to control the situation, kirschner largely banned the sale of dollars in 2011.ttempt to get this country's economy going the new president mauricio macri is doing what the previous president said was impossible to do. there is lots of uncertainly in the financial district because nobody knows what will be the consequences of liberalizing the exchange rate. this latest measure is very popular amongst the business sector who say that controls were hurting or jean's argentins productivity. government opponents say that macri is devaluing the currency by 30%. argentina's a inflation rate is around 30%. these people have been demanding a pension raise for years saying they are worried about more inflation. >> translator: we have been demanding a raise and we are already seeing prices go up. our fight is for a better pension, we can only afford half of what we need to exist. >> reporter: since macri announced his plan to his lift currency controls, prices, which are already soaring, have started going up. the price of beef has increased 30%. but economists say that ma

doug luzad eric kirschner r has more on the surprising numbers coming out of south carolina. >> reporter: iowa, new hampshire and then south carolina, which plays a critical role that's where we conducted our latest polls. the issues most important to likely primary voters play into a lot of trump's fashionly perceived strengths, including the national economy, -- >> if may be no surprise he rolled out his temporary "no muslims allowed" policy in south carolina. a new fox poll of likely republican voters shows trump is running strong in south carolina at 35%. a 20-point lead over his closest rivals. last night, he was standing firm behind his comments >> we have a president that doesn't have a clue. he doesn't know what is going on. all i'm doing is bringing a situation to the forefront that everybody is talking about and no one wants to do anything about it. >> reporter: half of the poll was recorded before his comment, and it shows his numbers have gone up. trump is seen as the best candidate, by far to defeat hillary clinton. all of this may fuel concerns that trump has enough strengt

it also helped finance christina kirschner's social welfare programs for the poor but marci says openingctor will bring in more ref knee. >>> brazilian police have broke end up a fraud ring that ranged fake brazilian citizenship for syrians fleeing the war. 72 syrians have been identified four people face fraught and belonging to a criminal organization. several that traveled using those passports are allegedly former members of the syrian armed forces. >>> the par. i want upped are resulted with tear gas, op sips law maybe, are against an agreement given more all tonighautonomy. >>> chile is asking for international help to investigate one of the largest whale strandings in history. more than 300 dead animals were found on the country's pacific coast between april and june, lucia newman reports in southern chile. >> reporter: this is the straight of magellan where normally at this time of year you can see wales swim to go their feeding grounds on the tip of south america. stunned, earlier this year, scientists discovered a mass graveyard. first 30 dead wails and then another 307 in remo

for now, we're live in contra costa county, elias kirschner. >>> we want to show you a live picture of downtown san francisco and the bay bridge. you can see clouds hovering over the city. let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we should hang on because this storm is sticking around. >> i do want to point out, it's not going to be one major storm system for tomorrow. we're looking at a series of different storms coming our way. the first one arriving on thursday and the second stronger storm by sunday evening. we'll be spaced out in between these wet weather systems. that's why we do not think we'll have any major river flooding. as we look right now, the warm front is moving in. that's why we have drizzle across san francisco and portion fts north bay. be careful on the golden gate bridge and the bridge tonight. the thing that will increase our chances of rainfall is the cold front offshore. here's the timeline on the rain. most important part of the storm. the heaviest will move in at 9:00 tonight. the heaviest to the north. as we head through tomorrow morning, 4:00 a.m., e