the landowner christin ayers interviewed makes no profit from the oil. he just owns the surface land. not the mineral rights beneath it. >>> check this out. an incredible sight at yosemite. that is an object optical illusion known as fire fall. it happened for a couple of week each february. a couple of lucky photographers snapped these shots before it disappeared. >> sunlight right, ken? , that's what it is, man. >> gorgeous, and the wealther cooperated all throughout the state of california. rain returning later this week. includeing the bay area. kpix5 high-def doppler tonight, is mainly dry. there is a winter storm watch which has been issued. can you believe it? sierra snowfall. another foot of snow with another foot coming on friday. city hall lit up for valentine's day. hope you and yours had a great day. a lot of fives on your television screen. san francisco, san jose, 55. livermore, santa rosa, 50. we will stay in the 50s in a couple of spots including pacifica, san francisco, oakland. not falling into the 40s . concord, 46. satellite review sh

but as christin ayers found out it's not stopping the state from backing another oil company's request to inject waste water in the bay area. >> reporter: you would never know it but in the shadow of windmills that surround the livermore valley, there's an active oilfields. >> started seeing major problems here. >> reporter: two wells are on phillip marshall's property. he says problems started when the oil company e & b natural resources removed some old tanks uncovering contaminated soil. >> it was intense petroleum smelling odor coming from the site and we looked at it and saw that there was obviously contaminated soil under where these tanks came out of. >> reporter: the county cited them for failure to provide an immediate verbal report of the contamination. in another incident involving their tanks on a neighboring property, alameda county's d.a. sued the company for improper transportation and disposal of hazardous waste. >> they are very sloppy message operators that just really don't have any regard for the property they're on, the community around them. >> reporter: marshall

kpix 5's christin ayers on the new message the fans are sending. >> reporter: okay. we might as well be in the black hole tonight. these are the most die hard raiders fans, they are here to watch the super bowl, and also to sends the nfl and the raiders ownership a clear message. >> raiders. >> raiders. >> reporter: looks like any other super bowl celebration but this is a party with a purpose. forever oakland made up of oakland raiders supporters in silver and black. have a message. they are shooting a public service announcement aimed that national football league. he wants the video and the message to go viral. >> our message today is let the national football league know we are behind you, behind the efforts of keeping the raiders in oakland. >> we are urging mark davis to come to the terrible. >> reporter: he is known as dr. death, he makes no secret on how fans feel. fed up with the efforts to relocate. >> what has he done to get a stadium deal done? he said he tried, prove it. >> reporter: he has been fighting to move the raiders to las vegas but that is hangi

kpix5's christin ayers has the late breaking details. christin? >> reporter: yeah, the city council voted unanimously to file a lawsuit over president trump's executive order targeting sanctuary cities. santa clara county gets a billion dollars in federal funning a year that will soon be filed thursday or friday. it comes on the heels of the first lawsuit filed earlier today. >> obey the rule of law. abide by the constitution. >> reporter: san francisco city attorney dennis hererra defiant in the face of trump's executive order to withhold funds from sanctuary cities saying it vie lutes the constitution protections of religious freedom and forces cities to do the jobs of immigration officials. >> president trump's executive order tries to turn city and state employees into federal immigration officers. that is unconstitutional. >> please proceed. >> reporter: meanwhile, in sacramento today, the backlash came from democratic state lawmaker. forget sanctuary cities, they are pushing to turn california into a sanctuary state. >> we want to make sure

christin ayers, kpix5 news. >> a trump supporter was attacked today in berkeley. the man in a suit was wearing a make america great again hat when that white suv pulled up, the driver and passenger got out, rimmed the guy's hat off and started attacking him. the driver and passeng . the victim is a cal student and member of the college republicans. he's okay. the driver and passenger were arrested. >>> now let's look outside. here's a live picture, some scattered showers tonight, but just waited. the heaviest rain of this storm is headed to the bay area in a little while. kpix5's chief meteorologist paul deanno tracking the radar. just some light showers turning to heavy rainfall overnight, the rain offshore to the west will get us at 2 be on 3 or 4 a.m. right now -- at 2:00 or 3 or 4 a.m. right now a smattering of showers. rainfall the past 24 hours, more than an inch in the santa cruz mountain, also the north bay including santa rosa and san rafael, the rest of the bay area not nearly as much, a little oh .1 afternoon for pleasanton and -- a little over .1-inch

