out of right now, hurricane irene is leaving the new york/new jersey area.s going to continue to move up the cost in new england. our local state and federal partners and other mid-atlantic states remain focused on search and rescue. power out we're working with our partners to make sure they are getting the power up and running as soon as it can be. no matter where you are this morning from north carolina to main, we encourage you to stay off the roads as much as possible, so that we can keep them clear for first responders and vehicles who are working on power restoration. we urge you to visit ready.gov for tips on how to stay safe after the storm. by taking a few simple steps, you can improve your level of safety. i did want to take a minute. unfortunately we have seen some loss of life, but by and large, with you evacuation we have dramically decreased the risk to life, and we want to thank the public for helping us achieve that got, as you've been saying, this face is in three phases. we're now in the second phase. that is the initial part of the respon

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news corp is the parent company of fox news. >> franch rich works in new york magazine and then they that piers morgan now working strange enough to cnn might be the next to called to testify just like murdoch said yesterday. if it is a wideping issue. it is every newspaper in britain are under strutiny . this is the culture. it is piers morgan who listened in on a proist phone message that paul mccartney lined to it . played in the news room of the daily mirror. that is getting lost in all of this. they are talking about this and denying he had ordered or condoned it. we have an investigation of two issues and how fair did it spread in britain and whether at all it spread in the united states. >> there is no proof it has . i am glad frank rich made up his mind. i will wait and see what the investigation shows. >> i think it is an open question. he made an assumption and assume you know but we need more information. tabloid culture . we have tabloid said like the post in the united states. it does not stop at the water's edge. regardless of the tabloid. that statement from frank rich

ron allen, nbc news, new york. >>> when nightly news continues on this saturday evening, after a week of flat-out depressing economic news, a bright spot in an unlikely place. >>> later, for some the single life can be kind of rough. but the dating game got a bit easier. >>> we're back now with a focus on economy after a roller coaster week on wall street and continued grim news about jobs and consumer confidence. any good news about the economy can be awfully hard to find. but tonight, our own reporter may have found just that in an unlikely place. >> reporter: wall street this week, unprecedented volatility. >> ugly day for stock prices today. >> the losses are severe. >> the market is holding on to a powerful rally. up 560 points. >> following a credit rating downgrade. >> they don't have a grip on what's going on. >> right now, i'm pretty scared. >> amidst the uncertainty, a glimmer of hope. this week, news that the pain at the pump is finally easing. >> gas prices coming down. >> very good news. >> in the past week, gas prices have dropped about ten cents to $3.60 a gallon down f

new site. i'm interested in with the challenges will be, but i'm much more interested in what the opportunities will be. if we keep saying in our own spaces and not asking how we work together, there will be a problem. work together, there will be a problem.

new site. i'm interested in with the challenges will be, but i'm much more interested in what the opportunities will be. if we keep saying in our own spaces and not asking how we work together, there will be a problem. right now, we have the opportunity to come to the table and ask how we work together. in another two or three years, i did not think we will have that opportunity. >> how do you deal with those challenges in the mandarin and cantonese communities? then i can anthony just respond to that? he wanted to respond to that. >> more like build on what was being said, which was that actually, what we decided to build for local at yahoo! was an open platform. that is why oakland local is a partner of ours. we realized that it is not in our interests to hire somebody in every neighborhood. what we said was why don't we build a platform on which the myriad of local content providers that have begun to spring up can ride, and the key here is that they are looking for distribution. even patch

