breaking news. the dow down triple digits after the federal reserve cut a key interest rate.

you can see that it is down more than 330 points. the fed cut the rate by a quarter point to a range of 2 to 2.5 percent. today's production is the first in more than a decade. the fed said it is to guard against uncertainties in the economy like trade wars and low inflation. plumes of dark smoke near tm away on anne makovec. the fire burning at the united eight maintenance facility near the airport and kpix 5's jackie ward is in sambrano avenue how the airline is responding. >> reporter: we are on south boulevard where united employees are back inside the building after being evacuated. >> reporter: united airlines in december the school fire department confirmed the smoke was caused by a fire at eight maintenance building located north of the terminal at cisco international airport. from chopper 5, the firefighters on the roof

examining and hvac system and putting water on a. that is where they believe the two alarm fire may have started. g you were driving on highway sight of thick clouds of smoke coming from the direction of sfo. is never effected the united terminal and airport remained opened the entire time. united said in a statement, our employees acted quickly to safely evacuate the building and there are no reported injuries. acting swiftly comedy fiscal fire department was able to it think was the fire, and we are currently assessing the facility. nobody was injured in the fire. jackie ward, kpix 5. the prosecution the ghost ship trial in oakland continues is closing argument. emily torn turner tells us what is expected in court. >> reporter: after four-month of the listening to dozens of witnesses comment jurors could get the case as soon as today. the defense wrapped up their closing arguments yesterday. they claim that arson, not

criminal negligence is what caused the fatal fire. the defense attorney said the oakland fire department has perjured themselves through the tight trial calling it a conspiracy to protect oakland. derick almena and max harris placed 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. one for each person who died in the fire on december 2, 2016. if they are found guilty, they face anything from probation to 39 years in prison. >> you will have more in the story coming up on the kpix 5 news at 5:00 and online on kpix.com. the father of one of the bay area teenager suspected of murdering an italian police officer is now in her own. is in elders 19-year-old son finnigan lee elder is asked expected of killing a policeman was some sort of plate. the clip circulating an italian media shows the teenagers and

what appears to be a drug deal and that is not what you're looking out. here is the clip. they took off with a bag they are accused of stealing. to plainclothes officers intervene. other admits he stabbed a policeman. he claimed it was self-defense because he was being strangled but the judge notes that there were no signs of strangulation. three days since the deadly mass shooting at the garlic festival in gilroy. authorities allowing vendors of volunteers to pick up their cars left behind in all of the chaos. they cannot just grab keys and go. according to recover their vehicles, vendors and volunteers must go to the elementary school commercial their drivers license and proof of registration and insurance. then they will be subtle to the parking lot in these lands. for some it is more than getting the car back. >> right now, the vehicles for the last three days, the windows down at all of our belongings. we do not have a house key. i had to break and because my house key was in the car.

>> anyone who needs to recover their vehicle has until 6:40 5 pm. the santa clara county da office helping victims of the shooting at a one-stop shop they said a family assistance center at rutgers elementary. anyone who needs grief counseling victim compensation benefits are all invited to come. flock whether you were on the scene or not, whether you saw the shooter or not. whether you are a family member of a victim, there are services available for you here at the family assistance center. >> you assisted offender from 9 a.m. until 10 pm every day for the rest of the week. details on additional hours are still more than $140,000 has been raised for the families of the shooting victims. if you want to help, you can find more information on

kpix.com. is directly front runner ce f t presidential nomination, joe biden will take the debate stage alongside senator, harris and eight other candidates after the first 10 contenders debated last night. reporter laura podesta is in detroit. >> reporter: night one of the democratic debate in detroit put divisions within the party on full display. >> you cannot spring a plant on the world and expected to succeed. >> reporter: moderates tried to make the case that going to far left would alienate voters. >> i think democrats when when we run on real solutions and not impossible promises. when we run on things that are workable. >> reporter: progressives the pushed back. but i do not understand why anyone goes to the trouble for running for president for the united states just to talk about what we cannot do and shouldn't fight for. >> reporter: the clashes mean the over policy differences including senator bernie sanders medical for all plan. >> for senior citizens it would

