You need to know in the massi memo because information is power. And the property man has got you covered. Thanks for joining us. Im bob massi. One of the greatest aspects of the internet is its ability to connect people to each other. Its now changing how people use their homes, with countless sites popping up that allow you to turn your property into a shortterm rental. It was born out of, uh, just an idea of of renting out a couch. It facilitates a transaction between host and travelers. And, uh, now its just exploded. Theres homeaway, flipkey, vrbo, roomorama, and, of course, the biggest and most wellknown, airbnb. Airbnb redefined and expanded room capacity throughout the world. It shifted the economic models of the lodging and travel industries and tourism destinations. The growth of airbnb has been staggering. Two million rooms. If you take a look at marriott, they have maybe 750,000 rooms. Scaled very, very fast over a very short period of time. Bob cox had a large shed on his
Area just be prepared. Traffic is moving slow. There are officers directing vehicles the right way to go. Of course, there are a lot of people taking pictures and looking around. This is a very large tree. The people who live in this apartment build diagnosis not have to be evacuated by officers are trying to keep people away from the area for their safety. Reporting live in berkeley, elissa harrington, abc 7 news. Big tree to be hole old out like that. Thank you. The rain is causing even more problems across the bay area tonight. The San Francisco bay ferry has cancelled all ferry trips between south San Francisco and the east bay because of stormy conditions on the bay. The ferry trips will be replaced by buses during this evenings community. Heres a live look from the emoriville camera where its been kind of gloomy all day in the east bay. Meteorologist sandhya patel is monitoring the conditions right now. Definitely different out there. Yeah, muchneeded rain coming in dan and krist
This evening. Accord investigators are trying to figure out what the charges will be but you can bet the police chief says well have those by tonight and more details on the entire story. Mer breaking news. Wild flame inside brevard county. Sonni we have the latest information from firefighters. Reporter we are here at state route 407 northbound where it meets with interstate 95. Exit 212 if youre familiar with the area here, and right now state route 407 northbound is closed at i95. You can see the troopers are blocking the roadway off. Thats a d. O. T. Truck down the street with cones and theyre directing folks who wanted to go 407 northbound, on to interstate 95, and take a detour. Of this brush fire. Its about 35 acres. Last check it was 90 contained. But the problem here is that the wind is blowing the smoke northbound across the roadway, across state route 407, creating a visibility issue for drivers. So, you can see theres a bunch of forths on the scene. Nobody is hurt. We have
Kind of right there behind us. A massive storm. Yeah. Its huge and the thing is this morning when i look at that radar shot i get excited as a meteorologist. I know you do. Number one but number two its impressive because the snow is coming into virginia and theres thunderstorms and energy with this thing and it looks like we will be on the edge still. So theres been no change to our thinking. You are noting theres every color on the spectrum got the pinks and purpose pumpels and blues. Lightning. Yeah. We have got Severe Weather in the gulf coast right now. And we have got ice advancing through the carolinas. So, this is going to be an impressive storm and its creating issues out across the mid atlantic as the snow advances in. What does it mean for us . The mid atlantic will get blasted. Major travel destruction from new york to charlotte. The main impact is the south coast and cape in terms of snow and winds. We are watching the coastline with the full moon and leading to minor coas
A good evening to you on this wednesday night. We start with the urgent race to save hundreds of people sinking into the ocean. It began as a slow motion tragedy. A giant ferry boat taking on water in south korea. Images of passengers trapped onboard haunting. Tonight were watching the amazing rescues and reading desperate Text Messages from the students to their families on dry land. Abc has the latest in this drama for us tonight. Reporter a desperate rescue Mission First responders struggling to reach the massive ferry on its side and sinking fast. Plucking passengers, many of them teenagers off the deck, now vertical, clutching railings to keep their footing. Piling into rescue boats. It was very intense, this man says. The ship was tilted more than 45 degrees. Helicopters dropping First Responders onto the sinking boat, this woman clinging onto a balcony railing, grabbing hold of a rescuers hand. Lifting people to safety one by one from the deck. And from frigid 50 degree water, w