tonight kpix5's christin ayers has some news that makes you why police did not arrest this man days ago. >> reporter: the rifle toting man in this neighborhood has died. this was not the first time neighbors called police on him claiming he was threatening people. >> reporter: chopper 5 captured him wielding his rifle from his home. neighbors claim he was aiming the gun at houses, cars and people. >> he has the next-door neighbor shooting at her house. >> reporter: at one point he aimed hit barrel at chopper 5. he scribbled images on his neighbor's car. >> shot fired, shot fired, blue sweater. he just walked back in the house. he was shot multiple times. >> reporter: not long after an officer shot back. the police spokesperson was vague with his history with law enforcement. >> our investigators are looking into how many times have we been to this street, to what residence have we visited at this street. >> reporter: kpix5 learned february 10th a neighbor called police to report an after altercation a man stood outside and fired his gun into the air. a man later called police saying he

kpix 5's christin ayers talked to one homeowner who says he is lucky to be alive. >> reporter: gordon wozniak was just finishing dinner when the power went out. >> the house went black. >> reporter: he stepped outside his berkeley home and saw it. >> there was a big tree in front of our house just filling the street basically and we couldn't even see our car. our car is buried under the tree branches. >> reporter: his car and tree others fully or partially crutched by the 100-foot tree after rain left the soil here soaked. this just a small piece of the destruction around the east bay after days of stormy weather. in oakland, a boulder the size of a car came crashing down on grizzly peak road briefly blocking both lanes. in martinez, floodwaters in the streets downtown left some cars stranded. a massive mudslide in orinda forced paul out of his home. >> i thought it was thunder at first but it was a lot louder. >> reporter: the city red- tagged the house on van tassle lane after mud came from a hillside into the home. >> it came into the back office and bathroom and buckled the floor

let's do it for a cause that we want to stand for. >> reporter: christin ayers, kpix5. >> we boasted a list of the bay area coffee -- posted a list of the bay area coffee shops donating proceeds to the aclu. >>> the u.s. starts the year with a strong job surge. the bad news tonight? wages. american businesses created nearly a quarter million jobs last month, but wages barely ticked up and the unemployment rate did tick up to a 4.8%. >>> animal rights groups are outraged tonight. the feds suddenly removed an online database that tracks how medical research labs treat their animals. many fear the move will have an immediate impact. >> reporter: more than a decade anyone wanting inspection reports, enforcement records and other information about commercial dog and horse breeders, zoos, research labs and other animal facilities could easily find it on the usda's website, but now the online database has been abruptly replaced with a message from the department saying the removal of countless records was based on our commitment to being transparent, remaining responsive to our stakeholders

. >>> raging creeks tore through a golf course down the fairways with so much force, christin ayers reportsearly two dozen people had to be rescued. >> reporter: tonight, the roadway leading into redwood canyon golf course washed out and shut down after the worst flooding authorities athey have seen in nearly two decades. >> it is a rip roaring rapid out there. >> reporter: flood waters filling this castro valley golf course. around noon, heavy noon caused the san leandro creek to swell. overwhelming the green. bridges chained to trees on the course. ripped apart and sent downstream. a port a potty submerged. golfer cory barios has never seen anything like it. >> this is just unreal. this is ... i can't believe it. it looks like a river. you can't tell there is a golf course there. >> reporter: the golf force had slided. the flooding was so severe, the manager said they had to evacuate 22 people from a luncheon at the meadows restaurant here. >> we had to make the decision to close the road and get them out of there. >> reporter: employees say it is not unusual to have some amount of floodi

kpix 5's christin ayers reports. >> obey the rule of law. abide by the constitution. >> reporter: san francisco city attorney dennis herrera defiant in the face of president trump's executive order to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. he says trump's directive violates the constitution's protections of religious freedom and forces cities to do the jobs of immigration officials. >> president trump's executive order tries to turn city and state employees into federal immigration officers. that is unconstitutional. >> please proceed. >> reporter: in sacramento, the backlash came from democratic state lawmakers. forget sanctuary cities. they are pushing to turn california into a sanctuary state. >> we want to make sure that people who are here for all of the right reasons are able to stay here. >> reporter: senate bill 54 would block local law enforcement statewide from using resources to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, report or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes. legislation that would require the whole s

