but 16 floors above, american rochelle stimey knows nothing about the blazing inferno below. no alarm, no phone call, no notice at all. her husband is in china away on business, and she's in her hotel room with her 7-year-old daughter sona, when something catches sona's eye outside their window. >> i noticed some smoke. then i noticed it was coming from straight down below the window. and then i heard people screaming. >> rochelle panicked, rushes to the door, only to discover the hallway is filled with smoke. >> my daughter yelled, we're going to die. there were no emergency lights in the hallway, so it was pitch black, and i wasn't confident that in smoky conditions with my daughter and myself upset that i could make it. >> so rochelle makes a tough decision. staying in the room is their best hope. >> i said, you know what, sona, the fire department is here. let's wait. they'll put out the fire and we'll walk down the stairs. >> turns out, it's the right choice. for many at the hotel, there would be no way out. the hotel has no sprinklers, no smoke detectors and no working

it's 58 in rochelle and the caliber trading at 56. sunrise comes in an hour.re the sun comes up before 6:00 a.m.. the days will start getting shorter. we get dry today. mostly sunny we're cooler along the lake high temperatures 76. it's going to be cooler than normal. seems like we've lost summer somewhere in the beginning of august. temperatures will warmup in the seven days. clear and cool and quiet. tomorrow's high 79 degrees. sunshine and clouds on the increase. a good chance of rain friday and saturday. saturdays high is 81. >> still ahead, called north korea deals with the pope's visit to the south. >> an update on the ebola outbreak. >> taking a look at the best attributes to robin williams. rugged and uneven. new gillette body is the first razor built to handle male terrain with a rounded head, three lubricating strips and an anti-slip grip. new gillette body only from gillette, the best a man can get. francis began a visit to south korea, *north korea launched three short-range *missiles at its neighbor. there's no indication that anyone was hurt. the

rochelle, what can you tell me about oysters? >> they are in trouble but they are sort of the canary in the coal mine. i went up to the coast to figure out how science is working to figure out what's going on. why don't we take a swim? >> it's not every day you can tag along with the california oyster farmer. >> that little island out there? >> it's so small. >> i know. >> when you do, it's truly exhilarating. >> this floating in the water we called sand waves, one of the ways we grow our baby oysters. >> the 15 mile long bay is peppered with some of the largest oyster farms including the world famous hog island oyster company. >> these are those racks that they are pulling now. each one of those will have 800 oysters in it. demanding? there? oifters. >> the pay-off is delicious t terri sawyer has been farming shellfish on this bay for over 25 years. his company provides up to 3 million oysters a year to area. >> we've got water coming in bringing in all of the oxygen, the food, everything these guys need to grow. >> as you can i

. >> hello, jack la rochelle, public works director, first up, i do want to say that the reports on the gas leaks that we have gotten, there's been a lot of reports, but pg&e is actually chasing those down. we don't know the actual number, my understanding is that they have crews working on that as dill jen dill jenltly as possible. it's been reports of about 30 water main leaks or breaks. a lot of them in the browns valley area, which is west of town. and that's to be expected, that's a gee logic area that's more susceptible to some damage. we have our crews out there assessing all of those locations, what we're trying to do is isolate those leaks, shut off the water to those areas as quickly as possible. now to provide water flow and volume, we have opened up our other water plants up at hennessy, so we have two feeds, one from the south, one from the north, our water plants are fine, they were not damaged. that's the good news, the up side, so we are feeding water, the tank levels did start going down right after the earth quake, so those have been stabilized and starting to come bac

a nation's finger pointing at rochelle over ukraine saw them further tighten the screws this week with the top of sanctions since the cold war america's latest measures stop some of russia's banking have a ways from operating in the united states while on the list russia's second largest bank which also operates in europe asia and africa as well as its of scenery bank of moscow. russia's every culture a bank which funds the farming sector is also been targeted and the united building corporation which is the country's largest holding falls under the punitive measures to what the u.s. senate is into a unanimous and support for sanctions. you know after the soviet union fell there was a tremendous potential to making russia our friend of tremendous potential they withdraw their troops from eastern europe. the russians. were open to all kinds of interacting and being coming part of the world community and. a horrible tremendous opportunity i should say was squandered now brussels has also barred some of russia's banks from trading in european markets it puts the country is the biggest and

