Good evening, in for diane. Its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. We have several major stories tonight. But first the chaotic scene still unfolding at this hour in new yorks times square where millions of families visit every year as you know. Two double deckers involved in a crash at the cross roads of the world. Teeming with tourists not far from where you line up to get broadway tickets. Passengers stunned, downed lamp posts, one bus crashing into another. There were more than a dozen injured, most of them pedestrians who had been walking on the sidewalk. Abcs ryan smith is there tonight and he leads us off. Ryan . Reporter good evening, david. Right over my shoulder, the front of a tour bus nearly dell demolished in one of the busiest intersections in the world. Chaos tonight in the beating heart of new york city, times square, right by the famous broadway tickets booth. I saw it shoot across and i started screaming. Reporter a blue double decker tour bus crashing
Important. This will show less productivity and how do we get the growth that we need . It is friday. Not a whole lot in our earnings. John kerry is in kabul. He will have already met with afghanistans two president ial candidates. His plate is pretty full right now. Has that job ever been more difficult . Has anyone ever had a worse couple of months . That is a great question. Has it ever been more complex than what we are seeing . Check. A complex data it is historic and correlated. Are locked up. Equities down. Negative eight. The euro is one thing not moving. Crude oil is elevated over the last 24 hours. Near 98. The mix is at 16. 66 without question. The yen is one of the great things. 101. 78 on the japanese yen. There is the german bond yield. A 104 a 1. 04. Up six advancing dollars. The german two year went into negative territory. 0. 003 . Are paying people to take their money in germany. Brent crude was 104. Up nicely over the last few hours. Bond yield, stunning at 3. 19 . s
Libby is standing by live with us. As always, we have to take a back seat. So tell us, this was interesting because it is a bipartisan measure. Thats right. It was crafted by the chairman of the house and sinate Veterans Affairs committees. They were able to Work Together and get past the fighting over just how much this would cost. And in addition to providing for more doctors, nurses and new leases on facilities, it will also do something republicans were pushing for. Which is let veterans go outside the v. A. System if they live 40 miles away from a center or if have had to wait more than two weeks to get an appointment. Del, you will remember that is what started this scandal about four months ago when it was revealed that veterans facilities, including one in phoenix arizona were waiting for months to get appointments. Into this is one of those situations in washington where both sides of the aisle were equally outraged as both have a lot of military members in their voting repres
Reporter at sfo. First, meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storm. Mike . Good morning, everyone. We will look at live doppler 7 hd. We have it running on the big id. You can see it is quiet this morning. They have had a few showers around Hilo International airport where the winds have picked up. They were at seven Miles Per Hour and gusting to 20 Miles Per Hour. The outer band of the hurricanes are about 5 1 2 hours away from reaching the big island. This is a very compact storm. It will not be like the storm 22 years ago. It has hurricane speed only across a 70mile span. For that to come in, it will take another 10 that hours. It is moving to the northwest at seven Miles Per Hour and it will not stay over the big island. With that said, we will still have surface around 30 and flooding rains are possible overnight. People cross hawaii are get ready for the storms. For days, residents and vacationers have been stocking up on supplies. The biggest threat is flooding. Man schools
Looking at one facility or multiple facilities or where the facilities will be, that is a critical issue for us to determine in the coming days. Treatment centers are important to support. Treatment centers as you point out are very important to support. I was speaking with the american from sierra leone and speaking about simple things like giving them cell phones to talk to their family or things that they can do while there was very important. And if patients dont believe that they will be well treated in the Treatment Centers they wont come in and may continue to spread it in the communities. Good quality care is important. In terms of testing you are absolutely correct. As you know, mr. Chairman, with support from the c. D. C. Has represented crowiate the african sew tiety for laboratory and that has for the First Time Ever had high Quality Laboratories established all over africa. The countries have not been the focus countries so they have limited activities in the a area scalin