in something -- in san francisco, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. >>> coming up tonight at 6:00 we are going to take you back to a time when the entire area the buildings are on was underwater. it was the bay. >>> we have breaking news though, kpix 5 has confirmed that at least seven thieves convicted of robbing -- accused of robbing apple stores are under arrest. we are confirming those under arrest and we are checking to see if they are convicted -- connected to the most recent grab and go robbery. 6-8 people snatched merchandise and then took off. this is all it part of a series of robberies around the bay. on sunday and apple store in santa rosa was also hit. you ken see a group of men ripping phones and computers off of their displays and making a run r it. last month, that same store was also robbed. we know the arrest happened last night in oakland. opd and state investigators are planning to make a formal announcement tomorrow. >>> now in washington where christine blasey ford will be tested fighting -- testifying tomorrow. >> the professor released her testimony she will say in part

kpix5's juliette goodrich on the bay area victims who were in the courtroom today. juliette? >> reporter: well, liz, two bay area victims came to sacramento. they wanted to look this alleged norcal rapist face to face in the eyes. they did just that today as he faced a judge. >> he looked squarely at us in the eyes when he walked out. the first time i've seen his face ever. >> it's a day we've all waited for for a really long time. >> reporter: today 58-year-old roy waller, the suspected norcal rapist, appeared in a sacramento courtroom. two of his alleged victims sat just feet away to see man they say raped and terrorized them. >> when he turned around and looked squarely at us straight in our eyes, i glared right back. >> reporter: one district attorney called waller a real live boogeyman who crept into his victims' homes under the cover of darkness and attacked them when they were most vulnerable. >> there's not a moment you don't forget. you don't forget the details, smells, sounds, sights. you don't forget it ever. >> reporter: investigators say his alleged crime spree s

kpix5's juliette goodrich on what led up to that fatal encounter. >> get your hands up! >> put your hands up! >> reporter: oakland police released body camera video from the officer who shot and killed 30-year-old demoria hogg who was in his car june 6th, 2015, an incident that occurred in oakland more than three years ago. >> don't move! >> get your hands up! >> reporter: according to reports, officers tried to wake hogg more than an hour. they approached the driver's side window and broke it. >> when he woke up, he reached for the weapon and posed an immediate threat to the officer and the officers felt their lives or the lives of others were in danger. so they took appropriate action. >> reporter: the officer reported shooting hogg twice in the chest. although an autopsy revealed he was only hit once. oakland police released this body camera video after a public records request and now there's a bill on the governor's desk that would actually make police video camera more accessible to the public quicker. the bill requires police departments to make body camera footag

in the east bay in dublin, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. >>> a couple of suspected car burglars crashed head-on into a san bruno police patrol car. a man and woman were casing potential targets in the parking lot at the mall yesterday even. -- evening. they then rammed their car as officers closed in. police found multiple stolen credit cards and ids in their car and their hotel room. a man was arrested and an oakland woman was released but she may face charges. >>> people from around the world descending on san francisco this week for the global climate action summit. >> thank you jerry brown for signing that bill yesterday. >> former vice president al gore spoke at fort mason this morning thanking governor jerry brown for setting the loftiest climate target yet. promising to make california carbon neutral by 2045. members of the international community expressed disappointment in the trump administration's decision to exit the paris agreement. they hope other small governments can can follow california's lead and take steps on their own. the official opening ceremony is scheduled for

kpix5 reporter juliette goodrich is live in pittsburg with more on the huge crime bust. juliette? >> reporter: well, ken, this furniture store in pittsburg is just one of the places targeted and the owner of this store is relieved to hear that the members of this gang crime spree are now behind bars. >> somebody took at least $10,000. >> reporter: from your business. >> from the business. >> reporter: cost right furniture owner dennis tran had no idea members of the bullyboys and cocoboys street gangs were walking into his store with a plan to steal, steal credit card machines from behind his desk. >> one of them tried to distract you asking you furniture this and that and the second person came in. they grabbed the terminals which is something like that and ran away. >> reporter: after a three year long multi-agency investigation spanning 13 counties across northern california the california attorney general announced 32 people had been arrested for allegedly defrauding people through electronic fraud and identity theft. the burglars targeted furniture stores and dental and medic