>> we broadcast news on a seven- day basis. one hour of cantonese news and one hour of mandated -- one hour of mandarin is. challenges are daunting and hard to overcome here in the past, we were protected by our own language. we are the only game in town. but once you are online, that advantage will go away very quickly because those people will go on line -- everybody is your competitor. even if you have your language, there are hundreds of thousands of chinese websites. how do you overcome that? there is no silver bullet. for me, i think the right thing to do is really build up your community. you empower your community. the part of your community, and people -- it is not the you have a story that only i reported it, which is great, but it is not going to happen every day. so what do you give your audience for your readers to keep them coming back to your site or tv station to try to find the news they want? it is really up to how you feel your community -- how you connect and go into your community, make your voice known, ma

and that's good news. i still think because of the size of this storm that that flooding potential in downtown new york, in manhattan, in parts of hoboken and even toward rockaway beach and long beach in new york still there as those waves will be pushing, those winds will be pushing water up against that shore for a very long time. here's what's happened to the storm and what happened earlier today and also during the day yesterday is the turn happened. and during that turn, there was enough wind shear that was pushing the storm from a different direction that the storm didn't like it very much and the storm really disintegrated for awhile. it was very low pressure. it was extremely low pressure. in fact, right now the pressure is low enough to make a category 3 hurricane. it's just not organized enough to get those category 3 winds. we could wake up tomorrow morning -- one of the things the hurricane center will tell you is that the forecast for hurricane wind speed is harder, much harder than hurricane

the new york city subway system? >> we don't know for sure if it's actually coming and if it's going to hit us that hard. so you know, you are putting the city in a panic. >> new york yellow cabs will still run, special rates for groups and passengers will be allowed to carry pets. the city is also closing its bridges in case of powerful winds. >>> there's also a mad rush for supplies. look at this photo. you can see it there is nothing left on those shelves. everything from mom and pop grocery stores to department stores, reporting selling out of hurricane supplies such as batteries, flashlights and water. residents grabbing anything they can find, preparing for the worst. >>> irene may be hitting the east coast but the hurricane is also making life tough for travelers here in the bay area. thousands of people hoping to fly back east are now stuck. ali rasmus is live with the flight cancellations. ali. >> reporter: john, all three new york area airports are shutting down operations at 9:00. we're talking about jfk,

and it will pass over new york sunday, continuing into new england, still as a tropical system couldd damage, flooding and property damage. we'll keep watching the storm. it's showing signs of weakening and could be a devastating storm depending on writ hits. >> thank you, spencer. and the one-year anniversary of the san bruno pipeline explosion two weeks ago, pg&e released a plan designed to shore up thousands of miles of buried gas pipelines in california. and we're wlif a look inside of the report. heather? >> well this, is because in june, cpuc ordered all state and natural gas line operators to come up with plans to test or replace pipeline without records of pressure test. today, pg&e filed plans. this line that exploded here was install brd a 1970 law requiring regular strength tests. if any were done, records cannot be found now. and it turns out pg&e records about what kind of pipe it had underground here were inaccurate. it plans to verify up and grade all of the nearly 6,000 miles of gas lines to meet new state standards. including testing all pipes, replacing segments nec

complex in long branch, new jersey. the only good news, no reported injuries thus far. though fire crews in the area have responded to a few fires in the area overnight. fortunately they were able to put them out. let's update the latest watches and warnings from nbc meteorologist jeff ranieri. what do you think people should be on the lookout for as the storm moves north? is it winds, is it rains, is it flooding or all three? a trifecta? >> it is all three, but it depends where you are. if you're in new england, massachusetts, connecticut or interior sections of new york, it is all about the rain. no doubt about that. but for new jersey and long island, we're talking about the wind and the storm surge. if you decided to stay along the coastline it's been reported four to six feet of storm surge. and as we get into the high tide coming at about 8:00 for most of long island and new jersey that's when things could definitely get a little bit worse. but we do have a little bit of some good news at least on the storm front.