. >>> you know, and rochelle, the thing is about the community in st louis and metro, i think it will open a big dialogue on a lot of levels - from how police act, how impoverished areas are treated, and, frankly, from what we have seen over the course of the past two weeks, maybe the topic of race relations. >> robert live in st louis. let's talk more about race. americans are divided in how they see the protests in bill ferguson, and what sparked them, the killing of michael brown. tom ackerman reports on the gap. >> reporter: michael brown's death from police bullets and the anger from his killing has been a recurring anger under the first american president and under attorney general eric holder, the highest ranking law officer in the land. early in his tenure, holder drew criticism for saying: in thinks racial we have been and continue to be, in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. something he recently repeated. >> we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues. >> now samples of a representative cross section of men's indicates that holder reflects

rochelle sterling and this talk it is all out of spite. this is about going after her, after she forced him out, and that money isn't the issue, it's just all a big vendetta? >> well, you know, i don't want to speak to that issue, per se. there are of personal issues that exist here. a lot of very strong feelings. it's very unfortunate. i think that's the very tough part of this fight is that the nba has positioned things and really pitted them against each other and that's sad to see folks that are married nearly 60 years in that position. neil: other rumors, sorry if i'm talking out of school here, but that he had a love child with this mistress, true? >> i've heard this rumor, i think it's exactly that is it's a baseless rumor. i think that this individual is very disturbed. i hope she seeks the appropriate help that she needs. neil: by the way, have they talked, bobby, since any of this blew up? >> there is no communication between the two of them, no. neil: okay. so when she said that she regretted the whole thing, what did he think o

. >> back to you, rochelle. what happened? how has -- how did things change or how did you sense them change in the community after the release yesterday after the surveillance video that was to show allegedly mike brown robbing a convenience store? how did that change the tone of what's happening in ferguson? >> well, it did change their mindset. they became angry. people were angry and upset about that because they did not feel that the focus should have been placed upon that video. we need to focus on getting a fair and equitable investigation and not trying to cloud up the situation by bringing in unsubstantiated information. so they were very upset at that time, but as a community we try to ask them to just see it for what it was. and move on past that and just continue to fight and protest for a fair investigation and that this is a -- this comes to be a justifiable and -- >> pamela, last thing to you here. what will this do? do you think long term or at least long term in terms of trying to draw attention possibly to wh

. >> i am an attorney from new rochelle in it seems to me that the perception of the entire continent is so skewed the media does not cover africa is anything anyone can do about that door if so, what? >> we will take two with three questions. >> hello. with a merging investor with those companies of international aspirations. i see there is a large -- a lot of partnerships of countries and entrepreneurs on the ground talk about growth companies in a communication based that is partners for different businesses that they could partner with to help facilitate in the communications world. >> the very eighth vibrant market. so we work with the very small company that came together to develop a panel in now we are delivering energy right to set grass roots. in the they first came to me and i said how much do you need? and they're is lots more with these companies and also g.. they had the confidence to put in the money but also talking about the technology for example, with the smaller companies. [laughter] you are very kim. [laughter] >> did is say question of understanding africa. to se

. >> rochelle fabian morgan is working on her own duct tape creation, a tribute to actor bruce lee. >t started with the vest and all of a sudden i don't know what happened. you can't wear a vest without the dress. >> morgan can make just about anything out of duct tape, jewelry. >> hats, flowers even paintings. >> in this video, we are going to paint using duct tape. >> see for yourself on her youtube channel. >> and these videos are just the start, even martha stewart is in on it. >> duct tape art everybody wants one and you can make them. >> so if it seems like duct tape is on a roll, it is because of what happened here in avon, ohio world headquarters of duct brand duct tape. >> so this is where duct tape is made? >> well before it gets into the form that most humans would be familiar with, that you see in the stores it comes to us in this particular jar of jumbo. a.this is a 1,200 yard roll of duct tape. >> marketing director scottsu mmers. >> this is cute, flamingos. >> that is just one of the 250 styles, part of a strategy to move duct tape from hardware store to craft aisle. >>

