Sessions. Its been on such a winning streak. Again, i use the word breather right now. While vaccine timing is spooking the markets, colleges across the nation are trying to minimize the scary impact of the deadly virus. Alabama state is teaming up with dragonfly to keep its students safe. The ceo is going to be here to show us how this is all supposed to work. Meanwhile, the covid crisis has caused the makers of one frozen Treat Company to put its Business Plan on ice. The ceo of dippin dots is here to tell us how his freezers are working overtime on new pandemic opportunities. You dont want to miss that. Then one of the Biggest Car Rental Companies in europe is zooming into the United States in the middle of a pandemic. We will ask the board member and namesake about why now is the time for them to expand in america. Less than an hour to the closing bell, im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman. Lets start the claman countdown. Cheryl so after a day of records on wall street, it has been
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The morning very welcome calm winds in these areas. Welcome relief from poor air quality late yesterday you notice skies really clearing out you could think that deep in marine layer for that the help to push in clean things up a bit. This isnt necessarily going to stay this way through the day so do enjoy are Clear Conditions this morning, a haze is expected again this afternoon, especially for inland areas. 60s 70s, 80s and just a few 90s in the forecast today. One of our warm spots at 91 degrees lot cooler than you have been well conquered in livermore settling down into the upper 80s for areas like san jose its mid 80s 70s for oakland state time high. Back to you james all right, thank you very much john. We are seeing a significant jump in containment numbers with regard to the wildfires burning across the bay area in fact fire crews have been battling the flames for over a week now. And they have made progress cal fire says the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay is now 2
The air and from the freeway you can see the flames. We are at cherry glen and Pleasant Valley road and chp blocking that intersection only letting law enforcement, First Responders in to try to prohibit that traffic to do their job. For hours folks have been working to evacuate, preparing to evacuate from this fire. Earlier you heard from one of our own discussing how stressful it is. He said he could see the flames from his home and began taking photos of the belongings, photos of the home in case to document the damage. Good advice in this vacaville area. May be best to prepare or get a plan together to leave. When we were here we were actually parked next to a car of a gentleman and his dog. They left their home seeking higher ground. Take a listen to what some of these folks are going through as they prepare to leave this area. Been through fires before. Ive never evacuated before but why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and coming fast and winds were probably about 4