that was nbc s tammie lightner reporting. the nasdaq hit a fresh all-time high yesterday, reaching 5,500 for the first time ever. the dow jones industrial average continues to edge closer to the all-time high of 20,000, but stopped short at the close yesterday. joining us live from london, karen, let s talk about the headlines this morning, u.s. has charged three chinese traders with insider trading. good morning, chris, one of the big stories, of course, is around that big alarm bills for law firms on wall street around cybersecurity fears, so u.s. prosecutors have accused three chinese hackers of hacking into the servers of a couple of firms on wall street. the hackers allegedly made about $4 million using the information they stole from the e-mails of senior partners and trading on that information, so what was of interest to the hackers? authorities accuse them of stealing information around intel s acquisition last year.
sally jones published the list online this summer encouraging lone wolf attacks. know that we are in your e-mails and computer systems watching and recording your every move and that sigh sis operatives will strike at your necks in your own lands. this drives people to follow-up on this information. maybe it will get a hit on someone. maybe it won t. it also freaks out u.s. government, military and law enforcement personnel. cnn attempted to reach dozens of people on the kill list. some e-mails bounced back as being old addresses. others went through. one retired serviceman confirmed to us the phone number for him on the list was accurate. he said the pentagon alerted him. a u.s. military official tells cnn, so far there s no indication any u.s. service members have been attacked. analysts warn there are more hackers out there. they could live in western countries like western europe, england, france, germany or they could be in malaysia.
a super typhoon is leaving a path of destruction in the philippines as it pummels parts of the island nation with heavy rain. we have video here showing how powerful the rising waters are beneath this bridge. emergency officials say thousands of people have been evacuated after a plea from the filipino president for people to take cover. winds, uprooted trees, roofs off homes, the storm made landfall early sunday local time shutting down parts of the philippines. there are widespread power outages, flooding, more could be on the way as this storm is moving very slowly. for more on the storm s impact. we want to turn to cnn s matt rivers covering the story from hong kong. what are you hearing, matt? i know that news update was given by filipino authorities a short time ago. what are they saying? what we are hearing right now is that the majority of their nflgs information is evolving.
185 coil om terse per hour. now the latest information from the joint typhoon warning center says 160 kilometer per hour wind. we ll gradually see that chipped away. that will be the good news. the primary problem will be the rain. we re already seeing significant rainfall totals. this is moving towards the west at about 13 kilometers per hour. that s a little bit slower than what we were looking at a few hours ago. when it slammed on shore, some of the computer models were suggesting significant catastrophic flooding along some of these eastern coastal regions. now the computer models are saying more for the western coastal areas. generally speaking, 500, 1,000 millimeters, over a meter of rainfall, those are certainly very potentially the amounts that we ll expect. i just updated some of the rainfall totals we have across
not. they say they want the candidates to work with the government to move forward. a lot of people continue to want lives to be different there in egypt. we understand you re bringing up the u.s. election because be careful what you wish for, some americans might wish our process were just two weeks right about now. ian lee for us, thank ian. we re learning details about a hacker accused of stealing information about u.s. military members and giving it to isis. the kosovo citizen was arrested in malaysia. cnn s brian todd has more about that. a 20-year-old studying computer science in malaysia accused of helping isis publish a kill list of american service members. the man originally from kosovo arrested in malaysia and now u.s. officials are seeking his extradition. according to a criminal complaint, he hacked into the computer system of an internet