live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. now at noon, we are learning more about the emotional state of two bay area teenagers accused of killing a police officer in italy. good afternoon. i'm anne makovec in for kenny

choi. i'm michelle griego and the fathers of those boys are in rome. seth doane was there as they arrived to be with their sons awaiting their fate. >> reporter: swarmed bymita, finnigan elder's father, ethan, arrived at the prison this morning, saying nothing. how are you feeling? his son confessed, investigators say, to killing italian officer mario rega, stabbed 11 times following a botched drug deal and extortion attempt, allegedly carried out by elder and his former schoolmate, gabriel natale-hjorth. police said finnegan elder stabbed the officer with a 7- inch long military grade knife he brought from the u.s. a photo posted on social media and widely circulated shows finnegan elder posing with the knife and both had been drinking on the night of the killing, according to police and at least one had been doing drugs. the carabinieri officer forgot his service weapon early friday when he was called to

investigate the alleged extortion attempt at police said the teens tried to get money and cocaine in exchange for a bag blade stolen. gabriel natale-hjorth's father visited and said the meeting was emotional and hard for them, adding that gabriel never imagined a confrontation and did not know his friend was armed. outside the prison, gabriel natale-hjorth's lawyer said his client is very young and very emotionally stressed. authorities say both teens are responsible for the killing and in italy, someone can be charged for murder if they were involved, regardless if they carried out the slaying. gabriel natale-hjorth's lawyer told cbs news that when he visited his client in the prison earlier this week, the teenager cried the entire time. seth doane, cbs news in rome. we are following breaking

news. a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck chile a few minutes ago and the epicenter is not far from the capital of santiago and right now, there are no reports of damage or injuries but it's early and we will stay on top of this to bring updates as we get them. i'm emily turner and we will take you out to the ice offices in san francisco where you can see a protest is in full effect at this moment. it's not overwhelming numbers and many had drums that they were playing earlier. this will be happening not just today but all through august and every day from noon until 1:00, a grassroots group called close the camps will meet for an hour from noon until 1:00 outside ice every day and hopes to close the camps and some of them have the unpolished ice group, every day for the next few days through august. emily turner, back to you. in contra costa county, police are searching for a

killer. a gunman shot a man in his 20s shortly before 10:30 near parkland lane and the man later died at the hospital. police have not released any information about a possible suspect or motive and in san francisco, a shooting near bruneau heights park left two seriously hurt just after 10:00 on mission street. police blocked off the area during the investigation and the victims are now hospitalized with life- threatening injuries and police are searching for the shooter. we could have a verdict as soon as today in the ghost ship warehouse trial in oakland. the cases now in the hands of the jury, who will decide the fate of defendants derrick alemena and max harris, each facing 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter and if they are convicted, they could serve a maximum turn of 39 years in state prison. the fbi said it's bringing more investigators to gilroy to help look into the deadly

garlic festival shooting. fbi profilers will try to figure out what motivated the gunman, santino legan, to open fire. three were killed and several wounded on sunday and in the wake of the shooting, other events around the bay area are increasing security including the santa clara county fair that opens in about one hour and kpix5 has jackie ward in san jose. >> reporter: organizers are assuring people they are doing everything they can to make them feel safe and they are adding to the security plan. officers from santa clara are those in charge of security and they are beefing it up this weekend. the gilroy garlic festival had ramped up its security, too, and had what it considered strong security with armed guards patrolling the fences. the plan had been briefed earlier. >> what we can tell you, is that enough due diligence has gone into it that there is a plan we feel good about. a lot of it will be confidential because we don't want people with criminal intent

to work around some kind of a public statement. >> reporter: the county has this to say, we've reviewed security plans for the county fair and are working with the sheriff's office to increase belligerence this year. the fair opens at 1:00 this afternoon and the admission is only $0.75. jackie ward, kpix5. new at noon, the senate passed a budget deal that is now awaiting president donald trump's signature. it is a two-year agreement that increases spending by $320 billion and would suspend the debt ceiling until july 2021 and if approved by the president, would remove the prospect of a government shutdown in october and automatic spending cuts with president donald trump ramping up the trade war with china and today, he announced the u.s. will slap an additional 10% tariff on $300 billion in chinese imports starting next month and that comes after the u.s. and china restarted trade talks in shanghai this week. in campaign 2020, former

