Famous british artist could be worth millions. We begin in iraq where fastmoving developments threaten to reshape the direction of the country for years to come. The Prime Minister appears to be losing control of his government. Iraqs grand ayatollah said its time for a new government. We are following the story on the ground in tikrit and near the jordanian border and well have the latest from washington. First to baghdad. Jane is there with more. Well, a couple of Game Changers is one, a statement by one of iraqs clerics. The other is a statement by a kurdish leader saying now they had kirkuk, they are not going to give it up. It lives the Prime Minister in a tough position. Theres no doubt now that this is war. The Baghdad Operations command center and the commander in chief. We must remove weak officers and soldiers, Prime Minister Nouri Almaliki says. He is battling also for his political life. But friday prayers, the representative of iraqs influential slooea cleric shia cleric r
When it came to building and maintaining Affordable Housing long before covid19. Back in 2020, a rhode island family earning the states Median Income couldnt afford to buy a home at the median price anywhere in the state. It has only gotten worse since then. Across the country, home prices have risen 13. 4 from last year, with the National Median price now at 416,000. In my state, the Rhode Island Association of realtors reports that the median price of homes sold in june 2022, reached an alltime high of 430,000. Thats 11. 7 higher than a year earlier. A large reason that homeownership is out of reach for Many Americans is that the inventory levels are so low. In recent months, sales have dropped as Interest Rates have increased, but nowhere near a balanced market. In a healthy Housing Market, there is usually 6,000 homes for sale at any given time. Right now our country hags less than a threemonth supply of homes and rhode island has less than a twomonth supply. As potential home buye
South too. Most of us were just looking at clouds yesterday. First of all, it is friday. Happy friday, everybody. Well see some sunshine for the first time this week. All in all, a goodlooking forecast. Most of your storm activity off the coast. You may see a few flurries into northern montgomery county, western Howard County pushing down towards d. C. And baltimore. Well see if that makes it or not. Not enough to cause any issues. You might see a few flurries as our system continues to wrap up. I saw stars for the first time in about a week when i went out to the car. Back to you. A former d. C. Police officer found guilty of murder. A jury convicted Richmond Phillips on all charges. He shot and killed his girlfriend and left his daughter in the car to die. D. C. Public schools released a list of schools that will be closed. 13 of the school will close at the end of the year and the other two will close at the end of next year. Well have the full list in just a few minutes. President
Look at the capitol dome. Taking a live look at the capitol dome. A big day on monday but lets try to enjoy the weekend first. We need to take it in while we can. The entire weekend featuring bright sunshine right into our holiday on monday. I know it is a big day for everybody who is going to be outdoors. It will be cold but at least the first halfful monday will be sunny. The first half of monday will be sunny. We get clouds monday afternoon. The sun helps a lot. The actual inauguration is at noon, right . We have i think it is at 11 00. It is in that neighborhood. There might be a few flurries. Well have more on monday coming. Lets concern ourselves with friday. Sorry to put you on the spot there. Somewhere around that time. It is monday, right . Yes, it is the public ceremony, yes. Hagerstown, getting some slight snow flurries. A couple of light flurries pushing down towards frederick and into montgomery and Howard County early this morning. Not going to amount to anything. Not wor
Minutes. So when that statement comes, well, of course bring it to you. And of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6 00 local time. This siege going on now for more than eight hours. Im john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. And im natalie allen. We have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. It is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. A gunman Holding People hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. Sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother, and has contacted a Radio Station and two tv stations via hostages
with demands, a conversation with the Prime Minister and an isil flag. We do know five people have managed to get out. Three men were seen running out two hours ago. Two of them were customers. The man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who appeared to be a work