andria borba has a copty of the lawsuit. >> reporter: the allegations of discrimination are anything but pretty. the 26 page lawsuit was filed in federal court in new york. the names in plaintiffs say it saul. these four women are suing sephora on behalf of other asian women. they say on a sale on november 6, sephora's website crashed. the company said we identified certain entities that take advantage of promotional opportunities to buy large quantities of our items and sell them on other websites. they deleted a number of accounts of asian sounding names. >> it is probably a little unfair, but i think they are probably basing it on history and what has happened in the fashion industry. >> reporter: this is what one customer posted on the sephora facebook page. what did i do wrong? i never purchased large quantities of beauty products. just because i have a chinese name. tell me this isn't racist. they are asking for damages. >> i'm not surprised to be honest. things like that happen. and anything is possible. especially with a company that big and of that size. they have the power

andria borba, kpix5. >> it is estimated one in 12 american women will be cyber stalked in their lifetime. >>> new information tonight about the rescue of a missing boy found hidden behind the false wall in a house near atlanta. the 13-year-old was reunited with his mother today for the first time since he disappeared four years ago. last night, police found the boy hidden in a compartment of a closet in his biological father's home. >> we found him, we saw him. to say it was a great feeling was an understatement. >> what did he say to you? >> he just couldn't thank us enough. he said thank you, thank you, thank you. just overjoyed that we had found him. >> officers say the boy sent a text message to his mother in florida after he downloaded a phone app. he never went to school. his father and three other residents of the home are under arrest. >>> bill cosby is offering refunds to some people who have tickets to his upcoming show and don't want to go. he let ticket ticketholders know they could get their money back if they wanted. >>> a salvation army in north dakota has an out of this w

in the news room, andria borba, kpix5. >>> tonight, the navy has ordered all u.s. sailors in istanbul turkey back to their ship after what happened to some sightseeing sailors. the embassy is calling it appalling. >> reporter: three u.s. sailors were dressed in civilian clothes an on shore leave in istanbul when this happened. the anti-american student group boasted about it posting this video. >> you are murders, killers. we want you to get out of our land. we want you out of our land. >> reporter: the three sailors are members of the guided missile destroyer ross. they kept their cool as they were pushed and pelted and briefly had hoods slipped over their head. hoods have become an ugly symbol of the war. the protesters slowed the video down. the sailors made a group for it pursued by the classic anti- american chant. they made it back to their ship without injury. all shore leaves have been canceled. u.s. officials don't believe they intended to harm the sailors. they are treating it as an isolated incident. allen martin, kpix5. >>> any minute now, scientists co

. >> andria borba is at the airport now. >> reporter: well liz, this plane took off early at 6:357, but less than half an hour later, it was back on the ground here in oakland. check out this map. alaska airlines flight 349 got off the ground in oakland, bound for seattle but never made it out of the alameda county air space. ten minutes into the flight at 5,000 feet, the plane with 144 passengers and six crew members aboard struck what is believed to be a single bird. the bird damaged the air speed sensor and the pilot turned the plane around and took it back to oakland. you can see it right there sitting at gate 14. alaska says the flight will leave for seatac at midnight. they have a back up if need be. this is a photo of the plane as seen from the terminal. it is hard to tell if the window is cracked, but they are checking out the nose for damage. >> about five, six minutes after takeoff, he call and said he lost control. the lights and the controls of his side. but he indicated. he didn't feel comfortable flying on this plane. >> reporter: the passengers who chose to stay, the flig

. >> andria borba, this is one for the history books. >> reporter: we know what he did and who he is. >> our kids play together. >> reporter: this man, robert o' neill claims to have fired the shot that killed public enemy number one. >> don't be intimidated by those who are outperforming you. do the opposite. >> reporter: the 38-year-old from butte, montana was nervous and didn't think he would come out of obama's pakistan compound alive. one seal went in and missed two shots. then he went in and shot bin laden in the head twice and then a third time watching him crumple to the floor. later, he said he was eating a breakfast sandwich a room away from bin laden's corpse when he saw this. >> i can report that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> reporter: the seal has not been leading a secret life. he has been a motivational speaker. andria borba, kpix5. >>> we have breaking news in san francisco tonight. >>> police have shot a man on connecticut street in potrero hill. two officers noticed five min men standing on a corner acting suspiciously.

