joe vazquez tells us a silver dodge challenger blew through a red light and smashed into another car with two women inside. >> i'm here at the intersection of 6th and macdonald, an area known as the iron triangle. back there, you can see the accident scene. that silver car apparently t-boented the darker-colored car sending the two occupants to the hospital, a mother and a daughter. it all began with a police chase around 3:40 this afternoon, officers spotted a man wanted for a felony warntd. the cops say they tried to stop the car, but it sped off. the chase was on and ended up here at 6th and macdonald. paramedics rushed the mother and her daughter to area hospitals. the daughter, who is believed to be in her twenties, has critical injuries. police were able to capture the original suspect, the one with the warrant with the help of a police dog, the richmond police

our joe vazquez is in oakland's district tonight. joe? >> reporter: liz, the high winds killed a man tonight here in oakland around 8:00, a couple blocks from where i'm standing. a large branch broke loose falling right on top of him. >> we heard like a loud bang from the house and he came out and then we saw when the paramedics showed up. pretty much the paramedics told us to stay away from the area. >> reporter: according to witnesses, the branch fell from way up there. you can see how it came right down in this yard. and now it is parallel to the yard and fell right on top of a man who was sitting on his motorcycle. >> pretty scary. >> reporter: and the winds, they're still whipping here tonight in oakland throughout the east bay as we've been driving around. officials are advising everyone to play it safe and slow down. reporting live in oakland, joe vazquez, kpix 5. >>> strong winds are to blame for this tree in concord. the tree fell on the street east of port chicago highway as they came crashing down from the front yard of someone

. >> joe vazquez, at the hall of justice. >> reporter: family members tell me dj williams is about to walk out of san francisco county jail. 3 days ago he was near his home in mission district when police used force to arrest him. his hands are in cuffs his face bloodied, cell phone video of 21-year-old dj williams as he was arrested friday afternoon. his family and the cops agree with this he was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk and didn't obey officers when they ordered him back on to the street but what happened next is in dispute. his family says he was listening to music and didn't hear officers so kept going that is when a handful of cops used force to put him in custody. >> one choking him, one putting all his weight on him leaning on him and the lady over there trying to put handcuffs on him. >> reporter: they hurt him bad? >> yes, they did and start beating on him for no reason. >> reporter: police tell a different story they say under cover officers ided themselves, flashed their badges and ordered him off the sidewalk when he didn't comply they decided to arrest him. >> a

joe vazquez with the latest pictures of devastation in the philippine. >> reporter: families shattered, entire communities are no more. >> every building is significantly damaged or destroyed. >> it was 15 to 20-foot waves came across entire villages, everything is wiped out. >> reporter: even in a region, the midsection of the philippines that has been hammered by natural disaster in recent years, this storm went above and beyond expectations. >> we just need your help. >> reporter: loaded corpses lined the streets and sidewalks, the stench of death is everywhere. in the town of toclovan, 20- foot waves, boats tossed ashore. some survivors are at risk of disease. >> we don't have enough water. even though we are not sure that it is clean and safe, we drink it because we need to survive. >> reporter: thousands are still missing. some areas are inaccessible four days after the storm hit. here in the bay area, donations are slowly coming in. an 89-year-old world war ii veteran tells kpix5, this is the worst he has ever seen. >> so please, donate, help our country. help our country men. >

joe vazquez talked to the couple who ended up starring down the barrel of a gun. >> we miss her very much. >> reporter: they don't want their faces on tv, concerned about their safety. this young couple said they want their pomeranian puppy, promptly returned. >> her name is bronxy but her nickname is kisses. >> reporter: they araged to sell the 9 week old -- arranged to sell the 9 week old through ebay. when the man showed up he seemed nice enough claimed he was buying her for his daughters birthday. >> he was petting the dog acting like it was his kid or something. at first we didn't have suspicion. >> reporter: then what happened. >> then he got bi polar and pulled out a gun. >> yeah, just look here homey get out of the car, just a lot of get out of the car, come on get out of the car. he had already zipped up our puppy into his jacket. >> reporter: after he took their puppy, the couple then says he tried to take their car but they floored it and sped out of the parking lot. >> after that he vanished within seconds. >> reporter: police identified the suspect as 38-year-old juan ca

