live in watsonville, lloyd lacuesta.news. >>> and back to those fishermen who have not seen since their boat capsized. we took off at 5:00 this morning and the coast guard searched for six straight hours. the c130 zigzagged back and forth over a strategic area where mexican officials believe the seven missing americans may be. >> if you spot somebody in the water with this radar image. >> it is possible. we have seen a bunch of whales and turtles today. >> reporter: the radar images help direct pilots to catch images if they pop ups. but the most important tasks happen to these two men, they must keep watch. >> they are looking for any signs of life but so far the only thing they have spotted is a raft with a rope, but no one inside. >> reporter: the mexican navy was immediately dispatched to check it out. it's unclear if the raft is part of theship that capsized. despite not finding any survivors today, it was a thorough operation. >> everything that possibly could have a person was checked out. >>> new at 10:00 the deb

live in watsonville, lloyd lacuesta.. >>> and back to those fishermen who have not seen since their boat capsized. we took off at 5:00 this morning and the coast guard searched for six straight hours. the c130 zigzagged back and forth over a strategic area where mexican officials believe the seven missing americans may be. >> if you spot somebody in the water with this radar image. >> it is possible. we have seen a bunch of whales and turtles today. >> reporter: the radar images help direct pilots to catch images if they pop ups. but the most important tasks happen to these two men, they must keep watch. >> they are looking for any signs of life but so far the only thing they have spotted is a raft with a rope, but no one inside. >> reporter: the mexican navy was immediately dispatched to check it out. it's unclear if the raft is part of theship that capsiz despite not finding any survivors today, it was a thorough operation. >> everything that possibly could have a person was checked out. >>> new at 10:00 the debate ove

lloyd lacuesta tell us why tonight was chosen. lloyd is live tonight. >> reporter: today would have been the 40th birthday of the manager of this friday's restaurant. the occasion was marked with a drive to raise money for a reward to hopefully solve his murder. >> it says castello which is his name. >> reporter: dale castello's girlfriend has had a table here all day and night to keep the story of castello's murder alive. >> it's time for somebody to come forward with something that they know. >> reporter: this much is known, castello was closing the restaurant alone in the early morning hours of january 21, 2008. somehow someone got into the restaurant, he was killed by a blow to the head with a blunt object. >> was it really a robbery? >> it's hard to say. there were only two people in the restaurant. at the time. >> reporter: friends call him as a happy professional man. he rose from being a door greeter to a manager at friday's. >> i think it's something that didn't know him. >> reporter: why do you say that? >> because he wou

lloyd lacuesta is where the truck burst into flames. >> reporter: as you can see blind -- behind me. traffic is running smooth. for nearly four hours this heavily traveled south bay freeway was at a standstill. about 4:15, a big rig truck crashed into the center divide near matilda avenue and burst into flames. one man says the accident happened near his workplace. >> i walked out into the parking lot and i yelled back inside and a couple of guys came out and we saw the smoke on the top of the billing. >> reporter: the truck was so badly burned, the chp could not determine the section of the driver. >> the driver lost control for some reason, collided with the center guardrail and rolled over, trapping the driver and then the cab of the truck caught on fire. >> reporter: the freeway was shutdown in both directions. even when one lane was open in the westbound direction you could walk faster than the slow moving cars. >> pretty frustrating. i saw a lot of people throwing their hands up. a lot of people getting aggravated trying to figure out what's going on. >> reporter: this happened

lloyd lacuesta tell us why tonight was chosen. lloyd is live tonight. >> reporter: today would have been the 40th birthday of the manager of this friday's restaurant. the occasion was marked with a drive to raise money for a reward to hopefully solve his murder. >> it says castello which is his name. >> reporter: dale castello's girlfriend has had a table here all day and night to keep the story of castello's murder alive. >> it's time for somebody to come forward with something that they know. >> reporter: this much is known, castello was closing the restaurant alone in the early morning hours of january 21, 2008. somehow someone got into the restaurant, he was killed by a blow to the head with a blunt object. >> was it really a robbery? >> it's hard to say. there were only two people in the restaurant. at the time. >> reporter: friends call him as a happy professional man. he rose from being a door greeter to a manager at friday's. >> i think it's something that didn't know him. >> reporter: why do you say that? >> because he wou