vice president joe biden is campaigning today in detroit and he was the focus of attention last night during the second night of the democratic debates. laura podesta reports the front runner faced attacks from nearly every candidate on the stage. >> reporter: former vice president, joe biden, campaigned at a detroit restaurant thursday morning, hours after serving as the target for a field of presidential hopefuls. >> mr. vice president, you want to be present of the united states and you need to answer tough questions. >> reporter: the front runner was criticized for being too tough on time and the senate. >> since the 1970s, every major crime bill, every crime bill, major and minor has had his name on it and sir, those are your words, not mine. >> reporter: he defended deportation during the obama administration. >> if you've crossed the border illegally, you should be able to be sent back. it's a crime. >> it looks like one of us had

learned the lessons of the past on one of us hasn't. >> reporter: biden attacked a medicare for all plan supported by bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and kamala harris. >> the reality is that our plan will bring healthcare to all americans under a medicare for all system. >> you notice there's no talk about the platinum plan that in 10 years will cost you a trillion dollars and you will lose your employer based insurance. >> reporter: there are still six months before the first votes are cast during the iowa caucuses but democratic voters say they are paying close attention to how candidates are handling themselves. >> there is a line between a healthy debate during the opposition's work for them. >> biden's who have been looking at and i wanted a strong performance. if he can't handle a debate between democrats, how will he perform when trouble comes at him. trump, also watching and tweeted during the debate, will have his chance to respond tonight during a campaign rally

in cincinnati. laura podesta, cbs news, detroit. right now, where fact checking some of the claims made against senator kamala harris in the debate and we will have much more on that story coming up on the kpix5 news at 5:00 and online at kpix.com. a gas pipeline exploded in kentucky this morning, causing a massive fireball large enough to show up on radar. a woman is dead and five are injured. first responders said the flames shot up to 300 feet into the air and could be seen throughout the county. the explosion destroyed five homes and left the surrounding landscape barren. >> it woke us up with a big roar and fire in the sky as far as you could see. >> i thought it was a bomb. a big cloud of smoke.

i knew it was a gas line. >> authorities have confirmed that all missing persons have been accounted for and multiple agencies are investigating the cause of that explosion. still ahead, preparing for california's fire season. current and former governors highlighting new technology. why a former nfl player is the latest to join the thousands suing the company behind a popular weedkiller. it's 12:10 and the sky still looks like this. a deep marine layer hanging on and it's not for everybody but i will show you when that finally goes away and what it means for daytime highs, coming right up.

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new at noon, we are getting our first look at cal fire's new firefighting equipment for this year's wildfires season. it's at mcclellan air force base, east of sacramento and governor gavin newsom and former governor arnold schwarzenegger saw the aviator training and toured a c-130 air tanker, one of seven large firefighting aircraft being acquired by cal fire with new funding. >> cal fire flies more planes, this type and other types, than any other firefighting force in the world. we are only adding to that. seven of these c-130s are being procured as we speak in the first are coming out in 2021. >> we are now getting blackhawk helicopters, which is really fantastic. they can fly at night and can dump fire retardant at night.

back yesterday, legislation was approved to invest nearly $1 billion in emergency preparedness and response with nearly 400 additional seasonal firefighters being hired. a former nfl player joins thousands of people suing the company behind roundup, a popular weedkiller with a chemical possibly linked to cancer. former pittsburgh steelers running back, merril hoge, said he developed non-hodgkin's and form a as a direct result of being exposed to the herbicide and who was diagnosed in 2003 and declared cancer free five years later but said he only recently realized the diagnosis could be related to exposure to roundup. he first used it in the late 70s while working on an idaho ranch. >> how do you know it was roundup that caused your cancer? >> the only thing i can tell you is that talking to doctors, that was the first thing -- >> what did they tell you? >> were you ever around pesticides or chemicals like roundup?

