memorable state of the unions in the past. welcome back. we begin this hour with the breaking news in turkey and syria where tens of thousands of emergency workers continuing the frantic search for survivors from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake responsible for killing more than 5,000 people already. more than 23,000 people have been injured. turkey s president erdogan saying that ten cities within his country are disaster zones and declaing a three-month state of emergency. countries pledge their support. matt bradley is in turkey. turkish officials say they have made 8,000 rescues. what are you seeing there today? reporter: yeah, we have not seen anyone taken out alive from this building, one of 6,000 here in turkey that the government says have been completely levelled by those twin earthquakes, some of the most devastating, most powerful this region has ever seen. this neighborhood is reeling from this event, even though this appears to be one of the only buildi
times higher than when president biden took office. bill: threatening to make it worse a possible strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers. could happen as soon as friday. stoppage would cost the economy $2 billion a day. that leaves about a third of the u.s. freight in the lurch. dana: biden administration is working to broker a deal between unions and rail companies. the dispute is already impacting service with amtrak suspending some trains. kelly o grady has the latest on the possible rail strike and edward lawrence reporting on the inflation news from the white house. the inflation year-over-year 8.3% ticks down a little bit. the federal reserve would like to see the number around 2%. the federal reserve is going to be focused on the core inflation. inflation without food and energy prices. that number went up for the first time in five months and rose substantially to 6.3%. that will spook the federal reserve. the biden administration will tout the overall
ports so explosives, several items that could be used to create additional weapons. authorities doctor arranged for a mental health evaluation for that boy. joining us now to talk about the shooting in tulsa is democratic oklahoma state representative melissa pravenzano. thank you so much for being with us. can you give us the latest if there have been any updates since last night? certainly. thank you for having me. first i want to express my profound sorrow to the families of the victims here in tulsa. i can t imagine what it would be like to be in that situation, as well as sincere thanks to our tulsa police, the highway patrol, the county officers and our first responders, they got the call and three minutes later they were in that building and we just couldn t have asked for more. so far, you know what i know at this point. we are still just taking a look and seeing, they have not released the names of the victims and we re just kind of waiting with bated breath. i
Would go c. Taylor swift over an nfl game, but maybe its just me. All right. Thanks to our panel. Thanks. All of you for joining us. Have a wonderful weekend. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now. Breaking overnight windows blown out of downtown highrise traffic lights, loved dabbling, and hundreds of thousands of people in the dark, a deadly Storm Lashing partner some texas and louisiana bringing Hurricane Force winds and torrential rain. So chaos on capitol hill after dark, unbridled lugs, slinging insults confusion. Some of the biggest names of congress, right, in the medulla and cnn is on the ground in ukraine seeing firsthand the citys russia is now now pushing into our team, forced to take cover when russian drones fly overhead, im kate baldwin was sarah sayyed nar and john berman. This is Cnn News Central breaking overnight, at least four people have been killed up for storms, hammer texas and louisiana. The threat not over yet, more than 14 Million People are still
Hi, everybody. Its thursday. Its 4 00 in new york. It is also day 18 of the people of the state of new york vermont donald trump, the expresident s former Attorney Michael Cohen is just off the Witness Stand. The jury is done with their service for the day. Prosecutors and attorneys for the expresident are dealing with the all important question of what happens next. Its happening right now. A hearing over what the defenses case will look like and if they will make a case, if they have a case to present the updates from that hearing that is happening as we meet well bring them to you right away. All this is in the wake of a rather desperate and uneven attempt to undercut Michael Cohens credibility. It was to be generous, hit and miss, defense attorney todd blanche had a Second Chance at cross examining Michael Cohen after a day of rest yesterday. He moved around from topic to topic so quickly that todd blanche decided that todd should apologize to the jurors who would decide Donald Tru