Gavin newsom is asking state lawmakers to 20 million, this is to fight the virus. Right now the state has received 1,000 test kits. That is enough to test about 400 patients. Super tuesday is finally here. A live look at one Voting Center where the polls open in a matter of hours. In just moments what you need to know before you go. And big breaking news out east. Two tornados touching down in nashville, tennessee, area overnight. Six people have been killed. At one point firefighters were reporting to 40 structure collapsed. Tennessee is a super tuesday state and this could certainly impact the vote. And we have more this morning. First a check of the weather and traffic for you. Lets start with meteorologist kari hall. Good morning. Lets look at our hourbyhour outlook as we check out today and our temperatures start out in the upper 40s and low 50s. Toward lunchtime, if youre heading out to the polls then, it is in the upper 60s and 70s in fremont and low 70s in the south bay. Well c
The somebody on oversight and investigations hearing will now come to order. Today the committee is holding a hearing entitled sounding the alarm, the Public Health threats of ecigarettes. The purpose is to examine the Public Health impacts related to ecigarette manufacturing, sales and use. The chair recognizes herself for purposes of an opening statement. Our country is facing a serious Public Health epidemic, one that is causing severe harm. This hearing will examine the cause of that epidemic, the uncontrolled and rising use of ecigarettes. As lifethreatening illnesses sweep the country and the use of products by yunoung people soar we must protect the American People from these products. First the data is now clear, over the past several years, weve seen an unacceptably high proportion of young people facing nicotine addiction. This year alone, more than 27 of High Schoolers report theyre using ecigarettes or vaping as its also known. From 2011 to 2015, there was a 900 increase, a
Eliminate critical pieces of evidence. The prosecution is trying to include it. When its all done and said, i hope theres enough to be able to make this conviction. The evidence is that his dna was on bullet casings. That has been brought out and for me thats enough to know that he was involved. He right there was referring to the fourth defendant, a man arrested just last month, and police say they do have his dna on some shell casings. Found at the scene, about that person, the witness, who was in witness protection, she took the stand today and she testified about what she overheard inside a room in a trailer the night before the killing. And she initially spoke with the police and then several months later came forward and spoke with them again telling her story. The police value that testimony so much a hotel and then into an apartment to protect her. Today, the defense poke add lot of holes or tried to poke a lot of holes in her testimony trying to get her to admit that she had l
That occurred last year, is occurring again this year and will continue to occur next year. Each year is getting worse than the previous. In my home, we will see approximately 800 drugrelated deaths in 2017, which is an increase from our most devastating year, last year, 2016, when we saw approximately 660 people die from drugrelated deaths, up from 370 the year before. Nearly 9 to of these deaths will be due to opioids of some kind. Prescribed pills from which the crisis originated and grew from, heroin, fentanyl, and now the newer analogs of fentanyl. Its nationwide Public Health emergency which is simply out of control. Ohio is one of the hardesthit states. Appalachia, the New England States are also particularly hardhit. In the fall of 2011, my office alerted our county executive to an alarming trend and the rise of heroinassociated deaths. In the subsequent months and years weve partnered with our county sheriff, Cleveland Police department, u. S. Attorneys office, county prosecut
State. This month, a Police Officer in ohio had a near fatal sentinel overdose facing overdose following routine traffic stop. ,e put on his mask and gloves arrested some individuals, went back to the playstation and the police station, noticed there was powder on his shirt, he brushed it away. He is a big man, and he fell to the floor unconscious and overdose. Canadministered nor immediately, but he was not enough, they had to rush into the hospital where two more narc an doses were administered and luckily his life was saved. He would have date have died if he had been alone. He also said, what if you got home and hugged his kid . This, it is devastating our communities and causing danger for Law Enforcement and First Responders. Isntanyl hundreds of times more potent than heroin. It can be deadly. We also know about other synthetic drugs coming into our country. This issue is getting worse. As i said, the number of overdoses and deaths have increased a medically dramatically. You mi