A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. So an engineer has stabilized the dam for now. You heard them state their plan. Claire stagers with us from the university of lynchburg. Good to take to you, claire. Good to talk to you. How are you doing today . Shepard good. Might have been frightening when they said 125 houses could be under 17 feet of water. Yes, sir. Im not part of that but im close to it. It would turn my tenminute commute to 30 minutes if i had to reroute. Shepard i guess three inches of rain in an hour, thats a lot for anybody, even your part of the world. Yes, sir, a lot of water. Came into our basement as well last night. Shepard thanks, claire. I know theyve been trying to shore it up. They have taken a 3 x 3 foot area, a spillway, to relieve the pressure. The problem is theres rain on the way. Lets get to Rick Reichmuth live
in the extreme weather center. How are they looking in lynchburg . We have one bad batch of storms but things g
which is good in anyone s books. kudlow says the economy is looking good, the job numbers are strong and the forecast for economic growth in the future is looking good as well. listen to what he said. we re at a high plateau. manufacturing was strong. professional services, unemployment went down. very nice report. the atlanta fed, gdp model, preliminary, predicting 5% for q3. i would be happy with 3. they re predicting 5. we re off to a good start. the unemployment numbers dropped before 4% to 3.9%. that puts it .2 off of a 50 year low. back in 1969, the unemployment rate was 3.7%. we re close to that. republicans are complaining the white house isn t doing enough to sell the good economic numbers ahead of the mid-terms. shepard: john, china announced retaliatory tariffs on