Investigation. Again, its still unclear as to how the boy was able to access this area of the tracks. Lets here from captain wahid kazem. This afternoon, received a 911 call of a young male juvenile walking near the train tracks in the area of lafayette street over the 101 overcrossing. As our officers were responding to that call, we received a subsequent phone call informing us that the train had struck the male juvenile. Upon arrival, we did find the young male juvenile deceased. Reporter even though the age of the boy is still unknown, Santa Clara Police did confirm that there was no indication of this being a death by suicide. Theyre ruling it as an accident. Back here live, we did get confirmation from Santa Clara Police that the boys family was contacted after this incident. In santa clara, luz pena, abc7 news. Luz, thank you very much for the report. New tonight, pg e is monitoring weather conditions to assess the possibility of turning off the power to parts of the bay area ne
With Clear Conditions and that will allow temperatures to warm up a few more degrees compared to yesterday. So mid to upper 70s for the inland areas, around ftoday. A clear night tonight, but for the fog moves in tomorrow and big changes along the way midweek with much cooler temperatures and possibly fire weather. Liz. Thanks, frances. Developing news out of the south bay, a child has been hit and killed by a train in santa clara. The accident happened just after 4 00 yesterday afternoon along the Union Pacific tracks in the area of lafayette street and laurel wood road, not far from highway 101. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena has more. Reporter Santa Clara Police confirmed that the boy is younger than 15 years old. As to how this boy was able to make his way on to the tracks is still unclear. In this video we can see Santa Clara Police officers along the Union Pacific tracks, the train that hit and killed a boy was a passenger train operated by amtrak. Santa clara Police Confirmed that
the volume of traffic was high. then, glitches started. the system becomes bogged down slows down. then ceases to a halt. the computers enable us to communicate in mass. radio systems can only allow one person to talk at once and when there is hundreds of people on the same radio channel certainly, that is not a possibility. we approached the chief in a lunchen. this was his response i didn t fail during the incident. just the amount of people connected with that which made it slow. i don t know in terms of how that transpired. is there money come something staff is working with pledges to address the issue. the command staff acknowledged computers were old with too many problems. the plan is to have all ndcs replaced by the end of 2015. we re told by officers xulter system had glitches again today. the niece of the man who shot and killed mike michael johnson says her uncle may have suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness. he was described as a cari
live, this is abc7 news. i am getting more and more worried he hasn t turned up by now. he has no money and month id. a mother desperate to find her son. a uc berkeley soccer player is missing in los angeles. good evening. thanks for joining us. i m matt keller. he is missing and now his family is offering a $50,000 reward to find him. tiffany? well matt, this all started as a fun spring break trip with some teammates, but it turned into a desperate search for vasquez who has been missing for 48 hours and family members say his phone is off and he left without any identification or money. 2:00 a.m. on saturday morning she woke up to her cell phone ringing. the caller was 19-year-old vasquez. he was really worried. he said i need you to help me. i need you to come over here and help me. she was in berkeley and he was lost in los angeles. several minutes later he called again and static breaking up the connection. he said i m screwed. he was confused and i said cont
budget. so you re confident this will be solved? i hope so. the communication breakdown on the night officer johnson was shot and killed. good evening thanks for joining us, i m ama daetz. vic lee is live tonight at police headquarters with the story. vic? the police chief did not want to answer reporter questions. he must have been in a hurry. and the command staff met us here and said the fat shooting at the crashed after the incident, not during that incident. he said there is too much information or traffic on an old computer system just couldn t handle that data at once the city council approved the request to spend more money but officers on the field say that can t happen fast enough. officers say lap tops are old and outdated and critical. and have complained about it since last fall. these are the memos and letters. offirs responded to the 911 call at 6:45 tuesday night. police radio traffic was heavy. the volume of traffic was high. then, glitches started.