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hurricane fiona continues its dangerous march forth as it churns past bermuda. right behind fiona is a storm that could become a major concern next week. weve got an update on all of that for you ahead. and the pressure on former president trump is mounting on multiple fronts. now the special master, who trump himself requested to review material seized from mar-a-lago is again putting his legal team on the spot giving the trump team until next friday to back up trumps name the fbi p...

said for the year. >> absolutely, and a lot of the story since the market opened this morning, the dow jones currently down 800 points, about 2.7%. if it stays at that level, through the market close, in about an hour, that would be the lowest level that weve seen the dow in 2022, and what has already been a brutal year for markets. and the big reason for all of this, have to rewind back to wednesday when the federal reserve, the nations economic steward raised interest rates for the f...

Education is rebuke of a history that legally barred black folks from learning to read or write let alone go to college. so jonah pursued two degrees, both from historically black colleges. but now a decade after graduates, jonah who works for a nonprofit still owes $120,000 in student loans that he cant afford to pay. especially as a new dad. >> im looking at her and im look, man, she can be anything that she wants to be. and as soon as i said it to myself, im look can we afford to put her thro...

>> im looking at her and im like, man, she can be anything that she wants to be. and as soon as i said it to myself, im like, oh, man, can we afford to put her through college. >> reporter: because black students arrive on campus with less wealth than white peers, they tend to take out more and bigger loans for the same degrees and they will owe about $7400 more than their white counterparts at graduation. it is one reason jonah founded an organization that mobilizes black students especially on...

Wrapped up in the systemics pregs. and so i wanted to talk with black voter respect young black people will how this issue is effecting them and here is what they had to say. growing up, jonah always knew he was going to college. >> everyone in my family on my moms side, they all went to sutton. my dad and uncles all went to college. >> reporter: it is family tradition, but also so much more. for african-americans, higher education is a rebuke of a history that legally barred black folks from le...

Graduation. we are talking to students in durham, north carolina, with tremaine. >> when you consider $1.75 trillion that americans owe for student loan debt and the amount that million that millennials o, it is more acute for the black students who are under the racial wealth gap. and we talk about $8,000 more than that the black owe, and in four years that triples. so we came down here to north carolina central university and had a conversation with current and former students about how they a...