Good thursday morning, everyone. Well get the winning powerball details in a minute. Crews have been working through the night, battling a new and fastmoving wildfire. Its out of control in banning, california. Thats in the desert, east of l. A. , near palm springs. This fire surged to 6,000 acres. And were seeing the damage as at least 15 homes have burned to the ground. Hundreds of people have been evacuated. Abcs cecilia vega is on the fire line for us. Reporter home after home went up in flames as this raging inferno, 85 miles east of los angeles, burns out of control. As the wind pushes it, as we panned earlier over to that. As it moves to the east, it will continue to do that as the wind pushes it that way, with the fuel and the topography. Reporter the fire has consumed several thousand acres. And last night, firefighters conceded there was no containment. Depending on what the wind does, it can actually change direction, as the cooling starts and starts moving the opposite dire
Consumed several thousand acres. And last night, firefighters conceded there was no containment. Depending on what the wind does, it can actually change direction, as the cooling starts and starts moving the opposite direction. And as we move to that, were we definitely will have a different firefight on our hands. Reporter mandatory evacuations went into effect last night for several communities in harms way. Emergency shelters were set up in riverside county, for anyone needing a place to spend the night. We could go the 243. The fire had crossed over. When i left, i was backing out of my house. And there was flames all around my car. Reporter several hundred firefighters are involved in this fierce battle. Helicopters and special aircraft tankers are trying to tackle the inferno, as this allnight fight heads into the Early Morning hours and beyond. Cecilia vega, abc news, los angeles. Cecilia will have more on gma. Now, to our other major story. A much happier one. That giant powerb
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Mentioned about him maybe offering a job running the u. S. Army to a Bank President who approved these loans for him. Thats the only other reference to the Trump Campaign in the trial thus far. But two days ago, Out Of The Blue on crossexamination, the manafort Defense Lawyer asks rick gates, hey, did muellers prosecutors talk to you about your time working on the Trump Campaign . Did you talk to them about that . Prosecutor from the Special Counsels office gets up and objects. The judge summons both lawyers to come to the bench. He flips on the White Noise Machine which is a real thing so the jury and spectators hear the sound of like crashing waves instead of the conversation. The jury, the reporters in the room, spectators none of them can hear whats being said at the bench. The lawyers on both side stay up there and they have this long prust communication. We know its long because we know it takes six pages to trans
With their own free will, they prefer to be helped or monitored here. And in the first case, the lady with ebola, what is the latest on her condition . Reporter yes, what we heard today is unfortunately her condition has deteriorated. The doctor out of the hospital came out earlier today and said look, i cant give you much in terms of the information and confidential reasons. I can tell you she has deteriorated. I also spoke to the head of the union here who represents the nurses who told me she is not doing very well. Her brother came out and basically said that she is using a breathing aid to really help her, really paints the picture of unfortunately how badly the case has turned for her. Were learning serious oversights leading up to her diagnosis, what is the latest on that . Reporter yes, absolutely. This is something i have been following for the last two days really trying to piece together what happened. What we figured out with cnn is from the day she started her symptoms to
Breaking news story. Stocks plunge in the biggest selloff in a year and the family of ebola patience Thomas Eric Duncan family says it is suspicious to us that all the white patients survived and this one black patient passed away. He wasnt given a chance. But first the markets. The dow fell 3 35 points. Paul hicky is the cofounder of the spoke Investment Group hes outfront. You have been following this. This is reminiscent of the days on the new york stock ex change where you saw huge gyrations, and big ups and big downs. Why the fear right now . Erin, it is like old times and it is not a good thing. You see the big moves in the market and a good rule of thumb is when the problems keep mounting and you need more than one hand to count them, investors will become more fearful. And what we have is a fragile global economy, notwithstanding the strong u. S. Economy. But the fears of ebola are really weighing on sentiment. And while the bark is probably going to be worse than the bite, i t