Teenagers arrested in connection with the hitandrun crash. We have more from rich monday about how Police Tracked the two down. Alex . Reporter good afternoon to you. Investigators say the two 18 yearolds ditched their car after this crash early yesterday morning. Then reported it stolen. However, police, when they went to talk to the two teens, were not buying the story and both of them were arrested. The young man accused of being behind the wheel is now facing a very serious charge of attempted murder. Police say he intentionally plowed his car into a richmond officer during a weekend side show. Dramatic cell phone video taken by a bystander shows a black sedan, speeding up, and then slamming into a Richmond Police officer, who was standing in the street. That officer had responded to break up a large side show early sunday morning, near marina bay parkway and regatta boulevard. The driver who hit him sped off. And the eightyear veteran was left with head trauma, along with bumps an
Is really warm in Southern California. We are pretty chilly in brentwood but at least there is no fog. There has been a lot of fog lately but today we are 42 37 walnut creek danville and san ramon in the 30s. Elsa brontk and el cerrito at 51 and 53. For some chilly for others mild. A lot of high clouds but that is all they are doing, just drifting. Partly to mostly cloudy to the north and mostly sunny to the south. The dividing line looks to be the goldengate to the north. 50s for some, 40s for many others with high clouds screaming over the sierra. It is really warm in Southern California with a red flag warning as it was 89 in long beach yesterday. Burbank was 86, ucla 84. It is going to stay warm and believe me they could use some rain but the outlook for everybody looks really dry for the first week of february. 60s with 70s in santa cruz. 7 01, is it good or bad on the roads . Mostly good. I tend to be optimistic but yes it is good for the most part. I want to tell you that we do
Accident. We can confirm that mr. Sanchez did not know cate caugiran and he had no reason to want her to be harmed in any way. Reporter now, sanchezs story has changed along the way. We initially heard he said he was using that gun to shoot sea lions at the pier. We also know that of course he is an illegal immigrant and this whole case is reigniting the sanctuary city debate in San Francisco. I dont the supervisors have anything to say about that yet. They all seem to be laying low. Is there any word from mayor lees office on the sanctuary issue . Reporter yeah, everybody has been choosing their words very carefully on this but we did hear from the Mayors Office that they are reaching out to the feds to figure out a way to cooperate with i. C. E. And still stay true to the citys sanctuary city status. Francisco sanchez had been deported five times. The feds wanted to make it six but San Francisco refused to hand him over or continue holding him. Now city supervisors are in the hot sea
Someone. Reporter yeah. Police are waiting for the autopsy and toxicology results to see if the man was under the influence of drugs or not. They are also looking at Surveillance Video taken from a camera at this motel here, which captured the fight between the man add the female comes. Live in San Francisco, im da lin, kpix 5. Those two officers were released from the hospital. We are told they are at home recovering from their injuries. Breaking news out of san jose where a brush fire is burning near a strip mall. This is near the Eastridge Shopping Center at quimby and capitol expressway. There are also some homes in the area. The fire sending up a pretty big plume of dark smoke and we are keeping an eye on it. Also another fire is burning on brannon island up in the delta. It started in the last hour. So far, its destroyed at least six structures. Some of them are homes. We are told several palm trees are also burning. Well be following this closely as firefighters work to put out
5 contained. Three homes have burned. Hundreds more are evacuated. Its burn not far from clearlake in a rugged area near the community of lower lake. Cate caugiran is there. She tells us the terrain is a big challenge for firefighters. Reporter it certainly has been. I can tell you now as you said, that fire is still burning. Cal fire says within the past hour that fire kicked back up a notch has burned more than 200 acres within that past hour. You can take a look at this damage. Actually i want to point out these trees. They look like theyre pink, little reddish, thats actually flame retardant. Thats because fire crews are focusing on containment right now trying to keep this fire from jumping major roads. Because as we take a step back here we want to show you just how large the damage is. If you take a look at these hills, its getting so close to what looks like someones home as we are pointing out now. Firefighters say they they are working against Mother Nature batting the flames