Hayward, the fourth accident involving drunk drivers in the past month. Another officer was pinned under a car after being hit on highway 4 on january 16 and a few days later, another officer was hit in san jose. In three of those crashes, drunk driving is believed to be the cause. This has prompted the chp to further step up dui enforcement. Reporter chp officer drew williams says he didnt remember a time this many local chp officers have been killed or injured so close together. Its been a pretty tough month. 33yearold chp officer andrew camalari was killed when a drunk and possibly high driver was killed on the shoulder of southbound i880. The two officers were on a maximum enforcement patrol looking for drivers under the influence. Four recent crashes, officer williams says three of them have been suspected of being under the influence. It really galvanizes you and makes you have a sense of mission in what youre doing. Three weeks avenue allegedly intoxicated driver crashed into hi
Dublin from 580 and 680 meet. Slowgoing traffic all morning long the traffic map thats updated, you can see red tic tacs and that means no one is going far. Bob redell has the reason for that backup. Its going to linger into the afternoon commute . Reporter dan and kris the trivalley has been a terrible mess with the traffic nap shows is sp very accurate. Normally by this time this time of backup is nonexistened but you pan to our left, looking east towards livermore and tracy, this backup goes as far as the eye can see. This is the view from the chopper, showing the problem. An afat paver that broke down around 4 00 this morning. This is on southbound 680 just south of the 580 interchange where we are at right now. This put the cal tran road crew behind schedule forcing them to keep at least one lane shut down and its still shut down. Were looking at the far left lane just south of 580. We just got word from chp that the new equipment has yet to arrive. So once that equipment arrives,
President trump signed the act into law. It will change the Way Police Officers book suspects and it has the potential to make a small Silicon Valley company very, very successful. Lets take you inside a fictional booking room and yes, this is all done by actors, but i want you to see the process. After the mug shot, after the fingerprinting, someone accused of a felony in california is swabbed and his dna is analyzed in compared to a database of other dna collecteda the crime scenes. If our fictional criminal was arrested for, say, felony hit and run, a nearlyinstant match might also place him at the scene of a murder last year. An important point most of this already happens in california. The dna swabbing and the matching and right now that dna is shipped off to a lab. The machine you saw in the video can perform that same test in less than 90 minutes right at the police station. Its made by antigenics, its produced the rapid dna testers. Thanks to a new law its demand is about to e
Consulate general of peru, the consulate of guatemala, and the consulate of el salvador, we are all joining efforts, along with a lot of different agencies, labor agencies. The goal is to provide information to empower the hispanic workers. This year, the title of the week is know your rights at work the wellinformed worker. Damian i mean, and that topic is not only for the spanishspeaking, the immigrant community. I mean, when you know your labor rights, youre talking about every american or immigrant worker. And we have some video, some examples of some of the workers out there. Now, are the other countries, peru and other countries, joining in because they saw how well its been working for you all and they say, i wanna be a part of it . Jesus yeah, exactly, we are joining efforts because this is not directly, as you say, just to hispanics. Its to the whole community, but the latin american consulates, we are directing our efforts to our community because theres an important sector o
Hurricane irma. 20 people confirmed dead from irma so far. Devastation on many fronts, Mother Nature showing her impact embracing over the weekend in florida. It is almost our part of the world is being attacked by Mother Nature. First harvey and irma and katia in the gulf. Here in the bay area we cant complain which is the heat wave which is nothing. Lets start with the newest story we are talking it is that massive earthquake. It has left at least 32 people. Magnitude 8. 1. An update on the damage to mexico and parts of Central America. That earthquake hit just before midnight off the Southern Coast of mexico. Hundreds of buildings were damaged and collapsed. We have been monitoring out of mexico, guatemala, and el salvador. Now that quake centered in the Pacific Ocean south of the state of chiapas. Hundreds of buildings have been collapsed or damaged. More than 600 miles away buildings were knocked out. Translator i had never lived through anything like that. I never heard the walls