I decided to stay back. I thought it was the wise decision on fat tuesday to attend class. It was the wise decision in the end. Multiple stories i cant share right now. Yes. Back here in the bay area, hope youre having a great morning. In the east bay, there is a debate going on in the California High School in san ramon where a Student Leadership group has decided to no longer include the National Anthem as part of the school pep rally. We have more from alex savaging from san ramon and what prompted the decision. Reporter well, i will tell you, good morning to you, the associated student body here at cal high decided to start skimming the National Anthem all skipping the National Anthem all together at the pep rallies and it is about the concern about the unsung third verse of the an tem which they consider racist and it has a lot of people talking and has strong reactions this morning. I am disgusted. I do not understand how somebody or the leadership of this school, the students, c
Officials are saying so far. Reporter this all happened at James Lick Middle School police are still here and there are Fire Departments and medical crews that have been in and out. We do not see was the mass casualty bus that was but in to evaluate students. School and fire officials have said 10 students became sick after ingesting something. What that is, is still unknown but they are checking for edible marijuana. The 10 students are in nonlife threatening condition although one student is considered critical but nonlife threatening. The others are less severe earlier we heard from the San Francisco Fire Department. At about 1 20 this afternoon the Fire Department received a 911 phone call from James Lick Middle School indicating they had students the possibly were under the effects of an adjusted substance. Our first initial dispatch units arrived on scene and determined they had three patients and that number throughout the last hour grew to eight total is a total of 10 victims.
Lovely afternoon for lovers. This afternoon. Honey moon island around 70, kissimmee around 68. Up in romeo 68 and in lovers key 71 degrees. Looks like a nice looking candice. You are track the weather using our storm team max weather app. Download it and brian may have some more lines for you there. In our top stories. The country is mourning the loss of a member of the Supreme Court. Antonin scalia died at a ranch in southern texas. Knowns influential conservative and the most provocative member of the Supreme Court. He died at 79. The gop debate in South Carolina began with a moment of silence for Antonin Scalia and then the insults flew. Donald trump at the center of it. This is the 9th republican later this month in houston. And again new channel 8 wants to wish you a happy valentines day. Sweethearts are expected to spend over 19 billion this year. The cities for best and worse on this valentines day. Orlando is the number 4 spot and hialeah florida took last place. Well, new this
We are exactly two weeks from christmas. The only place you will see ice is in a drink or at the skating rink and kind of soupy ice at that. Dari yes. Thats prospect park. They were lucky they didnt have to dodge any puddles. It could be that way later in the weekend because its going to get warmer. Steve Audrey Puente is here. 59 right now at 5 00. Amazing. Audrey hard to believe christmas is two weeks away. It feels like spring out there. It will continue to be that way through the weekend. High temperatures today were in the 50s and 60s across the tristate and up to poughkeepsie with a high of 60 and somerville at 54. Were very comfortable across the region with readings in the 50s and 60s. Its 60 in central park and in belmar, were at a comfortable 61. These numbers are higher than they were at this time yesterday by a few degrees. Well bring it up further as we go into the next couple of days. Its courtesy of the jet stream we have an area of High Pressure thats dominating the wea
The queen looks back on 2013, welcoming her newest addition to the family. Here my family is a little larger this christmas. Shares never before seen video of Prince George today, december 26, 2013. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist. I hope you had a great christmas. Maybe youre just waking up with family. Were back to work. We had a great christmas. It was nice. Yours is a little eggnogy . Yes. Thats a good way to celebrate. We had the eggnog at my house. One day a year. Then you move on from it. The uncle make the mean batch of egg nog . That was a couple weeks ago. We were safe this year. All right. We got a big top story this morning. It has to do with christmas two of the nations biggest package shippers, u. P. S. And fedex under fire for failing to deliver on time. Gabe gutierrez is following this story