it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-hands mee
what more do we know about the attack? reporter: we re still learning more about the stunning attack. she was not there at time but her husband, paul pelosi, who was 82 years old was at the time. and what wae re learning is an assail aent broke into the couple s home and attacked paul pelosi with a hammer. the speaker s office put out a statement of what they believe has happened. they said early this morning an assailant broke into the pelosi resident in san francisco and violently assaulted mr. pelosi. the assailant is in custody and the motivation is under investigation. mr. pelosi was taken to the hospital where he is receiving excellent medical care and the speaker was not in san francisco at the time. we have learned that the speaker was in d.c. at the time. she s been traveling across the country raising money, appearing in campaign stops as we head into the critical midterm elections. sometimes paul pelosi travels with her and oftentimes he does not. he has his own
forward to make that closing pitch on the economy next hour. he s expected to sharpen attacks on republicans and their economic plans. the president is celebrating new economic numbers released earlier today. great economic report today. the gdp report, things are looking good. the key economic reports show the u.s. economy grew in the third quarter after two quarters of decline. he was excited about that report. he also acknowledged that more work needs to be done to address inflation. the federal reserve has raised interest rates five times so far this year in attempts to combat inflation. the gdp report tells us we re not in a recession right now, but what more did we learn? we learned that the u.s. economy grew at a rate of 2.6%. that was higher than most were expecting. the expectation was 2.3, 2.4%. some of the largest contributors were things like net exports. we americans just didn t buy as much things from overseas, from outside of the u.s. that helped on the
buendias. the defiant response from gop governors and how this could factor into the november midterms. plus, sticker shock. mortgage rates jumping to the highest level in a decade. what that means for buyers and what it says about the market. tropical storm fiona closes in. when conditions will start to deteriorate and the potential impacts to the island. plus, procrastinators take note. was this headline written for me? travel experts say this is the time to book holiday flights . good morning and welcome to your new day . it s saturday, september 17th. whitney, do you feel that? it s the weekend. it is the weekend. it s almost the end of summer. it is. we re grateful to have you here with us this morning. we re grateful you re making us part of your saturday. up first, a lot to get to. but we start with the political battle over immigration heating up. florida s governor doubling down on his plan to relocate migrants from the southern border. he arranged f
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