He also gave a timeline of yesterdays deadly accident. Of the information we know so far, that the helicopter departed with the pilot and one passenger from Westchester County yesterday about 11 30 a. M. It landed in manhattan about 11 45 a. M. The passenger disembarked, the pilot waited at the 34th street helipad until about 1 30 when he departed for his destination in new jersey. The helicopter crashed on the roof about 1 40 p. M. Mark the pilot was the sole occupant of the helicopter and was killed when it hit the roof of 787 7th avenue in fog and rain. Investigations top concerns will be to determine why the pilot was flying in low visibility conditions. Even though the Supreme Court has yet to decide whether a Citizenship Question should be included index years census questionnaire, the u. S. Census bureau is preparing for either outcome. Bureau officials said today they are beginning a test to see how people respond to the questionnaire, depending on whether the Citizenship Quest
Israeli startups. A look at the Ripple Effect on the tech industry. Moments ago, a major deal was made. We have the latest on a tentative deal struck between Kaiser Permanente and labor unions. San Francisco Police officers are investigating a smash and grab at the dior store near union square. They say thieves smashed a car through the front door yesterda morning and then rob the place. This is video of the scene posted on citizen app. Police say after the robbery, the suspects took off into several other vehicles. Officers manage to chase one suspect vehicle t a nearby freeway on ramp where it crashed and two people were taken into custody. They are still looking for the other suspect. And alameda county, distric attorney pamela price announced a new plan to tackle organized retail theft. Police say she ha heard the communitys frustrations and that her offic has not done enough to address rampant breakins. In oakland and across alameda county, the das office was recently awarde 2 mil
Drama in the Health Care Sector today. That group was the worst performing sector in the s p 500 on growing uncertainty over the republicanled health care bill, as senate gop leaders were looking to nail down final votes on their effort to repeal the Affordable Care act. Unitedhealth was a big drag on the blue chip dow index as a result today. But then just after midday came that statement from senator john mccain that he would vote no on the measure. That followed reports that fellow republican senator Susan Collins is leaning against the bill. And with the chance of passage declining, stocks moved. Health insurers including unitedhealth pared some of their losses and finished mixed. Hospital stocks got a lift by the end of the day. And the Dow Jones Industrial average lost just nine points, well off lows of the session, closing at 22,349. Nasdaq added four. The s p was up one today. And then theres apple. It had a rough day, capping off a rough week, its worst in the last year. The l
This happened at the highend stanford shopping center. New at 11 00, nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney joins us from palo alto. Anyone hurt . Reporter nobody hurt. Fortunately. Some. Im spoke to tonight are shaken up that this could happen here at the stanford shopping center. A place where this kind of thing isnt supposed to happen. Thats not good. I mean, this is such a safe neighborhood. Ive never really heard of anything like that happening. Reporter but Palo Alto Police say it did happen about noon here yesterday on El Camino Real Near University avenue. A driver notice the he was being closely followed by a man driving erratically in a Nissan Maxima. As the two cars entered the stanford shopping center, the first driver saw the man in the nissan waving a handgun. This area, its a little surprising. El caminos not necessarily like you go down a little farther that way and youre in kind of worse parts of redwood city. The nissan driver cut off the other car, got out of his car without
Fail and if it is, should you leave your money there or not . S theres a big discussion, sue, about whether some of the big Asset Managers are systemically important, ie, too big to fail. Indeed. Thats been a discussion recently, ty. Well talk about that. We also are talking ate the nasdaq, pushing higher today, but its had a few lack laster days recently. So questions are being raised about whether the tech heavy index is setting up for a bigger pullback. The nasdaq is, however, still up 36 in a year and thats nothing to shake a stick at. And since that march 2009 bottom the index is up 210 . So should we cue the bear video . Perhaps. Because its cold. We picked polar bears today. Arent they cute . A number of stocks at the nasdaq already in bear market territory. What does that mean for all the other stocks there . Sheila dharmarajan is bear hunting at the nasdaq. Hey, sheila. Hey there, sue. The nasdaq is staging a little rally today, but when it comes to the tech heavy index trader