for travel, hotels, restaurants and movies over five years and he failed to report the spending on campaign finance disclosure forms. in december, peterson issued this statement saying that he regrets and acknowledges the mistakes he made regarding his campaign financing account. he also agreed to pay a $45,000 fine. in wine country, the search is on for a gunman following another freeway shooting. the latest happened yesterday along highway 101 in healdsburg. investigators say it all started when two men got into a fight with some other men outside a food truck. they got into the same car and drove off. a few minutes later the suspects drove up in a truck and shot inside the victims'

honda. the passenger and driver were rushed to the hospital in serious condition. it's unclear if they knew the suspects who shot them. for now there's no suspect description. president trump blasting the media on twitter today after reports claim that he contradicted his own administration on what led to the firing of former fbi director james comey. cbs reporter seth lemon has details from the white house. >> reporter: the white house is refusing to comment on a controversial tweet from president trump this morning. >> the president has nothing further to add. >> reporter: the president hinted he was recording a january conversation with now fired facebook director james comey. he tweeted, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. mr. trump is referring to reports that the former fbi director told associates that the president pushed him to pledge his loyalty to the president that night. comey refused but promised to be honest. >> he mentioned that he had

been invited to the white house to have dinner with the president and that he was uneasy with that. >> reporter: james clapper, the former director of national intelligence, says he doubts comey told the president he was not the subject of an fbi investigation into collusion with russia as the president says. white house officials say the president would never expect personal loyalty only loyalty to the country. but the president and his staff have not been on the same page this week. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendations. >> reporter: mr. trump's statement directly contradicted his own staff including the vice president who all say the president was following the recommendation of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> he is making fools of his own staff. the white house appears to be in chaos! >> reporter: the president tweeted in responses to the contradicting reports saying, perfect accuracy is not possible and maybeish just cancel all press briefings and issue written responses instead for the sake of accuracy. seth lemon for cbs news, the

white house. >> it's a bizarre way to get the community's attention but it seems to be working. a bay area police force is offering to test meth for gluten. kpix 5's kiet do explains why officers are making an unusual "offer." >> reporter: at first glance, the newark police department's facebook page is standard stuff. cops getting awards, a fallen power pole and missing elderly person later found. but keep scrolling and you will see law enforcement comedy gold! is your meth laced with deadly gluten? not sure? bring your meth down to the pd and we'll test it for you for free. the post has reached 24 million people shared nearly a quarter million times and has 9,000 comments. are you comfortable with the title social media genius? >> no. i don't think it's, you know, necessarily genius. i mean, i thought it was just funny. this is it. >> reporter: the lieutenant manages the department's facebook page and came up with the idea for the post after watching an infomercial about

gluten-free diets followed by a movie about pablo escobar the infamous colombian drug lord. locke wants to show the public that officers are not robots. >> it's nice and refreshing to see a police department that's not too serious and we have a human side and sense of humor. >> reporter: the comments have been supportive like this one: >> to which he replied, relax! let us have some fun, huh? we have plenty of serious posts. >> we deal with death. we deal with sad circumstances. it's hard on us sometimes hard on the community. and sometimes you need that relief, to be able to crack a smile and laugh a little bit. >> reporter: and no, they did not get any takers on that meth inspection offer. by the way, the department has solved multiple cases with their facebook and twitter pages and so the 36-year-old

lieutenant, a millennial, says departments can no longer afford to ignore the power of social media. in newark, kiet do, kpix 5. still ahead, the new test run from elon musk for a tunnel system that he says can make traffic jams a thing of the past. how it can take your car through los angeles in about five minutes. >> reporter: mother's day is around the corner. we speak to the flower experts about the kind of selection that's on hand after the wet winter we had. >> we have plenty of april showers so there should be plenty of may flowers. in fact there could be showers on the way. we'll have the forecast for you when the news continues. ,,

says will help drivers avoid the traffic grid-lock across los angeles. "..." tesla's ceo elon musk has a new project to help drivers avoid the traffic gridlock across los angeles.

[ noise ] >> it's not hyperspace or a scene from a sci-fi movie. it's a test run of his boring company project. he named the company boring after being stuck in l.a. traffic. he didn't provide details about the project but he says the electric sled can transport you and your car through a tunnel at speeds up to 125 miles an hour. the company plans to run its first tunnel from l.a.x. to culver city, santa monica, westwood and sherman oaks. the oakland raiders move to los angeles could be delayed if they don't take action soon. they have a week to agree on a lease to avoid delays on the team's relocation to vegas. the lease agreement is on the agenda at the next nfl owners meeting which is on may 22. but if the deal isn't approved, the raiders' move to "sin city" wouldn't happen until the 2021 season.

the team owner says he is working as fast as possible to make sure the lease gets signed. our wet winter has created an abundance of flowers just in time for mother's day this sunday. kpix 5 reporter jackie ward went to check out what's in bloom at the san francisco flower mart. >> reporter: after the soaking the bay area got this gray wet winter, florists are captivated by all the vibrant colors in bloom. >> all the local stuff, lilacs, peonies, hydrangea, everything got a nice big drink this year. so good for us. >> reporter: lisa owns not just flowers in the castro and has been coming to the soma warehouse for 20 years. she didn't mind the weather this winter. >> i liked it. you know that we need a drink, you know, after all the drought that we were going through. i say bring on the rain. now, it's good for flowers. >> reporter: a wholesaler thinks winter was out of hand

