Broadcast center. This is abc7 news. Look at that wind. The strongest measured hurricane ever in the western hem hemisphere and it hit just after 4 00. Dan ashley and ama daetz have the night off. Reports of flooding and land slides after Hurricane Patricia came on shore. No word of fatalities or major damage right now. Mexicos president says the damage is actually smaller than expected. Thousands of people were evacuated along the southwest coast of mexico. Residents and tourists moved inland and those who could not get out simply tried to take cover. We have Team Coverage and we start in the newsroom with abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow with the latest. As Hurricane Patricia made landfall, residents went from being hotel guests to refugees. The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hem miss friar made hemisphere made landfall at 4 15 bringing with it 160 mile per hour winds. San francisco resident brad powell is vacationing in puerto vallarta. The hoy tell where he is s
Broadcast center. This is abc7 news. Look at that wind. The strongest measured hurricane ever in the western hem hemisphere and it hit just after 4 00. Dan ashley and ama daetz have the night off. Reports of flooding and land slides after Hurricane Patricia came on shore. No word of fatalities or major damage right now. Mexicos president says the damage is actually smaller than expected. Thousands of people were evacuated along the southwest coast of mexico. Residents and tourists moved inland and those who could not get out simply tried to take cover. We have Team Coverage and we start in the newsroom with abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow with the latest. As Hurricane Patricia made landfall, residents went from being hotel guests to refugees. The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hem miss friar made hemisphere made landfall at 4 15 bringing with it 160 mile per hour winds. San francisco resident brad powell is vacationing in puerto vallarta. The hoy tell where he is s
Breaking news is happening right now in santa cruz where rescuers drove his car off the west side of the wharf. You can see where the car crashed through that 4foot defense there. That car being pulled out of the water right now. The sent nell reports that the men were under water for about a half hour before rescuers were able to get them out. For breaking news follow us on twitter nbcnewsbayarea. One person is dead after a head on car crash on the sanford campus. The driver was killed and was driving a nissan. The driver of the other car is in contribute condition and that cause is still under investigation. The father of one of the three teenagers who died from a street racing cash. May he rest at peace and i give it up to god. You can see the cloud on the can candle, Joe Sanchez Ramos joined the site of the crash to mourn the loss of the teen, including his son. The three died when the honda they were in spun out of control and ran into a tree. Investigators say they were involved
Hes suing the owner of the restaurant after he says doctors confirmed that his fever along with diarrhea and abdominal pain were symptoms of shigella. It is reasonable after the amount of physical suffering ive gone through to have some kind of compensation. The Health Department says there are 93 reported cases. Of those, 24 have been confirmed. Five cases reported in santa cruz county. Two people in San Mateo County have also been confirmed. Health Officials Say theyre all linked to ma ris coes. The majority of patients were being cared for in the icu have improved and discharged or moved to other units of the hospital. Today, dr. George hunt is urging restaurant workers to wash their hands frequently and call in sick if you experience any symptoms. It takes very few bacteria. As low as 10 or 20 individual bacteria to infect someone. Mizner is regaining strength and hoping his lawsuit sends a message to other Restaurant Owners in san jose. Wash your hands. Reporter the Health Departm
They hunker down and wait out the severe weather. Some of them from the bay area and theyre hoping to come home safe. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri tracking those conditions. Where do things stand now, jeff . Right now the storm system is starting to pull away from Puerto Vallarta. Watch how much this has started to diminish. Now that it moved inland, its starting to shrink at the current moment. Down from the max winds of 200 Miles Per Hour, to 100 Miles Per Hour. Pressure is also rising. Another sign of this storm system weakening. How close of a miss is this storm system from Puerto Vallarta . Its only an 80mile distance, so very, very close miss here for that town. We do want to underscore a lot of mexico is getting hit very hard right now from this storm system that is still a category 2. Remnants of the storm head right for texas saturday and sunday, and that will cause flooding issues. This storm system was able to go from a 40mileperhour system to 200 Miles Per Hour in just