Carrie fisher died this morning in los angeles as you may have heard. Family by her side. She was 60 years old. Fisher who publicly and at times humorously balloted personal demons went into cardiac arrest on flight to los angeles friday. Tonight the tribute are pouring in. Star wars, costar tweeted no words hashtag devastated. That echo across the galaxy day. We have the coverage. Reporter tonight world is mourning Carrie Fisher who one so many battle aspirin says leah but lost the final one in los angeles hospital this morning. Family spokesperson issued a statement saying fisher passed away at 8 55 this morning. She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly. Her daughter she was late in life child posted the porrait on instagram. Fisher, 60 and recently was returning from pro moeingt moteling her new memoir in london collapsing on the flight home from los angeles. She stopped breathing 15 minutes before landing. She was in cardiac arrest. Passengers trying desperately
Visit covereca. Com today. Live, where you live, this is abc7 news. You see it right there on your screen, a solid sheet of green with pockets of yellow. Live doppler 7 showing the rain associated with a powerful storm, lapped landing on the bay area and the worst is yet to come. Im eric thomas. Thanks so much for joining us. The rain has already generated flood warnings in rivers in the north and south bay. A live look on the bay bridge. Its wet out there now. Were on the storm watch and we have Team Coverage across the bay area, beginning with lisa who is tracking the rain live. The rain has steadily increased over the past couple of hours and thats why we have it as a 2 on our storm impact scale. As we go to live doppler right now, the yellows are picking up across the bay. As we go in closer, around vallejo, marns, and concord, some heavier cells, flooding in burkly and orinda. Rain for belleenas, and you can see the enhanced oranges and yellows offshore. This will continue as this
Moments ago, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer playing coy with President Trump tomorrow on tax reform saying only hes got a great plan for you to see and that the president plans to do everything he can to make america more competitive. Capitol hill in the last 15 minutes, were Hearing Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell sounded optimistic about reaching an agreement on funding the government to avoid a shutdown saying hopefully well have something in the next couple of days. Folks, its midnight on friday night, so, yeah. Three days left. While minority leader senator Chuck Schumer is saying americans should breathe a huge sigh of rief now that the wall does off the table. President trump leading with his brandnew secretary of agriculture, sunny purdue at this hour, and hes bringing along farmers to the white house. First time farmers have been invited inside the oval office in the white house since ronald reagan. A breadbasket lake a trade deal with canada. Were going to bri
Out. As a wildfire that started just this morning. Sees massive growth in southern california. Youre looking at the bluecut fire in San Bernardino county. Its raging through drought parched canyons near the cajon pass. Thank you for joining us im steve aveson. Pam and im pam moore. Grant lodes joins us now. He is tracking the fast spreading bluecut fire, grant grant hon su is split started, this morning get remarkably fast to what the same car near the mouth of high skill resort the old town of a half dozen people forced out for. What hundred firefighters are working to in the National Forest service scrambling at least be to get reinforcements to the frontlines. And burning a radically hot hands puling tonight aspire cause a Freight Train to suddenly stop the crew was forced to run for safety. Get pam firefighters are getting the upper hand on the clayton wildfire. It is now 20 percent contained. But the damage is already done. More than 100 homes burned to the ground. Families forced
The topics in a moment. Here with us as well. You have been looking into king digital and the ipo. This was an ipo that was talked about to some extent. I have never played it ever. We are in the minority. A lot of people who lose use then a monthly basis are in millions, only four percent actually pay for the game. The way it works is you pay to get ahead. You buy things in the game that allow you to advance within the game and are useful to you. In addition to that, we are looking at this to figure out if it is a filing under the jobs act. The company made over 600 million and revenue. 159 million in profit. It is turning a profit the bulk of the revenue and the users are using candy crush, even though it has 180 games that have been developed. It does have a couple of other games. You wonder if they are striking while the iron is hot. And there will be questions beer whether they should commanding such a high valuation. Farmville in drag. There are two kinds of games. The ones that