Into a reservoir where she drowned. Reporter many drivers tell me they use their gps devices as a guide because they are not always right. I was in hayward recently and it asked me to turn left towards the downtown but that would have taken me right into a oneway street. Reporter yeah. The firefighters say they are especially concerned now because the younger folks they simply have not read a map and dont know how to read a map. So you have a lot of young people who simply follow the little red line on their gps devices instead of their eyes and that seems to be the case here according to firefighters. Veronica . All right, da lin, thank you. More and more Bay Area Police departments are using body cameras on their officers. In oakland, city leaders say its a big reason why use of force cases are plummeting. Kpix 5s ryan takeo dug into the numbers and found out theres more than meets the eye. Ryan. Reporter well, both the outgoing and the incoming mayors agree that body cams are a big
Video tonight. From a gas station in fremont. It shows. Thieves stealing gasoline from underground pumps at a valero station. Pam the theives siphoned gas into portable tanks over a 3hour period while the station was closed. Police say. They got away with more than 750 gallons hundreddollars. Reporter certain neighborhoods those that are catering to tourists are seen more spike. Are using a rental vehicle and is very easy for suspects to recognize a rental vehicle. And that this individual is not from the area. Reporter the Southern District which includes of the market has seen a 16 percent spike. And the Park District including areas are round the Golden Gate Park has received a 30 a spike predict targeting all burglaries suspect additionally, we have officers increased control and visibility in these high crime areas for all toll booth. To help deter future crimes with visibility. Reporter easily not to be a target is to not leave anything visible in the vehicle. Case in point, the
This rim will affect more mornings commute even though storm trackers showing renewed the bay area right now right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s but what were looking at is the temperature and to point over oakland where rain is but it is not making it to the ground because of the temperature the difference between the ground and air temperature has to be between 23 degrees for the rain to make it to the ground all of this is going to impact us into tomorrow mornings commute and well talk more about that in future cast into the rest of the week a 66yearold woman is dead following a car crash along highway 680 in martinez earlier this evening. This is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. The woman was a passenger in a honda pilot suv. That had overturned near pacheco boulevard. Officials say the suv sideswiped an acura. Lost control. And collided with another car before it overturned. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Four other people were transpor
Jana katsuyama live at the chevron plant just off of interstate 580 near the Richmond San Rafael ridge. This all started around 7 00 tonight. Must have been quite alarming for anyone near by. Absolutely. Now let me tell you right now its dark and its hard to see. But there is still some steam that is coming out of that unit. Of course thats 2012 chevron fire is still very fresh in peoples mind. So there was some concern when they saw this flair that lasted nearly an hour. Chevron said it was a normal flair. The flames could be seem s if miles. It means theres something not working as normalled. Reporter a spokesperson said that a flair is a way to release some of the chevron released this statement. It said in part we had a process unit that needed to be depressurized. The flair is a Safety System that allows us to safely shut down a unit. Chevron said the black cloud was steam and can take the appearance of smoke. Chevron says they are monitoring the air quality. We were making sure t
Share stories about the officer as well. I think a funny story or two might be nice for the audience there. You actually saw his squad car spotlighted in the center of the arena as well. A very nice tribute there, physical tangible tribute to him as the ceremony get under way soon. Exactly. All of these officers the chp officers interesting for michelle to note as well as far as she could see, naming all the different agencies. Just that her naked eye could see, morgan hill and santa clara and this and we have heard from texas, from oregon from los angeles, from new york. Just a sea of blue a sea of tribute from throughout the country. Yes, one community of people all getting together to celebrate officer johnsons life. Now, while today is the official memorial for officer johnson, the Community Support has poured in for San Jose Police over the last week. A memorial for johnson was held late friday on senter road and more than 100 people showed up for the vigil. The deadly shooting. A