17 News @ Sunrise 08/23/2024

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17 News @ Sunrise 08/23/2024

Aug 23, 2024 · 22m 25s

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Some of today's top stories - 17 News is your local election headquarters... It was a historic night in chicago. The democratic national convention there has come to an end...

Some of today's top stories

17 News is your local election headquarters...
It was a historic night in chicago.
The democratic national convention there has come to an end with vice president kamala harris accepting the party's nomination for president.
Meantime... some of Kern's own were among the crowd at the convention.
You may have seen them on your TVs, front and center with California leaders like Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta -- delegates Dolores Huerta and Jesse Aguilar on the convention floor.
Both say the convention has been all about party unity, especially following President Joe Biden's passing of the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris. Dolores Huerta says she's been to every convention except one since 1968.
She's a super delegate -- considered a party leader with an automatic seat to all conventions.
And in local politics, District 5 Supervisor Candidate Kim Salas is challenging her opponent incumbent Leticia Perez on public safety... branding herself as the law and order candidate.
Thursday morning... Salas announced various law enforcement organizations -- like Kern County Firefighters Union 1301, Kern Prosecutors Association and the Kern Law Enforcement Association, among others -- are endorsing her.
Public safety officials criticized Perez, supervisor of a decade, for what they call neglect, conspiracy, potential corruption and quote absenteeism beyond belief. Salas... an east Bakersfield native... is the district director for Assemblywoman Dr. Jasmeet Bains.
Both Salas and Perez are Latina and Spanish-speaking... and will likely battle over those votes.
But yesterday, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood endorsed Leticia Perez.
The two will face off November 5th.
A person is dead this morning after being hit by a car in Mojave. It happened last night just before 9 on Sierra Highway near Belshaw Street.
The driver of a red nissan sedan hit the pedestrian and fled the scene...
C-H-P has not been able to find the suspect.
The investigation is ongoing...
The identity of the person killed has not been publicly released.
In your 17 crime watch.
Three girls were taken into custody following a police chase in a stolen van that triggered a major crash in east Bakersfield. The white truck you see here was making a U-turn when a suspected stolen van blew through a red light and crashed directly into it.
Then, three people get out of that van and try to run off.
Kern County Sheriff's Office says this happened around 1:40 Monday morning near the Fastrip on Niles Street and Sterling Road.
KCSO says the three girls who were in the van were injured in the crash, but all have been booked.