good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. ill >>> you're watching cbs5 "eyewitness news" in high definition. >> good evenings, i'm ann notarangelo. a battered bay area still recovering from the weekend's stormy weather. many of us woke up to downed power lineups and trees and flooded streets, depre- everywhere from the strong winds overnight. we've got a bit of a break today but an unsettled start to spring and lawrence says we're still not in the clear. >> no, and last night we had some gusts over 60 miles per hour here in the bay area, a lot of debris out in the roadways, some showers out there right now and pretty good cells. you can see some of that activity now down toward the san jose area and it is indeed coming down pretty good. look at that celine through santa clara, maybe we can take you in for a closer look and get you to the street area and get a better idea. along 101 it is coming down pretty good. they are just pocket amounts of rain moving around the bay area right now. we also have some cells start to go pop

ann notarangelo, cbs 5. >> a ucla student who posted a racist rant about asian students on youtube is getting death threats tonight. >> everybody comes here on the weekends to do their laundry, buy their groceries and cook their food for the week. >> the video was posted on friday and quickly went viral. it sparked a campus backlash and was condemned by school officials. alexandra wallace has apologized but she could face disciplinary action. >>> coming up, radiation levels in japan enough to make us sick here. a warning before you take the potassium iodide tablets. >>> then worse than previously thought, what we're learning now about tsunami damage at the santa cruz harbor. ,, ,,,,,, the sound of spring... it's a symphony best appreciated... at full blast. the moment you've been waiting for has arrived. springs best event. from cadillac. with zero down, zero due and zero first month's payment on the exhilarating cadillac cts. tablets, and is asking the u.s. >>> welcome back. we have just received word, japan needs more potassium iodide tablets and is asking the u.s. to help bolster i

ann notarangelo, cbs 5. >>> coming up, pride crushed. >> thieves target an east bay middle school. what was taken and the damage left behind. >>> a nuclear crisis looming in japan? with growing fear over exposure to radiation, the precautions already under way. >>> and caught on tape. days after the disaster, incredible new images of the tsunami's deadly force. >>> one weather system is moving out of the bay area. another one is poised ready to move in and the advisory you need to know about as eyewitness news continues right here on cbs 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,, of what thieves did to the campus. east oakland pride elementary on birch street w >>> classes were canceled today on an east bay school because of what thieves did to a campus. >> east pride oakland elementary school on birch street was trashed over the weekend and there is not a surplus of cash available anyway. >> this one will struggle to replace what was taken. mike sugerman reports. what did you find? >> reporter: allen, it wasn't good. kids in east oakland have a hard enough time as it is and today, they are life got harder.

ann notarangelo shows us the attention grabber. ann. >> reporter: i talked today with more than a dozen people who have been out of work from six months to more than two years. they are doing everything would you expect them to do looking for work. and a little bit more. >> i was a sales director for fuji film. >> i was a human resources profession for 13 years. >> reporter: this group meets every week in the hopes their brainstorming sessions will lead them to jobs. how long have you been out of work? >> just a little over a year. >> i have been out of work since the march of 2010. >> reporter: they are attorneys, consultants in sales, communications, marketing, healthcare, human resources. there are general managers, a photographer, a social media specialist, and really the list goes on and on. they have decided to stick together during this difficult time. >> we realized the need for the support and the networking because we all know people at companies that we might be looking at. >> perhaps these people seem frahm to you. sinc

ann notarangelo says that may include driving customers away with shame. ann? >> reporter: absolutely julia. apparently word has gotten out that the city of vallejo is a good place for prostitution. police are way too thin. but maybe this could help a little. a sign of a condom wrapper is one sign of prostitution. >>> you see a girl walking around in a skim ooh pea skirt with her buttocks cheek hanging out. you have to explain that to your daughter. >> i don't think that's healthy for the families and others living in this neighborhood and i really think there needs to be something done about it. >> it's become more prevalent lately. maybe more flagrant lately. but it's always been a problem we have had to deal with. >> reporter: even though we were told the girls were out day and night we didn't see any hookers, perhaps because we had a tv camera, but enough people are fed up that a citizen prostitution task force has suggested a task force. more penalties for convicted prostitutes and cameras at key low dayses, they are also considering sending dear john lett

good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. the scope of the disaster in japan is becoming clearer each day. the death toll continuing to rise and survivors are cut off from rescuers and aid. 686 known dead. government officials say it will be much higher. an explosion today blew the roof and walls off a nuclear reactor. nine people exposed to radiation. four trains have disappeared and not been located and 9500 people in one coastal town have not been accounted for. the tsunami went as far as six miles inland. more strong aftershocks today in japan, largest magnitude 6.1 this morning. and that's prompting new concerns at the country's nuclear reactors. charlie d'agata with what is calling this anxiety. >> reporter: raising anxiety across japan. a cloud of white smoke cover thed nuclear complex after the blast. 170,000 people have been evacuated, 12 miles around the area. engineers are trying to get a handle on it and say the explosion destroyed the building that housed the reactor but not the reactor itself. the safety agency is reporting another emergency at a second reactor in the same co