live in pleasanton christin ayers, kpix5. in the north bay rain is not helping crews trying to repair highway 37 in novato. they were out there today again clearing away mess left behind from recent storms. the highway remains shut down from major flooding. >>> in tiburon this mudslide blocked paradise drive near trestle glen boulevard. marin county crews used bulldozers to try to clear the scene. >>> in novato this mudslide threatened a home. crews hoped to block rain with tarps from making the damage even worse. there's a home just beneath the slope. >>> in san mateo county skyline boulevard completely shut down at sweat road, the reason again mudslides and downed power lines and also some toppled trees. pg&e and sheriff's units are on the scene, unclear when that road will reopen. cate cauguiran is in san mateo county tonight keeping a close eye on the belmont creek as well. >> reporter: we're also getting big gusts of wind through this area, but right now we're at where belmont creek flows underneath 101 and you can look

more now from christin ayers. >> shut it down, shut it down! >> reporter: at its peak there were 1500 protestors a band of about 100 masked rioters who authorities say were not students caused most of the chaos breaching barricades, breaking windows and at one point burning a portable light in the middle of sproul plaza. altogether, $100,000 worth of damage. >> unlawful assembly! >> reporter: police held back throughout the protest even as rioters threw objects and fire crackers. >> in the context of the fact that we have had no reports of serious injuries we are satisfied with the police department's performance. >> reporter: the berkeley mayor condemned the violence but also condemned yiannopoulos calling him a prominent white nationalist, a label yiannopoulos has resisted. i consider much of what mr. yiannopoulos says to be hateful, he said. but i regret and apologize for the white national label, the mayor said. on fox news he criticized the mayor and called out police for their handling of the protest. >> the police didn't do much except h

all the rain has done a number on it, but kpix5's christin ayers shows us that's not the only problem. >> reporter: tonight floodwaters are surrounding this berkeley nonprofit. on a normal day you could walk to the edge of that fence, but it is filled with water today. heavy rain and a faulty drainage system have shouldn't the place down. >> so -- have shut the place down. >> so this is the edge of the walkway and from here the water level is usually about 3 feet down from this peeps right piece right here. >> reporter: appear -- piece right here. >> reporter: she's the executive director of a nonprofit aquatic park that rents boats and bikes and teaches boat building and other vocational skills, but it's been shut down since january when floodwater went over the seawall. the drainage system that's supposed to let freshwater flow out and saltwater flow in is failing and not only is waterside flooding, marine life like this stingray pay the price. >> we're starting to see dead bat rays and leopard sharks because of the amount of fresh water intrusion. >> reporter: the problem is not ne

. >>> first kpix5's christin ayers is in berkeley. >> reporter: yeah. liz, the mess left behind after this tree toppled isn't going anywhere any time soon, neighbors telling me they're just raeed no one was hurt. the tree actually -- relieved no one was hurt. the tree actually came up from its roots, took out a couple power lines and crushed cars beneath it. gordon wozniak was finishing dinner when the power went out. it wasn't until he stepped outside his berkeley home that he saw it. >> there was this big tree in front of our house just filling the street basically. we couldn't even see our car buried under the tree branches. >> reporter: his car and others fully or partially crushed by the tree after rainy weather left the soil soaked, this just a small piece of the destruction around the east bay after days of stormy weather. in oakland tonight the boulder the size of a car crashed down on grizzly peak road briefly blocking both lanes. in martinez floodwaters in the streets downtown left some cars stranded. a massive mudslide in orinda forced some f

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 22 people from a luncheon at the meadows restaurant here. >> we had to make the decision to close the road and we had to get them out of there. >> reporter: employees here said it's not unusual to have some amount of flooding on this side of the golf course, although certainly not to that extent. what is unusual is this, the water spreading all the way across the entrance road here. that is ultimatel

tonight, christin ayers tells us about a new program there that aims to give students a leg upstartingt five years old. >> reporter: kindergartener stefon stubs may not understand it yet, but he already has money in the bank for college. his father couldn't be prouder. >> to the school held a ceremony yesterday presenting kindergarteners with certificates. it is all part of a cradle to career program called oakland promise that is celebrating its one year anniversary here tonight. the goal, to triple the number of college graduates in oakland by 2025. >> this coming year, we will be giving savings accounts and scholarship awards to 5,000 babies and kindergarteners in oakland. >> reporter: newborns will get $500 in a college savings account. their parents, $500 in coaching and financial support. by kindergarten, they get another $500. it doesn't stop there. there are more scholarships in high school. and students going to a community college get their first semester free, but the help is not just financial. >> academic support. mental support. >> reporter: alea douglas is an oakland pub

