This morning on the kron 4 morning news. A stark reminder of fire season a wildfire erupts and rages in the east bay and gets dangerously close to a power plant. San francisco police. Trying to track down the driver who hit and killed a woman. Then took off. Well show you the car theyre looking for. And the First Australian plane returns from an earlymorning Search Mission for the missing malaysian airliner. What crew members say they saw. The kron 4 morning news starts right now. A day after firefighters told kron 4 we should brace for an early fire season. This happens a threealarm fire in pittsburg. Near a power plant, no less. This is video from our helicopter partnership abc 7 news. 40 acres burned. Firefighters were worried about all the dry brush from the drought. Despite the fire burning close to the pittsburg power plant, there was never any danger to people who live nearby. As the plant is not operational. Kron4s jeff bush was one of the first reporters on the scene. The sear
Hundreds of Police Dismantle the barricades in hong kong. Hurricane gonzalo bears down on bermuda. Welcome to aljazeera america. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. This morning, dallas nurse nina pham is being treated at n. I. H. Hospital in bethey say does a maryland. She was transferred there last night. President Obama Holding a meeting, considering an ebola czar to coordinate response. He warned the virus must be stopped where it began. The most important thing that i can do for keeping the American People safe is for us to be able to deal with ebola at the source, where youve got a huge outbreak in west africa. The president signed an executive order clearing the way for more troops in west africa. Lisa stark is outside the National Institutes of health in bethey say does a maryland. Nina pham is there now. Why was she moved . She is in the facility behind me called the Clinical Care center here. She was moved because this is really a stateoftheart facility. It has a containment cen
States . Yes. Yes. Yes. Im afraid. A couple of days ago we had all of our computer models running. The Hurricane Center does. Ten of them turning the storm out into the ocean. One model turning it back up toward new york city. We went, wow. 101. Lets probably think the ten is right. Not. It just hasnt been how it happened. All these other molgzs are turning the storm become to the us. Anywhere from canada to washington d. C. Not just new york city. This thing could make landfall. We wouldnt want any type of a landfall at 70 or 80 miles per hour. Anywhere from d. C. To massachusetts. Its not the perfect storm. It doesnt work that way. Its not going to turn into a noreaster, per se. As a hurricane moves on shore, especially here in the northeast, with cold air being dragged into it from canada, it could turn into a snowstorm as well. At least on the back side. We are beginning to see the eye again. The eye went away as it crossed over cuba. I saw 118mileperhour wind gusts right there as
Fiscal cliff may well decide how the voting goes. Well tackle it all but lets begin with sue herera. Sue . Another day in the red for the markets. Yeah, very much so, ty. We have a lot to get into in this hour, a very important discussion in just a moment. First a check of those markets though. The Dow Jones Industrial average was in the red just a few moments ago and now it has bounced back up into the green with the Dow Jones Industrials now up ten points. Nasdaq composite up four, the s p 500 up 2. 77. We begin this hour with ceos on the fiscal cliff war path. Chief executives of 80 very well known and large u. S. Companies, like at t and aetna, putting pressure on congress to cut the federal deficit by cutting spending and by raising taxes and changing the tax code. One of those ceos campaigning to fix the debt is nicholas kelio. President of airlines of america. You have an awful lot of experience in several administrations in washington. So you know how the game works. How close
Short those names in the Holiday Season . Broad market is lower despite the gdp number. Well get the view. Bombshell ticktock in the New York Times. Futures off the lows after the release of the final preliminary hearing gdp report from before the president ial election. Data showing the economy grew 2 in the Third Quarter. Thats above expectations and up from 1. 3 we saw in q2. Numbers were boosted by Consumer Spending and defense and a big part of this, well see today whether were still in an environment where people question data clearly gdp is more hard to manipulate than the jobs number. I thought the same. As soon as numbers came out, i said the people who do not like obama will say this was padded by five more planes sold. This one was padded by an error that will be reversed or california counted twice. Were in a weird mode. Whatever it said, if its positive, its a lie. Im not buying that. These are good numbers. Reverse the market. Its for real. Good or just not bad . Not bad.