Continuing to expand its reach across industries. Filing a trade mark for its own Meal Kit Service this follows the companys purchase of whole foods last month. Current leading meal kit provider is blue apron which cratered following the ipo and was down as much as 7 earlier this morning interesting, kara. This exercise of guessing what amazons going to take on next has been going on for years. But how seriously do you give do you take this i mean its not an enormous business i think, you know, theyve been in the meals business for a while. They deliver other peoples meals. They do all kinds of other things its not a new new thing it will be another amazon branded service. And especially i mean, i think theyve been delivering whole foods meals and things like that. So i think what it is is that these businesses are relatively small and they sort of need to be attached to a larger player a little bit like facebook does to snapchat just takes the innovative ideas and brings them to scale
Hospitalized and fighting for his own life tonight after his fire truck flepped over in a freak accident. This happened at Oakland International airport during what is usually considered to be a routine training drill. Good evening, everyone. Im larry beil. Dan ashley has the night off. We now know the name of the firefighter, 55yearold mitchell ow. A 28year veteran of the oakland Fire Department. Alan wang is live at Oakland International with the new details. Alan . Yeah, larry, and tonight he is in critical condition. A Critical Response time is critical in any emergency. Jet fuel can accelerate the burn rate and thats why the firefighters are constantly drilling, and thats what they were doing tonight. It was a simulated airplane crash drill that is done every month at Oakland International airport and the firefighter who was crit critically injured was no rookie. It was one of our more experienced firefighters out there at the station. 28year veteran oakland firefighter mitchell o
Hospitalized and fighting for his own life tonight after his fire truck flepped over in a freak accident. This happened at Oakland International airport during what is usually considered to be a routine training drill. Good evening, everyone. Im larry beil. Dan ashley has the night off. We now know the name of the firefighter, 55yearold mitchell ow. A 28year veteran of the oakland Fire Department. Alan wang is live at Oakland International with the new details. Alan . Yeah, larry, and tonight he is in critical condition. A Critical Response time is critical in any emergency. Jet fuel can accelerate the burn rate and thats why the firefighters are constantly drilling, and thats what they were doing tonight. It was a simulated airplane crash drill that is done every month at Oakland International airport and the firefighter who was crit critically injured was no rookie. It was one of our more experienced firefighters out there at the station. 28year veteran oakland firefighter mitchell o
Around for hours. As we take you over to the scene, westbound 80 at fifth street the offramp is shut down and you can use first street coming off of the bay bridge. As we take you into fremont we have another sigalert northbound 880, at mission boulevard, really, 680 is the best alternate to get around this with four lanes blocked that is causing quite the bottleneck. Avoid that area until further notice. Follow me on twitter and i will give you the details as they become visible. Right new we will talk to meteorologist mike nicco with the weather. It is fore and windy. A change. It looks less like summer this morning. We can see the lowest clouds and low of the visibility on live doppler 7 hd at Half Moon Bay. We have reports of drizzle along the coast and the peninsula because of the thick are cloud deck that is at the top of sutro tower. Get ready for less sunshine and a cooler breeze with temperatures only 75 to 84 inland and 59 to 65 along the coast into downtown San Francisco and
Crash drill that is done every month at Oakland International airport and the firefighter who was crit critically injured was no rookie. It was one of our more experienced firefighters out there at the station. 28year veteran oakland firefighter mitchell ow has been assigned to the airport for seven years and was the only firefighter on the rig when it flipped. Yes, he was wearing his seatbelt. I got an initial report that one of the firefighters unsnapped his seatbelt. There was an outpouring of support where ow is in the intensive care unit. The battalion chief says he was in the hospital room when ows ows with ows wife when he got a thumbs up from his friend. She asked me to say hello. I said hello mitchell and he looked at me. Other than that, thats promising so we are hopeful. The aircraft rescue firefighting rig holds 3,000 gallons of water and 420 gallons of foam which can shift in a turn causing the rig to flip. But the exact cause of the accident is still under investigation.