tonight andria borba with the story you'll only see on kpix5. eve 09.46.07.00 >> reporter: in the basement of modesto's fire station 11 these firefighters are in the middle of the easiest and probably the scariest test they'll ever take. w guys in our organi come down >> wrap it around your ears. make sure it's pulled all the way down under your chin. >> reporter: for 10 minutes they'll breathe into these surgical masks. >> all right. now the hard part is breathe. masks for 10 minutes -- th 18.02 and pu >> reporter: because beyond the danger of flames and collapsing structures is a hidden reality of life in the fire service, cancer. >> we've had quite a few guys within our organization that have come down with different cancers ranging from multiple cancer on kidneys and skin cancer. >> reporter: a study from osha says 68% of firefighters will develop cancer at some point compared to 22% of the general population. >> i've been in modesto about 13 years and there's 25, 27 guys that i know that i've worked alongside of that have developed some kin

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live tonight in fremont andria borba, kpix5. >>> we have breaking news out of south sacramento tonight. a chp motorcycle officer has been killed. he lost his life in a traffic accident. 30 1-year-old lucas chilu was chasing a suspect when he crashed before 6 p.m. this evening and later died at the hospital. he is an eight year veteran with the california highway patrol. tonight the crash is still under investigation. to carry inmates. >>> now alameda county sheriff's deputy in critical condition tonight after being hit by a bus used to carry inmate. this is video of deputy mike foley from 2006 when he worked for concord police. foley just arrived for his shift at 6:00 this morning when he was walking toward the jail and was hit. it happened at the transportation yard at the santa rita jail in dublin. the fellow deputy driving was only going 15 miles an hour, but the impact left the deputy with severe head injuries. the driver simply didn't see foley in his path. the 59-year-old has undergone several surgeries already. >> the doctors are doing everything he can. he still remains in crit

live in sausalito, andria borba, kpix5. >>> it is unclear when the road will reopen. morrison canyon road is going to remain closed until early next month because of mud slides. and check out this giant sink hole in livermore. this is near tesla and cross roads. there is a massive sewer line that runs straight into a creek. >>> more road problems in the sierra. a portion of highway 50 near placerville is completely gone. juliette goodrich shows us. >> reporter: i'm standing on highway 50 westbound. the rain is now turned to snow. but directly behind me is where they are working on this hole in the road. 15 to 20 feet wide. it just buckled. now caltrans crews are keeping a watch on it for the past couple of weeks. overnight is when it crumbled and there are other parts of the roadway that could go as well. this could take several weeks, it could take several months to repair. so, right now, highway 50 is not shut down. just a portion of it is down to one lane in the eastbound and westbound lanes. so, for allover those skiers, the good news is that it is snowing but it

every time we find something good that works has to stop working because of money. >> reporter: andria borba, kpix5. >> the company that makes the auto injector said it's donated nearly 200,000 doses to public health departments, first responders and nonprofits. last week 30 u.s. senators sent the company a all right asking them to explain the price hike. >>> kpix5 hi-def doppler tracking a few light showers popping up east of santa rosa over the diablo range toward mount hamilton. the radar will fill in considerably overnight. we'll have the forecast at 4:30 tomorrow morning. lots of rain for the sierra and more snow. the snowiest place on earth right now, up to 500 inches of snow. we'll add 16 to that at the highest peak, winter weather advisory through saturday morning. low to mid-50s outside now for san francisco, san jose and livermore, 48 in santa rosa, 54 in concord. tonight we'll hang out around 50 degrees. the big story will be the rain moving in. our area of low pressure will pass by to the south this morning. the front this morning that was in and out in about three hours exited s

something good that works, it has to stop working because of money. >> reporter: in san ramon, andria borba, kpix 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but she never expects - to find a good guy and a tiny cat she'd been missing - for years! kpix five's john ramos >>> a petaluma mom signs on to a dating website hoping to meet a great match. she never expected to find a good guy and tiny cat she hadn't seen for years. john ramos shows us how one click sparked a kitty love story. >> reporter: our story begins in 2014 when kathleen of petaluma took her daughter to the animal shelter to get a kitten. they picked out an orange one and took ozzie home. but kathleen always felt guilty that she had separated it from its single so she promised her daughter that she would find ozzie's brother. >> and you were feeling like a bad mom -- >> i felt horrible to make the promise like that. [ laughter ] >> need analysis haystack, i was telling her i was going to find. >> reporter: kathleen didn't find the cat. but two years later she did find brian herrera on a dating website. and the two hit it off. but then kathleen went o

