inflation. prices fell dramatically last month for manufacturers. of course, those costs passed down to consumers eventually. the flip side, there are still banking fears simmering, futures way down ahead of the opening bell, you can see there. what all of this means as we get another big decision coming, that is, the feds, whether it will raise interest rates again. plus this morning escalating tensions after an alarming encounter over the black sea, a russian fighter jet colliding with an unmanned u.s. drone. that $23 million aircraft then crashing into the sea and the race is now on to recover it. extreme life-threatening weather continues to hammer both coasts this morning. record rain, swamping california, heavy snow, 3 feet in some areas, burying the northeast. this morning nearly half a million people without power. we are going to get to all of that, but we do want to begin with the economy this morning, this new data that just dropped, cnn chief business corres
First line of russian defences and part of the south. Now mine fields have been blocking the troops for weeks. That means when they are blocked, of course they are vulnerable to russian shelly. Its been dangerous, but careful my Clearing Operation has been making it where they can advance. Ukraine says gains have been made in the south and have expanded their units towards the town of tokmak, Logistics Centre for russian forces. In the last hour or two we have these pictures into the newsroom of zelensky there visiting with troops on the front line. This is it donetsk. I spoke to drjenny mathers. She is a Senior Lecturer at the department of International Politics of the Aberystwyth University in wales. I asked just how significant this is. I think its potentially very significant both symbolically and in material terms because i think weve known for the last several months that the russian defences were very formidable. They would be difficult for the ukrainians to get through, and th
Pretty quickly afterwards. Well come to that in a moment. First to the actual problem. A type of concrete in schools that can crumble. It means some parts of School Buildings can be unsafe. The Prime Minister had to defend his decisions, as he was accused of not investing enough in school repairs. Heres our Political Editor chris mason. You probably hadnt heard of it until the other day, but this stuff concrete that can get crumbly is building into a political mess. Did rishi sunak, when he was chancellor, walk away from repairs happening sooner . The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chan
have a good show. thanks, alex. earlier this week potential jurors in washington d.c. in the case of united states america versus donald j trump received preliminary questionnaires about their potential availability for a trial beginning on march 4th, in today donald trump s lawyers filed a motion to block any more preliminary steps in jury selection in that case, and to block everything else in that case, don t holmes lawyers filed a motion this afternoon to request, quote, the automatic state of all district court proceedings in this case, pending the final resolution of donald trump s recently filed appeal from the courts december 1st, 2023, rulings on presidential immunity and double jeopardy. last friday judge tanya chutkan issued a 44-page ruling denying donald trump s motion that he is completely immune from any criminal charges for anything that he may have done while he was president in united states, and that putting him through a criminal trial for his activities
earlier this week potential jurors in washington d. c. in the case of united states america versus donald j trump received preliminary questionnaires about their potential availability for a trial beginning on march 4th, in today donald trump s lawyers filed a motion to block any more preliminary steps in jury selection in that case, and to block everything else in that case, donald trump s lawyers filed a motion this afternoon to request, quote, the automatic state of all district court proceedings in this case, pending the final resolution of donald trump s recently filed appeal from the courts december 1st, 2023, rulings on presidential immunity and double jeopardy. last friday judge tanya chutkan issued a 44-page ruling denying donald trump s motion that he is completely immune from any criminal charges for anything that he may have done while he was president in united states, and that putting him through a criminal trial for his activities leading up to it on january 6t