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it appears he was mistakenly given a supervised job taking trash outside the building. >> we are conducting our internal investigation. clearly this person could represent a danger to law enforcement and the public. >> law enforcement said they seized drugs and firearms last year from his home, including assault rifles. his attorney visited here ten days ago and said there were no signs he planned an escape. >> last june inmate timothy midget disappeared from the jail 10 days. that prompted changes on how trustee inmates are supposed to be managed. >> whether or not any of those procedures were violated remains to be uncovered in the internal investigation. >> gonzales' attorney says he is not a danger to the public or police. >> he's not a gang member.
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and if he's in a position where he's about to be apprehended or trapped in some awkward situation, he can be reasoned with. >> gonzales was due in court april 7th for a plea deal discussion with federal prosecutors which we are told would entail significant prison time. sheriff's department says anyone who spots gonzales should avade contact with him and call 911. now to vallejo where authorities are looking for clues that could lead to a woman that may have been kidnapped for a ransom. spoke to the woman's father today and is at the home where the woman was last seen, ali. >> that home is right behind us. we are on kirkland and reeves on mirror island in have a hey
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ho. -- vallejo. police say they are treating this as a kidnapping for ransom case and they have asked the department of justice and the fbi for help. search and rescue crews come through the marsh land behind a home looking for any clues in the disappearance of 29-year- old denise. >> i know the kind of person she is and i know she's fighting. she's fighting. i know that. and so that gives me a lot of confidence because i know what kinds of person she is. >> huskins father said his daughter moved to the bay area to work as a physical therapist. yesterday afternoon huskins boyfriend said she had been force i believely removed from the home. the boyfriend didn't report the kidnapping until 2:00 that afternoon. >> the only thing that would make any sense to me from that delay would be if he was constrained some way and couldn't do anything.
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but other than that, that doesn't make any sense to me at all. >> police say they have interviewed the boyfriend but at this point he is not a person of interest. police would not say whether they had seen or received a ransom note. >> we have a lot of information still to sift through. we don't have all of the facts in yet and that's what he's helping us do. >> next door neighbor patrick says he heard nothing overnight to indicate any struggle. he says huskins boyfriend has lived in the home for the past 3 to 4 years and also worked as a physical therapist. >> he seems like a regular guy. he jogs, has friends come over. >> huskins father said he never met his daughter's boyfriend but they had been dating for several months and she seemed happy. >> denise wouldn't be in a relationship where there's turmoil. she's not that person. she would walk away from that.
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>> i also spoke briefly with huskins uncle. he said the family definitely has doubts about the kidnapping story but at this point he's not sure what is true but the family is very glad that police, state authorities are involved in this. it looks like they are getting ready to open this street up shortly. ali, thank you. people who live in an east bay neighborhood are struggling to come to grips with a horrible accident that claimed the life of an expectant mother. a gravel truck tipped over crushing a car and the young woman inside. neighbors were outraged today when the construction work resumed just one day after the death of 32-year-old lindsey colmes. >> how dare you have somebody die and not have some respect
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for the dead. >> martinez police told investigators someone working with the jjr construction crew asked colmes to move her car just before the accident. investigators are now trying to find out why. also today family members confirmed that colmes, a mother of a 4-year-old daughter was 2 months pregnant with her second child. state lawmakers held a hearing today on the recent surge in gas prices. members of a group called consumer watch dog presented a report saying oil companies are gaging californians. >> crude oil costs the same in california. this is really about oil companies making big profits. the senate committee agrees with our report that all of this extra money is going right into the pockets of the oil refiners. >> gas prices shot up about a dollar in the last month and are now about 85-cents higher than the rest of the country. state officials say californians typically pay more
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for cleaner burning gas but this latest surge is well above normal. california may one day have the same sort of voter registration signed into law in oregon. pushing for so called motor voter registration. people who get their registrations are automatically registered to vote. dmv officers are already required to give them the option to register. if it was automatic more people might go to the polls. officially endorsed rick arrested ricardo's budget plan, includes money to hire more police officers. ricardo says he wants to fund programs for young people and expand library hours to 6 days a week. >> investing in jobs for teens, getting a lot of teens in gang impacted neighborhoods a
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chance. these are the kinds of investments we know if properly targeted can improve opportunity certainly for a lot of families that are struggling at the same time we improve safety. >> tomorrow the police union and city leaders are scheduled to meet to discuss hiring more officers. just minutes from now the california public utility commission is scheduled to have a hearing on whether to allow water prices to go up. it provides water to a million people all over the bay and wants to raise rates next year. explains that the rate hike isn't because of the drought. >> it's one of our most precious resources, a critical need now customers in the south bay will likely have to shell more money or for it. the water retailer is proposing a rate increase. 5% in 2018, it's a cumulative
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20% increase in the next 3 years. >> all water utilities are facing the same issues in terms of older infrastructure. >> that means the prices are trickling down to the customers. the main reason is the old water system. >> last summer you reported a lot on the leaks. this is what it goes to pay. it goes to replace those pipes so we don't have leaks continually occurring in the system. >> last august told you about neighbors in will owe glen complaining about a broken water ground pipe. water company on average gets 850 leaks a year. >> i think with the drought going on a price increase may just increase people's awareness to conserve water. >> to give you perspective, says a customer's average water bill is about $80 a month.
