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17 News @ Sunrise 04/17/2024
April 17, 2024 13:46 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBSome of today's top stories The race for the gold is getting a lot closer this morning.. Today we are exactly 100-days out from the opening ceremony at the summer olympics in paris.. To celebrate.. Dozens of stars from team usa are in new york to talk about the games and what it means to represent their country with the whole world watching.. NBC's Jay gray spent some time with the athletes, and has more. And the TODAY Show is celebrating the countdown in a big way! Tune in thi...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/16/2024
April 16, 2024 13:51 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBSome of today's top stories We're learning the name of a woman who was hit and killed by a car over the weekend. It happened just after 2 a.m. Saturday at South P Street. Bakersfield Police say 45-year-old Estella Andino was hit by the car and died. The search is still underway for the driver. call B-P-D if you have any information. By our count, this is the 18th person hit and killed by a car in Kern County this year. And the California Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly crash east ...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/15/2024
April 15, 2024 13:50 - 23 minutes - 32 MBSome of today's top stories When donald trump.. Manhattan prosecutors.. And potential jurors gather to begin the first-ever felony trial of a former u-s president.. NBC's Jay gray has the story. Fire crews raced to the call of a structure fire at the Woolworth Diner Saturday afternoon. The fire was located inside on the third floor of the building in downtown Bakersfield. The building was purchased by MoneyWise Wealth management and is currently going through extensive rennovations....
17 News @ Sunrise 04/12/2024
April 12, 2024 13:57 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBSome of today's top stories A traffic alert for you this morning... vehicles have been backed up on the northbound side of I5 over the grapevine, for more than 15 hours now. This is a live look this morning at the closure that started just before 2 p.m. yesterday. As of 2 this morning the CHP website reported that officers expected clean up to take a few more hours. As of last check, two lanes were closed. It all started when the CHP says a truck carrying 23-thousand pounds of paper products...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/11/2024
April 11, 2024 13:49 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBSome of today's top stories We're learning more this morning about some tense moments at last night's Bakersfield City Council meeting. A pro-Palestinian protester was arrested... after allegedly making threatening comments to city councilmembers. Riddhi Patel.has been attending City Council meetings to ask that city leaders pass a ceasefire resolution for the Israel-Hamas War. Soon after those comments... Patel was escorted out of the chambers then arrested by Bakersfield police officer...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/10/2024
April 10, 2024 13:56 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBSome of today's top stories We have an update on a story we've been following for several weeks now. It involved a woman's claim she saw a sheriff's employee use a cat for target practice. While the woman didn't capture the actual shooting on video, she did record her confrontation with the three men involved. Sheriff Youngblood tells 17 News his office is investigating the claim.This happened at the Hart Park shooting range two weeks ago. You just heard the woman who recorde...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/09/2024
April 09, 2024 13:54 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBSome of today's top stories Three years after a deadly shooting at a sports complex in east Bakersfield... two suspects have been arrested. Police say a man was shot and killed at the Mesa Marin Sports Complex back in 20-21. And this morning, two men are facing murder charges. Ulices Alonso was arrested last Friday in Colorado with the help of local law enforcement. The other suspect, Eric Faria, was already in custody facing other unrelated charges. He is due in court later ...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/08/2024
April 08, 2024 13:58 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBSome of today's top stories It is eclipse day across the country... Everyone in the continental United States will have the potential to see the moon at least partially blocking the sun..And there may be no better place to see the junction between the sun.. Moon.. And earth than junction, Texas -- and that's where Jay Gray is this morning with more on this historic day Local fire crews were busy this weekend putting out a couple big fires in town. The latest one happening in East Ba...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/05/2024
April 05, 2024 14:36 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBSome of today's top stories We are getting our first look this morning at a man accused of abducting an 11-year-old Bakersfield girl and taking her to Utah. 29-year-old Joshua Stehle {stay-lee} of Colorado was extradicted to Kern County on Tuesday. He faces several charges including kidnapping and child molestation. The girl was reported missing last month, and when deputies searched a computer at her home, they say they discovered the two had an online relationship. The two wer...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/04/2024
April 04, 2024 13:49 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MBSome of today's top stories The road is all clear now after a gas leak shut down a portion of Mohawk Street for several hours.You can see many fire engines and police cars were on scene. The incident blocked off Mohawk Street from Truxtun to California avenues. P-G-and-E crews worked overnight to fix the problem. No word yet on what caused the gas leak Bakersfield Assemblyman Vince Fong is getting ready for a big battle in Sacramento today. Despite being the top vote getter...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/03/2024
April 03, 2024 13:46 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MBSome of today's top stories We begin with breaking news out of Taiwan. At least 9 are dead after the most powerful earthquakes in decades struck the island this morning. This is a look at the violent shaking. The quake came in at a 7-point-4 magnitude.. the strongest to shake Taiwain in 25 years. Seismologists say the island is among the most active areas in the world for earthquakes. Back here at home... the National Tsunami Warning Center says there is no tsunami threat to ...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/02/2024
April 02, 2024 13:35 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBSome of today's top stories The Kern County Sheriff's Office has launched an internal investigation after a woman claims she saw KCSO employees use a cat for target practice. While the woman didn't capture the actual shooting on video, she did record her confrontation with the three men involved. In the video you can hear a man reply "it was damaging property." The woman confronted the 3 men dressed in tactical gear at the sheriff's department's Hart Park shooting range in Bakersfiel...
