in richmond, ann notarangelo, kpix 5. >>> new tonight american airlines and u.s. airways have final lized the terms of a proposed merger. this comes after months of negotiations between those two airlines. now, the deal still needs to be approved by american's bankruptcy judge and antitrust regulators since american has been under bankruptcy protection since 2011. if it does go through, american and u.s. air would become the biggest u.s. airline. >>> this labor day happy commuters bridge gawkers and history makers will have a once- in-a-lifetime chance to walk from oakland to san francisco across the new span of the bay bridge. it's part of a proposed grand opening celebration for the new eastern span. and kpix 5 reporter christin ayers is on treasure island with a look at the cost of throwing such a party. >> reporter: it's definitely going to cost, liz. if you thought a $6 rush hour toll was bad, try a $37 toll. we did the math and that's about how much it will cost to pay for a walk across the bridge for 150,000 people come labor day. imagine it, labor day 2013

good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. ou people >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo.following developing news out of san francisco. two people on a small boat have been seriously injured after their boat collided with a commuter ferry in the bay. it happened in raccoon strait between tiburon and angel island around 4:30 this afternoon. the coast guard says two people aboard the smaller boat were badly injured and they've been taken to a hospital. the ferry is already back in service. >>> tragedy on treasure island after an apartment fire killed a 10-year-old girl. firefighters were called to mariner drive just after midnight last night. they got the fire under control about two hours later, but as kpix 5's anne makovec tells us people trying to rescue the little girl were forced back by the heat and smoke. >> everybody was

ann notarangelo, kpix 5. >> drivers trying to find cheap gas are running into chaos. the traffic jam one bay area gas station is causing. >> good to the last drop. just how much lotion, shampoo and other products we're leaving behind in those bottles? and the new tricks to get every last drop. land o' lakes spreadable butter with canola oil is made with sweet cream, canola oil and salt. just three simple ingredients. what's in your spread? for a few more weeks... and bay area prices are still high. right now... in san fran the average price is 4- 25 for a gallon of regular. in oakland it >>> relief at the pump isn't coming for weeks. right now in san francisco the average price $4.25 for a gallon. oakland $4.17, san jose $4.18. the quest to find cheap gas is creating chaos around one gas station. kpix 5 reporter john ramos reports. >> reporter: when safeway opened its new store at pleasant hill sun valley shopping center last year, they thought a discount gas station would help draw customers. they were right. boy, were they right! >> a jungle. so many cars. it's like

kpix 5's ann notarangelo on what it would cost to keep those extra officers around. ann. >> reporter: well, allen, last year as you probably remember, late last year, oakland's crime rate was really spiraling out of control. things have started to improve and the oakland police department is giving some of the credit to the chp. >>> reporter: november 1st, the chp ginned additional local and federal law enforcement personnel to stop the escalating violent crime on oakland streets. they focused on the most dangerous crimes, homicides, shootings and robberies. >> sometimes they were in east oakland, sometimes in west oakland in high crime zones. and then the officers would stop and contact individuals who were engaged either in criminal activity or what appeared to be criminal activity. >> reporter: the chp initially paid for the extra patrols about $300,000 to $325,000 in overtime pay for three months but in january let the city know it couldn't continue. >> with our budget we have budget constraints that we have to operate within, and so that's what we're trying to do

in concord, ann notarangelo, kpix 5. >> okay. we have been teasing you with this all afternoon.the answer to that question? who was president in 1852? it was millard fillmore. the bureau of reclamation says the sierra snowpack 70% of average for this time of year. and a combination of factors led it to declare this is a challenging water year. >>> and you know what they say, too much a good thing is not necessarily a good thing. but on the upside it has been really beautiful outside. >> it has been and it's great that we did that story to let people know that that water that fell in november and december, that it went into the bank. it went into the reservoirs. so it's not as dire as the numbers may sound. so maybe we can enjoy the sunshine a little bit. show you that sunshine. we are going to take you to our dublin camera. a little breezy inland. enjoy the sunshine. concord oakland livermore all 66. santa rosa 67. you hit 70 today now right on the coastline and in the city of san francisco, we were much cooler today only 57 currently in downtown san francisco. as for what's goi