if you filled up in castro, you may want to check your receipt after you see what andria borba found out tonight. >> reporter: after working 13 hours at their berkeley bar, john tchu and his girlfriend lindsay stopped at the 76 station on castro boulevard and redwood road when this happened pump number 2. >> what the [bleep] this this thing is jumping while i'm not pumping. >> it clicked saying it was full, so we pulled it out. and it kept ticking. it went $10 over. >> it was charging me without me even pumping the gas. >> they told the station attendant about the phantom pump charges. >> he came out and chuckled and said not his problem, call the company. i said what company? he goes the gas station. i looked at him and i said you can't refund me or reimburse me or take care of your customers? he said no, you have to call the company. >> reporter: the couple stopped by again tuesday night to see if the problem had been fixed. >> did you see that? it is still moving the second day i told them yesterday about this. >> reporter: john complained to alameda county weights and measures. t

andria borba got one too and wondered what it was all about. >> reporter: it landed with a thud in three quarters of a mill mailboxes all over san francisco and oakland this week. >> i have seen a copy of it outside before. so i thought it was my roommate's. >> reporter: the 377 page tome on the pass, present, and future is from a wing of the seventh day adventist church. >> i thought it was a book. i thought that is interesting. that's a first. and i flipped through and realized it was some sort of a bible. >> reporter: it says the mass mailing costed $250,000. the church is asking for donations. as for why we were targeted? many of the people of san francisco may not know it, but they desperately need the eternal hope that jesus offers. >> it is not a bad idea. they can recruit. being gay doesn't mean you can't believe in christ. >> i think it is ridiculous. can't blame them for trying i guess? [ laughter ] >> reporter: but for some, the environment tally conscious bay area, the controversy is not in the pages of the end time book, but where the books will end their time. >> mine will

in castro valley, andria borba, kpix 5. >> check those receipts. a hovel tradition that looks good enough to eat opened today at san francisco's fairmont hotel. but no nibbling is allowed if you visit the gingerbread house. this is the 8th year for the exhibit and it's a very sweet project for the employees who started planning for the exhibit last summer. >> thousands of bricks, 700 pounds of candy, and nearly 2,000 pounds of sugar. >> the gingerbread house is part of a campaign to attract donations for the leukemia and lymphoma society. >>> rain in the bay area meant snow in the sierra. this is a look from our tahoe cam about two hours ago. northstar says it is expecting up to 6" today alone. kirkwood got 4" today. more snow is expected throughout the week. >> that's the good news. it's way up top they have the snow but the snow levels are way up at about 6,000 feet. light snow down to about 5,000 feet but it's a fairly warm subtropical moisture air for this so not a lot of punch to deliver snow down to the lower elevations. to rewind all this ba

andria borba puts it into perspective for us in the children's hospital in oakland. >> reporter: liz, we have been talking about this number, 230 feet. the height this little boy fell off this bluff from. we wanted to give you a better idea of what he survived. the rugged beauty of bodega head is breathtaking and likely terrifying. to get a feel for how frightening his tumble was, you have to change your perspective. >> reporter: the little boy fell roughly 22 stories. that is how far my photographer is off the ground right now. the only difference is i have concrete underneath me. not sand. >> we were just lucky. >> reporter: bodega bay fire was prepared having prepared for a rescue like this one a few days earlier. when they got to tiny sebastian, they heard the best sound of all. his cries. >> i'm thinking scream for me. hopefully you are alive. we get there he is breathing and moaning and it is a huge relief. >> reporter: sebastian didn't just have firefighters on his side, but mother nature. not only did he suffer a fall onto a beach of the rough and cold pacific, the tide was ou