live at sfo andria borba, kpix5. coming up in eight minutes how the bay area's love for coffee is fueling a fight for justice over the travel ban tonight. some parts of the bay area got some scattered showers tonight. this is in the san francisco and the storm is not going away just yet. here's kpix5's chief meteorologist paul deanno with our hi-def doppler. paul? >> radar is still active, liz, still some scattered showers out there, moderate rainfall from five to 15 minutes stretching from the east bay back toward the peninsula. let's show you some of the hotspots including walnut creek, alamoing danville stretching south and west off the oakland hills into piedmont, portions of san francisco, south city, san mateo, san bruno and a few showers in the santa cruz mountains and city of san jose. had some steady rain this morning, yielded 1 inch for santa rosa and 1/3 inch of new rainfall in the south bay. futurecast says scattered showers continue tonight, overnight and tomorrow morning the rain is not gone. there will

live in san rafael tonight, andria borba, kpix5. >>> it is all over tonight.lood damage in palo alto. the rising san francisco creek water logged a few businesses. one, auto body shop had to close when sandbags just weren't enough to keep the water out. >> one again, the north bay is getting most of the storm. raging flood waters gushing over the spill way creating an amazing spectacle. but, water is only one part of the storm's story. in marin county, joe vasquez reports a big concern is mud. >> reporter: you can see the hiv i have equipment behind me. crews are working hard to stop the hillsides that are collapsing. it is a disaster in the making. a huge chunk of debris gives way sliding halfway down the hill in green bray. >> good thing is drought is over. >> now you have a new problem. >> a different problem now. >> reporter: the mud slide is stuck now, but if it continues it could cover the roadway and smash into at least two homes. officials ordered the folks in the houses to evacuate as a precaution. the north bay once again took the brunt of this lates

andria borba, kpix5. >>> tonight pg&e crews have been scrambling to restore power around the bay area. about 12,000 people in the south bay are without power, another 677 in the north bay. the storm is blamed for -- >>> this storm is blamed for at least three deaths. >> a tree landed on a car in sherman oaks killing the driver. in san bernardino county a driver was trapped by floodwaters in victorville. a driver of a submerged car died. several cars got trapped in floodwaters on the 110 freeway in south l.a. the freeway is completely shut down tonight. the highway rain shut down i-5 in sun valley in the san fernando valley. >>> tonight parts of santa clarita leading up to the game vinyl are cut off. report -- grapevine are cut off. reporter randy paige is here. >> reporter: when we first got here this morning, water was so much lower we watched a few cars crossing. look at it this side. on the other side of this wash dot road are about 300 homes unable to get their car in or out this hour. >> all the rainfall coming from the glenndale galleria, looks like a waterfall. >>> in san berna

here's andria borba. op tes up in >> reporter: in a short answer from the white house briefing room, press secretary sean spicer may have put the cannabis dreams of people in seven states up in smoke. e press 17.17 in t >> i do believe that you'll see greater enforcement of it. >> reporter: spicer was referring to attorney general jeff sessions and the department of justice perhaps going after state including california that have legalized recreational pot use. spicer seemed to indicate that medical marijuana use will be given a pass under the trump administration. gout. ile: santa >> in terms of how the department of justice would handle that issue, that's very different than the recreational use, which is something the department of justice i think will be further looking into. >> reporter: republican state assembly member and retired chp officer tom lackey of southern california is drafting a law to test for thc influence in drivers. he said california's legalization should be recognized by the trump a

first, kpix5's andria borba. >> reporter: well ken and liz, the all clear was given out around 9:00 tonight. but tonight, both construction engineers and city inspectors continue looking around at 33 tehema to figure out what went wrong and how they can fix it. after hours of uncertainty and thousands evacuated from the neighborhood, came this announcement from san francisco fire. >> they have concluded at this time that we have no imminent danger to the public or the surrounding buildings. >> reporter: around 2:45 p.m., one of nine struts supporting a platform between the 35th and the 36th floor of the construction project failed causing the platform to lean to the northeast. you can see it clearly in this photo from viewer andrew. >> that platform that is compromised, they will be shoring it up in the next few hours. once it is shored up and stabilized, not until some time tomorrow will they come in and remove the piece of equipment on top of that platform. >> reporter: they released this statement. an interior forming system had a partial hydraulic failure being raised to the next level.

