Gruesome new evidence in pop star's murder case | West Coast Wrap

[00:00:04]It's even disturbing to imagine him driving around trying to use that Tesla with that going on in the frunk.

[00:00:11]>> Gruesome evidence released in court today in the murder case against singer David who is charged with killing a 14-year-old girl in Southern California.

[00:00:20]Good evening everyone. Welcome to West Coast Wrap. I'm Alex Savage. This was day two of a preliminary hearing to determine whether David Burke will stand trial and today prosecutors revealed more than a dozen air fresheners were found inside Burke's car along with the remains of Celeste Riveras Hernandez. We begin tonight with Fox 11's Christina Gonzales who explains how Burke reacted to those revelations.

[00:00:45]>> First image of like 12 or 15 air fresheners that he had thrown in the trunk to try to cover up the decomposing body.

[00:00:55]>> Part of the evidence being presented by prosecutors at the preliminary hearing for singer David Burke. Images of air fresheners all over the black Tesla where Celeste Riveras' decomposed remains were found on September of 2025.

[00:01:09]Burke has pled not guilty to the 14-year-old's murder. Members of the public who won a lottery for seats in the courtroom reacting to the testimony.

[00:01:18]>> It's even disturbing to imagine him driving around trying to use that Tesla with that going on in the frunk.

[00:01:25]>> I listen to his music regularly. Like Romantic Homicide is one of my favorite songs of all time. So for me it's like personal on that level.

[00:01:32]>> Seeing the testimony firsthand, the observers are saying >> To me it's very like point blank this is what happened. Like he doesn't have much of a defense.

[00:01:43]>> David's really comfortable in that room.

[00:01:45]He's so comfortable. Between yesterday and today he's leaning back on the chair kind of towards the left side relaxing.

[00:01:51]He's got his hand like this. I mean you would not know that this guy is up for murder because I think like everyone else in the courtroom are far more uncomfortable than he even is.

[00:02:02]>> At this point, the D- the defense attorneys really haven't been able to poke a hole in any of the prosecution's evidence that they put into place.

[00:02:16]Then a criminologist took the stand and testified that blood stains were found on the lower compartment trunk of David's Tesla and that they tested positive for Slesse's DNA.

[00:02:36]>> That was Fox 11's Christina Gonzales reporting tonight. Following a series of high-profile cases connected to celebrities, LA County's chief medical examiner is calling for more transparency when it comes to autopsy reports. Dr. Ode Ukpo left an atypical note on the autopsy of 14-year-old Slesse Rivas Hernandez, who was fatally stabbed and discovered inside that Tesla leading to the charges against the singer David. That note said it was, quote, "unfathomable her parents had to wait for months to learn exactly how their daughter died." The report had been sealed under a court order. Now the doctor is pushing to make autopsy details public as soon as possible.

[00:03:16]>> By keeping it a secret, the community has a lot of anxiety and depression about that and maybe they can't even focus and function because they're concerned about what happened and no one's telling them.

[00:03:29]>> The LAPD has not responded for comment and the DA's office declined to comment.

[00:03:34]The Hawaii man killed during an Iranian attack on a US airbase in Jordan now is back on US soil tonight. The remains of First Lieutenant Tyler Fean and other soldiers killed in the Middle East last week arrived today at Dover Air Force Base. President Trump was on hand and saluted as their caskets were escorted off of a plane. First Lieutenant Feehan was one of three soldiers killed in the Friday attack. The others have been identified as private Isabella Gonzales from Texas and Sergeant Angel Ramper sad of New York. The fourth soldier who returned is Sergeant Michael Swinton from North Carolina who died during the detonation of an Iranian drone in Iraq.

[00:04:13]Feehan will be posthumously promoted to the rank of captain and awarded the bronze star, the Purple Heart, and the Combat Action Badge. He grew up in Utah before then moving to Hawaii.

[00:04:25]Today the US House adopted a $95 billion budget proposal to fund the war with Iran along with other White House priorities. All but two Republicans voted for the plan. No Democrats supported it. Many Democrats argue that money should be spent on domestic issues. Today the military said it will be carrying out a 12th night of strikes against Iran. US Central Command says those strikes are designed to quote further degrade Iran's ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels.