is not heretical book in a new lead. nobody's seen the people nobody cares about this really for you. the capital tripoli is enough for. the of people may not know for sure what the future will bring but they know that the past will never return. everything that might remind people of all decades of dictatorship is the other throne this is only for directed things no only for to get things these fighting has continued since rebel forces and to tripoli during the week and much of the city bears the scars a war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato new evidence of the bloodshed emerged when hundreds of bodies were found in a hospital abandoned by softly in the arrival of rebel forces with no one clear control and many residents now live in fear of anarchy and of armed men from both sides of the conflict. the basement proudly shows as a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct his residence bubble is asea when we entered we saw many weapons and. there's no gadhafi anymore the that the man says he

that's also true, according to the new cbs news/"new york times" poll. the president's approval rating is holding steady at 48%, but congress' has sunk to an abysmal 14%. its disapproval soaring to 82% the highest in decades. donna martin, unemployed for two and a half years, says congress isn't living in the real world. what is real world like? >> my goodness. it's tough. you know. kind of-- trying to find a job. >> reporter: robert drake has been out of work for nine months after a 40-year career. when you think of congress what words come to mind? >> politics. i mean, that's all it is. i mean, you've got-- you've got three entities sitting up there trying to win. you've got the democrats, the republicans and the tea party republicans. and i don't think any of them are thinking about jobs. >> reporter: the tea party fares poorly in the poll, unfavorable views up 11 point a new high of 40%. at second solution, a small rich richmond company that recycles electronic equipment, the owner said he wanted more compromise in the debt deal, even if it meant hig

. >> on fox news watch. >> g.o.p. presidential candidate rick perry speaks his mind about our sinking economy and gets hammered by the mainstream media, horrifying according to new york times reporter. why the liberal press attacks conservative politicians with their own words. >> that big black cloud that hangs over america, that dead. >> ed schultz uses creative editing to label perry and we did not show the full context and we should have. >> i need you to your congressmen, your representative that we're tired of the games. >> president obama takes a road trip in the the souped up mega million dollar bus, and was the mainstream media afford for the ride and the spin. >> keith olbermann's new home, current tv. given msn and cnn a run for their money. what is current tv? david letterman is on the hit list. >> and judy miller, national review editor, rich lawrie and and jim pinningerton, and daily beast newspaper kirsten powers. i'm in for jon scott. fox news watch starts right now. >> i think there's an element of ra

there are big population centers in the storm away, new york, new jersey on up into new england. places in particular that are not used to this sort of thing. so how worried are you about their ability to cope? >> well, you know, let's take new york city. this is a home community that has been through the terrorist attacks but we've also been doinging a lot of planning up there, with the mayor's team and the state team about hurricanes. and so a lot of people may not realize this but city of new york has been doing a lot of preparation and planning for hurricanes. and now they're implementing those plans. so while they have not had a lot of hurricanes they've been really working hard to get ready for one. >> let me ask you finally and briefly about another big concern is the power grid. the outages that are expected. how does that work. is that all left to the power companies or is there a coordination among them and state and federal agencies? >> we work together and our lead agency for that here at the federal level is the department of energy which leads our emergency energy g

then there's marco rubio, the brand-new tea party shiny new thing senator from florida. in a year when the republican party's seemingly murderous intentions toward medicare might be their biggest political liability, mr. rubio just saddled himself with a big ugly flip flop on medicare. a statement he made about how important medicare was to him. how medicare saved his father's life. how medicare was very important to his family. and how we need medicare in america. >> america needs medicare. >> the very next speech that marco rubio gave that got lots of national attention was this week at the reagan library. and in that speech, he described programs like social security and medicare as moral sops that weaken as a people. >> these programs weakened us as a people. >> his political skills maybe not proving to be all that skillful. what would he run as, the guy who says medicare saved his father and family but it's also turned you weak and helpless? so who else is in the top tier of the vice presidential sweepstakes? bob mcdonald of virginia is there. the great milk toast h

asks for sea board as it slams into new york very high winds. coming to you live from moscow this is r t with the day's news and the week's top stories and we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute no to war market often is reported suggestion to sit down for talks all the national transitional council says all the colonel deserves is a rest not dialogue artie's many a financial house spoken to the rebels and has more from tripoli. we have been able to speak to the rebels information minister here in tripoli and he's made his position quite clear the rebels will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killers they want to get our fee and they're running after him street after street they strict after district and as soon as they catch him they will throw him to jail this statement comes after the news solution use of the feed that. gadhafi has information chief has apparently called a peace headquarters and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the rabble to form a transitional government and hi

