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the dow jones industrial average plummeting 530 points, or 3%. that s a 1,000 point loss for the week. and it happened against the backdrop of what indications show to be an improving u.s. economy. helping us make sense of it and what it could mean to your boom line, here s nbc s tom costello. reporter: on wall street today a rout, capping off a month of pain with americans pensions and 401(k)s in a sea of red. the dow jones industrial average having its worst day in four years today, dropping 528 points. this is the worst week for the dow since 2011. reporter: the dow, s&p, and nasdaq all in a nose dive. the dow has now slid 10% from its all-time high. e biggest reason for the sell-off is a world away from america s main streets. the chinese economy is slowing fast, and we live in an interconnected global economy. how bad is china? it s worse than you think. whatever you might think, it s worse. reporter: last week china devalued its currency to make its e ....
well, good friday morning to you. i m reena ninan. i m phillip mena. we begin with those three fallen firefighters identified killed wednesday battling a wildfire in washington state. they were part of an elite group that scouts wildfires ahead of the arrival of larger groups of their colleagues. as the fight against the blaze that took their lives continues they re being honored as heroes. this morning, a somber procession, more than a dozen fire and police vehicles escorting the bodies of three firefighters, 20-year-old some zbyszewski, 26-year-old andrew zajac and 31-year-old richard wheeler dying on the front lines. all killed when their vehicle crashed overtaken by flames in twisp, washington. it hurts deep. but the job goes on. reporter: another firefighter. 25-year-old daniel lyon suffering critical burns. this was his first season as a firefighter. he s the kind of kid that his mother and i and family are so proud of. lyon was flown to a hospital in ....
setting up here. it will be in place for the next seven days. a look at your drive time forecast at 6:11. melissa, chopper 4 up over the beltway. up over the top of the beltway. right there at university boulevard you can see the inner and outer loop, moving fine for us. don t have any real volume at least at this point to complain about like we like to do. inner and outer loop, rest looks good. 66, 95 into and out of town, looking good as well. 270 at old hundred road, with etimcally we typically see volume at this point, but it looks good. travel times in ten minutes. see you then. 6:01. some major track work happening on metro this weekend. four stations are set to close tonight. news4 s zachary kiesch live with what we need to know. zachary? reporter: yes, good morning, aaron. the closure will start at 12:01 saturday. stay that way through metro closing on sunday. so if you re out late tonight you could be impacted. buses are going to replace trains betwee ....
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it was not an experiment. this was a saturday night. about 7:00. there was nobody else around. he brought materials to produce this meth. reporter: bartley quit his job at nist one day after the explosion and expects to go to prison, his attorney says. he certainly realizes that is a likely scenario that could occur. reporter: prosecutors say bartley could face five or six years in prison. his sentencing is scheduled for late november in the same courthouse. new at 6:00 tonight, the e-mail chris bartley wrote his boss hours after the explosion. wendy? scott mcfar land. two dozen people facing charges in connection with a major drug trafficking bust on maryland s eastern shore. police say they are in the process of dismantling an organization that they think distributed heroin and other drugs throughout the region. over the past month, they have recovered large amounts of heroin, marijuana, cocaine and molly. they also say they found 50 guns and that includes ....