i'm alan martin in the studio. >> i'm elizabeth cook.i am out by the courthouse, bricks, rubble, some of the crown molding from outside of the building has fallen across

i'm alan martin in the studio. >> i'm elizabeth cook. i am out by the courthouse, bricks, rubble, some of the crown molding from outside of the building has fallen across the street. you see downed trees, broken glass, parts of the building is damaged. juliette goodrich arrived downtown before dawn this morning and she has been surveying the damage all day, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, liz take a look at this. this is a piece of the building that came crashing down the middle of the street. luckily, no tourists, nobody in napa was here at the time the quick happened. you can see all of rubble here on the sidewalks, fluttering the downtown square. in this law office, it has been deemed unsafe. red tagged. and, that is the same for all of these buildings in the square here, a lot of damage happening in the middle of the night. >> the sight and sounds of a town rocked by a earthquake. the heart of downtown historic napa. >> like a truck was running through the house. i lived here my whole life, seeing all of this damage, it is s

kpix 5's elizabeth cook has more. >> reporter: this is the first presbyterian church at 3rd and randolph. as you can see, this yellow police tape surrounding most of the instructure. if you look up there to the -- structure. if you look to the steepil, and the stained glass window, completely blown out. the glass and debris on the other side, there is a also that's in danger of collapsing. there's also some sort of air-conditioning unit or vent that seems to have fallen on to the roof, as well. there is one bright spot to this story, the earthquake happened very early in the morning. most church services are much later in the morning so nobody was inside at the time of the earthquake. >> napa county airports is close to the epicenter between american canyon and napa. the tower out of commission. a number of windows are shattered, will take weeks to get that prepared. the airport will stay open, operate like it does during the evening hours. pilots will be working with one another to take off and land communicating with one another. many schools well be open. they includeall school in the

but as kpix 5's elizabeth cook shows us, the military did try to rescue him. >>> reporter: the hostagesding foley and three others were thought to be at this camp inside an oil refinery in northern syria, an area controlled by isis. two dozen special operations forces commandos dropped from blackhawk helicopters outfitted with stealth technology to avoid detection. with surveillance aircraft overhead, the team swooped in to search for the hostages. they encountered isis militants and engaged in a firefight. but the hostages were gone. several isis fighters were killed. one american commando was injured. the rest were blown to say. u.s. omissions admit the covert missing launched in july was based on not great intelligence on the location of the hostages. the u.s. government had been tracking the american hostages for months. defense secretary chuck hagel said the mission was launched because the hostages' lives were thought to be in imminent danger. >> it's the responsibility of our government and our leaders to do all we can to take action when we believe there might be a good possibil

i am alex martinez along with elizabeth cook. >> dennis, how does it feel? >> i am thinking how lucky we were. a couple of years ago the 49ers were in the super bowl. we had that game and we get the first game ever and we have the super bowl here in an i couple of years--in a couple of years. but you are right, i grew up here, 43 years at candle stick park to to experience a new facility, we are blessed. i am excited about the game today. >> i have to wonder, the 49ers first game here, are they more concerned about the stadium or it is a distraction for the team? >> oh, no, jim harbaugh, you know, it is what happens when the lines. it is still a 100-yard football field. and i hope we might find out today, do they have a 12th man advantage. how loud is this stadium going to be? will it, will it be similar to what the seahawks have? which is such is a huge advantage to them. >> and what are you hoping to see in the game today? i know they had a rough start. >> oh, yes, by the way, there is a football game. >> i am thinking more of the fans are here for the exp

. >> i'm elizabeth cook. thank you for joining us for a special edition of kpix 5 news.hour the 49ers take on the ravens in their preseason opener. >> the harbaugh brothers face off on a flashback to the super bowl. dennis o'donnell is in baltimore counting down kickoff. >> reporter: ken and liz, hello, everybody from the stadium here in baltimore, there they are! it's the harbaugh bowl. but it obviously the super bowl was 18 months ago so not the same stakes. in fact, the 49ers big horses won't even get out of the barn for very long. san francisco's summer camp has been marred by injuries to runningback kendall

