from the live news desk, i'm ken bastida.m two top companies testified before a senate subcommittee today about massive data breaches. marriott ceo arnie sorenson and equifax's ceo were grilled after both companies were found responsible for the largest data breaches in history. sorenson said the information of more than 350 million guests at the hotel chain was compromised including passport and credit card numbers and in 2017 equifax revealed more than 140 million of its customers were impacted by a data breach. >> we have shared everything we have with the fbi including the addresses used and the malware tools used in the system so that they can do that kind of investigation. >> there were controls in place. they clearly weren't strong enough. we've taken great steps since then. >> in the meantime senators pointed out that both companies needed to do better in keeping consumers' data safe. >>> the seafood you buy at the supermarket may not always be what it says on the label. the advocacy group oceana collected 449 samples

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live new desk. i want to show you this 1 because we're still feeling the effects of all that rain we've gotten in the past several months. that is a huge tree on o' shaughnessy drive in drive and malta, if you know where that is in san francisco, that windy street used by a lot of people to cut across town. you can see that big tree came down. they're telling us that it didn't hit anybody, didn't take out any power. that's the good thing. it's just going to clog the road way up for a while. they say expect a few more trees to come down because of the high winds today. at the live news desk, ken bastida. >> thanks. >>> tesla ceo elon musk is defending a pair of tweets he sent out about the company. last month musk tweeted to his more than 24 million followers claiming tesla would produce about 500,000 cars in 2019. the securities and exchange commission wants to hold him in contempt for violating earlier restrictions on his social media posts. today he told a new york judge that tweet and another wer

at the live news desk, i'm ken bastida. back to you. >>> this evening disturbing images out of southern california, photos have emerged of high school teens embracing nazi symbols of hate. reporter michele gile on the weekend party that triggered an emergency meeting. >> reporter: there are at least three investigations into the weekend hate incident involving newport harbor, costa mesa and estencia high school students, outrage over pictures of teenagers doing nazi salutes and posing over red cups in the shape of a swastika at an off campus party will be addressed tonight at a community meeting. >> the community is concerned about this type of incident because it doesn't happen in isolation. we're only months since the terrible attack, the massacre that took place at the pittsburgh synagogue. >> reporter: a rabbi from the temple has been talking with his members who are upset and afraid. anti-semitic incidents are up 94% in our nation's schools in 2017 according to the anti defamation league. the rabbi says he's seen socia

that's it for the news at 5:00. >>> kpix5 news at 6:00 begins right now with ken bastida and elizabethic heading in and out of silicon valley may ease up soon, but the commute convenience will come at a cost. >> reporter: are u.s. tech companies too big? one u.s. senator says yes and is making it a part of the 2020 election, details just ahead. >> show everybody what's inside. >> it's cool. >> it's cool, right? >> yeah. >> her letter to steph curry was a game changer and tonight this napa 9-year-old will be sporting some special shoes when she cheers on the warriors courtside. kpix5 news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken bastida. >>> we begin this friday rush hourwith some lief on the way for south bay commuters. caltrans just broke ground on a project that will create 32 from san bruno clear down to sunnyvale. kpix5's devin fehely live in santa clara tonight tells us that convenience will come at a cost. devin? >> reporter: that's exactly right, guys. behind me you can see traffic inching along on southbound 101. i'm sure we have all gotten stuck i

i'm ken bastida. >> and i'm veronica de la cruz. >>> new at 5:30 after all that rain spring is in the air and with the warmer weather comes a whole lot of pollen. allergy specialists are warning about what could be a tough allergy season. kpix5's john ramos has the details. >> reporter: allergy sufferers are probably cringing seeing me sitting here like this, but they should probably be prepared. this season could be a tough one. >> i hate it. i hate it. i hate this time of year. i need a couple earplugs to put in my nose. >> reporter: gerald dalen said whatever is in the air has kept his nose running all day, rain, sunshine and wind. the combination has turned the green diablo hills with their long waving grasses into a pollen factory sending their microscopic nose missiles straight into cities like concord and walnut creek. >> pollen is able to travel sometimes 20 miles and it is certainly being spread evenly around the county. >> reporter: allergy specialist dr. bruce patterson says patients come to his concord offices before they start sneezing to get allergy shots. each one is sp

