Dangerous to youth . Two fundamental reasons, our brainstorm fully develop until 4 25 or 26 years old, and its clear that any exposure to nicotines in the still developing adolescent brain is harmful, regardless of what the other hazards, chemicals in the vapor are. Just the nicotine alone is reason enough to be concerned that no good should be concerned. Then, when you add what is known, those bring additional risks. We have to still called Harm Reduction debate, that is a different question, when we ask about if we switch to ecigarettes, well be exposing itself to fewer toxins. As i said, kids are walking away with this mindset that its harmless, that its water vapor, and some of them dont even know that its nicotine. I now recognize congressman grasp for five minutes of questioning. Were going after some territory, you see the list behind you, the number of middle school kids and High School Kids that are using these. Do you know how many of these people are using illegal products t
The subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized a recess at any the subcommittee will come to order. We are allowed to declare a recess at a time. We are examining the federal response to the epidemic of youth ecigarette used and fta food and Drug Administration compliance policy. I now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. September 11 this year the administration released disturbing results, the youth beta epidemic and at the vaping epidemic continues to grow to alltime highs. And that they use ecigarettes the trends are alarming for High School Students, as well as middle school students. Here, i show you to visuals on your rank, that is 20 of high schools were vaping, in the 2019, only 28 of by schools are vaping, meaning there is 100 and 35 increase in vaping among highschoolers. On your right, there is another visual that is more disturbing. In 2017, 3. 3 of middle schoolers were vaping, and today it is almost 11 . That is a 218
Good afternoon, im greg lee. We begin with that breaking news in San Francisco. Sky fox live overhead here along the embarcadero San Francisco fire confirming to us a 14 year old was hit by a car outside Francisco Middle School. Lets get right to ktvu. S Christien Kafton. Christian, what have you learned so far . Yeah, not a whole lot of details as this is a developing story as we speak right now. Now, this is where that crash occurred and this series of events ended. If you take a look here, you can see that this gray volvo, you might be able to see some debris on the ground. This is where that white mustang ended up crashing into this vehicle. We may have video of that to show you right now. Police say that this crash here was part of a chaotic morning. From what we understand, this same white mustang was involved in at least two hit and runs. Now, police say the mustang was involved in a hit and run in the tenderloin this morning, injuring a pedestrian. Police tell us that that happ
Encampments on city streets. Well break down the numbers and why the city is crediting its outreach efforts and intervention as the reason behind the change. Plus, after more than a year without a Permanent Police chief, oaklands newly appointed leader of the department officially has a start date. Well talk live with oakland mayor shengtao about the citys new police chief, floyd mitchell. Live from jack london square. This is mornings on two. The nine. Good morning and welcome to the nine. Its a mild day, but we are in for a jump in temperatures by my rules, as long as the ac is working on friday, i think ill be okay. Ill ignore every other red light on that dashboard. And are you one of those people who acts immediately when you see, like the check engine light . Go on. Or are you like the rest of us and just let it kind of simmer for a while . The average american says they ignore their check engine light for four months before they address it. 1 in 5 say theyll go even longer betwe
Bit on wednesdays. We know its tuesday. Yeah well were wearing pink on tuesday okay. There you go. Yes a little blustery yesterday and same overnight. We do have a bit more fog here this morning especially down around san jose. But were all set for a nice day. Temps are creeping up 40s on the temps a little bit more in the way of a low cloud deck, but temperature there still planned to higher clouds zipped by yesterday. Most of that has cleared out. Fog is going down the coast. So all in all were looking for a lot of sunshine today and 60s and 70s on those temps. All right sal is here. Back to icon. I did see that. Yeah theres more construction out there. Its not causing a big traffic jam in most areas. There is a new crash that just came in a few minutes ago. Steve. Northbound 880 at maury. Other person has it southbound 880 at maori. The medics are on the way. Were going to figure out where it is. No ones gotten to the scene yet, but it does look like one vehicle may be flipped over