need2know-afternoon-edition-032023

Let's get right into today's need to know. Headlines U B S is rescuing credit. Suisse Switzerland's largest bank is buying its troubled rival for $3.2 billion. This is an all stock deal. Swiss authorities pushed for you B S to take over credit Suisse. This is their way of trying to stop more turmoil after two U S banks collapsed. Christian shoulder is gonna be breaking it all down a bit later in the show. California is expecting another round of storms. This week, people out west are preparing for heavy flooding in low lying areas and heavy snow at higher elevations. The coast are expected to get 1 to 3 inches of rain. This has been a dangerous winter out west and that's put a lot of pressure on California's levee system. A new U N climate report is sending a dire message, get it together soon or our planet could become too hot for human habitation. This new report is the culmination of six years of research conducted by thousands of scientists around the world. This report essentially says we have the technology to adapt to climate change and keep emissions in check. We just have to use it. They say we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions almost in half by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C and titans of Financial World jpmorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are going to have to face allegations in court that they benefited from Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes for years. Epstein was a customer of both banks. A judge dismissed some claims made by women who say Epstein abused them. But this judge is allowing several claims to move forward including this idea that the banks quote knowingly benefited from participating in sex trafficking ventures. Right now. A trial date is provisionally set for October American held hostage in central Africa for six years is finally free. Jeff would k was an American aid worker. Terrorists kidnapped him in ***. The U S government has been working with its military and intelligence resources for six years now, but it was the government of *** that managed to get him released. And in Florida, the beach, the spring break parties, the crowds, the guns. It's all too much officials imposed a curfew on South Beach after two fatal shootings. This weekend, the curfew was in place from 11:59 p.m. Sunday through Monday at six a.m. The city of Miami Beach says it will likely impose another curfew this Thursday through Monday. This by the way is the third year in a row that this city has issued a state of emergency and imposed an overnight curfew. Because of spring break violence, President Emmanuel Macron narrowly survived a no confidence vote. Many members of the French National Assembly want Macron gone after he increased the national retirement age to 60 for from 62 for weeks. Now people in France have been protesting just look at these images the idea of increasing the retirement age, they don't want to do it. So when the president used a special constitutional power to push the measure through without a vote, it triggered three nights of unrest and demonstrations. Macron apparently reached out to leaders in the National Assembly and assured them that the government is ready to protect members of parliament who are facing pressure ahead of the no confidence vote. And the N C double A men's basketball tournament is down to its final 16 teams. And after watching the first two rounds, nothing is certain when it comes to this year's match, there's no more Kansas Purdue Duke or Arizona. So what's on top this week? Number three seed Gonzaga is going head to head with number two U C L A Michigan State is taking on Kansas State. Meanwhile number five seed San Diego State will face off against number one. Alabama and Princeton will take on Creighton. Princeton, by the way, hasn't been in this march madness this far in 56 years.