be in the live news desk, i'm ken bastida. back to you. >>> meanwhile days after the anniversary of the affordable care act the trump administration filed a legal motion to have the law completely struck down. tonight house speaker nancy pelosi and her colleagues are already gearing up for a fight. >> the gop will never stop trying to destroy the affordable healthcare of america's families. >> the republican party will soon be known as the party of healthcare. you watch. >> in a legal filing monday, the justice department sided with a federal judge who ruled the affordable care act unconstitutional based on the insurance mandate. should that ruling stand, the entire law would be struck down. >> they say they're going to protect preexisting conditions as a benefit and then they go to court to strip it and strip the whole bill. >> the white house insists president trump will work to keep patient protections in place. >> the president has always supported protecting preexisting conditions. this president believes patients should

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk. let's take you live to east boston, the orient heights neighborhood. there is a full evacuation going on because of nine- alarm fire at the new england casket company. this is on bennington street and they have evacuated that entire neighborhood because of the heavy smoke. you can see even at night all the thick, black smoke in the area. the fire commissioner telling us that the building is a total loss. they're just trying to contain the fire from spreading to the neighborhood. all of the workers were able to escape the building, no idea how this thing got started, but there's so many flammables inside this building that it took off rather quickly. ngand we are told that it's going to be a while for transit to get by. they had to use the blue line train tracks there to fight the fire. so all of that has wn awell. the new england casket company on fire tonight, a family-owned business. they've been going at it since world war ii. that's the famous flintstone ho in hillsboro has gotten

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk. a happy, we've all been there, right? hey, we've all been there, right? you're there and a carpool cheater goes zipping in and out of traffic. that all ended yesterday. the california highway patrol issued 109 citations for carpool violations in the tri- valley area during a saturation patrol that went between 6 and 10 a.m. the extra enforcement was held to crack down on drivers committing h.o.v. lane violations. they've had so many on interstate 580, in pleasant outand starinreha thople andid. the chp, and livermorall paat thefine for those violators? $490. >> ouch. ken, you've been warned. we appreciate it, five years of construction sutter health hospital in san francisco is now open. the hospital is located on van ness hospital and geary. the hospital will begin taking patients tomorrow morning. >>> southwest airlines is suing its mechanics union. the airline claims mechanics are reporting excessive maintenance issues in a coordinated effort to disrupt the airline's operations. southwest and its mechanics union have b

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk. the l.a. county district attorney's office has assigned a couple of investigators to try to figure out what is going on at the san anita racetrack. 22 horses have died there since december 26th. those horses had to be euthanized after suffering fatal injuries. they've already banned drugs and whips and closed the track altogether. the investigators now working with the california horse racing board as it probes those deaths and a california representative, judy chu, whose district includes the track said she is outraged and is calling on e commte treaent of horses at santa anita. noboan going ondown th it has since march 5th. that's the latest from the live news desk. i'm ken bastida. >>> a san francisco man facing charges of felony animal thand she lost a leg as a result of the incident. prosecutors say rocky was thrown down a garbage chute and fell three stories into a dumpster. somehow she survived four days before someone found the animal. >> she's resilient. she's got brave spirit. she ha

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk. we got a big problem on highway 1 near half moon bay. chopper 5 live over the scene. it's a power outage. some winds there toppled a tree into the power lines about 4,000 people without power in the pacifica, half moon bay area, but the bigger problem is that this power outage has resulted in the tom lantos tunnel being shut down. apparently there are some electrolyte markers, lane markers and signaling lights which direct the flow of traffic and so without those signal lights they have to shut down highway 1. so that's what's going on right now. no traffic going through. this obviously will affect thousands of people during the commute. they're suggesting an alternate. take skyline to highway 92 and come down into half moon bay, but obviously that's a big long way around and caltrans is telling us it will be closed till at least 6:00. at the live news desk, ken bastida. >>> mountain view police intercepted a man who made threats against google. 33-year-old kyle long drove here from maine upset google shut down his youtube channel. polic

