Its been making those since last september. In a statement, the federal open Market Committee said its waiting for evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the wais of its purchases. The stimulus has pumped cash into the mortgage and bond markets, keeping Mortgage Rates and borrowing costs low. That has fueled the red hot Housing Market and spurred stocks to a 20 gain over the past year. Many investors expect stocks to go higher. Good news for 401 k s but only half the country is invested in stocks. There are fewer people working but fewer people who are looking for work and so that meant that the Unemployment Rate came down but for the wrong reasons. Reporter companies are used to getting by with fewer workers since the recession. That and slow Economic Growth but ben bernanke and whoever succeeds him in a tough spot. Goldman sachs saying the next potential window for this tapering of the fed might be the december fed reserve meeting. Stay tuned. There is a meeting in
A good evening to you on this wednesday night as we come on the air. 17 Million People in two states have been given an urgent red flag warning about the risk of fire where they live. Some families are taking the wreckage and others fighting the fire with the garden hoses. For some, look and listen. That is the war of a wildfire outside san diego and that is where we find cecilia vega. Reporter good evening to you. What a day it has been. The firefighters just put the fire out at this house here. This is a battle they did not win. Take a look at this. Smoke smoldering. Flames in the back. What these firefighters are up against extremely hot temperatures. Really high gust of winds making for a treacherous day to fight a fire. The golden state ablaze. Oh my god, oh my god. Reporter is carlsbad, california, firefighters and the people whose homes they are trying to save, on the losing end of a raging battle. I have been doing this 35 years and this is some of the most radical Fire Fightin
The Texas Health Presbyterian hospital worker reported a fever late friday and was diagnosed with the preliminary test. If those test results are confirmed that cdc headquarters in atlanta, it will be the first time ebola has been transmitted person to person in the United States. We know this infected person cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of ebola here in this country. Hospital Officials Say this worker had been under the cdcs selfmonitoring regime due to duncans involvement in his care. The entire process from the patients selfmonitoring to admission to isolation took less than 90 minutes. The patients condition is stable. A close contact has also been proactively placed in isolation. Thomas duncan died wednesday after he was readmitted for treatment. We know he was initially sent home despite having a 103degree fever. We go now to dallas. Sarah, do we know when this infected hospital worker came into contact with mr. Duncan . Reporter we just learned a little
So, its the largest nonnuclear bomb that the u. S. Military has in its arsenal. Its 21,000 pounds. It was dropped from a u. S. Aircraft. As far as we know, this is the first time that this specific munition was dropped on the battlefield. Its been tested before, but actually on the battlefield. It was targeted targeting a tunnel complex, going after isis fighters and potentially some leaders. We were told, ive been told by u. S. Military officials it was a large contingent of isis fighters in this tunnel. Isis has been a problem for the u. S. Military in Nangarhar Province where we saw the strike today. Its been a problem that general nicholson has addressed several times and has now there is now an active specific offensive meant to deal specifically with isis there. We saw that was in the news just recently when a u. S. Military special Operations Forces soldier was killed as part of that fight, not far from where this munition was dropped. Courtney colonel jack, let me bring you aut
James comey set to testify tomorrow. We get to new reporting on that in a moment. First today we will hear testimony in the Senate Intel Committee from some of the nations highest Law Enforcement intel directors. Rod rosenstein, Andrew Mccabe and director of National Intelligence dan coats expected on capitol hill. The hearings will be overshadowed by another report breaking late last night. The Washington Post reports march 22nd, the president asked dan coats to intervene with fbi director james comey to get the bure to take the heat off National Security adviser Michael Flynn in its russia probe. The meeting a week after coats was sworn in, two days after comey testified on capitol hill that the fbi was investigating the Trump Campaign and possible collusion with russia. Coats was at this briefing with a number of other officials across government agencies. According to the paper as the meeting was concluding, the president asked everyone to leave the room except for coats and cia di