Twitter and 7 news bay area. Good evening. Other top story tonight. San jose firefighters on city wide alert because of a new danger. Booby trap. Warning comes after firefighters stumbled on a spiked booby trap and respond to go call from former homeless encampment off capitol express wait a minute he wasnt injured. David louie has more now from san jose. Booby trap was discovered on the site of anded homeless encampment. Firefighters literally stumble upon it. Fire Department Photo shows it to be about 2 feet deep. Sharp stake. In the hotel wooden stake cut with a sharp edge commonly called punky stick. Step on it you fall and severely injured. The stake were used trap used by communist troop during the vietnam war. Nature of type of trap is clearly designed to hurt individuals. We dont know for certain if that was designed to hurt other people in the encampment. Police Department Personnel. Fire Department Personnel regardless they are endanger to everyone and dont discriminate to wh
Is still slower than it should be coming out of Pleasant Hill on 680 and out of concord. Out of 242. A new tax that were watching has the potential hot spot at 880 southbound at maori. We have at least one lane block and the backup is already reaching toward the Alvarado Niles road at 880 southbound. Going live out a san jose, mike pelton is on the scene or a pit bull attack an officer and the officer shot and killed the dog. This is the house were the attack occurred very early this morning. Officers have since cleared the scene in the past hour or so. One person was taken away in a squad car but it is unclear exactly what that persons involvement is and this incident. The of from earlier this morning the attack happened here at empire st and holden. Around 130, Police Responded calls to the three suspects were breaking into mailboxes. Police said they fled the scene and a track them here to third and in dire. They knocked on the door, a woman answered and that is when a pit bull emer
For the first time in nearly 3 months gas prices have dipped a little. 6 cents in the last two weeks. Nationwide the average for a gallon of unleaded is 3. 74. According to gasbuddy. Com the average in San Francisco is 4. 15 a gallon. Oakland, 4. 10, and san jose 4. 11. Lowest average in california is in sacramento at 4. 02 a gallon. 6 teenagers are dead after their suv went into a swampy pond in northeast ohio this morning. A total of 8 teens were in the honda passport when it hit a guardrail, overturned and ended up in the swamp near the city of warren. Five teens were trapped in the suv. A 6th was found underneath it. Two of the passengers escaped and ran to a house for help. It is a tough loss for the working class town of 41,000. Took most of this morning to meet with all of the family members, that i possibly could at both hospitals. We are going to pull together and we are going to be there for them. The Authorities Say all of the teens were between the ages of 14 and 19. There
For their passion on and off the job. Team coverage of the day most memorable moments. Death of vounl tier lions keeper we know how the looips got so close to the intern. Tonight possible legal precedence in the death of San Francisco wednesday. Can a bicycle riderser be convicted of vehicular manslaughter. Someone you may know has an extra 33 Million Dollars tonight. Lucky new lotto tonight. Lucky new lotto winner hiding out in if. This is not something we have ever dealt with before in our department. And for all of us, the pain is still too fresh. With the solemn wail of bag pipe filling the pavilion family of Fallen Police officers taken to their seat in their honest. Good evening. Emotional farewell for Sergeant Baker and detective butler really a powerful sight as procession reached sap jose. Hundreds of officers line the street as huge American Flag draped down from 2 fire engine ladders at the entrance to hp about ville i dont know. 2 murdered Police Officers were eulogy rememb
Reporter back to you. Reporter the minimum waeupbl is 8 an hour in california. Workers are paid based on whatever rate is higher. Right now there is a bill in congress proposing to raise the federal minimum wage from seven. 25 an hour to 10. 10 an hour. For the first time in nearly 3 months gas prices dipped just a little. Six cents in the last two weeks. Nationwide the average for a gallon of unleaded is three. 74. According to gasbuddy. Com the average in San Francisco is 4. 15 a gallon. In oakland, 4. 11. The lowest average gas price in california is at sacramento at 4. 02 a gallon. An Animal Sanctuary reopened after killing a 24 yearold intern. The privately run cat haven observed a moment of silence at noon for diana hansen. She was attacked by a male lion last wednesday. The animal was shot to death by the sheriff deputy. The founder says the park is opening to visitors with a consent on hansens parents. The staff could care for the other 29 wildcats. It is important for us to re