Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended crews from operating its driverless taxis in San Francisco. And a man is facing dozens of charges for allegedly tried to stop a planes engine while it was in the we will go live as we continue to learn more about the suspect. From the bay station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. We start with a bombshell announcement from the dmv. Cruz is losing its permit to deploy and test Driverless Cars on public roads, at least for now. This is coming while labor leaders and allies are demanding more regulations for all robot taxis. Kron fours Michael Thomas reports now what led to the suspension. Well, crews Must Immediately stop using their driverless vehicles. The dmv says ultimately its because of safety issues for taking this action. Take a look at your screen. Theres details now specifically. There are 4 criteria for the suspension. The department has determined that the compa
Were able to stop him and the San Francisco bound plane diverted to portland and emerson was then taken into custody, according to some new court documents, emerson told the port of Portland Police following his arrest that he had been struggling with depression and then a friend had recently died and he had taken some psychedelic mushrooms about 48 hours before he attempted to cut the engines. He also says he did not sleep in more than 40 hours. Alaska airlines said today that emerson has been relieved of all of his duties and federal prosecutors. Meanwhile, have charged emerson with interfering with a flight crew which can carry up to 20 years in prison. Well get those details now from kron. 4 Charles Clifford. On tuesday, the fbi filed a criminal complaint against robert emerson. In that complaint, they detail the moments before and after he allegedly tried to turn off the engines of the plane in a federal criminal complaint filed against joseph emerson. The fbi says that the pilot
Its going to be good weather for that as well. You dont have to dodge any thunderstorms for the next few days. Temperatures are going to slide up to 84 degrees by noon. Your high today 90 which is the warmst day weve seen the past three dais. However the humidity still pretty low and talk about when we see that humidity go up a little bit later but heres larry miller, good morning. Metro riders still a good start her at 6 01. No issues on the trains on the buses certainly good news this. We have an issue right now in the district. This is maine avenue westbound at independence avenue. Where we have an oversized tractortrailer at this point that has to be backed up because its too big to go underneath the overpass there. At independence avenue. So commuters in that area will need to be alert right now. The situation pending there. Were not seeing much in the way of delays but could be problematic as we get to the height of rush hour. Sky 9 a live look right now on 95 on the maryland sid
But, again, expected to prove very costly to users. And down triple digits off the lows of the session nonetheless 173 is the selloff level were looking at on the dow. A lot of this related to the ism index coming in weaken than expected, manufacturing not growing as much as people wanted. And a big steep selloff in oil, so thats contributing to this as well. No place to hide except im just utilities right now theyre expecting that utilities can charge us more for those bills. So you can see about half a percent everyone else in the s p in the red. Weve got steven watching the selloff for us and the chief global strategist of west shore funds joining me on the set along with on the phone peter from Green Capital markets. And jim, what do you think this is all about . This is what i inflation. Shes threatening to raise rates. We know that. But raising rates strengthens the dollar, puts her in the opposite direction of what she wants. So now okay, maam, chairman, you said you were going
Passengers are upset by this. In their words, outraged. People we spoke to cant imagine paying to be treated this way on an airline. So in our own sign tisk poll, people used shocked, disapounted and upset. I am horrified by that. Thats the worst thing i have seen in a long time. Shocked and appalled. The math dropped when she watched the now viral video of a passenger being dragged from the seats he paid for. This when he refused to get off because united needed seats for its employees instead. The airline made the mistake. They are going to be suffering the consequences of that. Shes one of dozens who without hesitation today united will not get their business. No way. We asked people will you not tlie because of that . I wont. People would think twice. That could have been me. Am i going to e see those guys. They are in a tail spin and they are in damage control mode. Former pilot turned aviation Attorney Says its more than a pr nightmare. First, they broke their own rules in a carr