tv KPIX 5 News CBS July 16, 2022 6:00am-7:00am PDT
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news. >> right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbs news bay area, sfo's terminal is opening back up after a bomb scare pushed hundreds of people to evacuate. >> my life, that's how i live. jewelry dealers are distressed after millions in merchandise were stolen. we're hearing from one of the victims. poor air quality over the weekend. this morning, there is a new fire that smolders and blanketed the east bay for weeks. good morning. i'm devin fehely. let's start with our weather and first alert meteorologist darren peck. >> good morning. we've crossed over a threshold after sunrise, exactly at 6:00. it was 5:59 yesterday and in the 5:00 hour. today, it happens exactly at
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6:00 a.m. beautiful view. yes, it is cloudy. that's the view over the south bay. we're waking up to low clouds, but if you're inland, you're waking up to clear skies today. a little bit of fog for part of the north bay valleys. petaluma, show you more on that. temperatures out in the mid 50s now. if we look where we're going to daytime highs, we'll see more sunshine than anything else by early afternoon, and it'll be hot inland today. mid 90s. get everybody's forecast in a few minutes. devin, back to you. this is a live look at sfo. police are letting people back into the international terminal after a bomb threat prompted evacuations last night. the airport tweeted out two hours ago it is resuming, quote, normal operations. earlier, hundreds of passengers were cqueued at the internationl terminal after a bomb threat led police to a device.
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police haven't given details to a suspect's identity. screenings have resumed and reopened. everything has restarted. sfo says to check with your airline before heading to the airport. a multi-million dollar heist. betty yu reports a number of vendors say their life's work was gone, stolen from an armored truck. >> reporter: these one of a kind pieces are among the pricey jewels stolen out of a brinx truck. i belonged to this jeweler who doesn't want us to share his name. as much as $150 million lost in the heist.
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>> that's how i live. >> reporter: the san mateo event center. >> reporter: manufacture was loaded onto the truck headed for the convention center. there is not a showroom. all the business is done by traveling to sell one by one. >> reporter: the fbi is working with the sheriff's county department on the case. jewelers haven't been able to get an answer from brinx. >> sometimes they're returning your calls, but there is no information. >> reporter: about two dozen lockers were stolen from the armored vehicle early monday morning. some of the vendors built their inventory over 40 years.
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>> it's their whole life. some of these people are completely done at this point. it's really sad. >> reporter: betty yu, kpix 5. >> we did reach out to brinks for comment. they referred our request to the media relations department. so far, no word from them. people in east contra costa county are being asked to stay indoors because of a fire that's burned for six weeks, producing toxic smoke. da lin on why firefighters say relief may finally be on the way. >> reporter: a nice, warm day outside. marco ramos chooses to stay in the garage to work on the motorcycle. >> we don't want to step outside sometimes with corona going on, the monkeypox, then the fire. >> reporter: he and his family live near the so-called marsh fire. it is raining ash in the neighborhood. >> it is affecting us because we can't go outdiside.
