Magic is made. By a man who never stops thinking about christmas. Good evening tonight, an enormous and dangerous wildfire is moving toward heavily populated neighborhoods in southern california. Its a fire thats been burning for two weeks. The rapidly moving flames prompted new evacuation orders as 93,000 residents are unable to go home. The fire is already the Third Largest in california history, and shows no signs of weakening. A relentless and about a heamage blaze, the thomas fire forced thousands of new evacuations in Santa Barbara and ventura counties. Strong winds pushing flames toward monty cito. The fire has been raging since december 4th. I shifting on us, its making it very dangerous for firefighters to get in here and do their job, basically, you know, this fire has been burning for two weeks. But this is a whole new fire. When we woke up this morning and looked out the window, we saw the hills above our house on fire. 18,000 structures are in jeopardy, schools have been s
Cruelty. The wanton murder of children. The enslavement and rape of women. Remembering kayla, her hometown gathers to honor Kayla Muellers life of service as shes remembered by her brother eric. My heart aches for you and what you went through. I have a hole in my soul that will never be replaced. Signing up, 11. 4 million enroll in the president S Health Care plan by the deadline. Are all of the wrinkles ironed out well talk to the health and hul an services secretary. Frozen february six winter storm in three weeks and the deep freeze now includes 100 million americans. Reporter several more records will be broken today and tomorrow as the cold air surges in from the siberia express into the eastern half of the United States. Here in Niagara Falls were on track for one of the coldest februarys on record. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President obama told participants at the summit today that the world has to unite to defight terror groups like isis or isil. Its not a ch
two tornado watch boxes in effect through the afternoon and evening, one including the city of dallas watching storms rolling throughout over the nextjf few hours. tomorrow for saturday. the severe threat shifts east. atlanta, pa duke ka and knoxville, you can see the southeast you ll be the focus of the severe weather threat for saturday especially in the afternoon. otherwise we re dealing with chilly weather here in the northeast, in fact it s 50 degrees right now in new york city, it s been very cold and blustery. we are going to warm things up tomorrow. you can see this is your saturday forecast back to the 60s, a decent day in the northeast, lots of sunshine and more storms across the southeast. 90 in san antonio andw3 los angeles looking good 68 degrees and sunny. for sunday a couple more scattered storms possible across the east but= 77 in los angeles and here in the northeast, holding on to 60s, which is a good thing. today is so chilly we re going to gradually warm up over nex
signs of continued economic recovery, slighted, it needs to be put in the context of the adverse weather that affected many businesses during the month. we ll get more reaction to these businesses in a short period of time. the europe equity markets, i m not quite sure what s happening there. obviously, that s not right. but anyway, we ll check that out. we re up around 0.25% for the ftse 100, the smi up around 0.3% at the moment. travel and utilities all slightly stronger. any reaction to that? no, it s not. so i ll hand you over to christine for a look at the reaction to that chinese data, christine. i will give you that, indeed, ross. in terms of the market reaction, we are seeing most asian markets falling today as this, of course, after china is reporting strong gdp growth for the forty quarter sparking concerns that beijing will start to tighten monetary policy. we know growth grew 10.7% below market expectations, still pretty strong. also, cpi data came in 1.7%. a lo
welcome to the show. the headlines for today, which is a wednesday here in asia kra, the nikkei gets hit by a strong yen in a downward revision third quarter gdp. in europe, the league document claims a double standard. and in the u.s., the white house gets set to ask congress to extend the t.a.r.p. and welcome to worldwide exchange. i m christine tan in asia, where it s 5:00 p.m. here in singapore. let s get a quick view of where asian markets are trading or have closed today. the nikkei 225 is down 1.3%. a lot of risk aversion and the nikkei in particular getting hit after that birth than expected downward revision in gdp. the strong yen hurting the exporters there. the hang seng is down 1.4%. hsbc continued to be under pressure on concerns about expose krur to dubai world. a new, fresh supply is coming on to the market as well as financials getting hit in this particular market. the kospi 0.4% higher, the bombay sensex down 0.5% higher. and this is how the ftse cnb