then back on at san quentin on ramp. traffic is backing this morning and being diverted it looks like this could be information on how long this will take it but you can sing it to see the smoke and fire trucks on scene and they're trying to get this fire under control in the slot the traffic is moving very slowly this morning and messing traffic not impact at the toll plaza but not quite yet in the club where definitely sing some big backups and delays. half >>mark: that not know was that the chemicals are on board after are any right now the sea its report a couple of small explosions with his big break in the other concern about what chemicals could be on board look at the traffic right now they're trying to get the fire out. with his detour on the side road and a lot of cars at this hour try to make their way both directions and the san rafael bridge it will be a major headache it will back up all the traffic into iran. a very busy camille a small accident the slow track down a huge back of a to come from santa rosa

it's right before san quentin. the westbound side is where it happened but you can see it's right at the median so they closed the eastbound side as well and they're still trying to put that out now. we switch over to the maps you can see what i'm talking about and there is the red tick marks denoted by the slowing all the way to the toll plaza so it's stop and go approaching the area but once you get towards this, they're actually diverting traffic towards main street and on the eastbound side they closed the highway as well to put out that fire and diverted traffic around that as well. so just avoid the area if you can at all costs, 580 in both directions closed, the richmond bridge there. as we move over to the east bay not too bad coming through the altamont pass. good for this time of day. no problems dublin, livermore as well. you get down towards fremont on 880 southbound where we had an earlier accident at mission boulevard. you can see the backup extends just toward the dumbarton bridge, in fact as we take

quentin: does it matter to you that so many will die? >> the emigrants are told everything before they get on board. if you pay 300 pounds, you get on a small boat. if you pay more, you get on a better boat. quentin: the signs of a booming business are everywhere, especially here at the morgue. he lost his sense of smell years ago. the bodies putrefy in the heat. >> we are worried about the increasing number. last week we buried more than 20 bodies collected from the sea. sometimes it takes a month to collect them all. quentin: libyan trafficking is worth at least 100 million pounds a year. sometimes the people smugglers abandon the migrants in the middle of the desert. they tell them to follow the power lines, and you will eventually reach a city. many don't make it. the migrant numbers are so large, fortunes are being made in the sun. behind the trade is a complex criminal and tribal network, and almost nothing is being done to stop it. every day, more arrived. here, another truckload. libya does not function as a country, but in traff

home to california's death row, san quentguin quentin state pri bursting at the seams. san quentin had one program designed to discourage troubled teens from every joining its ranks in the future. through the squires program, selected inmates share their experiences with teenagers who had already run ins with the law. you're in a place that no kid should ever want to be in. you should be out playing in a park. >> when is your birthday? >> how would are you? i'm 16. >> i'm 16, too. >> this is your life, man. you have an opportunity to leave out of many place and never come back. let me introduce myself i'm david. about to be 25. i've been in prison since i was 15 for murder. >> david monroe serving a 15-year to life sentence after having plead guilty to second-degree murder. >> i banged before. i've been on the streets before. i'm from stockton. everything you think you did we did it. we try to give you the communication look this is what i did and this is what it got me. this was the trophy i was trying to earn. most kids they don't. do you want to come to prison and ha

off-- off san quentin offramp.re. not only was the truck on fire, but one of the trailers as well. chp says the truck again was carrying about 50,000 pounds worth of household goods. some packages as well. all morning long they've been battling small spot fires on the truck. they got a good upper hand on this. traffic near the bridge, as you can imagine, eastbound and westbound 580 remains bad. >> we've called out one of our commercial vehicle enforcement officers so they are out here looking at the scene as well. right now, it's kind of tough for us to tell only because we don't want to get close to the truck. fire still dealing with it. trying to get the fire out, sorting through the stuff that's back there making sure there's no danger. it might be a while before we know. >> and as we take it back out here live, we understand the driver is expected to be okay. no other commuters or drivers were affected. this remains a mess on the westbound side across the span this morning. also on the eastbound side on the app