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk. moments ago we learned the city of san francisco will settle a lawsuit with the mother of mario woods over her son's death. you'll remember this case. a deadly police shooting in 2015 that touched off protests. 26-year-old woods was walking on third street carrying a knife. there's some of the video. he was suspected of stabbing another man. police surrounded him. they fired beanbags, pepper spray, everything they had. finally went to their service guns. they opened fire. woods was shot 21 times by five police officers. his death ignited a public outcry over the department's use of force eventually leading to the resignation of chief greg suhr. last year prosecutors announced the police officers involved would not be charged in woods' death. san francisco city attorney's office had this to say. "in this case the officers' response to a risky situation was consistent with their training and in accordance with the law. this settlement allows us to reach resolution without need for a tri

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk. well, there he was in court, president trump's campaign chairman paul manafort sentenced today to 47 months in prison and ordered to pay at least $6 million in restitution to the u.s. government, also a $50,000 fine. prosecutors were actually hoping for more. they wanted 25 years for manafort. the judge t.k. ellis called that excessive. he was convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud and it's not over for manafort. he's back in court next week on witness tampering and money laundering charges. he will be sentenced then again in another case. from the live news desk, i'm ken bastida. >>> in san jose now a gas leak on monterey highway near bernal road caused nearby businesses to be evacuated. it happened around 1:00 this afternoon. fire crews say construction workers hit a high pressure gas line. a portion of monterey highway was shut down in both directions. >> we evacuated two buildings in the complex and the bar next- door because the gas was drifting. there have been no repor

. >> i'm ken bastida. >>> breaking news out of washington. a bipartisan group of lawmakers will introduce legislation tomorrow to make puerto rico the 51st state. if enacted, it would automatically trigger puerto rico's admission to the union. without a referendum on its territorial status. over the past few years, puerto ricans have already voted twice to state hood in symbolic referendums. the legislation comes a day after president trump expressed opposition to increasing any disaster aid for ro, which continues to suffer from hurricane maria. the push to make puerto rico a state will almost certainly be opposed by the president and the republican-controlled senate. >>> a ticket matching five of six numbers for tonight's megapowerball jackpot drawing was bought right here in san jose. tonight's jackpot, $768 million. the third largest ever. another store in san mateo sold a ticket matching fivmbers. centerwood liquors. folks at the san jose store are celebrating the big win. >> it's a lucky store. >> yeah, very lucky store. >> take a look.

i am ken bastida. >> i am elizabeth cook. breaking news. two small back to back earthquakes rattling the bay area. according to the usgs a 2.7 earthquake hitting 10:16 p.m. this evening. the second one struck at 10:21 p.m. ounortheast of morgan hill. that one measuring 2.5. no reports of damage or injuries. we will keep you updated. >>> the ethiopian airlines plane went down minutes after takeoff yesterday killing all 157 people on board. one witness reported seeing smoke coming from the rear of the plane before it hit the ground. new tonight we are learning three of the victims had ties to california. two brothers from redding and a bay area tech company employee. first let's get to kpix 5's joe vazquez who is live at san francisco international airport with the dual ground the boeing jets tonight. >> reporter: plane crashes have become rare so when you have two plane crashes since october of the same kind of jet under similar circumstances that has a lot of folks from pilots to as investigators pour over today's reggage they can't help co

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> a preliminary conclusion is reached in the ethiopia plane crash investigation. >> the wall street journal reporting investigators are releasing data from the black boxes of the 737 max-8 that crashed in ethiopia earlier this month. investigators believe it had the stall prevention feature activated before it nose-dived and crashed into the ground. experts say it is the strongest indication yet that the same automated system was activated during the lion air flight that crashed in indonesia last year. almost 350 people were killed in the two crashes. the 737 max-8s have been grounded across the united states and is there fallout in the bay area tonight. we just got word from southwest airlines that it is gonna have to reduce a huge number of flights due to the groundings through april 20th. it is currently evaluating future reductions. southwest is the largest carrier at san jose and also at oakland airport. 34 of southwest 737 max-8's now sitting in the california desert waiting for a fix at a logistics airport. today boeing made its most di

