Some of today's top stories
- Multiple pro-Palestinian protesters are under arrest this morning... following a confrontation at last night's Bakersfield City Council meeting.
It all start after the protesters were kicked out of the chamber again. This is the fourth meeting in a row Mayor Karen Goh has called for the chamber to be cleared.
The protesters want city leaders to join dozens of other cities across the U-S... and approve a ceasefire resolution.
Video circulating online shows protesters and police clashing in a tug-of-war-like battle with the front doors of city hall.
This causes glass to break on one the doors.... and officers then take a number protesters into custody.
The meeting finally resumed about an hour after... but ceasefire chants could still be heard through the walls... coming from protesters outside - An arrest at a motel off Olive and Knudsen Drives in north Bakersfield is sounding the alarm for parents and young children.
The suspect? A former Delano police chief.
17's Jenny Huh has more on this on-going investigation. - New details this morning about the man accused of biting a severed leg following a train crash in Wasco. Court documents obtained by 17 News say the man, Rosendo Tellez, appeared to speak with the person the leg belonged to just before that person was hit.
The train conductor says the victim ignored repeated horn blasts and walked onto the tracks while pushing a bicycle.
Tellez stood just 20 feet away.
Deputies say Tellez told them that he picked the leg up... because he thought it was his.
The 27-year-old pleaded not guilty to several charges on Tuesday.
He has a pretrial conference scheduled next week. - A woman is dead this morning following a crash in Southwest Bakersfield. It happened near the intersection of Ashe and Harris Road.
Police say a man driving a black Volkswagen veered onto the wrong side of the road... and hit two other cars... a red Honda and black Mini Cooper.
The woman driving the Honda was killed.
The others involved in the collision had minor injuries.
An investigation is ongoing.