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consequences of a major earthquake along the hayward fault. good afternoon, i'm michelle now at noon, a dire quake projection. experts look at the potential consequences of a major earthquake along the hayward fault. good afternoon, i'm michelle griego. >> and i'm anne makovec. we hear a lot about earthquake risks in one particular bay area fault. there's been a move have about
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san andreas. as jessica flores reports, a hayward fault quake could cause more damage. >> reporter: it runs down the east bay where hundreds of thousands of people live. and the hayward fault line according to the groundbreaking usgs study is even more dangerous than the san andreas. >> it's coming, not if, when. >> reporter: the study imagines a 7.0 quake striking a 52-mile stretch of the hayward fault and estimates the quake would kill 800 people and injure 18,000 more. >> we're at the fremont earthquake exhibit where scientists have been tracking traces of the hayward fault line. take a look at this. it's fascinating. here you can see the ground opened up over the last 10 years. these lines used to be a straight line. you can see where it's moved several inches. >> the fault continuously creeps, which also helps to relieve the strain on the stress on the fault. >> reporter: usgs says a major quake of 6.7 or higher occurs
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about every 150 years along the hayward fault. the last one happened in 1868 destroying downtown hayward. in the report scenario, if the big one happened today along the hayward fault, it would spark 400 fires, require more than 20,000 rescues, and displace more than 100,000 people. devastation could in part be prevented. >> prepare yourself. we live in earthquake country. have a plan. when shaking occurs, drop, cover and hold on first. not necessarily to just run outside. get under a desk. >> reporter: in fremont, jessica flores, kpix 5. >> good reminders. the study comes as the city of san francisco marks the 112th anniversary of the great earthquake and firestorm of 1906. [ sirens ] >> the 7.9 earthquake hit on the san andreas fault and as is tradition, a ceremony was held at lotta's fountain on
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market street at 5:12 a.m. that's the exact time the earthquake hit. this year's anniversary included a wreath-laying ceremony for the late mayor ed lee. it continued then in the mission district where participants painted the fire hydrant credited with saving the area during the disaster. one person is dead in this crash in oakland. at least four cars are crunched in. chopper 5 was over the scene at doolittle at the oakland estuary. a call came in at 10:40 a.m. the cause of the crash is under investigation. a traffic alert in fremont. deadly crash has three lanes of northbound 880 blocked in south fremont boulevard. the crash was reported at about 9:45 a.m. you can see the traffic backup here from chopper 5. right now, no estimated time of re- opening those lanes. as many as 15,000 people are expected to visit golden gate park on friday to celebrate "420". it will be the first "420"
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since marijuana became legal in california. new at noon, kpix 5's jackie ward explains that doesn't change how the city is preparing for the annual event. >> reporter: it's a new twist on an event that san francisco has hosted for decades, legalized pot. that doesn't make a difference to city leaders who are doing what they can to keep the city and people safe. >> love it or hate it the historic "420" festival is not going away. people from all over the world will continue to visit our fair city for this event and probably will for years to come. >> reporter: with "420" revelers comes traffic, massive crowds and the potential damage to city property. at its worst, an estimated 10,000 pounds of trash was picked up following "420" one year all taxpayers paying for it. that's why for the second year in a row the city is partnering with a private sponsor. >> overall, the sponsor provided more structure, allowing for a safer less chaotic experience for everyone. >> reporter: phil ginsburg the
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director of the san francisco rec and parks department is asking participants to be mindful of others and the environment. >> our task is to try to, um, mitigate and remediate the impacts of 12,000 to 15,000 people showing up. >> reporter: the sfpd says additional security will be in place to keep an eye on what's happening in the area. >> i'm very confident that regardless of the numbers of people who come here, we are going to be successful at what we do. we'll keep everybody safe. >> reporter: while recreational marijuana is legal in california, it's still illegal to smoke it in public. so there will be an exception for those people who are inside the fencing at hippie hill. but for everyone else, there is no exception to the law. in san francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. there will be no drugs for sale, no alcohol will be allowed, and this is still not a city-sponsored or city- approved event. only people aged 18 and older
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will be let in. a family in san jose is now homeless after a fire started this morning. it started at about 5 a.m. at a home near half pence way. you can see the intense images of flames shooting from the roof there. a family of five including a woman in a wheelchair escaped without injury. and the cause of the fire is still under investigation. new at noon, we are getting our first look at the san francisco woman arrested for hitting a police officer with her suv, then driving off. this is 18-year-old marissa androevic. she is facing a felony hit-and- run charge. a plainclothes officer was crossing the street in the tenderloin yesterday when a mercedes hit him. minutes later, police found the vehicle nearby and arrested the woman. the officer was released from the hospital last night. he is expected to recover from an arm injury. we are learning new details about the midair engine explosion that killed a passenger on a southwest
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airlines jet. the ntsb is working to figure out what happened. kris van cleave looks at the investigation so far. >> reporter: roughly 20 minutes after take-off at about 32,000 feet, southwest flight 1380s left engine exploded. the blast sent shrapnel through a window causing the cabin to depressurize. >> i thought i was going to die. it felt like we were freefalling. >> reporter: terrified passengers like marty martinez reached for oxygen masks as the plane rapidly descended. >> they said there was a hole and someone went out. >> reporter: jennifer riordan was killed after she was partially sucked out. she was pulled in and passengers couldn't save her. >> the fan section that we are talking about today is designed such that if a part does come off, it would not be catastrophic for the airplane. had this window not been punctured, today's event would