. >> i am ken bastida at the live news desk. another massive jury verdict over the use of roundup weed killer. federal jury in san francisco awarded just over $80 million to a santa rosa man who developed non-hodgkin's lymphoma . seven -year-old edwin hardiman sprayed roundup on his two large properties over 26 years. $6million for medical expenses he will get, $75 million in punitive damages. >> this is the second jury unanimously held that round of causes cancer they are not the same thing and anyone who set to the trial, which includes all jurors, will tell you, and have told us unanimously science does not support the safety profile they are trying to push. >> interesting this was the first federal lawsuit against monsanto to go to trial and there are hundreds more pending . >>> an update on the officer involved shooting in los angeles. a suspect described as an occasion man has been shot and killed after walking into a building owned by the church of scientology. police say he was wielding a sword and gun. he also shot at t

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. the san francisco attorney says she not charging giants ceo, larry baer. >> joe vasquez reports he may not be out of trouble yet. >> reporter: prosecutors have looked over the evident. they determined that no crimes were committed, but that doesn't mean the owner of the giants is in the cheer just yet. the cellphone video shows giants owner and ceo larry baer aggressively wrestling his cellphone away from his wife. pulling her out of her chair and onto the ground as she screams for help. but the district attorney said it did not rise to the level of a crime. "after a careful revuft evidence, the evidence does not support filing criminal charges." we reached out to baer through his attorney today. no comment from him or the giants. the team says they want to wait for the findings of the major league baseball investigation. >> a lot of people may want to say that is not really domestic violence or that is domestic violence. one thing we can be sure, it's not really the way you want to t

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. the suspect is brenton tarrant. 49 people are dead, 48 wounded gunned down during prayer services inside two mosques in christchurch. besides tarrant two other suspects are also facing charges. right now the normally peaceful country of new zealand is shattered. the suspect wrote a manifesto referencing white genocide driven by mass immigration. police say he carried a small cache of weapons to commit the mass murder. the prime minister is promising laws will change. >> i'm advised that there were five guns used by the primary perpetrator. they were two semiautomatic weapons and two shotguns. the offender was in possession of a gun license. >> police say the suspect's family is helping their investigation and that they contacted authorities when they saw the news reports. >> tarrant was not on any terrorist watch lists. police say he had a record only for minor traffic matters. he remains behind bars due back in court on april 5th. >>> here in the bay area local mosques are not taking

. >>> i am ken bastida of the live news does. more follow-up from the college admissions scandal. a silicon valley executive ousted from the venture capital firm he founded. the story appearing in the los angeles times this afternoon. lightspeed venture partners, has parted ways with their founder. he was not indicted in the admissions scandal reportedly told partners he used the services of rick singer, the alleged mastermind in the confirmation. a spokesperson says the effort to get his son in the college in 2015 was above board. earlier this month singer, along with dozens of high- profile parents and university officials were charged in the case. many accused of paying thousands to cheat on entrance exams or sending money to have -- they released a statement quote we are determined to separate chris to ensure this matter does not interfere with firm operations. the matter does not involve the firm, personnel or portfolio of companies. again schaepe was not indicted in the investigation. >>> students at a high school in fairfield stayed home today after a races threat prompted

. >> and i'm ken bastida, it's going to take a while to draw from this huge storm. we have team coverage on the flooding tonight let's start with wilson walker along the rushing river. >> the water finally started moving back, yesterday, the water would have been around my head, it's obviously peeled back to where you could see the aftermath of the flooding enforced bill. as the water moves back we are getting a lesson in just how much water moved through here. >> when you saw me coming out it was the first time i stepped out. the biggest thing to fight with floods is just board them out here. >> reporter: this has been a long three-day strand inside of their home. >> you could see along the water. just low enough to wade through the street to survey the damage. some houses it's definitely worse than others. you never know until the water gets down. >> reporter: while the water is receding, many roads are only passable by boat so a lot of people spend another day waiting to get to their homes. >> it's about the same as a fire except we get to go back and clean it up

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> after the brutal murder of a san jose woman, allegedly at the hands of an undocumented felon, one county leader is calling for sweeping i.c.e. changes tonight. >> reporter: county supervisor, ed mitch, says changes need to gh a wants to ste son was leter, failed by the system. >> reporter: six times. that's how many requests i.c.e. made to santa clara county to hold carlos caranza behind bars. all six times he was released before allegedly murdering larson in cold blood. >> i want to know why he was allowed to be here and why the he wasn't taken and put somewhere where he could never get back out and do this. >> reporter: after the mayor and police chief criticized county officials, the supervisor is proposing a list crafted within the next 30 days of misdemeanors and felonies that would trigger the county to notify law enforcement agencies, including i.c.e. in a serious or violent felon's release. >> one more time going back to i.c.e. and trying to convince them, just get on a standard arrest warrant system. >> reporter: they say i.c.e. mus

