With DUI and manslaughter after her
children were hit and killed by a car,
a judge releases her from jail. And
the latest on a tragedy in El Cajon,
a young girl found her
parents dead in their home.
We'll have a live report as
well as hearing from neighbors.
Plus, the search is over for the
submersible that disappeared on Sunday.
Coast Guard officials say it suffered
a deadly, catastrophic implosion.
Experts explain what this actually means.
CBS8 News Live at six starts right now.
This is CBS8 News Live at six.
A mother whose two children
were killed when they ran into the
highway pleads not guilty to DUI
and six child endangerment charges.
Good evening. Thanks for joining us.
I'm Marcella Lee.
I'm Carlo Chichetto,
the District Attorney says.
On Father's Day, 33 year old
Sandra Ortiz was arrested after
two of her kids were killed trying
to fetch luggage that fell off
their car in State Route 78.
16 and 10 year old children
were killed by a car.
Investigators say the mother's
blood alcohol level was nearly
two times the legal limit.
CBS8's Abby Black is live outside
the Vista Courthouse where it
was an emotional day in court.
Abby
Carlo It was incredibly tough to be in
court today watching the mother ***
uncontrollably as the attorneys and judge.
Spoke about her two kids who died,
Amy and Allen, and as you can imagine,
this was tough to be there as well.
And despite this tragedy, the judge
released her unsupervised conditions
behind a plexiglass wall,
chained and handcuffed,
33 year old Sandra Ortiz sobbed
uncontrollably during her
arraignment where she's charged
in the death of her two children.
16 year old Amy and 10 year old Allen.
The defendant was driving with a
blood alcohol level of .14 while
having her six children unsecured,
unseat, belted and in the car
driving under the influence is.
Of itself a public safety concern,
the deputy District Attorney
says on Father's Day,
Ortiz pulled partially over on State
Route 78 in Vista when the luggage
fell off from the roof of their SUV.
Amy and Allen ran into traffic to
retrieve the luggage and were hit
and killed by an oncoming car.
Based on the investigation,
it appears that the defendant remains
seated in the vehicle and does not
appear that the defendant made
any efforts to stop the children
from exiting the vehicle or to get
the children out of the freeway.
Through her tears, you can make out that
Ortiz is crying that she's a good mother.
Ortiz is now charged with six
counts of child endangerment,
with two special allegations
connected to the deaths
and two misdemeanor DUI's.
Amy and Alan's four siblings
witnessed their deaths.
When law enforcement arrived,
they detected an order of alcohol,
red watery eyes, slurred
speech and an unsteady gait.
The children's father.
His family in Ortiz's family were in
court but did not want to comment.
CBS8 spoke to the father on
Tuesday who defended the mother.
She has nothing
but love for our kids.
Ortiz faced $500,000 bail.
I am going to have Miss
Ortiz released from custody.
I am going to place Miss
Ortiz on supervised own
recognizance release conditions
under a protective order.
Ortiz cannot see the children
unless it's at their siblings
funeral or by telephone.
As part of Sandra Ortiz's
supervised released,
the judge ordered that she has to
obey all laws or if she breaks them,
she will have to go back to jail.
She also cannot drive or drink
now the District Attorney,
the deputy District Attorney argued
to keep her bail set at $500,000.
They say that the family just moved
here from Arizona and December.
They do not have a stable home.
And the children are not going to
school now under these conditions are
the children's father and his family.
And her family can see the children.
Her next court date is on June 30th.
If she's convicted,
she faces 20 years in prison.
Thanks, Abby. Developing news out
of El Cajon tonight where a girl
came home to find both of her
parents dead in their bedroom.
Sheriff's deputies say she called 911
just after 9:30 this morning from
the mobile home on East Bradley Ave.
near Graves Ave. CBS8's Kirsten
Holmes is live in El Cajon right now
and has the details for us. Kirsten
Yeah, we are live here in the vehicle
home mobile Home Park off E Bradley
where if you take a look behind me,
you can still see some crime
scene tape and further behind
me even a deputy's cruiser.
Investigators say the eldest of the
three children who lived in this
home actually came home and made
a horrific discovery called 911.
And was seen sobbing outside of their
home with her two smaller siblings.
We talked to neighbors in this community
take a listen to what they had to say.
The oldest
girl was crying like like she
was crying and crying and crying
and she was hugging her brother.
They're nice people.
They were nice people very very nice.
No problems at all that the kids would
play and they they will always say hi
to us and and we were asking you know
what's going on what's happening and.
And they were.
They were nice people. No, no, no.
Not in my mind.
I would ever,
ever think that that something bad
would happen to them like that and
leave their kids their three kids.
We still have
more questions than
answers on this situation,
but here's what we know so far.
Deputies got to the scene and
confirmed 2 deceased adults inside.
San Diego Sheriff's Office is not aware of
any calls to this particular home before,
but homicide detectives were called
to the scene to determine the exact
cause of the adults death.
But what they can tell us is that both
adults had serious upper body injuries,
mainly had trauma.
We spoke with neighbors who live
just a few doors down.
Who says this family had big plans to move to
South Carolina before all of this happened.
Take a listen to what else they had to say.
They were asking them did you
hear anything? No fights.
No arguments, no, no shots.
And everybody said no, no,
we didn't hear anything.
This is still a very active investigation.
We'll keep you updated as
more information comes in.
Again, there are neighbors who
are just shot and most people say
that they never saw this coming.
Stay with CBS8 on air and
online for more details as this
story develops back to you.
All right, Kirsten,
such a tragic story. Thank you.
