And back here to cal, where he plays soccer. You can see the campus is now back bustling with students back from spring break this week. Eloi vasquez was supposed to be one of them. Its a race against the clock in the search for eloi vasquez missing for now more than two days. He is a kid, so sometimes he doesnt get right back but never a whole day. Reporter his mom is hoping today will bring new clues. He left a frat party near usc around 1 30 saturday morning. His friends say he told them he wanted to go to the beach and then walked off. The last person known to speak with the 19yearold was aurora cardinez. She showed us two incoming calls and then the last text message she sent which saz are you okay, and no response. As the cal campus began to wake up again for day one after spring break, investigators in l. A. Are still trying to piece together where vasquez went and what happened if. The search for clues is also now on social media, where eloi and findeloi have begun to spread wi
Much rain every little bit helps. Spring rains are tracking towards the bay area. Roberta has the timing. We have a little light green on the screen off the coast at this particular time but that is nothing. Thats just the leading edge of the precipitation. This is our futurecast brings the leading edge of the precipitation into the bay area beginning at 11 p. M. Overnight well see heaviest rainfall from the north bay into san jose. Then look what happens. Its out of here. Easily by the midmorning hours on saturday leaving us with partly cloudy skies. We have a Winter Weather advisory in effect for the high sierra. Up to a foot of snow possible in the higher elevations. More on this and how much rain you can expect still straight ahead. As roberta said the system is already bringing a mix of rain and snow to the sierra. Reporter sean bennett has a look. Reporter its the calm before the storm. Sure, we see flurries up here and we see snow on the ground driving on slick conditions on the
Attends. Hiding out on campus some of the time before finally deciding to return home last night. This is according to the Sheriffs Office who also tells us that sullivan sustained himself by eating fruit off of local trees and relying on a port o. Potty on campus. He attended first period monday morning and then just walked off the School Grounds not to be heard from or seen again for another 80 hours or so. Volunteers spent monday through thursday looking for him. Their search covered more than half the city of cupertino. He hill well enough not to be found during that time. As i mentioned, returned to his parents at the family home last night which is just a couple minutes drive from the high school. His father immediately called the Sheriffs Office. The so said that sullivans decision to run away monday morning was spontaneous, that he had been stressed about school but they also noted that is not the reason he decided to take off. We dont know what prompted him to do this and his
This incident. Reporter the long delay in shutting down the gas was a critical factor in the mass destruction of san bruno and suggests that shutoff valves are inadequate, even for this much smaller line, just 12 inches, line 118b. Now, with the fire out, officials at fresno fire are monitoring the atmosphere and other conditions there to make sure that nothing spreads in terms of grass fires and that all of the air is clear and safe. Thats the latest that we know right now. Tom, can you put that number in perspective for us, how long it took hem to shut it off . What would be a good number . Reporter well, i mean, if you have shutoff valves that are close by, that could be within seconds or certainly within minutes. The problem is sometimes these valves are miles apart. So imagine having a 12inch line, let alone a 30inch line thats got hundreds of pounds pressure per square inch over miles. Once that line is ruptured, what happens . That gas has to vent to the lower pressure atmospher
Sheriffs office utilizes to take care of that facility. So they were doing work, hit a pipe carrying natural gas. Im sure you know about the fire and explosion we had in san bruno a couple years ago. Much has been made about the pg e shutoff valve. From a firefighters perspective, pete, can you tell us, was it shut off quickly . Did it take a while . Tell us about that. The last report, it was still going to take approximately two hours for them to shut it down. Yeah, obviously we know about san bruno. Luckily for us, this was an area isolated from any homes. The fire was still going with the tractor nearby working in the area, which caught on fire as well. That fire started a grass fire. So at this point, weve surrounded the grass fire, contained it to the area that burned and now were letting the gas line burn until officials can shut down the line. Just to be clear, the gas is still flowing right now . As of last report, yes, it is still flowing, but they are working diligently to g