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with rosenstein in order to avoid competing with judge kavanaugh s hearing. the meeting is not on the official white house schedule. the central bank raised interest rates for the third time this year and said more hikes are on the way. it affecting borrowing costs. fed chair jerome powell thinks the economy can handle it. our economy is strong. growth is running at a healthy clip. unemployment is low. the number of people working is rising steadily. and wages are up. inflation is low and stable. the fed forecast the u.s. economy would grow for three more years, but it heard the rising chorus of the u.s. and china trade war. the impact is still small and could lead to higher prices. powell said the fed does not bow to political influence as
and good morning to you. it is tuesday, december 13th. i feel like it s a homecoming. a long time since the three of us have been together. good to see you. as usual a busy, busy news morning. breaking news now. four soldiers are dead after two army choppers went down during a training exercise. it happened a joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. crash investigators are trying to find out what went wrong right now. pliv on the pholive on the phon crash site. what do we know? i m watching the lights of the recovery teams that have been looking throughout the night to go in the grim task of recovering those bodies of the four aviators that lost their lives. still don t know what went wrong. at about 11:00 p.m. eastern last nim, sometime after 11:00 p.m. two helicopters crashed killing everybody aboard both helicopters. these are small observation helicopters, ali. the eyes and ears of what s on the ground. flying maneuvers over a training area when this crash to
middle of springish. temperatures will only be in the 60s in some cases. still warm here ahead of the storm system, and that will move through the mid-atlantic and into new england. yesterday boston, you got drenched. so far, so good, it s a dry start to your day. thunderstorms likely later this afternoon. right now storms heading outside of rochester. heading for syracuse in a half hour. court land down to binghamton. it looks like new york city should deal with this round of storms. severe weather-wise, areas in yellow, slight risk of severe storms. large hail, damaging winds were the worst of the storms. that will be up through west virginia, pennsylvania, and new york. so the forecast for today, if you re going to be traveling through the airports this afternoon and this evening, that s where we ll have the best chance of delays. typical summertime weather, hot and humid, and we ll get those storms. bill, thanks so much. a disappointing fed forecast. the final act in the winkle