ann notarangelo to explain the unusual response today. >> reporter: well, albany police say they are looking for 16-year-old john scott. they say he believe he has access to a gun and also ammunition and we have seen reports he went here to mcgregor high school. an energized scene as class got out in part because of a two- hour lockdown in the albany school district. the school superintendent is quoted as saying police advised them to take the precautionary measure. john scott was reported missing from his home about 1:15 a.m. this morning. he may be upset some recent problems. a handgun and ammunition were taken from the home. in a news release the superintendent says there was an unsubstantiated report that scott was seen in the city of albany. >> we were in lockdown after band. we weren't allowed to go through the normal exits to get into classes so we went through the emergency exit. >> a police car over there. so they said no one can come in or out. but everything was calm. it was just like a precautionary measure. >> reporter: john scott was last seen wearing a black hooded swe

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i'm ann notarangelo. among the problems today, power outages and falling trees, including a 100' oak. we have lawrence karnow in the weather center with what we can expect in the overnight hours, but we begin with don knapp in the middle of it now. >> reporter: that is right ann. high wind advisories up for the bay bridge, the san mateo and 30 miles per hour one on the golden gate bridge. crews removed a 90' oak that crashed on a house in walnut creek this evening. rain saturated ground gave way, dropping the tree onto the roof, knocking out skylights and poking holes. no one was hurt. earlier today wind and rain shut down highway 84 road as falling trees brought down powerlines and the rain triggered landslides. the road was re-opened around 6:00 this evening. the usually high-water trouble spots were just under 6' and rise, but well below its banks. and nowhere near flood stage. this stretch of road looks like it could be in the sierra. it's bear gulch road before noon today. that is not snow. it's hail

. >> i'm ann notarangelo. good evening. the nuclear crisis in japan has just gotten worse.e past few hours a second explosion has occurred inside one of the plants crippled by the tsunami and earthquake. six people were injured. the containment vessel is reportedly in tact. not known if any additional radiation has been released. some reports feeling the explosion some 25 miles away. linda yee has the latest on the nuclear crisis. >> reporter: another hydrogen explosion rocked the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant following yesterday's hydrogen plant blast in unit 1. it is broken into two sections. four faulty reactors at one and three faulty reactors out of six at the other. one exploded. experts feared pressure building up and now unit 3 has blown. more than 180,000 people have been evacuated from the area. up to 150 may have been exposed to radiation. officials are trying to reassure people saying the radiation is not life threatening. >> we were flightenned but the radiation turned out to be nothing to worry about. >> reporter: not everyone believes this and there

good evening, i'm notarangelo.onnection with an ongoing drug investigation. >> reporter: apparently no one wants to go on camera talking about a police officer corruption. now the arrest of stephen tanabe, a danville police officer appears to be the latest in the expanding investigation into police officer corruption in the county and may be tied to two other arrests last month. the arrest of the con tro costa deputy sheriff who works for danville as a police officer comes as investigators look into ago alleged police corruption. district attorney mark peterson told cbs 5 that stephen tanabe was arrested friday night. the sheriff's office in a press release said the veteran was arrested for possession and transfer of an arrest rifle and conspiracy to possess and sell controlled sub answers. he would not comment on what connection he may have to norman wielsch. he was arrested last month on charges -- who allegedly helped sell the drugs. wielsch seen in custody in court and butler on the right are charged with more

. >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo a bart train derailing today. the frightening accident may also cripple tomorrow's commute. don knapp is in concord tonight. don. >> reporter: ann, the bart train jackknifed as described to us by bart earlier today. you can look up the embankment and see the 8th and 9th cars a of a 10-car train. they are continuing to work on this throughout the night. they have a plan in place. a very large crane gingerly lifting two of the cars that derailed outside the concord bart station and put them back on the tracks. crews on the scene all day getting them back in service. the track has been tied up since two cars derailed about 9:20 a.m. this morning as the training was pulling out of the station. >> just started shaking back and forth. moving around. and it almost felt like we were going over stuff. and one of the ladies that was sitting next to me was like, i don't think we should be moving right now and she started getting up and that's when we started panicking. >> reporter: causing significant track damage and engine

when you fill up >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. >>> if you drive it's hard not to cringe when you fill up your gas tank these days. prices at the pump are skyrocketing. it's one of the biggest spikes in history. can anything stop the surge? don knapp on the emergency oops. don. >> reporter: it is getting scary at the pump and folks are wondering how high will it go, how much will it hurt, how much can be done. the feds are talking about something that might be done. >> the gas is just out of control no matter what:no matter how much money you have or don't the price is out of control. >> reporter: a 33-cent increase in the price of gas is one of the biggest on record. the average price is now $3.51. but that looks like a bargain to californians who are paying much more. $3.93 a gallon. >> i'm putting 91 in, i'm paying $4.01. >> reporter: should the government step in. >> we've got to make some kind of move right now. whatever kind of move we can make in terms of a foreign policy, foreign trade, anything like that. >> reporter: worry about the oil producing countries in the mid