andria borba, police say he took couple's money and didn't do a thing. >> reporter: ken, that is right. the san francisco da's office says some of the couples did not find out he hadn't done anything until the day of their wedding. >> i was thinking how on earth did we pull this off? >> reporter: this is the moment when joe and irene went from bride and groom to husband and wife. [ laughter ] it was a wedding that nearly didn't happen. not because of cold feet, but because of this guy, stanley quan, the wedding planner, the owner of china town's to have and to hold. >> for us, it seemed like a gigantic undertaking. we planned. we wrote him two checks. one on each occasion. after that, no returned phone calls. couldn't find him. >> reporter: suddenly, two months out from the big day, joe and irene found out they had been had. and were out $4,000. >> we don't really know what he was going to put together. you know. it didn't get that far. he even told us he had a celebrity chef whose name i don't mention who was available in san francisco. he said he is not doing anything. he will make t

andria borba talked to her. >> reporter: liz, she is trying to recover toe night, but she is not confident she will keep her smile the way it is. natalie richardson says she was in the checkout line of this nordstrom rack when a child at the age of six began throwing a loud tantrum. >> it didn't bother me that the child was throwing the tantrum. the volume was really loud. >> reporter: she asked the child's mother to quiet the child down, but nicely. that is when things went sideways. >> she, you know, came to the side of me and told me not to tell her child what to do. and i told her that i didn't tell your child what to do. i asked you to calm down your child just a little bit. >> reporter: bree says she told the mom off. >> so i told her to go to heck and she told me i will see you there. >> reporter: when bree left the store, the mom followed her to the car. >> she was asking me where did you tell me to go? so i repeated. >> reporter: in the top parking lot of your screen, you can see a woman walking toward bree before both end up on the asphalt. bree was punched twice in the face. >>

kpix 5's andria borba looks at what many will remember about the case including a phone call that ray mcdonald made even before his fiancee called 911. >> reporter: even in a 7-page memo from the santa clara county d.a.'s office, what really happened inside ray mcdonald's home on august 31 isn't clear. the 49ers defensive lineman called the team's head of security who told him to call this man, san jose sergeant sean pritchard, when he was worried about women texting him. the first call came at 2:39 a.m. from mcdonald to pritchard. i need to get this female out of my house. two minutes later at 2:41, jane doe mcdonald's fiancee, called 911. hello, i'd like to press for a domestic violence. my fiancee, he is trying to pull me out of the house. he is drun. i think he's calling the cops. he -- he is trying to get me out. san jose pd arrived. prichard was already there. two days later jane doe wouldn't let officers take pictures of the bruises on her arms an neck. >> the victim refused to press charges. >> reporter: cathie black executive director of [ speaking spanish ] says that's not s

andria borba is outside his apartment in san francisco's south of market. >> reporter: well ken, his last location was here. south of market. a week ago today. that is when his cell phone last pinged off a tower. in san francisco's tech community, an electronic fingerprint is everything. that is what is so troubling about the disappearance of 26- year-old engineer dan ha last seen on halloween. >> he hasn't used his cell phone, credit card, bank accounts, anything since then. >> reporter: he left his apartment near fourth and brnnon on the 31st. his roommate began worrying tuesday. >> sometimes he will go on weekend trips for one or two days. but not without his phone. not without notifying his parents. >> reporter: a post from dan's twitter account in september says if you feel like wasting time, let it happen. focus will return when you need it to. until then, just enjoy exploring unbounded. dan's disappearance has brought the tech community together. there is an 800 member private facebook group coming up with plans to find him. >> they are the donating ad time. there's people, th

