Consumer statement is breaking right now. Let us get the details with mike mckee. Little bit better news. Consumer sentiment is up a little bit from last month. The preliminary michigan numbers come in at 72. 8. There was an expectation that it would slip given everything that has been going on. We have seen an increase in expectations and the current level. Is 80 2882. 5 and that 82. 8 and better than what was expected. Level rises, and it had sharply declined last month but people are feeling better about the economy right now. Sales . Hat about retail we are still spending a lot in certain areas especially on ecommerce. Guy nice shoes. Alix thank you, i am glad somebody notices. Compared to last month it does not look as good. Mike the numbers did not come in as expected, but the trend is dead, a slowing during the month of july of 1. 2 after an eight point 4 rise the month before. 1. 9 down,mber at the retail control group, 1. 4 after. If you look at the june numbers, and retail sa
Tonight. We begin this evening with a bay area teen that may be closing in on a potential treatment for covid19. It relies on our own immune systems, our own bodys ability to fight off infegs when invaded by a virus. Now a South San Francisco doctor says his work is taking the next step. Abc7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the story. In the race to find a cure for covid19, theres new hope from bay area scientists who have been working around the clock. Good to have big dreams, big dreams got us to the moon. Reporter you might recognize dr. Jacob glenville from the Netflix Docuseries pandemic. Hes the president and ceo of distributed bio, which is developing an antibody therapeutic to treat the Novel Coronavirus. If your loved one has to go to the hospital. We give them the therapy and instead of getting more sick, they get better rapidly and go home. The minute we have an antibody therapy we can end the crisis. Three independent laboratories including one at stanford yufr Stanford Univ
Weekend in tahoe. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im claudine wong. New tonight ktvu amber lee spoke to the teen and his coaches, who say blake is an exceptional young man who will get through this devastating time. I caught an edge and i was trying to avoid this tree. And then i caught another edge and went boom, right into the tree. I just stopped. I could not feel my legs. Blake mendenhall of napa spoke with me while recovering in a reno hospital. He crashed into a tree while snowboard at a tahoe ski resort sunday afternoon. Now, his parents are by his side along with his favorite nurse. Family members say he severed his spinal cord and cannot walk despite his life changing injuries. The 15 year old is upbeat even if somethings going wrong. Are you getting hurt . What ive realized from how much pain and suffering ive been through, is to just never, ever give up, never back down. The family, says blake, has undergone multiple hours of neurosurgery and has rods holding his s
Lets do it. This this is the day weve been bracing for. Steves going to bring it to you. Yeah. Hes talking about your forecast. Whats coming . I am indeed. I hope you got out yesterday. Enjoyed that. Nice weather because it is long gone. It is not sunny in palo alto. I have to fix everything but 40s. 50s on the temps here. A lot of low clouds. Drizzle is already begun. Our system has moved in or even light rain. Well to the north. But this is more coming in this afternoon. This evening, and its the start of a Long Duration event and just incredible amounts of snow. It will rain morning, overcast, drizzle or light rain for some, especially the north. Cloudy, cooler rain develops in the wind will pick up as well. Get used to cooler temps. Much cooler as we go into the weekend. All right, sal is here. Good. Bad. Whats going on . Well, you know, right now we have a mostly dry commute, steve, and thats what i like. Dry commutes, but its not going to stay that way for long. At the bay bridge
Were going to show you some live pictures of the roads out there up in the sierra in just a moment. But in fact, here you go. Right now, these are the conditions on interstate 80, in soda springs along the donner pass. You can see it for yourself right now. And a blizzard warning is now in effect for the mountains. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Welcome to mornings on two. Im dave clark. Good morning im pam cook thursday morning february 29th. Its leap day. Yes we have our extra day today soda springs. Its right near sugar bowl so well keep an eye on that. Drizzly for me. Nothing this morning. No. All right, lets check in with Steve Paulson. Whats the forecast look like today . A little drizzle, not much, but a little. Yes. This will be this afternoon into this evening. Uh, if youre going to go to the mountains, i would go now because by the time if you go later, youll run into a heap of problems there. 40s, 50s on the temps, our systems on the way. But it still has a ways