Archives: 2018

Be on the lookout for ticks that cause red-meat allergy

  The lone star tick can transmit allergies to alpha-gal, a sugar found in many red meats. CDC The Pine Tree State is the latest to grapple with the risk of an unusual adult-onset allergy to red meat, CBS affiliate WGME in Portland, Maine, reports. The culprit is a small arachnid: the lone star tick. Griffin Dill, a pest management specialist with…

This week on “Sunday Morning” (July 1)

COVER STORY: Mapping the genome of redwoodsThey are among the oldest living things on the planet: old growth redwoods, only a few of which remain. Now, scientists are trying to bring these majestic trees back. Correspondent Lee Cowan visits California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park to report on a movement to map the genome of the coast redwood tree and…

“Fire season is upon us”: Blazes force authorities to order evacuations

CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. — Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California. The Pawnee Fire, which broke out Saturday near the community of Clearlake Oaks, has destroyed 12 buildings and threatened an additional 600. As of Sunday, there was no containment and it burned across about 12 square miles,…

Backyard chickens rule the roost in Silicon Valley

A study of 150 of the most populated U.S. cities finds 93 percent of them allow backyard flocks of chickens. Raising chickens in urban areas is a growing trend, with Las Vegas one of the latest cities to approve it. But you can find some of the most pampered chickens in the Bay Area. They belong to tech workers who…

Law enforcement officers’ lip-sync battle goes viral

  Law enforcement officers from three Texas departments participated in a lip-sync battle that has gone viral online San Antonio Police Department Lip-syncing law enforcement has taken Texas by storm. It all started with one video posted on the Bexar County Sheriff Department’s Facebook page. The video — which went viral and now has over 1 million views — shows…

Asylum applicant seeks news of separated 3-year-old granddaughter

The Trump administration says it is still separating a small number of immigrant children from adults. The action is reportedly taken when parental relationships cannot be confirmed, or if the adult is deemed to pose a threat to the child’s safety. CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal, reporting from Tornillo, Texas, spoke to a Mexican grandmother who says her granddaughter was…

2 dead, 1 critically injured as plane crashes in Detroit

DETROIT — Authorities say two people have died and a third was injured when a small plane crashed in Detroit while heading to the city’s municipal airport. Detroit police Capt. Mark Thornton told reporters the single-engine plane en route to Coleman A. Young International Airport apparently struck a power line and tree on Sunday night. He says it burned in…

Florida AG responds after protesters confront her at Mr. Rogers movie

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks before the arrival of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during his campaign event at the Ocean Center Convention Center on August 3, 2016 in Daytona, Florida.  Joe Raedle, Getty Images TAMPA, Fla. — Protesters confronted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a showing of a documentary about children’s TV host Fred Rogers, and they…

Sweltering Heat and Humidity This Week.

TODAY & TUESDAY: Very hot to start the work week. Highs in the mid 90s, with heat index values between 101° and 108°. Partly cloudy, with a few isolated pop up showers and thunderstorms each day. Chance of rain around 20%. Overnight, muggy and warm, with lows in the mid 70s. WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: A slightly better chance for a few isolated…

“Mass hysteria” at e-cigarette plant, 20 hospitalized

Emergency crews respond to the Thermal Circuits e-cigarette factory in Salem, Massachusetts after reports of a chlorine leak, late on June 24, 2018. WBZ/CBS Boston Fire and hazmat crews were still working late Sunday night to determine what sparked a panic and sickened about 30 people at an e-cigarette manufacturer in Salem, Massachusetts. A spokesperson for the state’s fire services…