We begin with tiki to in Winter Center 9. A freeze warning is still in effect from the metronorth to 8 am. Here are the latest numbers that i have. 35 at the airport in orlando. A lot of areas north and west of i4 have dropped below the 32 degrees mark. We are down to 32 in titusville. A hard freeze in our cala at 28. In ocala at 28. Winter park could get close to 32 as well. There is a bit of a wind and we will have frost and freeze out there, but it is not a hard frost or freeze. The wind is slightly up this morning. What that means is it feels like it is just 23 in the wind chill advisory in effect until 9 00 a. M. Daytime highs area wide in the low and mid 50s. We will look at temperatures county by county later this morning. Also kicking off the workweek. Citrus growers are keeping a close eye on their crops. The plants can survive the cold weather, but not for long. We have Eyewitness News, Julie Salomone , who is live. Citrus growers will be checking their crops throughout the m
When without saying a word those officers pounced. Just rushed. Reporter the former tennis star shaken and furious. 35yearold james blake says he was tackled and pinned to the ground by nypd officers outside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on east 42nd street wednesday morning, taken down in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Reporter have you had any conversation with him at all with the cops yet . Not yet. Reporter the harvard educated tennis player, once ranked fourth in the world was waiting outside of the midtown hotel for a car when the Police Lieutenant rushed towards him. He says at one time he was held down by five plainclothessed officers. It was when a detective nearby recognized blake and identified him and the officers let him go. Police commissioner bill bratton says blakes account is disturbing. One of the officers now placed on modified duty. Just the nature of what he described is not what we do. Its not what were supposed to do. Reporter bratton says the officers were fr
A player sympathetic to the coach says 16 of his teammates required first aid monday after a drill designed to punish the team for poor behavior. No one had heat stroke. It was just strictly cosmetic on the hands. We bandaged them like a cut. Reporter even in the best of conditions, the exercises pretty unpleasant. Crabbing across the surface like this hands on the hot turf. Most players managed it without incident but some developed burns and blisters on their palms, a heat sensor check of the field showing the surface near 130 degrees before noon. Hot enough to burn if you dont keep moving. Some parents complained, others jumped to the defense of the guy they call coach hav. One players father didnt want his son to know he had been talking to me. Hes a good teacher. He has been here. He likes the kids. If he didnt care about em, he wouldnt apologize. Reporter the coach issued two apologies one in person at the school tuesday, the other online. I would like to apologize to all players
Organizations here we think the most important part is to march, to win people over. Thats what we are hoping for. Reporter merchants in downtown San Francisco are hoping things wont get violent. They have seen the vandalism that protesters have done to stores in oakland and are concerned the same thing may happen here. Its not okay. Reporter theres already a heavy Police Presence in the area. Here to accommodate the black friday crowd. We will stay open and see how the crowd looks and then close the door if anything that is not peaceful is happening. Reporter most of the marchers heard about the demonstration on social media. We heard from several of them and they came from santa rosa to Half Moon Bay to walnut creek. The plan is for the group to merge with another group of pro0 testers at union square. Its unclear where the demonstration will go from there. We will be following them and tweeting along the way. Thats the latest from San Francisco. Lillian kim, abc 7 news. All right. I
Simple world to American Foreign policy since americas preeminence after the Second World War and based on a very simple binary. Who can we bomb . Who can retake out to lunch . So china is a unique country because they went from being a country that belonged on the two bomb list to take out to lunch list. And it has become a lunch so therefore it has become far more interesting. Before we get started with michaels comment and i am questionandanswer with him and then open it to questions and answers from all of you we have a message of some congressmen randy foltz, chairman of the china caucus in the house of representatives dared he could not join us in person, but his message to life in his comments will be read out by my colleague, carolyn stewart. As secretary of the hudson and two. [inaudible] its a pleasure to have an opportunity to share brief thought on the hundredyear marathon and the contributions of dr. Michael pillsbury to the internment is the important debate about the fut