Notes during the previous century, americans gained an average age of an extra 30 years of life. So 80 is the new 50, and there are many more octogenarians nonagenarians enjoying life than ever before are given and technological advance is empty rights. There has never been a better time to be old. This also means that millions more people than ever before need and will continue needing care. Yet current systems focused on caring for the elderly can be baffling and really do vary quite a bit in quality. Aging can be hard m. T observes. Its been made infinitely and unnecessarily harder by our failure to. Build the infrastructure we need to age well now empties. Ames in in the measure of our age she says was to provide a clearer sense for people of where the relevant systems are now and where might be headed in hopes of enabling us to forge what she calls a more just gentle and joyful old age for ourselves and for those we care about an empty is herself, especially well qualified to writ
The boys father mother and sister are still in the hospital. As investigators try to figure out what went wrong. Lets get out to jeff cole whos life in schwenksville for us tonight. Jeff . Reporter iain, a make shift memorial is rising outside of the dark and blackened Lukens Family home. Early morning fire likely powered by heavy winds has claimed the lives of young lukens boys. Just after 5 00 on a blustery morning flames and smoke can be seen rising from the summit of a twostory home. Fire crews arrived to find brian lukens, his wife tracy and nineyearold daughter sophia out of the home. But sons brian, jr. , 11 and parker six remain inside where they perish. You know he did everything he possibly could to get his boys out of the home. So its just absolutely tragic and i cant imagine the pain. Reporter by daylight state and local fire investigators were inside and out of the wooden structure built in 1960. Brian lukens a Deputy Montgomery county sheriff bought his family home six ye
Can i alert my colleagues that are here to introduce individuals normally we would turn to you and let you do that. But this meeting is has some more controversy than most hearings have so this is the way were going to handle it. Im going to make an Opening Statement, a little longer than usual. Senator feinstein will make a statement thats longer than usual. Then because of the two states that are involved, and for different reasons, but coming to the same conclusion, normally we dont have members speak, but i felt i ought to give the courtesy to both senator kennedy and senator said he wanted to speak about the controversy and his nominee. Then im going to turn to senator franken and senator franken will have up to five minutes s that okay . Youre going to introduce people, but i would like to get the controversial statements out of the way first. That makes sense. Okay. Congratulations to all the nominees and to your families and everybodys welcome at the committee. Two weeks ago, i
The san mateo coast. There is cloud cover zipping down from the northwest. A little bit of fog out to the valley. Mostly sunny today. A very dry pattern for us. There are hints of an off shore or northerly breeze. Maybe not that strong. Higher elevations stronger. 30s, 40s 50s. Gilroy at 37. 30s in the santa cruz mountains. Acampbell says 38. If you want rain, go north. There are some up in portland and seattle. Theres none here. There wont be for a while. 60s and 70s, above normal temps. Around pinole you had an issue. Is that taken care of or still causing problems. Well, the accident is cleared but the slow traffic remains on 80 westbound coming away from the carquinez bridge and heading west at richmond. There was a crash at pinole road. You can see the traffic will be slow westbound as you drive through hercules. It is getting a little better. Now there is more slow traffic appearing downstream, if you will. At one point we had a 62minute backup. Now down to 40 minutes. Things are
Remember those 100 delivery fees for water were already seeing shell tell us more about that. I heard much higher gasoline prices as well, but i dont know if that was an urban edge end. Well talk about that and the other big story were following is the mass you have data breach at equifax which may have seen data stolen from nearly half of the u. S. Population. Well talk about what could happen to the stock, how you can protect your personal data from future hack attacks as well. Yeah, with the stock down 13 and the worst performer in the s p 500 today which is down a point and a half right now let start our full coverage of Hurrican Irma it is a does near landfall in florida. Wmaq meteorologist kaylee dieion is tracking the storms path and Jackie Deangelis with a look at final preparations being made and Morgan Brennan with a look at how difficult it is to get out of florida and how the theme parks are bracing. Had an update over the last hour the National Hurricane center has upped t