This is kpix5 news. Wild, wild winds blasting the bay area, taking down trees and knocking out power. And good evening. Winds are gusting to more than 40 miles an hour in some spots. This was the scene a little over an hour ago as a tree toppled on to a house hitting a homeowner. You can see the homeowner is lucky. He is doing okay but he was taken to the hospital. And take a look at this. The nike store at the bay street mall in emeryville fell off of the building and on to the street. A couple cars damaged but nobody hurt. The wind is causing power problems, about 500 people were left in the dark after a tree hit a power line. The electricity went out on Treasure Island and a 5600 customers in San Francisco were out. The temperatures are also falling along with some rain. This is the view from our camera over at sfo. The National Weather service issued a weather alert. The whole blue area, just about the entire bay area including the santa cruz mountains, winds 40 miles an hour. Stro
Medical equipment dive into the middle of the Pacific Ocean to save a little girls life. We are in a crisis plane mode from the time we get notified almost until the time we complete the mission. A family of four on a family around the world cruise stopped dead in the water, slowly taking on water. The youngest, a 1yearold, sick with an infection, diarrhea and rash and the closest doctor 900 miles of ocean away. No land mas whatsoever. The guys in the back dont see the target. They just go out on the jump masters command. Members of the team not on this mission told us how it works. They locate the boat by emergency beacon. Jump from 1500 feet, deploy a rubber swroediac, board the boat where paramedics in parachutes stabilize the girl. The pararescue men are skilled individuals, scuba diving or jumping out of the plane. The crew of four stays with the family until they reach the next level of medical care. Another day on the job, no thanks necessary, and the big, it is on us. What you
Looking into how this project became a mets. Workers who are looking into how this project became a mess. What happened with the east span of the bay bridge that left it 5 billion overbudget and 10 years late . I used to call it the poltergist bridge. It had thattorra. That that ora. We will go,and find out what went wrong for the process and learn from our mistakes. Reporter recently it was the onagain, off again opening and the broken bolts that is after the back and forth about the material and the design. Reporter the metro politan Transportation Commission took over from cal trans in 2005. What is old construction you can have it fast or cheap but not both ways. Reporter in this case we got neither. The bay bridge was a test. In some cases we failed that test. And there are more tests in the works for the governmental aeupblss, high speed rail, tens of billions dollars over budget. Boaring tunnels to bring water to southern california. The big institutions of the state. There are
Speed. 8 people remain in Critical Condition, dozens more still hospitalized. The two People Killed were 16 yearold girls from china. They were to attend a christian camp. The coroner is investigating if one of those girls was run over and killed by a rescue vehicle. Dramatic new video bian amateur cameraman caught the entire crash as it unfolded. Look how the nose is up in the air. Oh my god. It is an accident. Oh you are filming it, too. Oh, no. Oh my god. Oh my god you are filming it. Oh my god. Oh my god. You filmed the whole thing. Oh lord have phers. That is the voice of fred hayes, he and his wife were taking a walk yesterday morning and decided to videotape the planes when the crash happened. It is kind of surreal. My wife, gina we took it hard. We all did. It was a tragedy. And our initial reaction was that you know, everybody on the plane was in bad shape. And, you know, we were really happy that it was minimal, you know. And not everybody on the plane lost their life. Obviou
To talk on camera. But they did give us new details saying that the whole thing happened quickly. About a minute after getting the impact, they climbed out of the car, but at that point the Good Samaritan was already down. The driver of the silver toyota four runner said at that hour 2 40 a. M. On sunday morning he was on the lookout for drunk drivers, careful to stay at 65 miles an hour. He says that the driver of the black honda sedan who hit him from behind must have been going 100 miles an hour. The driver of the toyota suv did not want to talk on camera, but said that the impact sent his four runner spinning out of control, hit the median, and stopped on the side. Shortly after that, a Good Samaritan pulled his jeep to the side of the road to help. He walked into the lane and was hit and killed by an 18year old driver. Any time you see an accident on the freeway, do not stop on the freeway to help, just call 911 and let us know whats going on. You know if you stop, other people ca