17 News @ Sunrise 04/01/2024
April 01, 2024 13:43 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MBSome of today's top stories While Kern County picked up a healthy amount of rain, it was too much in other areas of our state.In Montecito, nearly two inches of rain fell in the span of one hour. The heavy rain led to flooding and mobilized rocks, mus and sediment onto many local roadways. Several homes experienced flood damage. Downed power lines, fallen trees and gas leaks were reported throughout the area. Multiple fire crews scrambled to the call of a structure fire yesterday afternoon ...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/29/2024
March 29, 2024 14:01 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBSome of today's top stories the moment a glass door shattered at Bakersfield City Hall... during a tug-of-war-like battle between police and pro-Palestinian protesters.This resulted in a number of protesters being taken to jail. They're all free this morning. And while the confrontation unfolded outside city hall... it all started with a dispute inside the chambers. 17's Jenny Huh has more on what comes next. A man has been sentenced to life in prison for a murder in East Baker...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/28/2024
March 28, 2024 13:45 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBSome of today's top stories Multiple pro-Palestinian protesters are under arrest this morning... following a confrontation at last night's Bakersfield City Council meeting. It all start after the protesters were kicked out of the chamber again. This is the fourth meeting in a row Mayor Karen Goh has called for the chamber to be cleared. The protesters want city leaders to join dozens of other cities across the U-S... and approve a ceasefire resolution. Video circulating online s...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/27/2024
March 27, 2024 13:46 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBSome of today's top stories A Wasco man accused of biting a severed human leg, appeared in a Shafter courtroom to face a judge for the first time following the shocking incident. 27-year-old Resendo Tellez faces four charges in connection to the crime. The judge entered a not guilty plea on Tellez's behalf. The incident happened Friday after a person was hit and killed by a train in Wasco. Video shows Tellez on the sidewalk carrying what witnesses say was a severered leg from the train vict...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/26/2024
March 26, 2024 13:51 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBSome of today's top stories a disturbing eyewitness account of a man seen on video walking around with a severed body part from a train crash. It happened last Friday in Wasco. Witnesses tell us, 27-year-old Resendo Tellez is the man seen in this video carrying around a severed leg... and accuse him of biting into it. That body part... belonging to a victim hit and killed by a train at the Wasco Amtrak Station. Before the incident, Tellez was seen in security footage shared with 17 News....