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have just been another emergency landing. >> reporter: passengers called captain tammy jo schultz a hearing row for safely landing the damaged plane. according to -- hero for safely landing the damaged plane. she was among one of the first u.s. navy fighter pilots in the navy. >> that lady, i applaud her. >> reporter: tuesday's engine fail sewer not the first for southwest linked to metal fatigue. in august 2016, a similar event occurred on a flight to orlando. that 737 landed safely with no one hurt but metal from the engine sliced into the fuselage. >> we are very concerned about it. there needs to be proper inspection mechanisms in place to check for this before there's a catastrophic event. >> reporter: the ntsb found signs of metal fatigue in a fan blade inside the engine here in philadelphia that broke off. that may be what caused this accident. now, after the 2016 engine failure, the faa had been moving to require additional
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enhanced inspections for metal fatigue in older engines similar to the one on this 737. kris van cleave, cbs news, philadelphia. president trump continues talks today with japan's prime minister shinso abe. the two are at mar-a-largo discussing trade and other issues. in addition to a round of golf and a working lunch, the two are planning a news conference this afternoon. ahead of a planned summit with president trump and kim jong-un meeting face to face, we are learning cia director and secretary of state nominee mike pompeo pulled off a secret visit to north korea. mola lenghi has details from capitol hill. >> reporter: president trump hinted at it tuesday afternoon. >> we have had direct talks at very high levels. extremely high levels with north korea. >> reporter: and confirmed it on twitter this morning. it was to lay the groundwork for a face-to-face summit between the north korean leader and president trump
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this year. >> we'll be having meetings with kim jong-un very soon. it will be taking place probably in early june or before that assuming things go well. it's possible things won't go well and we won't have the meetings. >> reporter: the president said five summit locations were under consideration. the two most likely are a neutral spot in the demilitarized zone separating the north and south or on a u.s. navy vessel off the korean peninsula. pompeo is on capitol hill meeting with senators as part of the confirmation process for secretary of state and lawmakers only learned about his north korea trip after the press reported it. >> if truth and being forthcoming as the secretary of state nominee is one of the standards we would like to see for the next secretary of state, i think he failed that. >> i think it's good news that there's some up front work being done but i'm very disturbed that the cia is the group that's trying to work out the parameters of the
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meeting. >> reporter: pompeo's confirmation as secretary of state is not guaranteed with at least two republican senators saying they do not support his nomination. mola lenghi, cbs news, capitol hill. first lady melania trump is set to attend the funeral of barbara bush this saturday. she died at home in houston yesterday. the 92-year-old had been battling congestive heart failure. today flags are at half-staff to honor the former first lady. former president george h.w. bush is said to be heartbroken but is receiving a lot of support from his family. the funeral on saturday will be held at the family's church by invitation-only. still ahead, tesla makes a big pledge to catch up with its model 3 production. the 24/7 promise from elon musk. >> and how the founder of starbucks says things will make things right in the midst of racial bias allegations. >> it's cloudy out there. temperatures cooler than average. we also have a chance of
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showers. we'll track it for you coming up.
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such good and important work for the environment. together, we're building a better california. customers. he sent a letter to employees, tesla is ramping up its model 3 production goal. ceo elon musk is vowing to work 24/7 to get the cars out to customers. he sent a letter to employees setting a target of 6,000 model 3s per week through the end of june. that's 20% more than he promised investors before. the new target comes after tesla temporarily suspended model 3 production to work out some kinks in the assembly line. customers have been waiting more than a year for their
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preordered model 3. the founder of starbucks speaking out about racial bias claims. lou young on how he says his company plans to turn this around. >> i'm embarrassed, ashamed. i think what occurred was reprehensible at every, single level. >> reporter: the founder of america's ubiquitous coffeehouse is remorseful about the arrests in philadelphia of two black men waiting for a business associate, put in cuffs because they hadn't purchased coffee before sitting down. appearing on "cbs this morning," starbucks's founder says he met with the manager who made that call. she is no longer with the company but he says, she is remorseful about how things turned out. schultz told gayle king he expects the woman will meet with the men. >> i think there's a unique opportunity for her and the two gentlemen to sit down and potentially have some kind of reconciliation. >> reporter: starbucks plans to close 8,000 of its locations on may 29th for companywide racial bias training a move that could
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cost millions in operating losses. >> i think it might just be a pr move because starbucks is a big company. >> it's a good idea. >> reporter: you believe him. i do believe him. >> this is not going to be a one-day event where we're going to do something and leave. we're going to stay with this. it's going to be significant. it's going to endure and we're going to transform the way we do business. >> reporter: lost in the discussion so far is the restrained way the two handcuffed men behaved. schultz noted they were passive in the face of such public unfairness. this he told gayle king could have turned to something much, much worse. lou young, cbs news, new york. the maker of bump stocks, the accessory that makes semi- automatic firearms mimic automatic wednesday is closing up shop. slide fire solutions is shutting down its website and will no longer be taking orders after may 20th. last year in las vegas, a gunman using bump stocks killed 58 people and injured hundreds more at a country music festival.
