One retailer that plans to sit out the holiday price wars. Those stories are coming up, but first lets get you to the top stories at this hour. John stump says the u. S. Economy will grow faster next year than economist estimated to. His comments this morning run counter to a Bloomberg Survey of economists who believe that growth in 2015 will be in the 3 range. Since we are so involved in the real economy we have been hearing from customers about more hiring. Our Small Business survey shows more optimism by them now than any time since 2008. While we do not expect next year , we arebreakout year planning to upper end of the expectations for next year. Mr. Stump says that automobiles, agriculture, and commercial real estate are among the industries doing well. Fannie mae and freddie mac will be letting borrowers put down as little as 3 of the homes cost to get mortgages. Starting on the 13th, fannie mae will allow the lower down payments for firsttime homebuyers, allowing borrowers refi
Give you a quick update here. If you missed it, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has revealed shes being treating for a recurrence of cancer after lesions were found on her liver. Shes encouraged by the success of the treatment. She adds she will continue biweekly chemotherapy treatments. A political feud rages on in georgia as the republican Governor Brian Kemp sues atlanta and its democratic mayor over its mask mandate. Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms suggested kemp is, quote, putting politics over the people and blamed President Trump for ultimately for this lawsuit. This lawsuit was filed personally against me and members of the city council. The day after donald trump was in our city. Meanwhile, the Rockefeller Foundation has pledged to donate 100 million towards the global coronavirus response. It comes as experts say the u. S. Must develop the capacity to conduct 30 million tests a week by october. Well talk about the efforts to increase testing and more importantly the time it takes to g
Job that he requested that he wanted very badly then he was appointed. All right. Lets start off at the white house. Theres a lot to unpack here. N nbcs hans nichols joins me there. The president is off in colorado but definitely felt a need to get something off his chest today. Reporter he spoke to us for a little more than 15 minutes before he left, ali. Its clear the president feels that Robert Mueller was out to get him, and while he claims to be vindicated by the report, he also says that Robert Mueller was always conflicted. Now, the latest bit of news we have on this advancing the story is from william barr, the attorney general. Hes done an interview with cbs where hes repeating his point that basically he and mueller, thats to say barr and mueller, have a dispute on whether or not mueller was going to be able to make a conclusion. Listen to what he told cbs. We saw the special counsel yesterday make that statement. He analyzed 11 instances where there were possible obstruction
Nine Waterloo residents have been charged with Wire Fraud for allegedly defrauding the COVID-19 relief fund. Lynette Cole-Sykes received nearly $20,000 for her day care business. She allegedly falsely reported her gross income. Kiesha Morman also received nearly $20,000 for her day care business .