At the ravenswood avenue crossing. This is just off El Camino Real in a congested part of town. Barry mcsweeney is live with the latest. What have we learned . Reporter we just saw a train going by here. They are working to repair the damage here in menlo park. Im told the traffic often backs up from just a block away from this direction, and if youre not careful you can find your car sitting on a caltrain track, and maybe a train coming at you as it did today going 80 miles an hour. This pile of metal used to be an acura suv. The impact from the train so strong, the vehicles engine was knocked clear and hauled away by a different tow truck. Its a tragedy. Reporter caltrain believes about 4 00 today, the woman driving the acura started across the ravenswood crossing but traffic prevented her getting her vehicle off the tracks. Its just a basic fundamental rule. Dont stop on the tracks. Dont start across the tracks until youre sure you can get all the way across. Reporter caltrain says
San jose city hall, where activists nearly took over the meeting. We have more now on the struggle over affordability. Reporter she left an abusive husband and spent weeks in a shelter with her children. Sometimes in the family car. [ speaking in spanish ]. No. Reporter she says what shes learned since then is that landlords wont rent affordable apartments to a single mother with several children. So she joined rent control advocates today in demanding the city implement immediate and stricter rent control in san jose. The group flooded the City Council Rules Committee meeting which was addressing the issue. The crowd was so large, the meeting had to be moved to the Council Chambers so everyone could get in. We need to do something now. Theres not many other avenues we have. We do have this avenue of renters rights. But some members of the council say they are not ready to make a decision without studying it first. We have to know what we can do legally. Reporter the vice mayor says la
They should base it you know, the allotment on the number of people in the family. Okay . And everybody should pitch n as simple as that i think it only makes sense. Reporter a spokesperson for the San Jose Water Company says appeals for more water will be based on the honor system meaning, no cops counting family members. Some worry that could create water cheats. Nope, i dont think people can be trusted to do that i think if thats going to be the situation, i think its probably the citys job to probably audit, you know exhomes and just be able to pop in any time just to make sure that people are you know, doing what they say. We really have no way of knowing how many customers are behind each meter that we have. We certainly trust the customers are being truthful when they fill out their appeal form. Reporter a Public Meeting is being held tonight at 7 00 at the summit or the rotary Summit Center in downtown san jose. The Water Company says it really wants to know what customers thin
Brutality. More on recovery from hurricane laura where the president was heading today. Priscilla is in lake charles, louisiana. You had it tougher. You were in the middle of a storm there. How is the recovery going right now . How is america helping them . Reporter well, its bright and sunny here today, richard, and folks are out of their homes working on their homes, working on their businesses like you see here. At this gas station, there are folks working to clear away some of this rubble and assess whats going on here. But just a few moments ago, we saw helicopters going overhead, likely the president on his way to orange, texas, continuing to survey the damage here. He was actually on the ground just a little while ago, seeing much of the destruction that we have been seeing over the past several days. The homes that have been utterly destroyed, all of those downed power lines that have led to roughly half a Million People to be without power, not to mention the more than 200,000
Half, if not more. Were in this area called christmas valley. My motherinlaw tells me that we actually get more snow here, but it is still south lake tahoe. Over the hill, right, when you are driving in from the bay area. So, i mean, outside, absolutely picturesque beautiful. I think youre looking at some of the photos i snapped with my phone and maybe a little bit of video from today. The fleurys have been coming intermittently pretty consistently throughout our stay here. In fact, we were planning to head home today but its been a chain the entire time on 50. I dont think theres been any closures but chains required for sure. We decided to play it safe and stay one more day. Vicky, you go up there now and again. We know october were not used to getting this much snow. Is this unusual, at least for your standards and also we saw that video that you sent in. Is it so high that its waist deep and you just cant even get out of the house or move the car at this point . Absolutely. Its abo