Sexual assault. Marianne rafferty is live with a fight that is escalating across the country. Marianne good evening. Reporter good evening trace. In his opinion temporarily blocking rules j David F Bowman says he hopes the state and School Boards can negotiate in good faith and strike a balance between protecting transgender students and the rights of parents to bring up their kids. Three School Districts in Monmouth County were sued by the state back in june after adopting policies that require teachers and staff to inform a parent if their child wanted to use pronouns or School Facilities that did not conform to their sex at birth. That injunction is temporary while the larger case plays out in the states civil rights division. Temperature attorney representing the Marlboro Board Of Education saying that process could take years. In the meantime he writes the School District is now severely constrained in its ability to notify parents about important issues involving their minor chil
Thats slightly higher than expected and driven mainly by higher costs for gasoline and rents. In the 12 months up to february, the cpi rate increased by 3. 2 , compared to 3. 1 injanuary. The core rate, stripping out those volatile elements such as fuel and rents, fell to 3. 8 from 3. 9 injanuary, but that was still higher than the 3. 7 expected. This latest data suggests there is still some stickiness with inflation that will be scrutinised by the Federal Reserve as it weighs up a highly anticipated Interest Rate cut injune. Lets head over to new york and speak to our north America Business correspondent michelle fleury. As far as the fed is concerned, it is about how they respond to this number. It is not going in the direction they wanted it to. The tricky word direction they wanted it to. The tricky word that direction they wanted it to. Tue tricky word that you direction they wanted it to. Tte tricky word that you were stumbling over, sticky, and a lot of this is to do with housin
Neil carberry is the Chief Executive of the recruitment and employment confederation. We have definitely seen a cooling in Labour Market demand for newjobs over the last year, year and a half. And lots of change going on inside companies as they adapt to a slower economy. So, definitely signs of a cooling, that of course is what the bank is looking for to justify dropping Interest Rates in the next few months. But i think what is important to say is that there is nothing precipitous here, unemployment overall is still low, demand is still relatively high next to historic standards. So this is a gentle cooling, more of a soft landing rather than anything more challenging. And there is some hope in the business surveys for a turnaround later in the year. The rec speaks for 3,000 Recruitment Agencies all over the country and what we are getting is not employers shutting up shop and not hiring, but those Decision Making timescales take a bit longer, maybe we will recruit that rule next mon
Also ahead, an alleged Assassination Attempt against Volodymyr Zelenskyy thwarted. What were learning about the apparent informant accused of Sharing Intelligence with russia, and an unknown road ahead for americas trucking industry, as trucking giant, yellow, declares bankruptcy, after years of financial struggles and growing debt, how this Seismic Shift could impact you. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments, lets go ahead and start with Donald Trumps attorneys who have a 5 00 p. M. Deadline to respond to the Special Counsels concerns over trump disclosing evidence in the Election Interference Case. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is tracking it. So whats the latest . We are waiting for trumps Defense Counsel to put forward their own filing. Its important to note they had initially asked for an extension of time over the weekend, but the judge denied their motion, and so 5 00 p. M. Is this deadline. Lets be clear, this is not a gag order the department of justice i
Speaking before squeezed by massive bills, there is still Spending Power out there. A lot of our customers are probably a bit older, so we dont feel the mortgage rate, although it creates uncertainty for them and that does and we do notice when there is a rate rise, everyone gets a bitjittery. Does it feel like we are getting green shoots . I dont feel that there is green shoots, no, no. I dont feel that there is green shoots, no, no. I feel we are in a holding pattern. It could go either way. Today, the Bank Of England said the tough medicine was beginning to work. Less tha n less than two years they have over 14 steps raised Interest Rates to the highest level in 15 years in an attempt to drain Spending Powerfrom the Spending Power from the economy. The period of near zero Interest Rates now consigned to history with the bank warning that rates could remain at this level for some time. If you asked the question, yes, and when are rates going to come down . My answer is we are going t