but, we are going to find her one way or the other. >> reporter: in fremont, devin fehely, kpix5. >> at this point l is no word on whether the search will resume. >>> a landslide has forced several families from their homes in just days. a hairline crack in the pavement turned into this broken jagged road. at the same time, the foundation under one woman's home completely dropped. two homes have been red flagged by city officials. >>> and still ahead, a skier injured in the sierra back country and hoisted out. >> it is a sea of green and old. faithfuls come out for fan fest while the team looks to build a new ballpark. >> temperatures in the bay area skyrocket into the 60s . but don't be lulled into a false sense of security. there is more rain on the way. ,,,,,,,, in my future, i'm twice as likely to have a stroke. i'm at higher risk for depression. i'm 26% more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. i have a 65% higher chance of developing diabetes. no matter who we are, these diseases can be managed or prevented when caught early on. because with better research, the right medi

speaking of the santa cruz mountains, devin fehely is reporting there live tonight as folks are finishing up dealing with this storm but already beginning to prepare for the next storm. devin. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right. now, the rain today is significantly lighter than it was just yesterday and crews are trying to take advantage of that to get as much work done as possible before a worse storm heads our way. >> a big storm coming in, it's going to be something else this weekend. >> reporter: across the santa cruz mountains, work crews today were battling the clock as much as mother nature racing to repair the damage of one storm while bracing for more rain this weekend. >> we'll see damage on the roads and closures, downed trees and mudslides and then hopefully no slipouts on our roads. >> reporter: drenching rain overnight caused widespread puddles in the santa cruz mountains toppling trees and causing rain soaked hillsides to comcast keading down. >> there's -- come cascading down. >> there's a lot of soft edges along these roads and you do see mudslides. it's prevalent an

kpix 5's devin fehely reports: she may not have shown any her death. >>> tonight there's a second deadlye of meningitis. today's victim died in the back of a muni bus. she may not have shown any symptoms before her death. >> very outgoing, sweet person, very giving, a lot of friends. >> reporter: david robson is reeling from the sudden death of his sister laura while health officials are victim bling to figure out where she caught the dead -- scrambling to figure out where she caught the deadly infection. she was urge the weather he says but believes -- under the weather he says but believed she simply had the flu. >> she had a severe headache, did have a slight fever, said her feet were cold. she didn't complain of her neck hurting. >> reporter: robson said his sister had surgery at san francisco general about two weeks ago and in hindsight thinks pain meds may have complicated a diagnosis and delayed treatment. sevin philips died january 7th in marin. laura died three days later, but there is no connection apparently between the two victims. laura did not belong to the soul cycle studi

kpix5's degrees in fehely was there -- devin fehely was there for the emotional opening statements. >> reporter: prosecutors addressed the sad reality and central challenge of their case with their opening statement proving that sierra lamarre is not just missing but was murdered. nearly five years after the 15- year-old disappeared on her way to the bus stop prosecutors began the much delayed trial of anthony garcia torres in dramatic fashion gesturing to the defendant while telling jurors he was responsible for her death. her family, friends and supporters say stoically in the courtroom as prosecutors laid out the evidence against torres. they are now faced with the prospect of having to spend the next several months sitting in a courtroom listening to the last hour of their daughter's life. with no witness and no body the processing case is largely circumstantial leaning heavily on dna and other -- prosecution's case is largely circumstantial leaning heavily on dna and other evidence but which will likely come under fire by the defense. >> it still leaves little room for the defens

devin fehely, kpix5. >>> enjoying what the rain brought us, but we'll be happy for a little dry weather. >> it's perfect timing. the warmest weather will be right over the weekend, what improvement on the drought map for the state of california. only 2% of the state is now in a severe drought. that was 80% two years ago. all of the bay area is now out of the drought including contra costa, alameda county. drought improvement to our south and east. fresno improved dramatically the fast couple months, things looking better as the drought is over north of interstate 80 in northern california. it's great news. we're dry through the weekend into next week. hi-def doppler is dry. there's a high surf advisory the next couple hours, but after that expires at 3 a.m. breakers will be higher than average. if you go to the beach tomorrow, dangerous rip currents. never turn your back to the water this time of year. fremont 37 tonight, san rafael tomorrow morning, 38 degrees for the kids. they'll need a jacket or heavier coat. now that we're clear at night, we're getting chilly. the storm is coming.