joe vazquez reports a motorcyclist died on austin street when a large tree branch fell on him. >> we heard like a loud bang from the house. when we came out, then we saw when the paramedics showed up and pretty much the paramedics told us to stay away from the area. >> according to witnesses, the branch fell from way up there, and you can see how it came right down in this yard, and now it is parallel to the yard and fell right on top of a man who was sitting on his motorcycle. >> pretty scary. >> joe vazquez kpix 5. >>> strong winds toppled this tree this concord. the nearly 100-foot tree fell on 6th street east of port chicago highway. it blocked the entire road before crews could cut it up and move it. this is one of many reports we got about downed trees and debris all over the bay area. >> 4:32. let's check in with lawrence again. just amazing. >> whips in spots, especially over the mountain tops. some of these winds gusting over 65 miles per hour. that's what we're seeing this morning around the bay area, especially in the north and east bay hills. seeing that near the coastlin

kpix 5 reporter joe vazquez with how it all unfolded. >> reporter: amanda blake is mourning the death of her daughter, she is learning the san francisco police released the name and picture of the man who is suspected of killing her, michael green. >> face it. you did it the crime. you got to do the time. >> very, very dangerous person. he is obviously a big guy, 5'11", 230, long hair. >> reporter: green is 23 years old, tongan and probably lives on the peninsula. >> nobody should approach this suspects. any sees him, it's a 911 call. >> reporter: early sunday morning green was with a woman described as more than 6 feet tall, also a pacific islander. they got into a fender-bender accident outside a south of market club called omg. after the wreck, witnesses say green and his woman friend got violent with melquiesha and her friend of hayward as they were trying to calm the lady down. >> they said one woman got out the car with him from the gentleman. she went to try to open the car. but she couldn't smash it out. he said, move out the way. i got this. and just opened fire. 15 rounds in

kpix 5's joe vazquez with how seton medical center lost the body. >>> reporter: seton hospital, october 28th of last year, the family from daly city was devastated by the stillborn birth of their daughter. but later as they were preparing for the funeral, hospital officials informed them of another problem, after a nurse wrapped the baby in a sheet. the body was not taken to the morgue. instead, she was accidentally thrown in with the laundry. but wait. it gets worse. according to the lawsuit, laundry here at seton hospital is shipped off premises to santa cruz 70 miles away and it was a worker at that off site facility who discovered the baby's body as it was on a conveyor belt headed into on industrial washing machine. >> they are very much in our thoughts and prayers. >> reporter: seton hospital's spokesman says because it's a lawsuit she can't talk about it. >> we can't comment beyond acknowledging the fact that this is pending litigation. but our hearts certainly go out to this family and everyone here is praying for their comfort and consolation. >> reporter: in daly city, joe vaz

kpix 5 reporter joe vazquez reports about 2,000 people are working at the new casino. >>> reporter: will you make any money at the new graton casino? it's a gamble. >> blackjack! here it is. come on, right here. >> reporter: as for blackjack dealer keith prime he feel like he's won the jackpot. >> whoever wants to make a career here, it's possible. >> reporter: casino officials say dealers like keith make an average of $40,000 a year plus tips that can make up another 50 to 100% of their salary. >> i'm happy. you know, i'm disabled. you check me with my new car. [ laughter ] >> the next mon or two. >> reporter: according to two labor leaders i spoke to, the man in charge here tribal chairman greg serras has gone well past their expectations, specifically committing to having the casino staffed with a mostly full-time workforce, making wages that are well above the market value here in sonoma county. >> but it's beyond wages. it's benefits and planning for retirement in the future. the tribal chairman shared many stories with us who have friends near retirement age and they have no retire

joe vazquez with more on san francisco's transformation. >> this is going to be pretty epic. it's, uhm, it's batkid eve. >> reporter: turning san francisco into gotham city for a 5-year-old batkid, that's one challenge. but the amount of interest, the sheer number of people wanting to help make it happen is off the charts! >> our goal was to have 200 volunteers. i think we've overshot that a little bit. >> reporter: how many do you have now? >> over 13,000. >> reporter: little miles from siskiyou county in far northern california has already won a big battle against leukemia. he is now in remission. [ theme from "batman" ] >> reporter: when he goes to battle tomorrow as the batkid he will take on the riddler, penguin and joker and he will have eric johnston by his side. he gave the batkid a lesson just this evening. >> he went up there. >> reporter: he went all the way up there. >> yes. and owe did flying trapeze. he flew out over the whole room, really, and then came down into the net. he went wow! everyone was clapping. >> reporter: people from all over the world are applau