[00:04:57]San Francisco-based OpenAI says its AI models were behind an unprecedented cyber incident. The company admits its models escaped a closed testing environment and were able to hack into another AI company. OpenAI says the models used stolen credentials and found a way to access the internet and then the servers of the startup Hugging Face without human direction. Cybersecurity experts say this incursion is alarming.

[00:05:25]>> I think the real question that we need to be asking ourselves is why was this sandbox not adequately secured? And are the engineers at OpenAI good stewards of this technology?

[00:05:38]>> Both companies are investigating the breach and Hugging Face officials say they strongly believe there was no malicious intent. Let's get more perspective on this hack and bring in San Jose State University technology Professor Ahmed Banafa. Professor, always appreciate the time. Well, where do you stand on this? What is What is your level of concern about these AI models going rogue?

[00:06:00]>> Yeah, good talking to you, Alex. Um when I heard this news, I said this is too soon to have something like this. Uh we've been in warning about it. We have been warned about it before. Uh where uh you can find one of the uh AI program acting alone. Now, what happened exactly? Just to make sure that uh nobody get panicked or think of this one it's it's conscious and and make that decision. Simply, in simple words, what happened with the whole system is OpenAI is testing a new model that will discover any problem with cybersecurity.

[00:06:34]Check your network, make sure everything's fine. They have it in something called sandbox. Sandbox is a separate network of computers that it is away from the main computers of the company so that if something went wrong, it's not going to affect anybody.

[00:06:47]With a very limited internet access, it's controlled. Somehow this program, which is the new program, which is given a set of task to to score the highest possible thing in the cybersecurity uh test. There's a very famous test in the universities and and the industry, something called exploit GM. But that's that's not the issue. So, this is this program found, you know, a way to access the the internet and start thinking with something called chain reas- reasoning to say where can I find the answers for the questions given to me in this kind of a test of cybersecurity. And Hugging Face is a very known platform. My students are using it. I use it all the time. It's like the Home Depot for, you know, for the for the developers and the computer engineers. And then thousands of ways and means to access it, to get into the system, and to manage to get there.

[00:07:43]And then get information about who we found the the system. I don't want to say he, I say it, found the answers for the questions about the cybersecurity given by OpenAI. And And that's all of the whole thing that >> And did it all autonomously. Obviously, this this breach happened, as you said, as OpenAI was was testing out its cybersecurity capabilities with with its systems here. So, clearly, there are some vulnerabilities here. How do you think OpenAI is going to address them?

[00:08:12]>> Well, they learned about it now. Now, there many lessons about this one, which is safety rules of AI must have the same speed and evolve with the with the same speed of the AI capabilities. That's not the case what we have now. Number two is never underestimate what this system can go. So, they're going to look at it and try trace this one back and see how it's managed to go through all these kind of systems. Now, here's an interesting fact, Alex. The only reason for Hugging Face to stop this attack is another AI.

[00:08:44]It's because Hugging Face has an an AI system that protecting the security of the systems there and noticed that there is an activity abnormal activity human cannot do it and report that. And this is how they found out about it.

[00:08:57]>> Okay. So, should we expect that we will start to see more AI models sort of going rogue, if you will, going off on their own and and and doing, you know, maybe sort of carrying out these kinds of breaches in the future. Is this just the beginning, Professor?

[00:09:14]>> I think it's we're going to see more of this.

[00:09:17]Um and but we have to be ready. We're not going to be panicking about it. The key thing is that hopefully nothing bad's going to happen. I mean, think about it. What's good What could be the worst scenario here in this case?

[00:09:27]Somebody send one of those agents or the AI to go and steal the secret from another company or the hospital, shut down the hospital, or the the Things like this one can happen, because the the the thinking model here for the AI is this.

[00:09:42]The end justify the means. That's it. It doesn't matter how they do it. They're going to go and get it. That's that's the bottom line.

[00:09:49]>> Yeah, they're they're not thinking about the the the morality of it, the the ethics of it.

