ships and we invited did full core it's a privately owned research vessels owned and operated by eric smithand this was important to the dock, however, we didn't royal every boat had been a government boat so there's a whole regulation that's different that's a foreign flagship we decided to do this thirty days before it arrived and we discovered that the coast guard we needed to work through execute a process that takes 90 days everybody worked triple time and we put it together in thirty. this exterminate fizz an amazing supportive relationship we've experienced or experienced with the port staff. i want to publicly acknowledging how much of this partnership is genuine and true and working from our prospective beyond our wildest imagination thank you for the report >> you're welcome. >> are you done. >> so dennis thank you very much i know the feeling is incredibly double sited we enjoy is and love the folks your bringing our way as well as the old friends and thank you for welcoming the ship. it's part of the cash and they have of not common to see the groups of kids in other ports or pl

park police arrested eric smith around 9:00 after pulling him over for speeding. officers say that's when smits said he had fireworks in the backseat of his car. they weren't sure what it was so they called in the bomb squad. no one can say for sure whether the explosive was a large fireworks or possibly dynamite. police collected several bags of evidence at the home. >>> the u.s. supreme court dealt a major blow to affirmative action today. the court upheld michigan ban on using race as factor in college admission. several states including california have banned affirmative action. >> reporter: california has a similar ban when it comes to admitting students to public university. race cannot be used as a far ta forwhen it comes to getting into public schools. that's been reality here for almost 20 years. >> it's racist decision. >> reporter: members of the group ban by any means necessary came out strong denouncing the supreme court decision banning affirmative action when it comes to admitting students to public universities in michigan. >> it give a green light

the driver 45-year-old eric smith told the officer he had a pound of pot in his truck delivered to medical marijuana patients. he also said he had what he thought was fireworks. the officer checked him out and deemed it necessary to call for the bomb squad. smith tells us he thinks the officer overreacted. >> asked if i had weapons, knives, explosives. i said i found a fire work in the bed of my vehicle and i picked it up and handed it to him. police also searched smith's apartment on vallejo street and darr carried out several -- carried out several bags of evidence. he was arrested, released and charged with possession of illegal substances. >>> a san francisco family of for including two children will have to stay somewhere else after a fire damaged their bayview district home. when firefighters arrived beforele:00 a.m., heavy smoke was coming from the home. that's a small if dead end street. the woman who lives there said the fire started while she was out taking her kildz to school. the cause is still unknown. however, the fire department tells us the flames spread from the backyard t

the device was found when police pulled a driver over for speeding in the presidio. 46-year-old eric smith told officers the device was a fire but investigators described it as an energized chemical explosive. it was detonated and smith was arrested. >>> the child killed in a south bay crash was an 8-year-old girl. a jeep and minivan crashed on highway 85 yesterday afternoon near de anza boulevard. a brother and two adults were also injured. the busy freeway shut down northbound traffic for four hours during the afternoon rush hour. >>> tesla motors growing its customer bay continent by continent. where the automaker is delivering cars today. >> when are the airwaves not free? the supreme court decides. >> reporter: i'm kiet do at the scene of another citizen uprising. this time they are taking back the creeks one homeless encampment at a time. we have that story coming up. >> reporter: hi, i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the kpix 5 weather center. well, we had a storm move through overnight with a few light showers now the skies are clearing out but those winds are whipping around pa

. >> pam:authorities say, eric smith was stopped by u.s. park police last night. over a traffic violation. near mason street. >> pam: >> pam: the driver told police, he the car. the bomb squad determined the devices that resembled dynamite. were explosive. they were detonated in a safe location. >> pam:police arrested smith on suspicion of possessing marijuana. we caught up with smith this morning. here's what he said, when asked where the fireworks came from.,. >>".rid of it." >> pam:any charges in connection with the explosives found in the man's car. are still pending. school officials say, so far, just the one case has been reported. still ahead-- >>4 babies hospitalized with whooping cough this-it was 2 last year. very concerned. we want to make sure anyone around the babies are vaccinated. >> reporter: and berkeley city council meeting this scheduled for next thursday. where you will also receive feedback from residents. >> i just want to be the opportunity for people to understand. why did in the house in place at the same time. >> by increasing the minimum

