>> andria borba in california. thank you, andria. >>> this morning they're watching what's happening in syria near the border of turkey. despite its opposition on the ground and air strikes cared out by the u.s. coalition, isis fighters are close to gaining control of kubani. the assault has cost hundreds of lives and is putting pressure on turkey to join the alliance fighting the terror group. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. the president of turkey says kubani is about to fall to isis, and while he is at odds with the u.s. about joining the coalition he seems to be in agreement with the officials at the pentagon who says the city cannot be saved through air strikes alone. protests in turkey turned deadly overnight. police used live ammunition to break up kurdish demonstrators protesting against the isis advance on kubani. they're calling on turkey's government to help the band of kurds fighting to maintain control of the border town. turkish forces are standing by

let's check in with andria, she's in the mission. andria how's it looking? "everybody thought that we didn't have it. but you know what, we come back, we're la shark, so it's all good.? .i waited 7 years for this to happen. i was shipped away semenary. and now i'l free i get to enjoy the giants to n the world series, (cheers)...yes, yes, yes! this is how you celebrate. that's madison bumgarner chugging six beers... at on. and there's a champagne char to go with it. vern glenn is on the field tonight... vern, what a gam the cardinals scored their t run of the game after travis ishikawa misplayed a line drive... but ishikawa ends getting the last laugh... a three run walk off to send e giants back to the world se for the third time in five s thanks vern. all right dennis... what are they gonna face in >>> talk about the journey spattering to pittsburgh and leading to this. you're going to the world series! >> i know. i didn't think i'd be in this moment. but i thank the giants for the opportunity and their second chance and the play in the outfield. i'm just t

andria borba from our san francisco station kbix shows us how the gadget many of us have in our home rescue. >> reporter: it was solved in four little clicks by this guy. >> just throwing stuff at the walls till it stuck. >> reporter: 28-year-old melissa hadn't been seen in hours. the onstar in her gm car last ping heard location at camden avenue and highway 17 and then downtown san jose, but she and her car weren't at either spot. pinging her location off a cell phone tower gave a seven-mile radius to search. officer david cameron showed up at melissa's stepmother's house to try one more thing. he asked for melissa's ipad to try to locate her phone and in three gases he cracked the code. >> i made an educated guess based on common numbers people use for passwords. >> reporter: then he turned on the find my iphone app and problem one was solved. officers looking for melissa suddenly had a location to search in the 14000 block of hamilton road, but the time to make the discovery work was running short. >> i noticed that she only had 12% battery left in her phone. >> reporter: cameron,

live in el portal, andria borba, kpix 5. >> andria, thank you. >>> da lin is at the pilot's base in hollister where tributes to the pilot are already coming in. da. >> reporter: that's right. typically, this cal fire airbase in hollister would be very busy and noisy with air tankers flying in and out. not today. very quiet here. all the firefighters inside grieving the death of pilot craig hunt. you can see supporters leaving those flowers here in support of those firefighters. many firefighters say hunt, who was 63, was more than just a pilot. they looked up to him. >> losing a father, he was that father figure that gave the folks here homework assignments and motivated them and -- and a lot of words of wisdom. >> reporter: he would tutor the firefighters because during the off season, hunt taught chemistry at uc-santa cruz and some of the younger firefighters are currently attending college part time. here's a photo of hunt at his daughter's wedding. his daughter said hunt was an experienced pilot, 13 years as a contracted pilot for cal fire, almost 10 years as a u.s. navy p3 pilot. and he

andria borba on 'operation d trip.' andria? this isn't your average drug bust dog and pony show in ca costa county. kent shaw\ca j 13.13.04 over 500 pounds of methamphetamine being seize record levels of meth being seized in this county those pounds are equivalent more a million hits of methamphetamine. operation trip was a six year operatio pull the crystal off the sts and out of users hands. 16.6 we have a situation where methamphetamine is very purt is very potent, the price o is very low and we have a massive supply of it beyond problems with a million instances of people strung t and the crimes that come wi the habit...operation road also represents the very re intrusion of the dangerous sinaloa cartel into contra a county. chief sylvia moir\el cerrito police department 23.43.18 this criminal enterprise began in a faraw place, but make no mistake t it, they brought their crim their drugs and their violee to our region mark peterson\cococo da 19.24.25e drug cartels, just as the television shows typify, are bringing their dr

