A rail site that could have brought the US economy
to a standstill maybe even over before it even started.
President Biden saying a tentative deal has
been reached between the rail companies and unions
to avert a strike which could have started as soon as tomorrow.
The president called it a win for thousands of rail workers as well as the companies.
Now,
this agreement came after 20 consecutive hours
of negotiations at the Department of Labor.
The deal will now go back to the unions for a vote after
which there will be a quote cooling off period for several weeks.
The governor of texas
is using migrants to send a message to Washington.
The state is sending two busses of migrants to
the area around Vice President Kamala Harris home,
surprising volunteers who say they were not prepared to receive them there.
This left dozens of migrants standing on grass with
their belongings unsure of what will happen next.
The governors of florida and Arizona have also been pushing
migrants from Central and South America out of their states,
essentially using them as a political statement,
will have much more on the story later in the show,
including the similar situation unfolding now in Martha's vineyard
and if you're hoping to say goodbye to the queen, be prepared to wait.
Thousands of people in London are standing in
a line that's now that more than four miles
long to get into Westminster hall where Queen
Elizabeth the second coffin is lying in state.
The UK government has warned that it could grow to
10 miles long ahead of the Queen's funeral on monday
At the moment. The expected wait times about nine hours.
Many people who are braving the line say
that this is an important moment in history and
they want to pay their respects to the monarch who sat on the throne for 70 years
and a promising update out of California which
has been facing devastating wildfires for months.
Firefighters stopping flames from reaching a mountain town in the
north and reporting significant progress against the mosquito fire.
A fire spokesperson says the situation northeast of san Francisco
is quote looking a whole heck of a lot better.
Crews are building containment lines and helicopters
are dropping water onto hot spots.
There's also a boil water notice
in Jackson Mississippi which has finally been lifted after almost seven weeks.
Governor Tate Reeves saying that the state has restored clean water to the city.
However,
he admitted the water system is still quote
imperfect and the state will continue addressing issues.
Reeves declared a state of emergency last month after flooding knocked out,
Jackson's already struggling water system,
forcing citizens to rely on bottled water for weeks
and tropical storm Fiona has formed.
The atlantic is now targeting parts of the Caribbean.
Fiona is the sixth named storm of the 2022 atlantic hurricane season.
According to the national hurricane center,
the storm was 625 miles east of leeward islands
as it strengthened from a tropical depression yesterday.
Now winds from Fiona are hitting at about 50
MPH
with even higher gusts tropical storm watches are
now in place for a number of islands including
Saint Martin and Antigua.
On the home buying front,
mortgage rates have reached their highest level since 2008,
Freddie Mac is reporting the 30-year fixed mortgage now averages just over 6%.
That's up from 5.89% from the week before.
It's also more than twice the rate from a week ago
from a year ago when it was 2.86%,
mortgage rates have been rising since the
Federal Reserve began efforts to reduce inflation.
Now, Freddie Mac's chief economic economic
economist,
says that the higher rate will help cool off the housing market slightly,
although the number of homes for sale still won't meet demand.
And in another important economic figure,
weekly jobless claims have fallen for the fifth straight week.
The latest Labour Department data shows for the first time claims
for unemployment benefits were 213,000 for the week ending September 10.
If you're curious,
that's down 5000 from the week before and the lowest level in three months.
And it looks like it's over for Kanye West and Gap West, who changed his name to Ye
saying Gap breached the partnership by not openly branding
easy stores and distributing his apparel as originally planned,
among other things
in a deleted social media post, you wrote, quote,
you have to give you have to really give me the position to be you
and let me do what I'm thinking or I have to do the thinking somewhere else. Now.
He plans on opening his own Easy stores
And 20 time grand slam champion Roger Federer is hanging up his racket.
The tennis champion is announcing his retirement
from competitive tennis on social media.
In his post,
he said he was given a special talent to
play tennis and he reached levels he never imagined.
But Federer also said he realized his body's limits
after playing more than 1500 matches over 24 years.
However, he said he would continue to play tennis in the future,
but just not in grand slams are on the tour.
Federer said next week's Lover Cup in London will be his last 80 p event.