Investigators determined mr. Brown was not on his phone at the time of this tragedy. Reporter investigators also revealed that the fire was accidental, caused by an unforeseeable failure in the suspension system. The heat and possible sparks generated from the friction between the rotating drive shaft and the floor pan ignited the materials covering the floorboard. Reporter five of the nine passengers who were friends and nurses in the east bay died trapped in the back of the limousine as the four survivors and people who stopped to help watched in horror. The rear of the limo is fully engulfed. And the doors are locked. Reporter investigators say video of that limousine shows one of the passenger doors could open from the inside. Another video from the san mateo bridge pla sa showed nothing abnormal. The limo facing a fine for not operating safely. He faces no criminal charges. Some sents are crimes and some are not. This one is not. There will not be any criminal charges. Reporter i
Publics help tracking down a man who hit and killed a man at 8 30 last night. Cheryl hurd is in san jose with the latest in the investigation and the clues that might help them find the driver. Cheryl . Reporter police dont have many clues tonight. It was dark at the time of the hit and run. But chp officers are trying to get the word out because they believe that somebody saw something that can help them solve the case. He just heard a loud thump and that was it. It doesnt make sense. He would never cross in the middle of the street. Reporter maria is almost certain that the man who was hit by a truck and left for dead is the same man who gets off a bus here at 6 45 every evening. He used to have a suitcase on wheels and he used to bring that along with him every day at quarter to 7 00 every day. Reporter on saturday police say someone hit him while he was walking just east of harriet avenue in san jose. An older model pickup truck unknown make and model number was traveling westbound
Around the south bay. It shows fireworks going off in the distance. A lot of illegal fireworks going off last night. Despite a warning by San Jose Police that people would be princip disciplined, there were no arrests. We have scott with the latest. Reporter we talked about budget cuts and many other calls which kept officers from checking in on people using illegal fireworks. If you are in the south bay, they prefer you come here to the show like the one going on at Great America tonight. It is both legal and safe. Our cameras caught fireworks all over san jose on the 4thomby bu you did not need to know lots of fireworks were setoff all over the city illegally and with dangerous results. This house caught fire after a Bottle Rocket burned nearby trees. The fireworks went up. It caught in our trees and they went up. It is rough. Reporter the captain of the San Jose Fire Department says enforcement is nearly impossible due to lack of resources and calls coming in from elsewhere. From ca
Hannah anderson and the man who allegedly kidnapped her james lee dimaggio. His car was found friday morning abandoned near the town of cascade, 70 miles northeast of boise. Local Law Enforcement in the area were able to confirm to the v. I. N. Number that the vehicle did belong to dimaggio. Reporter Hannah Anderson and dimaggio were last seen hiking on wings. A horseback rider spotted them but didnt know until later police were searching for the pair. As far as we know, it didnt look like she was being held against her will. Reporter the sighting launched a massive search in the Southwest Corner of an area called the river of no return wilderness a roadless rugged mountain region. That is one of the challenges here is the access into this area, the time it takes to get there. Reporter hannah went missing last sunday, the same day the bodies of her mother Christina Anderson and her 8 yearold brother, ethan, were found in dimaggios burned california home. Authorities say dimaggio was a
But not everyone is so sure thats a good idea. The best thing to do would be to wait until the retrofit is complete, then open the bridge. Reporter but experts and transportation officials have repeatedly insisted that the real threat to Public Safety is keeping drivers on the old eastern span, which remains vulnerable to an earthquake. The existing bridge is the one folks ought to be worried about and thats the one they shouldnt be trusting. Reporter the Oversight Committee agreed that the bridge will open the morning of september 3rd with little fanfare, a simple chain cutting ceremony and potentially a larger scale celebration next year. The temporary fix will be going in this weekend. It should take only about a day to install it. Just to give you an idea of how quickly this whole process is moving along, within about an hour of that unanimous vote happening, we saw that caltrans had already put signs up along the approach to the bay bridge, announcing the bridge closure from augus