on to some other international news in brief for you now. in syria two more protesters have reportedly been killed by security forces with activists saying there was sporadic shooting in separate cities it comes as it's close ally iran has reaffirmed its support for president assad but said he should answer the legitimate demands of his people the arab league has decided to send a mission to the country saying it will no longer be silent on the crackdown against protesters over two thousand people have been killed since anti-government demonstrations that began in march. at least five people have died in brazil after a triumphant popular with tourists the railed in rio de janeiro more than thirty others were injured some of them critically after coming off the tracks the tram skidded down a street before crashing into a lamp post investigators are trying to find what caused the accident it's comes two months after a french tourists died falling out of one of the trams as it was crossing a bridge. that as well as president hugo chavez has ann

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more good news.lights out of philadelphia and washington have also started up again. >>> now that the worst of what's currently tropical storm irene has passed over the new york area, the evacuation order lifted and some city bus, back on it's streets. cnn is live in new york by the hudson river with more on how things are improving. carmen? >> reporter: hey there, martin and randi. here's 9 thing. they're trying to get things up and running but it takes time. this is a very big system. some buss in new york city are running right now. still no subways running in new york city at all. a lot of this has to do with the flooding we saw earlier today. you know, i'm down at battery park. you see the winds still blowing. water, very rough beheeind me. an extra high tide. with that storm surge the water basically came up to where i'm standing. not much of damage here. 's in other parts of the city significant damage and flooding. i want to show you video from one of our cnn ireporters here. this is video of

today, some reassuring news. first, we heard of a meeting between french president sarkozy and the chancellor of germany next tuesday. maybe they'll come up with a new bailout package to help some of those e oubled countries there. today, also the european regulators insnstuted a ban on short-selling financial stocks in europe. that means you can't bet against them for 15 days. and we had some good news here at home. fewer r ople than expected filed for unemployment claims. >> you think the trampling is over for tomorrow? >> i wouldn't bet on it. i think we'll be here once again tomorrow night. we have some other news comingng out. retail sales, consumer confidence. i think we can expect to see that number go down. when a market is this volatile, a lot of people don't likekeo go into a weekeke long the market. >> so don't unfasten the seat belt yet. >> not yet. >> thank you, bianna. >>> also overseas tonight, 16,000 police have flooded the streets of london again after finally restoring order after those four nig

live for us in paterson, new jersey, how about good news out of paterson. >> the good news, chuck, is the river is starting to recede, but the flood that won't quit won't quit soon enough. take a look, still showing, you get a bit of a perspective with that vacant building there of just how high the water went right here, just about a block away from main street here in paterson, it's also covered roads and bridges cutting off neighborhoods. we've had evacuations in the area in the last 24 hours, just a little bit of what janet napolitano as well as craig fugate will see. earlier they were in new york surveying the damage there along with the governor, and this afternoon, when they come to new jersey, we're expected to hear exactly what they saw in these devastated areas, chuck, town after town and counties and states here that have been dealing with the flood waters that have been on the move, and we are four days here in new jersey after irene made landfall. >> all right, michelle franzen in paterson for us, thank you very much. >>> the congressional black caucus is wrapping up thei

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here's the latest from new new york city's times square. >> tourist are returning to times square and hundreds of thousands of new yorkers are returning to their homes tonight. the heart of the city largely was spared, but all around this area irene left her mark. >> irene was angry but not enraged when she visited new york. reduced to a tropical storm, she still had the strength to knock down trees, flood parts of the city and swamp suburbs. thrill seekers found themselves stranded. more than 2 million people lost power in dismurk the surrounding areas -- in new york and the surrounding areas about the city escaped the urban apocalypse. >> the mayor lifted the city's first ever mandatory evacuation, saying it's now okay for nearly 400,000 new yorkers in low-lying areas to go back home but getting back to work won't be easy. officials wouldn't say when subways and trains on the nation's largest mass transit system will start rolling again. >> the actions we took yesterday were right. the yards where we relocated trains out of are yards that are underwater right now. >> reporter: perha