live in the newsroom, elizabeth cook, kpix 5. >>> it will be a few days before we know whether or notatient at a sacramento hospital has the ebola virus. the person is in an isolation unit at kaiser. few details are being released other than the patient has recently traveled to west africa. state health officials say they aren't surprised that there is a possible case. however, they aren't worried about it potentially spreading. >>> a 72-year-old woman is suing her hair salon after her last visit gave her a high in the worst possible way. reporter laurie perez with how a trip to the stylist ended with a woman going to the emergency room. >> never, i do not smoke -- never have smoked, drank or taken drugs. >> reporter: in 72 years, joanne nickerson never rolled a joint, inhaled, experimented with pot, never tried marijuana period until last october and, in fact, she says, by choice. that's when she grabbed a treat off a tray in the woodland hills as she had done before. this time about an hour after her manicure, she was sick, head ache, blurred vision, hallucinations. >> i think the m

. >>> i'm elizabeth cook in downtown nap a. several city blocks, wreu am right now. show, indeed, what can happen in a 6.0 earthquake. this is what we know right now. tonight, all of southern napa couldn't seunder -- county is under a

in san francisco, elizabeth cook, kpix 5. >> and the company says the building came together quicklyfive months from start to finish. >>> massive dust storm blocked out half the sky as it swept across eastern washington. look at this. a driver captured this video of the storm known as haboob, about 50 miles southwest of spokane yesterday. storms are force when air is forced down and pushed forward by a thunderstorm front. they can pack winds up to 60 miles an hour to stir up dust and sand. >>> chief meteorologist paul deanno is live for us in the oakland hills and he has a preview of another natural phenomenon. i wish i was there, paul. >> it's beautiful. the weather is perfect right now. let's hope it stays clear. i'm here at the chabot space and science center. this is a great facility to take your kids on any day but tonight would be a perfect night to get away from the city lights and we are right now and check out the perseid meteor shower which will be a meteor shower where you may see up to 40 meteors per hour. that's almost one a minute with crystal clear blue sky, the weathe

. >> i'm elizabeth cook, live in downtown napa tonight. the area hardest hit by the quake. so much damage tonight some of wine country sraoe is -- is under a state of emergency. this is just a taste of what happened here. you can see the whole side of this building, it was brick t it came crumbling down, crushing the car, down the street, just about a block. trees were up rooted. breaking glass, chunks of concrete fell on to the ground. the 6.0 quake struck at 3:20 this morning, just west of american canyon and people across the bay area felt it even up in the sierra. at least one75 people were hurt. one of them is still in critical condition. a 13-year-old napa boy was taken to uc davis. in serious condition after a chimney fell on him. some of the victims did not even know what hit them. >> that was the main thing, i could not get my balance enough to get out of there i kept falling down. and the last time i fell down, something hit me right there. i don't know what hit me. trying to figure out what it was. could not figure out what it was. >> something fell off of the wa

kpix 5's elizabeth cook joins us in the newsroom and these kinds of stories certainly in the national spotlight, liz. >> reporter: they are, allen. the video was posted online this week and experts we checked with say the officer did exactly what he is trained to do. here's the situation. the deputy is trying to restrain a cotati man on the side of the road in guerneville. that man is on the ground. and the deputy is seen punching the suspect twice while trying to arrest him. the video was captured by an eyewitness last saturday. we took the video it a police trainer. he tells us the punches were warranted. we took the video to this police trainer. >> the officer is told if someone is resisting, uncooperative, they can use personal weapons striking techniques. anytime officers use force, it looks bad. >> reporter: we checked with the sonoma county sheriff's department today. they told us the punches were, quote, distraction jabs. it's a technique used to get people to stop what they're doing. use of police force is always a sensitive issue, but especially now with the emotions heighte

ken bastida and elizabeth cook have the night off. kpix5's betty yu is in los gattes where three businesses have been hit again and again and again. >> reporter: this shop has been hit three times since last year. it always happens when the stores and restaurants close up for the night. as you can imagine, it has left the business community feeling helpless and upset. you will rarely see shattered store front windows but it has happened several times to businesses in the last month here. police say vandals are using something similar to bibi pellets. >> they are bullies. they come out and damage. they could care less about stealing. they just want to damage. >> reporter: the repairs and lost merchandise set this woman back two grand. >> all the glass shards go into the clothing and we have to throw everything away. >> reporter: that same night, vandals hit holtz restaurant. >> i came in and saw small little rocks on the ground and broken windows. so someone drove by and used a pellet gun. >> reporter: the owner alexander holtz says he

