ready. have supplies for five, seven days. having everything you need, medicine, food, water. you have to take it serious. we have activated the florida national guard. they are activating 2,500 guards men at the moment. and if there is a need for more, we could do more. we have meteorologist standing by in the weather center. we saw that 5:00 a.m. update, now officially a hurricane. what is the latest on ian s track across the caribbean toward florida here. the system has everything it takes to really amplify over the next couple days and strengthen possibly to a category 4. that s the concern. all the environmental concerns absolutely conducive for rapid development of the storm system. we take a look at this because category 1 right now about 100 miles south of the cayman islands, about 300 islands south of the tip of cuba. the governments of these countries have taken this seriously. hurricane warnings have been prompted in advance of this feature. northwest caribbe
highest interest rate, folks, not investors the central bank will keep higher rates until inflation comes down. home buyers mortgage rates well above 6% here, new home sells coming later this week to show us what s happening in the housing market with these higher rates. the british pound plunging to a new record low, falling more than 4% against u.s. dollar. cnn clarissa popping in live from london. i woke up to this headline, wow. this has been, what, predictions of the pound could plum met further here? yeah, christine, it was a brutal morning, not just the fact that it edged closer than ever towards record low, speed of the fall, an emerging market like move, disorderly. now stabilized gone from about 1.03 to the dollar up to 1.07. some significant stabilization,