Extraordinary bravery of those members of the public who physically intervened to protect the lives of others. For me, they represent the very best of our country. Im reporting live from the police court and close to London Bridge and the scene of the attack. This area is still very much in lockdown tonight, roads are sealed off, causing rush hour chaos for commuters. This is the scene live where police have sealed off the surrounding area, we will bring you developments through the evening. Good evening and welcome to bbc news and also to our viewers on abc world. The bbc has been told that two people have died in an attack earlier this afternoon on London Bridge at. Police have declared it a terrorist incident. A man believed to be the attacker also died after being shot by police. More people are seriously injured in the attack, though its not yet been revealed exactly how many. The attack itself happened just after 2pm this afternoon. Police say they were called to an incident at a
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To death and injured three others. He has been named as usman khan philipe was from staffordshire to hearin philipe was from staffordshire to hear in the uk. What is interesting is he was a convicted terrorist. He was jailed back in 2012 and part of a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and he was also plotting, according to the court, to set up as terrorist Training Camp in pakistan with the view of sending people from britain over there to be changed in that make trading terrorism. He was released in december he was released on licence which means he should have been under watch and police are acknowledging the main line of how he was able to carry out this attack. It took place in fishmongers hall which is on the north side of the bridge of London Bridge. There was an event taking place and there seems to be some reports that he could have been an attendee there. I suppose, maybe we dont know the answers to those questions but we definitely know what questions are being asked. Ar
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange record highs as you know by now, up almost 250, yields close to seven week highs carl, we have record highs in all three major indexes. You can see behind me, you look at those particular moves with the dow, s p 500 and nasdaq, we will put stars next to every one, record highs for every one of these indexes, and trade optimism fueling a lot of that you look at sector leaders over the course of the past month that pushed those averages toward record highs, within the s p 500, financials, industrial, technology up 10 for financials, 9 for industrials, technology up 7 . These two sectors, tech and industrials are close to their own record highs now, on pace for some closes at record levels then if you want to look at stocks within the dow, check out these names, ones more tied to trade optimism or pessimism throughout the course of the last ye
Voluntary evacuations. We have live team coverage. Amy hollyfield and Lauren Martinez are in Sonoma County. We start with lisa argen tracking that critical fire danger. The temperature in San Francisco at 70 degrees. Offshore winds have been blowing all night. At the surface, not too gusty. Right now looking at 20 to 40mileperhour winds. This will continue through the 8 00 and 9 00 hour. Offshore winds bringing down the relative humidity here into the Single Digits. Elsewhere in the east bay and south bay, not as dry. We are looking at the relative humidity. Very dry at Half Moon Bay. Look at the temperatures in the east bay valleys, near record warmth in the upper 80s today. Could see 90s in San Francisco. Looking at very warm weather throughout the bay and at the coast. Thank you very much. The kincaid fire started around 10 00 last night in geyserville and it exploded to 10,000 acres. This map gives you a better idea of where the fire started. Its northeast of geyserville near john