i wonder, in light of that, how new, really, is new media? as the dust settles, is new media not just become the old media as it has been? how far have we come from a daily billing 60 years ago criticizing, saying the press is free only for those who own one. >> is a great question. i am going to go back to that first question, the quality of digital journalism. we are more than 15 years into internet news. still, you hear people say it is coming along. someday it will be good. quality journalism existed on the internet from day one. it was there. the internet journalists were winning awards from day one. there is a lot of noise surrounding it, which makes it seem worse, say, than "the chronicle." quality journalism is there. the new part of the media is not a new types of stories being told, but how they are being told, short for nurses long form, and how they are distributed on your one newspaper or magazine or one website, versus to run the mobile universe, or threat the internet universe, portals. do you want to give 30% of revenue to app

abc news,ith terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," august 25th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. well, we're looking at a historic weather event now. it's rare that storms this big and this violent take aim at major american cities along the eastern seaboard, but that is what's apparentry happening with hurricane irene, now a category 3 hurricane, with winds of 115 miles per hour. irene blew past flolorida todayn its way toward landfall in the carolinas, sometimes early afternoon saturday. the big question, where does it go from there? here's abc's matt gutman for our coverage of hurricane irene. >> reporter: hurricane irene rumbled over the bahamas today, bending palms like rubber, toppling trees and ripping boats right out of the water. mike tice caught the brunt of it in nassau this morning. >> wind gusts around 75 or 80 miles an hour and this wind and rainin combined is absolutely ferocious to stand outside in front of. >> reporter: and even before making landfall in the u.s., the storm was menacing enough for the second fleet to

abc news has learned a new witness disputes those claims.the witness says he was fishing on the same beach the same day. he says he saw the two take a walk along the reef around 4:00 p.m. but that they never went in the water. a short time later, they drove away and he never saw either of them again. >> if this witness is being accurate and correct as to locations of both mr. giordano and miss gardner, it's yet another piece of evidence that's inconsistent with his story. >> reporter: this is just the latest disturbing detail to emerge. last week, abc news learned that investigators were looking into a life insurance policy taken out on gardner which named giordano as the beneficiary. >> we're investigating that material to see if there's credibility to the investigation. >> reporter: abc news is looking into reports giordano tried to collect on that life insurance just two days after the maryland woman seemingly vanished. >> no one is saying she's dead at that point. obviously he's basically saying, she's dead. how does he know that? well,

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in new york city are closed. washington, philadelphia, and boston are handling some flights but airports are expected to see cancellations tomorrow during the brunt of the storm. a big effect at sfo appears to be on international travelers who have to fly threw east coast hub. this couple has to be in barcelona on monday to get back to work on tuesday. >> we came here to the airport to change our flight, maybe flying to barcelona through another airport. >> jeanie of san jose and her daughters were going to spend a few days in new york after their european vacation but got a seat to the bay area in the nick of time. >> called her name. almost like winning the lottery ticket. >> joined greats are parked around the airport. it will be at least another day before their airborne. >> tomorrow we may see some depart tours, although we have seen 30 caps laces -- cancellations for tomorrow. >> oakland international cancelled two jet bliew flights -- jetblue flights, and an incoming flight from jfk has been cancelled, and