joe vazquez, kpix 5. >> williams' family plans to hold a rally at the mission police station this afternoon. >>> police are looking for the person who shot and killed a teen at a hayward park. officers went to centennial park about 3:30 yesterday afternoon after a caller reported hearing gunshots. they found a 17-year-old boy unconscious near the baseball field. he died a short time later at a nearby hospital. >>> a psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for a 10-year- old boy who was caught walking around school with a knife. police say the boy grabbed the 8" knife from a faculty lounge yesterday morning at hillview crest elementary school. classmates reportedly overheard him saying he was tired of getting picked on by some girls of. a parent was able to take the knife away but did suffer a minor cut. >>> four men working on a house were robbed in broad daylight in oakland. they were painting a home on webster and 49th streets and had just finished a lunch break. two robbers then showed up one with a gun. the robbers took the painters' cell phones and wallets. afterwards, the painters ran

i hope she is dancing just like that tomorrow. >> reporter: joe vazquez, kpix 5. >> as for why she chose that beyonce song, she said, who wouldn't? >> okay. >>> 4:56. bigger than katrina. super typhoon slams the central philippines. a look at the damage and where the storm is headed next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, griego. and i'm frank mallicoat >>> >>> what could be the strongest storm ever recorded moving across the philippines. and with some 25 million people in the path of the storm, damage is examined to be extensive. >> we're very sorry for what happened. he didn't mean it. >> his family claims it was joking around but now the 16- year-old boy suspected of setting a man on fire will face hate crime charges. >> i have and i will cooperate. >> he took the campaign money and he used it in casinos or for personal purposes. >> san jose politician george shirakawa facing sentencing today for a dozen crimes that he blames on an out-of-control gambling habit. >> just before her double mastectomy, deborah cohen of san francisco turns on some beyonce and throws a dance party. the video has gone viral a

joe vazquez, kpix 5. >> well, back in the early '90s, the group took in some homeless people and the county took them to court. joe searched court documents and talked to local authorities and didn't find any recent lawsuits and no criminal complaints. >>> the ten most populous county jails in california have seen an increase in inmate violence. that's following the law that took effect in 2011. sentencing led serious offenders to county jails instead of state prisons. alameda and santa clara saw a drop of crime. but throughout the state inmate assaults are up 32%, inmate on staff assaults up 27%. >>> strong winds in new york city did not ground a holiday tradition. cbs reporter marlie hall shows us this year's thanksgiving day parade. >> reporter: new york's annual thanksgiving day parade kicked off with cheers and with the 16 giant balloons soaring. >> we have been walking around in the rain watching them blow up these balloons hoping they would fly. >> reporter: high winds generated by this week's winter storm threatened to ground the helium balloons. police cleared them to fly th

joe vazquez talked te >>> a south bay couple got met up with man who answered an ad about their puppy named kisses for sale. joe vasquez talked to the couple who ended up stairing down the barrel of a gun. >> concerned about their safety they don't want their faces on tv. this young couple want their pomeranian puppy promptly returned. >> her name is bronxie. we nicknamed her kisses becauses s to give kisses. >> they arranged to sell kisses through e-bay. when the man called themselves carlos showed up in the parking lot he seemed nice enough, claimed he was buying her for his daughter's birthday. >> he was petting the dog, acting like the dog was his kid or something. we didn't -- at first we didn't have any suspicious. >> then what happened? >> he got bipolar and pulled out a gun. >> it was look here, homie, get out of the car. he already zipped up our dog into his jacket. >> the -- couple said he then tried to take her car. >> he vanished within seconds. >> police identified the suspen carlos chavez. if you have any information caln jose police. joe vasquez. >> crime stoppers offer

