Were in pakistan. Officials there say they will not ask for help from the international community. David louie reporting. Reporter you can imagine how hungry people here in fremont for information about their relatives from villages back in afghanistan. Some reports indicated as many as 4,000 homes have been destroyed in afghanistan and one person here talking to a relative there said the shaking in kabul lasted, they thought, close to three minutes. The anxiety is mounting for fareed as he works in little kabul shopping district. He hasnt heard from his family since he heard about the earthquake. Im very nervous. My wife and my daughter there. Im kind of worried so much about them. So i cant wait to get hold of them, to make sure theyre okay. Reporter many immigrant families are in the same situation. Little kabul market is an information clearinghouse as some do connect with loved ones in afghanistan. It happened, ones all falled down. Some were killed right away. A lot of thousands
Good monday morning. Im reena ninan. And im kendis gibson. Were going to get started, of course, with the soaking rain thats been menacing people on the gulf coast. After clinging to texas for several days. Texas will get a chance to dry out today from the widespread flooding that filled up homes and cars and triggered dramatic rescues. Louisiana is now getting the worst of the rain this morning. Hurricane patricia converging with another powerful storm system. You can see how much moisture there is there. We get the latest right now from abcs bazi kanani. Reporter the Lone Star State drenched. Up to 20 inches of rain falling over parts of texas. Weve got the boat over there right now. Reporter emergency crews going in with boats and humvees. To reach stranded residents. A close call for the more than 70 rescued south of dallas. This man and his dog pulled from their flooded truck. Another man stuck when he waded in to find his submerged vehicle. I just stood there and watched my car s
The United Auto Workers and General Motors have reached a tentative contract agreement moments before a strike deadline. The contract covers about 53,000 gm workers. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, october 26th. From abc news, this is world news now. We say good morning to you. Were going to get started this half hour with the rain that is still pounding the gulf coast states this morning. Finally moving away from texas. Take a look. Heres what it looked like in louisiana overnight. Low visibility on the slick roads. Radar shows the gulf region still getting drenched an at this hour. The heaviest downpours will stretch all the way to the florida panhandle. Rob marciano tracking it all. Reporter texas under water. Parts of the state getting more than 20 inches of rain. Reporter this neighborhood submerged. Emergency crews using buses, boats, even humvees to help residents evacuate. Driving is treacherous more than 70 rescues south of dallas including this man and his d
Thats cled pantyhose, honey. Pantyhose. Welcome to cbs this morning. Gayle king is off. Investigators are trying to determine what caused a deadly whale watching tragedy off canada. A photo captured the moment when the 65 foot vessel sink into the sea. At least five people are dead. Crews resesed 21. Alpha delta phind they are still searched for one where the boat went down off british columbia, vancouver island. Reporter canadian authorities confirmed the boat sent out a may day call around 4 00 p. M. Local time. The coast guard responded quickly, sending two support boats to rescue passengers. Local water Taxi Companies and fishermen also joined in the search which lasted through the night. Cell phone video taken off the coast shows the capsized tour boat. Only the bow is visible above the water line. Local fishermen arrived as the last known survivors arrived on shore. The coast guard asked us to circle around the area to see if we could find any more survivors. Reporter survivors w
Placed in the same category of tobacco. This has lead to so much confusion, being in the highest risk category means you have a substance and there is good, strong evidence that it can cause cancer. It says absolutely nothing about the degree to which it increases that risk. So we know smoking tobacco increases the risk of cancer dramically. Now processed meat increases the risk of colon cancer relatively less. Still, 20 increase if you have the equivalent of a hot dog every day. So now that we have these numbers which is the new thing this study is giving us, it can give us an idea how to estimate our risk and we have to make that decision for ourselves. Pelley the take away in a word is moderation. Everything in moderation including excess. Pelley thank you, jon. Dr. Lapook will be answering your questions on our facebook page. You can post them at facebook. Com back cbseveningnews. The head of the fbi has a theory about what is behind a rise in gun violence in big cities. He talked