Holiday weekend, the controversial movie earning 18 million with the bulk of it coming from digital downloads. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange. Bringing you Business News from around the globe. Now the Vice President of indonesia has been giving a briefing in the last few minutes related to the missing airasia jet. He said that earlier reports that came about two hours ago of an australian plane sighting debris. The Vice President of indonesia says they cannot confirm whether it was spotted in the search zone for the missing jet. The search is not easy with the bad weather that is present currently at sea and fishermen have been asked to participate in the search for the jet. Well go out to martin who is live at singapores airport with the latest. Martin . Reporter hello, folks. The Vice President of indonesia was speaking on television as we speak saying the search has been widened and hes trying to get indonesian fishermen to get involved in the search. The first point you raised t
In the wake of the recession, people have been paying down, off credit cards. The gas price helps people looking forward to say, im going to be able to have enough money to pay down this credit card usage im doing over this holiday. The economy is up. Money is down this year, but since i found a lot of sales, i can save more at the last minute. Reporter a leader in measuring the Digital World said there has been a 15 increase in spending over last year. To think, we still havent unwrapped gift cards. Nick smith, abc 7 news. Its proving to be a good season for wall street. Trading ended up today. Traders were encouraged by the latest positive news on the economy. The dow closed up six points. The nasdaq gained eight. The s p 500 was flat at 2,081. Markets will reopen friday. Foggy and soggy out there for a time. You can see how quickly the clouds rolled through covering San Francisco. Then came the rain. Hold on to the umbrellas. And the wind, most areas saw brief showers with strong, g
Ahead with frost expected overnight. A dry pattern into the new year no more rain on the for try done on the horizon. We will look at traffic now a beautiful drive there. If you are making it cross the san mateo bridge from hayward to foster city, you will not see any delays. Same in walnut creek at 680, hardly anyone on the roads. Be careful if you are headed to the loved ones for Christmas Day celebrations, drive safely. Police will be out in first to make sure we all obey traffic laws this holiday season. In drinking and driving. We will check back in a if you minutes. We have breaking news overnight from oakland where one person is recovering from leg injuries after jumping out a window they escape a house fire. The fire broke out the before 12 30 on 56th street. When firefighters arrived both floors were fully engulfed. Crews kept the flames from spreading to nearby homes. It was impinging on the right side and our units separated it with it. It took firefighters 25 minutes to put
Reporter he specializes in foodborne illness cases. He wants to determine if the apples were tested for listeria and warns that symptoms of listeria infection can take up to 70 days to surface. If they are showing any symptoms whatsoever, if they are nauseous, if they are vomiting, if they are having diarrhea, if they are having headaches, they need to seek proper medical attention. Reporter david louie, abc 7 news. A demonstration is scheduled to get under way in berkeley to protest the Police Shootings of unarmed black suspects. Here is a live look from sky 7 hd. You can see a few people are starting to gather there. The demonstrators want the Police Held Accountable in the deaths of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri and eric garner in new york. A third black man was killed last night by police in berkeley, missouri, a suburb of st. Louis. He was armed with a gun. The heads of the San Francisco oakland and San Jose Police unions worry that all of the protests in the bay area are th
Dozens of north bay families are spending Christmas Eve in the dark. Thats after high winds toppled trees in marin county. One of which took down power lines. Good evening and happy holidays. It wasnt just marin county. Windy weather took down trees across the bay area today. In san franciscos Castro District this tree fell at sanchez and market streets blocking the sidewalk. It missed a parked car by inches, but at least no one was hurt. No one was hurt on Mountain View near highway 237 blocking the bike lane and one lane of traffic. Lets go to marin county where one downed tree is causing two big problems. Alan wang is live in san rafael. Alan . Katie, at last check 57 customers were out of power along lucas valley road. The windy gusts were replaced by cooler temperatures. Earlier today they caused a lot of problems. Tree cuter louis mendez was one hour away from christmas with his family when he got the call for a downed tree on lucas valley road. My kids are still waiting for me.