andria borba has the details. >> hawaii is about 5,000 miles from the north korea capital. it's estimated it would take a missile 38 minutes. >> reporter: 38 minutes of panic. here's the alert. and here's what it sounded like an tv. >> the u.s. pacific command detected a missile threat to hawaii. >> reporter: and that was the reality. students running to bunkers. hotels evacuating guests. >> please go to the lobby to receive directions. >> reporter: all what turned out to be a false alarm during a time of heightened tension. >> heads better roll on this one. >> reporter: the governor of hawaii called it a human error. >> it was a procedure that occurred at the change of shift where they go through to make sure the system is working, and an employee pushed wrong button. >> reporter: bay area congresswoman barbara lee has this to say over the false alarm. >> this is deeply concerning. it's dangerous. it's unprofessional. we have to get to the bottom of this. people, um, are fearful, and this is a moment where we have to reflect upon what's going on. >> reporter: kpix 5 securi

let's get to andria borba for the very latest. >> reporter: ken and liz, it is lights out for the federal government. as of two hours ago it is no longer being funded. only 50 senators voted for the spending measure passed by the house falling short of the 60 required to proceed. a senate vote to fund the government through february 16 failed. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: private discussions continued on the floor even after the midnight deadline came and went. but to no avail. >> the government shutdown was 100% avoidable. all because senate democrats chose to filibuster a non- controversial funding bill that contains nothing. not a thing they do not support. >> reporter: democrats were holding out for a comprehensive spending bill, and a deal to protect dreamers brought to the u.s. illegally as children. minority leader, chuck schumer, said his earlier meeting with president trump looked promising, but the president later back pedaled. >> he walked away from two bipartisan deals, including one today in which i even put the border wall on the table. >> reporter: the white

andria borba, kpix 5. >>> and tonight more rain moving across the bay area. here's a look' san rafael bridge, and another storm arrives soon. paul deanno is here with a look at the radar. >> we're seeing some showers ahead of the next weather maker on kpix 5 high definition doppler. santa rosa, vacaville, fairfield all reporting rain in the last half hour. scattered showers overnight tonight. a steady rain for lake and and sonoma county as soon as 7:00 in the morning, and the front working south with said the sky and lightly -- said the death and light rain around oakland -- steady and light rain around oakland tomorrow. no flooding or strong wind, but it's a sign of things to come. we have another storm after this one that will give us perhaps the wettest couple of days we've seen so far this season. more on that in a few minutes. >>> breaking news from san jose. the man you see on your screen is on jail tonight, accused of stalking harper middle school and sexually assaulting a teacher. he showed up tuesday before school started and was roaming around for a

andria borba shows us that dog is getting a second chance at life thanks to some good samaritans. >> reporter: you'd never knew how cosmo spent his saturday night. tethered to the fence of the sunrise memorial cemetery with a short electrical cord. no food, no water, no blanket, and chilly temperatures, abandoned. >> he had been there for, we don't know how long. >> reporter: someone snapped this photo, put it on facebook, and two good samaritans decided they couldn't allow cosmo to suffer any longer. >> they took him in and into their home. they gave him a warm place to sleep at night. >> 3-year-old cosmo was brought here to the north bay humane society. >> and it was more of a cosmic coming together as a community because somebody was good enough to post it to the internet. two other people were there to act on it and they brought him to us. >> reporter: for an abandoned pit bull mix, he isn't aggressive, just hungry. >> wagging his tail, taking streets. he loved his treats. >> reporter: and super friendly. >> dogs have a remarkable balance about them. once they are shown love and

andria borba shows us the tricks and where you're most likely to become a victim. >> reporter: welcome to a typical day on the 30 stockton, a crush of humanity pushing onto the always packed muni line. and this is a typical blink and you miss it crime. pickpocketing. did you see it? here it is again with unsuspecting kpix 5 production assistant earl in the plaid shirt and in the tweed jacket, former pickpocket. bob goes into his backpack, grabs a red wallet and is off to 30 stockton before earl knows what happened. what do you think just happened? >> i totally got pickpocketted. >> reporter: earl got his wallet back. bob doesn't perform anymore. he is on to more serious stuff, hunting for organized pickpocket rings for a living, in the states and abroad. >> check these guys out. >> reporter: like these guys in naples, italy. >> you see the classic behavior there. they are trying to be regular and this guy is scratching his neck, glancing around, giving a small sign with his fingers to his partners and here's the classic newspaper -- why the newspaper? to shield his hand going into my p