so it happened westbound 580 actually where the big rig is on fire a san quentin, diverted at san quentinding in both directions westbound slow to the toll plaza. eastbound same thing. you're seeing some delays coming away from 101. so avoid the area. on the maps, you can see slow- and-go. use 37 or the bay bridge. back to you guys. >>> 6:31 now. some break noog in the east bay, as well. a baby abandoned in a car after a driver hits a utility pole during a high-speed chase. anne makovec is live at the scene at tennyson with more. >> reporter: the power is out because of this crash. some of the lanes on tennyson the eastbound lanes shut down. they have been for several hours. you can see that pg&e truck there holding up that power pole that was hit during the crash. and they have been working to restore the power. i have been seeing some businesses turn on their lights so it looks like they are making some progress. but still, working on it this morning. according to the the chp, a car evaded a traffic stop on 880 in tennyson about 1 a.m. after that, the chase was on. officers followed the

we were shooting at san quentin in alpine section, and we were down on the ground floor. and, suddenly i felt something hit me on the top of my head. and i had the worst thought, oh, my god i had just been gassed. luckily it turned out to be a banana peel. >> when we visited the stateville correctional center in illinois, we encountered another bizarre practice involving human waste. >> feces, spreads it on everything. clean it off every day. every day he puts it right back on. >> this is unit "i," the segregation unit at stateville correctional center. basically this is where the bad people, being extra bad in the facility, come to be locked up. they urinate, bowel movement everywhere, i think they just kind of have gone crazy, prison life is probably getting to them. >> but we've never seen a more bizarre display of the gut churning activity than at california state prison corcoran. it happened during a routine shoot at the prison hospital. >> we were there for like ten minutes. did a couple interviews with a couple of doctors. initially it seemed like it was going to b

center for a the >>jackie sissel: been diverted to san quentin exit putting back on the bridge the back a tear for the richmond san rafael bridge bridge. >>mark: the rivera early spring water on a they're not putting the house on four floors that of the chemicals out on the roadway and spread the fire with the red one ease on the west down. . >>reporter: people are not moving that much they're going three to 5 mi. an hour of their reverses' so on this morning because now the west buy back up is from the toll plaza to san quentin east bomb still just shy of 101 we're concerned at the 101 commit might be affected but right now and looks okay. clearly this is impacting traffic in all directions from miles. >>: because of a niche of the crash we had this shut down ease found it was all the traffic is come across the richmond san rafael bridge is pretty much at a standstill as we did for everyone off to the off ramp to the same thing behind is everyone is coming from 1 01 to 580 in getting detour off we have to place where all traffic is come together at a stop. >>darya: happen a couple hour

it is near the san quentin prison. all day long the highway patrol diverted traffic on to main street and back to westbound 580. >> here is another live look from sky 7 hd. we are still waiting for the reopening of westbound 580. 511.org says that could happen at 6:00. as soon as it happens, we will let you know. you can't find out on twitter as well. >>> a man chased by police crashed his car into a pole this morning and fled the scene leaving a woman and chi in the mangled car in hayward. investigators say the chp had tried to pull the driver over on northbound 880 near tennyson road near 1:00 a.m. but the suspect took off. the suspect at ruus road ran away. >>> san francisco police are searching for a killer after a man found stabbed to death in the middle of the street at 4:00 a.m. at 45th avenue in the outer sunset district. abc 7 news was there as homicide investigators collected evidence in the crime scene. the victim was 34 years old, but they have not released his name. >>> the saga continues for nearly two do

i thought i could start it there and let it grow for quentin's movie. now for way too long. >> jimmy: are you sick of it yet? >> i was sick of it after the first week. >> jimmy: what does your family think of it? >> all that matters is goldie, and she hates it. she likes the way it looks, but she doesn't like the way it feels. >> jimmy: you remember that rent's too damn high guy? does a professional stylist do that? okay. that's the guy i was talking about. >> sam >> jimmy: this is injuyour seco time working with quentin tarantino. did you know him before working with him? >> i met him one time at some event with goldie and kate. and it was funny. during the course of the evening w we started telling stories, and he was a blast off the bat. i told him a story of when i was a little boy and my mom and dad were at the drive-in theater. it was a marilyn monroe movie. the movie starts off. and my dad can feel me, i was like 3 or 4, sliding up. and i just got on his shoulder and went like this. and he put, at the end of "kill bill", i was watching the credit