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when you do, you can smell the smoke, see the smoke. it burns my throat a lot. just breathing it in. >> watery, my eyes are watery. >> reporter: the marsh fire has been burning since may 28th, more than a month and a half ago. it started at a bay point homeless encampment. it wiped out the encampment. no one was injured, but the fire grew to about 200 acres. firefighters say it is burning within the perimeter, so it is not growing in size. it's not threatening nearby homes. >> what we're seeing is not necessarily large, active flames that are consuming vegetation. we're seeing this fire burning down in the earth and really off-gassing in the form of smoke. >> reporter: deputy chief aaron mccallister says because the fire is burning underneath and the soil is unstable, they've been unsuccessful putting out the fire with helicopter drops. >> equipment could be sunk down into the ground, or the heat could burn the tires on the vehicle. the same thing for firefighters. it does present a risk for
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firefighters and, therefore, flooding is our best option. >> reporter: workers opened the floodgates friday morning, releasing hundreds of gallons of water every minute into the burning wetlands in bay point and pittsburg. the plan is to flood the area with 2 inches of water. since they're pumping from the delta, it took a while to get the state and federal agencies to sign off on the matter. firefighters say people should see relief in the next week. they'll flood the wetland area the next five days to try to pet out the fire. in pittsburg, da lin, kpix 5. a wildfire in shasta county triggered evacuations and has destroyed several homes. this is happening in the town of anderson. that is south of reading. the peter fire has grown to more than 300 akers cres and a burni across challenging terrain. 12 buildings have burned, including several homes. many people are without power after pg&e switched off some
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lines as a precaution. right now, the fire is 34% contained. the fire burned through part of the tortoise acres rescue center that houses an it wills. they were loaded onto a truck. firefighters in yosemite say they're not out of the woods yet. the mariposa grove of sequoia trees is so far safe. evacuees could return home by tomorrow. right now, the fire is 35% contained. in washington, the house committee investigating the attack on the capitol has sent a subpoena to the secret service. the panel wants to see relevant text messages that were erased pertaining to the events of january 6th, 2021. the subpoena was issued hours after the watchdog for the department of homeland security briefed the committee about the allegations. the messages were reportedly
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deleted as part of a device replacement program. they were buying new cell phones. the secret service has faced questions after cassidy hutchinson testified last month. she was a top aide to white house chief of staff mark meadows. during her testimony, hutchinson said that she was told that former president trump tried to force his security detail to take him to the capitol on january 6th. new this morning, president biden is on the final leg of his trip in the middle eastment he is meeting in saudi arabia with leaders of egypt, iraq, and the united arab emirates. he is trying to strike a deal to get more oil to the uted statle furthering security in the region, while affirming his commitment to human rights. we have the latest on the president's efforts. >> reporter: it was a fist bump scene around the world. president biden greeting saudi crown prince, mohammed bin
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salman, in jetta, saudi arabia, friday. a sign of respect for a man the president once denounced after u.s. intelligence confirmed mbs, as he is known, ordered the 2018 murder of one of his critics, "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. >> he basically said that he was not personally responsible for it. i indicated i thought he was. i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on the issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are and who i am. >> reporter: the fist bumping continued with the president's top advisers. the criticism was immediate. khashoggi's fiance tweeted a photoshoped image of what the deceased journalist might have thought of the meeting. writing, the blood of the next victim sis on your hands. the administration hopes to broker a boost in oil production to lower gas prices. opec is expected to discuss the issue next month. president biden walked away
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without any major announcements. back i president's plan to move towards clean energy took a major blow. >> they knew exactly the concern i had. >> reporter: democratic senator joe manchin told a west virginia radio station he won't support a bill with the president's climate agenda because he fears new spending will make inflation worse. >> inflation is absolutely killing many, many people. >> reporter: with no republican support, any democratic opposition blocks the bill in the evenly divided senate. deborah alfarone, cbs news, washington. the president said the united states will not walk away from the middle east, as he pledged u.s. involvement in the region. he will be returning to washington later today. closer to home, gas prices in california have finally fallen below $6. the statewide average now stands at $5.95 for a gallon of regular. nationwide, the average dropped to below $5 to $4.57. gas prices have dropped in each
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of the last 30 days. time now is 6:11. ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbs news bay area, how a new hotline could help people dealing with mental health challenges. real-life lassie story. meet the canine hero that led rescuers to an injured hiker deep in the woods. a live look outside before we head to break.