The man accused of killing a
woman and what police say was
a random stabbing at a park in
City Heights is now scheduled
for a competency evaluation.
23 year old Silva Nusi Patafalai Hamala
was slated to face a judge today,
but that didn't happen.
The irraignment was suspended after
Hamala's defense attorney declared
that he is mentally incapable,
in a legal sense, of facing a judge.
Prosecutors say Hamala randomly
stabbed and killed 66 year old chi cow.
While she was exercising at the park,
Kamala's uncle says the family wants to
sincerely apologize for what happened.
We as a family
just wanted to send a message to
Mrs. Keow family.
First off, we send our deepest
apologies, love, thoughts
and prayers and our condolences
to you guys. The next court date
is scheduled for August 3rd.
The family of a man shot and killed
by a San Diego police officer at the
San Ysidro Transit Center earlier this
month says they are suing the city.
Witnesses say 19 year old Mauricio
Ramos was threatening passengers
and pointing a weapon that turned
out to be a Glock replica BB gun.
San Diego police released security
footage that shows Ramos rocking
back and forth in the trolley and
pointing that gun at the camera.
This police body camera footage
shows an officer confronting
Ramos entering the trolley.
The officer shot Ramos after he
reportedly pulled out the gun.
Ramos's family argues that the
footage shows Ramos was not a threat
when Mauricio was encountered
by the police officers.
When they first observed him,
he was by himself.
He didn't pose any risk
of danger to anyone.
He was sitting down,
still rocking back and forth.
We reached out to the San Diego
Police Department for a statement,
but they said. So they will not
comment on pending litigation.
On behalf of the United States Coast Guard
and the entire Unified Command, Ioffer
my deepest condolences to the families.
Five people who are on a sub voyage
to the Titanic wreckage have died.
The Coast Guard confirms the
debris found on the sea floor
1600 feet from the Titanic.
Were pieces of the missing sub.
Coast Guard officials are describing
the tragedy as a catastrophic
implosion of the vessel giving the
crew inside little if any warning.
Deep dives in submersibles are common
for military personnel and researchers
some who work right out of San Diego
CBS H Jesse Peganas here with the
deep sea researchers perspective on
what exactly happened here. Jesse
Carl Marcellus Certainly not the conclusion
that anyone wanted to come out to,
but we do know that there is some
experience that some researchers have
that is similar to this down there.
In those depths that provide
some insight into all of this.
So catastrophic implosion is the term
we've been hearing throughout the day,
which really has to do with pressure,
especially that deep and tough
pressure at the bottom of the ocean.
Experts say the pressure down there
near the Titanic is about 350 times
what we feel on the surface down there.
You wouldn't feel that on your body,
the whole of the ship you're in would,
But any tiny failure of that
ship could prove deadly.
One of my early impressions was I
think something happened to the sub.
And if that's the case,
that as soon as Dr.
Michelle Boudrea heard the news,
his experience led him to
a grim conclusion. Dr.
Boudrea is now an associate professor
of environmental and Ocean sciences
at the University of San Diego.
But for years he was a deep
sea biologist and went out
of five submersible dives. I
mean when we were doing in our research,
submersible dives or somebody at
the surface calling continuum.
We have a record, you know,
every hour there's a check,
he says. The approach to everything
is safety and communication,
first with gauges, monitors and alarms,
keeping tabs on pressure,
oxygen levels and more.
I don't know of any submersible that
does this in a serious way that does
not have all the all the systems there,
and then a completely double set
of systems from virtually every.
But Even so, he says,
a failure as small as a pinhole
in the hull could prove deadly.
And it's what he thinks
likely happened to the Titan.
It's an instantaneous thing the the
pressure from the outside comes in
that basically collapses the metal.
You get the the impact of an employment
when you see a building collapse, right.
They implode these buildings.
It's kind of that same perspective.
Coast Guard officials say they
don't know yet if they can recover
the bodies of the five people
on board the Titan, let alone
the actual pieces of it down there.
They will, however, use the resources
of mass so far to keep searching and
gathering information in that area.
Right now they don't know
when that implosion happened.
Of course, as we know through
the process of the search,
we heard those noises that were
picked up by several different
vessels out in that area,
some several different
parts of the investigation.
The now all of these
people from the Coast Guard and whatnot
will be putting together worst case
scenario in some ways, but in some.
In ways there might be some relief,
A, some closure.
B, it doesn't look like they suffered,
that this happened quickly.
And I guess that's there's some
solace there for the family. From
all the experiences that everybody's
been talking about. Instantaneous
is the word. If it had to come to this,
hopefully it was quick and didn't
take long. Pain free. Yeah.
Thanks so much, Jesse.
I appreciate that. Earlier
this week we told you about recent
orca attacks happening on the
Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
Well, tonight. We're learning about
another attack in a different area.
The latest one happened off the
Shetland Islands in Scotland,
marking the first attack in the North Sea.
Retired Dutch physicist Dr.
Wynn Rutten said he was sailing
to Norway when an orca rammed
itself into his boat repeatedly.
The whale stayed behind the boat
before returning two or three more
times and then later circled his boat.
Fortunately he was not hurt.
Still had we have video of a Mountain
Lion trying to keep cool and summer heat.
Plus, a hailstorm sent people
at a concert running. The damage
it caused last night?
Just amazing. It's official.
Summer has arrived here in the
Northern Hemisphere, and today,
the longest day of the year.
Look at that 14 hours,
18 minutes of sunshine.
I'm meteorologist Sean Styles.
We'll look at your micro climate forecast.
And we meet the sheep working
to lower the risk of wildfires,
with many plants growing out of
control after this year's record rain.