kpix 5's john remus shows us team till has come a long way. >> reporter: when a gala event features a carpet, you can probably guess who they are here to celebrate. the san jose sharks are celebrating the silver anniversary of their arrival in the bay area. people are coming here tonight for a rally and multimedia show.>> it is a 25 year celebration of the journey of the san jose sharks, which is hard to believe it's been 25 years. >> reporter: doug wilson is the sharks' general manager now. but he's to be an expert player on the team. they were pretty bad at the first couple years. losing a 71 game record in 1972 .>> there was hardly anybody in there. they wondered who want to watch people go up and down. >> reporter: john wells is an familiar face at paddies in. he says the team has improved and being the only real professional sports game in town, it has made the sharks seem like family here. fans create their own online tribute videos and wait patiently for the day they can severed their very own stanley cup championship. >> they have been so close. they get there and they just do

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in san francisco, john remus, kpix 5. >>> coming up a massive blockade on the bay bridge and it may not be the end the threat to cause case to the super bowl. >>> walmart is gone and what is next? the stubble -- struggle to fill a gaping hole. >>> donald trump targets apple. ,, chained their cars across t west >>> our top story tonight -- the bay bridge blockade. protesters chained their cars across five westbound lanes trading it into a parking lot. it is calling for the end of violence against minorities. >> andria andria borba joins us with the latest. andria ? >> reporter: hours later on the bay bridge the lights are still on and traffic is struggling to get back to normal after the blockade. five cars and 10 people chained themselves up across all five lanes. it took bolt cutters to get through the chains and several tools to get through one gene. chp and caltrans tried to reach the protesters but found themselves stuck and back up in traffic. here is what the protesters told us about this protest. >> i think is important the public understand it matters enough to sit and wait on t

the uncle remus stories his name is not bookie anymore, it's brer fox and b'rer rabbit. made it all the way to hollywood. that became bugs bunny and i think bookie became the wile, coyote. there's a lot to learn about. it's about the master and slave relationship. bookie makes the gumbo and the rabbit eats everything. the rabbit is the trickster. that's the master and slave relation sh relationship the author who put together this dictionary of creole proverbs, he didn't understand the real meaning of it. if you see the interpretation, he did not understand. it is about the master and slave relationship and even in senegal we have another proverb that sa says "the monkey makes all the crops and the gorilla eats everything." it's master and slave relationship. that's the title of the book and all the story of the hyder plantation is woven around that proverb. >> so there's a person over here waiting patiently on the left side. my left. there was a person over there who was waiting patiently and unfortunately this is a very important event for me to be to so i came here di

remus to everything we can to help those affected by hosting roundtable it gives members an opportunity to hear what we can do to combat this epidemic. of the forward to hearing from the up analyst of recovering addicts for right now i will turn it over to the co-chair of the bipartisan task force. seven faq congressmen for being with us today to republicans and democrat colleagues who have joined together in the bipartisan task force. the epidemic has grown to a historic proportions it medical providers are struggling to keep up with the overdose interim the clinic and securing treatment first responders have taken on the burden to responding to a dangerous situation is when a call comes in and they're becoming more frequent. statistics show more americans are driving the in dash dying from drug overdose and a car crash in that sadly continues to grow. the number of drug deaths exceeded 400 far surpassing the current record set -- set at 324 is in these will continue to rise. we face a deadly combination the highest per capita addiction rate the second lowest treatment capacity. last w

[applause] finally we know that disasters have been fires and floods and earthquakes will occur in remus prepared to respond that also requires that we maintain a solid reserve. the let's not forget how far we have come in 2011 as a deficit was $27 billion the the unemployment was well%. in now is in surplus. [applause] >> standard and poor's had raised the credit ratings three times. [applause] we have paid down accumulated debt $26 million worth. [applause] you should applaud there may not be too much coming after this. [laughter] is solid to of set the next economic downturn. [applause] we have increased funding for schools 51%. [applause] but coming under medi-cal 13.5 million a 74% increase. [applause] the first time the earned income tax credit. [applause] we raise the minimum wage at $10 an hour and that is 80 percent higher them of federal minimum. [applause] 2 million new jobs have been created and unemployment has dropped in half. [applause] of course, the recovery has a lot to do with that. we should applaud what we can. it is clear that california is still the great exception