[00:09:55]>> That's absolutely the case, and this is why you need the ethical guidelines, safeguards, you need the securities built from the beginning, not after you test it, and then you have the safety or the those kind of guide rails later on.

[00:10:09]Has to be part of the design process.

[00:10:11]And that's a big lesson, not just only for Open AI, for other companies. The other lesson is companies has to understand that cybersecurity is no longer human. It's basically AI to AI conflict, and that's the case we have seen in this incident.

[00:10:25]>> Yeah, remarkable to think about that.

[00:10:27]The fact that cybersecurity is really going to be AI models interacting with other AI models. Uh a lot to sort of process and unpack here with with this particular case, and a lot to learn here. We appreciate you coming on and offering some insight here, Professor Ahmed Banafa, San Jose State University.

[00:10:42]Thanks for the time.

[00:10:44]>> Thank you, Alex.

[00:10:45]>> All right, we move now to talk about wildfires burning across the West, and crews are battling wildfires in Oregon tonight, and they're expecting a mix of lightning, hot temperatures, and strong wind gusts will be posing a challenge over the next few days. Thunderstorms with the possibility of dry lightning are expected in the area of the Row Complex Fire later tonight. A red flag warning is in effect here. This fire has already burned nearly 150,000 acres of rugged terrain in central Oregon. Tonight, the fire is about 24% contained, and authorities do believe lightning started that fire last week.

[00:11:18]We do have an update tonight on that brush fire in the Bay Area. We brought you this as breaking news at the top of our show last night. Crews have stopped the forward progress on the Little Fire in Sunol. This has burned just over 1,000 acres, and containment tonight is at 40%. Firefighters say steep terrain, dry brush, and windy conditions are still making it difficult to get full containment. One firefighter also was injured when a Cal Fire engine rolled down an embankment yesterday at that scene. That firefighter was treated and released from the hospital. No other injuries have been reported.

[00:11:52]In Seattle, a mix of heat and wildfire smoke has people on alert tonight. Here is a live look tonight at downtown Seattle and you can see haze in the skyline shot here that we're showing you of Seattle tonight. Smoke from a number of fires burning in Washington, Oregon, as well as Canada is degrading the region's air quality. You really can see it in that shot. For more, let's bring in KTVU's chief meteorologist Mark Tamayo, who is tracking the conditions that those fire crews are facing on on various fires burning across the West.

[00:12:22]And then, of course, you have those air quality issues for a lot of folks.

[00:12:25]>> Yeah, the air quality advisory will stick around. What's just so ironic about that shot? Seattle temperatures in the 90s earlier this afternoon. Very hot. Yeah, so yeah, we'll take a look at the air quality. The air quality forecast models as you can pick out.

[00:12:37]Once again, it is focused up in the Pacific Northwest with those higher concentrations. I'll put this in a motion into your Thursday and into your Friday. So, this is Thursday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. with still that lingering impacts out there. As a result, you can see the air quality watches and warnings in place right now. In fact, this is an air quality alert in place until Thursday morning 9:00, but there is a chance that could be extended. Probably a pretty good chance once they get See how conditions develop, but just know that we have those air quality alerts in place right now into your Thursday. Alex talked about the the potential for some dry lightning. We have red flag fire warnings post for all these areas as you can see for parts of Oregon and into parts of Washington right now. In fact, that the red flag fire warning in place until Thursday 10:00 p.m. We'll see if that gets extended as well. In addition to all of that, with the fire behavior and the air quality issues, we have a lot of heat to talk about. Heat advisory in place at least for the short term up in the Pacific Northwest for parts of Washington right now into the evening hours. In these areas, down in Southern California, we have a heat advisory in place and an extreme heat warning. So, in terms of the heat advisory up in the up closer to the Seattle area, that is in place until 11:00 tonight. We are expecting some cooler conditions for tomorrow. But, down in Southern California, this is an extended period of heat. A heat advisory for Los Angeles all the way through the weekend, all the way until 8:00 p.m. on Monday. From San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara County, Los Angeles approaching Oceanside, as you can see approaching San Diego County, and then out toward uh Phoenix, uh we have a extreme heat warning. That begins Thursday morning all the way through the weekend until Monday night. So, once again, this is an extended period of some real hot temperatures out there, and just take it easy out there. That heat can definitely sneak up on you. For as radar activity radar activity, here's some of the coverage of portions of Arizona, and then Alex mentioned the system up in the Pacific Northwest and the shower showing up into uh Oregon.

