abc7's john alston was at the scene where family and friends gathered to mourn. >> we learned the car carrying the two men who died went out of control and veered into on coming traffic seriously injuring a family of three driving in the other direction. as the sun began to set, more showed up to see for themselves the spot where they died the night before. >> they were great human beings and it is very tragic. >> nick sarmiento and his friend robbie mccann were killed. his aunt and two cousins dropped by to pay their respects. >> they loved everybody. i i don't get how it could happen. >> this was the aftermath of the grinding crash. police say witnesses said the car was driving and lost control and went into on coming traffic. >> they lost control and were speeding and they crossed into the other lane of traffic and hit a family of three which also went to the hospital. >> the other car, a day yo tau smashed into the passenger side of the honda whose roof had to be cutoff so firefighters could reach the two young men. police are promising increased traffic inforce meant -- enforceme

michelle alston started prostituting at age 13. a cute young 16-year-old will make, if you had to guess, in a night? >> about a good $600. >> reporter: and how much goes to their pimp? >> all of it. >> reporter: and that is why young girls are now in high demand. being targeted by pimps at shopping malls, schools and on the internet. police say gang members have realized it's often more profitable to traffic girls than drugs. >> there are a lot of criminal garages getting involved in this, because they realized this is a commodity they can keep making them money. >> reporter: drugs they can only sell once. girls they can sell over and over again. each one bringing in about $20,000 a month. alston says when she realized there was so much money to be made, she made what she calls a business decision. so, you decided to become a female pimp, essentially. at what age? >> 14. >> reporter: michelle convinced more than a dozen girls to work for her. do they think it's going to be glamorous? >> yeah. you don't say, like, there's going to b

john alston is near the scene with more. >> reporter: alan,ight now a large scale san francisco pole department enforcement praiption is going -- operation is going on. this is lake merced boulevard a quarter mile from the intersection with john muir drive. this morning, relatives with flowers were showing up. an aunt and two cousins of one of the men who was killed, along with a 19-year-old passenger. they were apparently high school buddies. thisas the scene last night shortly after 10:30. the young men were in a honda. police are saying a toyota crashed into the passenger side of their car. it's unclear how the cars ended up perpendicular before impact, whether the honda was turning or which driver was at fault. >> aood kid. veryoving, and dependable, and helpful. he love everybody. sad thing can happen to a person like this. >> he is too young. he is only 19. >> rorter: that was an aunt. the people in the other car were seriously hurt. a mother, a father, and a daughter in the back seat, believed to be 13 years old. they're at san francisco general hospital. it's unkno if the vic

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and bel air 23, aberdeen 26, alston 25. this is going to be the scenario as we go through the rest of the evening, so be prepared for what we have because we're going to get some more rain, that's what i was telling kelly. we did get a bit of a break, lots of moisture flowing in earlier today. edge mere, i believe it was, 7.67, i'm going to show you those totals again in a little while. in the meantime we're looking at the rain on maryland's most powerful radar, we can see some of the lighter rain, the green, not so bad, the lighter rain coming in around the eastern shore once again. but as we look to the south here, that's what we're going to start to get the heavier rain moving in once again. as we get into those reds, that's when we're talking about 1 to 2 1/2" rates, rainfall rates, an hour. if we get that again we're definitely going to be in some more trouble. so with what we've gotten already we do have some flood warnings in effect across the area, basically everywhere, what we're also concerned with is the high tid

take a look, you can see that storm that blew through alston, kent county south into chester town, but no active warnings at the moment. let's take a little different perspective on maryland's most powerful radar, more wet weather pushing in out of the west. in fact right now we're talking some pretty heavy downpours back across i270 from frederick down to rockville. that line of heavier rain also headed toward baltimore here in the next hour or is. more rain behind that. we've got a little bit of a soaker going on this evening, that's a good thing. those warnings clearing out, it's just showers and we'll call them garden variety thunderstorms, 70s, wet and again this is good, we have had an enhanced fire risk, it's been so dry we'll take the rain tonight. weekend forecast is coming up. joce. >> thanks wyatt. our other top stories, a baltimore county couple is locked up after police say they severely assaulted a woman and locked her in the bathroom of their reisterstown home for a year. police say the 22-year-old woman was repeatedly beaten and burned with cigarettes when she tried to