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welcome back. time is 6:15. a new national suicide and crisis lifeline is launching today. people can call or text 9 988 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. counselors are on standby to handle general mental health concerns and help those in crisis. we do want to note that kpix 5's shawn chitnis spoke with someone who once contemplated suicide, so that could have an impact on some viewers. here's that report. >> reporter: those who have been in crisis and experts in mental health agree, if someone is having suicidal thoughts, every little step you can take could be the difference in saving their life. the hope is 988 will be part of the process in improving resources and making it easier to access that help. >> in those moments of darkness, which, you know, happen since 2020, i could not see any future. i could not see that i could
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exist or live. >> reporter: remi is a leader in the trans community. she started a non-profit to help others get the visibility they need in the bay area. but she says the struggles her own community faces made her suicidal during the pandemic. >> when you are in that moment what i have been personally, it's really hard to find or think properly to find those resources. >> we don't reach out for help enough, and it's there, certainly. >> reporter: making the number only three digits should be easier to remember and will likely increase calls. >> there are trained, you know, folks out there who can really help get you through those rough patches. >> reporter: in santa clara county, they expect calls will double in the first year of 988, so they're already preparing to increase staff if needed. >> really, if you are experiencing emotional distress, worry, fearfulness for yourself or a loved one or a friend, call
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988. >> there could be some challenges ahead without a state number sent to call centers not in california. but non-profits working to improve suicide prevention say this is a major step forward. >> we're making mental health care eeasier to access for peope who may not have been able to get it before. >> being able to stay in community and hear about other people's struggles and know i'm not alone. >> reporter: for remi, it was talking to the right people that got her on the path to better mental health. which she agrees could start, for some, by just dialing three digits. shawn chitnis, kpix 5. >> now, along with 988, there is the peer-run line open to anyone in california. the non-emergency number is on your screen. it's 855-845-7415. again, 855-845-7415. to speak the a counselor for mental and emotional support.
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happening today, we'll get a first chance to check out a brand-new park in san francisco. this one has been a long time coming. it opens to the public on sunday, featuring 14 acres of parkland on top of the tunnels leading to and from the golden gate bridge. the park will have spectacular views of the bay, a children's play area, space for food trucks. planning for the park began in 2014. a ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled for today at 10:00 a.m. all right. now we have the light of day showing up here, i want to get an update on the nuisance smoke which has now become more of a health concern for anybody who has to breathe the air in for the east bay. that is the view, taking a look out towards the marsh, just towards the north of pitts bbur there. you can see the camera there, showing the orientation there. we're in the hills above clayton looking out over pittsburg. there is the delta. can you see the smoke in the view there? if you can't, watch what happens if we time lapse this. as the sun comes up, we'll get a
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little better light on it. now, you can see what we're still putting into the air there. there's still enough smoke getting put into the sky for this part of the bay this morning, that air quality is a concern. it typically is worse in the morn hing hours, like it is now. if we look at the network of air quality sensors, look at the green for everybody until you down over here, downwind of the smoke coming off the fire. the marsh fire north of pittsburg, right there. colors shade into orange and red the farther downwind you get and the closer you get to the hills. just to the south of antioch up into the hills, we have air quality sensors down there reading unhealthy or unhealthy for sensitive groups. you know the drill, we're not done with this. the wind is not terribly strong out here. come for a close-up look and watch how this behaves the rest of today. you don't necessarily need very strong wind. we'll have issues with air quality. pretty time lapse of the sunrise
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this morning. that's the marine layer which has much of the immediate bay under gray skies this morning. that's the view from underneath our roof looking up. you've got to be right in the immediate bay to be waking up to skies like that. if you are inland, you have clear skies, with the exception of a small patch of some of our north bay valleys. petaluma, the visibility is reading down to a little less than a mile. plan on encountering patchy fog in the north bay valleys. other than that, we're okay. low to mid 50s about anywhere you go. santa rosa is a cool 48. daytime highs today? whatever few clouds we've got out there are gone by the time we get to late morning. it is more sunshine than anything else today and a little warmer than yesterday was. now, dramatically, not much, few degrees warmer. mid 80s. palo alto, 82 today. numbers for the inland east bay communities, mid 90s for some of
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the warmer spots. walnut creek, 92. dublin, 90. east bayleandro, 76. low 80s for san rafael. low 90s through sonoma county. mendocino county. the seven-day forecast, we don't see a dramatic shift here. we get a little cooler, in fact, for much of the rest of this week. back down to the low 80s for san jose for much of this week instead of mid 80s today. when we look at the micro cli climates, the warmest climates in the east bay, 90s. then the mid to upper 80s for the rest of the seven-day forecast after today. devin. >> today is the hottest day, and then it begins to come down, at least a little. >> not bad. when i check back in the next forecast, though, the long-range forecast after the seven-day, which does look good, you're right, but after that seven-day, we could be in for a noticeable warmup. that's a little farther down the road. rest of the week looks okay.