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. veronica de la cruz joins us with the latest. >> reporter: authorities are describing significant casualties in christchurch inside two mosques where gunmen opened fire on worshippers during prayers. local media are now reporting the death toll could be as high as 50. witnesses say one of the suspects fired for more than 15 minutes. four people are now in custody, three men and one woman. we're hearing one of the suspects, like you just mentioned, live-streamed the shooting as they gunned down the victim. this all happened at the center of christchurch, a >> i could hear screaming and crying, and i saw some people were, you know, drop dead. >> not in new zealand. >> clearly what has happened here is an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence. >> tonight facebook says new zealand police alerted them to the live-stream. they have removed the shooter's accounts and the video. in a statement they say "we're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the s shooters as so

at the live news desk, i'm ken bastida. back to you. >> smollett was born in santa rosa and this was the reaction from his hometown late today. >> i feel like you're innocent till proven guilty, but it would be really, really horrible if that accusations are actually true because there are people who are really are targeted because they are african american, gay. >> he deserves it. i'm glad. >> very unfortunate for everyone involved. there's enough things going on that are real without somebody coming along and faking it and getting all this sympathy and then we find out it was fake. >> in the meantime empire is writing smollett out of the show. his character was removed from the final two episodes of season five. >>> and there are late breaking developments in case of giants ceo larry baer and that very public fight he had with his wife. let's get you to elizabeth cook. >> the san francisco district attorney's office confirms to kpix5 they are reviewing the case. you probably have seen the video at the center of all this.

. >> i'm ken bastida. >>> we begin with this college admissions scandal that everyone is talking about. kpix5's susie steimle reports the unprecedented federal case has ensnared about 15 people from the bay area including a stanford coach who was fired today. >> reporter: parent involved in this bribery scandal are accused of spending from $100,000 up to $6.5 million per student to get their students into these elite universities. now 33 parents have been charged, but the fbi is promising more charges are to come. the vegas nicknamed varsity blues is referred to as the largest college scam in u.s. history. 50 people have been charged. parents are charged with paying to inflate their children's s.a.t. scores. others are accused of bribing coaches of one is coach john vandemoer, stanford's sailing coach. he pleaded guilty today. >> for every student admitted through fraud an honest, genuinely talented student was rejected. >> reporter: the fbi released recordings of parents knowingly participating in this scam. the owner of a distillery is accused of paying nearly a half million dollars

. >> when allen martin and veronica de la cruz bring you a full hour at 5:00 followed by ken bastida and elizabeth cook at 6:00. then expect award-winning original reporting with jeff glor and the cbs evening news at 6:30. expect more news when you're on the watch. week nights on kpix 5. 0 >>> good morning and welcome back to "mosaic". i'm rabbi eric weiss. i am honored to be your host this morning. we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about how they discovered their jewishness. jim, you were talking before the break, and marny was sharing how her own adulthood at a certain point when she discovered she was jewish influenced her sense of jewishness. and i'm wondering how yourself how that was for you. >> somewhat similarly. i came out when i was 20 as a gay man. and so my identity kind of arranged or rearranged itself. and this felt somewhat similar when my mother revealed this identity. it's like, oh, okay. so i completely changed and was completely the same. and i took myself to synagogue thinking, oh, well, maybe now i'll find the services much more meaningful, maybe n

