Bill thats a scene a short time ago as Israel And Hezbollah are on the brink of an allout War Prompting the u. S. To send more troops to the Middle East and casting a shadow over President Bidens final u. N. Address scheduled in an hour. Big doings here. Im bill hemmer. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. I imagine this is not at all the speech that biden thought he would be giving at this point. Well track that for you. Were also tracking an eruption of intense fighting across the israeli lebanon border. Idf is going on the defensive. The worst Fighting Lebanon has seen in decades and could plunge the entire region into chaos. Bill the black drop of the bloodshed for the u. N. General assembly. It was supposed to be a Victory Lap for President Biden. Now addressing a failure of u. S. Foreign policy. Rich edson reports from the u. N. Nate foye from Tel Aviv and lets begin in israel with the conflict there. Nate, hello. Good morning. Breaking into within the past hour wer
Just coming in right now. The Federal Reserve has announced a half a point. That was not the most expected. Most of what i read was a Quarter Point expected. It was a toss up, and really heres the thing, the Federal Reserve raised Interest Rates to get inflation down. The more recent readings we have gotten on the economy the last six weeks since the last time they announced decision is pointing to a weakness in the labor department. To cut into unemployment and make more people get out of jobs or increase unemployment further, well, thats the reason why they wanted to dramatically cut Interest Rates. They decided to do so by half a Percentage Point. Economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed. Well have to see what Fed Chair Jerome powell says to explain cutting Interest Rates by a Half Point. Im going to ask the Control Room if we can get a ticker and keep an eye on whats going on with the stock market. Its going wild . There we go. Ran insana, th
For now, we are signing off. From all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. I will see you at The End of tomorrow. Today, the today, the country experienced another uniquely american tragedy when a gunman walked into apalachee High School in winder, georgia, and killed at Least four people and wounded nine more. The suspect, a 14yearold Boy is currently in police custody. Because this is a uely american problem, it quickly became part of the american president ial campaign. At a rally in new Hampshire Today, Kamala Harris spoke on prepared remarks to address what happened in georgia this morning. It is outrageous that everything in our country in the united states of american, parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive. Im going off script right now. The kis are sitting in a classroom where they should be fufilling their godgiven potential and some part of their big beautif
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