And im frank somerville. Church leaders dont think the city of berkeley is taking the attempted arson seriously enough. A neighbor saw the person set the fire on University Avenue. That neighbor rushed to put it out and says it was clearly intentional. New at 10 00, ktvus amber lee with what else we have learned about this attempted arson at the church. Reporter we are in the Church Parking lot. This is the backside of the building. You can see the damage to the wall. The pastor tells me he suspects the attack was racially motivated. Somebody was trying to burn the building down. Reporter the building is the way church on University Avenue in berkeley. Church leaders tell me they hung a black lives matter banner up front tuesday afternoon. Less than 12 hours later, around 12 30 wednesday morning, someone deliberately set a fire behind the church damaging the wall, the asphalt and two garbage cans. We are only trying to show love and solidarity and do the right thing. This is what we ha
Drizzle, slightly warmer for some, not for all. Santa rosa is at 55. They will bump up san jose will as well. San jose it was 78 degrees. It has been a hot stretch inland. Concord, livermore, every day they check in at 90 degrees. That is close average, but 90 is 90. Fairfield, 29, gusting to 33. They had 95 yesterday, it will be cooler today. Behind the four corners will build and for a few days and warm up, the pacific and the northwest will start to make a move, and will cool down. One day or two days we will warm up. It looks like another cooling trend. Today it is close to average for most locations. It is still quiet out there, or is there something on your screen that you want to get to . I would say it is quiet out there. We dont see a lot going on. That is just the way we like it. I like it to be nice and quiet in the early hours. Northbound 280 and the 101, those commutes into the west valley have continued to be nice and light. Also, a look into 880, traffic is moving along
Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the
Angle. Pursuing political prosecution against donald trump, real criminals are reeking havoc. Chicago, washington and new york, hardened criminals feel embolden, unstoppable. You are watching a vicious attack against phillip todd on northeast. He was stabbed in the head unprovoked, allegedly by a man released from prison a day prior. The video was just released. Democrats respond spend tens of millions to investigate one man, violent criminals are terrifying d. C. Residents. I thank god to survive, it raent easy. I cant believe, i keep looking at my hand, do like this, just troo to believe im alive. For some reason, god saved me. Laura hes an uber driver from iraq. Too many have not been saved, d. C. Murder rate is highest in two decades. Have we seen a change in permissive attitude policies, laws toward crime that frankly destroy what were so many once habitable and nice to live urban areas . None of that happened. We get meaningless platitude from bowser. We also know that we continu
reporting on what authorities now say happened at the robb elementary school. they re saying what they knew about survivors were still inside as they waited and waited and waited for orders to storm the classroom with an active shooter and wounded children still inside. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we are now less than two hours away from the first televised select hearing on january 6th. proceedings like this don t come along very often. the incident that sparked these particular hearings has never happened before in this country s history and we don t yet know what their impact will be. we do know that some of what we will see and hear and learn tonight and in sessions to come will be for the very first time. in a moment i ll talk to committee member adam schiff, but first, cnn s ryan nobles on the committee s work so far. it has been just over 17 months since rioters vio