A blunt and direct warning from San Francisco mayor london breed. She wants to crack down on illegal side shows like the one that recently ended with a Fatal Shooting of a 21yearold man. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. That recent side show happened at paris street and russia avenue in the citys excelsior neighborhood. As abc 7 News Reporter liam melendez explains city officials want to impound the cars in these driving events. They like the intersection because there are five ways to escape. Reporter this intersection in San Franciscos excelsior district has so many tire marks left behind by side shows that the pavement is now entirely black. It was also where earlier this month a Sacramento Man was shot and killed and two injured in the area of Mission Street and persia avenue the night a big side show was taking place i know people think theyre fun and exciting and especially during covid people feel like there is nothing to do and they want to go out and participate and the
Life picture. Its just a Beautiful Day out all across the bay area. Mike, it was certainly a noticeable change for just about everyone here in the bay area. Air Officials Say most of the bay area will have good moderate conditions throughout the day today. Ktvus Elissa Harrington has more about people who well able to out joy the outdoor and why theres this change in conditions. Reporter so much clear, oh my lord it is so much clear out here. The skies nice and theres no smoke and theres, you can actually see the hills. Kristy mcallister took a walk around Lake Elizabeth in fremont, the first time in a month she was able to exercise without worrying about her asthma. Finally after a record 30 consecutive days, theres no spare the air alert a. It was one of the, now my god, the air is so fresh, and relaxing. You know, always walk around the lakeso clear. And when the smoke was blat that you could smell the smoke. Reporter this is what the sky like wednesday last week. The eerie, orange
Air in ourdirection north westerly wind, bringing cold air in our direction over the next few days. The showers will increasingly turn wintry, some show was in the north could see snow, and it will be cold with strong winds too so it will feel chilly out there. Through the rest of the afternoon the showers packing in from the west, some heavy ones and especially over high ground in scotland, youve got showers beginning to turn wintry as the temperatures dip away as the afternoon goes on. During this a lot of showers packing in relentlessly on this strong westerly or north westerly wind. Notice more snow starting to show up on the chart, even to lower levels in scotland and Northern Ireland. Weve also got the potential for some ice with that. This is how the commute will look, with lots of these wintry showers across scotland, Northern Ireland and northern england, increasingly falling as sleet and snow to lower levels. In wales it will be mostly rain at lower levels, but sleet and snow
Vaccinating rohingya children. Also Cyrille Regis, a pioneer for black footballers, dies at the age of 59. What a great shot. Tributes are paid to the former west brom striker, who made his name in the late 1970s. And a narrow escape for a driver and passenger how they escaped with only minor injuries from this car crash in the us. Good morning. Its monday 15th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Construction Firm, carillion, has gone into liquidation. Government officials had been involved in talks to try to prevent the collapse of the company, which owes banks about £900 million. This morning the government said Public Services provided by carillion will continue. The company employs 20,000 people in the uk. Carillion holds approximately a50 contracts with government. Some of the projects include the new hs2 rail line and managing nearly 900 School Buildings across the country. They are the second largest supplier of Maintenance Services to network rail and
Some challenging weather across the British Isles at the moment, here is the scene in Northern Ireland and the scene in Northern Ireland and the met office have issued a number warning for Northern Ireland and scotla nd warning for Northern Ireland and scotland for snow and ice through the remainer of today and into tomorrow morning. Take a look at the satellite picture and you can see where the showers have been piling in thick and fast. The amber triangles remind you of the areas that will possibly be most treacherous but not exclusively as we go through the remainer of today. Snow showers affecting many parts of northern scotland, eastern areas enjoying sunshine, more snow showers for Northern Ireland and some pushing into Northern England too. Further south, showers also wintry but tending to be a mixture of more rain, sleet, snow and hail as we get into southern england. Iforgot into southern england. I forgot to mention as well that some of those snow showers coming into western