17 News @ Sunrise 03/25/2024
March 25, 2024 13:53 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBSome of today's top stories Many in Wasco are in disbelief this morning... after watching a bizarre video of a man walking around with a severed body part from a train crash. Here's what we know. This happened Friday morning in Wasco. When first responders arrived... the pedestrian was found dead. What led up to the crash is still under investigation. By our count... this was the 15-th pedestrian death in Kern County so far this year. The witness who sent this to us, says a m...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/22/2024
March 22, 2024 13:53 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBSome of today's top stories A former Kern County prosecutor says supervisors at the District Attorney's Office ordered her not to wear skirts to work, even during Bakersfield's scorching summers, unless she also wore pantyhose.That's according to a federal lawsuit set for a scheduling conference next month. Nishi Dayal says she has fibromyalgia, a painful disorder that limits her mobility and prevents her from wearing stockings or certain footwear. After multiple reprimands for not...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/21/2024
March 21, 2024 13:53 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MBSome of today's top stories Stanley cups and bottles have been flying off the shelves across the country. But soon... they'll be banned from some schools in Kern County. The Rosedale Union School District notified parents about the ban yesterday. It states that drink containers that have any metal or glass in them -- will be prohibited from campuses after students return from spring break on April 2-nd. The district did not elaborate on why the ban will be put in effect.... but s...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/20/2024
March 20, 2024 13:59 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBSome of today's top stories we begin with new numbers this morning in the special election to replace former Bakersfield congressman Kevin McCarthy in the House. In the count so far... one candidate is taking a commanding lead... but it may not be enough to avoid a runoff election. 17's Jenny Huh joins us now to break it all down. Parents are holding their children a bit tighter this morning after hearing about a shocking case of child abduction right in our own backyard. 17's...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/19/2024
March 19, 2024 13:54 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MBSome of today's top stories rumors are swirling on Capitol Hill this morning. Former Bakersfield Congressman Kevin McCarthy is being considered as a top candidate for Donald Trump's chief of staff... should Trump win the presidential election. That's according to a Bloomberg article published yesterday. It says McCarthy was offered the job in Trump's last term, but turned it down because he wanted to serve as house speaker. According to Bloomberg, Trump is considering McCarthy ...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/18/2024
March 18, 2024 13:41 - 19 minutes - 27.3 MBSome of today's top stories a frightening moment for an 11-year-old girl who was reported missing in Bakersfield...but later was found with a man in Utah KCSO said Ryder Rene Garcia was reported missing early yesterday morning. Later that morning, deputies learned the young girl may be with a man, and traveling through Utah. Local deputies reached out to Utah authorities to help find Garcia. Officials say she was found with a man and unharmed. Officers over the weekend responded...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/15/2024
March 15, 2024 13:42 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBSome of today's top stories It's an ongoing concern in Kern County... pedestrian safety. And now two pedestrians are dead this morning... following seperate crashes in the same day.One of them happened last night in southeast Bakersfield at the intersection of Cottonwood and East Pacheco Roads. You can see several emergency vehicles responding to the crash. Police say a woman was hit by a pickup truck. She died at the scene. Earlier yesterday, another person hit and killed...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/14/2024
March 14, 2024 13:29 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBSome of today's top stories Once again... pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a Bakersfield City Council meeting last night. And Mayor Karen Goh... kicked them out.the meeting was halted and the protesters were escorted out of the building. They want city council members to join more than 70 cities across the U-S and approve a ceasefire resolution. Other cities on that list include Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco. No word yet from Bakersfield City Council if there are pla...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/13/2024
March 13, 2024 13:43 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBSome of today's top stories A man is behind bars this morning after an hours-long standoff with KCSO deputies in Rosamond.This is what the scene looked like last night. The Kern County Sheriff's Office says deputies were sent to this home for a report of a restraining order violation. However, deputies say a man -- identified as 24-year-old Joseph Nelson -- refused to come out and barricaded himself inside a room. You can see several emergency vehicles were on scene during this t...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/12/2024
March 12, 2024 13:48 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBSome of today's top stories an update on Kern's homeless crisis. Dozens of people are back on the street this morning after being arrested during an encampment sweep in Old Town Kern. The sweep is drawing polarizing opinions. Some say it is just making the homeless crisis worse.... while others say strategical sweeps can be the solution. 17's Cecilia Trevino has the story. In an effort to combat the homeless crisis here in Kern County... a local nonprofit is getting a big c...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/11/2024
March 11, 2024 13:43 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBSome of today's top stories a violent crash that shut down lanes of highway 178 last night.one of the cars resting in the median of the road. This happened on the 178 between Haley Street and Mount Vernon Avenue. At least two cars were involved. Most of the road had to be shut down as crews cleared the area. We're still waiting for more information about the crash from CHP, but an ambulance was seen leaving the scene. A man accused of domestic violence and being armed with weapons was shot ...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/08/2024
March 08, 2024 14:21 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBSome of today's top stories a shooting investigation launched in Lamont overnight Here's what we've learned so far. The shooting happened around 6:45 last night. Investigators say a man was shot several times and was inside this home when deputies arrived. KCSO says the man was taken to the hospital with wounds that do not appear to be life threatening. No word this morning on any possible suspects. Now to a standoff that played out in southwest Bakersfield. Officers...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/07/2024
March 07, 2024 14:42 - 18 minutes - 26 MBSome of today's top stories An investigation is underway this morning after a man was found dead in a Planet Fitness parking lot.This is what the scene looked like last night in Central Bakersfield. Police say a man called to report that his brother was unresponsive inside a car. Witnesses say they saw officers arrive and break through a backseat window. You can see what appears to be glass on the ground near the car. Police say there were no obvious signs of trauma to the ...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/06/2024
March 06, 2024 15:03 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MBSome of today's top stories We're learning Nikki Haley is set to drop out of the race for president. That now leaves Donald Trump as the last major Republican candidate vying for the White House.This news is according to three people with direct knowledge of Haley's decision. Haley is expected to formally suspend her campaign in a speech at 7 a.m. Haley argued that she was a fresh alternative to the former president and that it was time to move past the “chaos” of the Trump era. ...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/05/2024
March 05, 2024 14:50 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBSome of today's top stories It's the biggest election day on the primary calender... Super Tuesday is here... and our local polls are just hours away from opening up. Whether you got your ballot in the mail or you're making sure to head to the polls later today, we've compiled everything you need to know. Polls are open from 7:00am to 8:00pm today. You can head to www.kernvote.com, and click on the tab "Poll Site Look Up" to find the closest polling site. If you prefer using the drop b...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/04/2024
March 04, 2024 14:37 - 18 minutes - 26 MBSome of today's top stories Yosemite national park is back open this morning. The park closed Friday because of the storm. Park rangers say as of three o-clock yesterday visitors were welcome to come in through the highway 41 and 140 entrances. Big Oak Flat Road and Badger Pass Road plus some ski areas will stay closed until today at noon and tire chains are required. The Wawona campground will re-open as first come first serive- and the park says bring a shovel- to be prepared for winter c...
