High wind. Nbc sharon is live in the north bay where most of the Power Outages happened and bob redell is where a tree came down. First, we start with meteorologist kari hal. We have seen high wind gusts the past 24 hours. A live look outside. I want to take you to the mountains where winds have been gusting up to 89 Miles Per Hour where we measured late last night. We have also had high wind gusts in the sierra. Looking from alpine meadows, a live view, we measured 94mileperhour gust in the sierra. Temperature is only 34 degrees with relative humidity at 11 . So these high winds going along with this critically dry air is a reason why we still had this high fire danger as the wind advisory will be expiring here soon. Looking at the rest of the bay area, we have seen our wind gusts maxing out at 40 Miles Per Hour in santa rosa. Concord 31. 31 in San Francisco and 57 in oakland so a lot of trees down and a lot to clean up today and we will continue to track those winds. Ill have another
Committee heard from the president of urdu and lane college, they talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Hearing of the Senate Health Prevention Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about 5 minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We
The greatest in the history of the world. That strength lets us get through this pandemic, largely through command we are doing well. I had a meeting yesterday on vaccines. We are doing incredibly well with that. I think youll have positive surprises. With therapeutics, we are doing extremely well. And i think those words really blend in with each other. But tremendous progress is being made on vaccines. We have ready to go in terms of transportation and logistics. We have over 2 million ready to go, if it checks out for safety. And the nice part is we have four companies, you could say seven or eight companies, doing similar, some very different on the vaccine front, some similar and somewhat different on the therapeutic front. Some from it is progress being made. Even without that, and i do not think you will have to use that in the future, that statement, even without because i think they will have it, but we are going to be back and we are opening our country. And i hope that the g
The bwparkway, scene of the crash, a serious find. Notes that appeared to have come from a dental school and items that appear to be used by a dentist. The victim in the crash described as a woman iner 20s. Her crv car stopped on the a shoulder red suddenly by a man on the run from police. The victims car broke apart by the collision. The victim pronounced dead at the scene. The parkway northbound lanes shut down for about five hours. E this is tspot, the spot of that terrible crash on the bwparkway. Now, over there is the entrance to the beltways inner loop. Back here the crash se itself, the point of impact, and here today car glass a first aid supplies scattered all about. The suspect driving an in niti car. He was injured in the crash and is recovering in the hospital. Now this all began last night at quarles street a kenworth avenue in northeast. Police say the suspect ran into a k9 vehicle and then police start what had they called a follow after the suspect car. Its unclear as t
Week. Were going to begin with a consumer investigation that you saw only here on news 4. New accusations against the maker of a controversial guardrail thats being blamed for a number of deaths here in d our region a across the country. This particular guardrail end piece is called the x light, its been at the center of a news 4 consumer investigarlon anr neay two years. Susan hog has been on it all along. Here are the new details. Steve imers daughter, hanna, died in 2016 afteritting an x light. He believes the product is defective and he is on a mission to get the guard rails removed from our nations highways. So we traveled to his home in tennessee earlier this year to give you a firsthand look inside his ground zero, where he says hes made some surprising here x represents the max we can spend, okay . Reporter its a typical wednesday morning at timers home, melissa pulling double duty for mom and homeschool teacher for seven of h kids. Before leaving for work, steve heads to the b