lloyd lacuesta is where the truck burst into flames. >> reporter: as you can see blind -- behind me. traffic is running smooth. for nearly four hours this heavily traveled south bay freeway was at a standstill. about 4:15, a big rig truck crashed into the center divide near matilda avenue and burst into flames. one man says the accident happened near his workplace. >> i walked out into the parking lot and i yelled back inside and a couple of guys came out and we saw the smoke on the top of the billing. >> reporter: the truck was so badly burned, the chp could not determine the section of the driver. >> the driver lost control for some reason, collided with the center guardrail and rolled over, trapping the driver and then the cab of the truck caught on fire. >> reporter: the freeway was shutdown in both directions. even when one lane was open in the westbound direction you could walk faster than the slow moving cars. >> pretty frustrating. i saw a lot of people throwing their hands up. a lot of people getting aggravated trying to figure out what's going on. >> reporter: this happened

lloyd lacuesta tells us city leaders are deciding what they should do now with tens of millions of the dollars. lloyd-- >> reporter: frank, the palo alto city council right now is meeting in city hall trying to cope with a situation that no doubt other cities wish they were facing. this south bay city is trying to figure out how to spend an extra $40 million. >> i would like to see more parks, more library, things like that. but also some things like infrastructure. >> i guess if it's enriching the community, i don't see why that would be a bad thing personally. >> reporter: the money comes from stanford university. the city and the school had a deal, approve the expansion and redevelopment of the stanford medical center and the university puts 40 million in city coppers. >> the relationship with stanford university and the city has always been one that's pretty close. and they get a benefit for that. >> reporter: is this a proquo. >> we get community benefits in exchange. >> reporter: if money must be spent in housing programs and green initiatives. there will be three installment pay

lloyd lacuesta tells us city leaders are deciding what they should do now with tens of millions of the dollars. lloyd-- >> reporter: frank, the palo alto city council right now is meeting in city hall trying to cope with a situation that no doubt other cities wish they were facing. this south bay city is trying to figure out how to spend an extra $40 million. >> i would like to see more parks, more library, things like that. but also some things like infrastructure. >> i guess if it's enriching the community, i don't see why that would be a bad thing personally. >> reporter: the money comes from stanford university. the city and the school had a deal, approve the expansion and redevelopment of the stanford medical center and the university puts 40 million in city coppers. >> the relationship with stanford university and the city has always been one that's pretty close. and they get a benefit for that. >> reporter: is this a proquo. >> we get community benefits in exchange. >> reporter: if money must be spent in housing programs and green initiatives. there will be three installment pay

lloyd lacuesta is live and shows us how these rolling blackouts work. >> reporter: this truck is being taken out of service in an effort to save money but some wonder at what price public safety. >> reporter: it's called rolling brown outs of fire companies at different stations. >> that will give us four additional firefighters to staff companies throughout the city instead of calling overtime. >> reporter: some 100 firefighters responded to last week's fraternity house fire at san jose state. now with the possibility of two fire engines being taken out of service on any given day response times could be longer than the department target of eight minutes. the number of firefighters on trucks is being dropped from five to four. and firefighters are going to have to do more and be paid 10% less. >> response times increase, fire intensity grows and so upon arrival our firefighters are going to be faced with a greater workload, higher risk and greater demand. >>> all of this doesn't sound good, especially to people who live in the critical areas of san jose foothills. >> that's not good f

lloyd lacuesta is live and shows us how these rolling blackouts work. >> reporter: this truck is being taken out of service in an effort to save money but some wonder at what price public safety. >> reporter: it's called rolling brown outs of fire companies at different stations. >> that will give us four additional firefighters to staff companies throughout the city instead of calling overtime. >> reporter: some 100 firefighters responded to last week's fraternity house fire at san jose state. now with the possibility of two fire engines being taken out of service on any given day response times could be longer than the department target of eight minutes. the number of firefighters on trucks is being dropped from five to four. and firefighters are going to have to do more and be paid 10% less. >> response times increase, fire intensity grows and so upon arrival our firefighters are going to be faced with a greater workload, higher risk and greater demand. >>> all of this doesn't sound good, especially to people who live in the critical areas of san jose foothills. >> that's not good f