This week the communicators goes to the university of michigan near detroit where Car Companies are using and it test site called mcity to tryout new technology. Carmakers art spearman did with technology that allows cars to talk to each other and talk to roads and traffic lights so there will be fewer traffic accidents. We spoke with a transportation analyst who studies this technology and with the director of the university of michigans Mobility Transformation Center. Host Debra Bezzina where are we right now . Guest we are at the university of michigan in what we call mcity. Mcity was built specifically to test, develop connected and Automated Vehicles. Host and this is a store in your background. Guest this is a storefront. Basically you can create different scenarios for connected and Automated Vehicles and trying to target the ones are difficult. You want to test and be able to repeat so when you are out on the street its hard to be able to repeat consistently so if youre behind
We have yet to hear where trump. The two men are longtime friends. If the elections were based only on facebook interactions. Donald trump would be the clear winner. Ta numbers. From usa today. Trump set a new record. Every week. This month. And last week. The magazine tracked. 3 hundred 7 million likes. Comments. Shares and posts. About the republican nominee. Hillary clinton also hit her all time high. With 2 hundred 6 million interactions. On facebook. Independent candidates jill stein and gary johnson wont be on the debate stage tomorrow night. But they will be campaigning. Johnson. The libertarian candidate. At tommy wind theater. That rally gets underway at 8 30. Green Party Candidate jill stein will reportedly be streaming live during the debate to answer the same questions posed to trump and clinton. Her campaign has not announced. However. Where shell be. 13 action news will bring you comprehensive coverage on tomorrows debate. Ill be at unlv with 13action news political analy
This morning. This is notes first time deputies have searched for an inmate in this area. This man has been on the run for 12 hours now. How long does it usually take to track these inmates down . Reporter more th the inmates who manage to escape are caught within 24 hours. Lets hope that this man falls into that category and is back behind bars very soon. According to polk county, 45 yearold Joseph Flanagan of lakeland escaped on bob Phillips Road in bartow yesterday afternoon around 3 30. Place say flanagan was working in Fleet Maintenance and he this one. Its almost like deja vu for polk county officials. Last month an inmate led them on a manhunt after they say he made a makeshift weapon, kidnapped a corrections officer, and stole this pickup truck. Officials were able to catch the man in Pinellas County. For the current case, flanigan was in jail for stealing and violation of probation. He had a 300 day sentence and had already served a quarter of his time. If you see him, call po
Theyve been measuring the crack for 40 years. To the city, it was just a crack. Well make sure that our streets are upgraded, our sidewalks are accessible, and that we maintain Pedestrian Access throughout the community. Reporter so it fixed it. Were unaware at the time were doing the work. Reporter there are a lot of other important earthquake sites in the city, she says, as it is the first name of the hayward fault. Im sure it will come undown with the next one. Theyll be able to measure again real soon. Reporter maybe. The fault hasnt exploded for 140 years and is due at any time. The shake with 7 or higher. But one of the biggest studies of it died last week, when the city did what cities do. Fix sidewalks. Even one with so much curb appeal. So what can be done to fix this . Nothing. Its over. They paved over it. And i asked the city would they have done it if they knew how important it was, they said probably not, but they do ask geologists to get ahold of them, pause there are a
Thermometer and also in terms of heat index. Stormscan 3 youre not going to find storm. Give it a few hours, we will start to see instability, unsettled weather, popup up variety of showers and thunderstorms this, as early as afternoon but generally towards evening well see widespread coverage of that. Its a scattered variety of showers and storms. Meanwhile the excessive heat, if it feels like groundhog day in terms of the forecast, this is why because its an extensive period of time. Its a really a warm morning, even by 9 00 in the morning, were already in the mid and upper 80s. That will easily send us into the mid 90s by 3 00 p. M. , turning a bit unsettled as the day goes on. Very warm another sticky one. Good morning, looking outside though. Beautiful morning. Looking good on your roadways. Boulevard moving in the southbound direction. We have our early risers. Overall steady basically wherever we look, even in new jersey, 42 northbound. Ever so slightly. This what its been looki