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. >> joe vazquez, thank you. >>> what a perfect day for that boy. and well deserved and so much mun. it is everybody's dream to be bat man for the day. or bat kid. >> nice to see so many people coming. that is awesome. good stuff. >>> not going to rain for you tomorrow. great for being the hero. sfo airport, clear, a non-foggy friday morning for you. big change from this morning. fog advisory till 10:00 a.m. tonight clear skies. it will be not as warm. lows in the 40s. low 40s for santa rosa and napa. we saw the moon earlier over dublin. great shot there of the near full moon. beautiful clear skies out tonight. fog not a problem tomorrow. rainfall has been a problem. not enough of it. five months it rained only four times. one from earlier this week. although it didn't rain that much. no rain over the next couple days. foggy for santa rosa this morning. you will be sunny tomorrow. high of 65 degrees. cooler day for you on saturday as you start your weekend with a high of 62. here is why we are cooler. high pressure is still in control. active storm

joe vazquez shows us deborah cohen's dance moves are inspiring a nation and beyonce herself. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: just before her double mastectomy surgery tuesday morning deborah cohen of san francisco turned the ucsf operating room in a club. she got the surgery team to turn on a beyonce song called "get me bodied." and they all danced. the video now has more than 2 million hits on youtube in less than 48 hours even beyonce posting the video on her facebook page. days beforehand cohen posted it online that she would be having the surgery here at ucsf mount zion at precisely 7:30 and she encouraged her friends and her family and the we'll world to make their own -- the whole world to make their own video dancing with her. >> it's been an amazing flood of love. >> reporter: and now those videos are online, as well. >> i was more nervous about how the flash mob was going to go than how the surgery was going to go. >> reporter: deborah told the "right this minute" show she is feeling the love as she recovers. >> my muscles are pretty sore. so that is going to require some recuperatio

telling joe vazquez as to why he confronted the president. >> we're going to make our country more secure and strengthen our families. but most importantly we will live up. most importantly, we will live up to our character. >> mr. president, i need your help. i cannot celebrate thanksgiving with my family members because of my immigration status. i told him to please use your executive authority to halt the deportation for all undocumented immigrant family members across the country. >> you have heard from some people, what are they saying? >> it was overwhelming positive response. at the same time some people think that i shouldn't have done it because it was rude and embarrassing. >> some people said hey that was rude? >> yeah, some people said it was rude. but i speak out the truth. >> there are people saying wait a minute that's not the right place to do it or the right way that you're interrupting the president during one of the speeches. >> i mean, i don't see it as that way because, you know, president obama and congress have always ignored our stories. i feel like it was the only

. >>> first, joe vazquez that has latest pictures from the waf math. joe. >> take a look at this. this is google earth map. this is a picture before the storm. look at this. the after picture, one of the regions hit hardest. nearly every building gone. >> families shattered, entire communities are no more. >> every building is either significantly damaged or destroyed. >> it's 15 to 25-not wave came across intir villages and so everything is wiped out. >> even in a region, midsection of philippines that has been hammered by natural disasters in recent years, this storm went above and beyond expectation. >> we don't need. we just need your help. >> loaded corpses lined the streets and sidewalks. the stafrnl of death is everywhere. in the town, a 20-foot wave from the storm surge inflicted this remarkable damage. boats are tossed ashore. buildings are out to sea. some survivors have resorted to looting. many are at risk of disease. >> we are not sure that it is clean and safe. we still drink for it because we need to survive. >> thousands are still missing. some areas are still inac

reporting live from vallejo, police headquarters, joe vazquez, cbs5 news tonight. >>> the rain knocked out power to many tonight in san francisco. pg&e crews are working to restore that power right now. >>> police tell us tonight they know who killed a woman after a fender bender in san francisco. warren was with her girlfriend in the parking lot of filma when another car bumped into them. warren got out of the car as there was an argument and one of the guys in the other car shot her. >> she was a sister, a daughter, a coach, a mentor, a teammate. yes, they'll come together, they'll bond, but there will always be a piece missing. >> police won't identify the suspect as they are still looking for him tonight. >>> you've got to shake your head at this one. a 14-year-old just arrested for holding up an 11-year-old on his way to school. this happened on 19th avenue in oakland. earlier this month the older boy was after the younger boy's cell phone, but settled for $5 instead. and tonight kristin ayers tells us what you won't believe what companies will do to keep your phone from -- from b

