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When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at 10. Im ken wayne and im noelle bellow. The vta is seeing a spike in copper thefts from its train tracks this week. The Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office has arrested 2 people suspected of stealing copper and investigators are working to track down others after 2 dozen copper thefts at the Transit System so far this year. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson here in the studio with the details. Sarah. The 2 people arrested are accused of stealing 10,000 worth of copper from the tracks of eta. On monday, a train operator actually witnessed the theft. The Sheriffs Office is now looking for more people involved in a string of recent copper theft cases. These are targeting the Valley Transportation Authority in the south bay, stealing copper from the tracks. The Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office says its investigating 2 dozen copper theft cases causing a total of half
It was a flight bound for sfo from sydney and experts say the issue appears to be some kind of hydraulic failure. Kron fours. Dan kerman joins us live from sfo tonight with more. Dan, it questions about what year is after united jet bound for l osaka lost a tire shortly after take off at sfo. And it crashed into parked cars. Theres been another united incident and a united flight 8. 30, from sydney to sfo, head to return to sydney after what united described as a maintenance issue. Those who have seen the video of the incident so fluid pouring off the plane on takeoff. Clearly they had a problem with the hydraulic either lying or system something. Something broke that the was. Allowing hydraulic fluid to overboard. Douglas rice is a retired commercial Airline Pilot and regional Vice President of the California Pilots Association that hydraulic fluid the ability for the landing gear to go up and down. It provides said movement of the flight controls it provide, sir, sorry, controls the
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