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There was reportedly not much California Highway Patrol presence on Day One of Gavin Newsom's highly touted Tenderloin fentanyl crackdown, and it turns out the National Guard presence will only be criminal case analysts who will likely never be visible to the public.It's definitely ironic that Day One of Governor Gavin Newsom's calling in the CHP and California National Guard to battle the Tenderloin's fentanyl crisis occurred during a community promotion called I Love Tenderloin Week.

SAN FRANCISCO Four eastbound lanes of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were blocked Tuesday after a big-rig overturned, the California Highway Patrol reported.The big-rig overturned just east of the 1st Street on-ramp, the CHP said in a social media post just after 4:30 p.m..The CHP asked all trucks to exit at 4th Street.

CHP San Francisco Those heading to San Francisco from the East Bay Tuesday evening can expect severe delays after high winds downed a tree near the Yerba Buena Tunnel, reports California Highway Patrol.The tree fell around 3:15 p.m. and blocked three westbound lanes on the right side of the roadway, leaving traffic at a standstill.

A pileup involving 19 vehicles on Highway 101 in San Francisco led to harsh traffic jams for Wednesday morning commuters, according to California Highway Patrol.The incident was reported at 6:49 a.m. on southbound Highway 101 just after the Cesar Chavez Street off-ramp, CHP San Francisco Public Information Officer Mark Andrews confirmed to Bay Area News Group Wednesday morning.

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Despite a state crackdown to seize fentanyl and arrest its traffickers and dealers in San Francisco, more of the city's residents fatally overdosed on the synthetic opioid in May than in any month since at least 2020, according to city and county data.The California Highway Patrol has seized more than eight pounds of fentanyl in the city's Tenderloin district and its surrounding areas since May, following the governor's announcement of a task force with state and local authorities targeting traffickers and dealers.

An Ojai woman was rescued from the Pacific Ocean on Friday afternoon after she apparently drove her vehicle off the Pacific Coast Highway in Ventura County, authorities said.Dramatic footage posted by the Ventura County Aviation Unit shows the woman on a gurney being hoisted to a helicopter after rescuers pulled her from the water.

Although Breed did not specifically comment on a new emergency order, she highlighted the San Francisco Police Department's new partnership with the California Highway Patrol and CalGuard - announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom at the end of April -targeting drug trafficking and drug dealing in the city."We can't force the state and the feds to come to the table, but finally they are coming to the table in a way that's not necessarily traditional," Breed said.

All southbound lanes of the 405 Freeway were shut down early Monday after a crash killed one person near the Sunset Boulevard exit, authorities said.All traffic was being diverted off the freeway at both Skirball Center Drive and Getty Center Drive, said Officer Michael Nasir with the California Highway Patrol.

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A car barreling through the air in a high-speed action movie does not follow the same laws of physics in the real world, and law enforcement officials hope to drive home that point in a new anti-street racing campaign unveiled this week.The California Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies launched the campaign by staging a baby blue Lamborghini crashed into a light pole on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

After another winter storm pummeled Northern California this week with relentless rain and snow, blizzard conditions shuttered most major highways and roads in the Greater Lake Tahoe region and sent an avalanche crashing into an apartment building.A blizzard warning was issued for Monday through Wednesday morning for portions of the Sierra Nevada, including Interstate 80 and Highway 50, the two major east-west highways that connect Northern California and Nevada.

A series of winter storms battering California has proved dangerous and deadly, causing at least 19 storm-related deaths across the state.Earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the storms had claimed "more lives than wildfires in the past two years combined," and noted that the number of deaths "tragically is likely to grow."

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Three members of an Orange County family were killed, including two young girls, and four others were seriously injured in a crash Sunday morning on the 10 Freeway near Palm Springs, according to the California Highway Patrol.Nine family members from Anaheim were traveling in a Chevrolet Suburban on the eastbound 10 Freeway, where the SUV collided with a Tesla Model 3 and crashed into the center divider, the CHP said in a news release.

A 26-year-old woman is on life support after she was shot in the head while driving on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley last weekend, authorities said.The woman, identified by family as Ronni Newt, was driving along the northbound 101 Freeway in Tarzana when several shots were fired at her vehicle between 4:45 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 17, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A family member reportedly was the first to find a car that had plunged 330 feet off the road on Sunday night, after receiving a phone call from one of the victims.After their car drove off a cliff in Ventura County, one of the vehicle's two occupants reportedly called family members to tell them about the accident.

