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Powell, speaking on a livestreamed event, said interest rates will be raised "no time soon" and there will be plenty of notice "well in advance of active consideration."
When you have a forecast of 30 inches, the math doesn't work. we have extra capacity here. we haven't seen the rain that we thought we would get. we're seeing a pesky wind, 40 to 50 miles an hour sustained winds and it's placing havoc on our utility system. currently 30% of the city is out of power. we have 7 poles on the ground, the wind is too strong right now for utility crews getting the bucket trucks. we're preparing for as soon as the weather blows over to get back up there. >> you were telling me about a mobile home that had a wire fall on them that was a situation your city crews had t...
Help other people. so the idea that government would want to get rid of want and provide this utopian society. >> neil: they get creative raising money. in new jersey, they want taxes. how toes that work? >> they say salt, fertilizer. when it rains, it goes into the water system. they don't have anything to capture here. they have the ninth highest gas tax in the country. the sixth highest income tax in the country. the number 1 property tax in the country and they're racked 50th worst state for business tax climate. >> neil: it's not a rain tax per se. every time it rains, the tax comes in. i...
Reported in the tallahassee leon county area. we're aware of two deaths in neighboring counties, and our hearts go out to them and their families. here, in tallahassee, different than the coast. the threat was different. ours was always going to be wind and rain. saturated ground that would obviously topple trees with the kind of wind gusts and sustained winds we had yesterday during the storm. today, we have about 110,000 utility customers that are out of power. we have seen thousands of trees that have come down on houses and on cars. obviously on streets. we're quoting north of 200 streets ...
A different mission and got word that this thing was looking like it was going to make its way our way, and immediately got back here. between that evening and today we really had to ready ourselves rather quickly. on the good side, i will tell you in my community -- i mean we felt really prepared for this storm event. we were able to very quickly get over 100, 150 utility workers from across the state of florida and really across the country, as far away as nebraska, here on the ground, ready. these are the same crews that we're going to deploy in the morning to deal with some of the reconnec...