john alston is near the scene with more. >> reporter: alan, right now a large scale san francisco police department enforcement praiption is going -- operation is going on. this is lake merced boulevard a quarter mile from the intersection with john muir drive. this morning, relatives with flowers were showing up. an aunt and two cousins of

but are you watching r t broadcasting live from moscow on carriage alston the day america will never forget as the us mourns the victims of the nine eleven attack those who gave first aid straight off to this tragic event saw feeling abandoned they say their own government has left them struggling by themselves with illnesses contracted as a result of the rescue operations artie's report not that some of them. gary white was an american hero in two thousand and one did you actually get diagnosed as being directly sits in the middle of in two thousand and ten the nine eleven first responder represents an exploding health crisis u.s. officials have failed to address its tolly across the page course an illness or coma gall bladder cancer liver cancer the retired n.y.p.d. detective spent six months sifting through world trade center debris and clouds of toxins later resulting in asthma sleep apnea post neurological problems and two strokes the first one is massive. i was paralyzed i lost command of my speech. i had to learn to walk and talk again the police department denies his illnesse

john alston reports. >> right away, federal investigators noticed something curious about the 28-foot section of the pipeline that blew out of the ground thursday night. it was not solid and seamless, rather it was made up of smaller segments welded together. n.t.s.b. wants to no why. >> there is a lot of reasons to have segmented pipe like this. it's also more expensive to have segmented pipe. >> and they confirm that pg&e had manual valves on either side of the break, not automatic valves. the pipeline that exploded was installed back in 1956 when there were fewer homes here because the area is so heavily populated now, they designated the pipe high risk. >> that certainly increases in our estimation the need to look at that issue whether there should be automatic shut-off valves whether there is some kind of massive leak in the pipe. that is the one the issues we'll be looking at. >> the latest measurement shows the crater to be 167 feet long and 26 feet wide. pg&e says they started inspecting three major gas transmission linings in the peninsula. barbara boxer is calling on state

in the news room, john alston, abc 7 news. >> more dui arrests than a year ago. 167 dui arrests were made from friday through last night in the bay area. statewide police have arrested 990 people since the labor day holiday weekend began. that's higher than the number of arrests made during the same period of last years. the maximum enforcement effort continues until late tomorrow night. >> this morning police in pacifica are investigating a home invasion robbery. investigators say residents living in this house on mckinney avenue say two people knocked on their door just before 10:00 last night. the armed suspects forced their way in. they stoleproperty and drove away. a third suspect entered the house but the victims did not see the person's face. no one was injured. >> a lot of people in el cerrito may find alarm clocks flashing because of a power outage. pg&e said lights went out 10:40 last night. service was not restored until shortly before 1:00 this morning. officials say they're still looking into the cause of that outage. >> good thing folks won't need that alarm clock this

john alston. >> if you smelled natural gas leading up to the explosion, investigators want to hear from you. california's public utilities commission set up a toll free number, 800-789-0550 or you can e-mail them. we have the information posted on our website everyone is looking for answers in the aftermath of that disaster including two top leaders who toured the site yesterday. the lieutenant governor acting as governor while schwarzenegger is out of the state and senator barbara boxer got a first-hand look at the site of the blast. the ntsb says it could take as long as 18 months to determine why the pipeline exploded. one thing they'll be reviewing are the maintenance records. >> i want to know what happened now. i don't want to wait 18 months. there's a lot of 30-inch gas pipeline throughout the state. we want to make sure it doesn't happen anywhere else. >> the leaders want to know if pg&e had an emergency response plan in san bruno and if it was carried out, answers that may come slowly from an explosion that happened so fast. in san bruno, crews searched just three streets yeste

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