Assignment. Investors in china are not getting a break tonight. The index is getting hammered, so far the Shanghai Exchange is off another 4. 5 , but hong kong is up about 1 , and japans nikkei is up is , back here the dow dropped more than a thousand point news the first few minutes of trading and regained in the next couple of hours, in the end, the worst day, down almost 600 points, nbcs david louis said an email from apple came through. Ceo tim cook sent out an email with good news. He told a financial reporter that sales in china because of economy were strong in july and august. That word had an immediate impact. First place it stabilized his stock in the first hour of trading. And that tended to knock about 700 points off the dows loss, at least for a while. By the close, apple business stock was down, 69yearold sarah ward is resetting her retirement goal. Im at the age where im getting close to wanting to retire but with it going down like that, i dont have many more years to c
Live, from the cbs bay area studios. This is kpix5 news. Homes detroyed, roads ripped up. More than 100 people hurt. The bay area is rocked bite biggest earthquake in 25 years. Good evening, im alan martin. Im elizabeth cook, live in downtown napa tonight. The area hardest hit by the quake. So much damage tonight some of wine country sraoe is is under a state of emergency. This is just a taste of what happened here. You can see the whole side of this building, it was brick t it came crumbling down, crushing the car, down the street, just about a block. Trees were up rooted. Breaking glass, chunks of concrete fell on to the ground. The 6. 0 quake struck at 3 20 this morning, just west of American Canyon and people across the bay area felt it even up in the sierra. At least one75 people were hurt. One of them is still in critical condition. A 13yearold napa boy was taken to uc davis. In serious condition after a chimney fell on him. Some of the victims did not even know what hit them. Th
Already or the earthquake woke me up. It was pretty crazy stuff. There are still some damaged structured around downtown napa so theyre telling foxes to stay away. Some streets folks to stay away. This is between pearl and main and areas of first, second, and 3rd, closed between jefferson and softbol. A lot of those are keeping foxes and media and media crews because of some damaged roads. Some damage was minor, but the damage on highway 121, all those areas have been temporarily repaired. It should be okay for the monday morning commute. Also Amtrak Service including capital corridor, everything on track for bart, cal trans. Some of that overnight road work is there blocking some lanes approaching downtown. The road work was cleared a while ago in san leandro but hopefully it will be cleared pretty shortly. It was closed broadway into downtown oakland. The drive time is about 15 minutes between 238 and the maze. It was scheduled to wrap up about 5 00 so hopefully theyll reopen lanes s
Since the loma prieta earthquake. It caused fires and caused aftershocks. One person remains in Critical Condition. 7,300 people are still without power and hundreds more are without water. And heres a map now to show you the exact location of the earthquake. The u. S. Geological survey says the epicenter was five miles northwest ofamerican canyon but the quake was felt from lake tahoe to mendecino and south to monterey county. Between 90 and 100 buildings have been red tagged on meyer island the so called officers row was completely red tagged because of falling chimneys there. Many apartments were trashed, food on the floor, furniture tipped over. Dishes and glasses shattered. And cracks are clearly evident in the walls. Michelle kidwell says she wont spend the night inside. My place dont look as bad as some of the others, so i dont know. They have to come in and see. We have some structure cracks inside. Reporter napa Officials Say while some of the buildings that have been deemed u
September is National Preparedness Month, and Callaway County Emergency Management emphasizes the importance of preparing for an emergency or disaster.