Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
355. The United States is taking no chances evacuating americans on board the ship. Here are the latest numbers from china. They reported 105 more deaths today. There are more than 2,000 new cases bringing the total number to almost 71,000 cases worldwide. Most of those in china. That flight headed to Travis Air Force base is now in the air and expected to land later tonight. Ktvu alyssa arrington is at the airport with details. Reporter they will monitor passengers during the flight and when they arrive here at Travis Air Force base during the quarantine period. If anyone shows symptoms, they will be treated off site. Melanie herring is onof about 300 evacuees who packed up and finally left the quarantined diamond princess cruise ship that had been docked in yokohama, japan, to board a chartered flight back to the United States. She posted videos of her ordeal on social media. Its been very trying and it looks like we are on the second half of this ordeal and there is a kind of bright
Early from alex, and i think he did a very good job yesterday , under a lot of pressure, he did a fantastic job. And he explained it. He made a deal that people are happy with, and then 12 years later, theyre not happy with it. Youll have to figure all of that out. But the fact is, hes been a fantastic secretary of labor. And alex called me this morning, and he wanted to see me, and i actually said well, we have the press right out here, so perhaps you just want to say it to the press. But i just want to let you know, this was him, not me. Because im with him. Hes a tremendous talent. Hes a hispanic man. He went to harvard. A great student. Ways, i just hate what he is saying now, because were going to miss him. But please, alex. Mr. Acosta thank you, mr. President. Over the last week, i have seen a lot of coverage of the department of labor, and what i have not seen is incredible job creation we see in this economy, more than five million jobs. I havent seen that workplace injuries ar
S p and the dow look to make some history again today crypto again as we said in the cross hairs getting blasted from all sides and a surprise for snap were going to tell you what has that stock moving higher this morning. Stocks are aiming to make some history again dow and the s p on track to set some new alltime interday records. A day after posting record closes including the dow finishing above 27,000 for the first time, jim. As, again, powell was the name of the game. Yeah. Look, powell is giving you what you want if youre a bull. There were some great lines where you said, look, remember what my job is my job is if we have an expansion, keep it going and that is so bullish because what hes saying is we have an expansion. It may be slowing. Weve got to keep it going so we have to do some cutting. The part of the game with 25 versus 50 is a setup the bears are saying we need 50 so that the stock market does not run down theyre not going to get 50. Im disappointed i think what powe
We havent seen the Biggest Development as mexico on trade yet. Nevertheless, the mexican peso weaker and above 19. Lets see where we stand before the close. Its been a positive day in europe, right now moderating those gains. 1 10toxx 600 up just of 1 . Bonds are selling off, and yields are higher. The french 10 year yield a measly five basis points. Turkish lira one to keep an eye on. Geopolitical tensions there as well with the delivery of missiles. We will be talking about turkey and lots more throughout the next two hours. Lets get straight to that breaking news, the resignation of labor secretary alex acosta. The president is speaking with alex acosta right now. We will get to those comments in just a few moments. Bloombergs and adjutant joins us from washington, d. C. Bloombergs Anna Edgerton joins us from washington, d. C. Anna it really looks like it just got to an untenable situation for acosta. He was kind of the face of this lenient plea deal that Jeffrey Epstein had gotten