Frightened and frustrated after returning to work to find their shops vandalized over the christmas holiday. Sometime tuesday night, someone smashed windows in stores. The back wind yof a van was broken. And the operator says this type of crime is just too common in the neighborhood. If this will go on and on and on with, out being an end, then, probably ill have another thought ofric probably, you know, moving somewhere into some business. Officials say an under staffed police force is occupied with higher priority crime autos San Francisco City Attorney launched an effort to refund 4 million to customers of check and go. He says the pay day lender skirted state law, giving loans online with rates of up to 400 . They will work with groups to identify borrowers. Firefighters still on the scene of an Apartment Fire in oakland. Crews inspected the building which is on 83rd avenue near international boulevard. No word yet on what caused this blaze. But damage seems to be concentrated at t
House with congressional leaders to try to prevent the fiscal cliff from happening. But with just four days left until everybodys taxes go up, theres not a lot of optimism that it can be cone in time. Jonathan karl, abc news, new york. Tributes are pouring in for retired general norman schwartzcopf. The general, nicknamed Stormin Norman, died yesterday in tampa from pneumonia. He commanded a coalition of some 30 countries that drove iraqi forces from kuwait back in 1991. In retirement, he supported charitable causes and resisting calls to rub for public office. Norman schwartzcopf was 78. For the second time this month, a man has been pushed to his death in the path of a new york subway train. Last night, a woman shoved the man on the tracks just as the train was pulling into the station on queens. Its not clear if she knew the victim. New york police are reviewing Surveillance Video recorded on the platform to try to identify the victim and the suspect. This is the second time this ha
We are Going Forward with our plans to accommodate if that agreement isnt met. Reporter the Port Administration is working on a back up plan. Part of it would open two terminals only open during the week to business on the weekends. We want to make sure we can get as much cargo moving as possible leading up to the work stop age. Reporter as issue are the usual wages and health care but one major Sticking Point is container rayalties. They were put in place in the 60s. Both sides are supposed to meet saturday to resolve the issues. Work interruptions happen nobody wins. Reporter that therewas an eight day work stop age over similar issues. That brings a hard reality to the port here in baltimore. At the port of baltimore. Don harrison. Abc 2news. This Labor Agreement affects ports all up and down the east coast and on the gulf. Maryland live casino opened this morning and doesnt plan to close them ever, ever again. They are now open 247 because of new state legislation it also plans to
Straight weeks of gains for the s p 500. For the dow it will extend the to five straight weeks of gains. As i noted the nasdaq still on track for a little bit of weakness for this week overall. Down about. 2 to the downside. That is what were looking at big picture. The job reports moved several sectors. Insurance and financials were moving well. You had homebuilders going back. Back to you. Lori nicole, thank you. Adam as nicole mentioned, the jobs report, it was some better than expected news out of the latest job numbers for october. But the picture is not all that rosy. Peter barnes joins us from the white house to break down those numbers. Adam, thats right. Nonfarm payrolls came out 200,000 during the october, the shutdown month. Analysts were expecting consensus was 125,000. Though the Labor Department, bureau of labor statistics says the Government Shutdown does not appear to have hit private sector employers very hard last month. Quote, no discernible impacts according to the
New york where people are also gathering. Jason. Looks like weve lost that signal with jason. Here in the nations capitol, this really is the nucleus, the center point of this movement that is gathering today on whats being called the march for our lives. So many families have come from across the country to ascend here right on pennsylvania avenue. Were hearing the stage right now where it is very celebratory. Theres a lot of music. Then the rally gets under way with a number of keynote addresses coming from Something Like 20 speakers, many of whom are under the age of 18. Then of course they have a starsuddstar starstudded list of performance. Our renee marsh is in the crowd there. Give me an idea of who youve been talking to. What are they saying and whats drawing them here . Reporter fred, i can tell you its warming up but it wasnt terribly warm the last couple of hours. Its their spring break, and all these young people are here in washington d. C. For something they are so passio