Mother of two. Her family heartbroken this afternoon, and hoping for justice. Now live from the newsroom with more, henry, on how this family is trying to make sense of this tragedy. Reporter alice, and healther, this family through their grief is trying to stay strong as they ple grapwith their loss. This woman was the wife and mother of two, who immigrated to the united states. She was just less than a block from her home, when she and her 4yearold niece were hit by a car. The driver took off. I thought i would have more time to give back to her. Reporter 17yearold Michelle Nguyen is devastated by the loss of her mother, killed by a hit and run driver just steps from her home. We live not even a block, it was on the same block. Reporter the driver never stopped. The girl ellie nguyen was taken to a hospital. We could have forgiven you, if you had stopped and checked if they were okay. But you didnt. I feel, i cant find it in myself to forgive you. Reporter they came to the u. S. From
Youre looking at pictures of the horrifying crash scene out there. All the northbound lanes of highway 101 near paul avenue in San Francisco are closed now. Lets go over to sal who is looking at the area and also at how to get around it because this is a big part of the commute. It is coming into San Francisco. Obviously. This is northbound 101. You see the overton crossing there, thats 3rd street crossing over the freeway. This happened just before 3rd street, paul avenue exit. Northbound 101 is shut down for this very serious crash. I will let you know that traffic is going to be affected obviously on the peninsula. Northbound 101 is slowing down and people are getting off the freeway. The best way for you to get into San Francisco if youre coming from the peninsula is to use 380 and then 280 to get around doing this. Thats what i would do or not get on the freeway and use city streets and somehow get on the freeway after the closure which again is northbound 101 approaching 3rd stre
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Products and [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Chair yee, can i just ask the doctors about a number of emails weve been receiving from different people saying that ecigarettes have helped them stop their smoking and were harming a good thing and pushing people towards smoking. But im just wondering if you could address and i think a lot of them are coming from a Nonprofit Group that is a National Group urging them to send us emails and letters. Well, while, you know, the individual reports are there and there are people they may have helped. However, when we look at the whole population, you dont see the association. That means it might help some people, but it also might not help more people. So, thats why youre seeing no association or lower association. It may be helping some, but its actually hurting others. And on average its hurting more people than its helping. Great, thank you. Thank you. Other questions, colleagues . Thank you for the research and your leadership as well. T
According to the Surgeon Generals report ~. I just want to read a couple lines from a recent article on the effects of nicotine addiction by dr. Neil ben witnesses who is part of ucsf. Nicotine causes withdrawal, anxiety and stress both of which are powerful incentives to take up smoking again. Cessation of smoking causes he the emergence of withdrawal symptoms, irritability, depressed mood, restlessness and anxiety. The intensity of these moods, mood disturbances is similar to that found in psychiatric outpatients. [speaker not understood], the feeling that there is little pleasure in life can also occur with withdrawal from nicotine like other drugs of abuse. Smoking is a highly efficient smoking an ecigarette is a highly [speaker not understood]. It enters rapidly through the lungs and moves into the brain within second. Rapid rates of absorption and entry into the brain cause a strongly felt rush and they reinforce the effects of the drug. There is considerable drug levels that bas