17 News @ Sunrise 03/01/2024
March 01, 2024 14:37 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBSome of today's top stories the department of water resources conducted its third snow survey of the season yesterday morning, before a full-blown blizzard is expected to roll through the sierra nevada mountains. At Phillips Station, the DWR measured the water content of the sierra snowpack... showing a depth of 47 point 5 inches -- roughly four feet.. which is about 77 percent of the average for this time of year at that location. DWR's electronic readings from 130 stations placed t...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/29/2024
February 29, 2024 14:39 - 17 minutes - 24 MBSome of today's top stories For the second time in two weeks... pro-Palestinian protesters took over a Bakersfield City Council meeting... calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.Several protesters delivered passionate speeches in front of the council for a little under an hour last night. They want councilmembers to approve a ceasefire resolution... joining more than 70 other cities across the U.S. At this time, however, councilmembers have not announced any plans of voting on a resolution. The ...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/28/2024
February 28, 2024 14:44 - 15 minutes - 21 MBSome of today's top stories We begin with breaking news from overnight out of east Bakersfield... where crews are battling another train fire this morning.You can see firefighters... sliding that door open to find a raging fire inside the train. This is on the railroad along Edison Highway... near the East California Avenue intersection. Crews first got word of the fire shortly after 2 A-M. No word yet on how it started... or if anyone was hurt. This is the second time in t...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/27/2024
February 27, 2024 15:01 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBSome of today's top stories It's primary day in Michigan and another test for Nikki Haley who is trying to hang on despite the odds. For democrats, the battleground state could be a barometer for president Biden who faces severe criticism there for his handling of the Israel-hamas war. NBC's brie Jackson is in Washington We're learning more on what *was* a major concern for some voters in the Central Valley. Many voters who live in California's 20th Congressional District might ...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/26/2024
February 26, 2024 14:51 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MBSome of today's top stories Invetigators this mornig are trying to figure out what caused a train to catch fire in downtown Bakerwfield.Crews raced to this scene near Mechanics Bank Arena Saturday night. Investigators say when they arrived... the conductor had no idea the train was on fire. It was found stopped under a bridge of Highway 99... and had to be moved to another location before fire crews could work on containment. Police say the blazed caused half a million dollars in damages No...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/23/2024
February 23, 2024 14:44 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBSome of today's top stories Four candidates took the stage in a highly anticipated debate in our studio last night... All of them are trying to fill that open congressional seat -- last held by Bakersfield's Kevin McCarthy. Four candidates qualified for the debate. Bakersfield Assemblymember Vince Fong and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux on the right... local educator Marisa Wood and security officer Andy Morales on the left. They touched on national issues like immigration and fent...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/22/2024
February 22, 2024 14:46 - 18 minutes - 25.4 MBSome of today's top stories breaking news from overnight. Another pedestrian is dead this morning following a hit-and-run crash.It happened around 9-30 at the intersection of Columbus and Rice Street. When officers arrived... they say they found a man dead in the middle of the road. The driver involved in the crash had already fled. Investigators say the man was hit in an "unmarked crosswalk." An investigation continues this morning. By our count... this was 9-th pe...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/21/2024
February 21, 2024 14:43 - 15 minutes - 20.9 MBSome of today's top stories A bombshell announcement in the race for California's 20th Congressional District. Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Bakersfield Assemblyman Vince Fong. 17's Jenny Huh has more. The four candidates seeking to win the U.S. House of Representatives seat once filled by Kevin McCarthy will take to the debate stage tomorrow night in a bid to win your vote. The candidates will debate live in the KGET TV studios starting at 7 P-M. The debate w...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/20/2024
