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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Climate
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LIVE: Severe weather expected to bring strong winds, hail, possible tornadoes
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — While rain and thunder started Tuesday morning, expect a brief break from the rain as the threat for severe weather ramps up for this afternoon. An 'Enhanced Risk' for strong storms covers the entire Mid-South. High winds and large hail are our primary concerns, however, isolated tornadoes cannot be ruled out. Download the WREG Weather App and watch News Channel 3 at Noon for the very latest. You will likely need to modify any outdoor plans today to avoid the severe weather threat. That includes driving, as wet roads and reduced visibility will be a big concern for motorists. Chances are good you may need to hunker down for a few hours in a safe place, as these storms cross through the region with our latest cold front. Check the latest forecasts from WREG Weather Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Climate
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Chance of severe weather increasing this evening
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — All of the News Channel 3 viewing area is under the risk of severe weather Friday, with the northern area around Dyersburg most at risk. Most of the area, including Memphis, is listed as a 3 out of 5 for severe weather. The National Weather Service says there is a risk in theis area for persistent or widespread storms, with some of them being intense. Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes are possible, NWS said. Check the latest forecasts from WREG Weather The weather is expected to move into the area in mid-afternoon around 3, and move out around 2 a.m., NWS said. WREG's radar shows a heavy line of storms over Memphis around 8:30-9 p.m. This could affect your plans if you are going to SmokeSlam or other events tonight. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
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Egg prices dip around Easter, coffee and beer costing consumers more
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The price of eggs fell, just in time for Easter. Overall, however, the prices consumers paid for their groceries in April are still higher than earlier in the year. In an effort to help you watch your wallet and hopefully save some money, NewsChannel 3 recently launched a new segment called the WREG Price Tracker. Our team has been tracking the cost of more than 20 grocery items at Kroger, Target, and Walmart since early February. This includes pantry and fridge staples like milk, eggs, and bread that people buy to feed their families all the time. Which Grocery Items Were More Expensive? Milk Ground Beef Eggs When reviewing prices in early February compared to mid-April, the items above rose the most. For example, a gallon of whole milk was up by nearly 13%. Eggs were up roughly 10%. The WREG Price Tracker also shows eggs are the one grocery item that saw the biggest price difference across the six weeks of our tracker. The price of a dozen eggs jumped from $4.22 in early February to $5.75 a month later. There is some good news, however. The price of eggs fell by more than a quarter just in time for Easter. In addition, there were several other grocery items that cost less money in mid-April, compared to earlier this year. Which Grocery Items Were Cheaper? There were also a few grocery staples where the average price didn't change at all across any of the weeks we tracked prices. Those include: bread, jelly, bananas, and cheese. The summer party season may be a bit pricier, as the average price for beer was the item that topped the list for the highest dollar amount increase when comparing February 3 to the week of April 14. The average price for a 12-pack of Bud Light rose to $15.20 compared to $14.15. Your morning cup of coffee also cost more in mid-April. The average price was up more than a dollar compared to late March. When reviewing the total cost for our groceries, the most expensive week fell in mid-March at just over $110. The price decreased in April, but is still higher than when WREG began tracking prices in early February. Strategies to Save Shop by the Grocery Sale Build your grocery list strictly by what's on sale, not based on what you want. This allows you to stock up on items when they're at their lowest price, then plan meals accordingly. This strategy can save money at the store and time at home, since meals are already mapped out. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Business
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Buying groceries? Check out the new WREG Price Tracker
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — We're all feeling the pain of higher prices these days, especially at the grocery store. We also know the economy was a big issue for many voters during the last election, with the president promising to deliver lower prices. So, has that happened yet, and when will we see some relief? WREG is launching a new tool to help you and your family check prices and save money. It's called the WREG Price Tracker. NewsChannel 3 is tracking prices for more than 20 common grocery items, as well as gas across the MidSouth. We're shopping online at three major grocery retailers (Kroger, Walmart, and Target) for things we all buy, like eggs, meat, and vegetables, as well as beverages, even beer, and pantry staples. We started tracking prices more than a month ago. Of all the items on the WREG Price Tracker grocery list, eggs saw the biggest jump in price. In early February, the average price for a dozen eggs across all three stores was $ week, that same dozen cost $5.75, which means we're paying a difference of more than $1.50. In addition to eggs, we also saw higher prices for items like milk and ground beef. On the flip side, shoppers are also saving some money. The average price for the following items actually decreased in mid-March compared to early February: Lettuce Tomato Sliced turkey Bacon Boneless skinless chicken breasts Making meals for the family can add up, so we wanted to see how much breakfast costs. We calculated the total prices at all three stores for the following items: • Milk• Eggs• Bacon• Bread• Cereal• Orange Juice• Coffee The total was just over $36 during the week of March 17th at Walmart, which was the lowest total. The same items ran around $33 the week of February 3rd. Our total grocery bill for the WREG Price Tracker was $110 (based on averages), which was just over $3 higher than when we first started tracking prices last month. Our prices were gathered from all three retailers online. Prices may vary by location. Except when indicated, we priced items using store brands. Sale prices were only included if listed without an additional purchase requirement. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Politics
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The Big Lesson From Bernie Sanders's Gangbusters Anti-Oligarchy Tour
