Now to Central Florida where deputies made two arrests in two days in laser incidents. Wednesday a man was charged with pointing a highpowered light at a Police Helicopter searching for a suspect in palm coast. Tuesday another Police Chopper was hit with a laser as it flew above edgewater. The suspect in that case said he thought he was pointing it at a drone. A 54yearold man in massachusetts is dead this morning after apparently eating too much of a certain kind of candy. The man, a construction worker, had been eating more than a bag of licorice every day for weeks. Heres abcs andrea fujii. Reporter this morning, a new warning about a popular candy after one mans affinity for black licorice may have cost him his life. Remember, dont eat large amounts of black licorice at one time. Reporter according to doctors in massachusetts, a construction worker who ate bags of licorice every day collapsed at a restaurant and died. The cause, an imbalance in nutrient levels. Licorice when consume
Quality get a little bit better. Yesterday, we started off the day with unhealthy to very unhealthy air and now were looking at some spots even moderate air quality this morning. So that is the difference compared to what we have experienced over the last several days. Moderate air quality in santa rosa, and that is great to see it is or and starts in San Francisco, napa, fairfield, rio vista, unhealthy for everyone for san rafael, oakland, redwood city, livermore, and san jose. We are beginning to see a little bit of improvement and we will continue to improve with the air quality as we go through the workweek. Looking at that spare the air alert that remains in effect for the bay area, it is going a record 29 days in a row with our smoky skies and that spare the air alert. Our smoke model, as we got through the next couple of days does show the improving air quality. So there is hope as we go through the next few days. We will talk more about that, the better days for air quality, co
Temperatures, not all that bad were in the 60s right now will be in the 70s 80s later on have that in your full forecast is still to come back over to you robin, thank you john, its definitely one of those small on mornings where you know the wipers are going to be going the headlights maybe on a little bit longer than usual because of the dense fog. And some spots we cant even see like the towers are some over crossings here is the golden gate and we cant even see the towers this morning so a dense fog advisory remains in place here for that trip across the Golden Gate Bridge that was issued by chp but check out the drive time and looks good its still pretty quick right 20 minutes novato to San Francisco. Here is the bay bridge approach and the line is long, its back to on west grand now we can see a little bit more of the 80 over crossing, but i didnt even have a view of it earlier this morning, the trip in is very quiet. So an easy 11 minutes after fremont street and the minutes its
Selloff, but stocks will open lower this morning. Disappointing housing numbers really not helping, the dows looking for a loss of 370 points. Thats quite a drop right there. S p down 58, nasdaq down 288. A lot of red ink on the lefthand side of the screen. By the way, 860,000 jobless claims this week, thats the lowest number since march the 14th. All right, there is a mask and vaccine fought. President trump saws well have 100,000 next doses. That will be super fast. The cdc says, hold on, youll have to wait until the middle of next year, and joe biden says he doesnt trust trump, he trusts science. College sports, yeah, making a comeback. Ncaa basketball returns in november, big ten football in october. And sally, ouch. That storm has dumped more than a foot of run in some pluses and, get this, a storm named teddy is forming. Could go up the eastern seaboard. Big show, of course. Aoc wants even more implements for the social u. S. Es. Fomo, fear of mussing out missing out, have Retail
Bay area almost have fires. In the last hour, two fires also sparked in Sonoma County, forcing evacuations there. Lightning suspected as the cause of most of these fires. Now, fire danger not the only concern tonight. Power outages are also possible as the states grid is once again pushed to the max. Pg e is asking people to conserve electricity through 10 00 this evening. We have a lot going on right now and a team of reporters in place on the Power Outages and the wildfires. Lets start with nbc bay areas ian cull live in San Mateo County. Ian. Reporter yeah. Hey, guys. Very active scene up behind us here. You can see the plumes of smoke hundreds of feet in the air. This is what you can see from Silicon Valley throughout the bay area as more than 350 firefighters are onscene up there along that ridge. On officer who th a cal fire tells me that this is very steep, difficult terrain to be fighting a fire. Its also very dry up there because of this heat, and thats also a worry and a diff