In San Francisco comes to a critical interest intersection. Dan the cpc uc is set to authorizing cruise to have a paid a public Taxi Services across the city at all hours of the day and night. Here is how we got to this point. Ama june 2022, crews started the first page driverless taxi rides in the city in limited areas and for limited nighttime hours. Waymo started doing the same later. Dan in december, both companies requested to expand their services throughout San Francisco and during all times of the day and night. This past may, the cpuc issued a draft resolution to approve their request. Ama San Francisco police, fire, and official spoke up against allowing expanded service, arguing the cars and hamper Emergency Vehicles. The cpuc asked cruise and waymo from ora way mode for more expansion. Dan days away from this critical vote we are talking about, the cpuc held a hearing today to get some answers. Ama suzanne phan is in the newsroom with what happened. Reporter Officials Press
Have never seen anything like this in my entire life. This is our first time coming back and actually knowing that are hearst bound down, we have not known anything for the last couple days because there is no information coming through. People lost everything. Homes, jobs, their cars, some their pets. There are still people missing. I thought wildfires i have fought wildfires in california and i was here yesterday when it flared up and i have never seen something ravaged so fast. The images of devastation becoming more personal today as officials begin allowing west maui residents to survey the damage for the First Time Since the Deadly Wildfires forced them to run for their lives. Ama here is the latest information. The death toll has risen officially to 67 people but that is expected to climb significantly. It is unclear how many are still missing with local officials blaming the challenging coming occasions. Dan today at noon local time, families were allowed to return to west maui
Ohio are sending a clear message. Drew it was a lot cooler yesterday. That continues today. Real patchy cloud cover overhead. If you liked yesterday today is very similar. We will keep temperatures at or below average for this time of year. We are waking up to numbers in the 50s and 60s already close to where we started our tuesday. Lets go hourbyhour on future weather. That is the marine layer. It is still in spots by 9 00 a. M. We will have afternoon sunshine away from the coast but it stays cloudy by the coastline. 80s around the coastline. Morning clouds and spots to afternoon sunshine. That breeze picks up just like it did yesterday. Maybe a degree or two warmer in some spots. 80 in san jose, and lend quite comfortable for the middle of august. Lets find out how we are doing with traffic. Jobina we will zoom in on francisco. This looks like both lanes closed right now. This is a two lane area right there. It was originally reported by the chp as debris in the roadway then a crash.
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One small area of this community. It is devastating news. Unimaginable devastation in hawaii as we begin to see the magnitude of the damage from Deadly Wildfires that ripped through mauis popular tourist area of lahaina. Most destructive fire appears to be the one burning on the western side, wiping out the town of lahaina. At least six people are dead and emergency officials expect that number to go up. Hawaiis number hawaiis governor did declare a state of emergency and is returning to the islands tonight to address the crisis. People are being told not to fly to maui unless they absolutely have to. The faa is keeping an eye on the smoke because it could alter flight patterns, and we are hearing of some people running to the beach in order to escape the flames. I was the last one off the dock when the fires came through the banyan tree and took everything with it. I just ran south and helped everybody i could along the way. We are getting a good look at that devastation. Video taken