We have your look at proposition 30. Yes, governor jerry brown was in town yesterday. And you visited him. And we might be sitting and talking with republicans. Yeah. A rare thing to happen in the bay area. We have a lot coming up. If youre making your way around the bay today, the reminder the san mateo bridge was closed and a 5. 3 earthquake that a lot of people are talking about this morning and sports going on today. Ritwade with the raiders and giants. Yes. First, the biggest story in the nation or coming out this morning is George Mcgovern. He was known probably best for losing the president ial race to Richard Nixon in 1972. In that election, he won two states and had a long career. He died this morning in his home state of south dakota. He was 90 years old. He was a lawmaker who served the country more than two decades. Susan macinnis has more on his passion for people and the world. Reporter senator George Mcgovern from south dakota was the democrats choice for president in 19
Tonight they held a scheduled fundraiser. Thomas roman has more. Workers are boarding up the doors of the church on 9th street. Deacon alan ekstrom who was here finds it hard to look at the damage. Very grim. I walked over i live around the corner, and i walked over here and the phone was still all over the the foam was all over the ground and it was pretty surreal. The fire started in the 134yearold Landmark Church at 10 15. They quickly went to two alarms. There was no one in the church at the time. Some articles were salvaged, but most were charred or come ploat ledee stroyed. Sunday is a new day, and an auction was held in spite of the tragedy. A fundraiser was happening today anyway, so i think it will help. Items donated by neighbors and paw rish they ares make parishioners made up the auction. It also gets they will together to heal. Good shepherd is a dedicated congregation. We are small, but there is a lot of people who care an awful lot about this church, and we will find a w
Conducted an air drop of weapons and munitions and medical supplies for kurdish fighters in syria saturday night. The materials were provided by kurdish authorities in iraq. The air drop is the first of its kind and comes after weeks of u. S. Led air strikes in kobani. Whether the air drop helped or not, it could jeopardize u. S. Turkish diplomatic relations. The turkish president said as recently as yesterday he would oppose any arms transfers to fighters. The quarantine is over. Thomas eric duncans fiancee and family are all cleared. At the pentagon training for an ebola strike team is just days away. The team will be able to jump into action on 72 hours notice. Nbcs tracie potts is live in washington. Good morning, tracie. Any specifics on that teams training . Reporter we know theyre going to be training in texas, ft. Sam houston outside san antonio. This is, as you said, a team that would be able to get on the ground quickly anymore there is a diagnosis of ebola in this country. 2
Secularists. Many ordinary israelis see even the pope should contribute to the security of the two weeks your spirits are we traipsed after politician from greeces Main Opposition Party accused the Prime Minister of having a new jewish style plot against the greeks radical left wing tips to resume after the other is to repeat these alleges that there are at the acronym for the service broadcaster is derived from the hebrew word for kendall and his aides link to the jewish past. The World Jewish Congress has urged mr is a party to withdraw turkeys candidacy for governor of Western Macedonia to leave dc president Ronald Lauder said people conspiracy theories have no place in discourse the worlds oldest democracy until now anti semitic views have really come from greeces new pool and on the Third Largest our country. As i. I knew the routine use of june more pas you the head. At the right. Is yes while larry renewed attention on anti semitism has recently appeared in the uk media due to t
Heres whats going on now. Tensions sky high right now on the last frontier of the cold war. North korea now threatening to get physical with south korea. Promises to go forward with underground nuclear tests. And hacked the New York Times falling victim to a fourmonthlong computer atck. They say the source was china. First a dangerous stand off in the middle east that has to do with one of our most important allies. Syria and iran are fear use over an israeli airstrike inside the syrian border. They are now warning of retaliation. The details are sketchy. Syrians say the israeli strike hit a Research Facility near damascus killing two workers. A senior u. S. Official say the jets struck a convoy suspected of transporting weapons to hezbollah in lebanon. Sara sidener joins us as well as Fran Townsend from new york. We have reports from the United States and reports from syria. Is this the same or separate attacks . Reporter thats the thing that needed to be sorted today. We have heard f