Found himself swept up in another violent conflict. Thanks for joining us on al jazeera america. Im thomas drayton. , a botched camp fire morphed into a massive wildfire. San gabriel mountains, causing evacuations in nearby city of glenglendora. Police say they have the culprits who may have started that fire. Al jazeeras jennifer london is in glendora with more. What started as an Early Morning camp fire quickly spread to a wildfire out of control. Within hours the wildfire burned 1700 acres and caused evacuations of 5,000 people. The colby fire as it is called, 600 to 700 firefighters are trying to increase that containment level. Firefighters do say as night fell they began to get the upper hand and were able to stop the Forward Movement of the flames. The hope is that the wind does not come up overnight, to bridge the fire lines that workers worked all day to establish. Three people have been charged with recognizelessly starting th it was fired in the Early Morning hours. While th
Good friday morning, everybody. Im Brian Shactman. We have new details on that growing and out of control wildfire near los angeles. Flames are burning just miles from the famed hollywood sign. We can tell you three men are now in custody for starting the blaze. We have two reports this morning, beginning with nbcs Miguel Almaguer in the fire zone. Reporter explosive and out of control. The socalled kobe fire sweeping down through tinder dry canyons toward neighborhoods with Million Dollar homes. It is really spreading very, very quickly. Reporter with fire hopscotching through neighborhoods, palm trees turned to blow torches. The days sky, a dark eerie glow as ash rained across the region, closing schools and clogging freeways. The terrain here couldnt be more difficult for firefighters to battle. The san gabriel mountains, feeding this blaze, literally drops into the backyard of hundreds of homes. Firefighters were ready, strike teams were in position before the blaze because conditi
Stress test on march 20th. That is breaking news were getting right now. Well hear more from banks on the stress tests on march 20th. That is the past doddfrank. Lets get more from the pits of cme. Andrew, do you think well have any surprises there. Absolutely not. One thing i keep an eye on cboe volatility index, known as the vix. The fear gauge saying there is not much fear in the market. There is always we have some concern. The fact of the matter the stock market wants to go one direction and that is higher. Im very close to selling a lot of positions but iicontinue to be long and continue to make money. Doddfrank, stress stress, were think that will do anything. I will watch activity in the bank stocks before that. Weve seen a lot of call activity in dfs, discover financial, in march. I dont think it will matter. The stock market continues higher. Andrew, more breaking news on bottom of your screen. Three fed Bank President s voted to increase the discount rate in january. Does th
Friday, january 17th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im carson daly alongside al roker, Natalie Morales. Matt has the morning off. You have a problem with the new 50 . I think 60 is the new 50. Im glad we have something to look forward to. Its far off in the distance. Oh. Very far. Coming for you. Before we know it. Well, lets get right to our top story this morning, the dangerous wildfire in california thats damaged or destroyed two dozen buildings and forced some 3,700 people to evacuate. This morning, nearly 700 firefighters are working to contain those flames. Lets get to nbcs miguel almaguer, who is in irwindale, east of los angeles. Miguel, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning. Fire season here in Southern California is year round, but a blaze in the middle of january this size is u
Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday, january 17th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning firefighters battling a dangerous wildfire east of los angeles are making progress. The fire destroyed five homes and forced nearly 4,000 people to evacuate. Red flag warnings will remain in effect until later today, but for now the santa ana winds that pushed the flames early yesterday has subsided. The fire is 30 contained this morning. Its one of several burning in the state which is suffering through a severe drought. Teri okita is at the Fire Command Center in irwindale early this morning. Good morning, teri. Reporter good morning, annemarie. I spoke with the fire inspector. He says things have burned down quite a bit which is good news, however, theyre still monitoring closely the worrisome unpredictable santa ana winds this morning. High winds whipping through the San Gabriel Mountains burning 30