kpix5's andria borba is in the newsroom with more. >> 600 pages of documents were released showing atst a dozen visits from city agencies. reports sometimes with incorrect addresses were filed, but permanent action was never taken. in documents heavily redakotad as classified cia documents, the city of oakland released records related to public service calls at the ghost ship prior to the december 2nd fire. >> certainly it's disturbing what i'm reading in terms of how many incidents we had where our public officials were at the site. >> reporter: there was a laundry list of run-ins at the illegally converted warehouse before the fire that killed 36 people. on february 2nd, 2015, opd responded to a call saying there was a shotgun in the house and the warehouse is illegal shared housing. the report states that the officers spoke to both landlord and tenant and advised them both of the landlord tenant laws. less than a month later march 1st an officer was flagged down for reports of an illegal raid with drug and alcohol sales -- rave with drug and alcohol sales inside. the party didn't s

as kpix 5's andria borba reports, those attorneys don't plan to leave soon. >> let them out, let them oat! >> reporter: saturday's protest after president trump's travel ban has given way to this. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: a rotating group of immigration and civil rights lawyers and interpreters continuing to deal with the fallout over the executive order. they have not left. >> there's still chaos and confusion and different airports have been interpreting the orders differently. >> reporter: there are signs in multiple languages offering legal service and even desks set up next to the starbucks on the arrival level of the international terminal. this person an attorney with the council on american-islamic relations says people getting off international flights are still being detained for up to 30 hours at a time. >> it's very concerning because once someone is pulled into secondary screening, they have no contact with their families. >> reporter: the daily rhythm of the arrivals board and incoming flights has led to a workday rhythm for the attorneys. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: wh

kpix5's andria borba is in the newsroom with what could be the next plan. >> well, the president said he may issue a new executive order on immigration and travel rather than wait for the courts to rule on e original one. that could come as early as monday or tuesday. options, including just filing a well be, but i today aboard air force one president trump said he won't take his battle to the supreme court, but he is scramming the old order. >> we -- scrapping the old order. >> we have a lot of other options including filing a brand new order. i like to surprise you. >> two weeks ago mr. trump signed an executive order on immigration and travel. after mass confusion, detentions and protests at the nation's airports, the order suffered a series of stinging defeats in court after court including a 3-0 loss in the 9th circuit. professor david le vinyl of uc haste -- levine of uc hastings said not taking the travel fan to the highest court in the land is a smart move. >> the chance you would get five justices to intervene at this point was close to zero. >> reporter: levine thinks simply

kpix 5's andria borba shows us why she's not backing down. >> reporter: yvette doesn't stand much taller than this toddler. the diminutive middle school teacher has become the white- hot center of the fight against fascism. you might remember half her from a physical confrontation with neo-nazis at the state capital. or more recently when she appeared on fox news. >> this is about the lives of real people. >> reporter: defending the violent demonstrations against milo yiannopoulos. it was that appearance on fox that led to calls and e-mails to berkley unified calling for her to be fired. >> you are a middle school teacher. >> we stand up together to make sure that we aren't injured. >> reporter: a national organizer for by any means necessary, bam. taking a stand against president trump and what they see as a burgeoning fascist movement in the u.s. >> what we mean is to build a new civil rights and immigrants rights movement to take collective united action and also to defend ourselves when racists try to violently attack us. >> reporter: on the campus that birth the free speech movement

live in soma, andria borba, kpix5. >>> at the height of this afternoon's emergency, police were forcedo shut down several streets. they are all back open except for tehema between first and second. the 80 westbound off ramp at fremont street had to be shut down more than six hours. >> when the huge stab started to move, 16 buildings near it were forced to evacuate as well because of the danger. the evacuations were lifted on two hours ago. only the building across the street is off limits. our susie steimle talked to evacuees who waited all night to get the all clear. susie? >> reporter: well liz, as you might imagine, this is really a stressful six-hour period for everyone who was forced to evacuate earlier today. many of them were told to drop everything and get out of their building immediately. they did. and then spent the rest of the day trying to get back everything they left behind. the already sluggish streets of soma had screeched to a halt as police shut down streets surrounding 33 tehema. cell phones snapped photos. evacuees struggled to piece together what happened. >> we w

