today 25-year- old justin ixeira started s >>> a uc-berkeley law school graduate who beheaded an exotic bird in las vegas is now at a prison boot camp. today, 25-year-old justin teixeira started serving a six- month sentence for killing a helmeted guinea fowl while drunk at the flamingo hotel a year ago. two other students caught on surveillance video chasing the bird around with teixeira entered pleas to misdemeanor charges. >>> a beloved mail carrier who gave service for a smile with 20 years is clinging to life in the hospital almost a month after being rear-ended in san francisco's western addition neighborhood. don ford reports. >> reporter: she was rear-ended by a driver going nearly 80 miles an hour last month. it injured her daughter, killed her son, and has left tina in critical condition ever since. tina works here as a mail carrier at the sausalito post office. >> her case, her satchel, that's where she left it. >> reporter: tina's workstation kept clean by her fellow postal carriers keeping it ready for when she returns trying to keep their emotions contained. dorothy mccall

s inland. by midweek, maybe a cool down but we are dry seven days. >> a uc berkeley graduate pretended to be dead at a shooting a mall. 67 died in the siege by al-qaeda linked terrorists in nairobi. the 26-year-old was judging a cooking competition and militants stormed the mall. she was about to surrender and the woman next to her was shot and killed and she was hit by shrapnel and decided to play dead. she gets emotional thinking of the scene. [ inaudible ] >> in spite of the attack she still considers kenya her second home and hopes to go back. >> a typhoon barreling to the northern philippines forced secretary of state john kerry to call off his trip after authorities declared storm alerts in 14 areas because of typhoon. john kerry is visiting southeast asia for a summit. the typhoon is threatening farmland and populated areas with wind and flooding. schools are closed and emergency crews are on notice. >> it is 4:21. no bart strike. we are still talking tran it. the first big test for muni's effort to put the morning and evening commutes on fast track. >> starbucks wants to pressure washingt

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uc- berkeley in the 1980s and 90s 90s. if approved by the senate, yellen would become the first woman to be head of the fed. kpix 5's cate caugiran will have more on yellen's ties to the bay area coming up in our next half hour. >>> and new this morning, a stanford professor won the nobel prize in chemistry. michael levitt among three scientists awarded the prize this morning. together, they laid the foundation for computer models used to understand and predict chemical processes. the royal swedish academy of sciences said their work made classical physics work side by side with quantum physics. >>> let's check in with elizabeth for a check on our morning commute and "kcbs traffic" report. >> a fatal accident in richmond a traffic alert issued since we have been on the air at 4:30 and you can see the car involved. the driver of that car was killed after the car lost control flipped over after a short police chase. the off-ramp westbound 80 at central avenue is shut down. we are still waiting for word from chp for an idea of when they will re-open the off-ramp. the main lines of the freeway are not impacted. they rem