. >> joe vazquez was at the scene of one of them tonight in the fruit bail section of oakland. >> we heard like a loud bang from the house. we came out and then saw their man show up. pretty much they told us to stay away from the area. >> reporter: according to witnesses, the branch fell from way up there. you can see how it came right down in this yard. and now it is parallel to the yard and fell right on top of a man who was sitting on his motorcycle. >> pretty scary. >> also on skyline boulevard tonight, a driver killed by a fallen tree as police are still investigating exactly what happened there. >>> we are also keeping an eye on this vegetation fire that's going on in napa county burning off the vista drive and soda canyon road. people are being told to stay in their homes. cal fire, napa county fire, both at the scene. jeweler the wind has been a big problem tonight -- julie, the wind has been a big problem tonight, hasn't it? >> yes. upwards of 23 miles an hour. certainly not good news for the fire. high winds, the wind advisory in effect through tomorrow morning. northeast

joe vazquez with more on san francisco's transformation. >> this is going to be pretty epic. it's, uhm, it's batkid eve. >> reporter: turning san francisco into gotham city for a 5-year-old batkid, that's one challenge. but the amount

. >> joe vazquez, kpix 5. >> as for that song, she said who wouldn't? she likes the beat. >> yes. they like the beat. you know, jerry, he's got it going on. >> how great of a story is that? >> it is great. let's dance. >> fabulous attitude. >>> we have no other choice, we need the rainfall, we're not getting it. so tomorrow you have another opportunity to go out and enjoy a beautiful day. beautiful night right now on treasure island looking back to the brand spanking new bay bridge. that's a live shot right now, a live picture of the golden gate bridge with the high temperatures today, 77 degrees. and that was before stanford did what they did with more on that in sports coming up in just a second. 47 straight days without rainfall. i asked the national weather service to please go back and check out how it rates historically. this is now the 6th longest fall dry streak ever in san francisco history with 165 years of weather data. not going to rain tomorrow or saturday. but here is your forecast. upper 60s with the sunshine tomorrow. upper 60s with mainly sunny skies coming up on

our joe vazquez with who he is... a what he did. sniff, sniff . tonight, whi amanda >>> tonight while amanda blake of oakland is mourning the death of her 24-year-old daughter, melquisha warren, she's learning san francisco police have release it had name and picture of the man suspected of killing her. michael green. >> i want to surrender. face it. you did the crime. you got to do the time. >> very very very dangerous person. he's obviously a big guy, 5-11, 230, last seen sort of long dishevelled hair. >> green is 23 years old and probably lives on the peninsula. >> nobody should approach this suspect. anybody sees him, it's a 911 call. >> early sunday morning, green was with a woman described as more than 6 feet tall, also a pacific islander. they got into a fender bender accident outside a south of market club called omg. witness say after the wreck, green and his lady friend got violent with melquisha and her friend as they were trying to calm the lady down. >> they said one got out of the car. she went to try to open car, but she couldn't sn

kpix 5's joe vazquez went on a ride-along yesterday evening to look at the effectiveness of that extra help. >> 50 yards on the other side of the street. >> reporter: 85th avenue and international, federal agents throw the cuffs on a man who took off running. >> on probation and parole. >> yes, i'm on probation. >> reporter: as he ran, the cops saw him throw away this small stash of marijuana. as a probationer, he is supposed to cooperate with law enforcement, not run away. >> so now he is in extreme violation so he is going to be arrested and spend the night in jail. >> reporter: these officers are part of a multi-agency task force helping the oakland police chase down the bad guys. >> we are going to ride with six vehicles altogether. >> reporter: the task force commander says there is a strong federal presence here from u.s. marshals to the fbi, who work alongside other state and local agencies. >> the police presence will make an impact at least for tonight, say hey, the police are out maybe my criminal activity i was planning for tonight is not going to happen. >> reporter: in jus

. >> joe vazquez, kpix 5. >> the video was posted to youtube and has more than 2 million views and beyonce posted it on her facebook page. >> dance moves, she can bring it. >> frank is impressed. we have all seen him dance. >> gosh. >> let's not go there. >> i know. >> all right. we have some serious problems still in san jose. they are still investigating this fatal accident. the good news is that they are hoping to re-open some connector ramps a little earlier than they had initially expected within maybe even the next half hour. in the meantime northbound 280 remains closed to 87 and traffic is backed up solid towards 101. also the fog continues to move in and out of some of our traffic cameras. several accidents out there many approaching the dublin interchange too in fact one at hopyard another at foothill slowing down the commute in the westbound lanes of 580. everything is off to the right- hand shoulder. metering lights on at the bay bridge stacked up into the maze. there is a travel advisory for the bay bridge and the richmond/san rafael bridge this morning. so if you want to use