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
Looks mellow right now but do not let that fool you. The Officials Say this creek has caused problems and they expect it will cause problems again. So they will attack it today. They will line the creek with sandbags. It took them a day to prepare the sand bags. They filled 4,000 sandbags. They are hoping the sandbags will keep the creek contained for the rainy season. They are worried. The levee and the creek are damaged l is water that eroded the bank. The damage happened on christmas eve. There was heavy rain that night and the creek came up over the levee and flooded seven homes and streets. It cost 2. 7 million for repairs. Officials have to fine the money, the city of East Palo Alto does not have the money and they hope the state will help. Figuring all that out, of courses takes time and they do not have time. We are in the middle of the rainy system so they will line the streets with sand bags, 4,000, hoping it is temporary only. Today the ntsb joins the coast guard in investig
Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our militarys changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater. Nuclear submarines. Ships that go underwater. After that moment in the third president ial debate last year there was a brief but fascinating flurry of really earnest Fact Checking about the question of whether or not there really are fewer bayonets in the u. S. Military right now. Remember . Tmz had an exclusive inside scoop on outrage from the bayonet community. We are not obsolete. In fact, the last famous bayonet charge in American History was in 1951 during the korean war. But as rajiv chandrasekran of the Washington Post noted at the time of that debate, it was in 2004 when some of our british allies were out of ammunition in a big battle in basra, in iraq, and they resorted in that battle to using a bayonet charge to fight their way out. And for those guys thank goodness they
Good evening, and welcome to the kqed newsroom. As 2013 comes to a close, california may have seen one of the driest years on record. Wildfires flared across the state, yet managing the states water supply has long created controversy, environmentalis environmentalists, firefighters and voters against each other. The Irrigation Water is home to much of the state and also home to wetlands and wildlife. The states proposal backed by Governor Brown would build two massive tunnels to move water from the north to the states more populist south. The state said it would also save the deltas endangered species. But critics have called it a water valve and vowed to block it. Paul rogers, san jose news, environmental writer. The draft plan was released this week. What are some of the key points and what has the reaction been like . Well, the plan is pretty intimidating to a lot of people who are just casual news observers. Its 34,000 pages. Wow. You cant even get your mind around that. But it re
Because the nature of our militarys changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater. Nuclear submarines. Ships that go underwater. After that moment in the third president ial debate last year there was a brief but fascinating flurry of really earnest Fact Checking about the question of whether or not there really are fewer bayonets in the u. S. Military right now. Remember . Tmz had an exclusive inside scoop on outrage from the bayonet community. We are not obsolete. In fact, the last famous bayonet charge in American History was in 1951 during the korean war. But as rajiv chandrasekran of the Washington Post noted at the time of that debate, it was in 2004 when some of our british allies were out of ammunition in a big battle in basra, in iraq, and they resorted in that battle to using a bayonet charge to fight their way out. And for those guys thank goodness they not only still had the equipment but theyd been traine