A refreshing look back at some pretty digital wonders. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening, when the winds kicked up they reignited the largest blaze in southern california. That fire, the thomas fire, has spread into more communities north of los angeles. Tonight there are fears it could threaten an area full of opulent homes. One official calling it the most taxes fire hes ever seen. For a week now firefighters have waged a relentless battle with no letup. We begin tonight with kristin dahlgren. Reporter in the hills above carpent carpintercarpente carpenteria. Firefighters try to stop the relentless spread. If the wind comes it will get this in 10 from the air constant assault. Choppers lining up to grand prix water, one after the other dousing the flames. But the blaze just keeps coming. The firefighters gather here, one of them in the truck has been injured. They are trying to treat him. This is where they are trying to make a stand, trying to save thes
Host this become the communicators a look at some of the issues that will be faced by the Tech Community, congress and the federal government in 2016. We have a roundtable of working reporters to talk with. Cory bennett is what the hell on the cover cybersecurity there are, Kate Tummarello works for politico and covers technology and lydia beyoud with bloomberg where she covers telecommunications. Lydia beyoud one of the big issues coming up are the spectrum auctions in march. Guest march 29 is the official kickoff day for broadcasters. They will be looking to go out of business or possibly channel sharing agreements with their colleagues and a few months after that essentially that will wrap up and we will see the wireless start and we are looking at public bidders as well, comcast announced today that they might looking for some of that hard spectrum so it will be several months of close attention on the fcc fcc. Prescod you say fcc. Host accuse a several month so most of 2016 we wil
Thank you everybody, and thank you so much for being here here and for that introduction as well. This is not going to be a late discussion by any stretch but youll final it worthwhile. Ill speak for a while and then engage in questions and answers with you in the audience. This is a like i said headquartersy subject, crucially important for this nation as we head into the 2016 elects. And that is the mean by which business business bs have moved to steer the american political process their way, and by and large, by no means entirely but by and large, theyre succeeding. In its entirety and complexity, this is a story far, far bigger than any one book can hold. It includes such forces as the Koch Brothers and their farreaching networks that are as we speak raising enormous amounts of money to influence the president ial and congressional races and they have the a huge network of donors and also includes a whole swarm of super pacs and dark money groups that are forming alongside pretty
Temperatures, widespread cloud cover for the bay area. Put a stop on the radar. Its throughout the northern coastline where we have showers. Its not very heavy. Only trace amounts to one hen h hundredth of an inch. It will kick up as we head throughout the next couple of hours. 8 00, heavier pockets of rain offshore. By 9 00, 10 00 and 11 00 tonight, more widespread areas of showers will develop. Not only the wet weather but the wind tonight. Anywhere from 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour as we head throughout tomorrow morning as well. Rea we are tracki ining the storm. Damage control at uber. An executive in hot water and another trying to clean up the mess. Another Public Relations misstep for the highprofile San Francisco company. Scott budman joins us with the ceos response. Theres a response. It ended up inflaming te ining situation more. Just about every day we have seen success and controversy. The Ride Sharing Company making a ton of money but making a lot of enemies today. A popular tw
Bloomberg in 1995 Peter Robison has served as a london correspondent Seattle Bureau chief and a feature writer for Bloomberg Business week. He is a recipient of the gerald lobe award the Malcolm Forbes award and four best in business awards from the society for advanced business writing business editing and writing a native of saint paul, minnesota with an honors degree in history from stanford. He lives in seattle with his wife and two children. A former math teacher previously contributed to fortnite and the Industry Standard now a Pulitzer Prize winner dominic gates covers the Aerospace Industry for the Seattle Times. Hes had this beat since 2003. Theyre here tonight to discuss peters book flying blind, the 737 max tragedy in the fall of boeing. Please join me in welcoming dominic gates and peter robinson. Okay. Well, first of all, thank you all for coming. Im dominic gates. This is Peter Robison. And before i start throwing questions adam, let me just say a a few things about the b