. >> i am elizabeth cook. ken bastida and veronica de la cruz are aphthae ' -- off thiefening. 64-- this evening. 64 homes are red-tagged. 100 more are yellow-tagged, giving the owners limited access. inspectors are still van casing the city assessing the damage. it will be at least wednesday before schools reopen. all napa unified campuses will be closed again tomorrow for clean up and inspection so the district can determine whether it is safe for students to go back. >> there are still 90 water leaks. 600 properties are still without water tonight. all electric and gas service has been restored. the quake also set off 50 fires. >> we are following break news in virginia where the first baptist church in sonoma boulevard is in danger of collapsing. christin ayers is there. >> reporter: the big concern is that the bell tier will collapse. we will zoom in so you can take a close look at exactly what the problem is. authorities saying that crack

. >> i'm elizabeth cook. fire teams are tackling a brush fire in vallejo. it's happening near the junction of junction 29 and 37. chopper 5 is live over vallejo right now where the fire blackened a large portion of the field about 10 acres. some dramatic moments in this fire as flames crept up close to homes on sonora pass road with the flames stopped right at some back fences. for a time the response to this fire had closed the south connector from highway 29 to westbound 37. traffic is now moving again. we want to show you video from a short time ago. over the past hour we have seen a helicopter make repeated water drops on the fireline. crews are battling the fire from the ground. one of the fires began at a homeless encampment. the other touched off by a structure fire. fire assistance has been called in the surrounding areas including crockett, american canyon and solano county. the good news, though, fire crews appear to have this fire contained. you can see a lot less smoke than we saw even about 10 minutes ago. >>> another security breach at a pg&e

5 confirmed a possible he will patient at -- ebola patient at a northern california hospital elizabeth cook with the latest. >> patient admitted to the immediate -- medical center may have been exposed to ebola. they are working with public health testing blood samples to determine if the patient does have the virus. they are following cdc guidelines. it is not clear where the patient may have come into contact with ebola. ebola death toll topped 1200. west african american nations are dealing -- west african nations are dealing with the virus. again the south sacramento patient may have been possibly exposed to ebola. we broke the story on twitter. we will have a report at 10:00 p.m. and at 11:00 p.m. right here on kpix 5. back to you. >> thank you for that. >>> also tonight birds bursting into flames. tonight a black eye for a bay area company and its solar plant. new at 6:00 p.m. thousands of birds are flying into solar death trap at the solar plant in the middle of california's desert. kpix's mike schmidt is live in san francisco to explain how this clean energy plant cooking

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin.ining us for a special edition of kpix 5 news. the 49ers going to wrap up their preseason in houston in a half-hour. but first a teacher might have been letting off steam on social media but tweets like this upset parents. she said the problem with teaching summer school is i'm going to get all the expletive who failed my class two of whom i wish would get hit by a car. kpix 5's juliette goodrich in newark getting some mixed reaction from students and parents tonight. juliette. >> reporter: allen, there are also some other tweets that have people shaking their heads today. now, the teacher, mrs. hodges, is still teaching here despite the outrage from parents and the district. tweets she sent out about wanting to stab some of her students, pour hot coffee on them. but some students i talked to today say that's just her sense of humor. but the district and parents aren't laughing. >> i didn't see anything bad. >> reporter: this newark memorial high school student says she finds mrs. hodg

good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. bastida, veronica de la cruz are off tonight. complete coverage on the napa quake in just a moment. but first a couple of breaking stories. first to the east bay and a freeway tragedy. three people killed in a crash along 680 that happened at 3:30 this afternoon. the chp says two vehicles crashed at the lake herman road off-ramp. all three victims were riding in the same car. >>> an equipment problem on the bart tracks stopped all service between walnut creek and concord. chopper 5 showing the train stopped at the pleasant hill station. apparently, this problem involves a damaged piece of the track that affects trains going in both directions. bart is working on setting up a bus bridge. >>> now to the big headlines on the napa quake. the ground keeps moving. four back-to-back aftershocks jolted people out of bed this morning. the strongest was a 3.9. the aftershocks caused new damage to two north bay highways. all scoops in the napa unified school district will re-open tomorrow. crews

