Good morning, annemarie. Here on wall street it is shaping up to be another bruising day. U. S. Stock futures hit a sixmonth low this morning. Wall street had its worst performance in 18 months thursday driven in part by a dramatic drop in the chinese stockmarket. A report found chinas factory activity fell at its fastest pace in more than six years. After the devaluation of the chinese currency, there is worry that the slowdown in chinese economy could slow downworld economic growth. Thursday all indicators were down, more than 2 . The dow lost 358 points, the s p fell 43 points. The nasdaq dropped 141 points. Asian stockmarkets tumbled following wall streets selloff. The shanghai composite lost 4 . Meanwhile greece is apparently headed for another national election. After rebelling in Parliament Prime minister Alexis Tsipras said hes stepping down and calling for early elections. Tsipras said he got the best bailout possible from eurozone countries. If he gets approval, elections wil
Uncontained across the west. The governor of washington calls it an unprecedented cataclysm. Danielle nottingham is on the fire lines. Danielle. Reporter charlie, heat and drought have combined to make this one of the worst worst fire seasons and here in Washington State, more than 330,000 acres have burned so far this year. All night and all day, huge flames tore across a fireweary Washington State as news spread about the three firefighters who lost their lives. This is really hard. Its not an easy thing at all. Reporter dan calvert is a baseball coach in twisp and knew one of the fallen firefighters overrun by flames. Nobodys going to be able to replace these kids. So reporter okanagan countys sheriff called it a hell storm with wind blowing in every direction. Residents of twisp and winthrop were ordered to evacuate. Lucinda mccalister is one of 1400 forced to flee. A plume went from one end all the way to the other other something that we havent seen ever. Reporter more than 10 fi
The governor of washington calls it an unprecedented cataclysm. Danielle nottingham is on the fire lines. Danielle. Reporter charlie, heat and drought have combined to make this one of the worst worst fire seasons and here in Washington State, more than 330,000 acres have burned so far this year. All night and all day, huge flames tore across a fireweary Washington State as news spread about the three firefighters who lost their lives. This is really hard. Its not an easy thing at all. Reporter dan calvert is a baseball coach in twisp and knew one of the fallen firefighters overrun by flames. Nobodys going to be able to replace these kids. So reporter okanagan countys sheriff called it a hell storm with wind blowing in every direction. Residents of twisp and winthrop were ordered to evacuate. Lucinda mccalister is one of 1400 forced to flee. A plume went from one end all the way to the other other something that we havent seen ever. Reporter more than 10 fires are burning in okanagan c
Today to halfstaff in honor of three firefighters who died yesterday in the battle against a wildfire in Washington State. More than 100 fires are burning uncontained across the west. The governor of washington calls it an unprecedented cataclysm. Danielle nottingham is on the fire lines. Danielle. Reporter charlie, heat and drought have combined to make this one of the worst fire seasons and here in Washington State, more than 330,000 acres have burned so far this year. All night and all day, huge flames tore across a fireweary Washington State as news spread about the three firefighters who lost their lives. This is really hard. Its not an easy thing at all. Reporter dan calvert is a baseball coach in twisp and knew one of the fallen firefighters overrun by flames. Nobodys going to be able to replace these kids. So reporter okanagan countys sheriff called it a hell storm with wind blowing in every direction. Residents of twisp and winthrop were ordered to evacuate. Lucinda mccalister