Around the bay area over the pg e power shut off. Some areas getting electricity restored right now, others wondering when they get the lights back on and for how long. Good evening, thanks for joining us. I michelle griego. Of the 1 million customers affected by the outages, about 400,000 are still in the dark this afternoon. Things are looking good in the east bay, the south bay and the peninsula. Most of the power back on bare. Theres a lot of work to be done in the north bay, just 11 of customers had their power back in Sonoma County where the kincade fire is burning. Jackie ward tells us more outages could be in store this evening. Reporter pockets of these parks have not had power since saturday while others are losing it today. Some people i spoke to said this is getting expensive. For carl hamilton, today is his familys fourth day without power. Its been hard on us, we are making it through. Reporter he is spending more money than usual just to keep his family fed by going to a
Buckeye state to be a political weather vane. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Im arreen as turkeys military offense in Northern Syria enters its seventh day, President Trump is calling for turkey to declare a ceasefire. Yesterday mr. Trump announced new sanctions against turkey. Vice president mike pence will soon head to the region to negotiate an end to the violence as u. S. Troops pull back. David martin reports from the pentagon. Reporter with Turkish Forces moving south and russianbacked syrian units advancing north, 1,000 u. S. Troops are caught in the middle, looking for the safest way out. Joint chiefs chairman general mark millie spoke by phone with the russian chief in an effort to make sure there is no interference with the erhdl include equipment as well as troops as defense secretary mark esper said to Margaret Brennan on face the nation. We want to make sure we deflect a pullback of forces, dont want to leave equipment behind
Former ambassador to crew yan testified that the president pressured officials to remove her. At the white house with all of it. A florida judge sentencing a juror to do jail time because he overslept and was late to court. That man and lawmakers calling for the judge to be banned from hearing cases. Shepard smith leaves fox news after clashing with some of the networks primetime stars. Icon under arrest. 50 years after becoming a symbol of political protest, why jane fonda was taken into custody again. And from beer money to millions. An incredible turn of events for a football fan who jokingly begged for beer money. He donated 3 million to this hospital to help take care of you. The giant donation thats sure to put a smile on your face, today, saturday, october 12th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today, with sheinelle jones, Peter Alexander and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. How about the last piece there. Started as a beer money fu fundrais
15 million in eight years. In fact we plant less now than we did in the 80s. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. In the last few minutes the Federal Reserve has done something it has not done in more than a decade cut Interest Rates. Its only a quarter of a point but whys it cutting rates at all . Normally a central bank would only lower Interest Rates when an economy is faltering, not something you could say about the us economy right now. Fed officials describe it as an insurance cut, to keep the us economy on track. But the critics suggest the normally independent central bank is caving in to political pressure from the white house. The president has been very critical of the fed chairjerome powell, and has been demanding this cut since the fed put up the rates last december. Id like to see a large cut and id like to see immediately the quantitative tightening stopped. We expect the chair of the Federal Reserve to speak in the next 30 min
Looking for his wife. Reporter police say the gunmans wife, daughter and niece were able to escape and reported the suspect had a handgun to shoot several people inside. Police used a haircut to rescue a man and woman from the home who had been shot at least once each. They later died at the hospital. Using flash bangs, police eventually entered the home around 1 00 monday morning and say they found two women relatives of the gunman, dead and say the gunman was found dead in the side yard. Ive been here 27 years. I dont remember an incident like this where people were mortared. And it just is sad overall that we have Something Like this happen. It is terrible. Reporter police say they are investigating the quadruple murder suicide as a domestic dispute. They added there was no documented history of Domestic Violence from the gunman. And they still dont jose tonight, maureen, thank you. Prosecutors in san jose county think a double homicide suspect lured his victims to a remote area bef