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if that 12% rate hike is approved the customer would end up paying $115 more a year j too much money and it's not the right time because the economy is not bad. the water should not be going up. they just did. >> in response the water company says it offers a low income assistance program. the public utilities commission will make a final decision later this year. the santa clara water district plans to talk about how to deal with the drought tonight. members are scheduled to discuss the water conservation goal to 30%. it has been 20%. the board is also considering rules to limit outdoor watering to just 2 days a week. a 9-year-old boy collapses on a school playground. now 2 teachers are being called heros. >> i saw his eyes rolling back in his head and we knew it was life or death at a time. >> the training and technology
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today a search and rescue effort led to an arrest as ktvu's john reports, one of the people missing was trying not to be found. >> the hills on beach are prime for people to hike and that's what 2 men and a woman decided to do. >> they had come to the county to hike. >> at some point they got separated and the woman apparently got lost in the area. the men went to a fire station
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for help and went back out to search for her and he was missing as well. >> search crews arrived at 5:00 this morning, jogging some of the trails in the area. they were unsuccessful in trying to locate the two individual. >> steve: the man later returned. eventually the woman named jennifer bear returned to the car and that's where it gets weird. >> apparently she was not as lost as first believed and the fact of the matter is that she was trying to avoid contact with law enforcement. >> because of an outstanding warrant yet despite that she was allowed to leave. >> she has been released at this point. >> which i was told is not uncommon for minor warrants. but she turned up again. the crews saw bear and the men once again. >> i just don't want to talk. >> but you get to talk to me. >> this time they arrested her because the county wanted her
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cited. they described her ordeal after she was separated from her friends. >> i just climbed up to the top of the road and it was dark. i didn't know where we were parked until the sun came up. >> bear said she was busted for shoplifting a few years back. >> i have done time for it. i went to court for it and then i didn't do any community service. >> which is why she had the warrant. officials brought her to the jail where she was released. state senator mark leno of san francisco says he wants to bring california out of the digital dark ages. leno is proposing a bill that would require police to get search warrants before getting knives from someone's cell phone. he said police need warrants to read your mail so why not e- mails and texts. leno said his legislation would allow for warrant searches only if a life is at risk.
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new at 6:00 a #-year-old boy in intensive care after collapsing on a school playground. but his family says if it wasn't for 2 quick thinking teachers it might have been much worse. tonight those teachers are being hailed as heros. >> rob spoke to them about what they did that saved that little boy's life. >> they are more than just teachers to one family of a 4 4th grade boy here. much more. >> they are seriously heros in our eyes. >> 9-year-old benny was just finishing recess yesterday morning when he collapsed. >> he was face down, very limp. so i the first thing i did was check to see if he had a pulse and there was nothing there. >> benny's 4th grade teacher also ran to him. >> i saw his eyes rolling back in his head and we knew it was life or death at a time. >> the teachers knew they had to perform cpr. pressing on the boy's chance while skull kept careful count
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of those compressions. >> i thought we were going to lose him and he would pass away. so at that point it was terrifying. >> benny was hanging on. minutes later paramedics took over and air lifted him to the children's hospital. he is still in intensive care but is no longer critical. his family says he's awake and alert thanks for 2 teachers. >> if it wasn't for them knowing how to perform cpr, benny could not be here today. he's our world. he's our everything. >> under state law public school teachers must be cpr certified in order to get their teaching credential but there's no requirement they maintain their certificate. although these teachers have kept that. >> you kind of have that thought, can i do it. >> family says the heart condition he has may have caused the problem he had yesterday. >> my sister yesterday was trying to write them a letter
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and she just, you know, she couldn't keep tears from noticing. >> it is just the best feeling in the world to know he is okay. >> a good teacher can shape children's lives and some can even save them. what a great story and they were watching, they were on him like that. alert and ready to go. >> that is really something. >> we wish little vinny all the best, great recovery. let's go find out what our weather is going to be like. it was a weird kind of day today. >> definitely a transition day. we had a few cloud but it didn't warm up that much. a little bit of drizzle showed up, mist if you will showed up at the coast and the north bay. but this is the sort of transition to the nicer weather as you see a little bit warmer today than yesterday in some places. outside it still has that look. this is a very wintery looking sky actually and there are lots
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of clouds out there but the dynamics that would provide rain is not. hence you just see this kind of mass of clouds floating around in the upper atmosphere. so if we look at the highs currently right now they pop in 68 in fair field. so as we go through the next couple of days a warming trend. san francisco, 69 degrees tomorrow for a daytime high. a few clouds to start out with but then by lunchtime it should start to be sunny. oakland, up to 73 degrees and mostly sunny so that's your wednesday afternoon. and in san jose, slightly warmer. mostly sunny skies by lunchtime in san jose. there's no rain in the forecast. pollen counts are up. maybe some coastal fog. there's the computer model. that's how you know. when you see this line of
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clouds that's not filtering, you know it's fog so the model just stops right here. so that's just, you wouldn't know that unless i told you most likely. so when you see the fog you know you have a stable environment and you know you are going to start to warm up. so let's see what happens on wednesday afternoon. watch what happens thursday. the fog comes back like that. it's the high pressure pushing the fog down creating the fog and allowing it to kind of squish through the gaps. when i see that i go, it's going to be warmer. you don't even need a computer model necessarily to know you are going to get temperatures on thursday into the mid-80s in spots. i do that a lot with the golden gate bridge when you look over there and see the fog at the deck. fog -- you know high pressure is in the area. 77 in antioch.