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> it happened before 8:30 this morning at the intersection of howard and sixth streets in the soma district. kpix5's andria borba is live at the scene. andria? >> reporter: well, this is a very busy thoroughfare through san francisco south of market, but as of this hour the medical examiner still has not identified the woman, but cyclists here are worried about that announcement. they're afraid it might be one of their friends. along howard street clad in yellow shirts a human shield protecting bicyclists from rush hour traffic. >> this street has six lanes of cars. there's plenty of space to create a protected bike line. so the collision and tragedy we just had this morning would never happen again. >> reporter: the crash happened when a white truck and a woman riding an electrified ford go bike collided at the corner of sixth and howard. paramedics were unable to revive the woman in their 30s. today marks the first bicycle fatality of 2019 in san francisco. janus leejanice lee is with the san francisco bicycle coalition. the location of the

i'm ken bastida. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. tonight kpix5's andria borba reports investigators are working three separate cases tonight, one of them deadly. andria? >> reporter: it's been a rough 72 hours on bay area roads, ken and elizabeth. the one thing that is connecting this is that the chp says all of these are not random attacks. they were all targeted in some way. the spade of freeway shootings began on highway 4 near concord saturday afternoon. the call came into dispatchers as a vehicle accident, but once chp officers arrived on scene they found a 25-year-old antioch woman dead from gunshot wounded. investigators believe it was gang-related. fast forward to sunday when one person was injured in a targeted road rage shooting at 580 eastbound near airway boulevard. the suspects drove off in a 2019 honda accord. and then this morning on eastbound 80 near macdonald boulevard in richmond another shooting, chp golden gate division is insisting that the roads are safe and this isn't random. >> all three of these shootings app

. >> i'm ken bastida. those students staged a sickout today to try to stop the district's move. kpix5's da lin was there. >> reporter: many students are upset about the cuts. they say those cuts will hurt some of the most vulnerable students in the district. students yelled at the school board after they voted to cut almost $22 million. the cuts will eliminate the restorative justice program, gut an asian pacific islander support program, lay off all five foster youth case managers and take money away from school libraries. >> i feel betrayed, hurt and i feel like that's not right. >> reporter: many students like jennifer martinez cried over the cuts. she's been in six foster homes in two years. >> we're going lose our support system. that's going to hurt us even more on and the system is just set up to fail them yet we're going to fail them again. i feel like i'm failing them not being able to be there for them. >> reporter: a few hundred students staged a sickout to protest the cuts. the students complained the new contract for the teachers doesn't provide student support serv

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i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> much of the family went to mission high school in san francisco. let's get right to kpix5's andria borba. andria? >> reporter: there were counselors on hand here at mission high school today to let students talk about their feelings about losing three members of one family and another that is in critical condition. just inside the main hallway at san francisco's mission high school sits a small memorial for the villarreal family, siblings were killed in a crash early thursday morning on i-80. the family was racing from the east bay to san francisco to see their father in the hospital. their 17-year-old brother aaron was injured in the crash. the entire family went to mission high school. eric guthards has been principal to all of the children. >> it felt very somber today. children. >> it felt very somber today. the students, the folks that passed, were beloved here. the family is beloved at mission, legendary really. >> reporter: tuesday two days before the crash in the middle of an atmospheric river the family was out supporting aaron in his pla

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> we start with a major college admissions scandal involving wealthy parents and hollywood actresses. in all, 50 people have been charged in what federal officials are calling the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the justice department. among those 14 are bay area residents including stanford university's sailing coach john vandemoer. >> we have team reporters on this story tonight. we begin with kpix5's susie steimle who is live at stanford university. susie? >> reporter: well, ken and liz, the fbi tells us the average parents spend 200 to $400,000 in bribery money as part of this scammed, but one parent spent as much as $6.5 million. 33 parents in total have been charged and the fbi says more are to come. >> there can be no separate college admission system for the wealthy and i'll add there will not be a separate criminal justice system either. >> reporter: 33 parents were charged in what's being called the largest college admission scandal in u.s. history. actresses lori loughlin and felicity huffman were accused of paying

. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk, well, some good news for these two missing girl sisters from humboldt county. they were missing friday, went for a walk on their property. they have 80 acres. the parents couldn't find them. it started getting dark. it started raining. a full on search. they were finally located after 44 hours sunday morning, but they did all the right things to stay alive. >> we found shelter, a tree branch close to the ground, and we had my sister's rain jacket to keep us warm and my sister cried the whole night. so i tomorrow her to think happy thoughts of our family and i kept watch for most ght. >> spent two days crying my eyes out looking everywhere we could think of to look going through every house, all the neighbors' houses and outbuildings. >> well, 8-year-old leia took care of her 5-year-old sister caroline, used her 4-h training and a jacket to build a shelter under some bushes and that was good enough. rescuers found them yesterday morning a little dehydrated but none the worse for wear. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> reaction pouring in

