You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350
Public safety radio dispatch. This will give you an idea of the rush to reach those men in the avalanche. Alpine meadows avalanche. Ski patrol requesting two ground ambulances, two confirmed patients, avalanche. Reporter thats the kind of radio call nobody wants to hear. Crews scoured the area and found in other victims. They wrapped up about 90 minutes after the avalanche. The cause is under investigation. A an a level avalanche area. It records the largest number of avalanches of any ski resort in the united states. You may remember in 1982 seven people were killed. Something like 15 inches of new snow. They have received 25 inches in the last 24 hours. The ski resort issued a Statement Today extending sympathies to the families and the friends of their victims. Theres much more going on here. Were going to get to it and well have more for you later. Live at alpine meadows. Thank you very much. In the past 15 minutes we received a statement and photo from cole comstocks wife. She sai
Event up there. Ive been talking to folks live on the internet, and texting and such, and it is going off up there. Heavy snow, chains on 50 and 80. Lizardlike conditions right now in lake tahoe. For us, we are just seeing a few scattered showers lingering. As that front goes through, this is what they are supposed to look like. The last three weeks have not been what we are supposed to be seeing this time of year. The system that went through today is a classic winter system. San leandro, that cell is producing some significant heavy rainfall as a crosses over by the colosseum and airport. I can sure you Oakland Airport is changing some things probably right now. It will be out of there shortly. Some areas drying out, scattered showers out near concorde. When we come back, well look at the models, and a chance for more showers. We are live in walnut creek after driving up mount diablo. Reporter heather and frank, we decided to drive back down from mount diablo while the light was stil
Survivors am human trafficking, ranging in age from 24 to 54. The police came. And they had their guns, their machine guns. Reporter this neighbor too afraid to show her face lives on silverlake road in this quiet neighborhood. I feel relieved. Nobody wants this in their neighborhood and around their families. Reporter she says the tenants moved in in december. She would see young girls and men going in and out of the home and expensive cars parked outside. Among the items, police atm machines. I didnt know who actually moved in there. Reporter this next door neighbor says police checked to see if anyone had jumped in his backyard. He and others had no idea. Im just really surprised. That in our neighborhood, things like that go on. Reporter one neighbor said the house had Christmas Lights on all the time so the house would stand out. That was the kaes at this suspected brothel eight miles away on south king road. The survivors are receiving support tonight from Community Solutions non
In San Francisco a 79yearold woman was struck and killed by a taxi driver. Witnesses say she was pushing a cart with cans before she was hit. Get set to sweat this week as hotter temperatures are about to move in. Well let you know how warm he get and how long in the accuweather forecast. Im kate larson in San Francisco where theres a major bus reopening here at the Salesforce Transit Center. What it means for your commute. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area. From abc 7. Tonight were learning new details about the woman who was hit and killed by a taxi in San Francisco last night. She is the 15th person to die while walking or biking on the city streets this year. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Thanks for joining us. Dion is off tonight. The crash happened just before 9 00 last night at fifth and market in the citys tenderloin district. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena went there today and talked to some witnesses. Luz . Reporter were learning more ab