other than that, metering lights have been -- san quentin. than that metering lights have been flipped on. backed up building off the eastshore freeway as well so you're going to see a little extra cars out there on the roads now. looks like some extra time for your drive time. the rest of the south bay not showing any trouble spots. looking good northbound side 101 and 280. south 880 at dixon landing, accident cleared a few moments ago. traffic still backed up some yellow on the sensors so some slow-and-go speeds as a result. the rest of 880 though not showing any delays this morning. northbound clear through oakland. southbound 880 no delays. don't forget a's are taking on the mariners so you will see delays later on along 880 near the coliseum. so do plan for that later on this evening. elsewhere, antioch we do see a few brake lights on the westbound side of highway 4. pretty typical this time of the morning. traffic eases up quite a bit. you're not going to see any brake lights through pittsburg and it's clear towards the eastshore freewa

if i couldn't think of someone, quentin wanted robert blake. >> jimmy: quentin tarantino is in the moviet blake. and i thought, we got to do something quick. robert blake's great, but i thought we could do something different. i'd seen clooney, he wasn't getting roles. he was such a nice doctor. he wanted somebody with more edge. i saw him on a talk show and he was just sitting like this. he didn't like the guy interviewing him. he was just brooding. he had boots like that. i said, that guy's kind of cool. and i called him up. i said come to my house. i want to talk to you about this movie i may have. he drove up in a harley put his boots up. he's like a real man's man. i said you got to help me here. if you don't get in this movie, we've got to convince quentin, i'm going to be stuck with robert blake. just play along whatever happens. i couldn't figure out how to approach it. and i saw his -- that was right when he came out on the cover of "us" magazine. i said, you know he kind of looks like you, you could be brothers. chin out like this. he said, you're right. [ laughter ] [ bleep ]

truck crossing the michigan bridge and as it approached the square -- square of san quentin the driverost control and high sided in the center divide. shortly after that a fire break out in the front area of the truck and quickly spread to the first trailer of the two. the cruise are still putting it out and working to get it under control and right now from what we understand the truck was hauling 50,000 pounds of household goods so as mentioned earlier we want to make sure we find out what is in the truck before we start throw water or anything else on there. the household goods, any danger to people with the smoke going up in the air? >> not i have been informed of. fire is working. i am sure they are checking the shipping manifest so to we do determine there is any sort of danger we will put out an the advisory. >> what can you say about the backup? >> we are seeing the problems with this and we have both directions shut down pause we have fire on both sides of the freeway trying to battle this fire and get it under control. we have traffic diverted off on the 50 ramps around the f

inmate was suffering severe chest pains. >> the thing you have to realize about san quentin is thats is a ---this prison was built prior to the civil war and the cells are stacked five stories high, and there are no elevators, and of course the emergency we were covering was on the fifth floor, so not only did we have to haul our stuff up there, but so did the responding correctional officers. >> officers tend to the inmate inside his cell. >> i know you might be in pain, but you got to try to help me. >> moments later, paramedics arrive on the tier. >> the paramedics had to make the five story climb as well. and it's difficult to respond right away because of that. but the bigger challenge, though, was getting the inmate out of the cell and back down all those stairs. >> be advised we have inmate in the stretcher en route to the care clinic. >> the officers and paramedics did a get job of getting him down, using the hand rail to support the stretcher. >> and sometimes the effort is all for nothing. >> it happens, you know, a guy might decide he wants some fresh air, take a trip to

at san quentin, we met one young inmate who compared it to a once popular tv show. >> it's just likee show "cheers" where everybody know your name. [ bleep ]. you see all your friends, you know what i mean? you feel like, well, i'm cool here. these are my boys, you know, what i mean? this is my home. >> but most inmates hold a much different opinion. >> prisons are hate factories. they can't produce anything but hate. all you have is hate, loneliness, greed, and just misery. >> when we met gerald mccullough at the river bend national security institution near nashville, tennessee, he was halfway through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullough had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say it's raining in denver ♪ ♪ that it's really kind of cold but i'm just pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ how am i supposed to know ♪ >> in a prison in nashville the home of country music, we decided it would be great if we could find a country singer,

