i told each one of them, my conversation separately, whatever they need. sincerely, whatever they need, contact me directly. joining me now jamie rome, acting director of the national hurricane center. good to have you with us this hour. we saw in the most recent update, the 2:00 p.m. update that the storm was rapidly intensifying. the major concern at this hour seems to be the storm surge and also just how long this storm could sit. what are the areas that you re most focused on at this hour? i think water is going to be the big issue with this storm, both the incredibly heavy rainfall. you can see it starting to sweep over the southern portions of the florida peninsula. and the storm surge near to the east of where the center makes landfall, and those two when they combine together, it creates a lot of flooding issues. speaking the the mayor of tampa in the last hour, she was pointing to the separate saturation that they re already seeing on the ground there that they
woman being stabbed at an l.a. hotel when they were shot by this man, justin flores. he had a long rap sheet. his girlfriend accused him of assault just one day before the shooting. he served two stints in prison and he was facing a third for possessing a firearm as a felon. that weapons charge could have sent him back to prison for three years. but under the liberal policies of los angeles da george gascon he was instead sentenced to two years probation and 20 days of time served one year later. after that, he slaughters two police officers. up until this week, corporal morales served 22 years. he now leaves behind a wife, daughter and a son. officer santana had only been on the police force for seven months. he leaves behind a wife, a daughter and twin boys who were reportedly born just this year. those are just two of the more than 150 officers shot in the line of duty this year. at least two dozen of those shootings have been deadly. tommy, i come to you first. not just b
home was $15,000. it is now $436,000. it has gone up 29 times.g fo you got way more bang forexpand your buck and more children. you ve got to expand your family, ownnd own a house. things are so drastically different. and thg. rate is plummetin people can t afford it. so we need to make a chang t afo that we can turn this around. joining me now, freddy smit h ,real estate agent, co-host ofss the freddy and alicia show. freddy, grea t have you on.er so how bad is it out there for young people, first home buyers, let s say, from todam tn comparing it to, let s say, we 19, then we can go back even further? yeah. i means th, that s the perfect n to start, because in 2019, the average home in america was $260,000. and the interest were 4%. so your monthly payment outaxes the door with taxes and and insurances was around 1700. so you could make about 60,000
a year and qualify for a home back in 2019. that same home today is going for $436,000. but the interest are seven and a half percent. so that monthly payment is jumping to 3700. so you need to make today yourself or you and a spouse wit $115,000 in a salary with zero debt to have a shot atic affording the average homeit in america today. and if you have debt, cars, credit cardss mo, even more of 0 hundred and $50,000. so it s priced out.r a lot of americans just over the past four years. yeah. okay. in middle, liand the middle n i grew up in new england in the 1960s and 1970s into the 80s, you know, people could you live a good life? a tradesman, homebuilder yeah, we went to public schools, but, you know, we weren t wanting for we didn t go on vacations or anything, but we just, you know, we were we were okay . but what s happened from the time the millennials were
that same home today is going for $436,000, but the interest rates are 7.5% so that monthly payment is jumping to 3700. so you need to make today yourself or you and a spouse $115,000 in a salary with zero debt to have a shot at affording the average home in america today. if you have debt, cars, credit cards, it s more like $140, $150,000 and it s priced out a lot of amer americans just overe past four years. in the middle class, like when i grew up in new england in 1960s and 1970s and to the 80s, people could what happened to