male announcer this is bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Through the fog. The investigation into yesterdays bay bridge crash is gaining momentum. fog horn the pilot is called one of the most skilled in the bay. But his record is not spotless. He had three incidents in his file we asked the experts about the challenges of navigating a cargo ship on the bay. Somebody did something wrong. And talk to the coast guard about possible human error. That is something we always consider pam tonight at eight. The overseas reymar is still anchored in the bay between alcatraz and treasure island. The coast guard still trying to figure out how it could have hit a tower on the western span of the bay bridge. For the very latest on the investigation. We go live to kron4s terisa estacio. On treasure island. Terisa . R reporter the National Transportation safety board is calling this a tragedy with one half Million Dollars as many independent agencies are causing and starting their own inve
Has ordered the vessel and not to go anywhere. And it digging into the investigation of why it swiped the tower 6 of the bay bridge and the National Transportation safety board has announced that it is investigating the crash is is that it is a major marine casualty with one half a Million Dollars in damage, so far. Kron4s Maureen Kelly attended a coast guard briefing where they outlined their next steps in the investigation. Reporter tuesday investitgators interviewed the bar pilot. The local person tasked with helping to manuever the 752 foot vessel thru these waters. The captain and key members of the crew will also be interviewed. Drug and Alcohol Testing is already underway. The coast guard says human error is one of the possibilities they are looking at. That is something that we will always look at is. Pilot error, can lend her. Reporter inspectors and investigators plan to go thru every inch of the ship. Including testing the navigation equiptment meant to help guide the tanker
Deal with a brutal dictator and a state sponsor of terror . Not everyone thinks so. Many cubanamericans, president ial hopefuls and others are not celebrating today. The national lead. Thousands of Movie Theaters abandoning sony after hackers threaten to attack moviegoers who just want to check out the new seth rogan flick. Now some in hollywood are saying if you skip that matinee you are letting the terrorists win. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Well begin this afternoon think, with our world lead. An earthquake in American Foreign policy and after 50 years of diplomatic back biting, human rights abuses, espionage and attempted invasion, even a crisis bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war, the United States and cuba may now be moving toward something resembling normal. President obama said today that things in havana will start to look a lot like things in every other capital around the globe. Functional u. S. Embassy and potential influx of am
The largest on the planet so far this year. It made landfall earlier today in the bahamas and now its next target, the southeastern u. S. Coast. Evacuation orders are in effect for several south florida communities, including palm beach. We also have new video in to cnn of dorian hitting the bahamas. A resident capturing the veracity of the winds and the rain as the storm comes ashore. I want to bring in jennifer gray, meteorologist, who is tracking this catastrophic storm from the cnn weather center. What are you seeing . There were no changes to the 4 00 p. M. Update. Winds still 185 Miles Per Hour. So unfortunately, theyre not going down. This is the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the bahamas and tied for the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the atlantic basin. So this is a powerful storm, no doubt. Its crawling to the west at a snails pace. This is going to sit over the bahamas for several days as it continues its westward journey at only 7 Miles Per Hour. And its
I do have the information on the Family Center is located at, a setup at ector county Annex Building on 1010 east 8th street. And thats for the Family Center, the Reunification Center there, okay . Any other questions before we wrap this up . How many doctors were called in . Several. We called in a lot. So we had our basic Emergency Department crew and on top of that, we have backup Emergency Department crew, but often you have to figure out the bottlenecks in your system, and this came from our preparation. The bottleneck may not be the emergency room. It may be the operating room, the anesthesiologists. So we prepared this in advance. Everybody was called in from extra nurses, extra techs, extra, you know, custodians. They may save more lives than anybody by preventing infection. So this is a team effort and we were prepared for this and the whole team was called in. Thank you. Just, last thing, were going to stay on lockdown until 10 00. At 10 00, well reassess the situation and ma