our elizabeth cook is in the newsroom with more on where tesla may already be preparing to build itsvolution any plant. liz. >> reporter: states have been fiercely competing to land tesla's new "giga factory" dangling all sorts of insentives and tonight it looks like nevada has the inside track. now, take a look. it doesn't look like much but the barren landscape outside reno is starting to transform. right now, there are nothing but cattle roaming but tesla said today that it's prepping that site to build its $5 billion battery plant. we learned the work started last month. but it's not quit a done deal. ceo elon musk made it clear the company is doing this in a couple of other states as well but there's a good reason why nevada would beat out california. >> we want to make sure we have things sorted out at the state level, that the incentives are there that make sense. i want to emphasize, we're not -- tesla is not going to go for a deal that is unfair to the state or unfair to tesla. >> each year the tax foundation ranks states from one to 50 in terms of tax friendliness and this

. >> i'm elizabeth cook. some of the worst damage may not have even happened yet. the first baptist church in vallejo is in danger of collapsing tonight. crews say a large portion of the building needs to be taken down after a brick wall separate 0 in the quake. streets around the church are shut down as a precaution. meanwhile, in napa, about 65 buildings have been red-tagged. about 600 people are still without water. pourer and gas service is back on, but schools will be closed again tomorrow. >>> engineers are flocking to the quake zone like crime scene investigators. kpix 5's andrea borba says they have one simple mission. >> now everyone has had a chance to survey the damage. there is a new question in napa. >> that's the question engineerest won't answer. why. >> a small army of engineers are trying to figure out why some buildings failed and others did not. >> softer soil, unreenforced masonry buildings, some old stone building. >> dozens of old buildings, each with a different degree of seismic improvements. one example would be this building on main street

. >> i'm elizabeth cook. ken and veronica are off tonight. vallejo city leaders say their initial estimate of $5 million in damage may be way too conservative. as kpix 5's ann notarangelo tells us, inspectors are finding more damage two days after the quake. ann. >> reporter: elizabeth, we're along georgia street and crews will be back here tomorrow to continue shoring up the old crowley department store. the city is concerned it's going to come crumbling down on to the street. it seems just as one problem in the city is addressed, another problem pops up. firefighters were mopping up this fire at an abandoned building on mare island with their eyes on the next call. most likely not a fire but a building inspection. it's taking some home and business owners a little time to come out of the initial fog of the strong quake and something isn't right. the aftershocks are not helping. >> some of the chimneys fell. >> reporter: instability is why crews acted quickly to remove a large portion of the bell tower. but more problems keep sprouting up li

. >> i'm elizabeth cook in for veronica de la cruz. it took longer than anyone expected but no one expected what would happen after they finished rebuilding either. len ramirez with the lessons learned. >> reporter: the fallen bricks, the red-tagged buildings and the broken downtown, it's napa in 2014. but for neil, it's like a flashback to santa cruz in 1989. >> just heartbreaking to sort of see them going through what we went through 25 years ago. >> reporter: downtown santa cruz is living proof that a community can survive and thrive following a major earthquake. but even today, there's still a hole in the ground. >> this is the only spot in santa cruz that really hasn't been rebuilt. >> reporter: loma prieta's last open wound. >> there were buildings here and now there's not. >> reporter: it's where the coffee roasting company and neil's book shop santa cruz used to stand. >> reporter: it's where lives were lost on october 17, 1989, when the 6.9 quake hit. loma prieta lasted 15 seconds but changed santa cruz forever. 31 buildings w

. >> reporter: elizabeth cook, kpix 5. >> hagel also warns in terms of terrorists, isis is beyond anythingve seen before. >>> there may be a solution to the mystery behind two faded out american flags that somehow showed up flying above new york's brooklyn bridge. the flags were taken down not long after they appeared last month. and today, they are expected to be returned to the new york police department. the nypd says the flags appear to be the work of two german artists who considered it an art project. no word on whether criminal charges will be filed. >>> aaa predicts nearly 35 million people will journey 50 miles or more away from home over labor day weekend. that would be the highest volume for the holiday since 2008. 86% of the travelers plan to go by car. nearly 8% plan to fly to their destinations. >> we have another week before the big holiday weekend. we need to know what's going on right now. >> right now. >> right now. >>> for that labor day weekend, i should note just quickly that 280 the final 280 closure is that weekend, as well. so in addition to all the cars on the road