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>> time for you to tinker with things and bring it down. >> i know. i'll work on that. >> there you go. a remarkable rescue played out on the sierra all thanks to a special collie. we have details on what is being described as a real-life lassie story. >> reporter: it's like a scene from a tv show. >> lassie! >> reporter: "lassie" aired on cbs for 17 seasons, and though there is no sign of a reboot, one dog in nevada county could be ready to take on the role. >> we think abilitout the movie "lassie" and timmy in the well. >> reporter: in this story, it's not a brown collie named lassie. a border collie helped save his owner's life. cal fire was called in to help with the search and rescue mission after a 53-year-old man fell off a cliff in the tahoe national forest. >> he'd reported that he had fallen 70 feet, had broken ribs and a broken hip. >> reporter: he was calling on his cell phone?
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>> called 911 on his cell phone. >> reporter: the call dropped. search and rescue contacted the victim's friend, who pointed them toward the man's campsite. >> as our searchers got to the area and found his camp, it is only accessible on foot, they couldn't find him. they thought they could hear a voice, but they couldn't determine where the voice is coming from. so t spread o and stasechg the hor jne t sech. t , w jumping up and down and spinning around in circles. >> reporter: nevada county sheriff's deputy, sergeant hack, responders knew to pay attention. >> he ran about 20 feet away from them, stopped and looked back at them, and they took that as he was trying to lead them to the victim. >> reporter: saul did. the man was found with serious injuries and flown to a local hospital in a chp helicopter, luck ca lucky to be alive.
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>> we're told the dog was given well-deserved treats for his efforts. sports is coming up next. here's a look at what we have for you. james wiseman in action. a tiger watch at st. andrews. plus, the san francisco giants did something they have not done in nearly 50 mornings are our time, and i couldn't let stiff joints slow me down. so i started taking osteo bi-flex every day because it has joint shield... ...clinically shown to improve joint comfort within 7 days. osteo bi-flex - available at your local retailer and club. a new chevy is the smart way to hit the open road this summer. the smart way to road trip—. ♪♪ and seek new adventures. ♪♪ go a little farther this summer in a new chevy. find new get up and go. find new roads. enjoy the open road and make no monthly payments for the rest of summer on all 2022 equinox models. plus, get 0% financing when you finance with gm financial. ♪♪
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good morning. let's set up last night's game with the brewers with this. the giants hadn't won a game this year when they were losing entering the ninth inning. that's a subplot within this one. there's 2010 world champ, torrez, in the house. fifth inning, routine ground ball turns into trouble. bobbles it with two outs. inning would have been over. instead, the brewers score five runs after the error. giants enter the bottom of the ninth down two. darin ruf makes it a one-run
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game with the solo shot. brewers lockdown closer and all-star josh hater is in trouble. meeting at the mound. see ya! a few batters later, the bases loaded, why not? how about a walk-off grand slam? giants take it 488-5. the first walk-off grand slam for san francisco since bobby bonds in 1973. a's in houston. who says the extended netting hurt the fan experience? he used the net to catch it. seventh inning, down a run. elvis lops it into the field. a bobble allows a couple runs to score. ninth inning. the crescendo, a big, booming two-run homer. a's win, 5-1. they'll get two chances to take the series against the als-leading astros this weekend. another rough round for tiger. he shot a 3 over 75 and missed
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the cut. didn't like that shot. but you would have thought he was winning the tournament on the emotional walk up 18. worthy of the final strides at the old course. woods said he thinks he may not be able to physically play when the open returns to st. andrews. as for the field, the weather was a factor for everyone, even the fans. tough day to wear a poncho. shot of the day, viktor hovland in the rough on 15. no problem. check this out. rolls in for eagle. he's like, i saw it go up, but did it go in? cam smith on 14. reads the green cover to cover. no! stop it. rolls it in for the eagle. >> look at this. >> add that to his six birdies, and you get a round of 64. the aussie is 13 under. he takes a two-shot lead into this weekend. summer league now. this looks a lot like a lot of folks at the vegas airport sunday morning. james wiseman playing in his
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third summer league game. co kamminga, spin and the slam. 16 points and a one-handed jam here. matt running the offense. how about the houdini-like no-look pass? james wiseman, the beneficiary. he throws it down with two hands. 14 points, 7 rebounds for wiseman in 21 minutes. thunder beat the warriors in the game, 90-82. it's summer league. once the warriors weren't winning the rings, at this point, he just wanted to see the guys look good. james wiseman looked good, his best summer league game. that does it for sport, everyone. have a great day. coming up on kpix 5 and streaming on cbs news bay area, the international terminal at sfo reopening after a bomb threat forced a shutdown. and an investigation is under way in oakland after an amtrak train slammed into a tractor, sending two people to the hospital.