there are ships and planes out there tonight doing the mission. >> reporter: in alameda, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> listen to that and look at this. the bay area has experienced a plethora of wild weather conditions including hail and thunder. this video from petaluma's alta drive yesterday afternoon. and east of san jose, the storm brought a light dusting of snow to mount hamilton. and video from chopper 5 yesterday showing us this. there are currently no reported closures along mount hamilton road leading to lick observatory . >> amazing. >> it was a cool day. we saw rainbows. it's about to change. we'll be in for a long dry spell. let's show you pictures from our weather watcher group. we have a new one on kpix 5 weather watchers on facebook so the search for that and anyone is welcome to join. will in alameda sent us this picture of wild weather. crazy rain. look at the beautiful rainbow across the bay. this is in tahoe. lauren and her dog enjoying the snow. we got some great pictures. feel free to send your reports and photos and how you're enjoying our weather because we'll have

in san francisco, andria borba, kpix5. >>> just how cold has it been on the east coast? check out these dramatic photos taken from space. you can see the frigid water caused ice to form in rivers and bays in new england between december 26th and january 7th some areas not seeing temperatures go above freezing. >>> oh, the highs today are about 60, 61 degrees, well above freezing around here, but we won't rub it in to anyone visiting from minneapolis. we had some rain earlier this week. coming up we'll show how it relates to the rain for the entire month. really cloudy still in the north bay, what's going on there and there are two new rain chances coming up. >> coming up at 6:00 tonight it's the canvas for veterans to tell colorful stories, but some say the paintings are getting too political, how this bay area alley has turned into a battleground over free speech. >>> but first the markets closed up today. here's a look at the closing numbers from wall street. cbs eye on the community... presented by target. art and history spark connections across cultures, igniting cu

at sfo, andria borba, kpix 5. >> he has a keen sense of smell.kipper the sniffer. >> good work out there. >> keep those bananas in your luggage! [ laughter ] >>> all right. we're talking rain this morning. i want to show you where it is right now. hi-def doppler being able to use it today. but right now, it's just off the coast. so you can see plenty of that green there. some areas of some heavy rain but it's just over the pacific ocean. so still, several miles away from our area. but central california expected to get rain from this, same with the bay area and just for the north of us, as well. and we're -- and just to the north of us, as well. and we're seeing lightning off the coast. expect thunderstorms today. right now warm compared to yesterday. upper 40s for concord, oakland. livermore 47. 54 for san francisco. san jose 49. so we have cloud coverage and that's helping keep the temperatures a little warmer than we normally are at this hour. calm winds across the south bay and the east bay right now. it's picking up a little bit. some south

andria borba reports, it's because of a rash of transportation problems. >> reporter: this is the hubesponsible for feeding thousands of bay area families every day. >> this load here came in today from nogales. >> reporter: barbara is the director of food sourcing and allocation for the food bank. she says the month of january has ushered in a crisis. not lack of food but lack of 18- wheelers to get the food from field to fork. >> 60% of everything we distribute is food bank. without that there is little variety and it hits produce because it's so perishable. >> reporter: the problem is compounded this time of year as much of the produce the food bank delivers to needy families is brought in from nogales, arizona, to the bay area. >> there's some bell peppers that also came in from that area. >> reporter: barbara says it's the perfect storm of an increased diesel tax in california a shortage of truckers and new federal trackers that don't allow trucks on the road for more than 11 hours in a day a. >> we can't find trucks then literally the produce stays at the packer and has to be co

kpix 5's andria borba reports. >> reporter: that's what it sounded like eight miles down in the hayward fault. >> you could see it coming. you can see there's some wiggles here still going on, and we can hear a little bit of that. >> reporter: the doctor is part of a team of geophysicist at the berkeley seismological lab. with cal directly on top of the hayward fault, their lab is directly below them underground and everyone is listening closely. in 2014, i took you inside an old mine shaft that runs into the hayward fault where scientists have planted some seismometers and microphones. it cuts 200 feet into the side of the cal campus but we can only go 20 feet inside because it isn't safe without the proper crews and safety equipment. and since then they have added more seismometers including one bore directly into the hayward fault at memorial stadium. >> it recorded the earthquake very nicely. >> reporter: the location couldn't have been more perfect. with the epicenter of today's shaker a mile away under the claremont hotel, that sound you hear is the pacific and north american plat

