Some of today's top stories
- A man is in the hospital this morning after being shot in east Bakersfield.
This is video of the scene.
This happened just before 11:30 near Sacramento and Bernard Streets.
No word yet on that man's condition or on any suspects involved. - A man is in critical condition this morning after being struck by a vehicle in east Bakersfield. Bakersfield Police responded to reports of the crash shortly before 10pm last night.
It happened on South Brown Street near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
When officers arrived, they found the man down in the road with major injuries.
CPR was administered and he was taken to the hospital.
No arrests have been made. - This morning, we know the name of a pedestrian struck and killed by a Bakersfield police car in south bakersfield.
It happened Monday on south union avenue, north of Watts Drive.
B-P-D said Officers Julian Garcia and Zachary Ward were responding to a stolen car when Garcia hit 27-year-old Brandon Elliott Gabriel Flores.
He died at the scene.
Surveillance video from a business shows the police cruiser's emergency lights and siren were off at the time of the crash.
Both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the investigation. - We are learning more this morning about the terrible crash that sent a car through the wall of Stella's Sandtrap bar in East Bakersfield, injuring 3 people.
Officers say the crash happened after they tried to stop the 22-year-old driver for tinted windows.
17's Rob Hagan has the latest. - And an update this morning on the Post Fire...
the fire is now 52-percent contained.
This is new video of the massive burn scar near gorman.
it started on saturday and has scorched more than 15, 600 acres.
17-hundred fire-fighters have been fighting the flames.
More than 1800 firefighters are assigned to the Sites Fire in Northern California..
That fire has burned more than 19,000 acres and is 20% contained.
