Hundreds evacuated. Firefighters racing door to door. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And another day of firsts. Just two days after that historic election, president elect donald trump traveling to washington to the oval office to meet president obama for the first time. The long tradition of a peaceful transfer of power has begun. President obama promising to help mr. Trump succeed. Mr. Trump then asked by our correspondent in the room, will he accept the president s counsel, his advice . Youll hear his answer. And later, the president elect and his wife, melania, soon to be first lady, getting a tour of the cap tom. House Speaker Paul Ryan taking mr. Trump out onto the balcony to show him where he will be sworn in, 71 days from now. We begin tonight with abcs jonathan karl. Reporter president elect donald trump left trump tower this morning with a quick wave, bound for the airport where his plane was given a socalled water salute before taki
Well two workers who are sifting through household repsychables are still in the hospital for observation, the Fire Department said someone in San Francisco put something in the recycling bin that they werent supposed to. Whatever sickened those people was so bad that everyone all 67 workers in the recology recycling transfer station at pier 96 had to evacuate while team from the hazmat and the department of Public Health came in around 7 30 this morning sifting through recyclables. An unrelated story about a year ago at one point workers were overwhelmed by the fumes, some with itchy skin and s and shortness of breath and few vomited. 24 employees were releetaserele. Two taken to the hospital are going to be okay. They have deemed this to be natural, normal trash by product anything from household garbage to paint to household cleaner. They get everything at this facility even though were told not to put those into our recycling. The San Francisco Fire Department phrased recology for
500 take record highs once again yesterday. The nasdaq closing at the highest level of 2016. Overnight in asia, youll see the japanese market was higher by about. 6 . You can see there has been some pressure on stocks. This has come again as this terrorism story unfolds in france the cac is down by about. 6 . The ftse in london is down by. 25 . Weve also been tracking currencies. As the bank of england failed to lower rates as expected yesterday. We have seen a little bit of that play out in the currency markets. Today is dollars is down against the euro trading at 1. 11. Down against the pound. Take a look at whats been happening with crude oil. It zetd ld by about 2 . Its giving back some of that this morning. All right. Here are some of the otherle stories were watching today. Presumptive donald trump postponing the announcement of the running mate. Trump said he has not made his time decision. Well go inside the race for the white house at the bottom of the hour. China gdp for the
Ended after a robot, like the one were about to show you on our screen, armed with an explosive was able to kill 29yearold micah johnson. Now, while its revealed that the killer was planning to use bombs of his own, weve got the ceo of an uberhot robotics company. And here is the question, folks are we witnessing the rise of the row bow cop . Rob with ocop . And donald trump making his first comments straight from the campaign trail. Our Political Panel on how the issue will face the race just one week before the Gop Convention are. Were less than an hour to the closing bell. Lets start the countdown. Liz and the reason that page is about to be written, a couple of things here. No less than 40 stocks in the s p are hitting lifetime highs. So sharpen the pen, we are poised to rewrite the record books. The level that we need to watch, any close above 2,130. 82 is a new closing high. We stand right now at 2,140. 47, so we are well above it. Now lets show you this. A new economy and an old
The heat will stay in the forecast for tonight. Coming up, well take a look at the forecast and what it means for your weekend. Also tonight, the donald trump Vice President ial announcement gets hijacked. He said he would introduce his pick tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. But the rumors and speculations went wild. It started about 12 30 today, thats when the first report came out that governor mike pence was going to be trumps pick. But by 2 30, Nbcs Kelly Odonnell reported no decision had been made. And theres a divide among the trump family over who should be chosen. Less than an hour later, we heard from one of the family members, donald trump jr. Live on msnbc. He said his father had not made a choice. But would decide this afternoon. Bottom line, were still waiting for tomorrows official announcement, which will happen in just about 18 hours from now. One thing everybody seems to agree upon, one of these three men will be trumps Vice President. Chris christie, Newt Gingrich or mike pence