David Brancaccio

Altadena, California, retired neonatal nurse, homeowner, landlord, and saver, Pauline Gray.

I have a new video up now with Teachable Moments from my burned street.

It's on, for instance, Instagram.

Marketplace APM is the handle.

Stocks of big military contractors are surging this morning in both the U.S.

and Europe after President Trump yesterday called for a $1.5 trillion U.S.

military budget versus $900 billion now.

Northrop Grumman up 8.7 percent pre-market trading.

Lockheed Martin up 8 percent now.

European defense company stocks are also up with Trump talk about acquiring or taking Greenland from Denmark.

The supermarket chain Wegmans is using biometric tech to track shoppers movements in stores by identifying their faces.

Marketplace's Kristen Schwab reports not just Wegmans.

The night and day mare for some people whose houses did not burn to the ground in California a year ago.

I'm David Brancaccio in Pasadena, California.

One year after the urban firestorms here, we're focusing on a single block in Altadena.

I lost my house on that street, but some days I worry it's even more complicated for my neighbors who had houses that remained standing in the smoke and soot.

I can barely face this, so I'll let CNN's Anderson Cooper do the narration.

When I first saw this in real time a year ago, I could make out in the chaos that Anderson was a half block from our place.

But some did survive.

On my single block, 15 houses burned up, but 10 are still there, potentially habitable, but not before knowing what and how to clean.