holiday wishes come true. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. with a lot of americans getting a jump start on the holidays and traveling this week, we have a potentially dangerous storm on the move. water so high that cars and even a fedex uck g stuck. florida is drying out today after the same system dumped as much as seven inches of rain there. some roads there were completely flooded. all total today 56 million americans are under flood alerts. by the end of this weekend washout, the storm will have soaked every state from florida all the way to maine. we will get to the forecast in just a moment. but we begin tonight with george solis. reporter: tonight a storm is already packing quite a punch. charleston, south carolina, in the bull s eye today. fierce winds and torrential rain with high tide flooding neighborhoods. some cars were able to make it through the high water. and the fire department was patrolling streets helping to rescue people fro
market. april s surprising jobs report. all this coming in right here to cnn news central. all right, surprising and impressive jobs numbers just in this morning from the labor department. employers added 253,000 jobs last month. that is a lot more than the 180,000 that were expected. the unemployment rate also dropped slightly, now 3.4%, it s down from 3.5%, and 3.4% is like the lowest level it s been since 1969. this report comes just two days after the fed raised interest rates for the tenth consecutive time, all in an effort to rein in inflation. rahel solomon is with us. these are good numbers. these are good numbers and the labor market continues to defy expectations. 253,000 jobs added in the month of april. as you said, stronger than almost every economist that was polled was expecting. also stronger than the months prior. i want to put that 253,000 in perspective. we did get downward revisions for the prior two months so stronger than that, but you can see this i
aligne facilities. this continues and barbara raddatz stands by with reporting. already two confirmed tornadoes outside dallas today. this system then moves up the coast right into the northeast. rob marciano tracking it all. he s in the storm zone for us. the chilling case in florida tonight. a judge now sentencing a 16-year-old boy to life in prison for murdering his classmate, a 13-year-old cheerleader, stabbing her more than 100 times. what that beloved cheerleader s family revealed in court. tonight with a grand jury in new york weighing a possible indictment against president trump, authorities growing increasing alarm over what they believe is the former president s dangerous rhetoric. trump warning of death and destruction if he is indicted. in major news tonight in the special council s investigation into the president. president biden meeting with justin trudeau, agreeing to a new immigration deal and what this now means. terry moranis there. a good sama
She was taken from her home in southern israel, beaten up and transported by motorbike into gaza. Her daughter translated her story just hours after her release, at the hospital in tel aviv where shes being treated. My mum is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her body, with her legs on one side and her hide on another side. She was taken through the ploughed fields with the men in front on one side and a man behind her. And that whilst she was being taken, she was hit with sticks by shabaab . Yes, shabaab people. Until they reached the tunnels. There. There, they walked for a few kilometres on the wet ground. There are huge network of tunnels underneath, it looks like a spider web. Ms lifschitz also described clean conditions and guards who treated her well and took care of every detail. This video, released by hamas, shows the moment she was released, and shook hands with one of the gunmen, saying in hebrew peace peace. Ms lifshitz was released alongside 79 yea
Since 2000 to almost £13,000, which means we spent almost 28 of our disposable income, are earnings after tax, paying off these debts. That doesnt even include the mortgage. There is too much across the board because that is what people are dying and we did it about two thirds of the debt is from an increase in consumer credit. We think these figures are cause for concern and we think these are issues we need to be thinking about going into the worrying year for people when youre expecting to see another Living Standards squeeze. While some types of debt might be rising, the Bank Of England says Mortgage Arrears and loan defaults have been steadily declining. Andy haldane and from the banks of the regulator wasnt worried yet. Although the Household Debt ratio is high by historical comparison, it has come down in a fairly sizeable away, but about 20 percentage points. With Interest Rates set to remain low, regulators are worried that we may be taking on too many debts, which becomes an