andria borba shows some of these retailers are redesigning their building. >> reporter: there should be glass and purses on display here at the chanel, but instead, only plywood. >> knock on it. >> yeah. >> reporter: cocoa chanel would not approve of this damage at her flag ship store. two people repeatedly rammed the window with a car making off with six handbags. >> almost 60 grand depending on the bags. it could be a lot more. >> this isn't the first rodeo for union square retailers. >> same story at the prada store. >> reporter: that was november 4. the same thing happened at gucci a few years back. the problem they say is while the glass is shatterproof in anticipation of common crooks, if it repeatedly, it separates from the base and can be peeled up by hand. when they got inside, they didn't just steal out of the window. >> they broke the window enough to evidently get inside. >> reporter: turning a burglary into a high end free fall. andria borba, kpix5. >>> police say the thieves drove off in a white vehicle. >>> tickets are selling below face value for tomorrow's niners sea

live in san francisco hospital, andria borba, kpix5. >> the story really is amazing. let's zoom into 400 montgomery. the window washer was up 11 stories. his terrifying fall lasted 2.8 seconds and he hit the car at an estimated 60 miles an hour. >>> investigators have not determined if the window cleaning company was at fault. sentry window cleaners. osha cited them several times in 2008 for training personnel. >>> let's take a live look outside. we got a break from the rain today, but paul, round three is just hours away. >> it is already knocking on the door of the north bay. about a 24 hour break from the rainfall, but another round of rain will be here before you get up. here is a look at the kpix5 high-def doppler showing you can rainfall. making some quick progress south of eureka, south of ukiah. it will work its way down highway 101 to sonoma county, solano county, marin county, crossing the golden gate tomorrow morning. future cast, here it comes. there's the rainfall. 5:00, 6:00 in the morning. it is all throughout the north bay and the entire bay area by 10

live in emeryville, andria borba, kpix5. >>> black friday has a new name. blackout friday. the film makers behind the film of fruitvale station are proposing a boycott. they are asking people to flex their economic muscle to protest police shootings. >> economic power is just as powerful as political power and the power to vote. >> the film maker worked with two oakland turf dancers and john buris to make the video. most of it filmed near oakland city hall. >>> what a difference 24 hours makes. after three nights of mayhem, things were quiet in oakland tonight. last night was a different story. we watched this side show live on the air. drivers were spinning like crazy never realizing the chp had them cornered. they picked the worst possible night for a stunt like this. >> reporter: you can sieved of last night's side show. a maize of skid marks on the street. chipped concrete and pieces of burned car from a car that caught fire during the side show. last night was a perfect storm. a huge side show out here and enough highway patrol officers to shut it down. it started like

in san francisco, andria borba, kpix 5. >> and the d.a.'s office is planning to file a lawsuit now get back the rest of the money that kwan owes. >>> the city of san francisco admits it has a problem with trees planted decades ago. several ficus trees split during the rain yesterday morning. falling trees hit cars and sent one man to the hospital. many are 40 to 50 years old. they are top heavy and probably not the best for an urban environment. >>> you can take them out but it will take a lot of resources. so we want to do this smartly, methodically. we want to make sure our urban forestry remains strong and expands in san francisco. >> the city doesn't let people plant ficus trees anymore because of the risk. maintaining these trees and keeping them regularly pruned doesn't guarantee they won't fall. >>> part of the problem is the way they trim them. you don't want them hanging over your car in the sidewalk so it's like this big plant up there, you know, with all the foliage up top. >> i have a couple of those trees. do i water? do i know

in the newsroom andria borba, kpix5. >> one person tweeted this photo of michael brown, sr. after the verdict with the caption i'm done. a reporter from our cbs affiliate in st. louis tweeted this photo of an auto zone erupting into flames in the past hour. meanwhile in new york police commissioner william bratton walked through times square. that looks like blood, but it's not. you can kind of see what happened on this instagram video, chaos erupted on the street. the person who posted it says a guy next to him pulled out a bucket full of something resystem bling blood and threw it on bratton and his entourage. we will be following developments from ferguson throughout the night. stay with kpix5 and www.kpix5.com for the very latest developments. d it get past the >>> only on kpix5 we found a license plate in san jose that is so obscene we can't even show you the whole thing on tv. so how did it get past the dmv? what this little pl the clou >> we've had some rain, but we still need a bit more, a lot more, in fact. tonight we'll show you what this little plane is doing up i