>> he is now suing monsanto, owned by bayer and claims it's dangerous to human health and unfit to be marketed and sold. in 2015, the cancer research agency classified glyphosate as a probable cause of cancer and merril hoge is more than one of 18,000 claimants and bayer has lost three court cases with damages totaling more than $190 million. in a statement, bayer said we have great sympathy for any individual with cancer but the extensive body of science on glyphosate-based herbicides over four decades supports the conclusion that roundup does not cause non-hodgkin's lymphoma but the environmental protection agency said the chemical posed no risk of concern for people exposed to it. looking at the big board, a rough get the stock market and the dow jones is down almost three points.

new at noon, san francisco has a new street name and you can see signage for warriors way near the chase center and chase center and it intersects with frangoise boulevard, the new state-of-the-art's sports building will open september 6. >> it looks pretty cool. the clouds are out there, still lingering. right over chase center and the peninsula and even the east bay, look at the clouds holding strong here. holding on a little later than normal and still pretty good depth with the salesforce tower out there and you cannot see the top of it. the transamerica tower sticking out and it will burn off over the next few hours and most of us will be able to see the sunset but i will give you the time for that and the sun rise tomorrow. 75 in concord, in the 50s in

san francisco and 67 in oakland. sunset time, 8:18, one minute earlier than last night and a sunrise, 6:13, one minute later. a really impressive marine layer is surging in through the golden gate and you can see it centered in the east bay but over the last three hours, the entire napa valley was filled in and it's fascinating to watch that it will take up the entire valley and sonoma county was just cleared out. back in the bay, it's the east bay, the city and down the peninsula and it will stay like this for a little while but we will burn this back over the next few hours and as a result, the daytime highs are below average parade the coolest of the next four days. 80 in san jose, 65 in the city and the warmer inland spots like concord and santa rosa are in the upper 80s with those numbers climbing. tomorrow, and for the weekend, the other thing to update you on is there is a lot going on in the central pacific was two

tropical storms and one a hurricane, hurricane erick and then we have flossy behind it. tracking hurricane eric, it is hawaii and as we bring it forward, hurricane eric may have an uptick in the waves or rain on the south tip of the big island and checking on flossie, it takes longer but then it will miss, coming a little closer but skirting north. sometimes it seems like hawaii is just blessed with these hurricanes or they are working out that way. mid-90s for the weekend and then the mid-80s by the middle of next week. the warmest day is on saturday and it won't be like last weekend. >> that's good. an old steel foundry in berkeley declares bankruptcy and shuts down but leaves behind a toxic mess. >> before it's cleaned up, the city issued a license for a computer recycling company to move in and start operating. >> my greatest fear is that one of us gets sick as a result of

the toxins on site. >> did the city have a duty to warn about a potentially toxic workplace? that's tonight on the new kpix5 news at 7:00. still ahead, how inmates came out of jail better than when they entered. one bay woman areas mission. if you have a consumer problem or question, you can email us or call our hotline. we'll be right back.

san francisco county has spent nearly 40 years pioneering ways to shut the revolving door of inmates going in and out of jail. >> that's thanks to a woman with a vision. we have this week's jefferson award winner. >> reporter: she speaks to inmates in a classroom at the county jail in san bruno, a far cry from the jail of years passed. >> traditional incarceration was about playing cards and dominoes and watching bad tv and never looking in the mirror to say, what have i done. >> reporter: as the program director under former sheriff mike hennessey in the 1980s, sunny schwartz and he cofounded programs to change lives. >> restorative justice is about

making it right and including everyone impacted by violence and other crimes. >> reporter: one program resolve to stop the violence project or rsvp, in 1997, did something radical each week, putting inmates face-to-face with violent crime survivors. >> it's an opportunity for the men in the program to stand in the shoes who've been violated and hearing the horrible impact of their crime. >> reporter: she also founded five key schools and programs in 2003 and the first high school within a jail that since expanded into dozens of jails and communities in california. >> it serves 4000 people a day and is awarded more than 2800 high school diplomas or ged equivalents. >> reporter: the programs are models for the nation, according to the executive director, steve good. >> we are reducing recidivism rates for the graduates, 30%. >> reporter: the current share

of credits determination. >> at the bottom, there is a place of her deep caring for everybody. >> reporter: for these programs to transform the lives of inmates in san francisco county and beyond, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to sunny schwartz. sharon chin, kpix5. >> you can nominate your own hero at kpix.com/hero. >> of the mr. favorite cbs shows last sunday, due to breaking news, you can catch up on the latest episodes by going to cbs.com. we will be right back.

coming up at 5:00, thousands of bay area homes are at risk of flooding because of rising sea levels. the alarming prediction about climate change affecting homeowners in the not too distant future and those stories and lots more at 5:00. that will do it for us at kpix news at noon. . the bold and the beautiful is coming up next. enjoyed the rest of your thursday.

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