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after the attack the company came under scrutiny. it's facing lawsuits related to the mass shooting. you now have less than 12 hours to file your federal income taxes. the irs payment website is back up and running after crashing yesterday. because of those problems, the agency issued a one-day filing extension until midnight tonight. let's take a look at the big board this afternoon because it has been up and down all day long. it's back up. we are above the zero mark right now. the dow is up .31 points. >> whoops. >> it just change again. >> the weather has been changing too. yes, it has. it's going to change after today. so today we are cooler than normal. we were cooler than normal yesterday. we have kind of a wild week roller coaster ride going on here especially with our monday but now, things are cloudy and chill basically is what we call it. here's a look at the golden gate bridge. definitely overcast skies. it looks gloomy. but with temperatures right now, they are looking like they are really the peak of what we are going to see. so our headlines include this,
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clouds and cool weather and then a few raindrops expected this evening. very minimal though. really light showers if we get anything and we're warming tomorrow. friday, saturday, sunday, it's going to be a nice weekend with sunshine and temperatures above average. here's a live view of our san jose camera and you can tell there's clouds out there and a little break in the clouds, as well. we may see some sunshine here and there this afternoon before more clouds roll on through. 58 degrees in concord right now. 55 in oakland. livermore 54. our temperatures will only rise a few more degrees compared to what we're dealing with right now. hi-def doppler showing moisture across the sierra foothills but for the bay area we are looking dry just some clouds out there with some moisture in them. that's all we we, see. not low elevation snow. it's raining in lower elevations. homewood camera with dark clouds over lake tahoe. no snow flurries up at lake level yet but that's expect
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tonight, maybe another inch or two but that's about it. overall the satellite-radar showing the cloud coverage is right here and then the low is right over here. that's tracking to go south of san francisco. a chance for light showers still going to remain in your forecast. it's going to be good-looking. tomorrow temperatures back to normal and warmer through sunday. liquid ine supplements we'll be right back.
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now the f-d-a is cracking down. it's working to have highly concentrated c in high doses, packaged and liquid caffeine supplements can be deadly. now the fda is cracking down, it's working to have highly concentrated caffeine products removed from stores and warning customers to stay away. the fda says powder and liquid dietary supplements with concentrated amount of caffeine are a threat to public health and have already been linked to two deaths in the u.s. the fda says some of these products can contain as much as 3200 milligrams of caffeine. that is as much as 28 cups of coffee. >> when they take what they think is a dose, it's 10, 15,
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20 times what they are expecting. >> less than two tablespoons of some types of powdered pure caffeine can kill. a national study finds americans waste nearly a pound of food each day. and higher quality diets were linked with higher levels of waste. higher quality diets have more fruits and vegetables. the study found those were wasted the most followed by dairy, meat and mixed meat dishes. it was done by the university every vermont. we'll be right back. - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. call or visit
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recycling the ocean well, today's tip of the day is going to be gray squash or italian squash. now, it's like the green zucchini, but it's a little thicker and it's a lighter green a mint green, very delicious. cooks up quickly so if you saute with it put it in at the very end if you add anything to it because it cooks fast. so selection and storage is very important. when you buy it beautiful color like this all the way around, nice and shiny. that means that it's fresh. check the tip right here. make sure it's free from any decaying whatsoever. and it's got to feel firm to the touch. when you bring them home, simply store them in the refrigerator. gray zucchini, italian zucchini, i love this squash. loaded with flavor, delicious, and when mix it with the rest of them, it's a beautiful thing. and i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. nd always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. all right.
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never tried them. they look good. trapping and recycling the ocean's plastic waste. there's a system here in the bay area that could clean up the garbage between here and hawaii. we'll have more on that and a lot more coming up at 5:00. >> we want to learn about that. >> mm-hm. >> that's it for us here at kpix 5 news at noon. remember, "the bold and the beautiful" is next. >> and we'll be back with another live update on our website and our facebook page coming up at 1:00. ♪[ music ] you could save energy
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>> liam: this is what my father said? >> steffy: that's right? >> liam: so, he's changing his story again? >> steffy: he never had a story -- not about you, anyway. >> liam: well, at first, he said it was ridge who shot him. >> steffy: he believed it. but people misread things. >> liam: why do you defend him? >> steffy: you told him a different story. and you were very persuasive, liam. >> liam: yeah. that's because i actually know what i did. >> steffy: how? i was the only person that saw you night. you didn't look like a man who shot is father. >> liam: no, all right. this is how it works. i black out, i forget, and then i remember again. i mean, the last time i had a-a-a -- what did the doctor call it? >> steffy: mild traumatic brain injury. >> liam: mild traumatic brain injury, i couldn't even remember your name. >> steffy: well, you also believed that your kidnapper was

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