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75 in danville. that's how they used to do it in the old days. there are a lot of things you can do. you don't need computer models. you can track the wind, a lot of things. 5 day forecast, thursday is your warmest day. the week not bad either. julie, we were talking about spring break, when areor kids off. >> not until the first week in april. >> we all saying all the spring breaks look warm and dry believe it or not. thank you, bill. organizers for the outside land festival released the line up today. >> okay kids, i found out today. >> funny or die posted an official video promotion that mentions many of the performers. the complete list is about 70 names long and at the top of that list, elton john, sam smith, the festival is set for
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august 7, 8, 9 and tickets go on sale this thursday at 10:00 a.m. giants fans, ear must haves, la dodgers making another splash signing a big time cuban prospect. also coming back to the nfl. right now it's time to check in with -- with what we are looking at. >> coming up at 7:00, more on the search for the bay area women police say may have been kiss kidnapped for ransom. also an airline slams into the mountains in the swiss alps. we're learning who may have been on board. coming up.
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well, look at this, x file fans the truth is out there and here it is, the cult favorite is making a return to tv13 years after the series ended and you can watch 6 new episodes right here. they begin production this summer. it's the work of original executive producer -- stars jillian anderson will return as fbi agents. x files debuted on fox in 1993
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and ran for 9 seasons and i remember when i started here it was huge on the weekends. >> mark is here now with sports. for a time ray mcdonald was having trouble finding work but now he's back in the nfl. >> evidently legal problems don't matter to the chicago bears at all as the former 39ers defensive tackle has found himself a job in the windy city and the chicago bears ink him to a one year deal if he passes a physical. remember he was released after a serious accusation, involving one of them a domestic violence, a sexual assault allegation. neither of which he has been legally found guilty of, of course. mcdonald rejoins former offensive line coach who is now the head coach of the chicago bears. meanwhile the dodgers signed and got hold of cuban refugee
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-- and they are hoping to do it again and man are they shelling out some major money to do it. this time they are spending $62.5 million to sign the infielder by the name of hector ole vary i don't and the deal also includes a 28 million- dollar signing bonus. the hang up, is fact that he is 29 years old. so they are taking quite a gamble on a guy who is not exactly a spring chicken by baseball standards. the as off to a nice start here. trailing 1-0 but ben on first as steven vote crams a 2 run homer on blake parker. 3rd inning, marcus on second, steven vote again his first homer of the spring, 2 run shot as the as stack on 14 hits, beat the cubs, the giants meanwhile will start their ball game tonight against the indians, just about the time
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the warriors get underway in portland hoping to continue their winning ways. highlights at 10:00. that's the sporting line now. 29 years old and you're not exactly a spring chicken. >> on baseball vocabulary, middle age. >> thanks, mark. coming up tonight on the 10:00 news, the fire we told you about. firefighters tell us one person is still unaccounted for. they are working to gather the latest information from the scene. we will see you at 10:00 with that.
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ed dvds that haven't paid for them? claire... um, yeah. i guess i could stop by on my way to school. really, really important. um, uh, cheryl can i call you back? okay. great. bye. yes? what? hey, yeah... i was going through your drawer in the bathroom looking for some lip stuff because my... lips were dry. god, you know me. phil... remember the spa certificates we got at the children's hospital auction? mm-hmm. well, look at this-- they expire tomorrow. oh, wow. what are you gonna do? claire, i don't think you're grasping the magnitude of this package, valued at over $250. sweetie... if you don't use them, then all our money just goes to charity. and so what am i supposed to do? somewhere between dropping off alex at orchestra and picking up luke from practice-- oh, and burning a bunch of dvds of the talent show
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