police stopped 45-year-old eric smith for speeding on mason street. after he pulled over a police dog smelled marijuana. he told the officer he had a pound of march in his truck to -- marijuana in his truck to deliver to a medical marijuana patient. the officer called for a bomb squad. he thinks the officer. >> he asked me if i had any knives or. i said i had a firework in the bed of my truck. >> the bomb squad removed the explosives and detonated them. police also searched his apartment. he is charged with possession of illegal substances. >> today is earth day and people have been marking the occasion with events. the salt park project got some attention today. volunteers rolled up their sleeves and did some painting. congressman eric of pleasanton was on hand and said the project will go beyond just helping birds and other wildlife. >> we are going to have thousands of people out here every month seeing this beautiful bay. in a couple of years we're going to be able to let the public out here for the first time in 150 years and this also provides f

. >> pam: authorities say eric smith was stopped by u.s. park police last night.traffic violation. near mason street. the driver told police he had fireworks in the back of the car. the bomb squad determined the devices that resembled dynamite. were explosive. and it was detonated in a safe location. police arrested smith on suspicion of possessing marijuana. charges in connection with the explosives found in the man's car are still pending. an early morning fight at a nightclub in san francisco resulted in two men getting stabbed. police say it happened after 1-am at a north beach nightclub on broadway. according to police, a 25- year old man got into a which ended when he stabbed them both in their stomachs. >> catherine: with >> pam: they were both taken to the hospital. one of them had life-threatening injuries. were not as serious. police have not released a description of the suspect. >> pam: if you live in santa clara county.you might have some money waiting for you. addressofficials say they have nearly 244-thousand dollars in unclaimed money on deposit wi

i run a 7:00 this morning the suspect eric smith actually showed up here at the apartment i had a chancehim a few questions about what led up to all of this. harrises, about the situation. << last night i was pulled over i told them there was a device in the back of my truck. i gave to the police officer and from that point on they arrested me. but the important my vehicle my phones and my pants. i don't know what happened after that. << now have to make one thing clear according to the park police he was actually arrested. on charges of possessing an illegal substance. << he woke up and it was there he said this has taught at several times. he presents and that that was fireworks. obviously there were still a lot of questions on what exactly happened last night and early this morning in this case. << this is a story there were following a big surprise that the blues and warriors are make a fast break to a new arena location. it's after opponents were fighting the team's plans of the on the waterfront. the day-become the new home of the warrior spiria few bumps all. fluff at&t spark that

park police pulled over eric smith near the 900 block of old mason street near the trampoline park. the police dogs smelled marijuana and when smith showed the officer what he thought was a bag of fireworks, that's when the bomb squad was called in and they shut down nearby streets and had to evacuate planet granite. >> he said you hear the dog in the back? i said yeah. it's a drug dog and he smelled marijuana inside the vehicle. i delivered to some patients on the way there. so, yeah, i had some with me. >> reporter: but then the officer asked if you had any explosives? >> yeah. i said i found a fire work in the bed of truck, i picked it up and handed it to him and that's what went on. >> reporter: so it wasn't dynamite? >> it was fireworks. from what i saw from the outside of the packaging, it was fireworks. >> reporter: smith said that he didn't put the package there, that someone else did. the squad detonated the suspicious device and took smith into custody. police decided to flush out his apartment on vallejo. that's when they were confronted by what they believe was smith's w

we will ask a republican congressman about his dust up with eric holder. and adam smith explains why he thinks the ongoing benghazi investigations are, quote, a witch hunt. and all that, is country music losing its soul? colin ray joins us live. "america's news headquarters" live from the nation's capital starts right now. >>> the feds have released roughly 400 cattle rounded up during a bitter standoff with a nevada rancher. the bureau of land management called off the round up citing escalating tensions. we're live from bunker hill, nevada. hello, william. >> reporter: well, shannon, it is palm sunday, peaceful out here now. but it feels like the aftermath of a major storm that isn't necessarily over following yesterday's intense standoff that nearly turned deadly when hundreds of protesters and self-described patriots demanded that the bureau of land management return cliven bundy's cattle. when it refused that demand, armed protesters closed in on a cattle compound guarded by blm agents as dozens of vegas police and s.w.a.t. rushed to the scene. witnesses say both si

