Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Always a pleasure to be with you on a sunday morning. We are started with the historic United Auto Workers strike. Union members say they had reasonably productive talks with ford saturday, but the union and the three Major Companies are still far apart on wages and benefits. Ford and General Motors responded by threatening layoffs for nonstriking workers due to the lack of parts from striking plants. General motors says they will lay off up to 2,000 workers this week if the strike continues. The workers walking the picket lines say they will stick it out until they get a deal that suits them. Gabe cohen is in ohio with more. Reporter saturday we saw the first small signs of any progress in these negotiations between the union and any of the big three automakers. This after the union met with ford. A source for the union Telling C Fcnn we had reasonable negotiations. Ford saying that they are committed to reaching an agreement with auw that re
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. Good to be with you. We begin this morning with the historic United Auto Workers strike against the big three u. S. Automakers, ford, General Motors and stellantis. Union members say they had reasonably productive talks with ford saturday. But the union and throw Major Companies are far apart on wages and benefits. The companies are essentially offering half of what at unions are demanding as it relates to pay increases. Hundreds of workers walked off walked the picket lines, i should say. They are prepared to wait in order to get an agreement that suits them. Gabe cohen is in ohio with more. Reporter saturday we saw the first small signs of any progress in these negotiations between the union and the big three automakers. This after the union met with ford, a source with the union telling cnn we had reasonably productive conversations with ford today. Certainly no deal. But a big step in the rig
Good morning, everyone. It is saturday, september 16th. Im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. Youre in the cnn newsroom. We begin this morning with dangerous Weather Conditions brought by now post Tropical Cyclone lee. As necklace starts to feel the impact as new england starts to feel the impact of the storm, Boston International airport is experiencing a spike in flight cancellations. So far, 25 of flights leaving boston have been canceled. That is according to flight aware. While the storm is not expected to make landfall in the u. S. , the outer bands of the powerful storm are expected to pack strong 50 to 60 mileanhour winds and bring storm surges that can cause flooding throughout the new england post. Authorities are telling people to prepare to go home and stay there, as the storm pushes north through the day. Lee is also expected to cause dangerous rip currents along the atlantic coast, with many states warning people to stay out of the ocean this weekend, because of the dange
Have a good night. Tonight chance of storms. Isolated heavy rain possible. Wind s 510. Low 67 tomorrow chance of damage. The Butler County emergency manager says that includes the town of greene. There, trees are down falling on homes and power lines. Again in floyd county, nearly every road across the southwestern portion is under water. There are also trees down near marble rock. As damage reports continue to trickle in remember to call us on newsline nine. Send us your pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Were following a developing story out of charlotte, north carolina. A man is in life support after he was shot during protests over a Police Shooting there. This is a live look at those protests. Right now, officers are in riot gear, and are using tear gas to control the protests that have gotten violent. Pop these demonstratio ns are a second night in a row. They broke out after an officer shot and killed 43 yearold keith scott. Police say the officer approached scott,
Rain will be capable of another 14 over northern areas, before dropping southward towards cedar rapids and iowa city later this morning. More rain is possible tonight with drying conditions from midday friday into all of saturday. Another round of rain is also possible sunday into monday. Please stay tuned for further flooding updates. Today storms likely. Isolated very heavy rain totals possible. Wind s 515. High 79 tonight chance of storms. Wind s 510. Low 64 tomorrow partly sunny. Wind s 510. High 83 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind se 510. Low 64 the Butler County emergency manager says that includes the town of greene. There, trees are down, falling on homes and power lines. In floyd county, nearly every road across the southwestern portion of the county is under water. Sandbagging efforts are also starting today in charles city as people there prepare for the cedar river to rise. We spoke with the floyd county Sherrifs Office this morning and they said sandbags will be available to