kpix 5's andria borba has a copy of the lawsuit. >>> reporter: sephora may be in a mess stickier than lip gloss. the 26-page lawsuit was filed in a federal court in new york. the names of the plaintiff say it all, zhu zhu, [ non-english language ] these four women are suing sephora on behalf of other asian women. they say during a sale on november 6, sephora's website crashed. the company said we have identified certain entities who take advantage of promotional opportunities to purchase products in large volume on our website and resell them through other channels. the plaintiffs say sephora deleted a number of accounts after the crash but only those with chinese or asian-sounding names. >> it's probably a little unfair. but i think they are probably basing it on history and what's happened in the fashion industry. >> reporter: this is what one customer posted on the sephora facebook page. what did i do wrong? i never purchased large quantities of beauty products from sephora. just because i have a chinese name and registered a chinese email address? tell me this is not racist. >> th

tonight andria borba looks at what many will remember about this case, that phone call ray macdonald made before the phone call to 911. >> reporter: what really happened inside ray mcdonald's home august 31st isn't clear. the head of security told him to call this man, san jose sergeant shawn pritchard when he was worried about women texting him. the first call came at 2:35 a.m. from macdonald to pritchard i need to get this female out of my house. two minutes later jane doe black donald's fiance called 911. hello. i'd like to press for domestic violence. my fiance is trying to pull had he out of the house. he's drunk. i think he's calling the cops. he's trying to get me out. san jose pd arrived. pritchard was already there. macdonald was arrested, but two days later jane doe wouldn't let officers take pictures of the bruises on her arms and neck. >> the victim's lack of cooperation in this case is just a factor that led to our charging decision. >> reporter: kathy black, executive director of la casa de los madre says that isn't surprising. black also calls into question sergeant pr

kpix 5's andria borba has an update from children's hospital oakland. >> reporter: the rugged beauty of bodega head is breathtaking and if you are 4-year-old sebastian johnson, likely terrifying. >> they had a competition to see who could throw the rocks the farthest and sebastian slipped. jamie tried to catch him and barely missed him. >> reporter: to get a feel for how frightening his fall was, you have to change your perspective. the little boy fell 230 feet off the ground. that's roughly 22 stories. that's how far my photographer is off the ground right now. the only difference is, i have con creed underneath me, not sand. >> i don't think an adult would survive that. >> reporter: bodega fire was prepared having trained for a rescue just like this one a few days earlier and when they got to the boy, they heard the best sound of all. his cries. >> whole time i'm thinking breathe, hopefully you're alive and get there and he was breathing and moaning. it was a relief. >> reporter: sebastien didn't just had firefighters on his side. he had mother nature, too. not only did he survive

as andria borba tells us, charles manson is getting married to a woman 54 years younger than him. >> reporter: the bride is 26. the groom is 80. and 45 years after the summer of love, the manson family is about to get a new member. that's right. charles manson. >> just a very evil sophisticated con man who cleverly masqueraded behind the common image of being a hippie. >> reporter: -- is about to get another title, husband. >> because i love him. >> reporter: her name is afton burton afton burton. charlie renamed her star. they have a marriage license in kings county where they live. he lives inside corcoran state prison. >> charlie always tells the truth no matter what. >> reporter: they have until february to use the marriage license. the couple can choose their invite 10 people. he became star's penpal at 19, runs several manson websites and has been visiting him behind bars twice a week since she moved from the midwest to california. >> i can see that he is the one that knows what's going on, he is the one that -- that is in the truth whenever nobody else is. >> reporter: that's

kpix 5's andria borba has details of the plan. >> we want to be able to take -- >> reporter: it's 4:59 p.m. inside the best buy in emeryville and for the second year in a row instead of getting ready for dinner, the sales associates are getting pumped. >> whoo! for the >> reporter: for shoppers as black friday slid into thanksgiving. now known as black thursday. >> it's almost a dirty little secret the fact that every year, more and more workers are expected to come in and serve the public on -- on nonessential items quite frankly. >> reporter: assembly member lorena gonzalez has authored legislation that would require retail stores and restaurants to pay their employees double for working traditional family holidays. >> my mom was a nurse. and there were years because when there's an emergency or when someone's life is at stake you can get called in to deal with that. emergency personnel deal with this. but what's grown from necessities into profit for big companies. >> i can get my a 50" tv! it was wonderful for 199. you can't beat that. >> reporter: after the buying frenzy, shoppers