. >> andria borba has been following this very sad story of jahi mcmath since she was declared brain dead after something went horribly wrong during surgery at oakland's children's hospital. >> reporter: jahi mcmath has been in new jersey for the past nine months where her family says despite being declared dead, she is improving. >> very good. >> reporter: jahi mcmath's family says this video is proof their child isn't brain dead. >> move your hand so we can see it. move it. move it forward. come on jahi. very good! >> reporter: stanford doctor david magnus says not so fast. >> you can't tell, how many videos, how many hours there are of her sometimes moving, sometimes not. >> reporter: in a news conference this afternoon, attorney christopher dolan presented brain tests showing she is functioning. her mother is convinced she is functioning. >> she knows the difference between left and right, she knows to move her leg. >> reporter: magnus disagrees. he says the evidence dolan presents is not the scientific proof to show jahi is alive. >> the right kind of evidence is a clinical exam

in el portal, andria borba, kpix 5. >> now, for now, cal fire has grounded all of its s2ts, the type of plane that crashed. >>> the man who says an uber driver attacked him may be permanently blinded in one eye. roberto chicas' left eye is swollen shut and his face is bruised. he and two friends caught an uber ride to a san francisco home last month. investigators say the driver patrick karajah bludgeoned him in the head after he complained about the route the driver was taking. >> the cab came, we got in and the next thing i remember i was in the icu and doctors were working on my left eye. they told me that i had suffered severe face and head injuries caused by a hammer. >> chicas' lawyer says uber should be responsible. the company has suspended the driver. >>> taxi drivers were out in san francisco protesting uber. demonstrators yesterday said it's not fair. the city regulates the taxi industry. taxi companies blame uber and other ridesharing services for decimating their business. >> ebola warning signs have gone up at a bay area hospital in bold red letters warning all patients

live in walnut creek, andria borba, kpix5. >> they are tricky.e palo alto police the slip. dominique calf was wanted for passing a phony check at bank of america. he spent hours inside a house on everett court before he gave himself up. the homeowner had no ideas this guy was wanted. >> basically gave him some food. took care of him for a while and offered him a ride out of town unbeknownst to the homeowner this was a dangerous criminal. >> he was also wanted in oklahoma for a sex crime with a minor. >>> it is called the green rush. so many people from all over the world coming to northern california to grow pot. the law says it has to be for medicine but as joe vasquez found out, it is all too easy to gain the system with hardly any legal consequences. >> reporter: from the skies, it is painfully obvious. the rivers are running dry, but not just because of the drought in humboldt county, but the thousands of marijuana grows. they require thousands of gallons of water per day and growers are taking water from rivers an streams without a state per

andria borba, kpix5. >>> look at this video that our photographer took at yesterday's game.olice arrested this guy and then grabbed his hands and legs to haul him from the stadium. it happened during the 3rd quarter. we don't know what led up to all that. >>> another one of our photographers snapped this picture of a santa clara police officer holding an assault rifle. the stadium has said guest safety is its highest priority. >>> about 20 san jose police officers moonlight with the 49ers working security. tonight the department says it's going to take a closer look at that because when officers responded to a domestic violence call at ray mcdonald's house, they found one of their own already there. sergeant shawn pritchard. police won't say if he was on duty but tell the mercury news he's barred from any other further work with the team for now. >>> from football to baseball the giants couldn't pull off a sweep against the washington nationals tonight in large part because of this, an error by pitcher madison baumgardner that allowed two runs to score. hear what happened la

andria borba, kpix5. >> for now, cal fire has grounded all of the s2ts . the kind of plane that crashed. >>> tonight, we spotted this new sign at a bay area hospital. bold red letters. attention all patients, if you have any risk factors that could lead to ebola, tell staff immediately. the sign is at john muir in walnut creek. the hospital tells us it is just a warning. >> purely precautionary. we know ebola is very difficult to transmit from human to human other than bodily fluids. we just want people to be aware so we do take the best care of them. >> the signs posted in the emergency rooms and the urgent care centers. >>> and in texas tonight, a sheriff's deputy is in isolation after possible exposure to ebola. he was in the apartment of thomas eric duncan without any protective gear. duncan died of ebola today making him the first patient to die of it in the u.s. he got the disease in liberia and flew to texas. there are big changes coming to some u.s. airports as jeff shows us. >> reporter: it will start first at jfk and then it will be in new jersey

