Lucy yang is there with new details. As you can see behind me, the car has now been righted and is waiting to be towed. Weve obtained dramatic video tonight. This as accident investigators try to determine exactly what went wrong to cause a driver to lose control and a pedestrian, a 50yearold man, to lose his life. Boom, like an explosion. Reporter these surveillance videos from various angles show the horrible accident. You see a man innocently talking on his phone. Seconds later a car, airborne, crashes in to him, lands upside down on the sidewalk. A few feet behind him this woman survives and scrambles in to the store. Seconds later Good Samaritans come racing to help. Just ran right in to the tree. Flipped about three times. Flatbush avenue in brooklyn was packed with cars and pedestrians when the drive of this nissan lost control. Were told one pedestrian was killed. Three others including a young child in the car were taken to the hospital where they are expected to survive. Fele
Woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up. French special forces went in and got three individuals and they arrested two individuals in a nearby apartment. There are other reports suggesting that 7 people have been arrested at this time and theres also been video taken of a naked man being taken away by police at this point. But this has been going on for 8 hours. Witnesses and people that live in the neighborhood speaking with nbc news described explosions, gunfire, 20 minutes worth of gunfire. Hours worth of irregular shootings and explosions throughout the morning as the operation was underway. The question is who are they looking for . Right now all local media is reporting that theyre looking for the alleged mastermind of the attacks in paris friday night that killed 129 people at various locations across the city. Were about 1. 2 kilometers from one of the areas that was attacked. Three of the suicide bombers wearing suicide vests tried to attack the stadiums so were near that
Terrorism. John harwood will join us from the white house. Before we do that, lets get up to speed on this mornings other top stories. Michelle . Lets start with oil. Crude prices dropping after fridays opec meeting. As a result theres no agreement on output targets. In fact, the cartel didnt even mention a quota, something we havent seen in decades. Analysts say this is a message that opec or saudi arabia is willing to deal with low prices. You can see wti is back below 40 per barrel. U. S. Gasoline prices dropping again as well. The lundberg survey says the average price is down 4 cents. 2. 10, the lowest level since late january. In global news, big win for venezuelas opposition. The Party Winning control over the National Assembly and changing the balance of power. The victory comes 17 years after hugo chavez started the socialist information. It could mean dramatic changes down there. In corporate news, General Electric is terminating a deal that it had to sell its business, its a
Jumping here. Of course what happens . Stock market turns south at least from its earlier heights. It gained 27 points after being higher. The s p climbing. Its got me upset. I have said it once a thousand times. Higher oil is bad. Higher gasoline is terrible for the stock market. Higher heating bills are horrendous for the stock market. There. Theres nothing else to it. End of story. But, let me explain, in case anyone is unclear about this. Obviously a market that could go into the red at one point today doesnt get it. My biggest worry for this market right now is the transports the index which has all the different levers of commerce in it. Transports have been rolling over for days. We did a whole segment last night how transports could be in trouble. Its a serious thorn in the bull side. We get a 3 decline. And suddenly the case changes. Now we have a chance to see higher earnings and better gross margin comparisons for the most Important Group in the market the airlines. Includin
Home. We begin with correspondent alex hogan on new yorks Staten Island tonight with news on the pfizer vaccine. Good evening, alex. Good evening, mike. Because of a supply chain era, pfizer will deliver only 50 million vaccines, which is about half of what it had hoped. Still, it says it will roll out more than a billion doses through 2021. We will soon be distributing vaccines to the american people. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar announcing states will handle the distribution of their own vaccines, as the country surpasses its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. Wednesday, more than 3,000 americans died. That is about 500 more lives than the previous record in april. Hospitalizations increased too, one week after the center the centers for Disease Control pleaded with americans not to travel for thanksgiving. The cdc is now asking again that people stay home for the upcoming holidays. But mixed messaging from health officials, the World Health Organizat