Most of them High School Students from the l. A. Area. The bus was heading to Humboldt State university for a campus visit but the bus collided headon with a fedex delivery truck that crossed the median. More information on the students and the Tour Bus Company but we begin with nbcs Richard Sharp reporting from the scene tonight. Reporter the accident scene here stretches on for quite a distance. The wreckage left behind you can see behind me. A fedex big rig was headed southbound, came over the median, side swiped a small see dan and went head on into the tour bus carrying students. There was a huge explosion right after that. Everything caught on fire according to the chp. Resources here was a wae challe. This is right next to a neighborhood. Lots of people were out here immediately watching what happened. In all will, nine people died of this. Were told the driver of the bus, the driver of the fedex truck and seven students who were from the l. A. Unified School District headed to
Ntsb. Sam baraki is on the scene. Its listening in and taking notes. Hell have a full report for us in just a bit. And in the meantime, we are learning, of course, about the situation, some of the people that survived that crash, others who obviously did not. Nbc bay areas bob redell joining us live from the newsroom with that part of the story. Good morning, bob. Good morning to you, peggy. Ive also been monitoring that news coerence. The latest to come out of the News Conference with chp is to say, yes, the ntsb has joined this investigation. It could be a good three months before they get a better idea of what led up to this crash, when that fedex big rig crossed over the grass median and collided with that tour bus. Trying to figure out if a fedex driver perhaps fell asleep, if there was a mechanical issue, right now they do not know what led up to that crash that killed ten people. Sacramento county Coroners Office just identifying one of those people who was killed in yesterdays
Insignificant amount of rain this time. No we get a pretty good soaker especially tomorrow morning. Let me show you live doppler 7hd right now. Green that you are seeing in the east and south bay is actually not reaching the ground up to the north we have picked up some light rain in ukiah just short time ago. 200 of an inch. Few sprinkles around santa rosa not measuring. Real rain gets in here late tonight. So heres computer animation 11 00 p. M. Tonight. Not whole lot happening by 3 00 a. M. The north bay is getting some rape and could be moderate to heavy as we head towards the 6 00 a. M. Hour across the heart of the bay area and then into the south bay. 10 00 oclock saturday morning. San jose, Santa Cruz Mountain getting heavier rainfall there. The rain will linger not as heavy but will lippinger in the afternoon there down towards the south bay and we have showers that will be trailing behind the cold front. We have another storm that is heading in behind that one. Ill be back wit
A little girl battling cancer, melting hearts everywhere. And with a big win last night, their magical journey together is still going strong today, saturday, march 29th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. We will have a lot more on that los angeles earthquake that happened overnight for you in just a moment. The good news is that it wasnt too serious, although obviously, plenty of people rattled. Everybody felt it. Meantime, its hard to believe that the search for the missing plane is now in its fourth week. Investigators still have not been able to recover any of the debris spotted from the air, but with a narrowed search area, they could possibly find something very soon. Also ahead this morning, were live in Washington State, where there are fears that the death
Major bay area coffee chain that used technology to track your movements inside the shop whether you like it or not. That is until we started asking questions. Tonight there is a big change. Good evening. Im ama dates. Im dan ashley. Cornell bernard is live with a story you will see only on abc7 news. Cornell . Phils coffee shop has been tracking visits without permission for awhile now. Tonight the ceo confirms to me that that practice will stop. I love phils coffee. You can find bennett at the phils coffee shop every day of the week drinking his favorite brew. Phils has a cult following across the bay area, but many customers may not know how often they visit and how long they stay is being tracked by technology. Phils uses a device from the retail analytical official which picks up the wifi signal from your phone or tablet without your permission. This small sticker in the store window tells you it is on. I dont like it. But it is clearly marked. I just didnt know what it was. I did