don knapp spoke with friends of the couple who said they haven't heard from the couple in a month. >>he is a fun loving bicyclists. in december she and her boyfriend left the bay area for the bike ride of their lives. now friends and family are concerned about their whereabouts. >> i understand there is some dangerous areas in the places they were visiting. have warnings for american tourists so i am worried about them and the fact there has been no communication for a month. >> the couple posted pictures on facebook but on january 25 the communication ended. her sisters hope it is just a communication problem and nothing more. >> i haven't seen a video of her since january 25 so to me anything could have happened since then. i hope she is having a blast. >> reporter: she talked with her january 18. >> she called to say that they were having a good time. everything was going well. >> reporter: it isn't clear where they were on january 25. now thousands of miles away family and friends launched anench to find them, starting with a poster. >> we are trying to contact people who are trav

don knapp, kpix 5. >>> firefighters say a pug saved two people after their house caught fire and, get this, it is not even tear dog. the homeowners were dog sitting when the pug sound the alarm last night. the smoke alarm went off moments later. >> they know when something is wrong and they refuse to give up. in my opinion i think god made animals for more than just one reason. >> firefighters think cigarette smoke started the fire. no one was hurt. >>> trackings down their missing ipad. the tools a local couple used to find it and the airline employee who had it. >> i still don't believe it happened and i didn't really believe it was happening when it was happening. >>> cursed cruise still haunting a bay area woman. just how bad it real reimbursements got and why she says things were worse than they should have been. w at five: windy w >>> mobile 5 is live searching for low gas prices. we discovered what is happening behind the scene that is raising those prices. 50-foot oak tree toppled onto a house near danville th >>> new at 5:00, windy weather or is it just old age? take a look.

we have the reaction from kpix 5's don knapp. >> emotions overtook cal coach. it was the kind of thing that could end a coach's career. he had a quick response. the shoved player was diplomat exsaying he is my coach and there are no hard feelings. i have to leave it at that. it motivated me. >> we most certainly have a problem when disrespect begins to come from the top because you are teaching young people something about being young men, about being responsible adult citizens and so forth. >> coach montgomery later aa poll -- apologized. it also brings to mind other acts from college coaches. bobby knight fuming over a couple fouls called again his team throwing chairs. he was given a one-day suspension. >> spreewell dragged his nope 1997. the warriors canceled what was left of his $23 million contract and he was suspended by the nba for a year. and ohio state buckeyes coach brought his 28 year career to an instant end when he jumped off the bench and onto the field to punch a crimson player who intercepted a pass. >> they have the responsibility to not resor

. >> that sounds like what they need, don knapp thank you very much. >>> investigators are sorting through tips in the prime suspect of the las vegas strip shooting. they are looking for harris. they say he was the one who shot and killed an inspiring rapper, an oakland native, as he was identified as the prime suspect last night tips are pouring in. yesterday the police found the car that was seen speeding from the shooting last week. two other people were killed when the car cherry was riding in hit a taxi and it burst into flames. >>> 10 people are out of their homes after a two-alarm fire in the tender loin neighborhood. police officers saw smoke coming from golden gate and larkin street. the police went banging on the doors to get everyone out. 30 to 40 residents were forced to evacuate. >> i heard pounding on the door and the firemen were there and they said we had to get out. >> reporter: nobody was hurt. just how the fire started is still under investigation. >> investigators have released a sketch of the gunman. this man is wanted for attempted robbery on friday at a parking garag

. >> reporter: don knapp, kpix- 5. >>> authorities are searching through the tips for the las vegas shooting, they are looking for harris, they say he is the one who shot cherry, a local native. tips have been pouring in. yesterday they found the range rover that was found fleeing from the scene. two people were killed when the car cherry was riding in hit a taxi and burned into flames. >>> 10 people are out of their homes after a 2 alarm fire. the police officers on routine parole saw smoke coming out of the building. that is when they called for help and went banging on doors telling everyone to get out. between 30 and 40 residents were forced to evacuate. >> i just heard pounding on the door and opened the door and the firemen were there and said you have to get out. >> the red cross is assisting the fire victims. nobody was hurt. how the fire started is still under investigation. >>> new details tonight about mc hammer's brush with the law. the county sheriff's office says the vehicle hammer was in tkaouringing his arrest had expired tags -- during his arrest had expired tags on it. when

don knapp is there on market street where he watched the preparations. >> reporter: there's drums, simple balances, firecrackers, people dancer and animal dancers in the streets. what could be for exciting? we have that and lots of great pictures of what's happening and it all begins with a bang or should i say several bangs. chinese new year being celebrated in klein china for 5,000 years. the san francisco parade is the largest in the western world compared except for china. we'll see a lot of exciting things tonight. 100 units of floats passing by. the dragon 268 feet long will be dancing, as well. there will be the great big finale as you hear in the background. we'll hear more of that. a big finale of 600,000 firecrackers. as you said, a million folks here in san francisco ton to enjoy it on a great night a clear night. chilly at first but no wind, fog or rain. all those recovered in the past are grateful for that. >> thank you. >>> thousands of people also turned out for the 24th annual chinatown community fair. they enjoyed the taste, sights and sounds of san francisco's chinatown.

