That we take this very seriously. Announcer and you, the taxpayer, pay for it. [music] announcer heres nbc bay area Investigative Reporter bigad shaban. Bigad thank you for joining us. For the next 30 minutes, we investigate, exposing stories, uncovering issues, and Holding Government accountable. We begin with missing medical equipment, millions of dollars worth, paid for by taxpayers. We obtained inventory records from Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, which revealed hundreds of items, including pricey medical equipment, have gone missing. Our Investigative Unit combed through stacks of documents to see what was lost and never found. Announcer Valley Medical Center in san jose, or vmc, is the county hospital for santa clara, so its mostly funded by taxpayers, a total of 1. 2 billion each year, or 83 of the hospitals budget. But we discovered vmc and its clinics have a track record of losing track of their own uipment. Records we obtained from Santa Clara County show over the last 5
Nbc bay areas Christie Smith out in the cold. But first lets go to meteorologist rob mayeda. Look at big sur, the montana wilderness. 5 inches of snow. And into the hills around livermore this evening, we had snow mixed with some those showers. Showers which really flared up from 4 00 to 5 00 this afternoon around clayton and concord in antioch. A sleet mixed with some of the showers. The snow south of livermore around 4 00 and 5 00. And late in the day towards san jose, highway 85 and 101, pea and marblesized hail and more hail into morgan hill. As the radar turns quiet, howling around the bay area gusty winds. Point reyes and half moon bay, 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. And san jose 30mileperhour winds. All locations along the coast and hills into tomorrow morning, youve got a wind advisory. Not all of us saw the rain, but everybody is going to get a taste of the wind and the windchill factor tomorrow morning. Air temperatures in the mid40s. The feelslike temperature for the no
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Investigator had to say less than an hour ago about the high rate of speed. Moments before the derailment derailment the train was placed into engineer induced braking. And this means that the engineer applied full emergency, full emergency brake application. Maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 Miles Per Hour. We have crews all over this story covering every angle. We want to toss it over to nbc 10s Randy Gyllenhaal with more on the investigation. Randy . Reporter and when the ntsb had the News Conference an hour or so ago, they mentioned the effort to preserve perishable evidence. They have essentially locked down the crash site. Philadelphia Police Officers here blocking off the road leading up to the train tracks just a few feet from us. And it is those tracks where we have seen investigators and amtrak employees walking up and down gathering evidence as we get our first look at Surveillance Video capturing the crash. Investigators from the ntsb search for evidence al