Welcome to inside story, im ray suarez. The most dangerous place for an american teenager is behind the wheel. Kids learn to drive, and we let them in large numbers, at a younger age than we let them vote, drink, sign contracts or marry. None of those other activities involve climbing into a huge chunk of metal, and talking or texting or fiddling with the radio. Erica pitzi looks at how we teach young drives in the country, and no matter how they drive distracted, och with devastating oven with devastating results. Reporter playing with the radio, putting on makeup. Talking and texting on the phone. Aum taking a teenagers eyes off the road with deadly consequences. Cars. The most common form of distraction was teens interacting with other passengers, followed by teens interacting with cell phones, doing all sorts of things like texting, driving, and interacting with social media reporter how often do you come to the memorial . Every morning or night every three years. Reporter mikes da
Fireworks celebration. The building very near the worlds tallest building, the burj khalifa. There were no fatalities. 14 people were hurt. Possibly more. Were not sure we know for sure. All the while citys planned fireworks celebration went on as planned. It was strangest thing i ever have seen. David it was extraordinary. Onlookers didnt know what to look at, what was more spectacular sight, a sight of a burning skyscraper or fireworks display. There are a lot of questions whether what were hear from the Dubai Government is accurate. It is extraordinary if there are 16 minor injuries, excluding one heart attack from this massive fire. Hard to believe the story weve been hearing about, it having been set on 20th floor by curtain fire. It is not only above the 20th floor but clearly fires are down on the bottom well below the 20th floor. Joining us on the phone james mcmull lan, former state of california chief fire marshall and founder of the mcmull lan fire company. There are flames
Fireworks display was set to start on the left part of your screen. Of were going to keep our eyes trained on both of these, because were waiting to see if they will pull this off with such a drama occurring just, as i said, across the socalled plaza in that area. The fire raced up some 20 stories, torching a landmark hotel. Clearly, more than 20 stories were engulfed. First official said nobodys injured. Now reports at least 14 are hurt, but medics on the scene are saying 60 people hurt, some are burned, some have smoke inhalation, one person has had a heart attack trying to flee the scene. Evacuations, apparently, are completed. But, again, the details are very sketchy right now. They are claiming, the officials, that its 90 under control. Its important to note that some of the video on the right part of your screen is video that was taken just about an hour or two ago. So, again, they say that its under control or nearly under control. But the cause at this hour is still unknown. Th
They had a late night hosting our countdown to 2016. Some 330 thousand people packed the world famous Las Vegas Strip to ring in the new year. Patrick Walker but after the party. Comes the cleanup crews. Street sweepers got to work fast to get the roads ready to reopen. Michelle Mortensen Michael Stevens is live in front of caesars. Hey michael, anybody still celebrating . patrick, michelle. What a night to say the least. It was only a few hours ago thousands packed these streets now cleanup crews are still working to bring some normalcy back to las vegas boulevard. Just a few hours ago. People from all over the world packed the Las Vegas Strip to ring in the new year. And it seems everything went off without a hitch it was fun. Bottom line. It was fun. it was pretty fun. Loud. There were a lot of noise makers. The fireworks were beautiful. They were erywhere. You just look everywhere they were coming out of the hotels near circus circus where you can see like above the circus circus a
Illegal fireworks and celebratory gunshots. Police started receiving calls hours before the new year. Like last year they had increased presence on the streets, but this year they tried something new. Employing that increased staffing to hot spots or areas in the past that have had an increase of gunfire as well as fireworks activity. And they will respond to those calls. The special Enforcement Teams issued 29 traffic citations and they made 8 arrests last night and there are lots of new laws in effect this morning that you might need to know about. Kpix 5s keit do has more on what these laws mean. Reporter it will be a happy new year for a lot of people who will be getting a boost in their paychecks. Starting today the minimum wage goes up for every major city in the bay area including san jose. This is all part of a slow phasing in process for some minimum wage laws that were passed a couple years ago. Starting today san joses minimum wage goes up to 10. 30 an hour. Oakland 12. 55.