andria borba says police were called not once, but five times in the course of eight-and-a- half hours on natoma street. >> reporter: the second call and first sfpd visit came at 9:00 p.m. >> the suspect was ringing the doorbell so officers went. he was downstairs. she vouched for him. >> reporter: the woman told officers that she and cederic young junior had been in a relationship nine years and he moved out. with the situation defused, young and the officers left only to come back at 9:45 with the same complaint. >> he was very drunk so she said he is disturbing the neighbors. again, she was very reassuring that everything was good. but again, he was drunk. >> reporter: that is when sfpd arrested young and threw him in the drunk tank. he was out at 4:00 a.m. and quickly back at the door saying he needed clothes for work. >> she was happy to let him have his clothe as long as the officers did a standby while he gaterred his things. he went in. she actually helped him pack. >> reporter: but young came pack a fifth time at 5:00. this time he didn't bring the doorbell. the victim's roomm

live in san francisco, andria borba, kpix5. >> well sergio romo had a run in with the tsa on new years and no charges were filed. >>> the people of evergreen are demanding better police protection. they say it has more burglaries than every other town in town. >> some of these burglars have tied up neighbors in the middle of the night and threatened to kill them. some victims have been pistol whipped. one recent burglar was seen walking with a crowbar in broad daylight in evergreen. he showed no fear of the law. >> the crowd is asking for a mobile police command center to be issued in evergreen. >>> people come from around the world for the experience, but soon strolling across the golden gate bridge could come at a price. the bridge district wants to start charging a toll to pedestrians and bicyclists. it is all about money. and the $33 million budget deficit. >> we do everything we can on our side to make sure we are containing costs, we need to make sure we are increasing revenue where possible. >> and it is an economic justice issue for those wants to use the bridge that don't own

andria borba has the story. >> reporter: you may recognize her, dr. nancy snyderman is the medical correspondent for nbc news. she used to work here as our medical reporter. dr. snyderman is fine. it is a photo journalist working with her who is infected. dr. snyderman and her crew were on assignment in the west african country of liberia. nbc has chartered to plane to bring them home. the 33-year-old photojournalist joined snyderman tuesday. she and the photojournalist had their temperature taken at a check point moving from one point of liberia to another which has become standard. >> as the day went on, he started to feel just tired and a little achy. >> reporter: the photojournalist who had been working in africa three years went home early and called snyderman with a fever. he self-quarantined and went to a doctors without borders clinic fbi first thing in the morning. >> and he was checked for malaria and then he tested positive for ebola. and he is being kept in the clinic there now. >> reporter: these are pictures of dr. snyderman and her crew

andria borba got to the scene fast. >> reporter: the fire burned hot enough to blow the windows out of the bus. firefighters were able to put it out quickly, but it was enough to stall traffic for two hours. that was the aftermath and here are the flames. there were 18 employees on the bus when they smelled trouble. >> i'm from jersey, you smell stuff in jersey. didn't think much of it as first. >> we started to smell smoke so we pulled over. got off the shuttle. then there was more smoke, then a pop and fire. >> reporter: everyone got out and then the flames took over. the heat nearly igniting trees on the side of northbound 280 and melting plastic on the bus. >> the driver kind of pulled over really great and yeah. we are all good. >> reporter: netflix sent another bus to retrieve their employees from the shoulder who all agreed even after their wild trip home, they will ride again. >> we will still be riding, yeah. >> reporter: on 280 in south city, andria borba, kpix5. >>> live look outside tonight. a gorgeous night across the bay. is that a little orange i detect out there? if you

