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Many decades. It hasn t been done for a long time, but we are going to win new york. We are 47 days away from election day, and instead of rallying in a battleground states, donald trump was on long island last night vowing to win new york, a state, of course, he lost by wide margins in both 2016 and 2020. We ll have more from that event in just a molt. Meanwhile, on capitol hill, a small group of house republicans yesterday killed speaker mike johnson s plan to fund the government. We ll look at what could come next in that spending fight. And also ahead we ll bring you the latest out of lebanon following a second day of targeted and deadly device explosions. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 19th. I m jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, and we will begin with the road to the white house. Yesterday was supposed to be the day that donald trump faced sentencing for his 34 felony convictions ....
It is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. At this hour, iran s interference game, what the fbi is revealing about hackers who tried but failed to interest joe biden s team in documents stolen from the trump campaign. Plus, what will the former president is saying about it. And it s the blue dot in an ocean of red, but now a fight is brewing over a nebraska district with a single electoral vote, so critical it could decide the presidential election. We have new reporting. Plus, a possible mass tragedy averted, how police track down a missouri teenager who allegedly had a fully loaded handgun with an extended magazine right outside a school. And are we witnessing a new phase of the war? israel and hezbollah trade fire after a series of pager and walkietalkie explosions that left the entire region on the brink. Our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbc s ryan nobles covering these new revelations about iranian ....
Our north america business correspondent ritika gupta has the details. The 0. 5 percentage cut brings its key interest rate, the federal funds rate down to between 4. 75 and 5%. It comes amid signs of inflation in america is continuing to fall while thejob market america is continuing to fall while the job market remains strong even as unemployment has risen this year. The strong even as unemployment has risen this year. risen this year. The labour market is risen this year. The labour market is actually risen this year. The labour market is actually in risen this year. The labour market is actually in solid| market is actually in solid condition and our intentions with condition and our intentions with our condition and our intentions with our policy move today is to keep with our policy move today is to keep it with our policy move today is to keep it there. You can say that to keep it there. You can say that about to keep it there. You can say that about the whole econo ....
the reaction in asia so far has been mixed. Our north america business correspondent ritika gupta has the details. The federal reserve has delivered a super sized interest rate cut aimed at bolstering the us labour market. The 0. 5 percentage cut, the first in over four years, brings its key interest rate, the federal funds rate, down to between 4. 75 and 5%. It comes amid signs inflation in america is continuing to fall, while the job market remains strong, even as unemployment has risen this year. The labour market is actually in solid condition and our intention with our policy move today is to keep it there. You can say that about the whole economy. The us economy is in good shape, it s growing at a solid pace, inflation is coming down. The labour market is in a strong pace. We want to keep it there. In addition, the committee setting rates released its latest forecast which showed policymakers expecting to cut rates by a further 0. 5%. That would us interest rates below 4. 5% b ....
His comments came after a second day of explosions in lebanon this time involving walkie talkies used by hezbollah. Lebanon s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed in tuesday s walkie talkie explosions. More than 400 others were wounded. Hezbollah, coming to bury its dead in south beirut today. Casualties of a new chapter in middle east warfare. Killed not by air strikes, but by exploding pagers. Apparently, a message from mossad. Among the dead, an 11 year old boy. But even the mourners weren t safe. Explosion. Suddenly, the sound of another blast. Chaos and panic filling the street and a rush to evacuate one of the wounded. The authorities say this time, walkie talkies exploded, not just in beirut. Here, at a cell phone shop in the southern city of sidon. Israel is being blamed for the past 2a hours of unprecedented attacks. Sirens. Well, one more ambulance there passing by. We ve been seeing them in the last half an hour or so. Also fire brigade trucks. People have b ....