And the u. S. Keep talking trade, we dont know when this thing ends or how much further it goes. Sit back and enjoy the ride, today is august 25, the dow of 378, yesterday up another 150th opening bell today, the s p record high close up some more this morning. The nasdaq looks like its going to be down a few points. Were going to show you apple, premarket trading worth 2. 15 trillion and there is speculation that there is iphone production to mexico, more of that in a moment. At the convention the republicans attacked the biden harris ticket as a looming disaster. Dynamic speeches from tim scott and nikki haley and the president as surprise appearance and a vocal audience preview will see it. Day two, melania speaks tonight, rand paul, eric and tiffany trump, you will see that too. I gotta say this, our heart goes out to louisiana, mississippi, texas and neighboring states. Marco faded but here comes laura. Landfall probably tomorrow, could be a cat two or three storm the people of ga
If you are there, the sheriff said, leave now. The evacuation orders have expanded in Santa Cruz County. Take a look at the powerful new video. It shows firefighters on the front lines, battling flames trying to save homes near the Boulder Creek golf course. The fires have torched close to 60,000 acres. Tonight, Scotts Valley residents and the uc santa cruz are the latest to be evacuated. We are live with the details tonight. Amanda . Reporter the fire is zero percent contained and that marks another night of evacuations in Santa Cruz County. Those in Scotts Valley and uc santa cruz are the latest to receive the official notice to leave and it only came a few hours ago. Its this scene across the ccu august lightning complex fires. Forcing continued mandatory evacuations. A look at Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County thursday evening. Homes are actively burning. Cars charred, since is igniting the devastation and ongoing danger has led to the evacuation of close to 50,000 people. You are
Twist. Walmart teaming up with microsoft in a bid for the popular social media app both stocks rallying to new alltime highs on this news. Julia boorstin has the details. The news keeps coming on this one. Reuters just reporting tiktok engineers were told to make contingency plans should it need to shut down u. S. Operations they are preparing for various scenarios including a forced shutdown telling us they are simultaneously developing plans to make sure u. S. Employees continue to get paid on the heels of any outcome. Walmart is teaming up with microsoft to buy tiktok. Walmart telling us, quote, we believe a potential relationship with tiktok u. S. In partnership with microsoft could add this key functionality and provide walmart with an important way for us to reach and serve omni channel customers as well as grow our Third Party Marketplace and advertising businesses dan ives tells us, quote, we believe microsoft buying ticktoticktok would be like Christmas Morning coming early fo
Lets talk about the other wildfire near rodeo, burned at least 230 acres and forced the closure of the coming skyway. Thats the link between highway 4 in contro costa county. That came dangerously close to some homes. Some people said they grabbed whatever they could and evacuated as quickly as possible. One man said the smoke started coming right into his house. Right away, we got the kids out and got them in our van. I took a look in the back, and sure enough, there was a big fire coming out from the freeway. Just in time to get the kids out. Interstate 880 scorched an area around an oil refinery, but no evacuations have been ordered. Around 2 00, a fire erupted on 680 that led to all of the south bound lanes being closed. That fire burned about five acres before it was brought under control. In santa clara county, the cruz fire burns near gilroy. 2,000 acres have been destroyed. That fire is 20 containd. Some structures have been destroy and evacuations are in place. Fires burning n
Firefighters spent the day and evening busy fighting flames all across the bay area. A vigil here in richmond to honor murdered soldier Vanessa Guillen, and to fight back against Sexual Violence in the military. Confusion over restrictions and reopening plans. Business owners in the south bay are demanding answers. This breezy and cooler weather wont last much longer. Were tracking warmer weather on the horizon. Well have the details in the accuweather forecast. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. After a long weekend, bay area firefighters just are not getting a break tonight. Theyre already dealing with two fires in the south bay, and we saw multiple fires break out this afternoon. Some were smallhi oers raced dangerously close to homes and forced people to grab what they could and evacuate just in case. We counted at least eight fires today, and some are still going, including one in fairfield. Thats where