this is cnn news central. already this morning, donald trump arrived in federal court and donald trump left his next stop. everyone was waiting to see if trump would take the stand today in his defamation trial, but then court was adjourned. so now he ll leave the courtroom campaign to head to the actual campaign trail in the final hours there before polls open in new hampshire. nikki haley is out talking to voters already this morning and as we have just heard, is taking it to donald trump. here she was moments ago. when you hear trump speak, what s he talking about? grievances, the past, he s talking about vendettas, today he s in court. biden is talking about investigations. neither one of them is talking about the future. we have live team coverage for you this hour. crist tennessee holmes is in new hampshire. court was cancelled a short time ago. what more are you learning about what happened? reporter: there was a delayed start to court. once the judge got on
the global monetary pivot that was what some commentators were declaring on wednesday, after the us federal reserve said it had probably finished raising interest rates, and signalled it was planning to start cutting them next year. but clearly, neither the european central bank nor the bank of england got the memo. they left their rates on hold and said it was too early to talk about cutting them. in fact, here in the uk, three members of the bank of england monetary policy committee actually voted to raise the interest rate above its current level of 5.25%. the bank is worried that inflation the rate that prices are rising is still not under control. our economics editor faisal islam reports # last christmas, i gave you my heart.# liverpool s christmas market the festive spirit is here, but little sign of a marked upturn in the economy. people here continuing to have to cope with new surges in the cost of living, even as inflation slows. i sold my car last week. car
john and sandra. good afternoon. it s a wet friday. i m martha maccallum. thanks for joining us. we have a big line-up for you this hour. we begin here in the northeast where sandra was just saying millions of new york city residents are being urged to shelter in place at this hour as torrential and life-threating rain causes huge highway tie-ups and subways are flooding in new york city. there s hundreds of flights that have been cancelled or delayed at this point. katie byrne reporting live from hoboken, new jersey just across the river. high, katie. hi, martha. a lot of people that were able to make it in to the city or to hoboken for work this morning are now wondering how they ll get home. we have roads submerged in water here in hoboken. if i step out in the street, the water gets deeper. we ve been here all day. the water has not receded much at all. it s one of those days that you can t get around hoboken by car. i ve talked to a lot of commuters. we re by the train
in 2016 donald trump carried michigan with the support of the car workers. today it wasjoe biden who stood alongside them, the most pro union president, he said, in american history. but does he support their calls for a four day week, and how will he resolve a strike in its 11th day, that costing the us economy billions of dollars? we will get the thoughts on that and the impending government shutdown from our panel this evening in washingtonjoel rubin former advisor to the us state department and on this side, the conservative commentator and columnist tim montgomerie. its hsz, the high speed rail linke that weighs on rishi sunak. but if he scraps it where does that leave the plan for levelling up. leave the plan for levelling up? we ll hearfrom one engineer tonight who worked on the project who thinks phase 2 should be dropped. good evening. it is without precedent. a sitting us president joining a picket line. joe biden was in michigan today to visit the workers striking