live in the newsroom, elizabeth cook, kpix 5. >>> new at 6:00, cars targeted in bart garages and lots thousands of people park there every day thinking their vehicles are safe. but kpix 5's linda yee found out that may not be the case. >> reporter: not necessarily, veronica. no one would think that this parking lot here at the lafayette bart station would be the target for thieves. but these thieves are not only breaking into cars; they are breaking some cars apart. they are easy pickings, cars and trucks sitting in a bart parking lot all day after the owners take the train in to work. last evening thieves crawled under three toyota suvs and sawed off their catalytic converters. >> you can slide under there easily and remove them. most of the older ones, they do some tundras and for runners and some of the older tacoma pickup trucks. >> reporter: metal scrapyards buy them for the platinum in them. this happened at the lafayette and pleasant hill station lots. bart police say they routinely patrol them all. we saw three patrol cars in a span of a couple of hours. but thieves slip in. t

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elizabeth what's going on? >> what's cooking? we got some big delays.than normal through the livermore valley. so you notice the drive time usually at this time of the morning to give you some perspective. it's about a half-hour maybe slightly less and now it's almost 45 minutes maybe dropped by a couple of minutes here just recently but basically the bigger delays are because of an earlier stall approaching isabel. better news for counter- commuters all lanes are now back open. a couple of lanes eastbound 580 at north flynn. there was a fender-bender there. so again we are seeing slowdowns now in both directions. but the heaviest delays are going in the commute direction into westbound 580 into dublin- pleasanton livermore because of that now earlier stall. here's a live look at the richmond/san rafael bridge. traffic is super right getting into marin county from the east bay. bay bridge stacked up fundamentally into the macarthur maze. it is back to school for a lot of folks so we are seeing a few more cars out there on the road. if you are coming int

night, one of the things we got to do last night -- or i got to do, i should say, is we cooked chicken with chef elizabeth and it was very exciting for me because i love chicken. it is by far my favorite food. it was a food i loved so much, that when i was young and my parents would take us out to dinner, the first thing that would happen is i would sit there before i could read and my dad would look and say, "oh, they have chicken." and i would be so relieved by that. because i was at an age where i didn't know a very important fact, which is every place has chicken. [ laughter ] i was on the edge of my seat. so nervous the whole ride over, just terrified they might not have chicken. and i could have been sitting on any part of the seat. i could have been in the middle of the seat, the back of the seat, every place has chicken. i will say that when my dad and i go to restaurants today, even now he does that. [ laughter ] and i do always kind of feel a mini rush of relief. the very fun thing about cooking chicken -- because i cook with my wife all the time, we cook a lot of chicken. every time i touch raw

cook a lot at home. >> i'm shopping at whole foods with elizabeth. using an app caughted ibotta to scope deals and get rebates. >> if i buy a 14 and a half ounce can of muir glenn diced tomatoes i can save $0.50. that is great. what i do is that i will come and grab a jar. and i will actually turn it over. to verify the bar code very fast. >> matches. >> that is great. okay. >> she continues to shop, finds additional items. goes through checkout, leaves the store, reopens the app and takes out the receipt. >> so what you do is like this. take a photo. i finish. i finish. >> with that, money is in her account as a rebate. over and above discounts at the store. here, she has $23.75, that could be redeemed in several ways. including pay pal, or gift cards from major retailers >> it's a fun game i play at home. before getting to the store. >> you get cash. it's money paid to you right as you walk out of the store. >> that is brian leech. he says it's a social media tool as well. >> users will push heart button to tell others what they recommend. then, th

cook a lot at home. >> i'm shopping at whole foods with elizabeth.d ibotta to scope deals and get rebates. >> if i buy a 14 and a half ounce can of muir glenn diced tomatoes i can save $0.50. that is great. what i do is that i will come and grab a jar. and i will actually turn it over. to verify the bar code very fast. >> matches. >> that is great. okay. >> she continues to shop, finds additional items. goes through checkout, leaves the store, reopens the app and takes out the receipt. >> so what you do is like this. take a photo. i finish. i finish. >> with that, money is in her account as a rebate. over and above discounts at the store. here, she has $23.75, that could be redeemed in several ways. including pay pal, or gift cards from major retailers >> it's a fun game i play at home. before getting to the store. >> you get cash. it's money paid to you right as you walk out of the store. >> that is brian leech. he says it's a social media tool as well. >> users will push heart button to tell others what they recommend. then, they form teams, too. s