in morgan hill, devin fehely, kpix 5. ♪[ music ] >>> all right.t's shaping up to be a pretty good weekend, roberta. >> you know, when you look back at this month of january, it feels like it's rained about every day. >> mm-hm. >> but this is going to be the first full weekend with full sunshine, both days. >> i like it. >> two or three weeks ago we had a brilliant saturday and rainy sunday. that's how it's been mixed half bag. but no, this time we are going to have sunshine from start to finish. >> bring it on. >> we are going to have sunshine all the way through the end of the month which is just next week. good morning, everybody. this is our live weather camera at the bay bridge. visibility is unlimited. temperatures right now are very cool due to the clear skies. it is in the mid-30s in redwood city also in santa rosa. good morning in san jose at 38 degrees. below freezing in the tri- valley. trust me, i stepped out this morning, i felt it! 49 degrees san francisco. 40s due east of the bay bridge in oakland. here's what you need to know today.

so live in milpitas devin fehely kpix5. >> we are doing flooding after flooding and trees down everywhere. and you even caught trees on video too right? >> yes i was driving home whenfrom the studio on saturday afternoon i was driving 680 south through pleasantton getting ready for the exit when the huge eucalyptus tree fell 5 or 6 cars in front of me and we didn't realize until we were able to go around the tree that there was a truck underneath that tree. so you's driving along minding your business in the low slain and all of a sudden a tree comes down. and we didn't have rain at that time. it was the gusty winds and that's what's going to be the problem. even though we have a bit of a break today, the soil is saturated and we have a little bit of a breeze today. we have a high wind watch in effect for tomorrow. there will be more downed trees and perhaps today and over the next 48 hours. >> we were talking about overnight what it was like and what we heard and it sound like a tornado last night. >> it was scary. >> it sounded like a train it did. >> the thing is the downed trees when

devin fehely is live in san jose. >> reporter: the height of the drought the river was at an all time low. look at how things changed. outside the spillway. after a week of wet river it is dry no more. >> reporter: bone dry. a raging river yet again. >> crazy how it is bone dry trickle to a raging river. fun to see it. it is never like it. when you see it it is like wow! >> reporter: in 2015, a week of rain has the river that makes its way through san jose swollen and rising but still well below flood stage. >> been down here when you could walk all the way across. right? it is really, as you can see, flowing. >> reporter: san jose and the peninsula have largely been spared the winter storm but they have not escaped all together. a downed power line forced crews to divert dozens of drivers. we found flooded streets in san jose. near the san jose airport. residents watched the rising river with curiosity and concern as well as relief for having been spared the worse that mother nature could dish out. >> reporter: this is a live look again at the spillway of the river outside downtown s

devin fehely reports. >> you see the edge over here? below that edge, the grass falling down. [ heavy accent ] >> basically water come over to push the grass down. >> reporter: he manages a team of hydrologists for the santa clara valley water district. his job? the science and art of predicting how rain will affect our rivers and reservoirs. >> when the ground is saturated, maybe only 20% will go into the great, 80% maybe become runoff. >> reporter: he says storms have pound the the bay area in the past week posing a unique challenge for the team. under normal circumstances, he says 50% or more of the rain that falls in any given storm is absorbed by the ground. but once the ground is saturated, like it was after sunday's heavy showers, he says much of the rain from the next round of storms goes straight into rivers and streams increasing the chance of flooding. >> if you put a water on top of the saturation soil, water just run away. majority of the water is a run off. >> reporter: that's why yesterday's smaller storm still triggered

good morning, i'm emily turner and i'm devin fehely. >>> it is 7:30 a.m. on this sunday, january 1. good morning, i am emily turner. >>> ringing in the new year from the bay area to new york city. with beefed-up security.>>> president elect donald trump bri -- asking for more details. >>> president obama's recent punishment of the country. >>> cleaning house after a sluggish season. who's on the chopping block.>>> good morning, we are off to a chilly start and at the -- will be that way for much of the week. temperatures right at freezing. 33 in napa. that is for tonight. today, it is not too badly. this is a summation of what is happened. patchy fog around and then showers in northbay later today. the numbers today do new but that's no better than the mid- 50s. we will have the complete forecast coming up. >>> across the country, thousands of revelers rang in the new year last night from san francisco to seattle. in times square, an estimated 1 million people rang in the new year with cheers. the ball dropped at the stroke of midnight. thousands of officers were on the streets. tak

