This week fighting fires. Naked navigation. And a real life rocketeer. On click we often look out for technology which can help save peoples lives. For example, we went to rwanda to look at how drones were speeding up deliveries of blood and recently closer to home, i looked at how the response times of the air ambulance in london were being improved by better connectivity. If you live in the developed world, youll probably take it for granted that you can dial the emergency number, someone will answer and help will arrive. Well, in kenya, thats not the case. In the capital nairobi alone, there are more than 50 different numbers for different Ambulance Services and if you need a fire engine, well, thats at least a dozen more, and even then there is no guarantee theyll be able to get to you. Well, kate russell has been to meet a couple of entrepreneurs who have had the great idea of amalgamating them all into one service. Think uber for Emergency Services. For most living in a modern me
The blue chips index saw it is biggest intraday reversal since. Gust of 20 for the s p 500 it was the biggest flip since 2016. If any one thing pressured stocks today it was the bond market. A weakur tre auction and a bumming deal in washington sent them on a fewer year high. That rise in terms triggered concerns that the Federal Reserve might raise rates. The dow was down to 25693. And with volatilitck are some are calling this a new phase in the market. But is there more selling ahead . Bob pisani takes a look. Reporter it was another wild and whacky day of trading. He dow swung this a 500 rai and went from negative to up 200 points in 30 seconds but closed lower. We know a large part of the blood bath thiseek was perhaps due to obscure trading products tied to volatility. For the past year traders have been short the volatility betting it would drop and long on the stock market. This blew up on monday. Trade hers toould have their short positions on volatility and had to lighten up
Championships. Hungary is the latest european country to see scenes of desperation and chaos at its borders. Overstretched police fired tear gas in an effort to restore order at a refugee processing center. So far, hungarys response to the crisis has involved barbed wire, mounted police and docks. It is now sending 2,000 extra officers to help control the situation and is considering using the army. Hungarian police say every day, more than 2,000 refugees arrive in the country and so far this were, hungary has registered 100,000 refugees top compare that to the whole of 2014, it was 23,000. The country is building a raise door wire fence at the border with syria. We have a report on the desperate journey of thousands of refugees as they head north. By the day, the numbers are hard tore digest. Here in whats called the one stop center, an entrance to serbia from macedonia, more than 10,000 people have passed through in less than five days. Further up the line at serbias border with hung
Television broadcast. In the last hour, south sudans president has signed a peace deal with rebels, despite serious reservations to end nearly two years of civil war. It was a drawnout process as African Leaders gathered in the capitol of south sudan, juba, to witness this ceremony. We were told it would happen and it did happen that is the president signing the deal about a half hour, 40 minutes ago. Our reporter has all of the details now on the phone. Ana, tell us more. Reporter yes, as you say the president has signed this peace deal, which would seem like a major break through. But unfortunately when he was addressing the audience earlier, he said he did have major reservations about the content of it. [ inaudible ] this isnt the bible, this isnt the quran, these are things that can be revisited. So the implementation then will be interesting, wont it, ana. Because you have one side that signed it, but said i dont want to sign this. So how it gets implemented will be interesting.
Student named to homecoming court. Senior class president when flanagan was a junior. Unbelievable because he is such a happy person. He was our prom king. At the time everybody loved him. Reporter after graduating flanagan went on to San Francisco state and then to kpix where he was an intern and part time writer. Some Law Enforcement officers have concerns. Reporter he work as a reporter under the name of Bryce Williams in roanoke, virginia. He is a soft spoken person. Gentle giant. Tragedy. Just sad. Just sad. I saw the brief video clips of it and what happened is just mind blowing. Reporter late today flanagans family released a statement saying in part, quote, our thoughts are with the wbdj 7 news family. Words cannot express the hurt that we feel for the victims. That came from the family here. Live in valejo, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Flanagan sent abc news a fax saying he was motivated by the shooting in the church in charleston, South Carolina and what sent me over the top wa