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A rail site that could have brought the US economy to a standstill maybe even over before it even started. President Biden saying a tentative deal has been reached between the rail companies and unions to avert a strike which could have started as soon as tomorrow. The president called it a win for thousands of rail workers as well as the companies. Now, this agreement came after 20 consecutive hours of negotiations at the Department of Labor. The deal will now go back to the unions for a vote after which there will be a quote cooling off period for several weeks. The governor of texas is using migrants to send a message to Washington. The state is sending two busses of migrants to the area around Vice President Kamala Harris home, surprising volunteers who say they were not prepared to receive them there. This left dozens of migrants standing on grass with their belongings unsure of what will happen next. The governors of florida and Arizona have also been pushing migrants from Central and South America out of their states, essentially using them as a political statement, will have much more on the story later in the show, including the similar situation unfolding now in Martha's vineyard and if you're hoping to say goodbye to the queen, be prepared to wait. Thousands of people in London are standing in a line that's now that more than four miles long to get into Westminster hall where Queen Elizabeth the second coffin is lying in state. The UK government has warned that it could grow to 10 miles long ahead of the Queen's funeral on monday At the moment. The expected wait times about nine hours. Many people who are braving the line say that this is an important moment in history and they want to pay their respects to the monarch who sat on the throne for 70 years and a promising update out of California which has been facing devastating wildfires for months. Firefighters stopping flames from reaching a mountain town in the north and reporting significant progress against the mosquito fire. A fire spokesperson says the situation northeast of san Francisco is quote looking a whole heck of a lot better. Crews are building containment lines and helicopters are dropping water onto hot spots. There's also a boil water notice in Jackson Mississippi which has finally been lifted after almost seven weeks. Governor Tate Reeves saying that the state has restored clean water to the city. However, he admitted the water system is still quote imperfect and the state will continue addressing issues. Reeves declared a state of emergency last month after flooding knocked out, Jackson's already struggling water system, forcing citizens to rely on bottled water for weeks and tropical storm Fiona has formed. The atlantic is now targeting parts of the Caribbean. Fiona is the sixth named storm of the 2022 atlantic hurricane season. According to the national hurricane center, the storm was 625 miles east of leeward islands as it strengthened from a tropical depression yesterday. Now winds from Fiona are hitting at about 50 MPH with even higher gusts tropical storm watches are now in place for a number of islands including Saint Martin and Antigua. On the home buying front, mortgage rates have reached their highest level since 2008, Freddie Mac is reporting the 30-year fixed mortgage now averages just over 6%. That's up from 5.89% from the week before. It's also more than twice the rate from a week ago from a year ago when it was 2.86%, mortgage rates have been rising since the Federal Reserve began efforts to reduce inflation. Now, Freddie Mac's chief economic economic economist, says that the higher rate will help cool off the housing market slightly, although the number of homes for sale still won't meet demand. And in another important economic figure, weekly jobless claims have fallen for the fifth straight week. The latest Labour Department data shows for the first time claims for unemployment benefits were 213,000 for the week ending September 10. If you're curious, that's down 5000 from the week before and the lowest level in three months. And it looks like it's over for Kanye West and Gap West, who changed his name to Ye saying Gap breached the partnership by not openly branding easy stores and distributing his apparel as originally planned, among other things in a deleted social media post, you wrote, quote, you have to give you have to really give me the position to be you and let me do what I'm thinking or I have to do the thinking somewhere else. Now. He plans on opening his own Easy stores And 20 time grand slam champion Roger Federer is hanging up his racket. The tennis champion is announcing his retirement from competitive tennis on social media. In his post, he said he was given a special talent to play tennis and he reached levels he never imagined. But Federer also said he realized his body's limits after playing more than 1500 matches over 24 years. However, he said he would continue to play tennis in the future, but just not in grand slams are on the tour. Federer said next week's Lover Cup in London will be his last 80 p event.