was ready for something to jump out at me. >> i could feel that from you. [ laughter ] >> reporter: andria borba, kpix 5. >>> time now 4:51. a very unusual healthcare event dedicated to the undead. why some in the bay area are focusing in on zombies, coming your way. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> clouds moving into the bay area. the rain is not far behind. we are starting to see a few scattered showers in the north bay. temperatures are going to be much cooler. mid-60s into mountain view. 65 in sunnyvale. 66 in campbell. staying dry until the afternoon in parts of the south bay but the rain also becoming heavy there. maybe a couple of inches of rain in the santa cruz mountains. about 66 degrees in livermore. expecting some rain today. 65 in danville. about 65 also in walnut creek. in the north bay, we are seeing some of those showers now and some cloudy skies this afternoon. they will start to get a little break in the rain but the temperatures going to be cool, 63 and breezy into bodega bay. in san francisco for the parade, 64 degrees and very wet. >> a preview of what's to come. a few spinouts ou

live in san jose, andria borba, kpix5. >>> we are just getting word on this one. two people are in critical condition tonight after a pack of pit bulls managed to get inside their home and go on the attack. this happened in modesto. sheriff deputies responding to 911 calls, found the dogs mauling a man in the backyard. when deputies went inside, they found an 85-year-old woman who had also been viciously attacked by the dogs. deputies shot two of the dogs, two others ran off. >> the dogs were fighting. they fight with each other. that is what it sounded like. it didn't sound right. >> we have seen bites involving pit bulls before, but never four dogs on a single human being to the point where you know, the victim in this case was unconscious and unresponsive. >> when deputies tried to catch the other two dogs, the pit bulls attacked and the deputies shot them as well. investigators are trying to track down their owners. >>> three weeks from the election and the republican is drowning in the polls. but tonight, neil kashkari has everyone talking. joe vasquez tells

. >> andria borba tells us his victims did the right thing after he grabbed them. >> reporter: san leandro detectives say they don't know if this man orpheaned before, but he is wanted for two counts of sexual assault against a minor. it started inside this wal-mart 7:45 monday night. two girls in a different aisle than their mother. this man approached and groped one of them. she did the right thing and screamed for help. as she did that, the man took off. >> reporter: out of the wal- mart parking lot onto show up 15 minutes later at target at the bay fair mall and he had his target. a girl separated from each other. >> we have two girls who don't know each other with the same story. >> reporter: here is the video of him high tailing out of target pretending to be on the cell phone. the video from target and wal- mart shows the same guy. >> we think he probably disregarded the fact he was on video. he was acting upon his urges. couldn't control himself, and had to offend that night. >> reporter: check out the dress shirt and tie. mcman machine nis believes he works with a dress code, some

. >> andria borba, you have to wonder what was he thinking?reporter: well liz and ken, public speaking is knowing your audience. that is advice satya nadella never got. >> it is not about asks for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. >> reporter: speaking in front of a crowd at the grace hopper celebration of women in computerring, nadella went further suggesting the ability to not ask for a bigger paycheck was a superpower women possessed. >> that is good karma. it will come back. >> reporter: the suggestion that women should quietly accept what they get, hit with a thud. even the moderator disagreed. >> everyday i look at industries across the country and it is like an episode of madmen. his comments show it is alive and well. >> we earn 78 cents to every dollar a man makes. >> reporter: the gender gap is a raw cultural nerve sparking an ad campaign from comedienne sarah silverman. >> every year, the average woman loses around $11,000 to the wage gap. >> reporter: th

live in dublin, andria borba, kpix5. >> so what happens if you are pulled over? what can an officer do with their phone? they have the right to share it? well sharon chin went to find out for us. >> so if an officer asks for your phone can you say no? >> yes, that is your right. >> reporter: retired judge ledore is san jose's auditor. when can law enforcement take your phone? >> the only way they look at it is if you consent or if there is some sort of an emergency that just requires the office to look into it or if the officer has a search warrant. >> reporter: that is what the u.s. supreme court ruled in june, but what if you are arrested say for a dui and the officer taking the phone along with your wallet and other personal belongings? >> there should be no reason why they are taking it. >> they may not. that is a violation of the law. >> reporter: if an officer stealing information from your cell phone, what can you do? you can stew for invasion of privacy or file a complaint with a law enforcement agency. that punishment need not be made public. sharon chin

