earlier this morning two buses full of migrants arrived in washington, d.c., from texas. texas governor greg abbott ordered that the migrants be dropped off on vice president harris doorstep at her residence at the naval observatory. governor abbott and governor ducey of arizona already bussed thousands of migrants to other states in recent weeks. also today, florida governor ron desantis proudly claims he chartered two flights to bring 50 migrants from texas to martha s vineyard in massachusetts. there were seven families on those planes, including children. if this was his idea of a solution to the migrant issues, you would think that the governor would have alerted the governor of massachusetts to this. but these plane loads of migrants reported arrived without any warning to local officials who scrambled to set them up at a local church. here s how desantis sees it. we re not a sanctuary state, and it s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. yes, we will
for the first time in 14 years, mortgage rates are now above 6%. that s more than double where they were a year ago. and as these rates climb, inflation remains stubbornly high. the labor market is resilient, though. weekly jobless claims fell for a fifth straight week. the number of people filing for first-time unemployment benefits dropped 5,000 this week from the week before t lowest level since may. president biden is praising the deal that averted a national rail strike which could have become an economic disaster. union and rail leaders came to tentative terms after more than 20 hours of negotiations. cnn is learning the president himself was key to pushing this deal across the finish line. cnn s kaitlan collins joins us from the white house. what exactly was president biden s role in all of this? reporter: he had a call at hour 12 of these negotiations as they were happening inside the labor department yesterday. that was 9:00 p.m. last night
would go into effect. yeah, you re right, amara. it is a big win for the administration. the labor department yesterday in responding to the ruling, the decision, they said that it would they would not issue citations for noncompliance to employers before january 10th, giving a bit of leeway for employers to make sure employees are vaccinated or in that testing mode before january 10th as the cases mount. again, this is going to be going to the supreme court. they re going to decide the fate of the vaccine mandates before today. for the biden administration it is a win. amara. it sure is. jasmine wright, appreciate your reporting. let s turn it over now to polo, who is in new york. look, we re already seeing surges in several parts of the country, including where you are in new york. we are seeing it here in the south. all the way out in hawaii. tell us what you are seeing there. broadway is starting to cancel shows.
tariffs potentially on $156 billion worth of chinese imports to take place, perhaps, on december 5th. unless the president december 15th. unless the president decides to shift the deadline once again. what could it mean for the economy? jon hilsenrath is here, global economics editor at the wall street journal and fox news contributor. jon, kind of a surprise, a good one, for the shopping season. right. and, you know, we just heard from the labor department yesterday that the unemployment rate went back down to 3.5%. jobs grew by more than 200,000 in the last month. so consumers are spending money right now because they have jobs, and their incomes are growing, and that s what i think is going to keep the economy going in the next year. it should be a pretty good holiday shopping season. eric: how significant do you
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