Due to hurricane maria. Haiti has been removed from the list of countries eligible to participate in two temporary work visa programs. The department of Homeland Security released a note saying haitians who apply for visas have shown high levels of fraud and abuse and a tendency to overstay their visas. Rupert murdoch is said to have been hospitalized after back injuryserious earlier this month. According to vanity fair magazine, the media mogul was vacationing on his sons yacht at the time. He is recuperating in an l. A. Hospital. Global news 24 hours a day more than 2700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. Im a alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Emily i am emily chang, and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, the tech is back on capitol hill. This time, it is all about fighting online extremism. Did lawmakers get the answers they were after . Plus the cryptocurrency crunch. Has the bubble burst . And it is a payday for apple employees. Apple plans to bring calm billions of
On his sons out at the time you murdoch is recuperating at an alley hospital. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2,700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Bloomberg. I am emily chang, and this is bloomberg technology. All about fighting online extremism. The lawmakers get the answers they were after. Plus the cryptocurrency crunch. The court. 10,000. As the bubble burst . And it is a payday for apple employees. Apple plans to bring calm billions of dollars in overseas cash to the united states. We have the story. But first, to our lead. Representatives from facebook, google, and facebook and extremism. E online there were before the congress committee, and a lot of the same topics that came up investors hearings on russian interference and the election we are there heads once again. Perhaps the most higher warning came from senator john from montana. This is an important issue. From a terrorist that point, and all the questions asked before. Our democrac
Decker bus. Lots of pictures taken, evidence being collected. This this angle, you sigh at least four cars and another doubledecker bus. The chaotic moments right after that bus crash. This cell phone video sent to us by an employee from lefty odouls, which is located right in that area. You can see dozens of people in the street, some scrambling to help. Jess gfx were constantly updating our nbc bay area app and our digital platforms. Thats where you can keep up with all the changes on this story. And all other breaking news. Keep up with the changes on this story and all of our breaking news by going to our app. Now to our breaking story overseas. 3 00 a. M. In paris. That city wide awake. A series of coordinated attacks. More than 150 people slaughtered in multiple locations. Theres also a bay area impact. San francisco as we mentioned is under a heightened alertment all available officers are on duty. There was heavy security in paris, but it didnt prevent these attacks obviously.
Its exciting. Nothing is going to happen. Reporter at sfo, and airports across the country flights are cancelled ruining vacations and celebrations. My son is getting married. The whole family was going down. We cant fly. We have to spend the night here. You go with it. The strongest hurricane in the western hemisphere on record which this was before land fall. The last historic to remember was typhoon haiyan which hit the philippines two years ago. Look at this comparison. We have the left and right. Patricia is on the right. Haiyan is on the right. They were both major category 5 hurricanes. Both packed extreme winds and both did make landfall in very populated areas. So how strong is a 200mileper hour wind . Thats as strong as an f3 tornado but a tornado comes by for a minute. The center of the storm may pass over an area for an hour. So its like having tornado winds for an hour and the Tropical Storm wind field from patricia 270 miles wide. That would be 40mileperhour winds or grea
Flights have been cancelled but first grant lodes is here with the latest on the record breaking storm. Nat grant and you tried to drive a big rig through some for her can. Posted on twitter shows what happens. A big drag over their the fish calif. That is going up eventually ends of live side. The many dramatic images coming out of mexico. Overnight patricia went from a Tropical Storm to a tourists nightmare. Siren we were very unprepared. And then first thing this morning, you know, heard that it was going to be a category 5. Local residents and tourists scrambled to get supplies as the winds rose and the rain came down nat with the airports shut down. The only option tonight is to shelter in place. It was pretty chaotic at first, you know, i think a bit of panic people were kind of rushing to get a space inside the building. And it was about 100 degrees claustrophobic because it was all boarded up. Hurricane patricia is the largest and strongest hurricane ever recorded. It has weake