Bottom out near 30 degrees. This afternoon, the main conceen will be the wind and dry air which will create high outdoor fire danger for a chunk of the viewing area as gusts could top 30 miles per hour. Temperatures, meanwhile will be in the middle to upper 60s this afternoon with sunshine before only reaching the 50s at their highest on friday see graphics. Wx timer 40 meth is a huge problem in the state of iowa, but now a highly concentrated form of the drug is on the se in the state. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley says he wants to change that. Lauren moss reports on how he plans to do that. Police departments tricounty Drug Enforcement team says a pure form of meth is coming from over the border. And ending up here in iowa. The yield of ice meth our lab results indicate around 9798 percent pure meth compared to the home based meth labs are anywhere from 4560 percent. So the yield is much higher. And theyve been working hard to get it off iowas streets. In the last probably 4 years sinc
Have been a member of the National Press club for 25 years. I tweet, so you will see a lot of tweets, d. C. \ \ dcconcussions you will find additional under our National Press club site. Various press releases have been put on the wire this morning including Health Research on the way here. Washingtons department of health provided a grant to childrens medical medstar, and the agency first didnt Health Research, offering their Technology Platform to collect data and information from parents, teachers, and coaches, and provide information for done diagnostic questions to help student athletes. Monitoringefer to a and Prevention Program implemented on the playground of the d. C. Parks and rec department. The will smith movie, returnedon, has attention to the issue of football and concussions. An item we just saw on the Cable Network about a sports injury, a young at wheat, the student had , it was found. It is not just nfl players. The movie noted the first autopsy, which helps identify,
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To check on the impact of this heat wave. Reporter the temperature was just shy classes were dismissed here at Branham High School in san jose. The unprecedented decision to dismiss early blamed on a lack of air conditioning inside. We want to have a consistent message across the district. So, of course we will apply the same minimum days to the school that may have summer conditioning and some may not. So everyone will have these days for today and tomorrow. Reporter branham, leigh, del mar, prospect and westmont high as well as boynton Continuation High School and the Camden Community day school got out of class early. Some parents were helena cary parent our state should our station have enough money to keep our children comfortable in school. As parents we work in and firemen to have air conditioning. Why not in school . Reporter the district says about half of its classrooms have air conditioning. Extra water and fans are being brought in while sports and other outdoors activities
To happen down the road. We start to see a breakdown in that. We get rain in here, i think, tomorrow. Could be a good soaking rain in parts of the area with heavier showers and Thunder Showers late in the day and tomorrow evening. Better half of the weekend is saturday. Could be more showers by the time we get to sunday. Weve had a great string of weekends, little rain on sunday wouldnt be that bad of a thing. Steamy right now. Heading back to the upper 80s by noontime. Well build in more clouds this afternoon. Up around 90 by 3 00. Thats the forecast high. Could be a spot shower or thunderstorm in some areas late this afternoon. Early trouble spots on the commute so far, lauren . Just two small bumps in the road. Nothing too major on the gowanus eastbound. Theres a disabled vehicle in the right lane. Heading up to the gowanus into the bqe, we have a disabled tractortrailer eastbound or inbound by atlantic avenue. Neither is causing big delays. One of the tubes is shut down at the batt