might s ancient sequoias as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant and we ve got a sprinkler system set up in front of it. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we want to take you right now to mariposa, california as evacuations are under way as fires threaten the ancient sequoias. our nick watt has just arrived on the scene. nick, how serious is the season there, and what are they doing to protect these incredibly special trees? reporter: well, we just have heard that the fight is going in the right direction, but it is still a huge fight. the flames are within a mile or two of mariposa grove which is home to about 500 of these giant, beautiful, ancient sequoia freeze, so the way that they are trying to contain the fireworks the way they are trying to keep those trees safe, they have 360 personnel on the ground, including hot shot cruise who are digging trenches around mariposa grove, a kind of break to try to
And millions are heading to the path of totality to view the Great American eclipse. The first total eclipse seen in america since 1979. Well have more on this cosmic event on this monday, august 21st. From abc news, this is world news now. We want to get started with the breaking news from southeast asia. Ten american sailors missing after their Navy Destroyer collided with a tanker off of singapore. Five were injured after the crash from the uss john mccain. The injuries are not expected to be life threatening. The damaged warship is heading back to port on its own power as search and rescue efforts continue. President trump initially responded by saying thats too bad. A couple hours later he tweeted thoughts and prayers were with the sailors. And john mccain followed with a tweet. The mccain is named after the senators father and grandfather. This follows a collision in june that killed seven on the uss fitzgerald off the coast of japan. The captain and several others were disciplin
Telethon. And millions are heading to the path of totality to view the total eclipse, the first total eclipse seen in america since 1 1979. Well have more on this cosmic event on this monday, august21st. From achbc news, this is world news now. We want to get started with the breaking news from southeast asia. Ten american sailors missing after their vessel collided with a tanker. Injures are not believed to be life threatening. The damaged warship is heading back to port on its own power as search and rescue efforts continue. President trump initially responded by saying thats too bad. A couple hours later he tweeted thoughts and prayers were with the sailors. And john mccain followed with a tweet. This follows a collision of the uss fitzgerald. President trump is set to unveil his longawaited plan for afghanistan from ft. Meyer, virginia. The backlash continues over his response to the violence in charlottesville. We get more from abcs david wright. Reporter President Trump returns t
That means no. [laughter] if you go back now and look at what Mark Zuckerberg was saying, he was open with the idea that the wanted everyone in the world to be an facebook. What is the thing that now you are completely open about the ambition but it happens in three years or two years or five years, were going to be like, what got word that where did that come from . Mark talks about categories transformer to be influenced by social media. You are seeing that with news and more with the way that people this cover and news coming from social media. How many people here get their news from social media . I do. You kind of get your news from social media. If you think about what is happening in categories, there is commerce and travel and shopping. These are right now one player games. If you think about your going and deciding where youre going to stay on your trip to bangkok, you are interacting with a collection of documents written by relatively anonymous people. The same is true in d
Sreenivasan and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan a shopping frenzy descended across the country today, as post thanksgiving shoppers lined up for holiday savings. In some places, the mad dash for deals turned violent, with several shootings and fights breaking out. Well have more on black well have more on black friday right after this news summary. Investors on wall s