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Livermore. Take your pick. Gusts 21 novato. Thats sustained at oakland airport. 21. Gusting to 25. Its a fresh, cool breeze. 40s and 50s. This is antonio, currently 50 degrees out of the west. 10mileanhour breeze. Daly city is clear. The system will focus on thursday, right there, it looks like that will bring us rain. Mostly sunny, breezy to windy at times below average temps. A lot of sunshine. Thats the good news. But its staying below average. Sal, we had wind advisories from the chp. Any anything else going on . Yes. Its slowing traffic on the san mateo bridge. Lets go to skyfox looking at that for us, looking at that slow traffic on the span. You can see from this picture how slow it is. Its slowing right before you get to the high rise. I think people are slowing down because of the gusty wind. We dont have an accident on this span. It just has been pretty gusty on that span and backed up all the way out across the bridge to the peninsula. Lets take a look at 280 in san jose. Th
Train that killed four and injured 60. The train was rounding a sharp curve on the way to manhattan this morning. The governor of new york is asking people to keep the vehicles families and survivors in their thoughts as investigators try to figure out how this derailment happens. Ray seven car metro north train jumped the tracks with the first car coming to a stop at the waters edge. It happened on a curve section of the track. It made a loud shifts noise and the next thing i know two people come flying at me. About 100 passengers were on the train. The bodies of three victims were found on the ground. A fourth was removed from inside the train. Police divers searched the water on the make sure no one was thrown in. On a workday fully occupied would have been a tremendous thing. I got thrown across back and forth and came to a halt and there were people screaming. Fire crews used air bags to free trapped passengers and cut the cars to get people out. It happened a half mile from anoth
Every time the phone rings, is another chance that sparky holland may save a life. A childs life. Were dealing with teenagers often who are calling who really are desperate for help. Reporter help to get away from physical and sexual abuse. Harland says here at the center in santa clara where shes ceo, there are 38,000 calls to the hotline each year and 100 Response Rate from the three to four people answering the phones. For us, its like being a fire or police station, you answer though calls. Reporter the countys hotline is is staffed by about 18 people on each shift answering fewer yearly calls, the county hotline only answered 50 to 60 of its calls. If the call isnt answered, will that neighbor report again . Probably not. Thats probably it. Theres one chance to get some of these calls. Reporter bruce is the Top Department head overseeing the county hotline. He says the reason for the poor Response Rate was staffing. Was there ever any communication that there was a staffing proble
Tracks. And the next thing i know two people from across the train come flying at me and fell on top of me. 100 passengers were board the train traveling from new york to Grand Central terminal. The bodies of three victims were found outside on the ground. A fourth was removed frommed in of the train. The Police Divers searched the water to make sure nobody was thrown in from the force of the crash. On a workday. It would have been fully occupied. Several people are hurt, several critical. I was thrown across back and forth. Came to a halt and there were people screaming. Reporter the firecrews use air bags to lift up portions of the train and free trapped passengers and cut away parts of the cars to get people out. The crash happened about half a mile from another derailment over the summer. The officials are looking at speed as a possible factor. We have not spoken to the conductor. We anticipate interviewing the train crews in the next day or two. A Law Enforcement source tells cbs