As his father drove from California toward Nevada, breathlessly repeating prayers while wearing a football helmet and steering erratically across the freeway, a 12-year-old boy made an emergency phone call from the passenger seat, telling dispatchers he was concerned about his safety.The call from the boy authorities are calling "brave" led to his rescue and safe return to family members.

A group of masked men displayed an "Embrace white pride" banner over the 101 Freeway in San Luis Obispo County for the second time in recent weeks, drawing counter-protesters and police to the scene.The four unidentified men argued with activists Saturday at the Vineyard Drive Overpass in Templeton that looks over the 101 Freeway.

David Crosby, who has died aged 81, was a premier-league rock'n'roll star twice.In the mid-1960s he was a founder member of the Byrds, the Los Angeles band often credited with inventing the genre folk-rock.This was defined by their shimmering recording of Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man, its distinctive harmonies and chiming 12-string guitar carrying it to the top of the charts in Britain and the US in 1965.

Santa Ana winds gusting through Los Angeles and Ventura counties abated Friday without sparking any major fires.But dry conditions still  raised the risk for blazes to ignite, and thousands of Southern Californians were left in the dark on Thanksgiving because of precautionary power shutoffs.Parts of both counties were still under a red flag warning Friday morning due to hot, dry gusts and low humidity, with those conditions expected to taper down before noon.

A driver traveling the wrong way on the 101 Freeway in East Hollywood was killed Monday morning when the vehicle crashed into two other cars and went up in flames, shutting down much of the freeway during rush hour, according to the California Highway Patrol.A red Toyota Prius was reported traveling north in the southbound lanes of the 101 about 4 a.m., CHP Officer Roberto Gomez said.

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A California legislator proposed a bill to establish an "Ebony Alert" system that would inform people of missing Black children and young women - similar to the Amber Alert.State Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) introduced Senate Bill 673 last week, citing the overrepresentation and underreporting of missing Black children and young women in California.

Challenging the claims of L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva that a crash last week that injured a group of recruits on a training run in South Whittier was intentional, the attorney for the 22-year-old driver called it "a tragic accident" that occurred when the man fell asleep at the wheel while on his way to work.

The arrest of a man suspected of driving a vehicle into a large group of recruits with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department - injuring 25 of them, five critically - has taken a confusing turn.Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder of peace officers.On Thursday afternoon, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the collision a "deliberate act" and suggested Gutierrez had intentionally rammed into the recruits as they were on a morning training run.

Law The eight were charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Edward Bronstein, who had been pulled over by California Highway Patrol on suspicion of driving under the influence.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

An intense police pursuit in California ended in death when a man who stole a cop cruiser bailed out of the vehicle while it was still moving at 46 miles per hour.It all began on Tuesday when California Highway Patrol was called to a freeway after being alerted about a reckless driver who crashed into another car.

For the second time in a week, the 71 Freeway in Pomona was shut down after large potholes opened by recent rain damaged multiple vehicles.The freeway was closed in both directions overnight Tuesday near the Holt Avenue exit, according to the California Highway Patrol.It was the same location on the freeway where about 30 vehicles had flat tires and damaged rims after encounters with potholes last week.

Four people were killed early Sunday morning in a wrong-way collision involving several vehicles on the 71 Freeway in Chino Hills, authorities said.The crash occurred about 2:30 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the freeway near Central Avenue, after several motorists called 911 to report a car traveling the wrong way in those lanes, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The southbound 5 Freeway in Glendale was shut down Saturday evening after debris fell from an overpass onto the roadway.An apparent sinkhole that had opened near the overpass caused pieces of concrete to fall onto the highway near Western Avenue, said Sgt. Victor Jackson, a spokesman for the Glendale Police Department.

After atmospheric river storms pummeled large swaths of California, triggering massive flooding and prompting widespread evacuation orders from the Central Coast to the southern Sierra, forecasters warned Saturday "we're not through this just yet."Flash flood warnings remain in effect for parts of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Tulare and Sonoma counties, according to the National Weather Service.

As a winter storm continued to lash California on Friday, several major freeways and roads were closed by the weather, including portions of Interstate 5.The weather system, which is expected to continue through Saturday, has created dangerous driving conditions for residents in mountainous regions.

In the wake of an immense storm and with more snow on the way, San Bernardino County officials declared a local emergency Monday to secure state and federal assistance clearing highways and neighborhood streets.So much snow has hit Lake Arrowhead in the last several days that resident Lisa Griggs couldn't recognize the highway outside her door when she walked to get groceries.