truck caught fire near san quentin prison. san quentin just to the left of this picture.raffic center. anthony, what is the latest? >> well unfortunately this highway will be closed at least until about noon. the westbound side lanes, that's from chp. they are diverting traffic around it so you can still use the highway. it's just that section of highway will be closed until noon. the westbound side lanes diverted to main street. you can see some cars getting through. eastbound side lanes that's what you're looking at here folks are being diverted on san quentin boulevard. overall this will be a slow commute for the next hour or so. eastbound lanes they will be open in the next hour. but you'll notice traffic is still stop and go all the way on westbound lanes towards the toll plaza, a really slow go there. even through fremont a slew of accidents on the 880 southbound side keeping things slow through newark and union city. san jose 101 not bad but 280 this morning is where we see the tie-up starts just before southwest boulevard and then you can see a couple of accidents

this is the five interstate 580 near san quentin.ud is try to clean up some cement the win into the creek. so far they've made progress cleaning it up but on thursday evening they found a 152 under foot section of the creek that they mess. 150 tyo 200 >> reporter: in san francisco sherpa's calling in the fbi to do an independent as the investigation of and involving and deputies that force inmates to engage in a hazing. and then made allowed to take up the trash and of $5 million what reward is being offered. changes are being implemented now know in may will be allowed into unsecured areas regardless of their status. >> reporter: 790 new police officers are about to hit the street out of this new was graduates of the san jose police academy. praise for choosing san jose of better paying opportunities elsewhere class 22 will be rewarded says mayor sam look cargo. bill because and on- the-job training this sunday. some 19 new officers. here's >> reporter: and van ness ave traffic is backed up because the road is closed up ahead betwee

be back with tim, andy and quentin and me in just a minute. >>> welcome back to "press:here."alking about tim draper and andrew tang about draper university. i do want to change the subject a bit. andrew feel free to jump in at any moment though. tim, thud idea of six different california yas. they would be literally separate legal states like -- >> wearing it. >> explain it to me. it helps. >> if -- let's pretend, if we had six california yas now, it wouldn't have happened that fast, for pretend, let's pretend, this water situation, and i don't want to call it the drought, because droughts are act of god and there's nothing we can do about it wither in a water crisis and that's how i want to frame it what would have happened with six california californians, a state not us would have owned all the water. who's hetch hetchy? what state? >> part in north california and part of it i believe, would have -- well it runs down -- >> use your tie. it runs down and -- >> that's true the pipeline does. the point being the water -- >> let me tell you about the water. we would be much be

this is at san quentin. francisco boulevard. the yellows and reds an indication of where the traffic is stuck. we are waiting to see if there are going to be c.h.p. officers blocking the traffic. i do not see anything at the moment but you can expect to see the stalled commute. use the bay bridge instead. if you are traveling on we -- 101 use the bay bridge. this is the best way to get around. there is no word when it will re-open. no word when it will clear. >> double tractor trailer crashed into the center divider and it caught fire and there have been several explosions. we will have more details in a few minutes. back to you. >> now the weather forecast. >>> we are talking about a lot of sunshine. live doppler hd showing a quiet picture on early friday morning. we will take you to our temperatures. some spots are cool. good morning, half moon bay, you are at 39 degrees. san francisco is june, and 47 in done cord and 46 in antioch and san jose you are at 48. east bay hills camera showing a quiet scene of the bay bridge with s

. >> they are inmates with a plan, how eight men in san quentin hope to make it on the outside and change the world. >> harnessing the sun's power by using water, why a new plan would make solar panels float. >> despite the wind you could have used those solar panels today, weather watchers all reporting in windy conditions, windy and 70 toward the delta. john in pittsburg said it was a very windy day with gusts to 35 miles per hour. live peak outside, the wind still elevated at ocean beach, 30 miles per hour there. we'll talk ab >>> an 11-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after a rude awakening at his santa rosa home. he told kpix5's john ramos he was fast asleep when an out of control truck sent him flying. >> reporter: donald marlett always had an easy way to direct people to his home. >> you turn left and if you didn't stop, you would end up in my son's bedroom. >> reporter: early sunday morning someone didn't stop and a pickup truck plowed right into the wall of 11-year-old liam if fitzsimmons bedroom. >> it shot him through the closet and the hole is where he tore through the wall.

