Been before. It is a company you know run by an investor whose become a household name. Its berkshire ha the tthaway c the 200,000 barrier and popped at 202,850, up 241 today alone. The next highest is seaboard goes for around 3,000. Todays gains give it the third highest market value, bigger than wells fargo, bigger than johnson johnson, and a whole lot more. It means one share of berkshier could buy a six bedroom, four bathroom in omaha or four years of tuition at an average private school. How about a ticket aboard the passenger spaceship, when it finally takes off or trade that one share for a brandnew 2015 bently continental gt with just enough left over to fill up the gas tank. Its probably not a car buffet would catch himself in. Buffet likes it that way. Does it make sense to buy brekshire stock or take profits . The chief officer at wedge wood officers. David, nice to have you with us. You know, looking at the performance of berkshire shares are up 13 , much more than the s p
Thats the new death toll from Hurricane Sandy, and its not likely to stop there. Bodies are being found today in homes as rescue workers reach into the hardesthit areas. The pictures that struck us today were of just one family in Staten Island, new york. 14yearold kate at her grandparents house. Her mother, julie, trying to pull something recognizable from the rubble. And sheila and dominick trayna holding on to their memories and contemplating the future. The Insurance Industry estimates economic losses from the storm at 50 billion. Second only to hurricane katrina. More than three million homes and businesses are still without power as the nights grow colder. In parts of new york and new jersey, theres high anxiety as the gas gauge drops to empty and the lines go on for hours. This evening, new york citys mayor reversed himself and canceled sundays new York City Marathon. His hand forced by withering criticism. They got generators over there to keep the runners warm. We need the hel
Malaysian flight 370 is on the pilot and copilot of the plane. The fbi is now assessed the pilot and copilots hard drive including from the pilots Flight Simulator. Now official involved in the investigation tonight tells usa today that the pilot is in the papers words, quote, believed to be solely responsible for the flight being taken hundreds of miles off course. The official says it was not an accident. Also at this hour it is now daybreak in australia and the search in southern indian ocean is resuming. New satellite images show 122 objects floating. This is the biggest debris field, the highest number weve heard about so far. These objects range from three feet in size to 75 feet in length. They are scattered over an area the size of denver. The images were taken sunday on a search of the area though hours ago nothing was found. Unrelated to the satellite images three objects were spotted by two aircraft but then as they passed over they were unable to relocate those objects. Jus
Nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. This was day five of the search for the missing after that mountainside fell into a valley below in Washington State. And the search felt every bit as urgent today as day one. Using bulldozers and shovels using their hands, theyre going through a square mile of debris. Conditions are bad and because so many of the rescuers are from there, they are fighting heart ache all the way. Its where we begin again tonight. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer remains there for us. Miguel, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening. The National Guard and other federal agencies have joined the rescue up stream. They insist this is a search mission, not a recovery. Its believed eight more bodies have been discovered. One thing is certain. The death toll will rise. With 49 homes in oso buried under 20 feet of mud, today search teams found no sign of life. All the homes on steelhead drive are gone. Reporter theres been no rescue since saturday when First Responders sp
And we begin in the state of tennessee where authorities are trying to determine what led a 24yearold man to goen a shooting spree killing four marines, investigators say Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez had four handguns on him during a rampage and rifles at his house. He had every intent to kill officers if they had not killed him first. Authorities have looked into 70 leads they have about him. Officials believe they pieced together exactly what happened during thursdays shooting. Gary tuchman breaks it down. Reporter a Senior Defense official tells cnn several marines inside the Chattanooga Center were veterans who went into combat mode. He lifted up his arms like this with a big black gun. It was one shot and endless shots just one after another. Reporter the marines told everyone to drop to the floor and cleared the room by getting everyone outside in the back. Everyone sighted. But abdulazeez was not done. It is believed that abdulazeez never got out of his rented ford mustang conver