Survival. When youre in it, youre fighting it. Youre not going to give up. The bay area man who risked his life to save his home, doing something firefighters tell you not to do. From the flames to the air quality and the weather, we have a lot to get to tonight. Lets sta ng in the bay area. Tonight progress on the front lines. We begin our Team Coverage withn san mateo and santa cruz counties. Cal fire says two things are helping them tonight. Reporter yeah, and there is some progress luckily on this fire. They say, one, the weather is providing some good visibility because, two, the good thing, their helicopters can finally drop some water, make some real progress. Today alone they dropped 200,000 gallons of water on the flames up in the mountains. One fire chief is expressing some caution, saying he believes theyll be fighting these flames for quite some time. Tonight on the front lines, Santa Cruz County firefighters dousing the truck of a redwood tree to save it and keep the fire
Mate. Tweeting just in the last hour, i have the great honor to announce that i have picked Kamala Harris, a fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the countrys finest public servants. As attorney general, she worked closely with bo. I was proud then and i am proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign. I want to take a look first at how this is impacting the markets. Abigail doolittle has been following the backandforth. Markets turned sharply lower at the close. Abigail we have seen a little bit of a risk on reaction to the harris. Ment of the s p 500 futures down about 0. 9 . Funds also a little bit lower. A little bit of a risk on move on that announcement. On the day, not that much. 100 down for the third day in a row. Theical sectors such as financials. Apple down about 3 . Factore isi, flagging the that there could be a slump. Another piece of it. Silver, the futures have reopened on the day. For the day that just was down 15 for spot silver. The worst day since
With the dividend although it will be far lower than last years. Hong kong media tycoon released on bail. His broken National Security laws beijing has branded him guilty. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting Unemployment Rate numbers, and again, surprising to the upside. They fell to 4. 2 in the month of july, this after surprising to the upside the previous month, falling to 4. 3 in june. Of course, we have seen more job creation efforts. In fact, we just heard from south koreas Ruling Party Leader saying south korea will actively consider a fourth extra budget if needed. South korea has already pledged more than 225 billion in stimulus measures or roughly 14 of gdp to help put a floor on the jobs market, and right now, the july Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 2 . Lets turn to the markets and bring in Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. What are you watching . Korean alongside the jobless numbers, we are waiting on Australian Consumer confidence, due out later this morning, a
Map shows all of the thermal activity from the flames and you can see it there on your screen. This morning. We know that several homes have been destroyed in that area, thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. Kron fours reyna harvey live now in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us rain little bit more good morning and here in scott valley where thousands of residents were forced to evacuate yesterday, we also know that you see santa cruz, those students and faculty had to evacuate as well know again were going to show you the damage that was done overnight taking you to Boulder Creek and you can see these homes in the area as they go up in flames now we know thousands of residents throughout like you mentioned santa cruz in this area have had to evacuate as the fire continues to grow overnight 48,000 acres this morning structures destroyed about 50 structures that are still currently threatened by this growing fire over 20,000 now yesterday, the First Responders had s
Vietnam. Vietnam. So thats captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008. Very short time period. Right. You did all this battle there. Right . Even in charge of 125 people there . Yes. Its an amazing story. You know, theres another story that i didnt miss that i feel obligated to tell it. When i was wounded i was going down to the cp and i was taking this socalled prisoner and i just pushed him off the bank. He probably survived. I went down to the dispensary and they left me there and the dispensary that night was overrun by north koreans. I couldnt find my weapon. I found someone had left two 30 round clips back to back. The koreans were running through the courtyards, a couple miles north of chinju, in a place by a river, i can remember the route cropping to know exactly where that is. Anyway i had to fight my way out of there. There were running through the courtyard and i ran out, i had a very, very painful ankle and i fell when i hit the road and then i could hear ameri