February 20, 2024 14:42 - 14 minutes - 20 MBSome of today's top stories Dozens of officers scrambled to the scene of a shooting in south Bakersfield... that prompted a standoff with the SWAT team. We're told by authorities at least one shooting victim is in the hospital. 17's Rob Hagan has the latest. This is an 8-foot tall statue of Sinclair's famous green dinosaur. It's on its way back to where it belongs... at the gas station on the corner of Coffee and Hageman roads.... after being *stolen.* Officers found it st...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/19/2024
February 19, 2024 14:52 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MBSome of today's top stories Two men are dead this morning... following a shooting in Lamont over the weekend. KCSO says deputies found the two men down with gunshot wounds Saturday night on Tatum Street. One victim was pronounced dead at the scene... the other died at the hospital. No suspects have been named at this time. The investigation continues this morning. An elderly man was killed in a crash on Highway 14 in Mojave. It happened Friday between two cars heading in opposite directi...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/16/2024
February 16, 2024 14:39 - 16 minutes - 23 MBSome of today's top stories 35 men are under arrest after investigators say they uncovered a massive and illegal marijuana grow house in north Bakersfield. These are photos shared by KCSO. You can see rows and rows on marijuana plants inside a warehouse. This is on Getty Street. KCSO says more than 25-hundred plants and 500 pounds of processed marijuana were seized. Multiple assault weapons were also confiscated. KCSO says the 35 men arested... are all from parts of Mexico. The search is o...
17 News @ Sunrise 02162024
February 16, 2024 14:39 - 16 minutes - 23 MBSome of today's top stories 35 men are under arrest after investigators say they uncovered a massive and illegal marijuana grow house in north Bakersfield. These are photos shared by KCSO. You can see rows and rows on marijuana plants inside a warehouse. This is on Getty Street. KCSO says more than 25-hundred plants and 500 pounds of processed marijuana were seized. Multiple assault weapons were also confiscated. KCSO says the 35 men arested... are all from parts of Mexi...
17 News @ Sunrise 02152024
February 15, 2024 15:02 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBSome of today's top stories We begin with breaking news from overnight. Details are still at this time... but we have new pictures of a violent, rollover crash in northeast Bakersfield. One person was sent to the hospital and a classic car was damaged following a multi-vehicle crash in Central Bakersfield. It happened yesteray morning at the intersection of California and Chester Avenues. Bakersfield Police say a truck ran a red light and crashed into three other cars, leaving...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/15/2024
February 15, 2024 15:02 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBSome of today's top stories We begin with breaking news from overnight. Details are still at this time... but we have new pictures of a violent, rollover crash in northeast Bakersfield. One person was sent to the hospital and a classic car was damaged following a multi-vehicle crash in Central Bakersfield. It happened yesteray morning at the intersection of California and Chester Avenues. Bakersfield Police say a truck ran a red light and crashed into three other cars, leaving one person ...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/14/2024
February 14, 2024 16:46 - 17 minutes - 24.7 MBSome of today's top stories Tulare County sheriff Mike Boudreaux is set to make an announcement later today that may have a significant impact on the highly competitive race for California's 20th Congressional District. We are learning more this morning about a 15 year old boy who was killed in Delano. Details are still limited... but the coroner says he died more than 48 hours after being attacked. For the first time in nearly 150-years... the house of representatives has impeached a sitt...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/13/2024
February 13, 2024 14:07 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBSome of today's top stories: School district discord... a local father horrified after realizing a stranger, supposedly on the other side of the country, was contacting his daughter through a school issued computer. And the things that stranger was saying... will shock you even more. Community members gather to discuss police reform in Bakersfield... with talks targeting our local black and latino residents... but there were strong words about who was *not* at that meeting and why. Everyth...
17 News @ Sunrise 02/12/2024
February 12, 2024 14:38 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBSome of today's top stories: The Kansas City Chiefs are crowned Super Bowl Champions...after an overtime thriller. And overnight -- fans across the country celebrated the big win. A man is behind bars this morning after a deadly crash in south Bakersfield. Why he's being charged for homicide.... Why the Boy Scouts are hoping to create homes for the mammals along the Kern River....and why they hope it will stop the spread of certain viruses.