It was like five sessions between 25,000 and the zeseventh trading sessio. From january 4th to yesterday is when we saw the 1,000 point move in the dow oil breaking, which is a weird Reason Energy stocks came down as a result just the idea lets hold off for a second nevertheless, with all of that, the s p 500 still remains on pace for its biggest monthly gains since march of 2016. The nasdaq is still on its biggest monthly gain since july of 2016. Look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei was down by a third of a percentage point back to this morning sorry, flipflop back to this morning, you are look at double digit gains or triple digit gains once again for the dow. This comes after last night the nikkei down by a third of a percentage point hang seng and shanghai stocks both ended higher bay quarter percentage point in europe, where you see the early trading this morning, you will see at this hour theres a bit of weakness. Dax is down by 0. 2 . Ftse down about
Athletes. Is it safe . Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Right now fires are burning from one end of california to the other. The worst of them northwest of sacramento where at least 24 homes are destroyed, 6,000 structures are threatened and 13,000 people have been urged to gather up their belongings and head to safety. In all an incredible 9,000 firefighters are working more than 20 fires across the state. But the socalled rocky fire has proven the most dangerous and confounding, tripling in size over the weekend. Nbcs joe fryer is there with the latest. Rowdy good evening, lester. You can see we are surrounded by smoke from the rocky fire. 2,500 firefighters are now on the ground here. And weve heard from veterans whove been doing this 10 20 even 30 years who said they have never seen a fire behave like this one. The villain of Northern California is a massive agile wildfire
Will bring muchneeded rain, but theres no guarantee. Most of the rain that gets impacted by el nino falls in Southern California but we really need it to fall in Northern California where all of our reservoirs are. For now all eyes are on the rocky fire, which wont go down without a fight. More than 5,000 homes are threatened by this fire, which has already destroyed two dozen homes. Firefighters are making progress. It is now 12 contained. Lester . All right. Joe fryer, thanks. From fire we go to floods and an emergency situation unfolding right now at the opposite end of the country. Flood waters so severe that mandatory evacuations have been ordered. Neighborhoods near tampa are underwater. Some people rescued from their homes by boat. The weather channels mike seidel is in Newport Richie, florida. Central florida is drenched. Pounded by incessant rains caused by a stalled weather front. In 12 hours we picked up a months worth of rain. Here at Newport Richie the river has spilled in
Chaser, talked to him a second ago, he was on the causeway in the florida keys, said those were the heaviest winds hes ever dealt with in his line of work. Right now, irma is right on top of the florida keys. The eye reaching there in the last hour. Sustained max winds remain at 130 Miles Per Hour, making it a major category four storm. In addition to wind and rain, storm surge is another major problem with this one. It could be as high as 15 feet in some places. The storm has lead to the largest evacuation in florida history, more than 6 Million People there. Hundreds of,0 hundreds of thousands told to evacuate in georgia. In florida city, south of miami, migel almaguer is there. Good morning again to you. Reporter good morning. It is really coming down. These are conditions that worry First Responders. Theyre not going on the road any longer. Saw a fire truck coming down the road a short time ago. Want to show you what it looks like. All the palm trees are bending sideways. As i send
Power is now out to hundreds of thousands. Once the storm is over, the Power Company plans to unleash the largest number of workers in history to clean up. Nbc10 National Correspondent jay gray is live in naples. It approaches the keys and there will mover on to the coast. Violent winds and driving rain. Irmas assault begins hours before landfall. Hurricane irma is now impacting our state. Millions of floridians will see major hurricane impacts with deadly, deadly, deadly storm surge. And life threatening winds. 18 million or more could feel the effects of this massive storm. Winds gusting well over 100 Miles Per Hour. 12 inches of rain or more in some areas, and a storm surge that could reach 16 feet. This is a deadly major storm, and our state has never seen anything like it. More than 6 million residents were told to evacuate. The largest in u. S. History. Scary. I have never been through anything like this before. Tens of thousands moving into more than 300 shelters across the stat