andria borba has more on operation road trip that took down a drug trafficking organization based in contra costa county. >>> reporter: this is not your average drug bust in contra costa county. >> over 500 pounds of methamphetamine being seized record levels in this county. >> reporter: those 500 pounds are equivalent to more than a million hits of methamphetamine. operation road trip was a six- year project to pull the crystal off the streets and out of users' hands. >> we have a situation now that it's very pure and potent. the price of it is very low. so we have a massive supply. >> reporter: beyond the problem of a million instances of people strung out and the crimes that come with the habit, it represents an intrusion of sinaloa gang from mexico. >> this criminal enterprise began in a farway place. but make no mistake about it. they brought their crime, drugs and violences to our region. >> the drug cartels just like the television shows seem to typify our bringing their drugs into northern california. >> reporter: just like an airport, contra costa was the hub for the cartel

kpix 5's andria borba reports, a police officer's cyber-hunch led to her discovery. >>> reporter: after 18 hours the mystery of where melissa vazquez ended up was solved in four little clicks by this guy. >> just throwing stuff at the wall hoped it stuck. >> reporter: 28-year-old melissa hadn't been seen in hours. the onstar in her gm car last pinged her at downtown san jose but she and her car weren't there. pinging her location off a cell phone tower gave a 7-mile radius to search. he showed up at melissa's stepmother's house, asked for the ipad, tried to guess the code. >> i made an educated guess based on a series of common numbers people use for passwords. >> reporter: then he turned on the "find my iphone" app and problem one was solved. officers looking for melissa suddenly had a location to search on the 14000 block of mount hamilton road. >> it gave a very small search area. >> reporter: but the time to make the discovery work was running short. >> i noticed that she only had 12% battery left on her phone at the time. >> reporter: cameron, campbell pd's self-taught geek, send a

kpix 5's andria borba reports the crash happened yesterday about an hour and a half after the fire broke out near highway 140 in yosemite national park. >>> reporter: people here in el portal watched in horror as the plane crashed. we learned that emergency crews finally reached that plane at the top of the ridge at the crash site and confirmed the pilot the only person on the plane is dead. here is a still image of the flaming wreckage just after the impact. the crash site is near the top of the 2500-foot cliff. the plane was being used to fight the dog rock fire just inside the western side of yosemite national park. witnesses said the plane looked like it went out of control and came straight down. >> i saw the black smoke cloud going up and went out and took pictures immediately. i figured it was something that had crashed. that was confirmed shortly afterwards. >> we immediately dispatched out emergency personnel to the location where we had last contact with that aircraft. now, the area where the aircraft was last seen is a very remote, very difficult to make access to. >> reporter

kpix 5's andria borba reports. >>> reporter: the fight happened prekickoff in the 300 section bathroom and left one man unconscious on the floor and these two, amador and dario leaving levis are handcuffs as accessories. >> it's a felony assault case. >> reporter: the fight about a stall. seriously. >> idiots. just plain-out idiots. >> oh!! >> reporter: it starts with a sucker-punched and in a second, a guy in a kaepernick jersey is out cold. a dog pile falls from the stall to the floor with the sound of fists smacking flash from an aldon smith fan punctuating the screams in the latrine. and then it's over leaving santa clara police department to sort it out. >> minutes after the assault occurred, these folks were in custody. >> reporter: it's the latest incident to make the faithful look more like the san francisco 40-felons. remember this fight a few weeks ago at the cardinals game? but in the scorching hot new santa clara stadium the temperatures of the going gold- blooded -- the temperatures of the gold bloodied seems to be hot. >> time to go. >> reporter: marie has advice. >> go t

andria borba thank you. >>> kpix 5's da lin is in hollister where the pilot was based. he had years of flying experience. >> reporter: that's right. it's been a tough sad day for firefighters at this airbase. cal fire airbase in hollister you can see well-wishers dropping off flowers in front of the base to support the firefighters. for the last 13 years, pilot craig hunt had flown out of this base to fight fires who took off from the base with the air tanker around 3:15 yesterday afternoon about an hour later the plane crashed. hunt was a contracted pilot working for cal fire. the san jose man was an experienced pilot. his daughter shared these photos with us including a wedding photo. she says hunt spent close to 10 years as the u.s. navy p3 pilot was in the reserves for another 20 years, the family said his other passion was teaching during the off season in the winter months. hunt taught chemistry at uc- santa cruz. in fact, when he was at the cal fire airbase, firefighters say hunt would help those firefighters who are in college part time. >>> this is where his be

