The attack on an elderly woman is the first time anything like this has happened. The officer told me the suspect who we now know was being transferred from the emergency room to the psych er for evaluation. Thats when he suddenly jumped off the gear knee and gurney and randomly attacked a woman being treated and immediately pulled off and restrained by Sheriff Deputies nearby. The woman suffered some bruises, but she did not have to be hospitalized for the attack. In a statement, sf general wrote San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is profoundly sorry that she was injured while in our care. We take patient safely seriously and are reviewing procedures. Coming back live, the elderly woman is live at the hospital for her previous ailment and not the attack. Hospital officials tell me patients with violent histories are escorted in under restraint. She was not under restraints or Police Escorts which could suggest the hospital would believe he did what he did. Live from San
They continue their investigation. Day 2 without bart. We are looking it at long delays at the bay bridge toll plaza. Traffic backed up into the macarthur maze on this fourth day of the bart strike. Traffic is going to be very slow leaving the east bay heading into San Francisco. Highway 24 is also crowded between the caldecott tunnel and 580. Again were seeing the highest concentration of traffic delays leaving the east bay bound for San Francisco. San mateo bridge Still Holding steady. There was an earlier accident thats just been cleared from lanes. Westbound traffic still a little sluggish approaching midspan and no delays reported for caltrain, the ferries, ac transit. Do remember, bart will be offering very limited Free Shuttle Service from nine of their east bay stations. Last friday, they ran out of room quickly on the shuttle buses leaving walnut creek. Thats a look at the monday commute. Now to lawrence. All right. Looking pretty good weather wise. Starting out with some low
Hurricane katrina, this typhoon is still a super typhoon, a category 3 or stronger. Lets talk about where it is going next. That nasa picture, look at that from space, perfect cemetry on all four quadrants of that storm. It is heading directly toward vietnam, will make land fall there tomorrow. Still category 3 tonight. How about that storm surge where the ocean rises ahead of the storm moving through. We have seen storm surge from 10 to 25 feet. Here is a look at the imagery of the storm making land fall in vietnam by early tomorrow afternoon by a major storm, typhoon or hurricane before moving toward china. Devastating pictures coming out of the philippines here is the latest. Reporter winds of 150 miles an hour, and blinding rainfall batter coastal villages in central and southern philippines. Flooding and downed trees meant no body could get in or out. This town on sabu island was reduced to scrap wood. Rough seas, tossed a crew of 15, from a barge rescuers were unable to save one
Transportation headquarters in oak land tonight. John we are waiting. Reporters here photographers here. Bart representatives are her and Union Members areer hoochlt politicians are her. We understand from mayor kwan she tweeted out that an agreement announcement would be coming shortly. Bart says some last minute want still needed to be worked out but apparently they have. Our understanding is that atu earlier signed off on some deal upon the and members of the union showed up and they were initialing some of the last points earlier this evening as i said politicians did show up first mayor kwan who is celebrating her birthday today. Who got back in town from china on saturday. Showed up and said a great announcement. Then Lieutenant Governor newsom came to the headquarters and gave a thumb up indicating that deal was close. Union members large group showed up about 20 minutes ago. Would not say anything but it appears that this is getting very close to an agreement. We are waiting fo
The central philippines before sweeping west toward vietnam. And it is still packing destructive wind. This is not over yet. Abc News Reporter Chuck Silverstein reports. Sustained wind of 147 Miles Per Hour typhoon screamed the way across the philippines. Heres gust whip wave so high they rock the barn like a toy. Plunge the craw natural angry waters only the life jacket kept the head above the waves. Long enough to be plucked from the klouchs of the sea. The super typhoon packed whipped gust up to 2 35 Miles Per Hour. Faster than any u. S. Storm. Whenhe wind sped do go up the damage does go up expo tension nationally thats why we are talking catastrophic damage. Waves as high as 19 feet. Miles of power line mangled and dangling an millions in the dark and out of touch. Nearly 750,000 people pull up stake and in one case the whole house flee the path of the storm. Some werent by water and some started off on foot. Others ended up that way. Evacuee cramp shelters where they waited out t