The faa is now investigating this crash. Were also told two Alameda County firefighters were injured during the search effort but theyre expected to be okay. Have you been able to learn anything about the pilot . We know the pilot was from lincoln. The plane took off from lincoln and Placer County this morning. The pilots daughter had written on facebook, she had written a post asking for prayers. She said her father was headed to work. Unfortunately this is a tragic end tonight. And his name has not been released yet . It has not been officially released just yet. Thank you. Now to our chief meteorologist bill martin. You saw those pictures from where the plane crashed. Pretty cloudy up there. Cloudy and drizzly during that time when the accident occurred. That was a problem because a lot of rain had fallen in the area. It was tough to get the trucks in there. They couldnt fly helicopters because of the cloud cover. Interesting to see the drones being used in that application. Thats a
It was just before noon, emergency crews had received reports of an aircraft in distress. Air Traffic Controllers had lost contact with the plane 12 miles east of Oakland International airport. Dozens of firefighters from Alameda County fire to livermorepleasanton fire centered around this area by nile canyon road after pinging the pilots cell phone. They hiked up dirt roads because they had difficulty getting around in their fire engines because of the muddy conditions. The terrain is very steep. Its been rain ing off and on the entire day. Its muddy. There are a lot of oak trees. Very intermittent areas of grass land and oak trees. So there was a lot of area to cover by foot and by vehicle without anything being available by air. They were searching for about four hours this afternoon. Nothing was available by air boss of low visibility and the thick heavy fog in the area. Ground crews found wreckage of the plane. At one point we did see them use a drone to help pinpoint the aircraft
Day. We have the music director, and taking a live look at the backyard, the gorgeous oakland, clouds and rain in the diet, and back to reality it is. The british r b band band from 1989. I remember that, i was around. You were still taking a nap in kindergarten. It is good for us to be back. We have to work and pay the bills. Back to work and backto school for so many, and we hope you are back in your morning routine. We talked a lot about the 49ers big move, firing the head coach jim tomsula. I dont think this was a surprise to the fans or two jim tomsula himselfato jim tomsula himself. And we have the big choice, the head coach of the new orleans saints. And tomorrow, weatherwise, bringing in steve, and he says to wait till tomorrow. We will be very busy tomorrow, that is correct. That was a good one, alex taking naps in 1989. This first system will be the first of many systems, and tuesday and wednesday will have much stronger systems, and we get a few breaks behind this first syst
World cup to the winter. Well have the latest from zurich. At least 94 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off the southern ital lan island of lampedusa. It was carrying hundreds of people trying to reach europe from africa. Many jumped into the water. Ita italys coast guard is looking for at least 250 people, 150 others have been rescued. Lampedusa is a major route for migrants trying to get into europe. The tiny island lies 113 kilometers from the coast of tunisia. We have more from the italian capital of rome. Reporter a devastating scene was described by the may r o of lampedusa who claimed the situation on land was so chaotic he was struggled to find a place to put the dead bodies pulled from the sea and where to find a place for the survivors to be care of. Theyre very traumatized following this horrific incident. It appears that the incident occurred in the early hours of thursday morning. A boat carries what is expected to be about 500 people on board suffer
We look at how a falled u. S. Mission in somalia still affects washingtons thinking. We start with news that a boat sunk off the coast of italy. At least 60 people have been killed and 250 are still missing. The vessel went down about half a mile from lampedusa. Its thought to have carried illegal migrants. What more do we know, sonya . Reporter we know the latest figure that has just come out. We hear that at least 80 have been found dead and still 250 missing. From the sea rescue workers are describing scening of horror with bodies being found in the sea. This is an enormous death toll for this boat. Now, they described how many of these people have been in the water since the early hours of the morning, and emergency workers have been really racing against time to try and rescue as many of the survivors as you can see. What apparently had happened was that there were approximately 500 people on board a boat that was carrying subsaharan migrants. There was a small fire on the boat to