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Monday but it came to a happy ending. Wayne freedman is live. Reporter what a story. What an interesting story and fascinating because of technology. You know, a lot of people complain about technology these days. They dont like cameras on freeways that can track cars based on license plates. Well, today that technology paid off and a family is thankful because of it. If youre going to get a happy ending to a crisis, what better day than thanksgiving. That was going through my mind, weve got to find mama. The family and friends of sandra young had no idea where she or her two great grandchildren had gone. Today they turned up in this gas station. I said im not positive but i think its her. Barbie lieden worked behind the cash register. This morning she saw this, a localized endangered and missing alert. The system relies on freeway cameras that read license plates. It monitored several license plates and activated the wireless Emergency Alert system on behalf of Fairfield Police depart
Announcer this is nightly businessss report with Tyler Mathisen and sue herera. Climbing the food chain. Amazon buys whole foods to become a major player in the grocery business and a competitive threat to the entire industry. Charting a new course. President trump has a different vision for u. S. Relations with cuba than his predecessor. And big business is taking notice. Market monitor. As more money flows into etfs, our guest tonight has some picks you might want to consider. Those stories and more tonight on nightly Business Report for friday, june 16th. Good evening, everybody, welcome. Im sue herera. Tyler mathisen is off tonight. Amazon is on a mission to conquer new territory. Today it agreed to buy grocery chain whole foods. The price tag, more than 13. 5 billion. The deal is amazons biggest yet, and is an ambitious plan to push into a business thats been hard for online retailers to crack. If successful, it could give amazon a slice of the 800 billion grocery business. The ec
Affect the road conditions, were talking about that momentarily. About 5 and a half inches right now outside. Were seeing the transition from snow to icy mix that we will see the rest of the afternoon. Noreen Mona Kosar Abdi is driving around. What you finding out there . Reporter we are driving down word road, which is an example of a primary roads that lynchburg public works has been working all morning. It is in need of a good plow. The road is barely visible. It is hard to tell which lane youre driving in. Right now, were going about 22 Miles Per Hour on a road that is typically a 35 mile an hour road. The crews have been coming down and plowing roads. Snowfall, they have not been able to make a dent. In the last hour, we caught up with the lynchburg public works director who told us the plow Truck Drivers are working on a twopart system. First, they clear the roads and then they add salt for traction. She also tells us that right now we are getting a selfsleet mix and that is maki