John Alvarez News Today

paula reid in for jim acosta. youre in the "cnn newsroom" we begin this hour with a potential new milestone in russias war in ukraine. ukraine has announced that it has used a u.s. made patriot air defense system like this to bring down a russian hypersonic missile. if true, it would be the first time ukraine was able to intercept a missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. cnns sam kiley joins us from kyiv with the latest. sam, how significant is this? >> reporter: i think...

[gavel pound] the committee will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from Federal Reserve chair janet yellen, regarding the feds semiannual report to congress on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. It will come as no surprise to you, chair yellen, that improving Economic Growth is a key priority for congress this year. Priority for congress this year. 2016 was the 11th Consecutive Year that the us economy failed to grow by more than three percent. One way to improve our Econ...

It is 2 and a half hours. The committee will come to order. Today, we will receive testimony from janet yellen regarding the feds semiannual report to congress on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. It will come as no surprise to you that improving Economic Growth is a key priority for congress this year. Was the 11th Consecutive Year that the u. S. Economy failed to grow by more than 3 . One way to improve our Economic Growth is it to study and address areas where regulations can be i...

Through saturday morning due and snow melt. Flooding is expected primarily on smaller creeks and streams, but main stem rivers above reservoirs may also quickly rise. Winter storm watch for sunday for western nevada. A second winter storm will bring occasional snow, with Winter Driving conditions possible on valley floors. Stormy weather will continue through the weekend. Snow levels will be high to start, then fall rapidly in the Early Morning hours on saturday. Expect heavy rain to turn to sno...

Heres your planner for tomorrow. The best chance theres snow on the valley floor, 7 00 to nine coliseum. And is theres another round on sunday that being be more widespread. Possibly 24 inches of snow on the valley floor. Maybe even 6 in spots. It is an interesting weekend. Take your chains. Kathy joins us live with the latest. Reporter we saw semis overturned to the highway, still gusty pretty well up here. Property damage and downed power lines. Take a look at these wind gusts today. Over 100 ...

This was a joint effort by just a multitude of departments to find this animal and bring him to justice. At this point ill take questions. Has the suspect been identified . Right now ill tell you that he is a white male in his mid30s. I dont have a positive identification on him yet. I have an idea who he is, so i wont release that information until were absolutely positive. Are there any current active shooters going on at this time . Weve had calls, which is to be expected, because obviously o...

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