Thank you so much for joining us here on kron for news at 3. Im justine waldman. Fremont fire is saying the building has been red tagged and access to the units are now prohibited. Our kron 4 Charles Clifford has more. Well, here at fremont on monday, multiple Storage Units were destroyed early in the morning. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the cleanup is going to take quite a while around 6 monday morning. The Fremont Fire Department responded here to extra Space Storage in the 30,000 block of fremont boulevard on reports of a fire crews arriving on scene found this 2 story butlding composed of storage and its fully engulfed in flames. It took crews about an hour using water and foam to bring the fire under control. Adding to the challenge of fighting this blaze is the unknown nature of what was in the Storage Units in a storage facility. Typically people. Packed and full of whatever the contents were unaware of what those contents are, but theyre usually packed fully so you hav
To evacuate after that blast. That explosion shattered windows in several blasts. Abc 7 News Reporter Jonathan Bloom has the story. Reporter evacuated residents returned in time for it dinner in all except the home where the explosion happen. We have been in contact with the building owner. He does have about eight tenants that will now be Getting Services from the american red cross. Reporter it began at 10 00 a. M. Where one woman says its the second gas leak in as many weeks. Firefighters are knocking on our door asking us to evacuate the building. Reporter while they told residents there was no need to panic, firefighters said this was not a drill. We had firefighters arrive on scene with the heavy smell of gas, they positioned away from the building and started walking up and it exploded. Reporter video shows the damage. Three front windows shattered and garage windows blown out into the street. Theres no other real reason for that. Reporter firefighters said they believe the gas
About it, from people at bars, taxi drivers, to warren buffett. Even katy perry. The front page of the wall street journal had something to do. Bitcoin has had a meteoric rise. Today it zoomed past 11,000, surging more than a thousand dollars in just 12 hours. It is up about 1,000 since the start of the year. As quickly as it went up today, it lost some gains. Retail investors are taking notice. Now theres a push under way to create an etf. But as bob pisani reports, it reporter bitcoin is up more than 50 this month, it passed today. 1,000 mark before falling whats exciting investors is the expanding derivative market for crypto currencies. Its adding muchneeded legitimacy to this whole space. Last month ledger x, an institutional trading and clearing platform, they began trading bitcoin options. That was a big advance. In and out chicago mercantile exchange, the cboe, and the nasdaq all are set to roll out Bitcoin Futures soon. This is good news. Bitcoin futures will enable traders to
Picture coming off that selloff for the nasdaq yesterday down 1. 3 . It dipped lower in the afternoon, frankly it was pretty soft all day the dow was up half a percent. The s p was flat, but within the s p, some very big sector divergence tech, as we expected, down the most it was down 3 telecoms up 3 a big swing there. To be fair, telecoms up largely because of at ts gains yesterday coming off more positive comments from Ceo Randall Stephenson to becky quick in terms of his hopes of his side winning that ongoing dispute about whether or not to take over time warner. Tech very much the laggard yesterday. This morning the nasdaq is flat. The dow up 54 points the s p up 3. 5 points. Tenyear treasury note, we did see yields tick up yesterday the tenyear starting to inch higher but a bit closer to the 2. 4 level. 2. 38 today this morning yields pulling up a bit. In general the move over the last 48 hours has been yields picking up a bit asian equities, a soft session there. The tech sector
Rishaad just about 30 minutes to go until we get going again for the hong kong session. Let us take a look at what has been happening. Has been a winning last day of trading for 2017. The highlights. Looking at 14 months, straight months of a global stock that is gaining. This is unprecedented. Let us go back to the dark days of 2008 when we had steep falls. In one month, 10 of the stocks declined. Since then, recovery taking place. 2009. D bag since the last 14 months has framed what has been going on. The hang seng up about 34 so far this year. Notwithstanding the gains we may be seeing in a little while. And that is when the session kicks off in about 29 minutes. Singapore and taiwan coming online as well. Let us go over to sophie and have another look at the markets. Grant sporre sophie let us take a look. The ringgit is heading for its best year since 2010. In 2017 following the rebound in oil prices. Is expected to test at a number three level. Singaporean stocks. The opening was