17 News @ Sunrise 05/20/2024

Some of today's top storiesIran's President confirmed dead this morning after a helicopter crash yesterday. Iran state media says president Ebrahim Raisi was returning from an event when it made a hard landing in a mountainous area.    NBC's Drew Petrimoulx has the latest on this developing story.A man is dead this morning after being hit by a car in Northwest Bakersfield. It happened on Hageman Road near Calloway Drive.    Police say the man was hit by an SUV and died.    His identity hasn't been publicly released.    Officers say the driver who hit the man cooperated with the investigation.    Speed, drugs or alcohol do not appear to be factors in the fatal crash.We now know the name of a woman killed in a crash last Sunday north of Pond 69-year-old Herminia Perez was the passenger of a vehicle that crashed into another on May 12th about 3:30 a.m. on Highway 43, just north of Schuster Road.    She was pronounced dead on scene from blunt force injuries.    The manner of death has been ruled an accident.And two people from Tehachapi killed in a crash in the Kern River Canyon last Sunday have been identified.    75-year-old Julie Robin OShea and 77-year-old George Peter MacQueen were killed their motorcycle went down a steep embankment and overturned. It happened just after 4 p.m. on Highway 178 last Sunday.         Fire crews had to drop 50 feet down into the canyon to reach them.         CHP says alcohol and drugs *were factors in the crash. A small earthquake rattled the desert community of Ridgecrest yesterday morning. According the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake was measured at a 3.3 magnitude.    This latest temblor comes just a day after a 3.9 magnitude quake was felt in southern California.Fire crews raced to a massive house fire in northwest Bakersfield Saturday afternoon.  The kern County and Bakersfield fire departments were dispatched to this reinforced structure fire on Timbercreek Drive just after 2pm.    Fire crews deployed the fire ladder and multiple hoses to douse the flames.    No injuries have been reported.    No word yet how many people and pets are displaced from this fire.    An investigation into the cause is underway.