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governor newsom delivers an impassioned speech on why he is sparing the lives of hundreds of inmates on death row but he is getting pushback from lawmakers and even the president. >> first we begin with breaking news concerning the troubled boeing 737 max pl. >> the president just announcing he is grounding them. we are following these latebreaking developments. >> the president making the announcement just moments ago. he has issued an executive order to ground the entire fleet of 737 max models. this in the wake of two deadly crashes and mounting pressure on the bus to join hundreds dozens of countries banning the plane in their airspace. >> will hereafter be grounded until further notice.

planes in the air will be grounded if they are the 737 max. they will be grounded upon landing at the destination. pilots have been notified, airlines have all been notified. airlines are agreeing with this, it is the safety of the american people and all people are a paramount concern. >> the president says they are working very hard to figure out what caused the crashes. last week in ethiopia and last october in indonesia killing everybody on board. until they to find the cause, the planes will remain grounded. we are working on reaction from the airlines and passengers right now. we will have more tonight at 5:00. we just checked boeing's stalk and it is down about six points or about 2%. governor newsom just signed an executive order suspending all executions in california citing concerns of discrimination.

end novick joins us from san quentin prison where the president is also firing back. >> reporter: effective immediately with this executive order, they closed the execution chamber here at san quentin so they have been taking out the equipment and basically putting that room on ice for now. the order does not commit these people's sentences but it does offer reprieve to hundreds of inmates, right now, on death row. >> this is about who i am as a human being and this is about what i can and cannot do. to me, this is the right thing to do. >> reporter: governor newsom says the death penalty has discriminated against those mentally ill, racial minorities or can't board afford expensive lawyers. >> i cannot sign off on executing hundreds and hundreds of human beings knowing,

knowing that among them will be innocent human beings. >> reporter: just three years ago, california voters showed their support of the death penalty voting to expedite the executions by shortening the appeals process. president trump tweeting this morning, defined voters, the governor will halt all death penalty executions of 237 stone cold killers. friends and family of the victims are not thrilled and neither am i. one of those family members whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered in 1993. >> these are the guys that kill cops. these are the guys that kill women. these are the guys that kill women and children. these are individuals who have been sentenced to death by a jury of their peers because

their actions were so evil. >> reporter: today, newsome said he spoke to many victims families in making his decision. >> i do this with a heavy heart, with deep appreciation for the emotions that drives this issue and i didn't with the victims in mind. >> reporter: california has not actually executed an inmate since 2006 because of legal challenges to our execution method. this moratorium is going to stay in place throughout the rest of governor newsom's administration but it could be reversed by future governors. kpix 5 news . tom lackey had this to say, death row inmates are not ordinary criminals, they are kidnappers, cop killers, who murdered their victims. these are the monsters that governor newsom is protecting. knew it, president trump former campaign chairman, paul manafort, will be spending more

time in jail. he was in court today for sentencing in a second case. this one involving conspiracy charges. >> paul manafort has been sentenced to 73 months in prison after pleading guilty to two conspiracy charges. amy jackson noted that manafort consistently gained false testimony about his interactions with a russian political consultant. manafort apologized for his crimes saying, i am sorry for what i have done and asked for compassion from the judge for his wife's sake adding, she needs me and i need her but judge jackson said leniency wasn't warranted. she said manafort's lies cannot be ignored adding court is one of those places where back still matter. 30 months of today's sentence will run concurrently to the 47 months he was the last week but that sentence was much lighter than the 1924 years sentencing guidelines described for those crimes.

mr. manafort may be able to avoid the full length of his prison term if president trump decides to grant him a problem pardon. >> i feel very badly for paul manafort and i think it has been a very, very tough time for him. >> reporter: none of his crimes are related to work he did on the presidential election campaign. cbs news, washington dc. right now, back into a courtroom trying to block laws. >> democrats are targeting three laws that the trump administration claims efforts. rolling last year to keep two of the laws but partially block a third. the white house wants them blocked entirely. rallies are on their way outside the san francisco courtroom today. some are also rallying outside of i.c.e. headquarters. whether or not to block the emergency declaration on the

border, the white house has already approved a relay solution to overturn it. >> we are calling on every member of the united states senate, set politics aside. stand up for border security. stand with this president and for the safety of the american people first. >> the president has already threatened to veto the bill in both chambers do not appear to have the votes needed to override a veto. new at noon, san francisco's fire chief has been named for the second time. it will be a woman. jackie ward explained. >> reporter: the new chief says she is honored to be the first lgbtq keep up san francisco and she is ready to get to work. deputy chief jenny nicholson is a 25 year veteran of the san

francisco fire department and says she is eager to get started. >> i am excited, humbled, honored and ready to go to work. >> reporter: she served as deputy chief of the administration for the last year which will make the transition a little smoother. >> special projects and so forth, she has really gotten up to speed. >> i know i keep saying everything is in honor but it is. >> reporter: she was badly burned in an arson fire in 2009. one of her colleagues suffered from severe burns. >> he is my brother today and his name is chris posey. he came back basically from hal so i get what people go through.