. >> this is california's san quentin state prison, one of the first prisons ever profiled on "lockup." >> for a photographer, san quentin was a really interesting place to shoot because it's the old-style tiers and the big exercise yard and there's a lot of corners and shadows and things to attract your lens. so it was just as a photographer, it was really an interesting place to shoot. it can be a very dangerous place because it's got incredibly dangerous or infamous history as a dangerous place. >> on our first day of shooting here, we got a stark introduction to the constant security threats posed by gang warfare. >> we're basically getting ready to feed the level four, which are the maximum security inmates. tonight we're expecting some type of problems possibly. so we have extra coverage tonight to provide security. >> let's go. >> the correctional staff received a tip that a gang-related attack might occur at dinner. >> hispanic inmates, the gang members specifically, are doing what is called cleaning house. anyone that does not want to participate in their gang activity, if th

. >> i'm jake ward, just about to go into san quentin maximum security. i'll explain. i'll explain. is >> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. shaken new research suggests a possible link between fracking and earthquakes. >>> at san quentin. >> i've heard so much about the job opportunities, as long as i know how to code i'll be employable. >> bringing silicon valley skills an opportunity to men behind bars. plus john ridley, the oscar winner talks about writing race. >> what it comes down to is that black lives do not matter, and to some folks even in 2015, that remains the fact. >> and why the time is right for his new project "american crime." tonight a major new development in the fight over fracking. it is coming from oklahoma where officials now say the link between the drilling and earthquakes is becoming clearer. a the earth shook in oklahoma nearly 600 times last year alone. initially the state wasn't so sure but it changed its position after scientists said underground disposal of waste water associated with fracking away likely to blame. oklahom

since 2005, when he came to can quentin on a 16 year sentence for assault. he hasn't had access to the internet. it's forbidden to prisoners so he's had to learn about it in the abstract. >> i have a kind of an idea of what it may be like in the real world, but again until i'm released i won't actually know what's going on, but i do feel as if i have all the tools now to go forward. >> tonight we'll take you into one of the most forbidding prisons in the country and show you web dex on thatters hoping to live in the modern world while they work for private companies from behind bars. >> you might want to take note of this, an app that let's you delete offensive posts before your employer sees them. it is called clear. it scans through your social media history flagging key words that may be inappropriate or offensive, then you can choose to delete those posts. the app was started by someone who learned the hard way. he resigned one day after hired as chief technology officer for jeb bush's presidential exploratory committee when his old tweets surfaced, that

and the staff here call me birdman of san quentin.got here at san quentin, the birds seemed to have flocked to me for some reason. and i don't know, they probably think i'm the birdman of alcatraz. maybe i'm mistaken because he had a shaved head too. >> miller was serving an eight-year sentence for burglary when he proudly showed us his cell. a virtual shrine to his winged friends. >> ever since i been here, the birds just come up to me like they know me. you know, i got them landing on my shoulders and my hands. and, you know, different kinds of birds. not just pigeons. but i got, you know different kind of black birds. finch and the red wing landing on me. i think -- the birds is a good way of -- of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested, my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didn't want me around them. and so -- now i'm in here. i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically that's about the only friends that i got. the birds, you know. i can't trust anybody else. >>> due to mature subject ma

we met christopher carrillo inside a heavily graded cell at san quentin. >> you give respect, you get respect. a lot of people say these guys don't treat us right. at times they don't, but it's hard when you've got a lot of people in here. can't ask for too much in prison. it's not disneyland. >> but an inmate at another california prison had a harsher view of c.o.s. >> i hate cops. they're diabolical. they're petty. they present to the public that they're law and order, this and that but in here they'll stab you in the back. they write false write-ups. they got a hidden agenda. they want to keep us locked up in here so they make money. you know, this is a prison industrial complex. it's all about money. >> there is one place, however, where trust is put to the ultimate test. it's the prison kitchen. >> everything back here could be made into a potential weapon. those sheet pans are very thin and they're sharp on the edges. it only takes one of these guys to pick one of those up and they could almost cut my head off. >> we met officer epperson at the kern valley state prison in califo