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live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> welcome back. the time now is 6 v:32. thank you for joining us. i'm devin fehely. let's start with a check of the weather with first alert meteorologist darren peck. >> waking up to gray skies in the immediate bay this morning, devin. everyone else is waking up to sunshine. look at the view from the top of
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the sutro. sunrise at 6:00 in the morning. didn't see it in the bay, but you did if you're inland. i'll show how widespread the clouds are, covering the immediate bay. inland valleys looking at sunsh sunshine. even the north bay valleys, except in petealuma with visibility at less than half a mile. give yourself extra time on the road in the north bay valleys. petaluma is likely not the only spot experiencing that. temperatures in the mid 50s out there now. we get a warm-up today. some of us as much as 7 to 9 degrees warmer today than yesterday. that means we'll be in the mid 90s for many of the warmest inland locations today. mid and upper 70s shoreline. i'll show the daytime high and show everybody's forecast. devin, back to you. this morning, police say the international terminal at sfo is safe after hundreds of passengers evacuated last night because of a bomb threat. authorities located a potential incendiary device and now have one person in custody who is
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connected to the incident. police haven't given further detail on his identity. security screenings, check-in counters, air tran and bart departures are up and running. the airport says that because of international flight disruptions, contact your airline for flight information. six are dead in montana after a dust storm fueled by 60 mile an hour winds caused a pile-up. it happened on interstate 90 friday evening outside of harden. 20 vehicles were involved in the pile-up. video shows hundreds of tractor trailers, campers, and cars backed up for miles along two eastbound lanes. drivers say it was close to impossible to see the road with all the dust. first responders are working to clear the wreckage. in the bay area, investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong when an amtrak tran slammed into a maintenance vehicle. a front-load er was clearing
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debris from the tracks when a tram slammed into it. the operator was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. a train operator was also it cle up hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel skilled in the crash. caltrans plans to shut down an oakland homeless camp that's been the site of many of fires, including one this week that sent a plume over the east bay. several rvs were burned. 880 was actually closed at one point. caltrans posted notices at the site. it plans to shut down the encampment by the first week of august. caltrans says it is cooperating with the city and alameda county to help the nearly 200 people living in the camp find shelter. a midnight deadline has now passed for the santa clara county sheriff to step down or head to trial. the san francisco da's office is serving as the prosecution in the case against lori smith.