. >>> good evening i am ken bastida. >> i am veronica de la cruz.pecial edition of kpix 5 news at 10:30. the governor has declared a state of emergency ahead of the next wildfire season. ivhaever se.apocalyptic scene icenter several major wildfires were the given really out his drastic plan. >> reporter: let's talk about lake county. i am standing just outside of little town which was the scene of the 2015 valley fire that killed five people in this area. if you head over to lower lake that was the scene of the clayton fire. keep going and you would hit the jerusalem fire. the rocky and poni fires and of course last year there were the river and ranch fires that made up the mendocino complex, largest fire in the history of the state by one estimate as much as 60 percent of this county has burned since 2012. that is where the governor was here today. to say this. >> lo fmaings he.w years thcommy l >> goveor gavin newsom declared what you might call a preemptive wildfire state of emergency, a move designed to mobilize resources ahead of the upcoming f

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> a tourist visited numerous popular locations while infected. >> more than 20 places in santa clara to be exact. kpix5's len ramirez reports they include malls, the apple visitors center and even an ihop. >> reporter: diners at this ihop restaurant on north first street in san jose said they had no idea a person contagious with the measles had eaten here two saturdays ago between 9:30 and noon. >> they should have at least on the window, at least on the front window or a sign that says that there was measles present, know so i'quitshocked. i'm really disgusted right now. >> reporter: he's had his measles shot, so he's protected, but she has not been immunized. >> kind of scary now, but definitely get myself checked out. i do not want the measles. >> reporter: they both looked over a list of places the infectious person visited and fortunately were not at the same places at the same times, but despite being sick the traveler kept a very busy schedule including such popular places at the hoover tower observation deck at stanford, the apple visito

. >> i'm ken bastida. >>> right now as we speak, we're getting our first up close look at the fix for that falling concrete on the richmond-san rafael bridge. kpix5's joe vazquez is on the span right now, gives us an update. joe? >> reporter: yeah, ken. i'm right in the middle lane of the upper deck of the richmond- san rafael bridge and behind me you can see workers working into the night. there you see a man with a jackhaer. this not exactly the place in the world to be doing this, but they have begun a project to make this bridge safer. sparks are flying on the richmond-san rafael bridge tonight. caltrans workers are beginning a three-month project to replace expansion joints where chunks of concrete went flying off last month. on february 7th one of the joints broke apart sending concrete onto the lower deck of the bridge. luckily nobody was hurt, but it caused a ton of traffic for the better part of the day diverting commuters through wine country to go around the jam. only one joint was broken and they fixed it, but they found wear and tear on some other joints and eventually de

. >> and i'm ken bastida. >>> the twisting roadway between los gatos and santa cruz is hilly and scenic, but it is dangerous. if you've driven it, you know and this year especially so. >> kpix5's len ramirez joins us from the highway near los gatos. len? >> reporter: well, in just the first two months of this year there have already been more than 200 crashes here on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains and despite efforts over the decades to make this roadway safer, its reputation as a hazardous highway seems to be getting worse. sky drone 5 helps you appreciate the scenic beauty of highway 17 as it climbs, dips and twists through the santa cruz mountains. but it's a much different story at driver eye level. >> it's hilly, curvey and not always sloped the way you expect it. >> reporter: if we dial up the camera to hyper speed, you can count the many twists and turns that make some drivers downright nervous. >> i've been driving up the highway for quite a few years, but i try to avoid it at all costs. >> reporter: now we have this year with all the bad weather, heavy traffic and speed

. >> and i'm ken bastida. >>> careful where you park your car in one south bay city tonight. police in milpitas are reporting a record number of car break-ins, 145 since the beginning of january. kpix5's maria medina has a look at the hotspots tonight. maria? >> reporter: well, these thieves are pretty brazen because the hotspots are shopping centers and despite the warning signs like this one, police say car break-ins are happening way too often. >> jumped out, smash, smash, waited for their alarm to die down. >> reporter: lewis bergeron, ii said surveillance cameras caught thieves breaking into his cars at the great mall in seconds. >> they smash both windows, take the bag. the first bag they took they opened it. >> reporter: he said they stole two bags, nothing inside valuable except one very special item. >> my dad's necklace. that necklace was older than me. i'm never going to get that back and it hurts to think some idiot took my stuff. >> reporter: lewis is one of the dozens of car burglary victims in milpitas since the beginning of the year. police are sounding the wa

