Oj simpson, one of the most controversial people six. Were going to look back at his life, his murder trial, and how it changed the nation and the fight over fisa, the battle over the controversial surveillance program, threatening speaker Mike Johnsons short tenure at the helm of the house. Were falling following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central the breaking news today, oj simpson is dead at 76 after losing his battle to cancer, according to social media posts by his family, he was a celebrated Football Star. He won the Heisman Trophy and college. He then transition into acting as a pitch man who was then later accused standard acquitted, and the Double Murder Trial of his exwife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman simpson gripped the nation after taking police on that slow Speed Police Chase scene here. And of course, the highprofile trial that followed his eventual acquittal becoming a Landmark Moment In Eric i
Hundreds of First Responders risking their lives to save others. 133 Senior Citizens were saved. Four were not. Based on the speed of this fire, and based on the condition of the residents, we would have expected to lose 40 to 50 people in fire like this. Reporter still missing a husband age 92 and his 89yearold wife an 85yearold woman and a 93yearold woman. The fire started in the south wing. What caused it is still unknown. Was this an accident . Or was this something that was not accidental . We will be looking at all of the systems in place here. Reporter a team of National Fire specialists with the atf will work through the holiday. Today they were finally able to get into whats left of the building winds over the weekend were too strong to run the crane needed to clear away debris to give crews a safe entryway. Its the ladies, this is mens. Goodwill fire Company Opened its doors this morning to the victims, their families, care takers and other facilities who took in the displace
Tonight with what is expected to be an historic vote on tax re form. The senate is still debating the gop legislation. Youre looking at a live picture from capital hill. Members began this debate more than six hours ago. A vote is still expected sometime tonight. Earlier today the house of representatives passed a sweeping rewrite of the nations tax code, the first in three decades, but a prosed yurl naf yew basically wiped out that vote. Senate democrats say three provisions in the house bill violate senate rules and therefore have to be removed and so the house will have a redo tomorrow. The legislation is expected to pass again. We will of course keep an eye on this throughout the evening. Also developing tonight a single vote may spell the end of the republican control in vas house of delegates. The Democratic Delegate shell i simmons seems to have won by one vote. Her victory would mean an democrats in the statehouse. It would also mean a rare power sharing agreement may have to b
Somewhat below 2 . The fed does maintain gradually rising rates. This should be anywhere between the 2 that, two rate increases that some fed Bank President s have been calling for like harker out of philadelphia to as many as four this year which some economists are saying could happen. The dot plot in december said we would have three. The fed also reaffirmed its 2 target rate knits annual statement. Jay powell will become the new chairman effective february 3, sworn in monday at 9 00 a. M. , trish. Trish thank you, adam. Joining me for reaction barrons Senior Reporter and gary kaltbaum, kaltbaum capital management. Gary, people were concerned Interest Rates move higher but shouldnt they . If youre in a better economy shouldnt we have threat of higher Interest Rates some point on the horizon . Isnt that normal . I have been saying for years the fed is insane the we have 4 unemployment. Gdp in the threes. Economy that is strong and fed fund should be in the 3s if not now, not higher.
Washington journal on our companion network c pan. This week on american artifacts, we tour the american president s life portraits exhibit at the Herbert Hoover president ial library and museum in west branch, iowa. North carolina painter and sculptor chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the library by cspan in partnership with media come. Curator Marcus Eckhardt an shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Were in west brank, iowa, in the museum portion of the building and this is our temporary exhibit which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit everybody cspan and then adding something personal from each man at this point each man to show Something Different about them, because we think of them this is