but kpix 5 reporter ann notarangelo tells us some drivers in san ramon want the city to take it slow.orter: yeah, allen. here on deerwood drive the current speed limit is 25 miles an hour but by the end of the month, portions of it will be driveable at 35 miles an hour. some people think that's great. other people say, that's just too fast. >>> reporter: it's 30 miles an hour along the stretch of alcosta boulevard. >> it's a very slow street at 30 miles an hour currently. >> reporter: the guess is most drivers aren't law-abiding. in a few weeks, 35 on this stretch will be legal. >> i think people drive that fast five miles or 10 miles over the speed limit anyway and i don't see any accidents or anything. so it doesn't concern me. >> reporter: but it doesn't sit well with everyone. so you prefer a slower speed limit? >> i do. i do just because slower means safer people, safer for kids. >> reporter: san ramon just completed its mandatory 7-year speed survey of streets and found many speed limits were too slow. the average driver was already going faster than the posted limit but still d

kpix 5 reporter ann notarangelo tells us why water officials aren't worried. >> reporter: it's been a week since any rainfall and november and december deluge is but the a memory. across the bay area we are off to the driest year in decades. in san francisco, it's the driest start since 1852. lately, we have been awash in sunshine. >> the water district is continuously looking at what water supplies we have available to serve our customers. >> reporter: and the contra costa water district says it thinks it's in good shape this season even with a dry spell. >> we will probably use some of the storm in the reservoir but that's why we have it. >> reporter: e.b. m.u.d. said it started the rainy season with 200% of the average water storage and is down to 80% which is still considered good. the reservoirs have up to three years' supply but if we don't get two to three big storms by late spring, e.b. m.u.d. says automatic triggers kick in. the first step is voluntary conservation but no one is using the word drought. >> of course, we always encourage our customers to use water wisely and do

good evening i'm ann notarangelo. new at 10:00. friends and family gather tonight to remember a 10-year- old girl killed in a fire just after midnight yesterday. flames ripped through her apartment. by the time fire crews got to the scene, they could not save her who was trapped on the second floor. >> every single youngster out here be grateful. every parent love your child. know how important they are. speak something over them as they will give them a signal of love and appreciation. >> it appears to be accidental, but they're not sure how it started. >>> investigators are trying to figure out who is at fault with a crash that happened. those in the voting community are not really surprised by the crash. >> reporter: the ferries are rubbing again after an accident that left a lot of people wondering. >> how did had happen? >> investigators are still trying to figure it out after their motor boat collided with the ferry on saturday afternoon. >> we have some initial things that are coming in, but we cannot release anything offici

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in contra costa county, ann notarangelo, kpix 5. >>> a man who gave police the slip last week is back in custody after a chase through hayward. officers say 22-year-old solomon espinoza took off after they spotted him this afternoon. he hit two cars before crashing and then trying to run. but he didn't get away this time. espinoza was wanted for assaulting an officer during a traffic stop in san leandro last week. police say he ran off in handcuffs after trying to grab the officer's gun. >>> we are getting a better look at a trio of men who may be linked to a triple homicide in sonoma county. the sheriff today released some surveillance photos of the men who may be accomplices in the forestville murders. these images are from a video taken at a chevron station in st. helena the day before the killings. the men were driving a beige ford ranger that also may be involved in a drug deal gone bad this month. the main suspect mark cappello was arrested in mobile, alabama on valentine's day. he will be extradited to sonoma county to face charges. >>> the bodies of three men were found in a h

good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. two people are hospitalized, one in critical condition, after a collision between a bay area commuter ferry and a pleasure boat. it happened in raccoon strait between tiburon and angel island around 4:30 this afternoon. kpix 5's don knapp tells us the ferry wasn't heavily damaged and went back into service. don? >> reporter: the ms san francisco remaps tied up here at the -- remains tied up here at the ferry terminal in san francisco. we see doors open and we see people on board presumably the investigation continues. they're trying to determine what might have happened on the bay and who's at fault. at about 8:15 we watched several coast guard personnel leave the ms san francisco presumably after they concluded at least part of their investigation. here's what we know about the accident so far. around 4:30 this afternoon on the side of raccoon straits this ferry the san francisco was struck by a 22-foot pleasure boat as the ferry was headed from sausalito to san francisco. while none