as kpix 5's andria borba reports, the incidents happened within minutes of each other. >> reporter: san leandro detectives say they don't know if this man has offended before but now they say he is want for two counts of sexual assault against a minor. it started inside this walmart at 7:45 monday night. two girls who were in a different aisle than their mother when this man approached and groped one of them. >> she did the right thing and screamed for help. as she did that, the man took off. >> reporter: out of the walmart parking lot only to show up 15 minutes later at target at the bay fair mall and he had his target. another girl separated from her mother. >> we have girls that are under the age of 10 years old who don't know one another who are telling us the exact same story. >> reporter: he groped her, too. she ran to mom. mom confronted the suspect. and here's the video of him hightailing it out of target pretending to be on a cell phone. lieutenant robert mcmanus with san leandro pd says the video from target and walmart shows the same guy. >> we think he probably just disregar

andria borba, kpix5. >> mexican drug cartels have been infiltrating the bay area. a couple months ago authorities busted nine guys unloading this, $23 million worth of marijuana in san mateo county. >>> tonight lawyers for the high end escort accused of injecting a google exec with a deadly dose of heroin say that she was just doing what she was told. 26-year-old alex tickleman appeared in court today. police say surveillance video shows her shooting up 51-year- old forest hayes on his yacht last year, then walking away. her attorney says it was an accident. >> alex tickleman did nothing that mr. hayes did not want her to do. two adults engaged in mutual and cooperative drug usage. up in and it went wrong. >> tickleman faces manslaughter and drug charges. >>> here's a live look at san francisco's city hall right now lit up in orange as the giants get ready for their third world series in five years, beautiful sight there. game one gets going exactly 18 hours from now in kansas city. world series in san >> ken bastida behind enemy lines you might say tonight. >> rep

kpix 5's andria borba has the comments the person made in a speech to women. >> it's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. >> reporter: speaking in front of a crowd at the grace hopper celebration of women in computing, nadella went further suggesting the ability to not ask for a bigger paycheck was a superpower women possess. >> women who don't ask for a raise have because that's good karma. it will come back. >> reporter: in a post-sheryl sandberg lean world the suggestion women should quietly accept what they're offered with work hit with a thud. even the moderator disagreed with that della. noreen farrell is the executive director of equal rights advocates. >> every day i look at industries across the country and it's like a bad episode of mad man and i think his initial comments really show it's alive and well in tech as well. >> we typically earn just 78 cents to every dollar a makes in almost every profession. >> reporter: the gender pay gap is a raw cultural nerve sparking a "

kpix 5's andria borba reports nbc has chartered a plane to bring them home. >> reporter: the 33-year-old photojournalist joined dr. snyderman in monrovia on tuesday in liberia. tonight snyderman said she and the photojournalist actually had their temperature taken at a checkpoint while moving from one part of liberia to another which has become standard operating procedure there. >> his temperature was normal. my temperature was normal. as the day went on he started to feel just tired and achy. >> reporter: the photojournalist who had been working in africa for three years went home early and called snyderman that night with a fever. he self-quarantined and went to a doctors without borders clinic first thing in the morning. >> was checked for malaria which is very common here. and then also tested positive for ebola and he is being kept in the clinic there right now. >> reporter: these are pictures of dr. snyderman and her crew checking out clinics in liberia in full protective gear. >> so we will be taking our temperatures twice a day, checking in with each other, and, um, if any one o