don knapp, kpix 5. >>> police in pleasant hill says that man with a knife held at least one employee in the box hostage. police say the man entered the fast food restaurant around 5:40 this morning. one employee managed to call police and told them that the man had a knife and tried to rob the restaurant. >> as soon as the officers got to the restaurant, they were able to evacuate the employees from the front of the restaurant. at some point during the incident, he actually released another employee >> reporter: about an hour later, the suspect, robert gore yo of guerrero of pittsburg surrendered. >>> a cyclist was killed after she have hit and dragged by a cement truck thousands of people were lining up for the san francisco giants fan fest. the victim hats been identified as 48-year-old diane saul van of san francisco. investigators are still trying to figure out how the crash happened. >> we are still interviewing witnesses and going over video footage so we can put the investigation together. >> reporter: sullivan was taken to a local hospital where she died a short i'm later. th

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 of the 500 passengers on the ferry were injured. two people on board the smaller boat were apparently seriously hurt. emergency medical personnel worked on the victims and the damaged boat as it headed for tiburon. there, they were placed on board helicopter and airlifted to a hospital. it's standard procedure f

kpix 5 reporter don knapp is in berkeley with more on what police say could be behind those numbers. >> reporter: is it just more reporting or in fact are rapes up 95% from berkeley? the spike was reported to berkeley city council on tuesday. according to the oakland tribune. >> we're not sure what's behind the increase in reported rapes this year. it's too early to tell whether or not it's the beginning of a trend or what. >> reporter: but he says they do know something about the rapes that occur mostly in the housing areas around the campus. >> we are concerned that the vast majority of these cases involve acquaintance rape where the offender is a friend or a former dating relationship or acquaintance of the victim. we're also concerned that alcohol plays a part in these rapes. >> reporter: greenwood does not blame fraternities or sororities. >> this is not a problem limited to fraternities and sororities. it's a problem across the city. >> reporter: since 2011, all incoming students go through intervention training for sexual assault. that may play a role in the increased rape num

don knapp is there on market street where he watched the preparations. >> reporter: the smoke is cleared from the hundreds maybe thousands of fireworks that were set off before they began the parade at 5:25 down market street. we were watching the groups form up when we got here and we talked to some of them, especially with the group of drummers who worked at the head of the parade. [ drumming ] >> reporter: that group called [ non-english language ] means chinese art. they oldest new year's celebration in the world of course is in china. 5,000 years old. but the second one is here in san francisco where they have been celebrating chinese new year since the gold rush. now, this is the largest chinese new year's parade outside of china. and it's considered one of the top ten parades in the world according to the promoters of this parade. 100 units will file by here tonight before it's over. i have been here for a couple of hours to get off market street on the way to chinatown and when they get there there will be one big finale where they explode the finale of some 600,000 firecrackers.

. >> i'm don knapp live in san francisco where the biggest chinese new year's celebration in the westernat pictures for you coming up. >> and why mc hammer found himself in trouble with the law in an east bay shopping mall. kpix 5 news is next. Ñáçwçñ >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. we begin with breaking news 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 takin

don knapp has a look at his war of words. >> coming to california, this is where it is.is not going to lubbock or wherever the places are that make up that state. so -- [ laughter ] >> i say come on! >> reporter: that's governor brown fired up about some texas radio ads inviting california companies to come check out texas. >> building a business is tough. but i hear building a business in california is next to impossible. >> reporter: the spots tout the lower cost of doing business in the lone star state. >> see why our low taxes, sensible regulations and fair legal system are just the thing to get your business moving -- to texas. >> reporter: the radio ads come as texas launches a website called texas wide open for business. to make it easu for businesses to move there, the web offers a tab called start my move. is it just aggressive marketing on the part of the texas governor? >> some may call it aggressive. i would call it desperate. >> reporter: governor brown has harsher words. >> should i liken it to when you stand by the ocean? no. it's a big nothing. >> reporte

