The same amount of moisture as our past few systems, and amounts are expected to stay at or below a half inch. Temperatures tomorrow will struggle to get to 70 over the north half, with lower 70s farther south. Dry sky returns for wednesday and thursday with our next chance of rain arriving again around friday. Enjoy your monday today mostly sunny and breezy. Wind s 1020 high 80 tonight mostly cloudy. Showers move in late in the night. Wind s 515 low 63 tomorrow mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Wind w 510. High 73 tom. Night chance of showers, mainly early. Wind n 510. Low 54 thanks kaj. Today, linn county supervisors will vote for whether to raise the minimum wage. One more yes vote would boost the minimum wage from 7dollars and 25 cents an hour to 825 an hour. Then each year, it would go up by a dollar until an hour. The first increase would happen at the beginning of next year. Johnson county was the first to increase its county minimum wage. The wage there wil
So a scary headline number isnt as bad as it seems when you look underneath. Reporter and thats what economists say Federal Reserve policy makers did. After studying the economy for two days, chairman ben bernanke and his colleagues issued what most called a no news statement. The fed says it will keep Interest Rates near zero and plans to keep buying bonds in order to keep Interest Rates low. Todays g. D. P. Report didnt change that plan. What the fed is trying to do is generate stronger labor Market Growth and labor Market Performance and we dont really have any data on that yet. So we dont have the employment report yet, so we think it is just status quo for the fed at this time. Reporter well, almost status quo. The fed continues to watch congress closely for clues about whether deep, automatic federal spending cuts will take effect in a month or congress will decide to close down parts of the government as republicans and democrats battle over the budget. I think the fed is very c
So a scary headline number isnt as bad as it seems when you look underneath. Reporter and thats what economists say Federal Reserve policy makers did. After studying the economy for two days, chairman ben bernanke and his colleagues issued what most called a no news statement. The fed says it will keep Interest Rates near zero and plans to keep buying bonds in order to keep Interest Rates low. Todays g. D. P. Report didnt change that plan. What the fed is trying to do is generate stronger labor Market Growth and labor Market Performance and we dont really have any data on that yet. So we dont have the employment report yet, so we think it is just status quo for the fed at this time. Reporter well, almost status quo. The fed continues to watch congress closely for clues about whether deep, automatic federal spending cuts will take effect in a month or congress will decide to close down parts of the government as republicans and democrats battle over the budget. I think the fed is very c
And we are getting new information on the search for two convicted killers on the run. Officers are to you going door todoor through 500 homes in northern new york, marking each home after its searched. We are also told by Law Enforcement sources that motion sensors and surveillance cameras have been set up in the woods inside a search perimeter. And police have interviewed the husband of a prison worker who was arrested on friday. Anna werner is in west plattsburgh. Law enforcement officers continued their search for escapees richard matt and david sweat on foot and in the sky in a wadded area just a few miles west of the prison in dannemora. But the convicts plan may have been to go far away from here. Clinton County District attorney andrew wylie says the prison employee who allegedly helped them escape, joyce mitchell, told investigators she was supposed to pick the two up at the power plant near the prison in her fourwheel drive jeep then drive them seven hours away to a place the
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Today the president raged against the murder of children in yesterdays chemical attack in syria, but when pressed he seemed unable to express a policy on the syrian civil war. President trump took several questions at a rose garden News Conference today alongside the king of jordan, facing his First International crisis when mr. Trump was asked about syria, he changed the subject, blamed the obama administration, and described himself as flexible. Last week the Trump Administration reversed u. S. Policy and said that the syrian dictator could remain in power and not be held accountable for crimes in the sixyearold war. The apparent nerve gas attack happened five days later. Major garrett begins our coverage. I want to thank you both very much. Reporter in the oval office with jordans king abdullah, enesident trump called the Syrian Regimes chemical weapons attack on civilians an affront to humanity. Are