in walnut creek, andria borba, kpix 5. >> and to continue this theme, a fraud suspect gave police in palo alto the slip after smooth talking his way into a stranger's house. the homeowner even gave him dinner. 35-year-old dominique tabb is wanted for allegedly passing a phony check at a bank. he spent hours in a house on everett court monday before he gave up. the homeowner had no idea the guy was wanted. >> basically gave him some food, took care of him for a while and offered him a ride out of town. unbeknownst to the homeowner this person is a dangerous criminal who he just let into his house. >> tabb is also wanted in oklahoma for a sex crime with a minor. >>> 4:56. so heartbreaking backup down go the a's. the american league wild card game ends in dramatic fashion. the winning play that stopped the a's from advancing to the next round of the play-offs. >> protests in hong kong ramp up. demonstrators calling for free elections and setting a new deadline. what they're demanding up next. >>> the a's season ends with a heartbreaking loss in the american league wild card game in kans

and as andria borba shows us, you can blame the drought. >> behind us is the iron gate dam. it produced approximately 18 megawatts of energy. >> reporter: since the 1960s the dam has been pumping energy into northern california. compliments of the klamath river. >> just unfortunately during drought years it becomes very difficult and there's a lot of individuals who need that usage of that water. >> reporter: so this year, on behalf of farmers and a whole lot of salmon, the federal government asked pacific power if they could borrow some water. >> the spirit of cooperation is very critical during drought years. >> reporter: and while that move was good for the fish, it meant a little less juice from the iron gate powerhouse. >> yes. when there's a drought, obviously that impacts our water efforts. >> reporter: with the same problem unfolding on nearly every river it's starting to change the state's energy balance. so far this year, hydropower generated in california isn't just dropping, it's been cut in half. >> hydropower has dropped from 20% to 10% of its contribution to c

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kpix 5's andria borba reports, she was rescued thanks to a persistent police officer. >>> reporter: after8 hours the mystery of where melissa vazquez ended up was solved in four little clicks by this guy. >> just throwing stuff at the wall and it stuck. >> reporter: 28-year-old melissa hadn't been seen in hours. the onstar in her gm car last pinked her location to camden avenue and highway 17 then downtown san jose. but she and her car weren't at either spot. pinging her location off a cell phone tower gave a 7-mile radius to search. officer david cameron showed up at her stepmother's house to try one more thing. he asked for melissa ipad to locate her phone and in three guesses he cracked the code. >> so i made a educated guess based on a series of common numbers that people use for passwords. >> reporter: then he turned on the "find my iphone" amp app and problem one was solved. officers looking for melissa had a location to search on the 14000 block of mount hamilton road. >> it gave a very small search area. >> reporter: but the time to make the discovery work was running short. >> i

in el portal, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> some good news. the giants are heading to their third nlcs in five years. >> yes. they will play the cardinals in the national league championship series after winning a nail-biter against the nationals at at&t park. those a 2-1 lead in the 6th inning last night when jason wirth blasted one to right field. hunter pence made a leaping catch at the right field wall. giants got the winning run in the 7th. joe panik scored on a wild pitch with the bases loaded. san francisco beat washington 3- 2 and won the series three games to one. >> so it's on to st. louis now with a trip to the world series. kpix 5's anne makovec reports. i love your orange. >> reporter: thank you. it is going to be another day to wear it here at at&t park on tuesday when the giants play st. louis here at home. but first they have a game at 5:07 in st. louis saturday night. >> a lot of veterans right there stepping up. tim hudson, jake peavey, baumgarner -- >> reporter: very exciting matchup last night. the giants now going back to

andria borba says they are taking a look at surveillance video involving romo and his girlfriend. >> reporter: san francisco giants pitcher sergio romo famous for his slider and his catch phrase, that's what's up, apparently had a few choice words for sfpd. the "san francisco chronicle" reports it was around 2 a.m. when romo allegedly got a text from an ex-girlfriend and his current girlfriend got upset. the police were called in when someone saw a woman getting bear hugged and pushed into an suv. witnesses who didn't want to go on camera tell kpix 5 the incident happened outside the owl street bar. when officers arrived, romo kept yelling you're making a mistake. eventually everyone was released, no one was cited. but after sfpd found surveillance video from a store across the street, the case is handed over to special investigation out of, quote, an abundance of caution. san francisco police want to talk to everyone involved just one more time to make sure that their stories match up andria borba, kpix 5. >> romo had a run-in with the tsa at the las vegas airport on new year's but