in fairfield, don knapp, cbs5. >>> an event designed to show off oakland east better side was marredshooting. now the people wounded were innocent bystanders. fire broke out just before 11:00 during a confrontation between two groups. >> there were a lot of people that maybe were not necessarily first friday type people walking around. necessarily crowding. so we started looking afternoon and heard the gunshot. >> sowned like boom boom boom boom. like gunshots or something. >> police say they are still looking for the suspects. >>> all right, well imagine getting to every superbowl ever played. we will meet one of a few people who can claim that. >> good afternoon, we can certainly make this claim. it was a dry january and now as we enter february, the forecast. you need to know about it as eyewitness news continues on cbs5. don't wait for presidents' day to save on a new mattress. sleep train's presidents' day sale is on now. save up to $500 on beautyrest and posturepedic. get a sealy queen set for just $399. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. plus, free deliv

sunnyvale, don knapp, cbs 5. >>> the 49ers are back after a tough super bowl loss. fans lined up at the tarmac to welcome the team home. the 9ers then boarded buses for trip to 49ers head quarters. kpix reporter linda employee was there. >> reporter: you see behind me just a few fans have left because most of the players have left. judging by the reception they got, it is as if the 9ers won the super bowl. >> meet the real 49ers faithful waiting for hours just to cheer and welcome the team home. happy to see them even after such a heart break loss. >> i was crushed last night. but you know what, they left everything they had out there on the field. they played for 60 minutes and they did their best. >> never over. never over. 36549ers faithful. >> for life. >> we live and breathe 49ers. >> fans get limited access to the guys. just wave and sometimes one stops and give an autograph. leave it to coach harbaugh. he thrilled the crowd when he wallly did stop. it was chaos for a few seconds as he signed autographs. >> anything you want to say? >> thank you very much. yea

kpix 5's don knapp says that's only if neighbors on the peninsula get their way. don. >> reporter: liz, it's not that folks here in the peninsula are opposed to the concept of high- speed rail. what they are opposed to is a prospect of having streets and neighborhoods torn up for years while they expand the right of way. now there's legislation that could resolve that. a caltrain rolls into palo alto on a side of right of way. now after a century of development communities have moved up to the edge of the tracks. here at alma and churchill palo alto high's athletic fields and stadium border one side of the tracks. the busy road and compact neighborhoods border the other. expanding the right of way would take them out. that's what california's high- speed rail authority has in mind. two inside tracks for caltrains, two outside tracks for high-speed rail. opponents had hoped to kill that plan. >> currently, the position of the city council is that high- speed rail should be terminated because it is not what was portrayed to the voters back in 2008. >> reporter: besid

don knapp is vice chair of bank of hawaii in honolulu, hawaii. jane is ceo and founder of the firm in chicago, illinois. an associate professor at dartmouth college in hanover, new hampshire. also here is the cfpb staff director. i am pleased to introduce richard cordray, who was appointed by the president just over a year ago to serve as the first director of cfpb. before that he served on the front lines of consumer protection in ohio as the attorney general. in his role, he recovered more than $2 billion for ohio retirees, investors, and business owners and took major steps to protect consumers from financial predators. [applause] >> thank you. good morning to everyone, and thank you for coming to our first meeting of the year with our consumer advisory board. we very much appreciate the insights and expertise of the board, and we have found that they are already critical to our efforts to improve how consumer finance markets works for the american people. since we first became an independent agency, the consumer bureau has been focused on the

. >> don digeovany, robert kirkpatrick, and my father, steven knapp.ako, will fredo mercado, monica rodriguez-smith and her unborn child. >> a lot of tears here today. shep, as there are every year, of course, on this day. >> and jonathan it's my underring you spoke with one of the relatives today. >> yeah. i spoke to michael mato, who you just saw there reading out some of the names. i talked to him about the moment that the he realized he lost his father at the hands of terrorists. >> just unbelievable. pre9/11, things like that didn't happen. you dad didn't get up, go to work, and sit in his lunch room, and be killed by terrorists at the world trade center. that was just so unfathomable. reporter: i talked to him two about 20 years on, forgiving, and obviously never forgetting. said, forgetting, obviously impossible but he looked me in the eye as well and choked up and said, forgiving, too is simply very, very hard. shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt. thanks very much. well, the government created crisis nope as the sequester is set to begin in just th

kpix 5 reporter knapp is live in berkeley with more on what the numbers could reveal. don. >> reporter: those numbers are really astounding. rapes up 95% one year over another. the highest numbers in five years. but are they really? what's going on? is it just more reporting or in fact are rapes up 95% in berkeley? the spike of 39 cases up from 20 in 2011 was reported to berkeley city council on tuesday according to the "contra costa times" online. >> we are not sure what's behind the increase in record rapes this year. it's too early to tell whether or not it's the beginning of a trend or outlier year. >> reporter: but a captain says they do know something about the rapes that occur mostly in the housing areas around the campus. >> we are concerned that the vast majority of these cases involve acquaintance rape where the offender is a friend or a former dating relationship or an acquaintance of the victim and are concerned that alcohol plays a part in some of the rapes. >> reporter: while the high incidence of acquaintance rapes has been known for a while they don't blame