In chief megan murphy. You look at canada and the legalization of pot. Megan it is a great story about the Business Impact of this move to legalize marijuana. We focus on this construction of this 800,000 square meter facility that will be the largest pot legal Growth Center near alberta, canada. It has actually been ravaged by the forces of the oil industry upwards and downwards. Just looking at how the economics of this as Justin Trudeau pushes forward with this plan to make it legal. Leave the governing of it to the provinces and try to put in taxes they are trying to put and taxes to get revenue into the government from the legalization of this industry. Several of these companies are listed in terms of the companies that grow and supplying marijuana. It is a big business, and they think it comes at the expense of criminalize gangs. Oliver the first question i have is how much of it is economically incentivized. They ultimately want money out of this industry. Megan the tax revenue
Continues to rotate through the bay area today and that will allow for the possibility of showers and maybe even a thunderstorm. Its cool, too, with 46 in petaluma, and 49 in fairfield. So for the next couple of hours, heres the way it will pan on out. Youll notice most of the activity through the south and through 11 00 well look for mainly dry condition, but ill talk about thunderstorms and well detail the rest of the afternoon and the rest of the weekend coming up. Thanks, lisa. The glow of another world series championship is still settling over the bay area. Fridays victory parade brought out hundreds of thousands of people to celebrate their heroes. There was another mess trying to get out of the city. Abc 7 reporter Sergio Quintana has the details. Ive been standing in line for about an hour. From sky 7 hd you can see how far downtown the line of people extended. Ridership may have set a record. How long have you been in line . I dont even no. An hour, maybe longer . Where did y
Throughout the afternoon hours and falling to the upper 50s by 7 00 and i hope this isnt contagious, leyla gulen. We will take you to union city where we have a serious accident with a car hitting a pedestrian. We do not know the extent of the injuries or if this is a fatality. The nimitz is slowing down as you approach the scene of the accident and sky seven is on the scene and you can see the crews on the scene. The area is shut down at this time with more information ahead. Thank you, we have an update open breaking news from the east bay where a fire ripped through several homes in pleasanton and we have helped a key piece of equipment wasnt working that the firefighters were counting on. Amy . Yes, the fire still is not out. You can see they are still struggling with a few hotspots. That is an indication of how big the five was. They did not have any water when they first got here and they tried the hydrants and figured they were not working yet so they had to pull the hoses in fr
That we have less sunshine in the evening so dress appropriately. Good morning, everyone, at 6 00, we are tracking this accident and it is in the eastbound direction of 580 we are getting more updates an overturned tractor trailer, an 18wheeler. It is on the shoulder. We have possible lanes blocked. We are hearing there will be a helicopter. One person is tracked. In the westbound direction traffic is heavy. There is spectator slowing building and as we flight over to Castro Valley westbound 580 at 238 an accident involving a black passenger bus. The pain at the pump in the bay area, and this morning some drivers are finding relief. A gallon of gas is less than 3. Nick is where the cheaper fuel is now selling. Absolutely, in fact, some of the computers are asking, highway low can you go . They want the pump prices to go lower. We are talking 2. 97 in san jose. This is why aaa said without any natural disasters gas prices will continue to fall over the next few months dropping 33 cents
Which is all it takes to push the temperatures above average. Up to 81 inland, and 70 to 75 at the coast. Enjoy the warm weather. I saw flights flashing on the Golden Gate Bridge so we have construction crews there, as well, pecking up cones and they are making a clear commute as you head out the San Francisco and into marin. Southbound traffic is not seeing any delays whatever. We will take you over to the amount pass where we are seeing slowing and it is taking on a few minutes to the commute at 32 Miles Per Hour leaving tracy and 580 is looking at 39 Miles Per Hour for slowandgo and back on the basics with construction in the wrapping up stages and you will slow down as you approach 680 but you are clear to go to Castro Valley. The latest Election Results, locally, the hottest races is too close to call. Ballots are still counted in the san jose mayor race, sam liccardo leads county supervisor dave cortese and matt is in san jose. We knew it would be a close. It did not disappoint.