Next. No major blocking issues on the roads to start wednesday morning drive. Looking at light volumes here westbound on the san mateo bridge fur crossing 92 this morning. A check of our drive time, westbound 580, tracy to dublin is the only slow spot. 37 minutes. We are in the green westbound four and southbound 101. We will check on the traffic maps in a few. New this morning the c. H. P. Investigating whether a crash in san jose that sent three people to the hospital was a d. U. I. One of the injured passengers is a woman who is eight months pregnant. The crash happened on highway 101 near tully road before 2 00 this morning. Having trouble getting the video and i apology. C. H. P. Said it appear as car was stop on the shoulder when hit bit other car and the conditions of the injured people have not yet been released. Now the other big story we are following, developing news from Southern California a Massive Wildfire has forced 82,000 people out of their homes. The blue cut fire is
Were following this morning. More trouble for an already embattled county jail. A former Santa Clara County deputy is behind bars for allegedly beating an inmate three years ago. Today in the bays bob redell is joining us live from the Santa Clara County main jail where detail thons latest case of inmate abuse. Bob, good morning. Good morning to you, sam and laura. What makes this case unusual that the District Attorneys Office initially passed on pressing charges against this former deputy here at the santa clara main jail, but yesterday the d. A. Came to a different conclusion and had filed charges against timmy tree, had him arrested at his East San Jose home and placed him in the very jail that he used to work. He faces charges related to the beating of an inmate in october 2013 while he was a correctional officer here. Tree allegedly kicked an inmate h nis head and face, cutting his face and breaking his jaw. Sources close to the investigation tell us tree was trying to help a fel
Police station. Reporter this is the first of many meetings to avoid a stopping shortage. They called the meeting productive. To give you some perspective, city leaders say 500 officers are needed to patrol the speak streets in san jose. Right now, the city of 1 million people. Its well below that. By next month you could see more officers back on the street. We got numbers that were so horrific just within the last week, were talking about over 340 10 hour shifts that need to be filled every single week in patrol. Reporter the move was triggered by this letter to the police union detailing the numbers. In the latest bid, only 413 officers available for patrol, below the minimum of 500 officers before the gap in positions backfilled with overtime. That has proven costly. If you are asking me are we in a state of emergency . Absolutely. We will feel the effects internally. It will be widespread. Its going to have a ripple effect. No doubt about it. Reporter david amoss bring says the sh
Coming out of a Community Dining hall. Kpix 5s cate caugiran finds out if drifters are a big problem in the bay area. Cate. Reporter allen, we did try to speak with several drifters here in this area but many of them were hostile towards our cameras. None wanted to be interviewed. But two people said they wont even sleep here in Golden Gate Park because its too dangerous. Its not only dangerous but deadly. We are trying to find out if anyone had contact with these individuals at all. Either one, two or all three of them. Reporter police dont know much about these three drifters how long they were in the bay area or if they had been longed to any other crimes. Trying to find out if this was kind of an anomaly or just something they have been doing. Reporter the handgun used was stolen from an unlocked parked car in San Francisco three days before the first murder. Investigators are trying to track down Surveillance Video. Tonight the question, do police see drifters as something the cit
Authorities arresting three people for killing a wellknown therapist on a hiking trail. Steve carter was found shot to death near fairfax monday night. Today, Police Tracked down three suspects in portland, oregon. Kpix 5s joe vazquez with how a stop at a gas station provided the clue investigators needed. Joe. Reporter veronica, the Sheriffs Department says they got a lot of clues a lot of help from the public, photos, video, and now they have three suspects behind bars. All three suspects were arrested without incident outside a Community Dining hall in the city of portland, oregon. Reporter marin county sheriff Officials Say it was pictures like these that helped catch the murder suspects. This surveillance photo shot outside a point reyes gas station shows two men and a woman filling a car up with gas. Whats crucial to point out is that the vehicle that you see in that photograph is our victims vehicle. So this puts them in possession of the victims vehicle. Reporter the three are