>>> the big news of the day, a new prime minister in japan. noda chosen to rule the party. and the ruling party, expected to be approved by the parliament on tuesday for the nation's top job. until now serving as japan's finance minister. noda succeeds anderson coopn na khah kan announces his resignation. >> reporter: because of nada's position on the yen. he has said there should be intervention and japan's government needs to do everything possible to try to control the yen dollar exchange, and that has been a huge problem for the exporters here in japan. noda is a known kwant quantity as how he feels about the weak dollar and trying to control the yen. certainly the markets like it. certainly corporate japan, who has been struggling especially the profit sheets, struggling under the surging yen certainly appreciate his entrance. the question will be, though, charles, whether or not noda can unite all of the factions, all the political factions and try to actually get policy pushed ahead. he's not known for being a particularly slashy fellow. self-add midedly quite dull m

soon after his victory, noda held his first news conference as the dpj's new leader. >> translator: i want to resolve the fukushima nuclear crisis, but it might take a long time. i also want to rebuild japan's disaster-hit areas and revive this country's economy. i will work toward these goals and achieve them. i hope to build relationships with the opposition parties that are based on trust. i plan to hold policy negotiations and ask for their cooperation. japan can't afford a political vacuum or the dissolution of the lower house, which would trigger an election. everyone has to work together to rebuild the disaster zone. >> noda became senior finance minister when dpj took power in 2009. he was promoted to finance minister in june of last year when naoto kan became prime minister. so who is yoshihiko noda? here's a look at the man about to become japan's 95th prime minister. >> reporter: yoshihiko noda was elected to the lower house of the diet in 1993 as a member of the now defunct japan new party. he became a dpj lawmaker in 2000. he ran in the dpj leadership election in 2002 in

many fans now come from around the country to see the new stars. citizens drew a mural celebrating the world cup victory along the river. it's now become a tourist attraction. >> translator: here's the nadeshiko lunch. >> reporter: on the lookout for new sponsors. he hopes to includes the annual budget of $600,000 by 50%. one company he approached makes chemical products. >> translator: if your company's name is here when players are interviewed, you'll get great exposure. >> reporter: after an hour of negotiations, a new sponsor signed a three-year contract. >> translator: the players work to overcome difficulties to win the world cup. so we want to support them. >> translator: this will help out, but there's more to be done. >> reporter: shopping areas are getting behind the players in their own way. at this beauty parlor -- >> reporter: popping up all over the hot spring town. >> translator: what's up today? >> translator: we're making new yunogo belle goods. >> reporter: operators of hot spring inns with going to sell things with the player ima

and taking new jobs in growing areas. they say the same economic fears to keep the homeowners from selling are leading to reduction in consumer spending. vice president joe biden is in china for talks that will focus largely op u.s. economic woes. biden spent almost an hour talking with his chinese counterpart in beijing. the vice president said the two leaders need to discuss jobs, growth and the direction of both country's economies. the main goal here is for the u.s. to show china that it is still safe to invest in u.s. treasury bonds. >> it's very good i think for the biden party to reassure the chinese that it's still safe for china to pocket huge reserve in the u.s. treasury bonds, that will not be an expensive quantitative easing along the lines. >> biden will also visit part of china that were devastated by massive earthquake in 2008. this was vice president's biden first visit to china since taking that office. >>> still ahead, you can get the temperature with your direction. the new feature that just showed up o

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new york city did better. con ed reporting a few problems and there's a big problem, though, with america's infrastructure in general. irene was not a catastrophic storm. but one of the largest utility companies in the country, lipa, could not handle it. if the u.s.a. is ever hit by a major natural disaster or a nuclear incident, this country will be in big trouble. t the truth is that our electrical services are fragile and antiquated and easily knocked out so my advice to you is this. buy a generator if you can afford to and stock up on nonperishable stuff you will need if you don't have electricity. in this high-tech aim, we're all way too dependent on machines and as we all know, machines can go down very fast. in my community, folks pulled together. the guys at the restaurant opened up feeding folks that didn't have power. when i asked my pal eli why he and his crew braved the storm to come in, he said "because albanians are crazy." the guys are half albanian and half italian. all and all, hurricane irene

