Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended crews from operating its driverless taxis in San Francisco. And a man is facing dozens of charges for allegedly tried to stop a planes engine while it was in the we will go live as we continue to learn more about the suspect. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. We start with a bombshell announcement from the dmv. Cruz is losing its permit to deploy and test Driverless Cars on public roads, at least for now. This is coming while labor leaders and allies are demanding more regulations for all robot taxis. Kron fours Michael Thomas reports now what led to the suspension. Well, crews Must Immediately stop using their driverless vehicles. The dmv says ultimately its because of safety issues for taking this action. Take a look at your screen. Theres details now specifically. There are 4 criteria for the suspension. The department has determined that the compa
From the bay areas local news station. Youre watching 4 news at 6. The cockpit. Right now at 6, a chaos in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines flight headed for San Francisco after an east bay man tries to shut down the engines mid flight. Good evening, everybody. Im vicki liviakis. Im ken wayne. A scary situation that happened last night on an alaskan Airlines Flight from Washington State heading for San Francisco. Authorities say the offduty pilot was sitting in the jump seat inside the cockpit when he apparently tried to shut down the engines. The plane was diverted to portland where that man was arrested. Crawfords grant lotus here in the studio with us to break it all down. I mean, grant scary, but also. It so mysterious dome founding, you know, especially with it being a pilot, you worry about so many things in the past that so here we go, well set the stage for you at home because this is. Really weird happened. Sue a plane similar to this one here. Its called an embraer one. 75.
Get on the ground now at 5, we may never know just how close an sfo bound flight was to disaster, but a potential catastrophe averted in the skies on sunday. East bay man is in custody tonight. Thank you for joining us on kron. 4 news at 5. Im noelle bellow and im grant lotus. Thats right. This man is actually a pilot. He was off duty at the time and hes being accused of trying to turn off the planes engines. So you can see and this map here, the plane took off from a airport near seattle and it headed south bound for san opfrancisco. Never made it that far, though, instead, this plane made an Emergency Landing in portland kron. 4 s Charles Clifford reports. Fortunately, no one was injured as a result of this incident. But now the fbi in the Portland Police department are investigating this case and one man is in custody facing 167 charges, including 83 counts of attempted murder on sunday afternoon, Alaska Airlines flight 2, 0, 5, 9, a 76 seat horizon air flight was flying from everet
From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news good morning and thanks for waking up with us on the tuesday. Weve got some clouds to get out of this hearing. Im daria and im james. Yeah, john been tracking it for us this morning. It doesnt look to foggy here in shot that there are few sfo, john, where there is fog. I just yeah. Yeah. They do have delays. Theres about a 38 minute delay on arriving flights. Yeah, you know, and that fog look at we were worried about this. I know it. It is very dense out there. Its kind of hanging out just above the surface. Can see the tarmac. But doesnt matter. You got a flight to that foggy layer regardless. And that just means those delays. Well, james, thanks for checking on that because we are seeing a lot of fog elsewhere, too. Take a look at this view from mount tam looking down into the bay. And you can see that blanket. That is just rounding a whole lot of us this morning. As of right now at bridge level at the bay bri
Station. This is. 11. Good evening, everybody. Thanks being with us tonight on kron. 4 news at 11, im grant lotus and im noelle bellow. We start tonight with investigators. Trying to figure out why an offduty pilot from the east bay when intentionally try to disable a plane midair while heading to San Francisco. And that man is now facing 167 charges, including attempted murder. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson is at the pilots home in Pleasant Hill with more. This Pleasant Hill home is where Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson lives with his wife and 2 kids. We saw some family members and a friend going back and forth from a truck to the home gathering items for the family. We asked if they would chat with us about this, but they said theyve been advised by attorneys not to speak with news outlets. Date. They give a ride trying track down the end their verdict. The landing foreman Alaska Airlines pilot 44 yearold Joseph Emerson was arrested sunday after allegedly causing a disturbance in the coc