but people do. >> reporter: andria borba, kpi x 5. >> authorities are keeping a close eye on flooding in palo alto. the san fransesquito creek went over its banks and damaged a few businesses yesterday. officials say it could happen again today. >>> stranded cars and significant clean-up in store at an east bay golf course today because water from a rising creek gushed right through the links. kpix 5's christin ayers shows us why the flooding forced evacuations. >> it's a rapid out there. >> reporter: floodwaters filling this castro valley golf course. heavy rain caused a san leandro creek which runs through the course to swell overwhelming the green. bridges chained to trees on the course ripped apart and sent downstream. a porta-potty submerged. this golfer has never seen anything like it. >> this is just unreal. this is -- i -- i can't believe it. it looks like a river. you can't tell it's a golf course. >> reporter: the course had already flooded slightly after storms last week. the flooding was so bad that the general manager of the golf course said police were forced to evacuate

andria borba on a bay area breakthrough in csi science. >> reporter: hair.t's your crown and glory. >> amino acid. >> reporter: and soon, it will provide the evidence necessary to tie evidence definitively to a crime. >> protein in your body is an echo to what's in your dna. it's a blueprint for proteins produced in your body. >> reporter: in the past, hair evidence was collected at crime scenes but could only be used to identify a suspect with a microscope. >> so instead of relying on someone's opinion on whether something matches, you can make a measurement. >> reporter: using only an inch of hair, brad hart and deon annex can identify the amino acid and peptides that make up your hair. so far, the degree of accuracy is 1 in a million after it's broken into its parts. >> we hope to make it even better in the future. we predict if that if we had 100 identification markers for hair identification, this would be sufficient to get a unique pattern to get a person out of the entire world's population. >> there's an individual peptide that's coming out of the ch

our coverage begins with kpix 5's andria borba on the construction emergency. >> reporter: san francisco fire just wrapped up a news conference and they said there is no imminent danger at this moment. they say that the crane has been shored up, the concrete slab has been shored up at this point. and there is no imminent danger to the surrounding neighborhood. but there have been new things that we have learned in the press conference including that the fremont street exit off of the bay bridge has been closed at this point to traffic so they can get fire crews in and out of here and engineers and whatever heavy equipment they might need to help shore up this building and figure out what their next step is at this point. we have some video from chopper 5 of the top of the building. this is 41 tehama, it was under construction. it began in 2015. one of nine struts under the crane failed sometime this afternoon, causing all of the problems. here is the san francisco fire department: >> while they were putting it in position for it to continue its operation, a strut that holds up one of the

live at uc-berkeley, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> tonight, police in berkeley want you to take a good look at thes 21 photographs. they want to talk to them about the violent protests on the cal campus the night milo yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak. right now they are not officially calling any of them suspects. but they do say each one of them was closed to the violence. many also had their faces covered. if you want to take a closer look we have posted the pictures on our website, cbssf.com. >>> still to come more dramatic storm images out of southern california. [ screaming ] >> we called them right now! >> you can hear the screaming. the race to save a drive trapped in a 20-foot sinkhole before another car comes crashing down on top of her. >> plus, it's held its ground for nearly two centuries. but this historic bay area cemetery could not withstand the latest storm. >> and have you noticed anything odd about the bay lately? storms have turned it brown. why that might actually abe good thing. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, goes the car." k-c-b-s reporter stu mundel was overhead as a van went c

andria borba is keeping an eye on things there. >> reporter: well ken, in the last hour, things have calmed down where i am at. at the borner of bancroft and barrel. the protesters made their way off campus into the city of berkeley and then back again to face police skirmish lines. >> no milo, no trump, no fascist usa. >> reporter: after several orders to disperse, the remaining crowd marched south of telegraph. and into the city of berkeley. while the crowd of hundreds was overwhelmingly loud, but peaceful, there was destruction left in their wake. graffiti that read kill fascists and smashed and tagged atm screens on bank of america demanding devestment of the dakota access pipeline. it was driven by anger and percussion. some climbing into trees to get a better view of the spectacle and a view of the sign reading become ungovernable. now we are back out here live. there are helicopters overhead at this point. we haven't heard any of those orders declaring anything to be an unlawful assembly at this point. it has been quiet out here for the past hour at this point. ken, liz? >> th

