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Communist regimes are gone and the wall go ahead john. You know well like you peter i lived through those events very directly like you i was studying Eastern European studies at oxford at that point i spent that summer in 1909 in romania and hungry and indeed in september 89 i was in west berlin and was there when the 1st east berlin is arrived in west berlin having driven through czechoslovakia hungry austria and the whole of germany so i have a very strong memory of it as well i would make 2 points the 1st is that none of it would have happened without gorbachev decision to pull the rug on the Eastern European communist regimes that was decision he took in june and which he announced to the german chancellor helmut kohl at the time and all the events that we remember now the jangling of keys in Wenceslas Square ....
Of Sonoma County. The man that lives in this home is calling firefighters heroes. All of these vehicles on his property owned by his brother and by him were lost and so was his brothers home but his home was saved. He watched at firefighters battled the flames in incredible winds. He says what they did to save other homes was heroic. A chimney tower from this once proud chalkville hill road. A neighbor said it looked like arrows of fire were flying at him as wind gusts launched burning embers towards him, his home, and the antique jeeps parked next to his home. It created a tremendous problem for the firefighters. Fire was spotting well out ahead of the main front. Reporter kincade Public Information officer fred woods has been taking media tours into the burned areas all day but has been here since the weekend watching the fire fight and agrees with that neighbor, the eff ....
The china trade fight is clearly escalated. The president s holding on to a very strong line. Any resolution, it seems to me, pushed down the road. More on that coming up. If you combine the jobs report with the china story, heres how the market opens today. I thought we would be down about 100 points but we are coming back. We are down about 20 points for the dow. That will be 29 minutes from now. Maybe the markets taken the Financial News to mean that the fed can lower rates in the future. 600 points down the last two days, down about nine at the open this morning. The s p down about four, nasdaq down about 44. Tempering the losses. Heres another really big financial story which i dont think gets the right exposure. Interest rates. The tenyear treasury yield all the way down to 1. 88 . Money is pouring into america. Why not . Interest rates in germany today hit a record low. You want interest on a bond, you got to come to americ ....
Golf course, and this is peak season. So this will impact a lot of families on vacation and some of the homeowners who live there full time. Well continue to stay on the story throughout the evening. Were also the first to send out a breaking news alert about this fire and the subsequent evacuations. You can sign up for these breaking news alerts through our free nbc bay area app. Its a great resource. It will show up right there on your phone. Our other top story, new details from Law Enforcement that the gilroy gunman may have had a plan to escape. Investigators searched the gunmans home and car. We just obtained the search warn warrant that details what they found inside the car and the family home. The shooter shot and killed himself, but details left behind showed what he thought he could hide out in the wilderness. We just obtaned documents from the Gilroy Police depart ....