Joshs pants. He suffered third degree burns. Its the latest incident involving batteries for e cigarettes. He had to be placed in a coma for three days after one blew up in his mouth. To be an alternative of smoking cigarettes. Reporter the same battery cells also power hover boards. Since december there have been incidents of hover boards catching on fire. Jay is a an engineer at a university. He says to make this product cheaper and more powerful has led some companies to cut corners. What were seeing is a situation where many of these batteries are simply not made to the same standard as the batteries that are made say at sony or up son. Reporter he says that items are considered high power applicatio applications. Their batteries are badly designed they can overheat. Is it something that the user is doing incorrectly . No. In general with this kind of technology its difficult for the user to be at fault. Theres a well controlled charging circuit and a good package that the cell liv
Mixed feelings about it all. And the Washoe County School District is leading the way in social and Emotional Learning for children. And is holding a conference this week to promote the program. Ky sisson is live to tell us more about the conference and how it can impact schools acorss the country. These stories top your news right now at 6 00 am. Today is wednesday, february 24, 2016. Good morning, im john potter. And im andi guevara. Thanks for starting your day with channel 2 news this morning. Lets start with a quick look at lets start with a quick look at the forecast with meteorologist Jeff Martinez. Sunny and mild today, with highs in the low to mid 60s and light skies. Have a great wednesday the results from the Nevada Republican caucuses are in. Its another victory for the donald trump has won the first in the west republican president ial caucuses. His third victory this primary season. Donald trump so tonight, folks, this was a great evening. I love this place, i love this s
Today, the director of the f. B. I. Said that his battle with apple is the toughest fight hes faced in government. A federal magistrate ordered apple to unlock the iphone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, but today, apple told the court that order is dangerous. Jeff pegues has more. Reporter in its filing, apple says the f. B. I. Is seeking a dangerous power and that it would be forced to dedicate six to 10 apple engineers to create new code that apple calls the government operating system or government o. S. Apple said there would even have to be a governments Forensics Lab on Company Grounds that could be used to open hundreds of other seized devices in law enforcements possession. Apple says if it creates software to break into the iphone, criminals will this is the hardest question i have seen in government. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey reassured members of Congress Today that the bureau only wanted access to the iphone used by San Bernardino terrorist syed farook.
Have better news that comes down the road here but we have to start with the here and now, and get you out the door, on its face, in. I get it, just rolling out of the bed and cannot really build extra time in the day but if you can get outside earlier it is not worst idea. We will go back inside in time and look at the snow amounts. It wasnt much. We did have a trace in allentown, forks township pick up. 3 of an inch. Mount pocono just shy of an inch. That came with the on set of that first system. Now it is simply too warm with most of us to deal with any wintry weather but we have a wintry weather advisory until 9 00 specific to the poconos. Northampton county no longer included in that. Lets look at storm scan at this local level. We are between systems right now. But there is so much moisture to work with that the air is so saturated it can do nothing but rain down upon us. It is a light rain, drizzle. You are seeing it come through scattered in nature. We have fog issues this mor
Caucuses that could be the turning point. For some it is a fight for survival, but for dominant donald trump, he is expected to draw most of the fire tonight, and now his tax returns have become an issue. Major garrett is in the debate city of houston. Major . Reporter scott, republicans here all agree tonight could be one of the last chances to slow Donald Trumps momentum before key contests in his republican rivals home state. A new poll here in texas shows ted cruz ahead, and john kasich has been leading in ohio. But another poll put marco rubio well behind trump in his home state of florida. Today, trump focused on a different republican candidate, one from four years ago. The feud between mitt romney and donald trump started yesterday when romney repeated his call for trump to release his tax returns. Trump then took to twitter to call romney one of the worst g. O. P. Candidates ever and a dope. Trump also tweeted a picture of himself signing what he said was a recent tax return.