Oakland. Now lets check in with lisa gulezian. Reporter you know, people started arriving here at station seven just after the polls opened at 7 00 in the morning but take a look behind me. You can see it is not very busy at all. The vast majority of voters are opting for ease today and are voting electronically. 168,000 absentee ballots have already arrived at the county Registrars Office in san jose. This is considered a low turnout year for voters, roughly 40 to 50 of voters will participate in the county, at the same time Santa Clara County which is of course the center of all things high tech, has one of the oldest vote counting systems in the state. Most surrounding counties have whats called precinct voting which allows votes to be tabulated almost immediately after its cast. And a memory card is then taken to the registrar of voters. But in this county, things are still done the oldfashioned way. We flatten out the ballots to get them prepared to go through the scanning machine
Duty that were directly involved as you can imagine are extremely shook up. We actually sent them home yesterday because they were so broken up about it. Reporter ivans family and friends describe a boy who loved to smile and was always on a scooter or skateboard. I used to always skate with him on my free time. Reporter good guy . Yeah. He was a lighthearted boy. He always made us laugh. He was loved by everyone in the community. Reporter a vigil is planned for 6 00 p. M. Near where ivan was killed. Laura anthony, abc 7 news. Concern about safety prompted cal trans today to stop installing a controversial guardrail Safety System we have been reporting on. Trinity industries faces accusations of making changes that led to its guardrails not absorbing impact properly. Cal trans says it has suspended installing these rails until new federal crash test results are released next year. Just last week, the abc 7 news iteam first reported a bay area football star died in a crash involving tha
Paper mache is the comet. Comets can travel up to 300 miles per second so everything is really hauling here. This is such amazing stuff we are even seeing celebrity tweets. William shatner saying simply hooray. He posted this youtube video. Good luck, rosetta and philaes going to land on, i am so excited. A lot of people are excited. This remarkable achievement is the latest step in a mission that actually began a decade ago and culminated with cheers and hugs in a control room in germany. This celebration went on for a few minutes but the crew quickly got to work Monitoring Communications from the robotic probe. Philae was launched by rosetta which has been circling the comets for week. Researchers believe the comet holds clues about the dawn of our solar system, maybe even life on earth. A time capsule telling us what were conditions like when the earth itself was just forming. Thats huge. Officials say the aircraft may have bounced once before coming to rest. Scientists hope to lear
The situation and i understand the respect and respect that Law Enforcement had a job to do which is why i cooperated fully with their investigation from beginning to end. I am relieved that the d. A. s office has rightfully decided not to file charges. More good news for the 49ers. One of the teams best defensive players is back. Aldon smith has been reinstated by the nfl after serving a ninegame suspension. The pro bowl linebacker was suspended for violating both the leagues personal conduct policy and Substance Abuse policy. Smith is expected to play on sunday for the first time this season. Coach jim harbaugh said hes looking forward to having him back. New at 5 00, a Peninsula Motel evacuated this afternoon. Guests complained of a strong chemical smell. Firefighters treated ten people at the motel 6 on shoreway road in belmont. This is right near oracle headquarters. Turns out pepper spray was to blame. No word yet on who or why that pepper spray was used. New details on the death
For it. Reporter nonetheless they are forging ahead and when the 10 million report comes back it will likely mean spending another 10 million for yet another report to flush out the new ideas. Why . Because eventually there may be money. Reporter speaking of money the cost of the new report will be equal to about 2 million toll crossings. Its all about future planning. Reporter what do you say to the 2 Million People that are going to be paying tolls to pay for this study . Well, that i think in the long run again, its its i think its an enhancement to the bridge. Reporter and as you can see from the traffic on the bridge this evening, they are not going to have any problem finding the money or tolls to pay for this study. As to whether its ever going to happen and well have a bike path on that bridge, there was a time id say no way. After today, i think it may be just a matters of time. Why does the study cost so much . 10million . come on. Reporter thats just the first part. Thats on