kpix 5 andria borba gives us the inside track on his escape. andria? >> reporter: ken, questions still remain as to how randall saito might have come into connection with a cell phone, backpack, and cash. these are two of the fake i.d.s found on randall saito when he was captured in stockton. one from washington state, the other from illinois. neither baring his true name. according to court documents, a third i.d. with the name alvin mento helped saito after he escaped from hawaii state hospital, and hopped a flight first to maui and then san jose. >> you can buy these things online. it's a known fact the chinese are producing some very high- quality fake i.d.s. >> reporter: kpix 5 security analyst jeff harp, former special agent in charge of the san francisco office says that the burden of verifying the authenticity of i.d.s at the airport belongs to one agency. >> it comes down to training by tsa personnel, you know, how much training have they had to recognize the fake i.d. that does or does not have the security features. >> reporter: a motion fil

in the newsroom, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> congresswoman nancy pelosi tweeted tonight on the eve of the first anniversary of his inauguration, president trump earned an f for failure in leadership. east bay congresswoman barbara lee tweeted, "make no mistake. republican dysfunction and incompetence has led us to this trump shutdown." the gop controls every branch of government and they can't even keep the lights on. and this from senator harris, "the shutdown was avoidable. the white house created this crisis, and the gop leaders in congress refused to negotiate with democrats. we must pass a bipartisan solution to fund the government, guarantee health care for millions of children, and protect dreamers. americans expect and deserve it." >> so what do you think about what's going on in washington right now? in our exclusive kpix 5 survey u.s.a. poll, ahead of tonight's shutdown, we asked should democrats link the government funding bill to the dream act? if doing so might cause a federal government to shut down. the results pretty much dead even, 41% of californians said yes. 41% said n

here is more with kpix 5 news' andria borba. >> leader -- anne makovec. >> leaders gathered at a press conference hours ago saying this is a show of marrying political idahoology with policy. tens of thousands of people are eligible to have their court cases reviewed now that medical marijuana is reel. the city of san francisco, the d-a's office will be clearing people's records automatically... without them having to file anything. at a press conf now in the city of san francisco the d.a.'s office will clear records automatically without having to file anything. the d.a. says he will be dismissing misdemeanor cases and sealing the records from those convicted of medical marijuana offenses. >> we want to address the wrong cause bid the failure of the war on drugs for many years in this country and begin to fix some of the harm that was done not only to the entire nation, but specifically to communities of color and many others. >> this will effect more than 3,000 misdemeanor convictions. more than 2,900 felonies will be reviewed and possibly sentenced to misdemeanors. and the process w

and make some money" but kpix-5's andria borba spoke to one mother who has a warning for anyone >>> adstargeting young women are appearing on facebook feeds, even craigslist. they say donate the eggs and help a family and make some money. but one mother has a warning for anyone considering donating. >> reporter: some donors are offered up to $50,000. >> it's a series of injections in a certain sequence to produce multiple eggs rather than one. >> reporter: the eggs are harvested during a surgical procedure. jessica donated on three occasions. four years after the last donation, at age 29, she was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer. two years later, she died. >> you're not supposed to be outliving your children. it's awful. >> reporter: jessica's mother set out to understand why. there's no family history of bad genes that put her in danger. >> we had her dna tested. >> reporter: they wonder if the repeated doses performed a long- term risk buff it's impossible to know because no one in the u.s. keeps track of what happens to egg donors. >> i was shocked. >> reporter: last year the doc

kpix 5's andria borba goes undercover.. on one of the bay >>> cell phones are still the number one target for thieves, even with the installation of a kill switch and we go to one of the black market street corner phos find out why. -- corners to find out why. >> reporter: we're undercover on one of the busiest black market street corners in the bay area. this is 7th and market in downtown san francisco where you can buy and sell just about anything. the hot item? stolen iphones. but there's a catch. >> is there a problem? >> reporter: a so-called kill switch is giving would be thieves a run for their money. it will stop anyone else from using the phone when you report it lost or stolen and turning it into a brick. >> there is a magic bullet for many things we do. but when you try to reduce the risk, this is what you do. >> reporter: and they led the fight five years ago to make the kill switches mandatory after so many violent cell phone robberies in the city and the country. he won despite huge push back from the industry