that's what kpix5's christin ayers asked the mayor tonight. we wanted to ask her ab dumping scandal. >> reporter: oakland's mayor confronted a packed house tonight with a plan for fighting illegal dumping in east oakland, but we wanted to ask her about the city's own dumping scandal. >> we took steps we thought were the right ones at the time. >> reporter: mayor libby schaaf defending the city of oakland's decision to dump piles of debris from the ghost ship warehouse at martin luther king, jr. shoreline park less than 100 yards from san leandro bay. why dump it in a wetland area where there's wildlife? >> at the time that we were doing this recovery we were trying to work as quickly as we can because rains were coming. we had to take advantage of areas that we had available and that is the decision that was made at that time. >> reporter: the city dumped the charred debris here on city property weeks ago right next to a soccer field where children play. it still reeks of smoke and one man who used to live at the ghost ship warehouse told us h

kpix5's christin ayers has that story. >> there had again a break-in. >> reporter: the worst kind. break-in. the walnut -- kind of break high pressure break-in ransacked, -- break-in ransacked, irreplaceable personal items stolen. >> the place was trashed, take lot of things miss -- a lot of things missing including the call and the jewelry. the wedding dress was also missing. >> reporter: marie's mother wore with when she married marie's father in 1961 and passed it on to her sister-in- law three years later. 20 years after that marie herself donned the dress. >> we were getting married. i was like i can wear that same dress. i've never seen one more beautiful. >> reporter: her cousin karen caught the bouquet and wore it again in 1998. >> it's been worn by four different people in the family. >> reporter: a family heirloom embroidered with the name of each bride who wore it. >> it meant so much to all of us. >> reporter: after the burglary in early january marie wondered whether she would ever see the dress again, but then -- >> the detective called and said we found the dress. sh

center will open back up at 9 >> reporter: christin ayers, kpix 5. >> well the center will open back up at 9:00 tomorrow morning. the franklin mckinley school district is taking donations of flood, clothing, and other items next week. >>> >. and we're seeing a few showers around parts of bay area tonight. looking toward the bay bridge. thankfully the showers are not expected to amount to much, and there's just a touch of light rain on the north coast, and that's about all it's amounting to. there's a little run off on the me lins that, and from time to time tonight a -- peninsula, and from time to time a few showers could splash up, along the coast mainly. the high peaks could get a sprinkle of snow, and another chance of showers tomorrow afternoon. then dry next week, and we'll have all the details when we cover the forecast. meanwhile the recent storms are still causing problems in san jose's allen rock park closed since friday because of downed trees and mud slides. no word on when it will reopen. ask the another closure in contra costa county. the closure is along a short stretch

kpix5's christin ayers is outside police headquarters. what is going on this time? >> reporter: it all started when top brass at opd earlier today put out a plan to cut down on illegal warehouse parties, but that plan didn't last long. for a few hours today it seemed as if oakland police were ready to implement a crackdown on illegal living spaces like the ghost ship warehouse. an e-mail this afternoon from the assistant police chief david downing ordered officers to alert of any occupied places they see by e-mail by the end of the shift. >> i think it's the right thing to do and i command the deputy chief for having the courage and foresight to do that. >> reporter: but four hours later a sudden about face. the city administrator who is overseeing the department until its new chief comes on board sent us a statement saying downing's e-mail was distributed prematurely and has been retracted. >> with the administrator stepping in and to say something is questionable regarding his directive clearly shows the lack of leadership and knowledge how to do the job. >> repor

. >> christin ayers, thank you. >>> we have an update on the oroville dam. state officials again reduced the amount of water pouring down the main spillway. it's now flowing at a rate of 50,000 cubic feet per second. that reduction should make it easier for crews to take debris out of a diversion pool at the bottom of the damaged spillway. and check out this view of lake oroville from the international space station. this video was taken wednesday, and shows the lake's high water level. it's now 55 feet below where it was two weeks ago when fears of a collapse triggered evacuations. >>> and today started out actually fairly sunny, but now the light is draining as the clouds increase, but it doesn't look like there's much on the way. here's how it looks on the high definition doppler. just a touch of like rain, but that's about -- like rain, but that's about -- light rain, but that's about all it amounts to. so a few showers tonight. the higher mountain peaks could get a sprinkle of snow at the peaks, and a chance of showers tomorrow afternoon, and dry next w

