Its sickened more than iroue ofasia. To person. The cdc says its unknown how easily or sustainably this virus is spreading. Its prompting increased precautions for travellers in asia and temperature checkpoints are common sights and theyre becoming more so now, in the u. S. , there are screening stations and l. A. X. And jfk, theyre expanding the screening in chicago. Passengers arrive on direct flights from china every tuesday, thursday and saturday. Theyre, pulled out a side to fill out a questionnaire and have their temperature taken. Theyre not doing that at the rh h is where that man went through. We know that his flight from china was not a direct flight. He went through one, two, possibly three other airports on his way to seattle, but the cdc wasnt able to tell us which one. They say are the risk to the public is low, but they expect more cases here in the u. S. , back to you. To our weather now, a rainy and gloomy start to some patients of the bay area. Heres a look at the Ric
Were back with this big mess on interstate 75 south of tampa, florida. It happened when a truck carrying mail advertisements sideswiped another truck that was on the side of the road. The driver of the truck hauling those ads suffered serious injuries. It took hours to clean it all up. Once that was done, the highway was reopened. And this morning, were remembering the life and times of one of the defining legends of hollywood. Robert evans, a former studio executive behind some of hollywoods biggest films including the godfather and chinatown, has died at the age of 89. He suffered a stunning fall from grace back in the 80s. In 1994 he sat down for an abc interview on primetime live. Were opening up the abc news vault with sam donaldson. Imagine for a moment youd lived your life in hollywood, sat at its glittering corridors of power, romanced major movie stars. Oh, the stories you could tell. The man youre about to meet has done all of that and lots of it. When our judd rose paid a ca
Welcome to the program, everybody. You are watching countdown. London. 00 here in good morning. Stocks in the u. S. Rallying after the latest minutes from the Federal Reserve revealing the central bank will continue to keep Interest Rates low for a considerable time. For more, we are joined by christian scholz. The Market Reaction says low means low for longer. The balance is very much on the Residential Market and the european issues. There is plenty of Downside Risks which the fed will obviously way once they start answering that considerable time between that and the first rate hike. Watch here is that this came before the latest big decline in the unemployment rate. They already had discussion about whether there was significant slack in the economy or whether there wasnt and the latest decline may change the guidance as early as the october meeting. There may be changes in store. The considerable time language may still digress. They may be stretching wheniderable time unemploymen
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with grim news out of the middle east. The video surfaced within the last several hours purporting to show the beheading of another japanese hostage by one of his isis captors. The victim appears to be freelance war correspondent kenji goto. He would be the second japanese citizen to be killed by isis in just a week. In recent days his fate has been tied to that of a failed suicide bomber held by authorities in jordan. Jordan is where we begin tonight. Our bill neely is outside the Japanese Embassy in amman. Reporter good evening, lester. Two nations united in horror here tonight. Isis has already beheaded five American British and japanese hostages. Kenji goto appears to be the sixth. Another journalist another father another innocence in syrias war murdered it appears in cold blood. Dressed for a brutal death, kenji goto behind him a man with a knife and british acc
Causing flares and black smoke to rise from the stacks. Heres a live look at the site right now in philadelphia firefighters on the site. There is also a hazmat crew on the scene. Sunoco says theres fuel oil burning inside a processor and they say the flaring will subside when they can get the steam back to the site. Crews are still working to fix that problem. To a developing story now. A family of a missing local teacher is asking for the publics help to bring him home. Christopher tullly has been seen since tuesday. Just a short timing a his loved ones explaining why they believe that hes in danger. Brad satin is live in warwick township, bucks county where christopher tullly teaches. Brad . Reporter dawn, as you can imagine they are very worried about this 40yearold man. Were at the middle Bucks Institute of technology. Hes a teacher here as youre about to hear teacher of the year back in august here. He should have been back after the christmas break over the last few days but as