This mini cooper was no match for the mega rain. The driver jumped to higher ground. People living in areas charred by wildfires were encouraged to evacuate. Steel netting has been installed to catch debris. He lives below the mountain and decided to leave. Night time i dont want to go to sleep wondering if the debris is going to come down again. Bill is a nasa climateologist. We tend to focus on the negative impacts, but the fact of the matter is we need all of this rain. This is going to be a fantastic down payment on drought. We can anticipate anywhere between four and six inches of rain here in los angeles. Its normally double what we get in january. The l. A. River is rushing tonight, sending billions of gallons of water out to the ocean. That is what prevents los angeles from flooding. There is more rain in the forecast. Expected to hit Southern California tomorrow. Ben tracy reporting this evening. Thank you. Today in afghanistan, one Service Member was kill and two others wound
Economy are again weighing down the stock market. The Main Exchange has been mof by as up as 2. 5 . U. S. Markets may follow suit. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 11th. Noips from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We begin with the sad news from london breaking overnight. David bowies death at the age of 69. It really did come as a shock in the overnight hours. Known for his many styles and colorful costumes he had been fighting cancer. Birthday. We get a look back from bbcs mark radcliff. Ever do. Reporter when bowie made this announcement in 1973, many quitting music. But it was only his alter ego ziggy stardust who bowed out that night. This is Ground Control to major tom first of a series of changes of persona which would both entrance and bewilder his fans. Born david jones in london, he performed both music and mime before he got his first major hit. With the incarnation of ziggy stardust, the androgenous bisexual rock star from a
I woke up hearing gunshots. So i looked out the window. When we called the police, we didnt know whats going on and what we heard, we thought it was like a shooting or something. But then she told us that the police were intervening. So we could hear shootings. And we could hear the helicopters flying. She told me that she was woken up by a huge explosion. Police stormed into the building and told her to duck down on the floor. She was with her husband and her baby. And then she got really scared and she spent two hours lying down on the floor. Police told her to stay down, remain there while they were conducting the operation. Then they told her they evacuated her and told her to go to city hall. Thats where she she told me she was scared for her son, that it was a very traumatic experience. You were just looking at live pictures from the french suburb of saintdenis where police raids have just completed, were told. We will be going in just a few minutes to brad garrett, former fbi sp
Musicians from mick jagger to duran duran to madonna, from singing to acting, he did it all. Starring in movies like the hunger and the man who fell to earth. Just last friday on his 69th birthday, he released his 25th and final album rock star. This album reportedly a carefully planned finale a parting gift to his fans. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake has died. William del monte was 3 months old when the quake struck. Remembered his dramatic escape from the burning city. His family grabs a horse drawn wagon and made its way out of the city william was still working as a stockbroker then and he was just days away from turning 110 years old. Well, theres no question that winter has arrived for western new york. Some areas east of lake erie, look at these pictures. Whoa. Of nearly two feet of snow on the ground and more is on the way today. That car. Arctic air is reacting with the warm water producing lakeeffect snow. There cou
Sanders is drawing large crowds as he vows to break up the nations biggest banks. House which is prepared to take on the greed of wall street, of Corporate America. Reporter both marco rubio and ted cruz are also in iowa with trump now taking aim at cruzs canadian birth to an american mother, telling the Washington Post its a very precarious issue. I tweeted out a response to Donald Trumps rizing questions about my naturalborn citizenship. It was a link to fonzie jumping the shark. And i think im going to let my response stick with that tweet. Reporter brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. And one more political note for you. An announcement from the republican South Carolina governor nicki haley will deliver the gops response after president obamas state of the Union Address next tuesday. Hailey made waves when she called for the Confederate Flag to be removed from the state house grounds after the massacre at Mother Emmanuel Church in charleston. A chicagoarea Christian College now wan