Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Breaking news tonight, an amtrak train plows into members of a legendary bay area band. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. That crash happened just after 7 30 tonight at Jack London Square in oakland. Kpix5s Christin Ayers is there right now. Reporter yeah, guys, the general manager of the jazz club yoshis told me it was 10 minute to show time. He says two minutes to show time. He says two members of the tower of power band, the bassist and drummer were rushing across the street and waited for one train to pass and tried to cross, but a second train going the opposite direction hit them. The two were thrown several feet. The manager called 911 and stayed by both mens sides. He said they were both unconscious at the time and appeared to have broken bones. The men were taken to Highland Hospital and were responsive at that time. We dont know if they didnt hear the train or we dont know how the tragedy happened, but were
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Breaking news tonight, an amtrak train plows into members of a legendary bay area band. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. That crash happened just after 7 30 tonight at Jack London Square in oakland. Kpix5s Christin Ayers is there right now. Reporter yeah, guys, the general manager of the jazz club yoshis told me it was 10 minute to show time. He says two minutes to show time. He says two members of the tower of power band, the bassist and drummer were rushing across the street and waited for one train to pass and tried to cross, but a second train going the opposite direction hit them. The two were thrown several feet. The manager called 911 and stayed by both mens sides. He said they were both unconscious at the time and appeared to have broken bones. The men were taken to Highland Hospital and were responsive at that time. We dont know if they didnt hear the train or we dont know how the tragedy happened, but were
Creek stranding livestock, damaging homes. Rescue crews saved nearly 50 people. Search and rescued didnt have time to notify people. They didnt have time. They didnt know what was come. Reporter so in the Santa Cruz Mountains we also saw the San Lorenzo River breach its banks also flooding some homes over there. Today we have learned the usc gs will be out at Santa Cruz Beach at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River to figure out how major storm events like the one this week shape and erode our coastline. But there is some good news because of the recent storms. Now, take a look at the lexington reservoir. And how full it is. Were told 40 of california including the bay area is no longer in a drought because of this weeks storms. Lexington reservoir like many others in the area is at full capacity. Meantime, right now, again, here in hollister, officials are warning people in some parts of the area to avoid drinking their tap water. They were giving out bottled water yesterday and no time
Hospitalized after they were hit by a train before a scheduled gig in oakland. Kpix 5s anne makovec joins us live from oakland, where the accident has stunned fans of tower of power. Anne. Reporter yeah. The two are recovering here at Highland Hospital this afternoon. [ jackhammer noise in the background ] reporter everybody is cautiously optimistic about their condition after they were hit by a capitol corridor train last night. [ music ] reporter this is the tower of power earlier this week performing at yoshis in oakland, the same venue that two band members were headed to when they were hit by an amtrak train last night. It was going about 25 miles an hour. Bassist Marc Van Wageningen who was filling in with the band and drummer David Garibaldi one of tower of powers founding members. The two were walking from their Waterfront Hotel near Jack London Square to yoshis for a gig that started at 8 00. It was just after 7 30 when they crossed the train tracks, first waiting for one trai
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