include dental care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. second of all -- >> you do not know that. is like i do know it. i wrote to the bill. >> reporter: the front runner, joe biden was not night debates and candidate steer clear of his name. tonight, the former vice president will be center stage. >> they're going to go after biden. it if he has of six candidates coming after him after him. >> reporter: nine other presidential hopefuls will join biden including california senator kevin kamala harris. >> i will express differences. >> reporter: polls show by deleted because democrats view him as a candidate most likely to be able to beat president trump in 2020. laura podesta, dbs news, detroit.>> former vice president biden released an op- ed touting the affordable care act which he helped pass under president obama. he also plan to stand up to any

democrat or republican. the trump administration is facing another potential setback of the nuclear diplomacy front with north korea. nikole killion reports kim jong- un military launch two more missiles overnight. >> reporter: south korea says north korea launched two short- range ballistic missiles before dawn today. the weapons traveled about 155 miles from the north korean east coast before falling into the ocean. the latest provocation follows a similar must missile test last week. it comes nearly a month after president trump and kim jong-un matt had the demilitarized zone, but failed to reach a deal to shut down the north korean nuclear program. the white house says it is aware of reports that the north korean reformist recent missile launch and will continue to monitor the situation. president trump is working to get back to the negotiating table with the north korean leaders. >> might relationship with kim jong-un is a very good one, as i'm sure you have seen. we will follow see what happens. >> reporter: north korea called

left weeks test a warning out of south korea's plant military exercises with the u.s. next month. further increasing tension, kim jong-un recently showed off a new submarine that can likely carry three ballistic missiles. cotillion, cbs news, the white house. secretary of state mike pompeo said no new talks with north korea are plant anytime soon. trade talks between u.s. and china resumed but ended as quickly as they said. is officials troubled the left today after a war of words. trump administration says it will allow americans to access lower cost of prescription drugs from canada. this by setting up a system to legally import medications from canada with oversight from the fda. states drug wholesalers, and a

pharmacist would act as intermediaries for consumers. to move comes as the industry is facing a litany of consumer complaints over drug prices. boosting resources to fight the california wildfires. no word from the governor, and just the last hour. new details about the college admissions scheme. how soon someone tried to sound the alarm about fake information. after waking up to low clouds, particularly in that view for san jose, it is clear overhead. daytime highs will warm to pretty much right where they should be for this time of year. that is what it looks like from the top of the tower as well. the weekend will be a little warmer. will talk to about that coming up in the seven-day forecast.

california will soon have for hundred seasonal firefighters for this years fire season. the executive order signed today for one was in the state budget. for emergency preparedness and disaster recovery. >> we identified two other multiple communities. 325 high-profile projects that would protect those communities. we said in a very public way, that we would get the projects done by december of this year. over the course of the last two month, we have been making real progress. >> in addition to the added seasonal firefighters, the governor added 13 new fire engines through the fiscal year. in alameda county man is behind bars, accused of burglarizing cars outside of a milpitas shopping center. police a 32-year-old joseph lane of oakland left his fingerprints on the victims car last month. officer spotted the suspect in

a shopping center two weeks after the burglaries, but he took off. a detective obtained a warrant and arrested lane yesterday in san francisco. we are getting a first look at a traffic crash in florida that killed seven people, including five children on their way to disney world in january. this video is hard to watch. dashcam video shows the moment a semitruck crosses a median and slams into a van. allie the board who was 31 weeks pregnant, and a chaperone in the church and headed for disney world, and she just learned from her hospital bed that her 13-year-old daughter and her cousin were among the five young lives lost. >> i feel such a weight. such a heaviness. i feel like i'm living a nightmare. like i'm living somebody else's life. i don't want you to tell me that my daughter is gone. i don't want you to tell me she is not here anymore. >> detroit the despite the

tragedy her baby was born healthy just weeks after the crash. the ntsb is still investigating what led to the collision. vanity fair learned new details about the college admissions scandal and revealed them only on cbs this morning. among the findings, attempts to sound the m by thenpick credent news of the scandal broke. here is carter evans. >> their actions were without a doubt insidious, selfish, and shameful. >> reporter: justice department first details how admissions consultant rick singer was the mastermind behind a multi- million-dollar college bribery scheme for month ago. now vanity fair reports as far back as 2017, guidance counselor at the la procedure buckley school questioned three universities offered a spot to a student that they believed was an african-american tennis was her drink in the top 10 in california. reality, the student was white and never paid tennis competitively. the buckley school psychologist