in the newsroom, ondrea borba -- andria borba , kpix 5. >>> more than 145 women wrote an open letter about the pervasive nature of sexual harassment in state politics as well. >>> two planes collided on the tarmac with flames visible on the tail section of one of these planes. the airport -- aircraft was empty and being told out of the gate, when it clipped another -- it was being towed out of the gate when it clipped another plane. at least one person is being treated at a hospital for injuries. >>> tonight, the final report is out on the failures of the oroville dam, which sparked a massive evacuation last february. >> reporter: a bad build from the beginning. a report by an independent team of experts found the problems with the oroville spillway happened almost immediately after construction . >> lots of capable people looked at this thing over the 50 years, and it escaped all of their attention. >> reporter: john french says this was designed in the 1960s by somebody who had no experience working with spillways. cracks and drainage issues were noted within a year of construction

the federal government will be fully open by tomorrow morning, andria borba kpix 5. >>> we have breaking news out of richmond tonight. there are reports of at least three people being shot. gunfire was reported 90 minutes ago between fifth and sixth street. there are a number of personnel on the scene. christin ayers tells us they are using a helicopter to search the area for a gunman. police were also inspecting a white convertible mustang that either crashed or was abandoned at the scene. >>> caught on camera, a terrifying attack on a store clerk. tonight joe vazquez spoke to one of the men who saved her life. >> reporter: jesse green, the homeless man cleaning windows acted quickly when a man suddenly start choking the female clerk inside. jesse immediately started rounding up others to help. >> i was look come here. he came in and he was like oh my god, you're serious, right, that type of thing. >> reporter: a third man jumped in too. meanwhile the suspect, 30-year- old of stockton, still had the woman in a strangle hold. hull visited the store earlier, then came back 20 minutes late

in san francisco, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> tonight health officials say this flu season could be the worst in a decade. 27 people so far across our state under the age of 65 have now died. we learned 30% of them were vaccinated. >> it is still very early. the numbers are pretty small in terms of figuring out how well the flu vaccine is working. >> doctors say that you should still get the flu shot as it will lessen the flu severity. >> oakland's police chief has been under fire for working with i.c.e. tonight, christin ayers reports the city is laying out new marching orders. >> reporter: tonight, the city council voted to stop spd from working with i.c.e. except under very certain circumstances. activists linked arms outside oakland city hall tonight, singing. singing and holding signs reading sanctuaries. their message to oakland's police chief, stop working with i.c.e. unless there is proof of a clear public safety threat. a resolution they approved tonight, spelling it out clearly. opd shall not provide law enforcement assistance including traffic report to i.c.e. except to respo

andria borba, kpix 5. >>> arriving in new york city tonight, the 60th annual grammy awards. two-time host james corden testing out the teleprompter, a couple of jokes. many attendees this year are expect today wear white roses. look for that in support of the #metoo movement and times up movement. after spending the past 14 years in los angeles, this year's show is back in new york. >>> and tonight a young oakland native is hoping to win grammy gold. just a few years ago, she was homeless. now she has a huge contract with a major record label, a collaboration with eminem and two grammy nominations. tonight, kpix 5 betty yu catches up with the one and only kilani. >> reporter: outside the fox theater in oakland, the long line stretched across the block. >> she is the voice for women. >> she is very strong. >> reporter: once inside, a tiny tattoo singer took her time hugging and posing for selfies. she takes none of her fans for granted. >> artists are artists because of the people. >> reporter: but to truly understand why she's such a star. listen to her voice and understand

she didn't qualify this year in san jose but as andria borba reports, her big loss was when she decided to visit san francisco. >>> reporter: on the corner of post and webster there are not one but two piles of shattered safety glass littering the ground around a parking meter. it's likely one of these sparkling piles came from figure skater marissa castelli's rental car. >> we parked there, went to dinner, got dessert and got back to the car and i got there first and i saw i had a white bag in the back seat. it was gone. and i saw glass everywhere. >> reporter: she had stopped in japantown yesterday afternoon and this high-flying pair skater fell victim to one of san francisco's most low brow crimes, car burglary. >> right away i just started to freak out because the one thing that skaters can't live without is our costumes and skates. and anytime i travel with it, i bring it on the plane. >> reporter: not only were the rhode island resident's skates gone, her key, skates, costumes. >> the thing that hit me is my costumes were gone. those things are made physically for me. no one else