Plan to help struggling families. How far the feds should go to keep our streets safe. And breaking right now, the fight over who gets to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Live from your local election headquarters, this is the u. S. Senate debate North Carolina. Welcome to the u. S. Senate debate North Carolina. I am your host and moderator tonight. Here tonight, republican incumbent senator thom tillis and democratic challenger Cal Cunningham. Gentleman, welcome. Our debate is airing statewide across North Carolina, and we are live streaming. You can join the conversation from anywhere on social media using nc senate debate. Along with myself, our moderators are asking the questions. Bob buckley, political reporter at wghp, and angela taylor, anchor here at cbs 17. Now for the rules. Candidates have 30 seconds for opening and closing remarks, one minute forming questions, 30 seconds for rebuttal and 30 seconds for followup questions. We will be using this bell to indicate your ti
Lets get over to china correspondent in beijing for more. What are the latest developments . The economic front, we did hear from the finance minister over the weekend. There will be additional measures from china to cut taxes and fees to support the economy. We saw additional meters over bond issues at the local government level. Additional letters from policymakers to support the economy. Meet its social and economic target. The question is how much budgetary pressure china will be under and how aggressive these stimulus measures are going to be. Pboc has lowered Interest Rates ensure Financial Markets in terms of cases, 68,500 are the latest numbers in terms of infection. 1600 deaths. The rate of infections continues to slow. We had a doctor out of one of the hospital say that now according to state media, this is starting potentially to peak the rate of infection. The new officials on hubei profits, wuhan is the capital, population they are told not to leave their homes. Leadership
If she could. The latest. And counting the cost. We had to miami where Hurricane Dorian is capable of causing billions of dollars in losses. Newseen we have breaking out of south korea. Looking at the inflation numbers. Yearoveryear is flat. 0. 6 in july. Forecast to be up 0. 2. This is now the lowest inflation rate yearoveryear for korea on record. Pointing out they are missing falling into deflation for the first time. If you look at the core cpi, it is up 0. 9 . It takes out food and energy. Energy has been under pressure. If you are at the bank of korea looking at this, you have to think this could raise pressure for the bank do something at their next meeting. Gdp coming in for the Second Quarter at percent. Prior, 1. 1 . A small difference, not superstrong. Yearoveryear, 2 . Probably considered enough for the bank of korea for now. That number will catch a lot of attention. We will see how markets react. Lets look across asian market. You can see the red on my board. Asian tradin
Testifiesller finally but his longawaited appearance falls somewhat short of democrat hopes. Shery we have breaking south korea gdp numbers for the Second Quarter. The preliminary numbers year on year are seeing growth of 2. 1 , which is better than the expected 1. 9 growth. It is also an acceleration from 1. 7 in the First Quarter. Quarter on quarter, those numbers also avoiding a technical recession after contracting 0. 4 in the First Quarter. We are now seeing quarter on quarter growth of 1. 1 , which is better than expected. It seems that we have seen more Government Spending and south korea. The contraction that we saw in deceleration in the First Quarter came from local governments not spending as much. Now we have Government Spending kicking and again. Also consumption being relatively resilient despite the fact we have been getting contracting freddie lacks exports contracting the last seven months. This has been a difficult environment for south korea. Investments have been fa