. >> at california's san quentin state prison, we saw how sophisticated some inmate weaponry can be. this homemade pistol is known as a zip gun. >> this portion is filled with groundup matchheads. the two holes here, inmate inserts a wick. inmate takes a plunger, pokes shrapnel in the open end. pieces of metal, groundup zippers. when the target walks by the cell, may it be an officer, an inmate, the inmate lights this and when it goes down, strikes the matchheads, basically acts like a firecracker, and shoopts tckeho shrapnel out. >> but the majority of inmate-manufactured weapons or shanks, designed for slashing and stabbing. the ease with which lethal weapons are made is shocking. this san quentin inmate who goes by the name speedy, agreed to show correctional staff and "lockup" cameras just how simple it can be. he starts by using a roll of toilet paper as a crude forge to melt plastic coffee cup lids. >> i'm making a weapon right now. melting this plastic down into a shape. what i'm doing is, i'm trying to get a little wad of it to where i can -- i have something to work with, yo

all lanes are closed headed toward san quentin.id the richmond bridge this morning headed into the north bay because all lanes are closed here. as we get outside and show you the bay bridge toll plaza, yep, no big surprise here, the metering lights are on and traffic is starting to back up just a bit. guys back to you. >> thank you very much anthony. another weekend closure, this one in fremont, work continues on the b.a.r.t. warm springs extension. the area at south grimmer and warm springs boulevard will be closed for a little more than 48 hours or so, and that closure starts at 10:00 tonight. >>> a follow-up from news we brought you thursday, some of the smart parking meters in san jose turning out not to be very smart. city leaders say the meters on st. james street have been resetting before their time is expired. that's causing some drivers to be wrongly ticketed. officials say vibrations from large trucks on the street are causing that reset, but they think they solved it. they turned the reset feature off. >>> a follow-up t

tonight at san quentin. >> i got rid of everything, i cleaned the cell, i'm getting ready of everything. the weapon is already gone, we knew at that time there was no fingerprints and the time they came in, all of the inmates from the fifth tier to first tier start throwing everything out of their cell. that's what happened, they would fine 20, 30 weapons and never know which one was actual murder weapon. the squad came through, security quad, or goon squad, they came through and cordoned off everything and they took the pictures and collected evidence and things like that. so they collected the evidence and find all these weapons. now, that night i'm up and i'm worried. about what's happening. but they don't know what happened. >> but a break in the case came from the confession of an inmate involved in the murder. >> saw an opportunity for himself, serving a life sentence. turned everybody in. because of my lack of knowledge and planning of the crime, and my age, the judge overturned my death penalty and sentenced me to life in prison without the chance of parole, i don't go to board,

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. >>> now to san quentin prison and a side of prison we don't see often. >> it's prison baseball and play ball. >> reporter: the majority of games are teams of free men who come from outside to play inside. but the biggest game of them all is opening day. a prison yard rivalry. cell mate against cell mate, brother against brother. >> so it's a privilege to be here. >> to a huge extent. it's a huge privilege. you can begin to make choices here just like you do in the real world. >> it's something that i carry with me every day. his name, his remembrance. sorry doesn't come close to explain the last 16 years. >> reporter: the field conditions here are less than optimal. the outfield is completely concrete. the hecklers will say things about your mother. still i played well enough that the players invited me to play in the season opener. the giant's best player is locked away in solitary confinement so the a's run away with it. think what you want about letting hardened criminals play around in the sun but consider 98% of the men who play san quentin baseball and get paroled don't come

