It has dropped 50 millibars in ten hours. Um i apologize, this is just horrific all right. Joining us now with the latest on the ground in tampa. Cnn News News Source correspondent Ivan Rodriguez. Ivan, good morning to you. What are you seeing down there trying to get out of the Tampa Bay Area and weve been hearing it all morning long. And also yesterday, officials pleading with millions of people that now is the time to evacuate and do so before conditions begin to deteriorate. We want to show you these live images here of Traffic Bumper to bumper, getting out of this Tampa Bay Area. We know that across the state of florida tolls have been suspended on these major highways as well to assist with the evacuations and also the state is allowing for Hurricane Evacuees to drive on the shoulder in order to keep that traffic moving all day yesterday. Casey, we saw traffic also backed up on several highways here in the Tampa Bay Area, and it really seems like people are taking this seriously
Good to be with you. Im katy tur. This is a monumental day, the Federal Reserve cut Interest Rates for the first time in four years. This was an aggressive 50 Basis Point Cut or half a Percentage Point that will move markets and Mortgage Rates. It might also move the tide of the election. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell followed the announcement with a speech of his own, appearing to signal more aggressive cuts to come, indicating that inflation is finally under control, all of this, just 48 days before the president ial election. Big day. Joining us now, nbc News Business and data reporter, brian cheung, national Affairs Correspondent with the nation John Nichols, and director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy Institute of politics and msnbc political contributor, John Della volpe. Nbc Business Correspondent Christine romans will be here in just a second. Brian, i shall begin with you, explain what We Saw, and also tell me what he said in his news conference. Yeah, and its stil
Cnn BreAking News you Are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim AcostA in wAshington. We begin this morning with BreAking News. The suspect in the second AppArent AssAssinAtion Attempt on former President DonAld Trump is About to AppeAr in FederAl Court. This lAtest incident hAppened while trump wAs golfing At his club in West PAlm BeAch, floridA, A secret Service Agent noticed the Gun Sticking for offense And fired At A mAn in the bushes who then fled the scene AfterwArd. OfficiAls found An Ak47 Style Rifle with A scope And mAteriAls for A bulletproof vest. This since the Suspect 58yeArold RyAn routh, he hAs posted extensively on SociAl MediA About his politicAl views, including his criticism of former President Trump in meAntime cnns Josh CAmpbell And cArlos suArez, they Are covering All of this for us. They hAve new informAtion on this lAtest AssAssinAtion Attempt. I wAnt to begin outside with cArlos, outside FederAl Court in West PAlm BeAch, floridA. We expect the suspect to be there so
Is the appropriate sentence. Today former mams Police Officer zerk Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1 2 years in prison for the Nurd R Murder Last May of george floyd. Hes been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on George Floyds neck until mr. Floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis Street Corner. He was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against statebased snepsing guidelines. Considering the fact that mr. Chauvin had no criminal history, the Minnesota State guidelines for a sneps in this case actually recommended a sort of presumptive sentence of about 12 1 2 years. Judges can depart from those Sentencing Guidelines and in particularly they can depart upward if there are aggravating faeblgts that make the crime worse than that source of base level offense. The judge in this case had ruled that there were four di
Weather, possibly 15 or 16 even. To the north, chilly, the shower is a tad wintry on the tops of the scottish mountains but that milder air will move northwards again as we head towards the end of the week. We are looking at the prospect of some 16 and welcome to scotlands largest town, a stones throw from glasgow. Historically, it was a Labour Stronghold until the partys rout in scotland in 2015, when the snp had a spectacular win here. So with a general election looming, what are the preoccupations and passions of the people of paisley be It Domestic Issues or defence, education and the environment, young and old, rich and poor . Tonight, politicians and people from every major sector are gathered to debate how they, and scotland, are faring 25 years on from the opening of scotlands parliament. Good evening. Applause paisley became an economic powerhouse in the Industrial Revolution, at the forefront of the textile industry, home of the famous paisley pattern, and equally famous radi