regiment was at camp upton, and that's where they would be discharged, from camp upton which is new rochelle area, long island sound. there was an order from general mcmichael who was the commandant of that camp that the black soldiers could only visit the black hostess hut, which was like a canteen for the soldiers, at that camp. and that became a cause is celeb. here we have -- cause celebre. here we have these men who have fought for freedom, a war to make the world safe for democracy, and new york's not safe for democracy. or we're not safe in it. then the parade, some people see the parade which is by many accounts a glorious occasion, no question when you see the reaction of the crowd. but there's a back story there. the war d. didn't want the -- department didn't want the parade to happen at all. they just wanted to release the men. then there was the, once again some white help from a group called the rocky mountain club which is a group of mining engineers, herbert hoover was a member of it, they press for, you know, allowing these people -- rodman wanna headachier was also -- wanam

. >> new rochelle and tarrytown. he's staying overnight to attend a wedding. >> scarlet fu in the traffic chopper. the traffictan, shuts down, what do you do in the suburbs? >> they shut down certain streets. you have to get around everything. were warned, north of new york city as the president has a little on his mind. that on bloomberg "surveillance." let's look at the data -- stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. futures about 2000. a little green, friday lassitude. euro-dollar is the major story, what has not happened. it has not moved. nymex crude, 93, 94. 95.02. 1205. ruble, weaker. brent, 102.81. here is the general trend of russian weakness over the past two years. here's the ugliness pre-ukraine and then we get better. looks like there is a settlement and in the recently come there is a spike up in the last two days. we keep expecting this to scare vladimir putin. the answer we keep getting is that this would scare somebody who is running a liberal democracy and is really worried about the domestic econom

. >> my name is leroy wilson jr., and i'm an attorney from new rochelle and botswana. it seems to me that one of the reasons that the perception of americans into africa as an entire continent is so skewed is because our media doesn't really l cover africa on a fair basis. and so the question is, is there anything that one can do about that? and if so, what? >> okay. maybe we'll collect two or three questions and then -- yeah. in the meantime, strive, can you help me there? there's a -- >> right in the middle here. >> okay. >> hello. i'm mark johnson from astra capital management. we're an emerging technology investor in both the communications space and in growth companies in america with international aspirations. i see there's a lot of partnership between large businesses and sort of countries and entrepreneurs on the ground in africa, but could you speak a bit about the opportunity for growth companies with great ideas particularly in the communications space that might be more ready partners for strive and different businesses in africa that they could kind of par

he's from rochelle, georgia. i don't know that town yet. hope to get there soon.ot coming up? >> jennifer hudson is coming back to talk with us. >> also we've got great new apps that are essential for parents. >> including a cool one from tom hanks of all people. >> i heard about this. >> it's need. >> all right. lots more to come. it's just you heard from tamron, . >>> les get your first alert forecasts. >> the skies now clearing off all across the region, the poconos, all across the shores, look at it now, the sunshine is now out, temperatures right around 70 degrees. your forecast for the day today, warm, about 74, and it will stay warm throughout the day. >> now to the casino crisis in atlantic city, a job fair starts today for workers who will soon be out of a job. it will be held at the atlantic city convention center. leaving about 8,000 people out of work. revel is losing more than a million dollars a week by staying open. that's according to the casino owner. he says that revel still needs to auction off the. >>> a sentencing hearing for a city council se

he's from rochelle, georgia. i don't know that town yet. hope to get there soon.t do you guys got coming up? >> jennifer hudson is coming back to talk with us. >> also we've got great new apps that are essential for parents. >> including a cool one from tom hanks of all people. >> i heard about this. >> it's need. >> all right. lots more to come. it's just you heard from tamron, >>> a very good morning to you. it is 8:56. i'm laura garcia-cannon. the city of santa clara may soon do away with plastic bags. the city council will consider an ordinance tonight, banning single-use plastic bags. santa clara would join a growing list of cities in the bay area and across california, getting rid of bags. tonight's council meeting starts at 7:00. the key is just remembering to bring them into the store. >>> let's check the forecast now with christina. >> at least it's not too warm if you've got to go back out and get them. good morning to you. those low clouds hanging tough over san jose. that's going to make for a noticeably cooler day. 74 degrees. that's it on the east sh