. >>> good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. a nan in his 80s was seriously injured after a bomb was wrapped inside his newspaper. it happened in vacaville just after 10:00 a.m. this morning. don knapp reports police spent hours combing the neighborhood to make sure there were no other bombs. >> about 10:30 a.m. this morning we heard a big noise. at first i thought it was one of the construction trucks that come down this road frequently. >> reporter: rocking hundreds several blocks away from the cul-de-sac where it went off this morning. >> the explosion was really big. it wasn't a fire cracker. of it a bomb. >> enough to rattle dishes kind of thing? >> it rattled our house. my son's bedroom. it shook several times. >> reporter: a boy came to his door and told him a man had been injured by a bomb as he picked up his morning paper from the area in front of his home. people then went door-to-door warning others not to pick up newspapers. the as yet unidentified man reportedly lost fingers and had injuries to his leg but is expect

. >> and a big jump in garbage collection rates, good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. >> they are seeing one of the biggest price spikes ever. the average nation-wide price for a gallon of regular goose is $3.51, a 33-cent jump over the past two weeks. that's the second biggest spike on record. according to gas buddy.com, the average in san francisco is $3.92, san jose 3.90 and oakland $3.89. inez pere ray on the drastic murder that may be used to combat the gas prices. >> gas prices are pumping up. >> it's outrageous. >> reporter: the average price of regular gas jumped 33 cents per balloon in the past two weeks. that's the second biggest increase in two weeks on record. nation-wide the average price has soared to $3.51 per gallon according to the lundberg survey and oil is selling for more than $100 a barrel. lawyer james macmillan says he drives often to see clients. >> it makes it difficult for the working man to get back and forth between the city and new jersey and to move around. >> reporter: analysts say there are a couple of reasons for the sudden increase. the unrest for the mi

ann notarangelo, cbs5. >>> the san francisco public defender's office has released another surveillance video in its review of drug busts by plainclothes officers. the video shows a man in a distinctive dark jacket entering the henry hotel. officers said they observed that man with drugs in his jacket but, according to the police report, the drugs were found in the man's white an tan jacket. as a result of that discrepancy charges were later dismissed. the plainclothes unit has been suspended while the f.b.i. and other agencies investigate allegations of misconduct. >>> a bay area soldier has been killed in action leaving behind a pregnant wife and a young son. army staff sergeant mark wells of san jose died in afghanistan on saturday. his family says he stepped on a hidden bomb while disarmling another explosive device. the 31-year-old also served in iraq. he used to play the bagpipes at funerals of fellow soldiers. wells attended lee high school. >>> well it's not even spring break but in san mateo county parents were willing to stand in line to get their kids into a top school next y

. >> thank you, ann notarangelo in albany. >>> the feds stormed two bay area card clubs this morning. kcbs radio broke the story while the raids were under way. the operation called kung fu panda is an attempt to crack down on organized crime. simon perez at the oaks card club in emeryville with more. >> reporter: this was a huge law enforcement operation, federal, state and local agencies involved taking down two casinos, one in san bruno, the other one right here in emeryville. here's how it all went down from someone who was inside the casino when it happened. >> we were this there playing cards approximately a little after 6:00, about 50 agents walked in, got two per table, asked to us put our hands on the table. they had the search warrant for the place. then the table per table they started searching people. then after that finished, they took us one by one into rooms and ran our ids and let us go. said that the card room will be closed for the remaining of the day. >> reporter: for most of the morning an alphabet soup of agents went in and out of the casinos. fbi, irs, dea, doj

ann notarangelo on why he now says his area could see something just as bad as what happened on the peninsula. ann? >> reporter: he lives just off this path. yards from his home are two pg&e gas lines and then there is one jet fuel line that serves travis air force base. he got a federal government and today he talked about his findings. >> we want to see what condition these pipelines are. >> reporter: anthony wants assurances the pipelines that run by his house are safe. >> well, i live right next to it and i have seen that nobody seems to be concerned with these pipelines. and we sleep at night. if something happens i want to be sure it is not going to happen to me and if it is i'm going to move. >> reporter: in 2009 the retired lawrence lab worker got a grant to study the pipelines. the jet fuel pipeline follows the fence line and the pg&e lines run along the sidewalk. it all borders a number of neighborhoods. >> as far as we know we think that the pipelines are safe. they need to be inspected more. >> reporter: he says the lines were put in in 1959 and the newest one from 1968. he says a