Sharp selloff by friday. Look at the week that was with dow industrials down 4,000 points on the session. Thats 17 on the week. The nasdaq was down 995 points, 12 and a half percent lower and s p down 406 points, 15 lower on the week. President trump deploying the National Guard to new york, california and Washington State to fight what he calls the invisible enemy as more people are told they must stay home in the heavilyhit states. More companies stepping in the fight the war against coronavirus, meanwhile, they are working with the white house to manufacture mustneeded supplies and medical equipment. Plus more businesses forced to shut down as tighter rules go into place. St. Louis Federal Reserve president warning that Unemployment Rate could soar to 30 . Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets with ftse 100 in london 236 points, european indices red across the board. Cac quarante down 150 points and dax index down 243 down. In germany Angela Merkel i
Continues this morning with a woman channeling pain into art and activism. Its a little scary because of the smoke and, you know, i thought uhoh. It was hovering over some of your neighborhoods. A fire is out at a redwood City Recycling plant. But your concerns are far from over. Low riding in itself, i think, people are aware now that its a familyoriented sport. The low riders spirit is alive and well and it will be front and center at carnaval. You know, its just sinking in, its unbelievable. I know its an incredibly difficult swim, but whats even more incredible is the outreach and inspiration that its achieved. A treacherous journey through freezing cold sharkinfested waters. A challenge turned into reality for a historic swim. And good morning. Im gianna franco. Thank you so much for hanging out with us, im absolutely floored at what she did there. You are going to meet amy in a few minutes and just worked her way across the bay like. Been reading up about her and he talks about t
That its a familyoriented sport. The low riders spirit is alive and well and it will be front and center at carnaval. It just kinking in, its unbelievable. I know its an incredibly difficult swim but thats even more incredible is the outreach and inspiration that its achieved. A treacherous journey through freezing cold sharkinfested waters. A challenge turned into reality for a historic swim. I mean, more power to her. Thats absolutely amazing and im gianna franco. I dont know if i could ever accomplish that. But someone who can, you are pretty incredible. I think you could. You think so . I believe in you and i think her story shows us all we can. Im not going to make you do it. Okay. And you are not going to make me do it but were going to be inspired by her doing that. I love that. Good morning, everybody so nice to have you with us and lets take a live look outside as we start our day together. As a community. 5 00 in the morning. And look at us glow as we await the sunrise. And t
The airline said it was 30 feet away as he was landing last airport. Those are some of our stories on this monday it, august 3rd. From abc news, this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. We start this half hour with those devastating wildfires in california. The largest fire doubled in aggressive effort. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there. Reporter firefighters are working day and night in close hand to hand combat against the rocky fire raging north of sacramento. 2,000 firefighters are trying to stop it. Its already chewed 50,000 acres, destroying at least 24 homes, threatening thousands more. The u. S. Military called up two more c130 firefighting planes from colorado sending them to california where theyll join large dc10 tank percent right there is a dc10. Hes coming in. Hes going to drop fire retardant. This plane can carry 12,000 gallons of retardant at once. There it goes. The terrain here is bone dry. And lightning isnt helping since thursday, 13 ,000 lightning stri
And good monday morning. Our top story this half hour, the extreme weather in the midwest. A number of tornadoes touched down in iowa last evening. This one is in crescent, west of des moines, iowa. Yeah, another one was spotted in eastern michigan. As abcs rob martian knows reports, storms put a tragic end to summer celebrations all around chicago. Reporter a chaotic scene at the perry fest about 25 miles northwest of chicago. It was just hail and rain and just unbelievable wind. Reporter one person was killed and more than a dozen injured after a tent blew away with people inside. Victims carried out on stretchers taken to nearby hospitals. High winds, rain and hail sending debris flying. All of a sudden, you could see the rip in the dome, and it just kind of blew down. Reporter witnesses say the tarp hand landed on several people and rescuers had to cut hoes to get them out. It was the final day. Police say those in attendance were in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Storm briefly shuth down