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she's accused of seven corruption-related acts, including allegations that she granted concealed weapons permits to donors and political supporters. smith was given a deadline to resign by last night or face trial where she could be forcibly removed. she has already said she will not run for a seventh term. two candidates will face off in the november run-off two replace smith. palo alto police chief johnson and retired sheriff captain kevin jenson. now to the latest on the bay area covid surge. this map shows the counties seeing the biggest per capita spikes over the last week, led by contra costa. hospitalizations remain well below record highs, the test positivity rate is nearing 17%. as kpix 5's max darrow reports, that number probably doesn't tell the whole story. >> reporter: experts know we're in the midst of another covid surge in the bay area. since so many people are testing at home and don't report the
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results, a case count is no longer the best way to measure how much covid is spreading within the community. >> it's been a little over two weeks now, and mostly my lungs are still tight. >> reporter: andy just got over a bout with covid-19. he self-diagnosed with an at-home test kit after feeling sick. >> a lot of people close to me who haven't gotten it these last two years have gotten positive in the last couple weeks. >> this is a major surge we're in right now. we have a lot of cases, a lot of transmission. not a great lock on what the numbers are in reality. >> reporter: dr. rutherford is an epidemiologist. he says there is primarily upside with at-home test kits, but the downside now is it is tough to get a true look at the case count. >> it's not as high as january and december earlier this year and last year, but i think it's close to that high. maybe 65%, 70% of the height. i think we have to really look at the wastewater surveillance to get a real understanding of the magnitude of the current
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surge. >> reporter: marin county and sonoma county have online portals for people to report at-home test results. across the bay area, most don't report their self-test results to county or state. >> i reported it to my physician. i think within 24 or 48 hours. >> reporter: he doesn't know for sure where he picked it up. however -- >> the only places i was around people, around the window of when i had gotten it, was outside. >> reporter: a concert and a rally. some infectious disease experts say the ba.4 and ba.5 subvariants are so transmissible and immune evasive, they recommend masks indoors and at crowded outdoor events. >> even though it feels a little frustrating, i can see why wearing a mask outside right now wouldn't be a terrible idea. >> reporter: mostly better but still on the mend, his advice for anyone who gets sick? >> give yourself permission to rest. >> reporter: on the peninsula, max darrow, kpix 5. >> there are no mask mandates in
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the bay area right now, but the cdc says that should be on your mind, especially indoors. that's because according to cdc guidelines, all bay area counties classify as having high covid community levels. more than half of the country is in that same category. a new development in the effort to get monkeypox vaccines. san francisco health officials say they'd get more than 4,100 doses next week. the city has been pleading with the federal government for a more urgent response. the doses will go into vaccine sites starting next week. a new picture is emerging inside the san francisco district attorney's office. a little more than a week into the job, interim da brooke jenkins named a quartet of women to her management team. gonzalez, the new chief assistant da, is a long-time city prosecutor, covering gang assault, sexual assault, and other violent crimes. she was fired under the former da. nancy tung, special chief of
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prosecutors, covering sensitive cases and leading the office's community partnerships. she ran in 2019, coming in third. tiffany sutton will serve as the chief of alternate programs, as well as leading the juvenile division. she worked in the da's office for 12 years before joining the san francisco police department's crime strategies divi division. jenkins will lead the transition team. she spent over two decades with the da's office before joining the sheriff's office earlier this year. jenkins said in a statement, quote, i promised the public i'd restore accountability and consequences to the criminal justice system while advancing smart reforms s responsibly. my management team will help deliver on that promise. several staffers left over from the former administration announced they're no longer with the da office. a similar staffing shakeup happened when he first took office. coming up, it is not certain
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the final -- it is certainly not the final frontier when it comes to craft beer, but this south bay brew is looking to bring back old memories. a san francisco woman is on a mission to keep local artists from leaving. what they're doing inside of a de-commissioned shipyard. don't forget to join us for a new 7:00 a.m. weekday newscast. find us on pluto tv, channel 3350, and any
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♪ california craft beer week is now under way, and a new micro brew is flying off store shelves in san jose. len ramirez shows how hazy ipa is bringing back clear memories with every sip. >> reporter: well, here we go. frontier village, hazy ipa, cheers. >> cheers. >> reporter: for me, it was a taste of one of san jose's newest and most popular brews. oh, i like that. yeah, that's nice. it's the latest creation of narrative fermentations. it pays homage to the theme park frontier village, which
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entertained bay area families from 1961 to 1980. >> wanted to give some of the locals, put a smile on their face with a little bit of that throwback nostalgia. >> hey, welcome. come on in. >> reporter: but the story of how the beer came to be starts here in the home of retired san jose cop and history buff tim stephens. >> we're in the halfway. we're going to see a couple of very rare frontier village items. >> reporter: tim has one of the largest collections of frontier village memorabilia that can be found anywhere, from a handdrawn pencil map of the park to souvenir oars from the canoe rides. he has a fake rifle that was in the fort-like entrance, and a real old western revolver a marshall used in costume. >> this gentleman heere, he was the first marshall of frontier village. his wife said, after he passed, that he wanted me to have the gun. >> reporter: there's old badges, too many souvenirs to name, and now the beer.
