Snow wreaked havoc on roads in minnesota. State Police Reported nearly 500 crashes and more than 600 vehicle spinouts. At least eight inches fell in some areas. It could end up being the largest ever october snowfall in state history. It could end up being the largest ever october snowfall in state history. Five people on a camping trip in new mexico were saved from a wildfire when one of them had to use the restroom. Ryan says he saw the flames after leaving his tent saturday night and alerted his companions. They scrambled to leave the area but a giant tree in the road blocked their escape. At that point, hollett, sensing the worse, he called his wife. I think anybody who feels like theyre about to go through something life or death would give anything for that chance to be able to say, hey, i love you, that one last time. They did manage to move that tree and a number of others to make it out safely. Turning to the battle against the coronavirus and some startling new numbers amid a
The Reagan National and washington but we talk about the airlines with edward and we start with you. Reporter yet, friday rally. Not seeing two days of gains a row and we not seen that and wrote while but they come back in today and closing near the highs of the session for all three major averages with the exception of energy all of the sectors were in the green, led by technology and the tech trader regained its momentum today. Lets take a look at apple shares up around 4 today all of these names, higher on the week with the exception of google just fractionally lower in the nasdaq higher this week but the Broader Market down or weeks in a row and is the longest losing streak since last august, augus. As you can see, the dow down one and three quarters of the week. S p down. 6 but the nasdaq certainly higher. In fact we have one dow stock that actually notched a record high today, that was a nike on a solid blowout earning report and their revenue is just about where it was last year
It is also a foggy and hazy start to the day with patty drizzle as well as along the coast and the bay. Heading to the afternoon, near normal daytime highs in the upper 80s around 90 in concord and livermore. Low 80s and san jose. The upper 60s in san jose several disco and low 70s in oakland. We talk more about the heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. Speaking of the Holiday Weekend, we see later conditions on the freeways and for the most part. That is good news. There are a couple of hotspots. Westbound 37, you have brake lights and for the commute working out of the east bay into marin county. I vallejo. You have a slow ride westbound. No accidents. Just a bit busy. We are seeing slightly slower speeds westbound 580 into the past. It is actually pretty clear out of tracy picked the drive times are pretty much in the green for all of the major freeways. 21 minutes to a five through 680. Changes for mass transit. I will have that in the next
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Two dozen inmates at san quentin prison have died from covid19. Today we learned a guard who spent his entire career there is the first staff member to die from the disease. Hello, thank you for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. A south bay family now mourning the loss of a beloved husband, father, veteran, and longtime corrections officer. 55yearold Gilbert Polanco died this morning after a long battle with covid19. Polanco is the first guard at san quentin prison to die from the virus. Abc7 news spoke with the family today. Cornell barnard is live in san jose. Just so heartbreaking. It is a heartbreaking story, dion. His family says he wascovirus f corrections officer will live on. He is a good man. Were all devastated. Family and friends mourning the loss of 55yearold sergeant Gilbert Polanco who died at this San Jose Hospital sunday morning. He was a longtime corrections officer at san quentin pr
Programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book price in social justice. Which you please join me welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you, leslie, i thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to be here again. I was just talking with your president nancy, and just reliving my First Experience at omsi over 40 years ago when omsi was up at washington park, and i was a volunteer. And i was working with a group at omsi that actually was involved in software. I had just come from ibm to go to Chiropractic College and i needed something to do around computers because ive been doing that for so long when i wasnt studying chiropractic, and i was able to get computer time by exchanging my work to help them develop the omsi compiler or anyone is old enough to remember what the compiler is, kind of date yourself,