accused them of amplifying hate and misinformation for profit. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site. they ll click on less ads, they ll make less money. the cost of the outage is huge. according to net blocks, it cost aa loss of $161 million per hour to the global economy. and we re now learning more about what caused that outage. cisco s internet analysis shows that it was due to a domain name system failure. now that system is often referred to as the phone book of the internet. reporting live at facebook headquarters, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. thank you. facebook stock took a huge hit on wall street today. it dropped nearly 5% today. at one point the company lost $50 billion in its market value. facebook is valued just under $1 trillion. all this leading up to tomorrow s senate hearing on instagram s impact on children. this is video from last week s session on the same topic. tomorrow
News with lester holt. Good evening. Help is coming from as far away as the east coast to fight wildfires in the west. An epic season of destruction that reached a new milestone today. 7 million acres torched this summer so far. Across several states right now its an all hands on deck effort. Soldiers, even jailed prisoners enlisted to join the fight, with so many homes lost and so many others at risk. One of the worst fires continues to burn in chelan, washington, which is where National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer leads us off on this busy tuesday. Reporter these are the conditions firefighters are facing on the front line. Flames shooting closer and closer to homes in washington state. The National Guard has moved in, bracing for a monster day tomorrow. Winds expected to kick up dramatically. There are still hundreds and hundreds of houses that could be in the line of fire. Reporter the air attack key. Dozens of drops every hour. Four helicopters have been making drops here all da
Carol Ann Gray, 88, of Sister Bay, passed away peacefully Sunday afternoon, April 21, 2024 at Serenity Spring Senior Living at Scandia Village in Sister Bay from recent health complications. She was .
events going on in the street and the fundraiser coming up. a school bus caught fire in the east bay this afternoon, but fortunately no one was hurt. this photo was provided of the bus that caught fire in concord. the school district official says there were students on board, but that everyone got off safely, including the bus driver. concord police say it looks like the engine overheated. oakland police and fire investigators are both looking into an early-morning house fire. it started on the back porch of a home on 73rd avenue near international boulevard. the fire didn t do much damage and no one was hurt but somebody painted graffiti there yesterday afternoon on the same home. it included the words stop snitching. it looks like the spectacular light show on the bay bridge will go on after all thanks to the generosity of one man. the light project had been a million and a half dollars short of being funded. but the co-founder of word press has stepped up to out. he