Housing market. There are so few homes to buy. Baby boomers are staying in their home sweet homes, and this weeks cover store diana olick finds demand has limited s reporter baby boomer Lorraine Goldberg loves her fivebedroom suburban maryland home, loved raising her two sons here. They had shows, they had it was wonderful. Reporter and still loves throwing pool parties in her luxurious backyard. My friends come over, yes. Reporter but now she admits my neighborhood, by myself. I really dont belong in. Reporter her kids are grown and gone and she and her husband divorced. After nearly 40 years here, she would like to downsize to something more urban, but its actually less expensive to stay here in metro than move into the city. I dont know what to do. I keep calling realtors and drivin so i just stay here. Reporter realtor brook hiberger said she sees it all the time. Baby boomers are really struggling with the decision to yo downsize becau theres not great options to downsize to. Curr
And colleague Sharon Epperson has been away from this show. She is here today with our cover story, and its her story, about a lifechanging event that came out of nowhere. Reporter reporting on how to manage, grow, and protect your money is what i do. The bottom line is you probably need to be saving more than youre saving right now. Reporter its critical to plan for the unexpected. That i know. Because it happened to me. The day started like many others. Making sure my son and daughter got off to school and coordinating schedules with my husband. Then i went to exercise before heading to the studio. Some wei stretching. Suddenly, i felt incredible pain. The worst headache of my life. The rest of the day became a blur. [ sirens ] of doctors, hospitals, emergency rooms. Scans and images revealed bleeding in my brain. A bulge in the wall of a main artery there had burst. It was a ruptured brain aneurysm. The doctors had told me that she could lose her life or the things that make life wo
We begin with jobs. The Labor Department says that there are more than 6 million openings. That is close to an alltime high. But theres a big skills gap that comes along with job seekers who are looking to get hired. As our diana olick found, sometimes workers need to learn before they can earn. Thats our cover story today. Reporter inside an unassuming warehouse on the outskirts of denver 18 students are learning how to saw, drill, plaster and paint. Theyre learning how to build a house. 18 might not sound like a lot, but todays Home Builders are desperate for every last one of them. Every single year the labor situation has basically gotten more people retiring, nobody replacing them. And as an industry ultimately weve just done a lousy job marketing our opportunities to young people. Reporter so oakwood homes, which is owned by berkshire hathaway, started the colorado homebuilding academy, a nonprofit boot camp teaching basic construction skills. The classes are free. How can you af
We are tracking breaking news tonight out of the east bay. Thank you for joining us im pam moore. And im steve aveson that breaking news. Another train accident. The third one in 24 hours in the bay area. Lets get straight to kron4s grant lodes with where this happened. P grant amtraks capital that crashes between richmond in berkeley and east bay. The train 545 delayed more than an hour because of this incident. Just happened and then we do know about the condition about anyone who may of been in a vehicle that was hit we will keep you posted but we also just heard of or issue as this calms down not stopping at the record station in the east bay because Police Activity there. Or info on these incidents as we get them. Pam youre looking at the two other train accidents in the bay area. Today a woman was killed in the south bay after her car war slammed by an amtrak train. This, after two musicins from a popular rand b band were hit by a train that band tower of power has been an east b
It was very, very tough to get into the United States. If you were a muslim you could come in, i thought it was very, very unfair. President trump today signing an executive action to increase military spending, getting new planes, tools, and ships for the armed forces, pam. As that executive order a number of organizations to settle in the bay area responded to the sweeping change. Spencer blake talked with one of those groups. This has not been very well received there, has it. No it certainly hasnt been one of the groups that spoke out strongly against that executive order is jewish family and Community Services east bay is here in berkeley on this block and though it started helping mostly jewish refugees 140 years ago in berkeley most of the people they help now are muslim coming from countries, iraq, iran, syria, most from afghanistan in the last year they help resettle 151 people most, many of those people did actually work as translator overseas and they were helping the u. S.