We have more, patricia, what are the numbers, and why the raising eyebrows. Reporter the numbers were talking about are new home sales. They dropped by more than 13 last month. Sales at their lowest level since september. Its about the construction industry. Retailers benefit because when people buy new homes they like to furnish them. We talked to an economist at asked him to put the numbers in perspective for us. It was a really low number, and thats disconcerning. Its true that you shouldnt pay too much attention, it just shows a loss of momentum in the Single Family structure market. That a little troubling because thats the linchpin to the housing recovery, to the economic recovery. Reporter higher Mortgage Rates are having an impact. Mortgage rates jumped a full percentage point since may, and it may start to wind down a stimulus program, but Mortgage Rates are still pretty low. Thank you. Todays news of a plunge of new homes sales come at a time when Many Americans are feeling c
7 00 at wells middle school. The family welcomes the public to join them. Bay area based chevron is facing a heavy penalty tonight over that explosion and fire last year in its refinery. 37 the fire burned for hours, forcing residents to shelter in place trying to avoid smoke and fumes pumping into the air. In richmond, cal osha has completed its investigation of the august 6th refinery fire and slamming the company with highest penalties aloud under state law. The 25 citations total a million dollars. Pocket change for the oil company. So it could go a long way in helping thousands of individual civil lawsuits. Cal osha says the company could have prevented the company from the pipe. Workers at the refinery and thousands of residents were exposed to toxic vapor from the fire. Chevron says its reviewing citations but does plan to appeal them. Its super bowl week that. Means a lot of proud parents are in new orleans now. Harbaughs are no different. Jack and jackie took center stage toda
Dispute then opened fire. There iuiuy reports he was representing himself in a civil call action he brought against the call center. Another shooting victim is a lawyer. That shooting mentioned today during the first congressional hearing about gun violence. That drew a dramatic appeal from gabrielle giffords. 1 too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. The hearing included testimony from the National Rifle association. The Vice President says it rejects bans on some assault weapons and bans president obama support. Republicans have a proposal to make schools safer. And that is stirring up a lot of controversy. Nannette miranda has the story tonight from sacramento. Invoking the name of vicky soto, the teacher killed in the sandy hook massacre, while using her body to shield students. A group of lawmakers proposed a School Marshal program to protect campuses from gunmen mod yeld after air marshal whos guard against terrorism and staffers from janitor to prin
He asked him to famously drop an investigation of trumps own aide mike flynn who later pled guilty and fire that fbi director with, quote, russia on his mind. We know now this animated probe from the start. They occupied muellers focus, so that makes this breaking times story so troubling for the white house. Trump spoke to witnesses about matters they discussed with special counsel. Mueller has learned of two conversation in recent months in which trump asked witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people familiar with the encounters, this involves the efforts to fire mueller himself. Now consider the two crucial tracks in the story. First, why this president would be talking to witnesses in the mueller probe, and why he thinks thats a good idea. Now, is it because the president just doesnt care about the advice from his own attorneys not to do this kind of thing . Does he think theres no risk . He can outsmart one more problem or does he think th
Disgusting and a disgrace for staying outside during the massacre. You know i really believe, you dont know until you test it but i really believe id run even if i didnt have a weapon. Id run in there. Its an incredibly bold statement. When the white house was asked if the president meant it, heres what happened. When the president said earlier today that he would have run into the school, was he suggesting that he could have saved the day . I think he was just stating that as a leader he would have stepped in and hopefully been able to help as a number of the vi individuals as the coach and other adults and a lot of students stepped up and helped protect other students. I think the point he was making is that he would have wanted to have played a role in that as well. Is he trained in firing a weapon . Is he trained in using handgun or firearm . I dont think that was the point he was making. He was saying he would be a leader and would want to take a courageous action. In the presiden