and too much water isn't good. he is a wholesaler who imports flowers worldwide. >> this year there was a shortage of roses. there's rain in colombia and ecuador and a lot more disease with the roses and other flowers. >> reporter: flower retailers tell us that unlike valentine's day where roses are the big selling item, they say that mothers just want any kind of flowers as long as it's their favorite or maybe her favorite color. mother's day is the unofficial kickoff to a florist's busy season, despite business ramping back up, retailers here are happy for the work. >> valentine's day is one day. and you have to hurry and make it that one day. mother's day can be a whole week so it's not as stressful. >> reporter: in san francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. >> retailers tell us they found more flowers for mother's day -- sell more flowers for mother's day for any holiday of the year including valentine's day. you know why? because mothers are very important. >> yes. >> they need those flowers. >> but don't you think that just love from your children,

isn't that snuff. >> no, i want jewelry. >> and my mom wants an ipad. >> bling, bling and flowers. mostly sunny skies and readings in the 50s for the bay area. what a beautiful view of the golden gate bridge today. a few of puffy clouds and mid- 60s already at concord, oakland 65. san jose 62 degrees. we won't do too much better than that. mid-60s inland, around the bay in the 60s, as well. low pressure spinning in the gulf of alaska combined with fairly cold ocean temperatures 48.7 degrees and that's just a natural air-conditioner with a west wind on top. futurecast shows we have mostly sunny skies in the offing taking us through the early hours of saturday morning. so there's not a lot of cloud formation overnight and tomorrow looks fairly sunny. there will be a few low clouds along the shoreline. futurecast is still painting a chance of showers on tuesday

morning. and so we will watch that. could be wet on tuesday. after that we have a warmup. heading out of the bay area for tomorrow, we are looking at readings in the 70s in the great valley. 51 lake tahoe. 44 yosemite. 59 monterey. sfo looking good today. gusty winds though through the san bruno gap and winds out of the west-southwest 26. rain in chicago. los angeles, new york, partly cloudy skies. rain in seattle. numbers below average with 67 in santa fe and concord. mid-60s for the south bay. over in the east bay the numbers too mid- to upper 60s. very mild pleasant with plenty of sunshine. below average for this time of the year will include ukiah, lakeport. saint helena 68 tomorrow. sunset 8:10 p.m. sun-up 6:01 a.m. sunshine through mother's day.

so michelle will be able to see the sun gleaming off those emeralds. then monday partly cloudy skies. [ laughter ] >> for tuesday, a light shower or two. then after that chance of showers on tuesday, we'll warm up and get sunny. >> i think love from children is enough. >> my children do breakfast in bed every year. >> what's better? >> then i end up eating alone in bed. but it's already. it's a nice little break. it's quiet. [ laughter ] >> thank you. let's take a look at the big board right now. see how it's all doing here. the dow is down 35. we have charlie here with us next along with our pet expert. >> aww. >> today we're dressing a problem for dogs, itchy on the pet's head, neck and back. >> and what's cool about your school? email your nomination to us at coolschools@kpix.com and we may feature your school on the show. ,,,,,, who are these people?

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check in with our pet expert dr. jill chase. she's here with charlie.. talking about problems with itchy heads and necks. every friday we check in with our pet expert dr. jill chase. she is here with charlie talking about problems of itchy heads and neck. so what are some of the causes? >> first, let's just talk about hugh cute charlie is, right? >> a cutie. >> i had just met him today and charlie is one of the people that works here's dog.

so we had a viewer question, she has two cats if i remember correctly one of whom has scabs on the neck area and on the back. and she is not seeing any eeotr is fine. so i think this is a great opportunity to give you the excellent advice that it's probably fleas even though she is not seeing them and this particular cat is more sensitive to flea bites and develops an allergy. the way we -- so using a topical or oral product is not always meaning they are not getting bit by fleas. they are still going to get bit. but the fleas will die or go somewhere else. they live in the environment. so treating the environment is the way to go. that's my recommendation for that question. but what i thought it would be interesting for owners to know is when we have an itchy dog coming through we're looking for where is the itchiness, the paws? >> in the head? >> it can be anywhere. so that's why we're looking to see where are the itching. that lets us know what kind of problem they have. so in dogs, for example, if they are itching around this

area here and here, then it's most likely fleas. around the nose we worry things about inhalant allergies or food, they're licking their paws we think about food again. so many different reasons and i would say if the owner is concerned then referral to a veterinary dermatologist would be the best way to go. >> all right. dr. jill chase, thank you so many. charlie, thank you so much, too. if you have a question about your pet's health, email us at pets@kpix.com. we'll have dr. jill chase give us answers friday at noon. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

average salary for this year's college grads is at an all- time high. the factors helping them rake in the cash... good news for the class of 2017. a new report finds of average salary for this year's college grads is at an all-time high. more on that coming up at 5:00. today is called warriors flag friday to show support for the team's play-off run. all the warriors team stores at the coliseum and in walnut creek are giving out these free car flags that you can display. they are also available at dunk contest stores in two towns. they will play the spurs on sunday. we have to get one for michelle. >> i want one. >> good mother's day gift. >> how about if we look for the important all important

mother's day. temperatures in the mid-50s to the mid-60s. partly cloudy and cool on sunday. you know, it's going to be a cool weekend in general. so let's sum it up, class. mostly sunny and mild today. it will be continued cool and breezy right through monday. and then on tuesday, there's a chance of some rain. >> i know. you have a question mark there. >> well -- >> tuesday? >> that's the life in weather. >> very true. it's all a mystery. >> something like that. [ laughter ] >> hey, it's been nice having you. >> good to see you since christmas. >> see you later. ,,,,

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