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narrative fermentation says tim's collection was the inspiration for it. >> it brings back a lot of good memories for people. people remember going to the park and having fun. what a safe place it was. all the things there was to do. and i think that is the important part of the nostalgia, is the memories that people have and the way it made them feel. >> reporter: today, there's just these empty fields where frontier village once stood. as for the beer, word is spreading fast, and its limited run, like the park itself, might soon run out. at least for now, frontier village is once again the toast of the town. in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. i'm going to take you back to one of the top stories in our newscast this morning, and really the past several days. that's the bad air quality for many of our residents who live in the east bay, pittsburg, ant antioch. the marsh fire is still putting smoke into the sky this morning.
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that is a live view from our camera on top of the mount diablo. that smoke is going to be an issue for anybody waking up this morning, thinking about maybe doing an early morning job over here. let's go to the air quality center. notice how everybody is waking up to green, until you get here. the marsh fire burning near the power plant just north of pittsburg, and that smoke gets worse as you go downwind. where you see the oranges and the reds on the census down here, not the best time of day. the air quality gets better in the late afternoon as the air is allowed to mix out a little bit, but the early morning hours is usually when the smoke is going to be the most noticeable. the overall perspective, we look at the bay as a whole. the view of mount diablo looking out, it is a very small fire but it is persistently able to put more smoke in the sky. the winds will continue to take it west to east. okay, other things in the sky, for the rest of us, that's what it looks like from the top of
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sutra tower, looking over the immediate bay. most of us are waking up to sunshine today, but we do have some low clouds that have filled in the heart of the bay. that's the view from our roof at kpix, looking at the bay bridge. if you're inland, you're looking at sunny skies. the only place where this is a concern for fog would be in the north bay valleys. petaluma, you are still down below a mile. give yourself extra time if you're out on 101 or really for most of those rural north bay valleys. yau may encounter fog. napa, low clouds filled the valley, as well. you can see that here when we look at the high resolution visible satellite. this is showing you where the cloud is, not necessarily the fog. it is cloudy in napa. it is cloudy over the south bay, but we're not looking at fog there. the low clouds will melt back to the coast, and everybody will have sunshine by the time we get to the late morning and early afternoon today, then a warmup. mid 50s out there now. if we do a comparison on where we are going today, some of us
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warm up nine degrees above where we were yesterday. santa rosa, nine degrees warmer than yesterday. san jose, eight degrees warmer. liver livermore, 92. seven degrees warmer than yesterday. to show you everybody's numbers, south bay numbers will be in the mid to upper 80s. 87 in san jose. 79 in san mateo on the peninsula. hayward, 78. inland valleys of the east bay, mid to upper 90s for the warmest spots. 89 for san ramone. back along the east bay shoreline, san leandro, 76. richmond, 76. 86 in san rafael. noticeably warmer in santa rosa, the mid 90s. upper 90s for the mendocino and. across the seven-day forecast, good news. today is the warmest day. gradually cooler through the san jose, you'll be staying in the low to mid 80s for the
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remainder of the forecast. mid 90s today, cooling down to the mid 80s nfor much of next week. >> where is it hitting the mid 90s today? is that livermore, that area, tri valley? >> also santa rosa. think of the warmest inland locations. santa rosa, concord, livermore, certainly inland, like around brent br brentwood, as well. >> it'll feel like a skillet. thank you. >> for sure. a woman helped keep alive art in the shipyard neighborhood. sharon chin introduces us to the jefferson award winner. >> to me, it has incredible beauty. >> reporter: the ser remenity oe water makes this a perfect backdrop for artists. >> this was the bay right behind it. just so unique, that you just don't have this anywhere else in
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the world. >> reporter: her life's mission is to help its arts community thrive. since 2018, she served as president of the shipyard trust for the arts. >> amazing artists at the shipyard. >> reporter: the non-profit advocates for 300 artists in the shipyard creek studios. >> there is no other space in san francisco for artists that is becoming available, where artists can afford to rent workspace and be creative. live music. >> reporter: she brought in more artists of color and opened more opportunities for exhibits at places like the bay view opera house. >> at the fashion show, the models wore these contraptions on their heads. >> reporter: she helped renovate it before retiring as executive director. >> you can do that. >> reporter: when covid shut down in-person open studio events, barbara got grant funding to build virtual stores, so artists could still sell their work. >> exactly. >> reporter: barbara helped start and expand the artist and residence program. >> she really is very driven.
