Firebreaks out on yerba buena eye land island giving firefighters a challenge and making a mess for drivers. The fire started before 8 00 tonight near the bay bridge. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Right now the good news is that the fire teams have a pretty good handle on the flames. As you mentioned it did create quite the traffic snarl and it continues to be the biggest problem. You can see the lower level of the bay bridge, traffic is pretty slow moving, but the fire teams got a handle on the flames here in the last hour. Now this was a fire that you first reported at 8 00 this evening. It quickly went up the side of yes, sir bough buena Yerba Buena Island. There was lots of communication equipment at the top of the hill. Fire commanders dispatched a boat that attacked from the bay level and despite some of the traffic snarl the fire trucks were able to get over the bay bridge from San Francisco to back up some of the crews that were already here. Right now the fire is la
This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning, im savannah guthrie. And im matt lauer and told to have sex. Thats whey read in the paper. If you didnt see the show yesterday, what did he just say . Well fill you in later. I was doing fine until yesterday. Miley cyrus advised people that after 40 people dont have sex. Matt is well over 40. Everyone at the table, actually. You guys arent well over. Just past 40. Were a hair past 40. A little later on, have some fun with it. But first the standoff over the nations ability to borrow. And how it could impact every american right away. Peter alexander has the latest on the stalemate, good morning. Hi, matt, october 17th, thats the next potential crisis to circle. Thats the debt ceiling. As bad as the shutdown is, economists warn that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be infinitely worse. Its now week two of the Government
Factor in any fire, and today were lucky there were no winds. The response was very quick. This miss was swarming with between the helicopter, the planes, the trucks, the police, they were on it. In all the fire burned a quarter acre. Crews will be out here all night to make sure it doesnt flare up again. As for the cause, its under investigation. Live in larkspur, abc7 news. Ama pg e crews are gradually reducing the pressure a controversial pipeline in san carlos. The pipeline runs underneath the city. Internal emails from pg e and a pg e employee questioned the integrity of the 84yearold pipeline, specifically the thickness of the pipe. The utility stresses the pipeline is safe but will adhere to a judges order to turn it off. That should be completed by tomorrow. Right now, former president jimmy carter is at the Paramount Theater in oakland, minutes away from greeting thousands of volunteers in habitat for humanity. Last week, people had their cell phones and wallets storm and one
Ten days away from the risk of the u. S. Defaulting on its bills for the very first time. Nbcs tracie potts joins us in washington. If there are enough votes, whats the hold up. Reporter the white house insist there are enough votes. Our own counts seems to suggest there may be enough votes to get this budget done but the other big question here is weve got a looming debate and a looming deadline over the debt ceiling, and americas credit card is about to be canceled. The pentagon has ordered more than 3,000 employees back to work but more than 400,000 remain at home because congress cant agree on a budget, what they call a cr. There are not the votes in the house to pass a clean cr. Reporter our count is they could without cutting or delaying the health law. With president obama refusing to negotiate on that, its gridlock. His refusal to negotiate is what is putting the government at risk. Conservatives against the health law say theyre not backing down in we do control a third of the
Everybody. Im rob nelson, filling in today for john muller. And im diana perez. We begin with new details about pair of weekend raids by u. S. Special forces. Including the capture of a top terror suspect in libya. This morning, the u. S. Is brushing aside criticism from the Libyan Government over that capture. Secretary of state john kerry says Abu Anas Al Libi is a legal and appropriate target for the u. S. Military. Abcs Tahman Bradley is tracking the very latest from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter rob and diandiana,d morning to you both. These missions were synchronized. Carried out at the same time so the u. S. Teams had the element of surprise. One of the missions really paid off. One of the most wanted terrorists in the world is now in custody. A double blow against al qaeda terrorists. Two highrisk raids carried out by u. S. Special Operations Forces carried out in libya and somalia. The mission in libya led to this man, Abu Anas Al Libi. We hope that this makes cle