andria borba explains the illegal surprise someone put in her bag in hercules. >> reporter: that's not pixie sticks sugar inside that pink baggy, it's meth. a dad found it while he was going through his 8-year-old daughter's halloween candy. he called hercules police, who knew that wasn't candy. >> pretty instantly, it's something we see a lot in this area, methamphetamine. >> reporter: the dose was only a tenth of a gram. but more than enough to harm a child. >> big enough to -- to either use -- be a snorting or injecting. >> reporter: the child went trick or treating in the promenade neighborhood of hercules, a norman rockwell- esque place of wide sidewalks, bronze leaves and actual white picket fences. maria says 400 ghouls and goblins came to her door halloween night. >> there were times that you could have, like, 25 at a time. >> reporter: kids from all overcame seeking candy. now police wonder who may have done this. >> it wouldn't be easy for us to fry to locate the person who did this unless we had more to go on. >> reporter: andria borba, kpix 5. >>> a couple in san francisco

andrea borba is keeping an eye, we are hearing from the officer himself, andria? >> reporter: that's right, in the interview, officer darren wilson says he has a clean conscience because quote, i know i did my job right. >> reporter: once again lighting up the sky in ferguson. as protesters and officers faced on in the streets and in front of the police department. after a near nonexistent presence last night, tonight there are triple the national guard troops in place after more than a dozen businesses were torched and looted. >> why did you promise me that you'd be here to protect my workers? >> reporter: there are questions being asked of the timing of the grand jury announcement, reverend al sharpton placed blame the unrest would place on the officers. >> in a town that has been forecast to have all kinds of problems, his solution is let's announce it at night after dark. >> reporter: in the aftermath of monday's chaos, darren wilson, the officer who shot and killed michael brown says the teen did not put up his hands. >> get back i'm going to shoot you. and t

andria borba tells us charles manson is getting married. >> now the latest person to fall under his helter skelter spell didn't participate in the murder of sharon tate and six other but appears to be a believer and now would be wife. the bride is 26, the groom is 80 and 45 years after the summer of love the manson family is about to get a new member. that's right, charles manson. ty -- where she and charles live...of course, he lives inside corcoran state prison. 35.03 charlie always tells they' >> just a very evil sophisticated con man who cleverly masqueraded behind the common image of being a hippy. >> is about to get another title husband. >> because i love him. >> her name is afton burton, but charlie has renamed her star. he and star have been granted a marriage license in kings county where they both live. of course, he lives inside corcoran state prison. >> charlie always tells the truth no matter what about. >> they've got until february to use the marriage license. the company can choose their own officiant and invite up to 10 noninmates. star became manson's pen pal since age 1

. >> andria borba is in hercules tonight. >> reporter: every year police officers warn parents to go through their kids' candy stash before they eat it. this year in hercules that phrase more than just lip service. that's not pixie stick sugar inside that pink baggy. it's meth. a dad found it while going through his 8-year-old daughter's halloween candy. he called hercules pd who knew that wasn't candy. >> pretty instantly. it's something we see a lot in this area, methamphetamine. >> reporter: the dose was only 1/10-gram but more than enough to harm a child. >> big enough to use either snorting or injecting. >> reporter: the child went trick-or-treating in the promenade neighborhood of hercules, white sidewalks, bronze leaves and actual white picket fences. maureen alberton says 400 ghouls and goblins came to her daughter. >> there are times where you could have 25 at a time. >> reporter: kids came from all over seeking candy. now police wonder who may have done this. >> it wouldn't be easy for us to try to locate who did this unless we had more to go on. >> reporter: part of the pr