One of them was also trapped inside what they call a ditch witch. Thats one of those machines they use to dig the tunnel the trenches to lay cables. He was trapped inside his vehicle because of the danger of further shock if he got out of that vehicle incorrectly. As you know, and there is a live wire on the ground energized, there is electrical electromagnetic fields which radiates from where the power is emanating. They are starting to lift the tape so they have apparently neutralized the power source, turning off the power so the shock is no longer a viable possibility. But, one person as we say already has been sent to the hospital, another one has just been taken off his rig now that the power has been turned off. This happened at the intersection of kylie and saratoga avenue in san jose. And we will continue to stay on top of this story and provide you any updates as they happen. Live in san jose, david louis, abc 7 news. Thanks, david. And now to our other top stories with devel
What drew you to this charity . I felt like they were doing work that no one else was doing. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Hurricane maria, the most powerful storm to hit puerto rico in more than 80 years has knocked out power to the entire island of nearly 3. 5 million people. Maria made landfall today as a category 4 and touched off catastrophic flooding. The storm is moving away from puerto rico tonight, toward the dominican republic, and tomorrow, the bahamas. David begnaud is in san juan. Reporter marias blinding rain and vicious 155mileperhour winds tore across this island just before 7 00 a. M. It ripped aluminum roofs off billions like they were soda can tops. It turned streets into rivers and debris into missiles. Puerto ricos governor is telling people to stay calm, but hes warning that the island is on the verge of losing communication. In one neighborhood, 80 of the homes are destroyed, and the entire island of puerto rico is wiewwithou
Openings. Aredifficulty that firms facing in hiring workers, the level of confidence we see in surveys about the labor market. All of that is pointing to the vast and continuing improvement in the labor market. We see sufficient strength in the economy in terms of spending, that growth with its nevertheless, but looks to be Strong Enough in the median term to support ongoing improvement in the labor market. All of that is good. The American People should feel steps were taken to normalize Monetary Policy, ones that we feel are well justified, given the substantial progress we have seen in the economy. Inflation is running below where we wanted to be. We have talked about that a lot during the last hour. This past year, it is not clear what the reasons are. It has not been mysterious in the past. Inflation has been running below are 2 objective. We are committed to achieving that. The monetary path that we follow, and the pads my colleagues are writing down in our projections are ones w
Island. As you mentioned, neil, this is the worst one they have ever seen here. The future path it will take it a little bit to the east of turks and Caicos Islands that said, those islands in the bahamian chain got absolutely devastated by irma. I dont think its a direct hit there. After that this is about a strange of a dance as you ever see in the western atlantic ocean. See it all the time in the pacific. It is called the fuji effect, jamessed after a japanese meteorologist in the early 20s, that typhoons would dance around each other when they got close to each other. We have the dying jose off the eastern seaboard of the United States. That tries to pull maria northward up offshore well to the east of florida. However, when jose dies completely, a ridge of High Pressure may build back across the top. It is not out of the realm of possibility this comes back towards the United States, specifically towards the carolinas in six or seven days. That is the worry right now. But we can
Rescue operations continue after a 7pointone magnitude earthquake kills more than 200 people in mexico city. Many people are still trapped under collapsed buildings this morning. james and back here in the bay area. We are following several fires that broke out overnight. Youre looking at video from a fire in san jose that injured two people. There was also a fire in oakland and one in San Francisco that caused injuries. We will have a live reports on those in just a few minutes. darya we have the very latest on those stories. But first we want to get a check of weather and traffic. james anny is tracking your forecast and robin is watching the commute. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. anny were midway through the week and continuing to cool down. Morning temperatures are in the 50s and low 60s with mostly clear skies all around the bay. The system to our north that weve been tracking for days will send a cold front across our area today whi