Is it worth it . Yers live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. More bay area neighborhoods are hiring security guards, but is it worth it . Tonight, kpix5s Christin Ayers is hearing about an 85 drop in crime. Reporter it happened after hours on a block in oakland where private security has been patrolling for months. The homeowner did not want to show her face on television, but told us thieves ran a stolen car into her home ripping her garage door wide open. When you have a crime happen to your house, it makes it person. Reporter she is advocates for more patrolling. Neighborhood watch groups have been crunches the numbers and they say the patrols are working. That burglaries and robberies have dropped 43 . That is alexander smith, a patrolman for Security Code three. He drives the route where another guard actually shot a man after a Home Invasion last month. Property crimes are down. Because we are here. Reporter but not so fast. Oakland police told me it is still to
Is it worth it . Yers live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. More bay area neighborhoods are hiring security guards, but is it worth it . Tonight, kpix5s Christin Ayers is hearing about an 85 drop in crime. Reporter it happened after hours on a block in oakland where private security has been patrolling for months. The homeowner did not want to show her face on television, but told us thieves ran a stolen car into her home ripping her garage door wide open. When you have a crime happen to your house, it makes it person. Reporter she is advocates for more patrolling. Neighborhood watch groups have been crunches the numbers and they say the patrols are working. That burglaries and robberies have dropped 43 . That is alexander smith, a patrolman for Security Code three. He drives the route where another guard actually shot a man after a Home Invasion last month. Property crimes are down. Because we are here. Reporter but not so fast. Oakland police told me it is still to
Reduced to rubble when an out of control car tears up part of a neighborhood and the driver didnt even get a ticket. Good evening. Im ama dates. The damage is extensive. The driver of a car lost control and crashed into a utility box. Two cars, two fences and two homes. Even knocks out power for a time to 250 residents in antioch. Thats where abc7 News Reporter Lisa Amin Gulezian is live. Lisa, is anyone hurt . Amazingly, no. This whole thing started early this morning. The driver hit the island behind me and came behind two lanes of traffic. You can see the skidmarks on the ground and then crashed into that house behind me and then landed about 30 yards away in a neighbors yard. Went through the front of the garage and out the wall over here and came out the wall. Im guessing he then flipped and took out the fence right here and then landed right in our front yard. This is what kyle boone woke up to. A black toyota that slammed upside down into the side of his home. It cracked the wal
The ground and then crashed into that house behind me and then landed about 30 yards away in a neighbors yard. Went through the front of the garage and out the wall over here and came out the wall. Im guessing he then flipped and took out the fence right here and then landed right in our front yard. This is what kyle boone woke up to. A black toyota that slammed upside down into the side of his home. It cracked the walls and shattered the windows in the far bedroom where an elderly relative was sleeping. It was two feet from your moms bed. It could have came through the wall and on top of her. Luckily it didnt. In fact, no one was hurt. Not even the 19yearold driver who apparently add a mitted to police he was going 60 in a 30 mile an hour zone. Do you think he was going 60 miles an hour . No. He is outraged. His house got the brunt of it. The driver hit both of his parked cars and crashed through his garage and a a wall and a fence. He just bought the house in november. Think about th
Watch this evening. Ken pritchett is live at the sierra. And we begin with bill martin and the rain here in the bay area. We got some rain today but check out this rain thats coming. Check out this plume as it stretches back to the hawaiian islands. Its headed our way. Not for tonight not for tomorrow but as we head into the bay area weekend its going to get wet. How wet . Take a look at todays numbers. It was a nice looking storm this morning. We had numbers you will see them popping in here this morning. 1 inch,. 75 of an inch. As we head into the bay area weekend these numbers will be tripled and quadrupled in some places. We could see a half a foot of rain. When i come back we will have a time line for that weekend rain thats going to be a big one well see you back here. Now to Ken Pritchett whos in the sierra right now. With the accumulating snow. And what it all means for our water supply, ken. Reporter it may look like we have quite a bit of snow here at blue canyon but take a l