smith & wesson. at a capitol hill hearing, air air -- eric holder talked about gun reform including so-called smart gun technology. meaning a tracking bracelet to track you and perhaps your family. hmm. i wonder if vice president biden and he had a meeting with technology people to talk about how guns can be made more safe. >> vice president biden and i had a meeting with a group of technology people and talked about how guns can be made more safe by making them either through fingerprint identification or a bracelet you might wear. how guns can be used only by the person who was lawfully in possession of the weapon. it is those kinds of things we want to try to explore. >> a talking gun, you say? the smart gun he meant requires you to wear a bracelet with a special chip that commune cates with the weapon. it allows it to fire. the nra loves it. they wrote last year, we are opposed to government money dates that require the use of expensive, unreliable features. the government continues to send armed drones to cat city. only in obama's america. nick, welcome to the show. a pleasure to see you. >> my pl

eric stoltz allowed 1 run in 6 innings. alonso with a two-out single to score smith. the padres 1-0. the giants answered back in the 5th.takes the pitch high and deep, that's homer number 3 on the year for morris, for the second game in a row a solo homerun was all the offense the giants could produce. padres got that back in their half of the fifth. cabrerra gets a triple. 2-1, san diego got one more in the 8thoff the bullpen. another 1 run performance by the giants. they will try to find offense and wrap it up in san diego tomorrow. >>> best record in baseball belong those the brewers, brewers trailing by a run in the 9th. braun gets into a jason grilli pitch with a runner on. gives the brewers an 8-7 run. they are 13-5 after 18 games. >>> still to up to saturday night sports wrap. the earthquake in search of their first win of the really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line an

smith on why this trend is so alarming. craig, what is causing this? let's put it that way. >> well, eric i think it's a combination of things i'm sure a lot of it is obamacare. i'm terribly alarmed because i don't think the american people have thought through the ramifications of taking a fundmental restructuring of our work force. i mean, eric, for years, our work force has always been full-time workers, and occasional temporary worker. now all of a sudden work -- temporary workers are going to start becoming like full-time workers, and as you said no benefits, no vacations, no nest egg, no 401k to contribute to. what happens when they get to the retirement years and they're going to have to live off social security and have no nest egg? >> i'm not sure, craig. let me ask you this. they're doing it because it makes business sense. right? >> sure. absolutely. >> and don't we want businesses to make business sense? >> indeed we do. okay. but think about it, eric. a lot of the temporary work has come as a direct result of trying to get the hours down to take care of the obamacare mandates

smith was devastated. >> i had made a deal, i thought. it was important to me. >> reporter: so he asked congressman eric swalwell for help. >> welcome.always been here. but it is our honor to make it official. >> reporter: today the nation he fought for finally acknowledged him as one of its own. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> reporter: smith's feelings are still raw about the way he was treated when he returned from vietnam. so it's good the country is officially standing with him now because after all, a deal's a deal. in hayward, john ramos, kpix 5. >> smith was honorably discharge from the army in 1972 and now plans to reapply for his social security benefits. >>> it's a crime of opportunity at the atm. how crooks are preying on victims who forget to answer one simple question. >> and how doctors saved the life a bay area boy who suffered a frightening medical emergency after taking a nap. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, headed home.. after life-sa surgery. >>> one minute he was napping the next a bay area toddler was screaming in pain. now he is finally headed home after a life-saving surgery. kpix 5 reporte

eric and charlotte brought her on an around-the-world trip when she fell srsly ill. the rescue is happening about 1,000 miles off cabo san lucas, mexico. abc news reporter nick smith is live tonight at moffett field with the latest on this developing story. nick? >> reporter: ama, good evening. new information and new video of the 129th rescue wing springing into action. >> the 1-year-old ended up being sick, and we were tasked to go down there. >> reporter: team leader tech sergeant justin shook has successfully completed hundreds of recovery missions. >> my job is to help people that can't help themselves. >> reporter: members of his team are off the coast of mexico right now to save a baby girl. he says it's a mission that's just as important. >> the main issue especially with children is they do really well for a long time and they crash. and that's what we're worried about. >> reporter: take a look. this is dramatic new video. four members of the 129th rescue wing parachuting into the pacific ocean. one jumping right after the other. the mission of their multistage operation is clear but not simple. bring a 1-year-old girl who became seriously ill on a sailbo