hospital in the nursing home. we heard from her grieving family today. we re not just hurting, we re angry, we re mad. this should. have happened. he took away my mother and my best friend. how dare you! how dare you! this needs to be fixed. incredibly emotional testimony there. we ll have more live from buffalo coming up this hour. also this hour, the last hours of campaigning in a super important primary race. you know the one we re talking about in pennsylvania, where voters are getting ready to pick their general election candidates, with not one be two late in the game surprises for virtual front-runners, although that word may be overstated. one candidate answering questions about his health, another facing questions about her participation in a d.c. rally on january 6th. plus, formula fallout. the head of the fda saying the empty shefls are because of a contribution problem, not a lack of supplies. and what is the white house doing to make sure this doesn t happe
Weather. It might be colder out there, but we do have fire danger in the forecast. Meteorologist vianey arana will tell us where the risk is highest in the bay area. Plus, you felt the bite on your pg e bill, but it could get worse. A new study takes a look at why rates have been rising so fast as the Company Wants to raise them even more. But first, lets talk about the new strategy to take on san franciscos deadliest problem. City leaders unveiled a new task force today that will now investigate opioid related deaths as homicides. So if investigators can link a drug dealer to an overdose death, that dealer could be charged with murder. The new Task Force Includes sf police, the d. A. s office, the chp and the state national guard. Earlier today mayor london breed highlighted the importance of this particular fight. For the past few years weve seen on average at least 500 people lose their lives to just fentanyl alone, and how deadly this drug is is impacting the quality of life differ
And we have a closer look at how some of you dealt with the snow. First winter storm advisories across the area. This pretty back drop is across our studios in northwest d. C. It looks like nice big fat flakes coming down and a decent coating on the lawn. We kick things off with the Weather Center with what you need to watch out for on your friday night. The snow is not done falling just yet. This is our first measurable snowfall in december since 2013. Lets go ahead and go straight to lift look. This is reagan. I know you cant see the flakes but we have snow falling at the airport throughout the district. Now temperatures down to freezing. So this last bit of snow and the temperatures in the low 30s. It might get a good shot at accat straight to the radar. Look for the brighten bands of white where we see the moderate snowfall and that striation is a band. So Prince Georges Countying getting a coating and lighter snow just to the east of the i81 corridor and well see this continue to
Temperatures over the next five or six hours will be as warm as theyre going to be until probably next monday. Yes, indeed. Near 50 degrees by lunchtime today before the arctic express comes rolling on into town. Temperatures will be doing the downward spiral by later on in the day today. Right now, skies mostly cloudy overhead. Temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. Winds out of south this morning. Theres a little bit of a windchill now. But thats nothing compared to whats coming our way. Currently, 37 in leesburg. 31 in Prince Georges County. 43 by the way in annapolis. Near 50 at lunchtime before it turns windy and colder. Northwest winds 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour later on. These are your 5 00 temperatures. Well be 50 at lunchtime. Martinsburg down to the freeding mark by 5 00 this afternoon. Washington down to 41 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Windchills as well. Heres your 5 00 windchills. Teens, 20s to 30 degrees. Bring that heavy winter coat on a check of the next couple of days which
An emotional time. She was joined by other supervisors. Here she is addressing this tragic events we are learning about. It is with profound sadness that icon firm mayor edwin m. Lee passed away early this morning, tuesday, december 12th at 1 11 a. M. At Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. Family, friends and colleagues were by his side. The 43rd mayor of San Francisco was 65 years old. Our thoughts and prayers with his wife, aknnita and his daughters and entire family. In accordance with the city charter, i assume the role of mayor of San Francisco effective immediately. I want to thank the invedable staff at zuckerberg general for their care and professionalism. Reporter profound sadness is the best way to um up what we saw on the faces of those folks here this morning as they held that News Conference roughly around 3 30 a. M. Regarding the passing of mayor ed lee. Its having a big time impact here in San Francisco and abroad. Moments ago you talked with former San Francisco