Unless you live in the Detroit metro area, you're probably not an avid consumer of that city's CBS station, News Channel 3. So you likely missed some reporting last week from reporter Jack Springgate, in which one area resident spoke out about a matter near and dear to their heart: President Donald Trump's decision to impose stringent spending caps at the National Institutes of Health, which will cut lifesaving medical research by billions of dollars. That didn't sit well with Elliot Stephens, who was identified as a cancer survivor. 'They're cutting children's cancer research and the NIH and also interfering with grant funding rules for medical research,' he said. 'I have a daughter with cancer, and that for me is unforgivable.' Stephens's testimony is an important on-the-record account of Trumpian corruption and misrule. But what's equally important is how Stephens's account ended up being covered by the news at all. As TNR contributor Aaron Regunberg reported this week, this chance meeting between a local resident and a local news reporter came about because Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has lately been barnstorming some of the Rust Belt's red-district redoubts, campaigning against the oligarchic takeover of the U.S. government. Sanders has rightly been getting national attention for drawing huge crowds in these MAGA strongholds, amplifying a message that all Democrats should be sending. But there's an added benefit to his lion's den tour: It was at one such rally that this connection between Stephens and Springgate was made—putting a human face on the harms of Trumpism. As I noted two weeks ago, Trumpism isn't working. Democrats have essentially staked their future on proving this beyond a shadow of a doubt. At the same time, they are largely locked out of meaningful policymaking in Washington, so they're stuck in the position of finding alternate means to use politics to construct a majority. What Sanders has been doing recently is highly instructive—and Democrats don't need to be die-hard enthusiasts of his particular policy portfolio to extract the key lesson and act on it: Identify the victims of Trumpism, give them a voice, and get their stories told. One thing that Sanders seems to understand is that Democrats are, at least in part, fighting a content-creation war. Politics is being fought in a skewed information environment that favors people who can reliably feed the beast with conflict and controversy. There is probably no quicker path to good, cheap conflict than, 'President Deals and his ketamine-addled freak sidekick are screwing you over.' And Sanders is not the first liberal lawmaker to note that GOP lawmakers have been ordered to retreat from their own town halls after they got shouted down by their own voters. Expect to see more of this: As Democrat Maxwell Frost recently vowed, 'We're filling a void.' That void exists because Republicans don't actually govern: They don't pass laws, don't earmark funds, and have given up the power of the purse to an executive branch that isn't spending money on anything besides a single Tesla for a president who doesn't drive. So when Republican electeds end up in a room full of people who can't pay their bills with whatever notches their representatives have carved into their ideological bedposts, things turn south and Republicans turn tail. Democrats can fill this vacuum by taking over these spaces. As they say, when there's blood on the street, buy property. But once this unclaimed territory is seized, there's one other obligation that Democrats have to fulfill: finding those Elliot Stephenses in the crowd, and giving them a spotlight. If you intend to build the case that Trumpism is doing harm to people, then you must find proof of that in the form of the harmed. Democrats have two advantages. First, in Trump and Musk, they've drawn some of the least subtle villains in human history; the damage they're doing to the country is manifold and constantly escalating. And as I've noted before, Democrats may have a paucity of parliamentary options, but they're resource-rich if they want to raise rhetorical hell: They have experts they can call on, a constellation of nonprofits and policy organizations, wealthy donors to direct funds. Beyond that, they have an intimate awareness of the potential damage being done by every dollar that DOGE strips from the government, and the flesh-and-blood humans who are on the receiving end of every bit of punishment that Trump doles out. Today it might be families with loved ones who desperately need the fruits of cancer research. Tomorrow it might be vulnerable families who depend on the government to provide affordable housing. Next week it could be communities impacted by foodborne illnesses that arise from a decimated FDA. This is an administration that's pursuing criminal charges against Habitat for Humanity, while letting measles go untamed. And if Democrats need help finding the victims of Trumpian chaos, there's an app for that: your news browser. At TNR, putting a human face on the policies imposed by Washington lawmakers is part of our bread and butter. In recent weeks, my colleague Grace Segers has tracked the impact of the Trump administration's policies on public health, rural economies, and food prices, to name a few. The Washington Post recently featured a story about a park ranger who, having voted for Trump after hearing him promise to make her desperately needed IVF treatments free, was fired by his administration instead. As the Columbia Journalism Review's Lauren Watson wrote last week, some of the stories about the damage of Trump's slash-and-burn policies are finding their way into local newspapers all across the country. While the DOGE story may have taken root in the public consciousness because of 'the experiences of federal workers in and around Washington, D.C.,' she writes, 'over 80 percent of the federal workforce lives and works outside the greater DC area, doing jobs from monitoring nuclear facilities to researching plant diseases, which means that the fallout from DOGE has been a local story, too.' In other words, this is a good time for Democrats to get outside their Capitol Hill bubble and seek out the people and the communities who have been most affected by Washington's Trump-minted chaos. Republicans are certainly doing a lot of damage close to home—and they're planning to gut the District of Columbia's budget at the same time that they're putting the local economy under strain through mass government layoffs, but there are less resilient economies beyond the Beltway that are being hit just as hard, and too many stories that too often don't get told by the national media. There's another reason this is a ripe time for Democrats to rediscover the rest of the country: The Democratic base is getting angrier by the day at their own party's lawmakers. Polling numbers have led Split Ticket's Lakshya Jain to surmise that voters are increasingly dissatisfied with how 'relatively quiet Democrats have been in organizing public opposition' and sense a sort of 'Tea Party moment' brewing, in which the base breaks against incumbents for their lack of combativeness. The New Yorker's Jay Caspian Kang warned recently of 'radical change coming down the line in the form of 'new candidates' pulled from the ranks of 'ordinary citizens who are fed up with the feckless and do-nothing politics of the Democratic establishment.'' Some of my own sources have recently told me that the fired federal worker to pissed-off Democratic primary challenger pipeline is a very real thing. If that kind of rage is building outside Washington, then Democrats had better make it right. And let's face it: If the base is asking for a little more combativeness against a president whom Democrats have long characterized as an existential threat to democracy—and who has, since reassuming his reign, gone wildly out of his way to demonstrate that Democrats were right to brand him in this way—then these demands are not unreasonable. The quickest way to bring the fight to Trump is to force him to face the people he's harmed.
