our hearts go out to you. i think it is such a beautiful way for it to be sent off with people around and people here for days and days. that is exactly what she wanted. and this is a humanitarian crisis created by human hands. it is an all hands on deck moment. they re coming into southern states. what is a governor supposed to do. they re trying to send a message to the rest of the country. to make sure that no one is homeless and hungry and that we always continue to treat people like human beings. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. and we begin hurricane fiona is punishing puerto rico the entire island now completely without power. the category 1 storm made landfall this afternoon and is wreaking havoc with heavy winds an rainment and look at this video showing what some of the flash flooding has already done in some areas. we have layla santiago in san juan and first to you, what is the situation there on the ground? well we
many of my colleagues have responded to what i think is a great moral test and challenge of our time. some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter of a key putin ally was preplanned. a murder investigation is now under way after she died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and also considered an architect of the ukraine invasion and often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen has more. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stan
li on the difference in 24 hours. susan? a new reality that inflation is higher and may stay elevated for some time. today s wholesale prices are the inflation that producers pay still much higher than a year ago. sure, coming down from the previous month. couple that with yesterday s consumer price jump and we re close to the 40-year highs and that s more than four times the way the federal reserves thinks is healthy for the economy. close to a third predicting a full 1 percentage point rate hike from the central bank. that could be the biggest central increase since 1984 when paul volcker was fed chair. before yesterday s report, that probability was at zero. elon musk weighing in. he thinks the federal reserve should cut interest rates because of the drop in lumber, cop per and oil. nobody is expecting a cut in rates until next year. stock market didn t recover much from yesterday s sell off. you have more job cuts by big technology companies. that s why some are calling
$90,000 per year says this has created financial hardship for them. carley: americans are optimistic about falling gas prices and people feel better about the economy. kevin corke has more on the white house victory lap. good morning. kevin: to hear the white house, the president has taken america from crisis to resurgence and that is the message he will float later today at 3 p.m. to hype the inflation reduction act. president biden: do we need to sell the house? do we need to skip payments on the car? can we afford to send the kids to college? inflation reduction act is a god send. it will save people one prostate cancer drug $6000 a year. thousands of women are taking breast cancer treatment. we will see the savings. kevin: for all the back slapping, analysts point out that the biden students loan give away will eat up progress on inflation. the student debt cancellation announced by the biden administration will cost $500 billion over 10 years, under our estimate,
10 other mps from the party have so far announced their intentions to run. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. britain s conservatives like to think of themselves as belonging to the natural party of government. this week, it s looked more like the natural party of farce. two cabinet ministers announced publicly that they d had enough of borisjohnson. mrjohnson had not had enough of himself and for 48 hours, he dug in his heels, refusing to resign as prime minister, even as, one after another, members of his government resigned. in all, five cabinet level and 23junior ministers quit because he wouldn t, along with a couple of dozen parliamentary aides. on wednesday evening, the prime minister sacked one of his oldest allies who d told him to go. another, who d accepted promotion from him just the night