Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening and thank you for joining us. The 80thousand residents of floridas southernmost point the keys were allowed to go home today. For the First Time Since forced evacuations before hurricane irma. Police let cars with residential stickers pass through checkpoints on route 1, the main road through the keys. When irma made landfall here as a category four hurricane seven days ago, it damaged or destroyed 90 of the homes in the area. The keys are not what you left several days ago, when you evacuated. Thompson officials are warning residents to bring their own food and water and be prep
Essentially met the feds goals certainly on the employment side and nearing it on the inflation side. 2 inflation goal. She continues to expect, however, gradual rate hikes and says the fed or the committee has decided its appropriate to move to a neutral stance of Monetary Policy rather than one that is accommodative or stimulating the economy. Not acting, the fed chair war n warre warrens waiting too long risks rapid rate hikes. No evidence that the fed chair says its fallen behind the curve and the u. S. Economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of several shocks. Some of them domestic and some of them global. Prospects for growth, quote, look encouraging and global risks have receded somewhat. Economic challenges, she says, do remain. Doesnt give the economy a clean bill of health and points out some of the problems that plague the economy, low productivity, for example, fiscal policies would best help address rather than monetary polishes. So, whats happening here, guys,
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. The Trump Administrations Foreign Policy team is articulating dual priorities for the United States in syria. Today, secretary of state Rex Tillerson said the ongoing fight against the Islamic State group, or isis, which is headquartered in raqqa, syria, remains the primary goal. Our priority is, first, the defeat of isis remove them from access to the caliphate, because that is where the threat to the homeland and so many of our homelands of our Coalition Partners is emanating from. Sreenivasan tillerson added, in his trip to moscow this week, he
The latest. Reporter the latest is right on lehigh spann has the latest. Reporter the latest is right here. Its right on the border of haiti. Jamaica already seeing heavy flooding, and matthew is the strongest storm to hit the islands in decades. This is where it is right now. Look at the satellite imagery compared to tampa right here, and its about to fall this is just for a brief period along haiti before it heads north this just came in 2 3 minutes ago. 145mile an hour winds. Its interesting it will not interact with a lot of land, and it remains a category 4 hurricane through the middle of the week, and then it is expected to take a westerly track, close to the florida coast, and this is early friday notice the cone of uncertainty. Any deviation west or east will imact us locally. All computer models in agreement, making the shift unfortunately closer to floridas east coast before heading to new england. You think why the shift . This big area of High Pressure in the atlantic has b
This is first at 4. 8 on your side wants to know how Hurricane Matthew will affect those of us in the bay area. Lets check in with our storm team 8 meteorologist. That is a big question Everyone Wants to know, how it will affect their area. Right now Hurricane Matthew still a major category 3 storm as it is moving toward the bahamas. It will approach florida as we head into tomorrow evening. Hurricane warnings have been posted along the east coast coast is under a hurricane warning. Tropical storm warnings in effect for polk and highland counties. Tropical for storm winds are possible within the next 24 hours. Heres the 2 pm advisory. You can see max winds still at 120 miles power. It moves off to the northwest at 12 miles power. As we head into tomorrow evening heres a look at the track. Were expecting it to become very close to the east coast of florida. The strongest ones to the west coast were if it does make landfall that makes things considerably worse along the east coast. Regar