. >> i'm ken bastida. >>> giants president and ceo larry baer caught on camera today in an argument with his wife and tonight she is sharing her side of the story. >> kpix5's andrea nakano live at oracle park tonight with that and how fans are reacting to the video. andria? >> >> reporter: i talked to witnesses who say the couple were arguing about a half hour and overheard details about marriage counseling but did not know what the argument was about. then this argument suddenly turned physical. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: chilling screams can be heard in this video giants president and ceo larry baer and his wife pam. this happened around noon at a plaza in hayes valley. eyewitnesses say the situation escalated when baer tried to grab a cell phone. >> she's just like yelling at him a lot and stuff and they were like having a little tussle or whatever and when i hear this scream, all these people are going around and most of them turned the corner and she's on the ground trying to hold onto her phone. >> reporter: taylor haskins was there and said the physical confrontation lasted just

>> i'm ken bastida. >>> we begin with the weather from the north bay to the south, another round of rain making a mess of the friday commute. paul, please tell me it's going to be a nice weekend. >> ken, it's going to be a nice weekend. >> thank you, paul. >> all the heavy rain happening right now and will be gone before the sun comes up tomorrow. not bad timing. that said it, is pouring outside. if you know someone who is driving, tell them both hands on the steering wheel, drive slow. it is pouring in san francisco north to richmond and el cerrito, mill valley, south of the valley through half moon bay moving through st. galena, glen ellen, and yountville. it's gone by 7 a.m. and we quill get mainly sunny a that's the first half of your weekend. we'll talk about sunday and the next chance of rain because there are more rain chances coming in a few minutes. >>> tonight a b.a.r.t. passenger is recovering after being stabbed on a train. the suspect is still on the loose. kpix5's da lin is at the fruitvale station where passengers told him enough is enough. da? >> reporter: the operator st

i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. >>> we begin with a live look outside a mosque in new zealand. mourners have been placing flowers to remember the victims of two deadly shootings. at least 49 people were killed at two different mosques in the city of christchurch. we have team coverage tonight beginning with kpix5's betty yu live in san francisco for us. betty? >> reporter: liz, bay area tech giant including facebook and twitter scrambled to take down this video. kpix5 is choosing not to air video of that massacre. suspect brenton tarrant appeared in christchurch district court on saturday morning. the 28-year-old australian, an apparent white nationalist extremist, was charged with a single count of murder. the mosques were packed for friday prayers when the gunman streaming live on facebook opened fire. this woman heard gunshots as she drove past one of the mosques. >> i'm 66 and never thought in my life i'd live to see something like this, not in new zealand. >> reporter: the suspect posted a racist manifesto online and the 17 minute video shows him walking into a mosque and

. >> i'm ken bastida. >>> we begin with that newly released body camera video from a deadly shooting in a taco bell drive-thru. kpix5's da lin is in vallejo and a warning, the video is graphic. >> reporter: the taco bell has since shut down, but the shooting happened here at the drive-thru. six officers shot willie mccoy and tonight they released all six officers' chest cam footage. police responded to a 911 call. a driver later identified as 20- year-old willie mccoy passed out in his mercedes at the taco bell drive-thru. police say he had responding co come up with a tactic to remove the firearm. >> can we him out? i don't even want to give him a chance. >> i want to go in there and grab that gun. >> i'll yank him out. >> if he reaches -- >> reporter: the car doors were locked. so officers drove their patrol cars to block mccoy's car. they say mccoy, a local rapper, woke up as they were doing that. >> ceasefire. >> reporter: kpix5 decided not to show the shooting given the graphic nature. now between yelling out the commands and the shooting, it was within four seconds mccoy's fami

. >> i'm ken bastida. >>> we begin with this college admissions scandal that everyone is talking aboutsteimle reports the unprecedented federal case has ensnared about 15