. >> andria borba reporting live from tehama street, thank you. >>> here's a look at some nearby buildings that have been evacuated. you can see the center of the activity there. there are six on howard street, two on tehama, one on second street, these are mostly business high-rises. the workers were sent home for the day. once completed, this condo building will look like this. it was purchased by the real estate firm heinz according to the sf business times. the building will have 35 stories, again they are working on the 30th story building that right now. that's where they had the accident. it will have more than 400 units when it's completed. as we take another live look, we'll bring you new developments as we get it. >>> switching gears, more storms on the horizon. the bay area still dealing with the mess left behind after that last round of rain. kpix 5 reporter emily turner is in tiburon, where debris is creating major water hazards. emily. >> reporter: that debris you're talking about that's boats and those boats are moored behind me in sausalito offshore. eventually many have en

andria borba says they're not leaving any time soon. >> reporter: well, liz, those lawyers remain hereonight. they had more than 1,700 people volunteer to come here to sfo to help family members who may have loved ones trapped behind customs. >> let them out! >> reporter: saturday's protests over president trump's travel ban has given way to this. a rotating group of immigration and civil rights lawyers and interpreters continuing to deal with the fallout over the executive order. they have not left. >> there's still tail lot of chaos and confusion -- a lot of chaos and confusion and different airports have been interpreting the orders differently. >> reporter: there are signs in multiple languages offering legal service and even desks set up next to the starbucks on the arrival level of the international terminal. an attorney with the council on american islamic relations says people getting off international flights are still being detained for up to 30 hours at a time. >> it's very concerning because once someone is pulled into secondary screening, they have no contact with their fa

kpix 5's andria borba has the details of these missed opportunities. >> reporter: in documents as heavily redacted as classified cia documents, the city of oakland released records related to public service calls at the ghost ship prior to the december 2 fire. >> certainly, it's disturbing what i'm reading in terms of how many incidents we had where our public officials were at the site. >> reporter: there was a laundry list of run-ins at the illegally converted warehouse before the fire that killed 36 people. on february 2, 2015, opd responded to a call saying there was, quote, a shotgun in the house and the warehouse is illegal shared housing. the report states that the officers spoke to both landlord and tenant and advised both of them of the landlord-tenant laws. less than a month later on march 1, an officer was flagged down for reports of an illegal rave with drug and alcohol sales inside. the party didn't stop then. and the officer was back a few hours later to reports of a taser and threatening remarks. that officer then stood by while everyone left the warehouse. the breadth of t

our coverage begins with kpix 5's andria borba on the construction emergency. >> reporter: san franciscoust wrapped up a news conference and they said there is no imminent danger at this moment. they say that the crane has been shored up, the concrete slab has been shored up at this point. and there is no imminent danger to the surrounding neighborhood. but there have been new things that we have learned in the press conference including that the fremont street exit off of the bay bridge has been closed at this point to traffic so they can get fire crews in and out of here and engineers and whatever heavy equipment they might need to help shore up this building and figure out what their next step is at this point. we have some video from chopper 5 of the top of the building. this is 41 tehama, it was under construction. it began in 2015. one of nine struts under the crane failed sometime this afternoon, causing all

kpix 5's andria borba reports. >> reporter: after hours of uncertainty were the stability atop 33 tehama and thousands evacuated from san francisco's soma neighborhood came this announcement from san francisco fire. >> they have concluded at this time that we have no imminent danger to the public or the surrounding buildings or to any individual at this time. >> reporter: one of nine struts supporting a platform between the 35th and 36th floors of the construction project failed causing the flat form to lean to the northeast. you can see it clearly in this photo from a viewer. >> the platform will be shored up in the next few hours. once it's stabilized, not until sometime tomorrow will they come in and remove the piece of equipment that's that sits on top of that platform. >> reporter: the company building 33 tehama, heinz, released this statement: an interior forming system had a partial hydraulic failure while being raised to the next level. the company is headquartered in houston and owns and is building several buildings in san francisco including the "salesforce" tower. two compani