. >> tonight juliette goodrich says one east bay official is taking action in response to our reports it's horrible. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. director debora allen says something must be done after seeing our reports about the hardships endured by disabled riders on east bay paratransit buses. >> taxpayers are spending $43 million a year on east bay paratransit. we have to look into there. >> reporter: we put a tracker in jonathan tomasini's backpack for two months and discovered buses taking him e ho loon his trip home from oakland to adult day school just 19 miles away in castro valley. >> he was crying. he was really upset. >> reporter: same thing for zach donald. it's 10 miles from his day program in berkeley to his house in alameda, but his bus ride home was also taking him way off track. >> zachary has been on the bus far too long. he's been on the bus for three, four hours at a time. >> reporter: in an earlier interview east bay paratransit's general manager jay jeter told us -- >> if we get concerns from a rider or concerns from a passenger or a family member, we try to address t

kpix5's juliette goodrich on a bill that could mean greater transparency in police shootings. >> get your hands up! >> reporter: oakland police have released body camera video from the officer who shot and killed 30-year-old demoria hogg who was in his car june 6th, 2015, an incident that occurred in oakland more than three years ago. >> don't move! >> get your hands up! >> reporter: according to reports, officers tried to wake hogg for more than an hour. they approached the driver's side window and broke it. >> when he woke up, he reached for the weapon and posed an immediate threat to the officer at the time and the officers felt their lives or the lives of others were in danger, so they took appropriate action. >> reporter: the officer reported shooting hogg twice in the chest, although an autopsy revealed he was only hit once. oakland police released this body camera video after a public records request and now there's a bill on the governor's desk that would actually make police video camera more accessible to the public quicker. the bill requires police departments to make body

kpix5's juliette goodrich is in sacramento right now with the latest developments from court. juliette? >> reporter: ken, the alleged norcal rapist was in court to face the judge as you said. also in court today, two of his alleged victims who call themselves strong surveyors. they wanted to look at him eye to eye -- survivors. they wanted to look at him eye to eye. >> he looked us squarely in the eyes when he walked out, first time i've seen his face ever. >> it's a day we've all waited for for a really long time. >> reporter: today 58-year-old roy waller, the suspected norcal rapist, appeared in a sacramento courtroom. two of his alleged victims sat just feet away to see the man they say raped and terrorized them. >> when he turned around and he looked squarely at us rate is in our eyes, i glared right back. >> reporter: one northern california district attorney called waller a real life boogeyman who crept into his victims' homes under the cover of darkness. >> you don't forget the details, smells, sounds, sights. you don't forget it ever. >> reporter: investigators say his

kpix5's juliette goodrich has more details on what's next. juliette? >> reporter: so chopper 5 giving us a good view of the traffic. that's the commute traffic home and that's the very exit where people will go if they're going to shop at ikea let's say if that ever happens down the road. i'm 1 mile from chopper 5 in front of city council here in dublin where tonight the planning commission will make a very serious decision if they think ikea should be in this town. you bet it's a lot button topic, ikea in dublin. >> i say no. >> reporter: but others don't mind the ikea idea. >> i love ikea, but it is like costco and target on crack. you're just going to wander. you'll get lost and you'll just lose yourself and you will buy candles. you will buy candles. >> reporter: ikea owns this 27- acre lot, prime real estate off 580 in the heart of dublin. ikea wants to build a 430,000 square foot store and now it's nearing decision time with the planning commission set to vote. >> my gut feeling is the planning commission would not approve it. >> reporter: this w

someday i'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds -- >>> juliette goodrich, kpix five news. live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> the remnants of hurricane florence causing even more deaths, and the relentless downpours show no sign of stopping. good morning, let's get right to hurricane check ins. >> the storm watch shows you can see parts of north carolina have been swamped with several feet of water. kpix 5 radar sows extreme weather activity is moving at a e . snail's pace so some areas have already gotten almost 3 feet of rain. and three more deaths have been reported, bringing the total number 214. almost 1 million homes and businesses have no power, courtney is a basque he is in north carolina. >> we been under -- >> reporter:

in berkeley, juliette goodrich, kpix5. >>> more violence at b.a.r.t.'station, an agent punched in the face early saturday morning. two women told the station agent a man was harassing them. when that agent came up to help, the suspect attacked and told, but violence at the macarthur station is nothing new. in the last two months there have been three stabbings, one of them deadly. this latest attack comes right after b.a.r.t. announced it was rolling back its beefed up security due to a staffing shortage. >>> another bay area apple store targeted by thieves, it happened in burlingame yesterday morning. police say the suspects ran into the store, grabbed iphones and ipads and fled the scene in a get-away car waiting for them down the street. just last week three men in hoodies stormed into an apple store in santa rosa and took off with more than $35,000 worth of merchandise. walnut creek was also targeted. thieves snatched $30,000 worth of iphones and laptops there. it's not clear if these three robberies are connected. >>> after a routine traffic stop o

. >> kpix5's juliette goodrich spoke to the girl who is okay today. juliette? >> reporter: yeah. fortunately she's okay today. she had today to rest before school starts again tomorrow. her backpack was stolen right out of the front basket of her bike and then the driver managed to run her down after. >> like i hit my wrist and mostly this side of my body, so this knee, this elbow, this elbow, too, but less than this one and like a big scrape on my shoulder and back. >> reporter: cassie was riding her bike home in her first week of middle school when she was robbed and run down by a car on wheeler and russell streets. >> i was just biking like normal and a car came up by me and the front passenger window rolled down. an arm picked up my backpack. then the car sort of sped off and hit me. >> reporter: she fell off her bike onto the pavement. her bike is now totaled. her backpack and school supplies are stolen. >> it's pretty frustrating, you know, because her first week back to school, we were so proud of her because she's really fierce out there riding her bike and being independ

i'm juliette goodrich. diesel exhaust emissions from ships at the port just hit a record low. says: it has a plan to push those levels even lower. tonight, people who live in the area there tell our da lin: it can't happen soon enough. jim edgar sprays down his house

juliette goodrich live in antioch with our original report. >> reporter: we are talking about bart's, the extension train that leads to and from antioch. there was a huge opening and we covered it. it was prior to the grand opening that bart protected the subcontractor was putting in used parts. >> it is definitely a violation. there is an investigation, you can't use, used parts on the system. >> reporter: it was right before the bart to antioch line opened that bart discovered the contractor out of hayward was using used parts. >> parts actually put into the line and it was discovered they were used parts. while we went to register them and do our due dilligence we saw they were registered previously. that was the red flag. >> reporter: bart says it was able to swap out the equipment for brand-new equipment within one month of making the discovery. bart said it did not impact the opening date or impact public safety.

. >> i'll juliette goodrich. devin fehely has learned the equipment that now has to be replaced could have left the system wide open to cyber attacks. >> i just thought it was very irresponsible. >> reporter: irresponsible and risky, kpix5 news has learned the newest communications and computer equipment installed on the south bay b.a.r.t. extension could have left the transit system uniquely vulnerable to hackers and other cyber security threats. >> the concern is security. if somebody's already used the router, then they may have access to it and if somebody finds out which router was used where, we don't want our systems to be shut down by someone else. that's why we wanted a brand- new system. >> reporter: that revelation is the latest fallout from our exclusive report this week about a serious construction issue that could add months and millions of dollars to the beleaguered project. the valley transportation authority discovered in june that 1,100 used routers and switchers had been installed in the rail l

kpix5's juliette goodrich on what turned into a true political fight. >> reporter: absolutely.now about the political war of words, but here in the east bay it got physical. tell me what you think. >> he would have stabbed me. he had it out saying, "i'm going to kill you," and i could see his thumb trying to get the knife out. >> reporter: republican rudy peters is running for congress. over the weekend he says he was threatened and attacked at his republican booth at a fall festival in castro valley. he said it first started with verbal threats. >> he picks up the coffee cup to rear back to throw it at us and i jump around the table. he throws the coffee cup. it misses us. it hits the ground and breaks. so i come out and grab him and wrestle him and throw him down to the ground. >> reporter: he said that's when 35-year-old farzad fazeli of castro valley pulled out a knife. >> he's screaming, "i'll kill you, i'll kill you," circling me trying to get the knife out. >> the defendant also has a prior conviction for a 242. >> reporter: fazeli made his first court appearance in toda

