being in the dark for hours. the lights went out in the haight-ashbury neighborhood, hayes valley and the civic center. the war memorial opera house went dark during a performance of the san francisco ballet. now, the performance was canceled. san francisco fire says a power surge in an underground vault caused the power to go out around 8:00 this evening. pg&e slowly restoring electricity over the course of the last three hours. also tonight a lot of questions about a gruesome crash in san francisco s mission district. our nbc bay area sky ranger was overhead when a driver hit three people in a heavily congested area of town. two of those people have life-threatening injuries. the driver initially drove away from the scene of the crash but then returned. nbc bay area s jean elle joins us at sf general, where the victims are being treated. jean? reporter: raj, police tell us that driver hit two men and one woman. that woman managed to walk away with minor injuries. but
Answers and lots of questions. Reporter im on kirk haven court. Maybe you can see behind me there are still dozens of officers still out here on the scene. You see the police vehicles. Maybe you can make out the evidence processing truck back there. What we are hearing from police, its not a lot, is that there was a shooting out here at 7 00 tonight. An officer shot a man and killed him. Were waiting for an official statement from the police. We are four hours after the of the suge. Nothing from them yet. We are hearing from neighbors. They say there was some kind of a caris cha a. Red car came tearing down this street, crashed into one of the houses. At some point the officer shot the person. Exactly what was going on hype that chase, what the man was wanted for, we dont know. We just know the witnesses say the man was shot. And when he died he was lying on the street. Another other neighbors are saying there were two gunshots. Some say there were four. In any event, the man was shot
Poughkeepsie and month erta, cars were struck by gunfire. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney joins us live from the area. So far two people have been injured by the shooter. The most recently saturday morning a woman hurt driving on blossom hill road. Theyve been going on for a couple months. Some people want to know why theyre just finding out about it now. Someone is shooting at cars on this stretch of blossom hill road. Police say theres no known connection between the victims and dont know if the shooter was standing or driving. Each time, only one bullet was fwird and all attacks happened between 12 30 and 1 00 a. M. On blossom hill road near poughkeepsie or monterey. Thats kind of scary. The first shooting happened may 4th. A vehicle hit. On june 2nd, a male driver grazed by a bullet. June 30th, another vehicle hit. And three days later, a woman behind the wheel hurt by flying glass or shrapnel. None of the injuries are lifethreatening. Ive lived here all my life. Thats why im so surp
This is all happening about 20 miles east of calistoga in polk valley, which is not far from lake berryessa. We have live team coverage. We begin with nbc bay areas jean elle right from the fire line. Were talking about rugged location, very rural, which obviously makes it very tricky for firefighters. Thats what cal fire says. Its a difficult firefight. Were actually at the roadblock here of pope valley and Aetna Springs road. This is as close as residents can get to this fire. Take a look, though. You can see the orange glow up there on the hillside. You can also see the wind has died down, which is good news for firefighters. Residents are stopping by this roadblock, hoping for more good news. I turned on to deer park road, and there is this big smoke plume billowing up. Reporter roxanne never made it home. She has been watching the butts canyon fire burn for hours. Cal fire says more than 100 homes are under mandatory evacuation while crews work to contain a fire that has burn in o
Reports of a suicidal man at 6 30 this evening. As they approached, the man opened fire on the officer killing one of them. Right now that man is hold up inside of his apartment. Ian coal and jeanne elle are on the scene, and Terry Mcsweeney, we have heard from the police e chief and the mayor, and what is the latest . They have every reason to believe that the man who shot and killed this 12year veteran officer of the san jose p. D. Is held up in the same location where the officers went to help him him. They have heard from the relatives that he was high and had possession of a high powered rifle. The officers never had a chance when they were walking up the streets one officer was shot and killed on the sidewalk. They believe he is still inside. In addition to trying to find him, the officers have to deal with the loss of one of their own, and a few minutes ago right here on monterey road, we heard from a couple of of the officers and the police chief. There was a Wide Exchange of g