in san ramon, ann notarangelo, kpix 5. >>> mobile5 is live driving around san francisco. ken bastida the bay area is now equal to los angeles in terms of congestion. >> reporter: yeah. it's a real mess out here, elizabeth, as you know, trying to get to the bridge in the afternoon. we're stuck on battery street, one of the main arteries getting to the bay bridge so the folks at texas a & m university's traffic institute wanted to do a study. they did it basically looking back at the 2011 numbers to figure out how many hours are wasted driving every day by commuters. that it's about 5.5 billion hours across country from commuters. where's the worst commute traffic? well, it's in washington, d.c., believe it or not. a 30-minute commute there can take up to three hours in rush hour traffic. what's next? well, believe it or not, it is los angeles and with 15 million people that's not hard to figure that one out. then third, it's san francisco- oakland. we have some of the worst commute traffic in the country. about $800 is what they figure each person wastes who has to commute

kpix 5's ann notarangelo tells us the unscheduled time off is costing millions every year. ann.

kpix 5 reporter ann notarangelo at the vacaville police department with details. >> reporter: allen,et a tip from the public to the police department. they say the tip led them to a bay area pot grower and a baby alligator. vacaville police stopped fairfield residents laurie and william riley for a traffic violation and discovered $250,000 of processed marijuana and handgun. a search of their fairfield home in the 400 block of begonia turned up, according to police, more evidence of marijuana, seven guns including one used by military snipers, nearly $30,000 in cash, and a three-foot-long baby alligator. by law, you need a permit to have a pet alligator. >> to our knowledge they didn't have a permit and we called animal services to take it. it was later turned over to the oakland zoo. and that's where it is today. >> reporter: do you get the sense this was for protection or a pet? >> it's hard to tell because of its size. it's certainly interesting to have it. but i don't really know what their motive was to have it. certainly would be dangerous with children around. >> reporter: in

. >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. developing story of a former lapd officer suspected in a rampage that left three people dead is still on the run tonight. this is new surveillance video that was just released. it appears to show christopher dorner tossing a magazine full of puts and a military belt into a dumpster in san diego county. it's from the day after he allegedly killed two people. cbs reporter edward lawrence is in los angeles with the latest on the investigation. edward. >> reporter: this is a developing story now. lapd police chief charlie beck says he is now going to reopen the investigation that sparked christopher dorner to go on his revenge shooting rampage. the police chief

kpix 5 reporter ann notarangelo tells us the killer is still on the loose. >> reporter: the three menkilled police say were trying to buy marijuana. this is a drug deal gone bad. >> eerie. we kept the doors locked. and i stayed up late. just listening to the news. >> reporter: neighbors say it's been two decades since anything like this happened on ross station road. more than 24 hours into the investigation, the sonoma county sheriff's department believes it has a good idea what happened inside the cab bon at noon yesterday in forestville. >> based on interviews and evidence collected at the scene. we now believe that this was a marijuana drug deal that resulted in the death of the three victims. >> reporter: 26-year-old raleigh butler who is originally from petaluma, but living near truckee was shot to death in the cabin his mom had rented for several years. also killed, 46-year-old richard lewin from new york, and 42-year-old todd klrakowsski from colorado. his mother was away when it occurred. investigators say they believe the three were trying to buy marijuana. and while authori

Ñáçwçñ >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo.out of las vegas. police have named a suspect in the shooting on the strip that killed an aspiring rapper from the bay area. investigators are now looking for 26-year-old amar harris. they found the black suv he was believed to have been driving during the shooting located this afternoon at an apartment east of the las vegas strip. kenneth cherry was killed by gunfire while driving his maserati early thursday morning. the maserati then hit a taxicab leading to the fiery wreck that killed the cab driver and passenger. >>> oakland police are looking for a group of teens who got off an a.c. transit bus and then opened fire on it. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec tells us despite the violence, riders say it won't keep them from taking the bus. >> it's a crazy story. >> reporter: it's not what you expect when you board a bus dodging bullets from behind.

