Negative press recently with vaperelated deaths and lung injuries on the rise and teenage ecigarette use skyrocketing. Juul even brought in a new c. E. O. It has spent millions of dollars trying to get prop c passed here in San Francisco, but late tonight a statement from that new c. E. O. Says, in part, we must zriechl to work with regulators, policy makers and other stakeholders and earn the trust of the societies in which we operate. As part of that effort juul says it will stop active support of prop c. Now, prop c aimed to prevent a ban on ecigarette sales in San Francisco that goes into effect in january, but the campaign presented it as a crackdown on ecigarette sales that will protect kids. Tonight the no on c Campaign Says it will skeptical of juuls announcement because it says the campaign has been less than truthful. Weve got a lot of work to do to educate voters. This cant come off the ballot. So if its true, its a welcome sign. Hopefully it wont be as contentious a campaig
Afternoon. Were coming out of the 60s we had yesterday, a little bit warmer this afternoon, but still much cooler than normal as we reach into the mid70s for the inland east bay. Well talk more about whats ahead coming up. Mike, there may be some flares in san jose. Activity south 101 trimble. Sometimes theyre a distraction, its by sjc landing area. A smooth drive on the Speed Sensors for the south bay and pretty much everywhere around the bay. Getting a new report of perhaps a disabled vehicle around the interchange headed toward the san mateo bridge. Ill follow up on that. You see the speeds and the travel times headed toward the bay bridge, those are just fine. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Breaking news out of asia this morning, take a look at this video. It catches the moment the towering arch bridge collapses, this is in eastern taiwan, the collapse sends an Oil Tanker Truck falling on to boats, in the tiny but busy fishing village. Ten people were hurt in the collapse, six being
Traffic break going on, a little bit of slowing off 242. Looks like its okay once again and the slowing here at the bay bridge toll plaza, only on the left lanes, but notice, they still havent opened that last cash lane on the left side. Well track that and when it does, it will clear. Laura . Thank you very much. Breaking news that were following in hong con, these are live pictures in the past few minutes we have seen a lot of chaos involving police and protesters on the streets. This is in the wake of a large antichina rally on the day the mmunist party celebrates 70 years of rule. Here is how it looked just a few minutes ago, we could see tear gas canisters, they were flying, police in riot gear trying to disperse the crowd. We heard people calling for they wanted water, also reports of protesters in hong kong being shot in the chest by a Police Officer several hours ago. Were also hearing protesters in some cases tried to throw toxic fluid on Police Officers. Subway stations acros
Guyger off duty thought she was in her own unit and that jean was burglarizing her home. He was unarmed and eating ice cream in his own apartment was shot in the chest and died on his own floor. During the trial guyger took the stand offering a tearful defense and repeated apology. I wish he was the one with the gun and killed me. Because i never wanted to take an innocent persons life. The days of protest in dallas and demands for Police Reform and guyger faces up to 99 years in prison. Our other top story, the heat is on despite San Franciscobased company juul labs saying it will no longer fund the yes on prop c campaign. The proposition is aimed at stopping the upcoming ban on vaping products. Sharon katsuda is live in San Francisco to show us why opponents are still concerned about the ballot measure. Sharon . Reporter well, marcus, i have a sample ballot right here and measure c is still on it. And we have yet to see if theyll pull the ads from the airways. Were going to continue
Was separated into two items, items 10 and 11. For members of the public who are calling or listening in the webex web webinar. The password is 05 17, and the access code is 2598901. Numbers for 156550001. And im next. We have our land acknowledgment. Oh, just one moment. The Building Inspection Commission acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the remotest aloni, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions. The re matich aloni have never seated, lost or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place , as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests. We recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the remote official learning community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Tha