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>> reporter: malik -- >> making sure that artists get their due justice. >> reporter: -- had free use of a studio for 18 months before he found a permanent space. >> the moment that san francisco loses its artists is the moment that san francisco no longer exists. >> that's going to be thet big repr:ough barba'sool dr get free art less >> aays sto m what make. al wh you teach em? iene >> i t that they can be as great as they want to be. >> reporter: barbara secured grant money. >> okay. >> reporter: so artists like william can get paid teaching the weekly program in the bay view. >> she's amazing with, you know, getting grants and knowing how to really make things happen when it comes to that. i guess that's just her secret sauce. >> i just wanted to do something here where i live. i saw so many things that could
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be improved right here. that's what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. >> reporter: so for building a thriving art community for the hunter's point shipyard area and its neighbors, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to barbara okel. sharon chin, kpix 5. >> barbara is raising money. she wants to buy furniture for a new artist gallery in the shipyard. now, we found out about barbara because someone nominated her. if you'd like to nominate someone for a bay area jefferson award, you can share
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become communities again. that's what i heard this morning, and that's what so touched me about the work being done in san francisco. >> so far, nationwide initiative has invested more than $61 million in 26 cities this year. another lively sunday in san francisco. an oakland-based artist is bringing her distinctive sound to the main stiage. pop meets techno artist, aka spelling, is one of the weekend's headliners. the fwrogrove is a fitting venu because nature is an influence in her music. >> i think my interest in being in the bay area, living here, is you always have access to so much. the trees and eucalyptus groves, it's all, like, readily available. it's part of the reason i've lived here so long. >> dj omar will join her on the main stage. the show starts at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow.
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keeping an eye on the traffic on those bridges this morning. of course, the weather, that's the scene coming in at the toll plaza of the bay bridge. but you will encounter some fog on that other bridge. golden gate bridge showing you gray there. there is fog on the road in some of the north bay valleys. petaluma, visibility is below a mile. north bay valley, plan on a little fog to start your day, but it'll be more sunshine than anything else today.
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noticeably warmer for inland locations. san jose at 86 for the daytime high. as we look at the seven-day forecast, mid 90s inland, east bay and north bay, but you will cool down in the mid 80s for much of the seven-day after this. coming up in our next hour, sfo's international terminal is back open this morning after a bomb threat last night forced passengers and airline workers to evacuate. and thieves hit jewelry in an armored car heist. a sense of the scale of the devastating losses. that's coming up.
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>> announcer: live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> right now on kpix 5 and new sfo's international terminal is back up to speed this morning after a bomb scare forced hundreds of people to evacuate. sfo's terminal is opening back >> my life, that's how i live. that's how i feed my kids. california jewelry dealers are distract after millions in merchandise was stolen in an armored truck heist. we're hearing from one of the victims. poor air quality over the weekend. this morning, there is a new approach to get a stubborn fire that blan keted t
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