International pressure and deploys his military to fight the fires. Well have the latest on what some are calling ecocide. Is it the first death caused by vaping . Well look at the case of an adult whose illness matches the recent outbreak of severe lung disease and those who use ecigarettes. And in our continuing series who we are, we go back two years to Hurricane Harvey and meet the 26yearold and the young volunteers who are rebuilding homes and restoring lives. But first we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Seeing a lot of the leaders who are friends of mine for the most part. Wouldnt say its 100 of the case, but forthe most part. President trump arrives for the g7 sum milt. Apparently not a fan of these gettogethers. President trump is not one to back down and the leaders here are not Strong Enough to challenge him. It started out as a stand your ground trial, a jury found Michael Drejka guilty of manslaughter. This man is a vigilante.
Devastating mixup an outraged couple sues after they claim a fertility client error led to a stranger giving birth to their baby. You shouldnt meet your baby in the lobby of a hotel. Those stories plus on defense. Alex Acosta Defends the deal with Jeffrey Epstein a decade ago. The local prosecutor said hes got it all wrong mystery at the vatican a girls bizarre disappearance more than 30 years ago that just led investigators to open up a tomb byebye, beetle. After eight decades the last v. W. Bug rolls off the production line. Its the end of an era today, thursday, july 11, 2019 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza good morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a thursday morning those images we are seeing from the gulf coast are staggering. My friends in new orleans being hit by what could become a hurricane. It could be the first hurricane of the season. Dangerous flooding, problems
Hours to safely remove. It was a smaller situation in berkeley. A tree was knockdowns as well. A tree was knocked down as well. Our car was behind this car. It covered our car. My husband could barely back out. We had to lift the tree. I am relieved that i was not standing there two seconds earlier. Reporter cal fire says mount diablo recorded up to 63 Miles Per Hour and winds were consistently in the high 30s to low 40s. Is cal fire worried about Staffing Levels . Reporter no. Cal fire says they work nine months at a time. Many men and women came on in june. If they need to come up they can work through march. They always plan for a worst case scenario. There have been problems on the peninsula. Earlier, a tree toppled near arlington way. Further north, powerlines came down across seminole way. Luckily, they did not start a fire power is out to more than 6000 customers across the bay area. They are working and expect small to moderate outages in the south day. Reporter winds are causi
Marijuana. Good morning. Thank you for joining us for abc action news at 9 00. Happening now, people are demanding answers. An emergency meeting is underway as the Public Transportation commission faces questions about unfairly targeting Ride Sharing Companies like uber and lyft. Ryan smith joins us live from downtown tampa with the latest. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning. That emergency meeting beginning just moments ago. Inside this county building, we anticipate hearing from only commissioners but also the groups executive director now accused of working hard in hand with Taxi Companies on pushing out uber and lyft from hillsborough county. Ptc staff emails revealing the group paid taxi drivers to pose as travelers luring uber and lyft drivers to specific spots where ptc officers were waiting to fine them. Now accusations of the ptc colluding with the industry it the ticket trap sparked cause by lawmakers for an fdle investigation. A good alternate means of transportation.
The evening. Shiri fog at vineyard and tough to get out of the picture and dense fog here for hour this morning. Not really an issue for the rest of southern new england. But here you can see the forecast for lawrence, one of the spots dealing with some on and off rain, cooler temperatures only highs in the early and midafternoon. And then, of course, some areas south of boston barely seeing any rain drops at all and future cast and get Bigger Picture what to plan around today and thats coming up shortly. Catherine back now with live drive time traffic. Catherine medford still jammed up and zoom in over here newton and also on the expressway youre still jammed up and accident that we are following, route 30 commonwealth ave, serious accident involving pedestrian there so working to give more info on that and drive times for you, route 1 still in the read half hour, 495 to leverett connector, 36 minutes 128 from route 1 to the weston tolls 47 minute ride. Indians have done it before. To