U. S. Auto sales are expected to past 17 million for the third month as suvs and pickup trucks remain strong in july. And youre fired. Donald trump slumped because of racist comments but now first in the polls. Meanwhile, joe biden is reportedly thinking about dipping his toe into the race. All right. Welcome back. Lets have a quick look at the athens Stock Exchange. It opened for the first time in five weeks today. And it is down quite heavily as expected. It was off by roughly 20 . This is what we were expecting. Based on u. S. Traded etf of good stocks, this big decline is by no means a big surprise. But as you can see, the banking stocks are the hardest hit. National bank of greece off by 30 . And were seeing those declines across the banking sector. The banking sectors got a 20 rating for the index. And theres still a lot of question marks about the health of these bank given that 93 need to be recapitalized. Its not just the market that is suffering this morning, the economy as w
Tonight 6300 homes are in harms way. Cornell bernard is live in lower lake. A lot of worried people out there tonight. Reporter folks are so worried tonight. Many are trying to remain calm, but take a look at this. Scenes like this are certainly not helping with that at all. This is just incredible. He rocky fire has crossed this ridge in the last ten minutes, moving to the northwest, and an intense air assault is underway. With tankers dropping water and fire retardant on this fastmoving blaze. Far from here the fire continues to march north with a vengeance. 2,000 firefighters from across the state trying to prevent this intense blaze from jumping highway 20. So far that battleline has not been crossed. Backfires have been set to prevent the spread. Hundreds of worried results needed more information and went to a Community Meeting at Lower Lake High School to get updates from calfire on this blaze. So far there is no word when evacuate residents can return home, and others are wonde
With a cloud of smoke. Scary pictures. Good evening, im Katie Marzullo. The rocky fire has now burned 47,000 acres. It has destroyed at least 24 homes, 26 outbuildings have also been destroyed. 6300 homes are in danger and right now firefighters have the fire just five percent contained. Cornell bernard is live from lower lake with a look at the response. Cornell . Reporter this fire is now burning across three counties tonight, believe it another nor. Lake county, colusa county, and yuba county, this the newest worry. In the last hour, the fire has burned across this ridge. Its moving to the northwest. Just an incredible shot here tonight. Caltrans just informed us, because of the fires approach in the western direction it will close highway 53 in the next 30 minutes through lower lake, as a precaution. He rocky fire continues to grow with aa vengeance. The blaze shows no signs of stop, almost doubling in size overnight. As the fire burns north theres a huge assault in the air and fro
This is the cbs morning news for monday, august 3rd, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Wildfires are forcing thousands of families from their homes in california this morning. Crews are battling 21 large wildfires throughout the state. The largest is the rocky fire raging near lower lake about 100 miles north of san francisco. That wild fire exploded in size sunday growing to at least 84 square miles. Air tankers are dousing the flames from above. Lamore abrams of our sacramento affiliate kobr reports. Reporter fastmoving flames continues raging through thousands of acres of dry brush. Tripling in size in just two days. Just how much more the rocky fire will burn is a question no one has an answer to. The fire behavior that were seeing because of the dry vegetation is its historic. Reporter Steve Kaufman is one of more than 2,000 firefighters from around the state on the fire line, but even with the Constant Water drops overhead, it just keeps raging. We have
Oakland police chief will be holding a News Conference about this later this morning. In the meantime, investigators are out here trying to piece together exactly what happened. Live in oakland, lisa chan, kpix 5. Thanks for the live update. The rocky fire has now grown to cover an area larger than the city of oakland. Its burning in rugged terrain just east of the community of lower lake about 20 miles north of calistoga. Now burned more than 84 square miles in three counties and just 5 contained. The fire has grown in size partly because firefighters let it burn freely in an unpopulated area so that they could focus on saving homes. Evacuees are taking what they can. Terrifying. But you just go and get everything you can. Take care of your animals and do what you can to get out of here. More than 6300 structures are threatened right now. Two dozen homes are have already been destroyed and cal fire says it may take more than a week before it has the fire under control. More than 2700