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
Of their short for what they need. Never want to be rushing into the start of the school year unfortunately this is likely to be the new normal lot just here but for districts throughout california and across the country. Reporter shortage of 30 teachers may be a lot its an improvement for with the head last week. Ticker foot of the gas we will strive to make sure we have those vacancies filled by monday a. That is not the case we will continue with the school board hiring and we wont rest until we get a fulltime teacher in every classroom. Reporter district still says there will be credentialed teachers and all classrooms. Some neat cases will take and ministers who have teaching credentials and put them in the classroom as a stopgap. That will be small and it certainly much less than anticipated it will be only a week ago. Reporter some classrooms in may and please correct class size as well. If they do they will have an extra person in the roost for the teacher student ratio remains
Live tonight with the detailsjeff. Reporter in just before 3 00 here the Railroad Tracks by a war would erode. The truck parked on the tracks for some reason an amtrak train heading from bakersfield and oakland so. And in symmetrical launched it several hundred feet into the waterway. The middle river the driver of that vehicle ejected and the truckle landed on a woman floating in a raft and river. Video piquancy his horrible scene truck main goal on its side floating in the set the river helicopters came in and rescued two people critically injured, taken to John Muir Medical Center in walnut creek. The Trauma Center there there are listening critical conditions by before the rot lives tonight a horrible tragic scene. We do not know why that driver was parked on the railroad track. Again amtrak train the truck went flying all ended on a woman floating in a raft. Grant adhere to show you where this was in the delta of. The train heading west you near or wood road heading toward oakland
You can see the damaged, mangled truck and the yellow raft the woman was floating on in the middle of your screen. Both the driver and the woman were badly hurt and had to be airlifted by helicopter and taken to the Trauma Center at the John Muir Medical Center in walnut creek. The train was sitting on the tracks for hours while officials conducted their investigation. There is a no tresspassing sign near the tracks warning drivers not to stop on the tracks. None of the people on the train were injuredas we said, the two people who were taken to the John Muir Medical Center are listed in Critical Condition and are fighting for their lives. Im jeff bush, in brentwood, kron four news. Pam heres a map to show you where this was in the delta. The train was headed west. To oakland. The truck and jetskis were on orwood road. This is east of brentwood and just north of discovery bay. The truck ended up in the middle river. No word why the truck was on the tracks. New details tonight. A penins
Firefighters are used to it is to be on those five arent extended the latter shooting water down to the building in the process it was so hot but did write to the video. Will tran 1145 last night it was so intense that while there were fighting of the roof collapsed fortunately they realize that this was a huge fire dangerous warehouse Metal Company no one was inside at the time we just learned that this would not a place where they pour hot metal pins that they bring recycling material here they can add up a back could be one possibility the machine that they use could have started this fire. Will tran it is too early intimidated to allow investigators to coincide at this point reduction to talk to a battalion chief of of an earlier film he had to say about the challenges of fighting this fire. some of the things that weve dealt with this fire was created a challenge was as the structure collapsed the size of this building it through quite a few members in the air will start about 15