Investigators say the uss john mccain sustained damage after colliding with an oil tanker. The u. S. Ship is still functioning and heading to port as search for the 10 sailors continues. Five other Service Members were injured in the crash. The navy ship is named for republican senator john mccain from arizona. Senator mccain tweeted tonight, cindy and i are keeping americas sailors aboard the uss john mccain in our prayers tonight. Appreciate the work of search and rescue crews. President trump had this to say. Ng quote thoughts prayers are with our us na thats too bad. Shortly after this the president took to twitter saying, thoughts and prayers are with our u. S. Navy sailors aboard the uss john mccain where search and rescue are underway. Tonights accident comes two months after the uss fitzgerald collided with a container ship from the philippines. Seven sailors drowned off the coast of japan. A navy captain, two Senior Officers and at least a dozen sailors are disciplined for tha
Area is reporting some clear skies right now with 55 degrees. They had been overcast for the past couple of weeks. San jose is cloudy at 66 and you will have to go pretty far inland toward the east bay hills and fairfield or vacaville. Near the bay there is no chance and there are low 70s with the high 70s peninsula and climbing into the mid 80s we will talk more about your eclipse weather at first lets send it over to jacqueline. This is a car fire that we have reports of and it looks like it is over on the shoulder but fire crews may have the right lanes blocked. Just be prepared if you are getting ready to head out the door we may see some delays. Other than that, it is a quiet ride over the bay bridge toll plaza. Back over to you guys. Thank you, jaclyn. This is the first time in a long time that a total Solar Eclipse is sweeping the United States coast to coast. Reporter millions will look toward the sky today are astronomical amazement. For the First Time Since 1979 the moon will
So when were talking about Affordable Housing needs, were talking about all of us. Only 10 or 15 are exempt from the need of Affordable Housing, meaning below market rate housing. Fights over rent control cropped up around the bay area. Several cities have measures on the November Ballot including oakland which has seen a lot of demand for rent recently, a lot of it spillover from San Francisco. Theres a rally at 8 a. M. At San Franciscos lower haight and at noon in oakland. Live in the newsroom, anne makovec, kpix 5. What are the arguments against rent control . Reporter you can imagine there are plenty of arguments against it coming from landlords and from economists saying it makes the situation worse by restricting supply resulting in rundown apartments and driving market prices higher. Then landlords bully protected tenants to try to get them out of their apartments. Thank you. Concord police are investigating a double shooting after a man and woman were attacked in their home las
From the top of coit tower. Its the last day of summer. Im doing the happy dance. I fired up our live hidef Doppler Radar. Look at the precipitation. We havent seen green. Looks like christmastime. Green and yellow. Okay, this is actual rain all associated with an upperlevel disturbance. Chance of sprinkles in the east bay, south bay and central bay as it lifts towards the Central Valley. This is our live weather camera towards the bay bridge. Waters appear calm but we do have a Small Craft Advisory in effect later today as the winds kick up northwesterly to 25 knots. Numbers range from 48 degrees at this very early hour in santa rosa to the 50s in San Francisco and redwood city and oakland. 60s livermore and san jose. So heres the deal. That swath of clouds toward sunset last night, wow, what a gorgeous sunset, it contains some precipitation but a lot of this is virga, evaporating before it hits land. Partly cloudy skies today, much cooler from 60 in pacifica, mid 60s around the bay t
Where the plane crashed in the sutter butte mountains in Sutter County about 60 miles north of sacramento. Ktvu ken wayne is outside the air force base at the main gate. Ken, you talked to a witness of the crash . Reporter frank, julie, im outside the gate at Beal Air Force base. You wouldnt know that there is anything unusual going on here based on the operations that appear to be normal. But we are half a mile from the crash scene. We want to show you pictures of the crash scene as investigators are going through the wreckage trying to determine exactly what happened to cause this crash. One thing that we can quickly rule out is the weather. It is clear and sunny and there was very light wind this morning. The wind is picking up now. Weather should not be a factor in the crash as investigators will be trying to determine exactly what went wrong. I talked to the man that will be half a mile south of the crash scene. And they heard a loud boom and they looked up. We found the smoke and