straight but told cbs news they cannot discuss individual student or admissions details. the students father admitted he hired rick singer as a consultant. he has not been charged. in a statement to dbs news, he reteacteinfoatonome of their daughter's applications, none of which related to her test scores or academic records. >> you have anything to say to the student you help to get into yale. >> reporter: 51 people have been charged. prosecutors say many help paid singers organization to get their children into top universities. actress felicity huffman was one of the first to plead guilty. >> felicity huffman was the picture of same and contrition and i put it to still get a great benefit for that. broke a source tells cbs news some 50 to 75 people are still under investigation, and may face charges. lack of hard evidence exists, the parents who are fighting it all of the way, if they go to

trial and they are convicted, they are going to prison for a serious amount of jue sent a tentative trial date for the wealthy financier jeffrey epstein. june 2020 is the earliest standn conspiracy charges. today's court appearance is the first since jeffrey epstein's deal injury. he pleaded not guilty to charges he abused dozens of underage girls in new york and florida. pilot in minnesota is under arrest after reportedly showing up to work drunk. officials say gabriel schroeder was taken off of a fully boarded delta airlines flight yesterday. tsa officers noticed the smell of alcohol and gave him a breathalyzer test, which he failed. delta said it has no tolerance for alcohol violations and it is cooperating with investigators. less to get a check on the weather with their and. i'm going to take us back to a story you told us about

earlier. the fire that happened out at sfo. you see the plume of smoke and then you see the smoke stops midway up and flattens out. anybody who would have been watching this over the course of the late morning and early afternoon would have seen that and thought, that is weird. why doesn't the smoke keep going up? this was a perfect way to illustrate what happens to our atmosphere, virtually every day. smoked stoed the invers pre icreti w high wathnd. e with ofuse we are ght n. okable to risair we live in. as soon as he hit the descending air from the larger high pressure above, flattened out and stuck around for a while. that is a good way to visualize what is going on. let me show you more. we will switch over to the

weather computer. i will put some numbers in front of that. it is 66 degrees for san francisco. 68 in oakland. 79 in concord. if we look at a high risk satellite, there is a little spin in the clouds building up the marine layer. it helped to pull some of it away from the coast. we have sunshine for the rest of the day as that sits off of the coast and these the daytime highs. pretty much right on the mark for average. 82 in san jose. right where we should be. 72 in oakland. a little bit warmer in the and. conquered at 89 but look what happens over the next five days. we take the 89, cooling you down tomorrow and then we will warm back up into the weekend. we are coming in just about several degrees above that average. let's do this again for san jose. you see the average is 83. a little about that saturday and sunday. let's bring it down more. here is the comparison for

oakland. oakland warming up 276 by the time we get to saturday. there is san francisco, and you'll notice the least impact of all because of the influence from the cool marine air. as far as a seven-day forecast, we talked about the warmest him up getting us into the weekend. it doesn't last long and we start to bring it back by early next weekend. even though it is a warm-up, it is nothing like the heat we had la no-hit advisories. it would just feel a little warmer than today. >> you know that i live inland. i was very affected by that. we are glad to hear it. helping you fight social media addiction. how a new bill would help save us from our constant scrolling online.

we know the mindless scrolling on social media can be addictive. now lawmakers want to make it illegal. a new bill would be in features like infinite news feed scrolling and autoplay on video. senator josh hawley says the goal is to crack down on addictive and deceptive techniques used by social media to use our attention. instead of scrolling how about a sleepover with see stars.>> monterey bay aquarium is hosting an 80 seemed sleepover event. it is called sweet dreams are made of seaweed. they must be fans of the eurythmics. this includes dancing, improv, comedy, gains, story telling

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the writer struggled to find parking and a daily basis in antioch could overpass highway for help ease the crunch. we have that story and more coming up. that is it for kpix 5 news at noon. >> you can watch last sunday's episodes of these shows on cbs.com. they got preempted due to our coverage from gilroy. you can go on their and watch the shows he may have missed. not miss the bold and the beautiful. that is coming up next. >> we are leaving you with a lovely look at the city of san francisco.

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