In front of congress. This is the second day today, today was the senate, yesterday was the house, and the fed chairman says theres always a chance at recession, and guess what . The fed isnt taking negative Interest Rates off the table. She likes that tool. Take a listen. Are you considering negative rates . I know you had that question yesterday. Yes or no . I wouldnt take those off the table, but we would have work to do to judge whether they would be workable here. Beyond the spreadsheets you have to ask yourself does the fed understand the true economy for the average person out there. Peter morici and jon hilsenrath. Lot of frustration on wall street with janet yellen. We didnt know there is double speak, shes a highwire act. What do you make of her testimony yesterday and today . Well, you know, shes in a tough spot because the markets are pushing back on the feds view that the economy is getting stronger and that theyre in a position to raise Interest Rates more and you know, s
Good afternoon. Im sonya heitshusen. And im dan winters. Thanks for joining us. A high speed chase overnight resulted in shots fired by a Des Moines Police a high speed chase overnight resulted in shots fired by a officer. It began like so many do, as a routine traffic stop. It was just before 2 30 this morning when police say the driver took off. They were pursuing this man, 25 year old austin allen. He was in a stolen car and wanted on felony warrants in kansas and west des moines. Speeds reached around 80 miles an hour down southwest 14th. Police say allen lost control and went off the road in the 19hundred block of casady drive. When officer christopher brockert got out of his squad car to arrest him, allen is accused of driving right at him. Thats when brockert fired three shots at the car. 12 04 52 it was definitely a scary situation for him. He very easily could have died. The fact that he looks like it meets the standards of the law and our policy. His life was in danger and th
It is the Prime Ministers first visit and the first visit since 1977 from a Prime Minister of canada. Chuck grassley said his committee will not take up a Supreme Court nominee until a new president is elected and sworn in. The committee met today. That is coming up next on cspan2. Then Charles Bolden testifies about his agencys 2017 budget request. And later a discussion on the use of executive power. Join cspan friday at 1 30 p. M. Eastern for the Funeral Service for former first lady nancy reagan. First lady michele obama, and former president george bush and laura bush will attend the funeral. Ms. Reagan will be buried next to her husband at the library. Live coverage on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. The republicans are saying they will not vote on any nominee for the Supreme Court that is sent in them. Senator grassley is the chair and senator leahy is the leadcrack on lead democrat on the committee. [inaudible conversations] i cant officially start this meeting until we get
Low 70. Mid50s to low 60s this evening. The pollen is high. A couple of issues. Near san jose an accident is a sigalert. That is severe remark alert southbound 280 before lee a bigrig and overturned vehicle partly blocking the last lane of traffic. Heads up. The sensors are not indicating slowing but we will follow that. We have an important alert in palo alto for parents after a man exposed himself to a young girl and started following her home. Our reporter has the sketch you need to see. And the worry the mans behavior could escalate. Matt . Yes, he did this during the daylight. In Palo Alto Police are concerned. This could escalate the he could become even bolder. Each is a sketch police want you to see the suspect described as white map between 25 and 30. Average height. Skinny. Suntanned skin and scruffy black hair to the bottom neck. The girl was walking two dogs on monday before sunset and the man stepped to pet her dogs, stood up and exposed himself. The girl walked home but t
Al qaeda, and its leaders have raised their leader. No surprise that Russian Foreign officials including the security minister and secretary of the Security Council have described isis as the main threat to russia and the main threat to global security, respectively. N the u. S. Side, there is less agreement of whether isis represents a top threat. So, since neither the United States or russia can tolerate the existence of isis in the middle east and both countries need to come counter al qaeda and keep it on the run, i would argue there is definitely grounds for potential cooperation. That is impeded by different approaches toward syria, although i believe, and russian officials have said officially that russia is not married to Bashar Alassad. I believe in the long term there is a possibility for ransition. Or now, the u. S. Russian ooperation could be limited to fighting isil in iraq in joint operations, which is something u. S. And Russian Special forces have done on a low scale in