In the rural areas homes made of brick crumbled. Images from the pakistani cities you can see cracks as well. One young girl at the market with her little brother describes how it felt as the clerk told them to get down to the ground. The ground was moving and there come shouting from that building as well. And i was so scared. Now, the east Bay Community certainly feeling the impact as well. Family and Cultural Roots run deep there. Fremont is home to the second largest afghan population in the united states. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live in fremont. Bob, lots of folks there paying attention to whats happening really on the other side of the world. Reporter kris and scott, the Afghan Coalition based here in fremont tells us there are around 40 to 60,000 afghans who live here in the bay area. Add to that another 50,000 to 60,000 pakistanis. In other words there were a lot of Early Morning phone calls from our area to the other side of the world to check in on family and friends. Moh
Boat when it sank in the chilly waters. Search crews are now using boats and helicopters to look for any survivors near tofino. Thats about a sixhour drive from vancouver. Now here is a photo from the boat on the companys website. The company, jamies Adventure Centers of tofino says the 65foot boat can fit 46 people on board. We will continue to follow this story and bring you the very latest on the air, also online at nbcbayarea. Com. Well also have updates tomorrow morning on today in the bay. And back here at home in saratoga, a woman is fighting for her life tonight after a fiery headon crash that killed five people. The california Highway Patrol says its one of the worst theyve seen in a while. The accident happened last night on highway 120. This links the bay area to Yosemite National park. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro joining us live from saratoga with more on the woman who is in this crash. Marianne, do we know anything about her condition . Reporter we know she is hospitalize
But instead shows an ability to adapt to changing circumstance s. The Campaign Announced earlier friday a 40 percent cut in payroll, reduced staff at miami headquarters, and that travel costs will be slashed by 20 percent. On the other side of the ticket Hillary Clinton is back on top of polls in iowa a nequinnipiac universiry poll shows her with 51 percent support, followed by Bernie Sanders wh 40 percent. That compares to a september 10th survey showing sanders ahead of clinton 41 percent to 40. Hillary clintons rally in iowa this weekend made a roar with a performance by katy perry. The singer performed two of her hit songs eye of ththtiger and firework before the democratic president ial frontrunner spoke to dozens of people in downtown des moines. Clinton brbrfly spoke about the importance of the upcoming election for young people. This election is so important, in particularly, for young people because it really is about your future, and weve got to build on the progress that pre
Today, thursday, august 1, 2013. Good morning. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. We will take you live to cleveland in just a moment. But first, Edward Snowden almost a year after receiving asylum in russia. Good morning to you. Well, Edward Snowden was expecting a permit to leave the airport and get some space really while he waited months, he thought, for a possible temporary asylum. But he got something much better than that. An official tast track passport. This is Edward Joseph snowdens terrific to freedom. His new passport, granting him temporary asylum for one year. Snowdenstranded for more than five weeks while russian authorities reviewed his asylum request. And within minutes of the news, snowdens lawyer confirmed that snowden with passport in hand left the airport. But citing security reasons, the lawyer refused to say where snowden was going. Snowdens release comes just y days after eric holder sent a letter to russia au
There, youre outnumbered. Joe this is more like out dressed. One question before you jump in, you guys never match, you always have different colors on. Somebody has first dibs on a certain color, i want to know who and how it works. Sandra team effort, its a color wheel and youre not in i it. North korea now singable fire four missiles into the water of u. S. Territory of guam after they fire over our ally of japa japan. The missile will hit the ocean 1925 miles from the island. They say the plan could go to leader kim jongun for approval as soon as this week. Hell have the final say on whether its carried out. This, as north korea calls President Trumps fire and fury warning a load of nonsense. If those missiles are launched, washington would have to decide whether or not to intercept. Robert matter weighing in earlier on americas newsroom weve heard north korean leadership make outrageous statements in the past. I dont think we are at the brink of a Nuclear Launch out of north korea