Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. And good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with a scandal in battleground, North Carolina, that could have national implications. Mark robinson is facing pressure to leave the race after allegations he made racist and lewd comments on a pornography site, including declaring in one post that he was a black nazi. Robinson who is North Carolinas lieutenant governor, is denying the allegations and vowing to stay in the race. This is not us. These are not our words. This is not anything that is characteristic of me, nor has it ever been. Folks here also know my character. They know who i am. They know my voice, so to speak. This is not my voice. This is not things we would ever say or even think. Cnn published the string of incendiary comments it says it found on the Message Board dating back to 2008, well before robinson began his political career. Nbc
Now at breaking point. [bell ringing] norah major news for the economy. The fed cutting Interest Rates for the first time in four years. What it means for your wallet. Its a huge problem, and its getting worse and worse. Norah and Tonights Eye on america. Mortgage rates are coming down, but what about the Supply Shortage of homes . We look at one solution. Im the first person in my family to be a homeowner. Norah the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and Thank You for being with us on this wednesday night. Theres a lot of news at home and around the world, and we want to start with the number one issue for americans the economy. The federal reserve made a big move today, cutting rates by half a percentage point. Thats more than expected, and it is the first Rate Cut since the Covid Pandemic in 2020 and the largest since the 2008 financial crisis. So tonight the big question is, what does it mean for your Credit Card bills, your mortgage, your auto loans, and
Back against president my calls comments about islam. In paris french m. P. s stand for moments of silence in honor of the victims. Also ahead strict restrictions are imposed across europe as the surge in the coronavirus impacts life from the continents. And its all in all messages on target for barcelona in the European Champions League a day after the Club President resigned messi restored order on the pitch for the 2 in a win against juventus. But we begin with breaking news out of france 3 people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured the attacker was wounded by police and is in custody in hospital where frances answer terrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the mayor of me says it was. A terrorist attack in cold for a crackdown on what he describes as islamofascism. But we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attac
Always been hopes on the patriotic spirit among the libyans. Lask whenever we hear claims that the military solution will continue and there is no whole rise and for Diplomatic Solutions that we the americans had always believed in our fellow brothers in libya that they will all at the end of the day live and love their differences and give precedence to the National Interest and we also believe that any solution should be and purely and totally libyan solution between libyan let them let them selfs. Under the umbrella of course of the United Nations as we have always read to rate it during the visit paid by a representative of the u. N. Mission mrs Stephanie William a few with. A 3rd conviction we have that we had total confidence and both the members of the parliament of libya and the Supreme Council of the state that they are. Armed with professionals and patriotic thurstons who will give precedence to the libyan National Interest. And they will together be able to break through the
As we talked about yesterday, theres a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. Remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. You can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. All of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. Several fires burned together adds we talked about. We had split that into two separate zones. Those separate zones now split or have joined together into one fire. This is all now being held as one large fire. A lot of good work has happened in the last 24 hours and we talked yesterday about the difference between looking at red line on a map and black line. Black line being an area of the fire perimeter thats been contained. We no longer see a threat before movement of the fire. Youll see we have black line all the way up this east side of the fire and north top of the one piece of the fire. That is great news and really provides a lot more safety f