Stranded residents of Lake Arrowhead and surrounding communities in the San Bernardino Mountains that were inundated with snow this weekend were hoping on Tuesday that authorities could clear blocked roads and escort residents up and down the mountains before another storm was set to strike late in the day.

As crews hustled to clear snow-covered roads in the San Bernardino Mountains, many residents remained stranded Monday, frustrated at being cut off for more than 10 days and running low on food and medicine.The major highways to the mountains were reopened Monday afternoon to residents with proof of residency, the California Highway Patrol announced.

SAN PABLO Four of five men suspected of being involved in a stolen-vehicle ring and of shooting a person last year have been arrested following a nearly two-month investigation, police said.The four suspects were arrested Thursday when authorities served warrants at locations in Newark and Union City, according to a statement from San Pablo police spokesman Capt.

Video posted on social media showed a man crashing a dump truck into his estranged wife's home in South Los Angeles on Sunday, smashing into her parked car and other vehicles, then driving away before deputies arrived, authorities said.Patricia Dunn told KABC-TV Channel 7 the driver of the truck was her husband, Ronald Dunn, who is seen in a TikTok video crashing through a metal fence before slamming into the wall of her bedroom.

The latest in a series of intense winter storms will continue to lash Northern California on Tuesday, bringing periods of thunderstorms, heavy rain, wind and hail to the already waterlogged region as the death toll from the extreme weather climbs.As of early Tuesday, the back-to-back storms across the state had killed at least 16 people.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has made it clear that robot umps are coming and that the calling of balls and strikes will be taken out of the hands of the umpires soon.This is welcome news for a lot of fans, especially because technology allows us to see on TV every time an umpire misses a call, and it can be infuriating to watch an umpire cost your favorite team a game.

Hoping to increase safety and reduce traffic congestion, L.A. Metro will help locals ring in 2023 by again offering free rides on bus and rail lines on New Year's Eve.Starting at 9 p.m. Saturday, Metro buses and trains will not collect fares.The free rides will continue until 2 a.m.Jan. 1.The free rides have been an annual service offered by L.A. Metro to help reduce traffic during the busy holiday and "help everyone travel safely during the holidays."

A bus rollover killed one person and injured 11 others late Tuesday on Interstate 15 south of Baker, Calif., the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District said.The incident was reported at 11:35 p.m. at mile marker 126, about 15 miles south of Baker, a Mojave Desert city about halfway between Victorville and Las Vegas.

A cyberthreat targeting the California Department of Finance prompted the response of multiple agencies, state officials said Monday."The California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC) is actively responding to a cybersecurity incident involving the California Department of Finance," the Governor's Office of Emergency Services said in a statement.

Investigators are looking into the death of an unidentified woman whose body was found Thursday morning on the side of Mulholland Highway in Malibu.The body was discovered at about 7:45 a.m. in the 33000 block of Mulholland Highway, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.Investigators with the Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau were called to the scene, as deputies and officers with the California Highway Patrol blocked off traffic on both sides of the two-lane highway that runs through the Santa Monica Mountains.

A driver and a motorcyclist she had stopped to help were struck and killed by a third motorist in a Thanksgiving crash on the 5 Freeway near Redding, the California Highway Patrol said.The crash occurred 5:35 p.m. Thursday on the northbound side of the freeway, south of Balls Ferry Road, according to a CHP report.

The San Francisco Fire Department responded to multiple car crashes, caused in a chain-like reaction, Thursday around 2 p.m. on the Interstate 80 tunnel across Treasure Island  leaving at least 18 people hurt, all of whom suffered non-life-threatening injuries.At least four ambulances rushed onto the Bay Bridge Thursday afternoon to offer aid to over a dozen people injured in a multi-car crash.

A body was found in "unknown circumstances" Thursday morning on a transition lane off the 110 Freeway in South Los Angeles, according to the California Highway Patrol.A report of a man lying on the shoulder of the freeway was called in at 6:36 a.m.Officers found the man on a transition lane from the southbound 110 toward the westbound 105 Freeway, said CHP Officer Moises Marroquin.

Two men from Lancaster have been arrested in connection with a shooting this week on the northbound 405 Freeway that left another person injured, according to authorities.The suspects, 24-year-old Elijah Allen Green and 18-year-old Jaiden Allen Green, were taken into custody Tuesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.