>> reporter: she has a few weeks left before her promotion kicks in and she is ready for it. watch begins her retirement officially on may 5. jackie ward, kpix 5 . new at noon, an investigation is underway after tesla slammed into an east bay restaurant leaving a pile of debris behind. the question now, was it on autopilot. in danville around 7:30 this morning, the car appears to be in decent shape. fortunately, no one was hurt. we are learning new details about the victim in a tragedy. the coroner has identified three people found dead in a san jose apartment including four young brothers. police believe their mother killed them before taking her own life a week ago today.

friends and neighbors say e was depressed over losing her job and marital problems. now to that wide reaching cheating scandal. laughlin was taken into custody today facing conspiracy charges. she and her husband are accused of paying half $1 million to have their two daughters added to the usc crew team even though neither play the sport. this couple is among others named in the indictment accused of bribing to get their children in. >> i think the parents are facing serious time and what i mean by that is prison time. >> at least nine coaches were also charged. john was fired from the university. his attorney claims he did pocket the money and used it on

school. >> you are getting a look at all 13 of them. we posted the full federal complaint and the list of all california defendants on our website, kpix.com . still to come, a former advisor. why abuse victims say the sentence is not harsh enough.

recapping the breaking news, president trump says the u.s. is issuing an emergency order to ground all boeing 737 max 8 and max nine aircraft. this in the wake of the ethiopian airline crash that killed 157 people. three usa airlines fly those aircraft at southwest, united and american. many countries have already banned them. stay with kpix for the latest developments. a tragedy unfolding now in the nigerian city of lagos. a school building has collapsed. dozens of children have been pulled to safety. there are casualties.

the three-story building was reportedly operating illegally as a school and like many, has structural issues. >> the most senior catholic clerk ever to be convicted is heading to prison. a judge sentenced the australian cardinal six years behind bars for molesting two choirboys back in 2006. explained that he directed the jury not to is make the cardinal and a scapegoat. protesters waited outside the courtroom as his punishment came down. >> you got to remember that it is about the damage to the victim. not about the rehabilitation prospects of the pedophile. >> the cardinal had faced up to 50 years behind bars. abuse survivors say his six- year sentence wasn't harsh enough.

the advisor to pope francis will be eligible in less than four years. some teachers in dublin are taking a strike authorization vote. the 12 hour bargaining session ended friday with an impasse. teachers are asking for a .5% pay hike. the strike comes on the heels of last month's seven-day walkout in oakland. let's see how wall street is doing this afternoon with about 45 minutes to go before the closing bell. the dow jones is in the green up about 100 points and at last check, falling stocks is down by 2% this afternoon. jcpenney is getting ready to shut down one of its stores in the east bay. the latest flow in what some apse the retailer said about 60 jobs will be eliminated when the store closes in may. happening today, hikers are able to enter a lottery for permits at yosemite national park. all hikers are required to have

permits. information on how to apply is on the halftone page of the yosemite parks site. chopper 5 is giving us a birds eye view of the spectacular hills this afternoon. you can see plenty of cattle roaming around. that is a pretty cool shot. mary is here with a check of our weather. a beautiful afternoon and hopefully, you are enjoying and loving it, too. here is the tower camera and you can see plenty of sunshine. temperatures are in the 50s and we continue to warm up as we head into the afternoon. temperatures are in the mid to upper 50s and we are still tracking some breezy conditions. 18 mile an hour winds and downtown san francisco looking at berkeley, 16 mile an hour winds out of the north as well as vallejo and antioch out of the northwest. wind has been a very wet

winter. we have seymour rain in seattle so far this year. san francisco rainfall, more than 15 1/2 inches of rain since january 1. seattle, only 8 1/4 inches. we have seen more than half of that of rain compared to seattle. seattle picking up 11.5 inches of snow so a couple of snowstorms in the city. we are looking at a ridge of high pressure building in for us. beginning today and over the next several days. the start of a warming trend for us with sunny and warm conditions. i do want to talk about this dangerous winter storm that is bringing blizzard conditions as well as blowing snow for the rockies and for the planes. the upper midwest, as well. the bomb cyclone or bombogenesis and that happens when a low pressure system rapidly drops and pressure in a short period of time so this is

a powerful storm system also bringing high winds and severe weather to parts of the south. so we are watching that closely. our sunset at 7:14. sunrise at 7:22. daytime highs topping out just about where we shfor this time of year. many locations in the 60s. 61 in san francisco. fremont, 64. san jose, 65. here is that 7-day forecast and you can see temperatures are warming up as we head through the rest of the work weekend into the weekend. the weekend looks anti-killer spectacular. even for tuesday, the longest- running models have come in and it does look dry. a while away. >> sunshine! >> i know! it has been so long! still ahead, a look at facebook's new reality platform. lifetime avatars of you and your friends. to simone, i leave the van gogh.

to harrison, the wine collection. to craig, this rock. the redwoods to the redheads. the rainbows to the proud. i leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition. that you do everything in your power to preserve and protect them. with love, california.

facebook is up and running again after a temporary outage around the world. >> and now, 180 cameras and 500

lights capture your post face to create an avatar that moves in looks and sounds like you. when you put on these goggles, you will see a three- dimensional version of the person you are talking to and it feels like they are actually right in front of you. >> it is an evolution from the telephone to videoconferencing. we are actually spending time with a friend we have not met in years. >> facebook says security is a top priority and they are currently working on keeping the data collected for the virtual reality safe from hackers.

maybe it is not warm enough to go to the beach but it is still pretty fantastic out there. maybe by the weekend. get out there and soak up that sign. have a great day, everyone. enjoy the sunshine out there.

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