kpix 5's devin fehely is live in alameda county where this search is under way. devin. >> reporter: for the fifth straight day dozens of volunteers some who knew jayda some not met here to search for her along the banks of the alameda creek. in swift moving water and on miles of shoreline, a small army of volunteers searched for the smallest sign of jayda jenkins. >> everybody wants to help find this girl to get some resolution. >> reporter: she has been missing since saturday morning when a car skidded off the road and plunged into alameda creek. yesterday, rescuers pulled the upside-down car from the swollen creek but the 18-year- old wasn't inside. the alameda county sheriff's office has scaled back the official search-and-rescue effort. they did launch a boat from where the creek empties into the bay with searcher traveling upstream but jayda's family and friends weren't ready to give up yet. >> if it's just a piece of clothing, jewelry, or a piece of something that was there with her, just something that kind of put their mind at ease a little bit. >> reporte

kpix 5's devin fehely spoke to one man who was near the falls as the soil gave way. >> one tree fell 30 feet from me. ha. it was a small one, though. but, um, it still would have hurt. [ laughter ] >> reporter: john hudson's sense of humor survived the storms fine but the same can't be said for the love creek falls just down the road from his ben lomond home. >> i heard that tree start to come down and i was able to duck behind a car. >> reporter: this is what's left of the falls. the rest is buried under the cascade of mud and rock and uprooted trees. >> i wouldn't say stabilize, no. we keep getting more rain and it keeps getting a little shakier. >> reporter: residents cut away the trees that crisscross the road opening a path to cars and the curious. the clean-up for communities throughout the santa cruz mountains won't be quirks simple or cheap. >> you had probably the equivalent of 1,000 fire hoses blasting away at the area. >> reporter: rick is on the other side of this road in scotts valley where a damaged culvert caused a torrent of water to claw away at the ground under nels

so that's 7 years ago. >> reporter: in san jose, devin fehely, kpix 5. >>> what's average rainfall? it's a drought and a flood divided by2. we have had the floods. we need a break. we are getting a break. how long? we'll talk about it coming up. >>> victory for some bay area nuns in the saga over where to move their soup kitchen. how their prayers were just answered with the help of some celebrity heavyweights. >> trump versus clinton. you have seen friends taking sides on facebook. but now some california women are reaching out to strangers from another state. the unique effort to find common ground. >> and the first signs of a treasure island transformation. work finally getting started to turn the area into a brand-new community. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and it all came with the help of some philanthropic heavyweights... kpix 5's jessica flores with the story. >>> new at 6:00 a victory for a group of numbers with help of some heavyweights. kpix 5's jessica flores with the story. >> reporter: on the day the sisters of the fraternity of notre dame find out the fate of their soup kitch

kpix 5's devin fehely live in fremont where police are trying to crack the case and at least they have that video, devin. >> reporter: yeah, they do. but now, fremont police have been trying for over a month to find the gunmen but they don't have basic forensics like fingerprints or even a picture of the faces without the masks they were wearing that night so now they are turning to the public for your help in identifying the suspects in the case that they desperately want to crack. >> they put the tape on the women's hands. they pulled them by their hair at times. >> reporter: detectives released a security camera video hoping it would jump- start their stalled search for the four gunmen responsible for a violent home invasion robbery. in fremont's cameron hills neighborhood back in december. >> there's some very unique identifying clothing they are wearing specifically the shoes and the very recognizable some of their pants. >> investigators say the suspects were wearing masks when they took the two women a mother and daughter hostage at gunpoint while they ransacked the home for an

in morgan hill, devin fehely, kpix 5. >> part of highway 37 is back open tonight. chopper 5 over the flooded mess in novato. crews say the eastbound lanes reopened last night after flooding caused the highway to close sunday night. westbound lanes remain closed. >>> the golden gate bridge will soon see the construction of a suicide net which could disrupt traffic for the next four years. but only at night. the board of directors just approved $2 million to pay chp to manage the traffic impact. operators say one or two lanes will be closed while crews work during the night. the full board is expected to make the final vote tomorrow. construction is slated to begin in may or june and be completed by 2021. >>> a man to killed and then dismembered his wife in richmond 14 years ago has just been linked to the murders of five other people. bob evans died in prison here in california back in 2010. but 35 years ago, investigators say this man may have started his violent crimes across the country in new hampshire. he is the one-time boyfriend of a new hampshire woman who d