kpix 5 reporter ann notarangelo on what it would cost and where the money would come from. >> reporter: since patrolling the streets of oakland, the police department says in some cases violent crime is down and they don't want to mess with the momentum. >>> reporter: november 1st, the chp joined additional local and federal law enforcement personnel to stop the escalating violent crime on oakland streets. they focused on the most dangerous crimes, homicides, shootings and robberies. >> sometimes they were in east oakland, sometimes in west oakland in high crime zones. and then the officers would stop and contact individuals who were engaged either in criminal activity or what appeared to be criminal activity. >> reporter: the chp initially paid for the extra patrols about $300,000 to $325,000 in overtime pay for three months but in january let the city know it couldn't continue. >> with our budget we have budget constraints that we have to operate within, and so that's what we're trying to do, be fiscally responsible with our designated budget. >> reporter: but the city wants them to

ann notarangelo reports. >> reporter: this is one of those cases and stories where you think is this on average professional athletes who settle workmen's comp. complains with the state of california bring home between 150 and 20thousand dollars in cash. michael irvin played for the dallas cowboys and rumored to have a net worth of $15 million and danced on "dancing with the stars." but he collected $249,000 from the state of california in a workmen's compensation claim. he is part of what's considered the wild, wild west of workmen's comp. and it's legal. >> my interest here isn't protecting california business owners and california workers by -- by -- by dealing with this glaring loophole that's allowed for so much abuse. >> reporter: as assembly insurance committee chairman henry per raya explained, california law allows employees to get money for cumulative trauma, the wear and tear on your body. for professional athletes that can be significant. but you don't have to have much of a connection to california to cash in. and you can collect money from more than one state. here's th

. >> thank you, ann notarangelo. >>> two of the bay area's busiest bart stations could be getting a multi-million dollar makeover. kpix 5 reporter phil matier shows us the plans to break up a bart bottleneck. >> reporter: bart is growing around the nine bay area counties but here in downtown san francisco is where they are really feeling the pinch. here's the story. for years, bart ridership has been growing to the point where now 400,000 riders daily use the commuting system and nowhere is that felt more strongly than at the embarcadero and montgomery street stations in san francisco. >> 40% of our trips each day either begin at embarcadero or montgomery. >> reporter: the biggest problem is getting the riders on and off the trains at rush hour without backing up the whole system. and that's why bart is laying tracks for this massive expansion with new underground platforms on both side of the trains complete with sliding glass doors. so that we would -- you would load on to this train from here and on that side as well? >> either that or you could -- everyone loads this way and exits the other w

working from home is a perk for quite a few workers especially in silicon valley but kpix 5's ann notarangelonow wants everyone to work at the office. >> reporter: allen, it's estimated that nearly 10% of the u.s. workforce works from home at least one day a week but come summer that's not going to be the case here at yahoo. >> reporter: jeannie worked at google before leaving last year to start her own pr company and raise her daughter. now she telecommutes. [ singing to her baby ] >> i am not even interested in working part time in an office and being forced to go into the office at any regular time because this is wonderful freedom. >> reporter: but come june, yahoo employees will no longer have that option. ceo marissa mayer has told her employers in an attempt to be the best, she wants them at the office. while yahoo won't comment on the internal memo reports that she wrote to her employees that speed and quality are sacrificed when we work from home. anyone who doesn't make the change should quit. >> i can understand that. you know, there's a lot of synergy that happens in an office tha

. >> in sonoma county, ann notarangelo, thank you. >>> san francisco police may be closer than ever to closing the kevin collins case. tonight they have named a person of interest in the decades old disappearance of the 10-year-old boy. kpix 5 reporter phil matier tells us investigators suspected him from the start. >> reporter: but he proved to be a very elusive character even though his history would have put him in the spotlight from the beginning. >> reporter: at the time he was known as wayne jackson but the man in the spotlight now for the abduction of kevin collins 30 years ago went by many names before dying of natural causes in the sunset in san francisco in 2008. >> this case is a case that haunts the san rancisco police department and the city and has pretty much throughout the entire careers of everybody that's standing here. >> reporter: a fresh look at the crime by the cold case unit let to the searched of his old haight district home last week where jackson and his roommate lived just blocks away from where 10-year-old kevin collins disappeared on the way home from baske

i'm ann notarangelo. >> and i'm phil matier. nto. democrats have the super majority. that's now changing. we'll talk about that and what's next. is. >> and we'll be taking look at high speed rail. senator jerry hill is going to be joining us to talk about a proposal he has to make that line a lot more palatable for the people on the peninsula. >>> and the drama in washington d.c., the latest fiscal crisis, and legislatures have been on vacation and we're going to get in death penalty about that. >>> and -- in depth about that. >>> people say they felt the earthquake. >> it had a magnitude of 3.0. just before 2 this morning. centered two miles northeast of fremont and viewers in those areas tell us that buildings were swaying. you could see the activity