he affirm it today by adding nothing new. there's nothing new for him to do. it's the congress that is the risky side to this equation. >> so despite that risk, you like financials, perhaps the most beaten-down sector. >> iically we'll begin with the subsector, which is commercial real estate. the reality fund icf the ticker similar symbol, big drop along with the rest of the market this month. what fuels it higher? >> well, we think the financials as a group were beaten down. in the case of the financials generally, beaten up for four years. at this stage in time, what's new? what's going to derail them now? and we saw that validated by warren buffett in his bank of america deal. so our view is this is a washed-out sector. it's time to be nibbling at it, raising rates, do it broadly. >> tom: and you're doing that with real estate and with banks, and the banks idea is regional banks, kre is the ticker symbol for this exchange-traded fund, what gives you confidence that the bottom is in for the regional banks? >> well, the valuation of banks, regional and the b

the embattled transit agency is expected to hire a new general manager today. >> good news for an teen that was kidnapped this morning. >> clouds this morning and cool breeze is taking away those clouds but we do have heat on the way. >>> good morning, sue hall, abc7 traffic center. live look at the macarthur maze and first reports of an accident 80 toward 880. i'll have more coming up. >>> good wednesday morning. thank you for joining us, i'm acre a acre. >> and i'm kristen sze. >> the bay area's largest city will designed change to make it safer for kids. terry mcsweeney is live around trace elementary and some are really opposed to the idea. >> on paper it sounds so simple. one of our morning views stopped by to see if he really understood how much it would cost to change the speed limit around here. he says what drivers are doing, he lives down the street of them go 15 around trace elementary here on dana avenue but they try to make up for the lost time and jamming it at 35 miles an hour something else to consider. take a look at video as i tell you about the story. council a counc

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still ahead for you this hour a storm brewing in new york. the streets of the metropolis stand empty as hurricane irene sweeps closer leaving devastation in its wake. and france is feeling the pinch as the debt surges and the growth stagnate with fears huge cuts could spill over into angry writes. the hunt continues for the wreckage of an unmanned russian space ship that crashed on wednesday the progress vessel was carrying supplies for the crew at the international space station when it fell back to earth in siberia shortly after launch its crash spread fears its toxic fuel could be dangerous for locals and the environment to greaves takes up the story. the moment it's came crashing down. launched on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane a first but then i realized coins never fly and that no more quietly then it turned into some white object and then so that it was sparkly and i heard a loud noise it was like thre

disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine pm saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to walk home it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to evacuate from their building now up until this point new yorkers were really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new york

new orleans.ampbell robertson, thank you for being with us. what would you add to the account we just shared about the prosecution's case? you wrote that it was a grisly account. i believe that was your word. >> well, this account started coming out over some time. there had been five police officers who pled guilty, some of whom were actually firing at the bridge that day, other ones who were involved in the coverup, one of them described as a massacre. so, as those guilty pleas were coming out, the, while everyone knew this was, everyone had suspected that this was a very bad scene, the grislyness of it began to come out one at a time with those guilty pleas. so when the prosecutors finally put it altogether, it was a pretty harrowing account of what happened that day. >> woodruff: and there were accounts of the police tampering with the evidence, planting a gun. tell us a little about that part of the prosecution's case. >> well, it's funny, the coverup, the prosecutors say the coverup began im

hot it what call if a hot thing fica >> >> to the news and bad news hit, the oakland a's were able to snatch up a rare win against the yankees. check out this shot. the ball was crushed to the third deck. that is the second of all to reach that height in the new yankee stadium. holidays 16- 5. >> the reason i go is to see the long balls. the giants lost this time to the padres. i am going to the game tonight, join us at the giants' game tonight. we will see by the blue. lucille will also be there. that is my guest for mother's night out. we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. the stock stayed to revere. r them this 1/2 data behof >> on 8:47 a.m.. we're taking a peek at the street. stocks have fallen. we're looking to it earlier this morning. the dow is now off by 80 points. we are still trading above 11,000. >> a hot spot on highway 4. george has the latest. we are actually getting a look at the ride on the golden gate bridge. we were just updating the drive time in marin county. 101 southbound. today, the drive times have been staying around a 33-34 minutes. it c