[00:14:30]And some of that activity could lead to a shower chance, but also a thunderstorm threat for parts of Washington for tomorrow. All because we have this circulation out here in the Pacific, that'll kind of destabilize the atmosphere enough to impact their forecast. Current numbers out there right now, Phoenix 104, Las Vegas 107, Reno, Nevada 91 degrees, and still warm to hot for Portland and Seattle. This was a scene in Seattle today, 95 degrees earlier this afternoon, that heat really building in. San Francisco Bay Area, temperatures in the upper 60s, and then the warm to hot temperatures really focused down in Southern California as well. For Los Angeles, topping out 86 degrees. Also out toward Phoenix, there's that temperatures topping 100 degrees. In fact, those readings will be warmer into Thursday, Friday, and into the weekend. So, here is the uh setup with the uh pattern for tomorrow.

[00:15:19]Talking about the chance of some showers up in Seattle, maybe some thunderstorms out toward Denver, and the heat really focused down in Southern California for Los Angeles and in Phoenix. Here's a plan over the next 3 days. We'll keep an eye on the shower chances for Seattle.

[00:15:31]San Francisco, they have cooled off, mainly in the upper 60s for tomorrow.

[00:15:36]Heat builds in for Los Angeles, mid to upper 80s, close to 90°, but look at this extreme heat, 110, 113, 115°.

[00:15:44]Unfortunately, this heat wants to stick around for quite some time, Alex.

[00:15:48]>> All right, Mark. Thank you.

[00:15:56]Up next tonight here on West Coast Rap, newly released body camera video shows an Arizona police officer [music] hitting a woman during this confrontation. What we know about the investigation launched by the department.

[00:16:10]>> [music] [screaming] >> Police in Tempe, Arizona, released this body camera video today from an arrest that happened over the weekend that is going viral online. The police department says officers responded to a fight between several men, and as police tried to arrest two of those men, they say 21-year-old Aaron Bonner tried to intervene. Eventually, Bonner and an officer who tried to get her to leave fell to the ground. Police claim Bonner hit an officer several times before an officer punched her in the face. Video of the officer's punch was spread on social media. Bonner was arrested for aggravated assault on a first responder.

[00:16:59]FBI Director Kash Patel says crime scene footage related to Nancy Guthrie's suspected abduction may have been lost due to the FBI's delayed involvement in the Arizona case. Local authorities requested the FBI's help 4 days after Guthrie was reported missing. The The had to work with Google to recover cached Nest doorbell footage since Guthrie did not pay for the data to be stored long-term. That means the footage they did recover was on the brink of deletion and there may have been even more footage related to her case that was lost in the four days the FBI was not involved. Authorities believe Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her home near Tucson back on February 1st.

[00:17:41]While one masked man was caught on tape at the home, authorities have not ruled out the possibility there were several suspects in that case.

[00:17:50]Well, tonight work continues to count ballots in Arizona's primary election from yesterday, but winners already are being projected in the state's race for governor. Republican Congressman Andy Biggs will be facing incumbent Democrat Katie Hobbs in November. So far Biggs has about 73% of the GOP vote count.

[00:18:09]Hobbs was uncontested in the Democratic primary. This is a live look at some of the ballot counting that still is continuing tonight in Phoenix.

[00:18:19]>> Sir, the reason I'm stopping you is for the I'm aware. for the red light violation back there.

[00:18:25]Your right turn onto Giles here.

[00:18:28]You're good to go, sir.

[00:18:29]>> Yeah, we have an update tonight on this traffic stop involving Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo. A Reno resident has now filed an ethics complaint over that stop in Las Vegas back on May 15th. A police officer's body camera recorded the interaction and you can hear the officer tell Governor Lombardo that he was pulled over for a red light violation.

