i'm marty gonzalez. as always, were watching the weather. janu has your forecast for m the week ahead. you can see some changes expected. your full forecast coming up, shortly. >> developing news this morning. elderly patients abandoned and left without care in castro valley. authorities say the staff at an assisted living facility walked off the job without notifying patients' family members. joining us live now from castro valley with the latest is kron 4's mike pelton. mike? >> reporter: the sheriff's department served a search warrant after 14 patients were left abandoned after three days. it was going to be longer than that if there was not a medical call. they responded to a medical call yesterday and paramedics noticed that most of the staff was gone. there is just 1:00 and two other staff members. . the department of social services also put a note on the door. manyelderly patients abandoned and left without care-- after staff at an assisted living facility walk off the job without notifying patients' family members. >> i think that

i'm marty gonzalez. lets get the latest from the tragedy yesterday.oing strike and mike pelton is live. authorities are working to determine what caused a bart train to hit and kill a bart employee and a contract mile north of the walnut creek bart station yesterday after afternoon.on the second day of the ongoingkron 4's mike pelton is live at the scene. mike we understand the n-t-s-b is getting involved? >> reporter: yes they should arrive today of but i did speak with the ntsb earlier. they could launch their own investigation or as simple as fact-finding but it will be parallel ing with parts own investigation. the train was not carrying passengers it was merely on a routine maintenance run. bart officials say that at that time, it was on a computer automated control. both had very much experience. protocol is that one is looking out for traffic and the other is looking at the tracks. >> they were on a sample approval procedure which he essentially means that they should stay clear of the tracks. not interfere with the mainline operations and be a

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