In the chaos, in brazils world cup venue. Happy thanksgiving. We hope you had a great day. Families across the country are celebrating with friends and loved one, some bundled up to face 30 degree weather. Others are shopping, taking advantage of extended store hours. Major retailers like kmart opened early. Some are taking time to volunteer, giving to those in need. Shopping seemed to crowd into a lot of peoples holiday. Men are not waiting until black friday. Now we call it black thursday. Jennifer glass is at macys. What have you seen so far tonight . Macys opened its doors for the first time in 155 years, shoppers flooded in. They came in huge numbers, and its supercrowded. We were in there earlier tonight. Its wall to wall people on every floor. They are trying to manage people on and off the escalators. We talked to a couple of shoppers. Including a number of women that cant do this in their home state. We are from massachusetts, the stores will not open on thanksgiving. Theres n
There is much we do not know about yesterdays deadly Train Derailment but we know this. It was traveling at an extraordinary rated of speed, almost three times the limit as it approached a dangerous term. Several cars jumped the track leaving the scene of devastation. Four passengers were killed. Scores injured. Investigate orders are trying to figure out what went wrong and why. Jonathan martin has the latest. Reporter the question remains now was this caused by operator error or some sort of mechanical error on the brakes. We know from the ntsb, speed was a factor. Thats something that was reported early on by passengers and witnesses. Investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train was going too fast as it approached a curve. The preliminary information let me emphasize this is preliminary information from the event recorders shows that the train was traveling at approximately 82 Miles Per Hour as it went into a 30mileanhour curve. In
Cups of coffee as a canvas. Baristas making art out of laites. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city, im Morgan Radford. Thousands of firefighters continue to battle the rash of wildfires in san diego county. Three me have been arrested in connection with the fires, and one has been charged with arson, two others face similar charges. Some of the evacuation notices have been lifted as fire crews gain control of the wild fires. Reporter the weather is cooperating with firefighters in southern california. Cooler, more humid positions are preventing flames spreading further. Its helped crews giping two of the child fires north of san diego under control. The focus is to secure the perimeter and go interior and work on the hot spots. Reporter for so many the damage is done. 20,000 acres burnt. Dozens of homes destroyed. In all, an estimated 20 million in damage. In one of the worsthit towns. We have a plan on living our lives here forever. The stuff he
Its workforce. Zurich insurance net profit falls nearly 30 , hit by weatherrelated claims in the u. S. And europe. This as lower Interest Rates weigh on investments. Welcome to the show, everyone. Lets get back to one of our top stories this morning. Hundreds have been left dead and thousands injured after Security Forces broke up camps supporting the former president mohamed morsi. Interim Vice President and leading liberal voice in the country Mohamed Elbaradei resigned over the use of force. Yousuf is in cairo. What is the latest on the ground . There is a relative return to calm in this part of cairo, but, of course, the country as a whole is in a state of emergency after clashes yesterday between supporters of the ousted president and Security Forces. The government taking a decision to disperse these two protest sites, which have been holding out there for some six weeks. The diplomatic efforts didnt work and now they made a decision, they said they had no other choice. The Prime
So, Current Conditions 112. The expectations component 103. 3 in august versus the reuters consensus of 103, so a little bit broader. Ifo has no revisions to the july indices. Lets get a breakdown on this. On the phone from munich, an expert at the Ifo Institute, helped to compile this story. Doctor, good to speak to you. Its been a while. Thanks for joining us this morning. Whats the key takeaway from what this survey says about the state of the German Economy . The strongest increase at this month in the manufacturing industry, and here particularly in the investment good sector, so it looks like that the upturn gets more momentum. How strong would you describe that momentum . Well, we had made the forecast for this year 0. 6, and i think this is something we could reach, so investment is always somewhat lagging behind, and this is now a positive sign that Companies Start investing more. This suggests that the data weve had, broadly speaking, which is improved, is sustainable. Is thi