System. Problems down the line. Reporter at this home resulting power surge caused this smart meter to explode, among other issues. All of a sudden the electrical outlets started popping and fire shooting out of one, and heard noise outside. In discovery bay, reporting a popping noise and possible exploding smart meter. Reporter pg e crews were out. Students were released from lack of power. Damage in there. Just havent found it yet. Reporter pg e says residents can submit claims. On our website, abc7news. Com. A new wildfire is burning in southern california. Wild amire fire in riverside county. Just the last few minutes spread to 350 acres and burning in rugged offroad vehicle area on the eastern side of the forest. Evacuations have been ordered, zero containment. Now to the latest in the kate steinle murder case, park ranger whose gun was stolen testified today. Investigators say that gun fired the bullet that killed steinle. Lyanne melendez joins us with more on his testimony. Repo
County. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze. Shock for homeowners after big rig hit a power pole causing smart meters to explode in nearby homes. Happened in discovery bay. Laura anthony is live to show you how widespread the problems became. Reporter hi dan. Power outage affected about 3,000 customers here in eastern contra costa county. Forcing closure of a school for the day but power surge surprised and frightened some customers. Pretty good explosion. Heard from inside the house and pieces looked like they went eight to ten feet. Explosion, pg e smart smeert. Cause a truck accident. Medic 54, it is a big rig into a power pole. Occupant is out. Starte in discovery bay, leaving the pole and power lines teetering precariously. The high powered transmission lines at top of the pole came into contact with the residential lines blow. Hit and caused surge in the system. Problems down the line. Reporter at this home resulting power surge caused this smart meter to explode, among other issue
Here. Our next guest is very exciting to have him join us on the stage. Uri and i talked a little bit about a. I. Elons not a fan, uri is. Either way, the future is here. So please welcome to the stage dr. John kelly from ibm and our moderator, alex wilhelm. Okay. So were going to try to be different today. Were going to do a live demo which i props you works this morning promise you works this morning. Well see. What were about to see and why do we care . Well, alex, what youre about to see is something that no one else has ever seen other than people deep in my research labs. Many of you remember watson, the Artificial Intelligence machine, on the game of jeopardy. At the time it was an open domain, question and answer system at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence. Fast forward to today, what youre going to see is watson has ingested all of wikipedia and not only answers questions, but reasons over that and form opinions on any subject. Okay. Lets, so the tech guys can make it t
All closing at a record high on the same day for the first time in about 16 years. The big winners were energy and utility stocks. The nasdaq isnt taking part in the party at this point. If he check out the futures this morning, right now you see there are some red arrows. These are modest declines at this point. The dow futures down by 1. 5 points, dow down by 9. 5 points and the nasdaq down by 3. 5 points. Policymakers in europe are expected to stick with current plans keeps rates at record loys. But there is growing disagreement between ecb members and mario draghi. Here at home, two big economic reports to watch this morning. Both of them set to be released at 8 30 eastern time. We have weekly jobless claims seen at dipping at 285,000. Well be getting a first read on Third Quarter productivity and, andrew, ill send it over to you. Lets talk about some Corporate News this morning. Tesla posted better than expected Third Quarter results. Those results driven by record deliveries, but
Transition. Ktvu channel 2 news starts right now with breaking news. We begin with breaking news out of san leandro, where a woman is dead after being hit by a b. A. R. T. Train. Right now, service through that station has just resumed after being stopped for a couple of hours. Good afternoon, im tori campbell. Noelle walker joins us live from the san leandro station with what b. A. R. T. Riders need to know. Good afternoon. Reporter good afternoon, tori. We can hear the b. A. R. T. Train honking coming into the station right now. Just a short time ago, this stakes was packed with people whose commutes just stalled in their tracks but now within the last ten minutes or so, the b. A. R. T. Trains here at the san leandro station have started running again. So this station is back up and running for business. Take a look at this video we shot from chopper 2. This was shortly after that train stopped in its tracks. It was a fremont to daly city bound train stopped because of a Death Invest