the san quentin prison exit. it hit the center divider and caught fire. the lanes have been closed since 5:30 a.m. this morning. this is a live picture. backed up all day. moving very slowly. barely at all. another look that traffic in the area on our traffic map. it is all red on 80. from san francisco, across the bay bridge, green through richmond, once you hit the richmond san rafael bridge it is all red. ktvu's tonv is out there now. >> reporter: take a look. just 60 seconds ago they started routing cars over the area that has been closed. there were reports it would be till 6:00 p.m., it just happened right now. we saw the police direct the first cars over and they are moving. that doesn't mean things will remain calm and steady. there may be anxious people, who knows if we have another fender bender. at the moment they are starting to trickle across. that will be a relief to people. some who have been on the bridge for a very, very long time. it is only been able to take one exit. but now it is opening. the traffic is very, very slow. here is what h

>>mark: a big rig fire on 580 it is right near san quentin traffic east and west from being divertednow will be right back with lettuce and to men --latest in 2 minutes. (woman) i think that they're light and they're just fresh tasting. (vo) it's time for a better taco. (kid) the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. (vo) make the switch. look for jennie-o ground turkey at a store near you. >>mark:breaking news this morning: >>reporter: this is in the commune direction and i think a lot of people this morning who would try to head and from the richmond area all westbound lanes are closed on 580 we did hear a couple of explosions as well and san quentin people listen to the beach or on behalf you was on 580 being the tour

. >>> san quentin holds serial killers, and 731 people sentenced to death. >>> to get inside, i signed a form, if i saying if i am taken hostage, they will not come get me. >>> i got to see something amazing. >>> it's graduation day. >>> men like harry serving 16 years for assault. >>> i. phones and i-pads, and i don't know. herry, along with 15 others, is one of its first, of a program they learn to make websites. and there's one problem. >>> there's a reference book, and, screen and two monitors. this isn't connected to the internet, you can't have t. which means they are learning about and coding for a thing that they will never see while they're in the penal system. >>> they get instruction by a video conference, otherwise they're cut off and they created a simulated internet. >>> we create along with a reactor, a program that's self-contained that sim my mates a live experience and downloaded it had to have an online experience and we update. >>> when he gets out harry is ready to see the real thing. >>> i feel like i have wasted so much of my time and, get out and, have a real cu

he now sits on death row in san quentin prison. >> the various items of forensic evidence essentiallyreated a web that mr. berryman became ensnared in. forensic evidence was so strong that the jury convicted very quickly, and there really was just no way to explain away all the different forensic evidence. >> the amount of evidence and the quality of that evidence, i think that's what made it easy for the jury to come to the conclusion that mr. berryman was guilty and deserved the highest penalty. >> if it wasn't for the crime lab on the other side taking what we found during that almost 24-hour period where we were running to find this guy, i don't know that we would have been successful in the prosecution. >> i still have to say that at that time and at that place, the scientific and forensic work that was done was excellent. and it was correct. >>> the medical examiner ruled the death an accident. but a forensic detective disagreed. the final resolution took three long years and raised questions about the accuracy of an autopsy. >>> paterson, new jersey, is an industrial suburb out

quentin somerville. katty: there's a lot of confusion in yemen tonight. airstrikes relaunched a day after it was announced the campaign has ended. the houthis continued their assault's attacking the headquarters of an army brigade loyal to the government in the southern city. i spoke a short time ago with the commanding officer on the uss cole in 2000 when it was attacked by al qaeda in the port of yemen. how worried are you given what you went through about what is happening at the moment? >> i'm concerned on eight strategic scale. what has become a regional problem within the country has grown much larger. you have saudi arabia on one side. it ran on the other. iran has been arming the rebels for years. the codes of the internal government dynamics that you have in yemen it cause them to rise up and take over. saudi arabia is unwilling to let that happen and is engaging on a larger scale. they have done the air campaign. they say they've ended it, but our continuing strikes because they continue to see a threat. the houthis will continue moving forward.