new at 6:00 our devin fehely along the banks of the san lorenzo river where flooding is a big concern tonight. devin. >> reporter: yeah. that's exactly right. now, it's probably pretty difficult to make out in the dark but a lot of attention and eyes are going to be on the san lorenzo river for the next couple of days. that's because in a matter of hours it can go a lazy to raging river and cause widespread flooding. it's the calm before the storm. the san lorenzo river flowing sleepily to the sea still well below flood stage. but emergency managers say that could change and quickly and that the greatest threat of flooding in santa cruz is along its banks. >> those areas tend to flood when we get the big large amounts of rain in short periods of time so we met with those business owners and agencies just to put them on alert. >> reporter: a series of powerful storms over the weekend is expected to dump as much as a foot of rain in parts of santa cruz. the city is giving away free sandbags for residents who want to protect their homes or businesses. and they are also racing against the

devin fehely. >>> the golden state warriors announced they are set to break ground for the chase center this month. the arena will be the team's new home starting in the 2019- 2020 nba season. >>> president-elect donald trump is back at work in new york planning his transition to the white house. he's also putting general motors on blast. today he tweeted general motors is sending mexican made model of chevy cruze to u.s., car dealers tax free across border. make in usa or pay big border tax. the tweet follows a president- elect campaign promise to keep manufacturing in america. in a statement, gm said it's cruze sedans sold in the u.s. are built at a plant in ohio except for a small number of hatch back versions which are built in mexico. today ford sited trump's progrowth promises for its decision to invest $700 million in michigan and not mexico. >>> all of these factors have prompted us obviously to invest in flat roth expansion and to cancel building a new plant in mexico. >> battle with gm comes as the president-elect announced he will nominate robert lightheiser. >>> camela harri

. >> reporter: devin fehely. >>> the team is launching theer is. for the next head coach and general manager. the 49ers owner fired trent balky who was gm for the last 11 years. chip kelly was with the team for one year and owner york is getting defensive about his decision to get rid of them. >> nothing i am going to say is going to be satisfactory and again we are going to be judged on what we do and accomplish. we haven't accomplished enough am i own this football team. you don't dismiss owners. >> york says he wants to shift the team to a championship culture but has not explained exactly how he plans to do that. >>> the bay area woman who survived a kidnapping is feeling trapped for another reason. kpix5 shows us how the victim is coping with harassment online. >> reporter: it's almost 2 years since vallejo police held the press conference accusing denise huskins and aaron quinn of a elaborate kidnapping hoax and the kidnapping was no joke and man who did it is now behind bars. but we have learned despite that the couple is now being harassed

tonight devin fehely reports city leaders in santa clara may be just hours away from declaring legal war. >> santa clara is proud to be one of america's most livable cities. >> reporter: like warring spouses who won't even mention the other's name. >> home to technology leaders and world class areas, a city that treasures its past. >> reporter: everything good is mentioned what's going on in santa clara without once mentioning the 49ers by name hinting at potential problems for the storied franchise far off the field. >> the trust level we have with the 49ers is very, very low. >> reporter: the stadium authority which represents the $1.3 million investment in levi's stadium meet behind closed doors tomorrow launching a time consuming and likely costly legal battle to force the 49ers to turn over key financial documents. >> the city of santa clara is the stadium owner and the stadium authority board as i often say has the fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers of this community and the residents to make sure that we are properly managing a very valuable asset. >> reporter: the 49er

devin fehely, kpixfive. >>> a bay area teenager skids off a rainy road. >>> friends get caught in an avalanche. how they survived it and stayed calm after being buried in feet of snow. >>> how a california town could ban pot all together. ,,,, (upbeat music) - [voiceover] you are san francisco. we've been with you from the beginning. we've seen each other through good times and bad. sickness and health. we're with you san francisco, and you bring out the best in us. care. zuckerberg san francisco general hospital and trauma center. car that plunged into the raging alameda creek. officials believ >>> after days of looking a possible break in the search for a car that plunged into the raging alameda creek. officials believe the 18-year- old driver went off niles county road on saturday morning. kpix5's juliet goodrich with the latest we're learning from that teenager. >> reporter: a very difficult day for the family. her vehicle plunged into this creek that is moving very swiftly. today one family member spotted a part of her vehicle. family members asked to keep private today and focu

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