With the flu spreading nationwide, the astonishing number of us who still have to work sick and the biggest reasons we dont stay at home. Early today starts right now hey there. Welcome to friday. Im phillip mena. Good to be with you im Frances Rivera a week of wicked weather is on the way for over 50 million americans. From coast to coast, threats of severe storms that could bring everything from snow and ice to tornados over the next several days lets get right to nbc meteorologist bill karins r us busy map and busy morning for you. A treacherous weekend for people traveling and getting around were just really cone the severe thunderstorms later on today and the possibility at least of tornados and lifethreatening winds with these storms this could be an extreme wind event. Downed trees on houses, things like that, as we go throughout the afternoon and evening. If youre in the yellow, you have the risk of getting the severe storms. If youre in the orange, that means youre more likely
First day of 2020. Announcer now, news to build a better bay area, from abc7. A little girl dropping off a handwritten note outside a starbucks where a man was killed. He died trying to stop a thief who stole his laptop. As a Community Grieves over what was a senseless death. Good evening. Oakland police tonight say two that case. Thanks for joining us. Im larry beil . I am kristen sze. This happened in oaklands month claire district. Laura anthony is live in montclair tonight with new developments for us. Laura . Hi kristen. Oakland police say this investigation is ongoing so there could be more arrests in adesignation to the two announced today. In the meantime we talked with witnesses who will remember this new year in a way they could never have imagined. It just all happened so fast. He was really fast. He was really drav. Reporter julie and her young daughter were sitting next to a young man working on his laptop at a oakland starbucks when there was a sudden kmoigs commotion. Th
Boise, potato ships . No, computer chips welcome to squawk alley. I am jon fortt with me at post nine, Morgan Brennan and david faber. Carl quintanilla hat morning off. Another busy morning in washington the house of representatives has another big vote on the trade front, expecting to pass usmca, the replacement for nafta, on the heels of approving two articles of impeachment against President Trump last night Kayla Tausche joins us with more reporter the vote will be a stark contrast to the Party Line Vote on impeachment. On the house floor on capitol hill, two hours of debate is beginning that will tee up a vote that white house officials expect to be a landslide bipartisan vote, thanks largely because of provisions folded in to win over House Democrats by Bob Lighthizer last hour on cnbc, the treasury secretary said it should be seen as a win for the economy, not a win for House Speaker nancy pelosi were going to get in excess of 50 basis points of additional growth in gdp as a res
Oakland where the governor and other state leaders unveiled that new program. Reporter they had a public unveiling and a News Conference where they talked about the new earthquake Early Warning system via that my shake app. The media still here, about to leave the pier where we are. The app called, my shake, is free to download and was developed by uc berkeleys seismologists and also from around the west coast. University of washington and oregon as well. It will not be able to predict . But the app can alert users to take cover and prepare seconds before shaking, the shaking of a major quake reaches them. The system uses sensors buried in the ground across the state and it detects the start of earthquake, calculates the location and intensity and send a warning to your phone if youre in an area where shaking is likely to happen. It works similar to the amber alert system using the same wireless notification system to send out those warnings. At the unveiling and this News Conference,
When the kids texted them. All students were safe and they gave the all clear just after 12 30 pm. San jose Elementary Schools could be on the chopping block. Skyhigh real estate prices could be to ble. Live at doug hill el thelocatio close. Reporter last week Evergreen School Board Members voted to move forward with the plan that could potentially shutdown or consolidate three of their schools. The district has been losing students at a steady pace for years. And now they are faced with tough choices. Alicia marquez transferred her child to dove hill elementary. The school was spacious and did not seem crowded. I like how the classes are not so compact. There are smaller classrooms. Pay attention to the kids more. That is probably the problem. Reporter School Districts that dove hill has fewer than 300 kids. When it has capacity for five or 600. Same thing at laurelwood elementary. 291 students for a campus that can hold twice as many. Enrollment in the Evergreen School district has b