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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is indeed Wednesday. It is May 23rd. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. Two Good Samaritans came to the rescue of a teen with autism who was running along 95 yesterday afternoon.

Two strangers pulled over on the southbound lanes of 95 by the airport to help the boy as he was running along traffic.

18-year-old Jose Chavaria Jr. told his family he wanted to go back to school in media around 345.

After they explained that he couldn't, Jose took off. His siblings tried to follow him, but quickly lost track. Jose ran for about three miles from his West Philadelphia home to the Delaware County line along 95. His sister says when he runs, he thinks it's a game, so he just continued to go. But it's obviously not a game to Jose's family. Jose's mother, Sandra, said, I couldn't say anything or shake his hand.

All I could do was cry. She said she never got a chance to say thank you to the two men who pulled over to help her son, but she wants them to know that she appreciates them. The one guy said it was one of the scariest things in his life because a kid ran out in front of his car. Oh, my God. Yeah, Jose was taken to children's hospital to be evaluated.

Lava has been spewing from multiple fissures around the Hawaii's Kilauea volcano for the past few weeks, sending local authorities into a panic as they try to figure out what to do. The lava flows. The lava flow is now inching closer to a major power plant. After destroying two dozen homes and displacing numerous residents,

Kilauea's lava flow threatens to enter the Apuna Geothermal Venture Plant.

Wells around the plant are the most concerned. Experts fear once lava enters the wells,

poisonous, inflammable hydrogen sulfide gas will be released. Even with the lava flow slowly moving

near the plant, officials say there is no immediate immediate danger but have issued an advisory to nearby residents

that an evacuation may be necessary if gas is detected.

Now this is a legitimate question.

Yes.

Is now a good time to buy your tickets to go to Hawaii?

Wouldn't they, don't you think things would be a hell of a lot cheaper right now? It's not the whole island. No, I know. You know. But still, I mean, just Hawaii in general. You know what? I should look and see if it's a lot cheaper. I wonder if you get, though, an influx of people fascinated, you know, like armchair geologists and volcanologists who are heading out to Hawaii.

Oh, Steve, I saw one idiot who was like a storm chaser.

Except he was a volcano chaser and he was running through the fields without permission

closer to where the volcano was, where the lava was so that he could get amateur footage

of it.

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