highlighting our weather headlines today, that is the mississippi river, the slow-motion disaster that continues to move downstream as we get this melt water from the epic snowfall, the record-setting snowfall across the upper midwest. currently 25 river gauges lining the mississippi river with flood warnings stretching over 400 miles throughout this area as the snow continues to melt. this is an example of just the rock island, this is around the quad cities area. we do have the cresting mississippi river into the course of the weekend. i believe we have a correspondent on the ground there as well, sara? derek van dam, thank you there. let s talk more about what he was just talking about, the dangers along the mississippi now, several parks and fields are already under water, several more homes and businesses are now under threat. cnn s adrian broadus is live in kachb po davenport, iowa. i can see the issue there. tell us what you re expecting to
year before. sara? this morning, new key economic data just released that could be critical as the fed meets next week to decide if they will raise interest rates yet again. cnn s christine romans is here with more on that. good morning. good morning. what do the numbers look like, what s going to happen? we re seeing inflation cooling and this trend is pretty well established at this point. when you look at inflation up 4.2%, this is consumer inflation, it s the pc/e, the index, the one the fed likes to watch. 4.2%, that s the slowest in almost two years. still, higher than the fed would like, but the slowest in two years. and when i look from february to march, only up 0.1%, prices only up 0.1%. that is, sara, a more normal number. we ve seen a couple of years of anything but normal in the inflation story, so that number in particular i like what i see. also, there s a report out, a companion report with this that showed employee costs, wages up
happen as the river crests? reporter: well, folks in this community, sara, are taking steps to mitigate any damage. but as you can imagine as the river slowly rises those anxiety levels also go up. i m standing on a crosswalk right now. it s under water. to give you some perspective, the light poles you see that are furthest away from me mark the embankment of the mississippi river in this area. it s clearly overflowing, taking over this parking lot. this is a parking lot where we are to the right, the parking lot or the parking spaces under water to the left. this concert venue also submerged. around town this is what we have seen, people taking those steps to mitigate any damage, filling up sandbags. this team said they started filling up sandbags on monday. we spoke sw a business owner who s been in this community 14 years, and she says this isn t the first time they ve dealt with severe flooding.
of jack teixeira. he was in court for a detention hearing yesterday. the judge has not ruled on whether or not he must stay in jail while he awaits trial. all of this has promised the pentagon to review how it vets individuals before giving them security clearances. tasha bertrand is joining us now. what more are you learning about what might change when it comes to getting security clearances? you know, sara, that is what is under investigation by the pentagon, the air force inspector general, they re both trying to figure out why so many of these red flags in teixeira s background went unheeded during the process of him getting a top secret secret security clearance. prosecutors revealed what those red flags were, including he was suspended from his high school for making violent remarks about guns, about molotov cocktails,
over to, you know, around the town. but this building, these apartments, the people living here, they don t understand why it happened, john. no, it s the type of sight you don t attack unless you want to kill civilians because that is what is there. what a sight behind you. nic robertson in uman and ukraine, keep us posted, nic. sara? severe storms are possible for 55 million people across the country today as extreme weather strikes. a round of tornadoes already hitting the south. as flooding swamps the midwest. stunning images of destruction in florida, the roof completely ripped off a home after a tornado hit just west of tallahassee. you can also see tree after tree after tree snapped in half like toothpicks. let s bring in meteorologist derek van dam. the question, i guess, here is there s more to come, and soon, correct? yeah. we have a severe weather threat for 50 million americans but we re honing in on texas for the