Possible 1031 at westbound. Reporter as traffic moved along tuesday evening, a broadcast over Police Radios brought the flow to a halt. Shot out of the vehicle, climbed over, possibly jumped. Reporter reports of a suicidal woman on the eastern span. Chp officer dustin aviguard was first to arrive. And there on a concrete ledge, nearly 200 feet above the bay, he gingerly approached the woman as she contemplated jumping. I took a moment to step back from the officer role and stepped into a personal role, trying to connect to her personally. And as a friend. Reporter the officer is his goal was to build rapport with the woman and convince her to climb down but it just wasnt working. She didnt turn around to look at me or speak with me. Reporter his partner, officer jeremy meyer, also arrived and started talking to this woman. This time a dialogue began. I focused on her son and daughter talking about her. Tried to empathize with her. I tried to put myself in that situation and think, what
Tower high above San Francisco bay, those chp officer tried to save tried to save a woman from herself. Possible 1031 at westbound. Reporter as traffic moved along tuesday evening, a broadcast over Police Radios brought the flow to a halt. Shot out of the vehicle, climbed over, possibly jumped. Reporter reports of a suicidal woman on the eastern span. Chp officer dustin aviguard was first to arrive. And there on a concrete ledge, nearly 200 feet above the bay, he gingerly approached the woman as she contemplated jumping. I took a moment to step back from the officer role and stepped into a personal role, trying to connect to her personally. And as a friend. Reporter the officer is specially trained in crisis intervention. His goal was to build rapport with the woman and convince her to climb down but it just wasnt working. She didnt turn around to look at me or speak with me. Reporter his partner, officer jeremy meyer, also arrived and started talking to this woman. This time a dialogu
You taggers on a rampage around downtown of late. Kpix 5s len ramirez on how the businesses are fighting back using cops on golf carts. Len. Reporter thats right. We are talking about things that the San Jose Police used to be able to do but cant anymore due to the budget cuts and the shrinking police force. Now the police are going out on golf carts and hired by private businesses. They are off duty san jose cops working private patrol in a golf cart instead of a police cruiser. Its so quiet. Its stealth mode. Reporter downtown san jose businesses are paying extra for the private security service. Its a boots on the ground presence with sworn armed officers who respond to things like graffiti enforcement and street crimes things the on duty san jose pd used to do but cant because of short staffing. They have caught graffiti vandals in the act and held them with force. Reporter Downtown Association president scott nee says its one response to the shrinking Police Department and increas
Of her husband 69 your leonard the last time she talked to her husband was saturday at 7 52 p. M. The Anderson Springs resident says he was packing his old honda civic to skip the valley fire from the look outside he was surrounded by flames this of what their home looks like now only recognizable by its beerbohms the civic husband would have given it is not in the picture she is hoping he got out before the flames reached their home the fire officials said the flames in that area are relentless. Reporter 69 yearold leonard is the former Police Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news and today we talked with jim that injured who knew him well it was his supervisor in the mid 80s when both worked for the newspaper he is a director of the john f. Knight journalism fellowships and stanford he says a former colleague to this was a sweet guy and an excellent reporter. he was a wizard with working the phones and scanners he would find out things before the police did sometimes he had a networ
This morning where dozens of buildings are too dangerous to enter and ryan, you mentioned that you did not feel these aftershocks. Reporter thats right, michelle. Were talking 70 [ pause ] reporter thats right, were talking 70 of these read tagged buildings. I didnt feel the aftershocks. But some neighbors have. They felt it. It was more faint, obviously, than sundays shaker but still, this is obviously bringing up some memories of what happened on sunday. So well get that reaction for you coming up at 6 30. Showing you this house right here, one of 70 houses here in the city that have been red tagged, inspectors, they have surveyed about 75 of the citys buildings. The buildings deemed redtagged are a mix of businesses and homes. One building was both. The woman we talked to runs her business out of her apartment and is thankful that she has plenty of help. Everybody has been really gracious to offer me places to stay, places to store my things and even people are getting together fund