Coming. Two events like this could be possible if it were not for your generous support showing up to them. Really, thank you so much for adding to your denver reading community. We appreciate it. Tonight we had the honor of hosting emily dufton here to talk about her book grass roots the rise and fall of marijuana in america. Emily received her phd in american studies from George Washington university and grassroots is based off her dissertation, the inspiration for such entries you tell us more about and she starts her talk. Emily has been featured in history channel, in the art and a work can also be found in the washington post, the atlantic History News Network and run washington. We are excited to emily here today because as you know in colorado without a very intriguing conversation going about marijuana. Even before it was officially legalized in 2014. Her book adds to this conversation with new research and interviews which expands this conversation even more than we could eve
These little cells that we are seeing that could possibly be popping up all around the bay area will have the potential on produce some lightning as well as some small hail and some brief heavy down pours. So this is something well be watching as we go through the day. Mostly having a large impact on our evening commute. This is already been a pretty dry winter season. Were used to getting a lot more rain in january. This rain, will it help the average . Let me show you where we are. Our arrival totals have been about 50 to 60 of normal and weve gotten about 12 inches of rain in santa rosa. We are still missing seven inches of rain. Thats a lot of rain that we need to catch up to normal. And looking at San Francisco, we need about four and a half inches of rain. San jose, three inches of rain. Well talk about how much snow were lacking in the sierra and how much were expecting with this round of storms. As the storm moves in, you can track it with our nbc bay area app. Download and it
Hottest day of the year so far. Yeah exactly angie. The forecast high today at Reagan National 98 degrees. When you combine the heat and humidity this afternoon, temperatures are feeling like theyre around 100 degrees because of the extreme heat and humidity. The Weather Service with a weather heat advisory. This will run through 8 00 p. M. This evening. The current heat index in the 70s and 80s. Already feeling like its 82 degrees in washington. Feeling about 72 in frederick. So heres your feels like temperature at 9 00 a. M. Already feeling like its in the upper 80s. If you want to go for a run do it now. By noon, feeling like its 100 degrees. 102 in washington. Coming up, im showing you what it will feel like in your neighborhood. Thanks. As you said a heat wave is on the way today. If you walk outside its going to feel like its more than 100 degrees as amelia just mentioned. Dozens of cooling center will be open in maryland as well as virginia and we put a comprehensive list togeth
Overnight. The outpouring for the daughter of soup star Whitney Houston this morning. And good morning, america. Such sad news about Bobbi Kristina. She was so young. Still so many questions. You see here there with her mom, Whitney Houston. She died three yores ago. Still so many questions about what caused her death. Were going the begin with the flooding in parts of the east coast this morning. Alerts across the east coast. Nearly a foot of rain falling in the tampa area over the past three days. Ginger a lot more on the way. You want to see what over a foot looks like . It looks like this. You had from 6 to 12 inches of rain. We still are under flood watch from ft. Myers up to tampa as we go through the next couple of days. How much more rain could we get . Two to four inches if youre there at the coast. All the way to orlando, you could get up to two inches. Flooding concerns along parts of the east coast. We have to turn to the headline of Severe Weather. Three reported tornadoes
Let us talk to our correspondent in miami. How bad are they expecting things to get there . Today the authorities have really ratcheted up the alarms about the hurricane getting to miami and south florida on sunday and saturday and possibly through monday as well. Today there isa through monday as well. Today there is a hurricane watch for the whole south florida area and the latest development is that they extended the evacuation zones in the Miami Dade County and now we have a lot more people who need to go out of their houses because it is not safe for them to stay. Florida, no stranger to hurricanes, how are people reacting to this storm . South florida and the whole state, it is not strange thing during Hurricane Season. Not strange thing during Hurricane Season. The erma hurricane, because of the characteristics that it has, it has really scared people, i have seen, since monday until today, very long lines for gasoline stations and even the police here needed to escort trucks wi