clinton some herbal -- quentin sommerville bbc news. katty: i spoke with the former supreme allied commander at nato admiral james. admiral, thank you for joining me. in the report we heard migrants came for all different reasons. why libya. why are they going from libya? >> it is relatively uncovered space along the northern coast. it is just over 100 miles. it is a well trodden path. it is much like in america the routes that come up from central america as people try to get away from conditions that has led to --. katty: in the latest report they expect hundreds more to drown in the days ahead. do you think it is because the situation in libya is deteriorating so fast that we are seeing an uptick in numbers leaving the country? admiral stavridis: i think it is not only the unrest in libya but as word moves around the circuit from some of the other unsettled areas of africa it becomes clear this is the closest they can get to europe with a sea crossing. despite the dangers of coming by see it looks more appealing than trying to get th

the mess started when a ups delivery truck crashed near the san quentin prison. one of the big rigs caught on fire. hundreds of packages were destroyed. remarkably, nobody was injured. now the san raphael department posted this picture soon after the firefighters arrived. remember if you have pictures of breaking news you can always send it to us at ic at nbcbay area, or you can mention it on twitter. >>> new at 11:00, she was left for dead on a street. more on the suspect. kendra gonzales was shot and killed on tuesday, police say she got in an argument with the father of her children while driving. andrew butler is accused of shooting her and leaving her body in the area of the high school. he also allegedly forced two people in the back seat out of the car along with his 1-year-old son. butler is believed to be in the sacramento area or in monterey county. >>> a scare at a local college, tomorrow, cal state will increase the campus security. somebody overheard a conversation about a possible shooting. tonight, the campus is reminding everybody to be aware of s

truck, lost control, hit the center divide off 580 off the san quentin ramp. the rig's left fuel tank caught fire. 50,000 pounds of household goods in one of the trailers started to burn. the driver was shaken up but not seriously hurt. the bridge traffic had to be diverted while they put on the the fire and -- out the fire and cleaned up the did he brie. one eastbound lanes reopened at about 9:20 this morning. but the westbound lanes remain closed for some time. on the phone with us right now, we have california highway patrol officer andrew barkley. an group, how are you this -- andrew, how are you this afternoon? how are things looking? >> we're still working on getting traffic cleared up. we were able to open one lane, eastbound 580 to get traffic back over to the richmond area. due to the extent of the fire damage on the asphalt as well as spilt diesel fuel, the cleanup on the westbound side is still ongoing and lanes are still closed. >> can you tell us more on the traffic -- when we were driving back from the scene, i mean, traffic went all the way acro

lasting until then what they are doing, they are allowing cars on the bridge but you get off at san quentin and get back on an francisco boulevard. eastbound direction we have a lane that recently was re-opened at main street and you can see a backup away from 101 but it is still a pain. it will take you 6.6 mile stretch, will take more than an hour from richmond to san rafael. >> yikes. >>> police in hayward are looking for a driver who led them on a space and smash add car into a pole. he ran away leaving a woman and child behind. this happened at 1:00 o'clock a.m. at ruus roads the c.h.p. tried to pull the driver over northbound 880 but he took off. the accident knocked out power to 100 customers, the woman and the child had to be extricated from the car. >> in the east bay a terrible cement fuel has clogged a street and it is much worse than first reported. amy hollyfield heard the bad news at a knick moments ago. >>> a woman called last night and told officials that she found some more cement material in the backyard of the spiritual center so today officials are going to check the exp

you can see the nbc chopper on the scene for hours follow oog big rig crash near san quentin prison. all westbound lanes closed for hours but about one minute ago they reopened just in time for this friday evening commute. this is what happened. this crash early this morning at this hour they are still cleaning up the mess. you see that big truck, ups delivery truck that crashed and caught fire. this is on westbound 580 at about 5:30 a.m. you see the map there on the left side of the screen. traffic opening up on eastbound lanes a few hours ago and a couple minutes ago westbound lanes have been reopened for traffic on the richmond san rafael bridge. the driver was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but are looking into the possibility that he fell asleep at the wheel. >> fallout tonight from yesterday's video of the vie leapt arrest of a horse thief. the fbi is conducting a civil rights investigation and the county sheriff placed 10 deputies on paid administrative leave. the sheriff revealed they were wearing audio recorders which will be useful efd. sheriff john mcman desc