[00:18:49]After the governor identified himself, he was allowed to leave without receiving a ticket. The ethics complaint that was filed accuses Lombardo of intimidating the officer. It also accuses him of unlawfully using his position to secure and obtain {quote} privileges, preferences, exemptions, and advantages for his personal benefit. The Nevada Commission on ethics will review that complaint. The governor has not commented on it thus far, but after that traffic stop happened, the governor's office did issue a statement that says, "Quote, Governor Lombardo spoke with the officer, fully complied with all instructions, and was promptly on his way. He remains grateful for the professionalism of the officer involved."

[00:19:33]Well, up next here on West Coast Wrap tonight, we are just hours away from the start of this year's San Diego Comic-Con. A live look tonight at the city where fans from all over will be cos playing comics, movies, video games, and TV shows. We'll show you all the last-minute preparations underway to host the big [music] crowds.

[00:20:00]An unusual wildlife encounter has ended tragically here in the west. Someone driving near Red River, New Mexico began recording when they spotted this bear that had climbed to the top of a power pole along Highway 56. Unfortunately, the bear died before conservation officers could get to that scene. No one on the ground was hurt, and wildlife officials believe that the bear did not come down from that power pole on its own because of the number of people who stopped to record the situation.

[00:20:29]Officials have not confirmed the exact cause of the bear's death.

[00:20:33]The Walt Disney Company is cutting hundreds of jobs as the Burbank-based media giant looks to streamline its operations. This affects several Disney entities, including Disney Entertainment TV, ESPN, National Geographic, and Pixar. Among the layoffs are some notable on-air talent at ESPN, including SportsCenter anchor Karl Ravech and Ryan Clark, a former NFL player who became one of the channel's football analysts.

[00:20:59]And tomorrow, you'll find the intersection of pop culture fandom and the entertainment industry right here in San Diego. A live look tonight at the city's harbor. A gorgeous shot here, and just a few miles away from the harbor, tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to the city's convention center for the first day of this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Fox 5's Juliet Vara shows us how the city is getting ready.

[00:21:24]>> These are the sounds of the biggest convention of the year setting up and coming to life in the heart of downtown San Diego.

[00:21:36]Construction crews to artists, all meticulously putting the finishing touches on decorations, billboards, and installations that will captivate hundreds of thousands of people that come from near and far to celebrate this year's Comic-Con.

[00:21:48]>> We're from uh Nebraska, from Lincoln, Nebraska.

[00:21:51]>> From the Midwest to the East Coast.

[00:21:53]>> We're from Boston, Massachusetts.

[00:21:55]Um this is our third year coming.

[00:21:57]>> And everywhere in between, fans are gearing up hoping to see the latest and greatest.

[00:22:02]>> Um I'm really looking forward to the new content about Avengers: Dooms- Doomsday.

[00:22:07]That's a very big thing.

[00:22:08]>> Meantime, local efforts to ramp up transportation are in place.

[00:22:14]>> Transit is without a doubt the smartest way to get around this weekend, and here's why. Trolleys are quick. Service will be running every 15 minutes or better on the three trolley lines that serve downtown San Diego.

[00:22:28]>> In addition to more transportation options, expect to see more officers patrolling the streets. It's all hands-on deck, but authorities say it's important you play a part by remaining vigilant everywhere you turn.

[00:22:40]>> I do lots of hand-holding with this one.

[00:22:41]>> For this family, safety procedures are dialed in.

[00:22:45]>> We usually split into like groups of two if we ever want to do different things, so it's never like one person going off alone, and that helps a lot.

[00:22:52]>> Smart ideas, because in just hours the craze begins. Juliet Vara, Fox 5 News.

[00:23:01]>> All right, Comic-Con kicking off tonight and running all the way through this Sunday. That does it for West Coast Wrap. We appreciate you watching as always and a quick reminder before we head out tonight, you can always stay up to date on all the big stories we're covering across the West by heading to our website. It's westcoastwrap.com.

[00:23:16][music] Have a great night everyone.

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