a giant cane toad dubbed toadzilla has been discovered in australia. the amphibian, which weighs 2.7kg, shocked rangers who stumbled across it at the conway national park in north queensland. the guinness world record for the largest toad in history is 2.65kg set by a pet toad in sweden in 1991. ranger kylee gray said her team were blown away by the size of this cane toad, saying it looked almost like a football with legs. here she is talking about the discovery. we hopped out to watch the snake slither off, it was a beautiful big red bellied black snake, and he s taken off to the left of us and i was standing on the right of our buggy and looked down and there, right at my feet, probably about 40cm away from where the snake was originally, there was this monster cane toad. it shocked us. we ve nicknamed her toadzilla.
at the conway national park in north queensland. the guinness world record for the largest toad in history is 2.65kg, set by a pet toad in sweden in 1991. ranger kylee gray said her team were blown away by the size of this cane toad saying it looked almost like a football with legs . here she is talking about the discovery. we hopped out to watch the snake slither off, it was a beautiful big red bellied black snake, and he s taken off to the left of us and i was standing on the right of our buggy and looked down and there, right at my feet, probably about 40cm away from where the snake was originally, there was this monster cane toad. it shocked us. we ve nicknamed her toadzilla. we considered naming her connie, after conway national park, but toadzilla was the one thatjust kept getting thrown out there for that kind of stuck.
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up. how much people s expectations, excuse me, of rates have gone up in a short period of time. if you go back a year, people expected rates to stay near zero. economists expected rates to stay near zero. as inflation became more prevalent, projections for rates this year began to rise and rise and rise. now, the expectation is rates to be at 3% by the end of the year, a dramatic increase, obviously, from near zero at what was expected the beginning of the year. you heard your correspondent talk about mortgage rates. you can see on the right that mortgage rates a year ago were just about 2.65%. now it is 5%. that s the fastest increase in mortgage rates in history. given what is likely to happen with the fed, as you see on the left, mortgage rates should continue to go up as we go on with this. now, obviously hey, steve, can i ask a quick question? of course. you know, there has been a debate in washington about whether joe biden had any right to blame inflation, at least parti
year. moving higher than at any point of all of last year. the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 3.22% in the week ending january 6th. that s up from an average 3.11% the previous week. a year ago the 30 year rate was 2.65. that s a record low. mortgage rates are expected to rise as the economy improves and inflation looms. the trend could make home affordability an even greater challenge especially for lower income byers. higher mortgage rates could mean a less competitive market overall. refinancing over the past year, so these are historically low, very low rates. you can see them ticking up. i think that will be the trend for this year for sure, laura. something to watch. all right, supporters of novak djokovic trying to rally support for the tennis star. officials in australia saying he s acting above the law. cnn is livive in sydney next.