i'm juliette goodrich. >> i'm brian hackney. >>> we'll have that story in a moment, but first some breakingfire watch. firefighters are working to contain a smoky fire that forced some evacuations in san ramon. flames broke out about two hours ago behind homes near crow canyon and bollinger canyon roads. there are no reports so far of any homes destroyed, but authorities have evacuated estancia court as a precaution. police say firefighters are making progress on the fire. meanwhile crews in the south bay are busy battling a 25-acre brushfire in san jose. it is burning now off quimby road and borden road. snapchat video shows flames creeping up the hillside and thick smoke shooting into the air. cal fire says 25 acres have burned so far, but at this point there are no reports of any damage to buildings. it's all happening against a backdrop of building high pressure that will lead to humidities lowering and temperatures rising as dry offshore winds set up this week driving temperatures into the mid-90s inland, which is why there are red flag warnings posted already for the sacramento valley

kpix 5 juliette goodrich went up there. >> reporter: it's a long way to the top but salesforce ceo mark benioff says will up a chair and take a look. >> we think this is the world best living room. the tallest building west of chicago. >> reporter: the top floor, the ohana floor. ohana in hawaii means family. you ken see the transamerica building on one side and if you walk over here we will give you a tour. is that 360 degree view. you ken see the bay bridge, all of the water and the sailboats and, if you're afraid of heights, just don't look down. one floor down, a conference room with a view. >> everybody ken still walk around here , but this incredible discussion ken still be held with the privacy they need. >> reporter: the open spaces show the progress of workforce culture. if you want to, you ken work out while you work. if you want to take the stairs to the top , it is a 45 minute climb to the very top. a beam leading to the ohana room is signed by the constructors who worked on the building. on day two of the shutdown of the salesforce transit center at the discoverer of the cr

juliette goodrich, kpix5. >>> google is marking its 20th anniversary and the company has certainly grown enormously. >> reporter: as if the google plex was not big enough we show the massive construction project going on right next door. the company is growing building a new tentlike structure. with autonomous cars zipping through the streets, hundreds of buses, and those colorful bicycles, google is a long way from the stanford dorm room where it all got started. on the anniversary here in mountain view it begs the question, has google been a good neighbor? >> i have said before google has done everything right but not grow. even though their growth has created problems for us they are a partner in trying to solve the problem. >> reporter: to address the housing shortage the city is building 10,000 new units in the congested north bayshore area. what's more the mayor says over the years google has paid for projects small and large all over the city. doggy cleanup stations, fitness trails, low income housing, and a kitchen at a church to cook meals for the homeless. the mayor did not min

>>> juliette goodrich, kpix five news. live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> the remnants of hurricane florence causing even more deaths, and the relentless downpours show no sign of stopping. good morning, let's get right to hurricane check ins. >> the storm watch shows you can see parts of north carolina have been swamped with several feet of water. kpix 5 radar sows extreme weather activity is moving at a e . snail's pace so some areas have already gotten almost 3 feet of rain. and three more deaths have been reported, bringing the total number 214. almost 1 million homes and businesses have no power, courtney is a basque he is in north carolina. >> we been under -- >> reporter: we've had heavy winds and rain all the cleanup continues. florence is showing no mercy to north carolina, the slow-moving storm has virtually stalled dumping relentless rain after making landfall as a category one hurricane. >> it's deep, there's scary. there are cars going under and people freaking out. >> reporter: water

in dublin, juliette goodrich, kpix5. >>> a contra costa county judge found a former de la salle football player guilty of raping a high school student. the 16-year-old was kicked out of school after the incident and the judge made the ruling after new evidence from a snapchat account. that evidence was a 10 second audio clip the victim recorded on her phone during the assault. allegedly she could be heard repeatedly saying no, please stop. the rape happened at a homecoming dance house party last year. the prosecutor applauded the victim's courage saying, "despite an audio recording that clearly shows her lack of consent on the night in question, she has faced significant harassment from her peers for speaking up. i'm hopeful that her strength will inspire other survivors to share their stories." in july a second teenager pleaded guilty to felony sexual battery in this case. he was sentenced to a maximum of nine years confinement. new numbers obta >>> standing in line at the dmv, that's stressful, but apparently so is working for the agency. new numbers obtained by the mercury news find o