christin ayers, kpix5. >>> a train service is out until at least wednesday. the problem, flooding in the central valley. last week's union pacific train derailment nearly elk grove. freight trains are rerouted onto the ace tracks. ace train officials hope to have service back up and running by thursday morning. >>> santa cruz county is practically cut off tonight. kpix5's mark sayre shows us no matter which way you go it's almost impossible to get there. >> reporter: this is highway 9 outside saratoga and yet another mudslide called caltrans to close this road between here and skyline boulevard. always the highway goes over the hill down into boulder creek and sultan there are still more closures. >> warnings issued. >> reporter: this video shows the extent of the mudslide on highway 9. both lanes are closed as crews work to shore up about the road, but this is just one of the routes to and from santa cruz heavily impacted by the storms. highway 152 over hecker pass is closed. mudslides have low 17 down to one lane each direction and highway 35 is washed out.

kpix 5's christin ayers has the story of a reunion they never saw coming. >> there's been a break-in. >> reporter: the worst kind of break-in. the walnut creek home where marie clark mcintee's mother lived until her death in december ransacked, personal items stolen. >> the place is trashed. a lot of things were missing including the car and the computer, the jewelry. >> reporter: but most devastating of all. >> the wedding dress was missing. >> reporter: a one-of-a-kind wedding dress. her mother wore it when she married her husband in 1961 and passed it to her sister in law marie's aunt three years later. 20 years after that, marie wore it. >> we were getting married i was like well, i can wear that same dress. i have never seen one more beautiful. >> reporter: her cousin karen caught the bouquet and wore it in 1998. >> so it's been worn by four different people in the family. >> reporter: a family heirloom embroidered with the name of each bride who wore it. >> it meant so much to all of us. >> reporter: after the burglary in early january, marie wondered if she weather over see the

only on 5 tonight christin ayers reports the fire wasn't the problem. it's what happened when the fire inspector showed up in east oakland. >> we have been homeless for 41 days and it keeps going. >> reporter: adrienne wong in fears as she addressed oakland city council last night. today she showed us what used to be her home, a loft in the art ratan studios. she and other tenants were forced out last month after learning the building was never zoned a living space. >> there's a couple people living in their cars. i'm crashing at my parents' house in daly city with my life. >> reporter: they learned about the issue when a small fire sparked on the complex doorstep january 12th , one day after mayor libby schaaf signed an executive order meant to protect people living in immaterial living spaces after -- in improper living spaces. sprinklers were found positioned too closely to walls to work properly, but that's just the beginning. there's exposed electrical wiring hanging loose in her unit, a water heater not secured to a wall. >> this is supposedly the

in oakland christin ayers, kpix5. >>> meanwhile san francisco artists learning in a vernal heights warehouse claim their landlord is using the ghost ship fire to get rid of them. tenants have been living in the converted space called the sun spot for 10 years, but they say shortly after the fire they got eviction notices. the owner wants to put up condos on the site, but he says he never gave anyone permission to live in the warehouse. >> to say that as an individual didn't know that there was people that had been living here for so long as he kept cashing the checks, that's a little far fetched. >> the owner says those rent checks were for commercial space and it was only after walking the property recently that he learned people were living there. >>> just over a month after taking office president trump's overall job approval rating has dropped to 39%. that is according to a new national cbs news follow tonight. 51% of americans disapprove. here's how it breaks down by party. 82% of republicans say the president is doing a good job so far. and tonight: 85% of democrats say the president i

it was a sold-out event and christin ayers did a great job of hosting. thanks to all of those who were there. we have some loyal viewers. >> everybody was so happy you were there because it's a grind being on the morning show and coming back into the city in the evening hours. >> i had to take a three-hour nap. [ laughter ] >> i know. >> you didn't have to deal with traffic coming in. there is traffic. especially in gilroy. >>> we have a traffic alert in effect since around 4 a.m. it's westbound 152 after ferguson road. it's an overturned big rig on its sidecar rig 42,000 pounds of meat so as you can imagine, it will take a while to unload that meat out of the truck and get this cleared out. chp is on scene and they are saying that backup is to bloomfield or beyond. take bloomfield exit, take frazer lake road to get back on 152 beyond the crash and get past that backup there. there is no estimated time of re-opening just yet because caltrans is still on the way to the scene to get it cleared out so if this is part of your morning commute give yourself ex