Point to dangers drivers sometimes face. The driver said the most recent incident was a passenger he picked up on 19th avenue. Its not only passengers exposed to potentially dangerous situations. Dons macs his livings picking up 30s about a passengers a day. Confused after the 64year old picked up an Shopping Center on wednesday. He shared the dash cam video that captured the incident. Because of limited english his daughter described what happened. He started checking in the back seat and undressed himself and climbed to the front and touched himself. Wong drove the man to his location. I smile, because if i angry, hes more angry. Four weeks earlier he drove a lyft passenger that was throwing up. He pulled over and got out to punched him in the head. People are safety, the drive are the same people that the passengers are. Despite the two incidents he likes driving and will continue to work with uber and lyft. Both companies banned the passengers involved in these situations. The laws
Company not affiliated with the utility. We will bring in tom baker to get us up to speed. Reporter it was not pg es fault. It was an independent Third Party Contractor working on a construction project. I want to go right to the video tape so you can see the pictures. The company is called anvil builders and they dug into three lines that constitute a 12,000volt line and took out all three of those cables to connect two substations together causing this big outage. This is fairly rare. Unlike gas lines that are always buried into the ground, these are underground. At the peak, there were 22,000 people out. The actually number of people actually affected was much higher than that. The i280 ramp and freeway into the city was jammed because traffic lights were not working near oracle park. Pg e originally estimated a repair. Now they estimate one at 3 30. Pg e has been working as safely and quickly as possible. Anvil builders will surely be responsible to pay for the prepares and face cl
In the murder of a chicago man is over. 42yearold wyndham latheam, surrendered peacefully in oakland friday night. 56yearold Andrew Warren, an employee at Oxford University in england, gave himself up in San Francisco around the same time. Both men face first degree murder charges in the stabbing death of 26yearold trenton cornell. Chicago police found his body nine days ago in this luxury Apartment Building after they got a 911 call. The same day, an hour away in wisconsin, the two suspects made a mysterious 1,000 donation to a Public Library in his name. Investigators believe the professor and the victim had a relationship. Before his surrender, apollized for the murder. Latham seen here was a microbiologist at northwestern for ten years. I heard him give a talk to students about his research. He just seemed like a normal guy. Reporter Andrew Warren declined our request for a jailhouse interview. Both suspects are awaiting extradition back to illinois. Cornell bernard, abc7 news. We
South reno. Rpd tells us that they found they vehicle on friday and it has been taken to the station for processing. No arrests have been made in this case so police are still asking for your help. If you know anything about this case or the shooting at the siri casino you can Call Reno Police or secret witness at 3224900. Local construction workers are holding a protest right now at the Tesla Gigafactory construction site. The strike is in protest of nevada tax breaks that workers claim are being spent to bring workers from new mexico to work at the gigafactory construction site. Nevada governor Brian Sandoval signed legislation giving tesla 1. 4 billion in tax gigafactory in nevada. This legislation was passed with limited protection for nevadas construction workers, said todd koch, president of the building and Construction Trades Council of northern nevada. Nevadas tax dollars should be used to provide jobs for nevada construction workers not new mexico construction workers. There
Candidates could drop out of the race. 3 both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are coming off wins in nevada and South Carolina. But todays results will truly show us which candidates are taking the lead. Up to this point president ial hopefulls have been able to put all their focus on winning over one state. However 12 states are in the game today. Some of which include oklahoma, massachusetts, and arkansas. Tmcc Political Science professor fred lokken says todays voting will test the strength of each candidates campaign. 3 lokken now in one day 12 primaries, caucuses across the south and now a few other regions. Thats huge. And its a real game changer. It literally casts the medal of poorly organized campaigns and weve often seen on super tuesday when we start to see major washouts of candidates. 3 alex we will have continued coverage of todays polls here on news 4 as well as on our website. Stay with us for the very latest. Back to 3 bill and samantha lets take a quick look outside.