for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. it's thursday, june 15th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." subway death indictment. daniel penny formally charged in the choke hold death of jordan neely. what the marine veteran said ahead of the grand jury's decision. interest rate pause. the fed making the announcement after 15 months of hikes. why we're not out of the woods with inflation just yet. fatal movie set shooting. the new allegations about the weapons expert on the film set of "rust." well, good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning cleanup is under way in the south after severe storms slammed the region. several twisters tore across alabama and georgia yesterday.

part of an extreme weather outbreak pummelling states. in abbeyville, alabama, a tornado cut through damaging a few buildings while a nearby town fared far worse with a twister downing trees and power lines. >> i was very scared. my heart was beating real fast. i ran in the room to get my little girl. kept calling her name. she wouldn't wake up. i'm like, come on, there's a tornado out here. >> western arkansas also hit with massive hail yesterday. you can see it pummelling the water. there were reports of some smashed windows as it fell from the sky. and a new york city grand jury has indicted a marine veteran in the choke hold death of a homeless man on a subway train. video on board the train last month shows 24-year-old daniel penny restraining jordan neely. penny was initially charged with second-degree manslaughter. new york city mayor eric adams confirmed the indictment yesterday. in a video statement released by

his lawyers last weekend, penny said he tried to subdue neely after he threatened passengers. >> i was scared for myself, but i saw women and children. he was yelling in their faces, saying -- saying these threats. some people said i was trying to choke him to death, which is also not true. i was trying to restrain him. >> penny's lawyers say neely had a history of violent behavior and mental illness. the central bank voted unanimously to put a pause on interest rate hikes. federal reserve chair jerome powell yesterday issued a warning saying it may not last long. he said that's because inflation hasn't cooled as much as the fed would like it to, and that means more hikes could come later this year. jarred hill has latest from new york. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the pause is probably not permanent which does beg the question why do this at all. well, the fed chair said they want to see how the past 15 months of rate hikes are impacting the people and the

economy of this country. and we are seeing some signs of progress. the federal reserve is halting interest rate hikes. the first break after the fastest series of increases in four decades. fed chair jerome powell made the announcement a day after the latest data showed inflation has cooled from its peak 9% down to 4%. but powell warned the pause will be short-lived. >> nearly all committee participants view it as likely that some further rate increases will be appropriate this year to bring inflation down to 2% over time. >> reporter: after that warning, u.s. stocks had a mixed closing on wednesday. >> the markets are already thinking about july and beyond. >> reporter: while the cost of electricity, eggs, and meat, and gasoline went down in may, overall grocery prices were nearly 6% more expensive than last year. the prices of margarine, flour, and bread all up. >> we've seen huge increases in core staples.

>> reporter: jenna hunts berger owns whisked bakery. >> we're not seeing a growth in our sales, and i do think that's because consumers are just tired of inflation, and they're being cautious with their discretionary income. >> reporter: ten rate hikes have made borrowing more expensive. the 30-year fixed mortgage rate has jumped nearly 7%. >> people that have locked in low interest rates, are they going to want to sell their house and buy something else for close to 7%? they're going to hang on. >> reporter: the next rate increase could some as soon as next month when the fed meets again. so let's talk big picture here when it comes to what happens next. the federal reserve is signaling that it could raise interest rates two more times by the end of the year. and even if/when it stops hiking it will keep borrowing rates at a peak for months to come. we are not out of the woods yet with this. and i'm tired. >> i know, i know. listen, no one wants a recession, so steady as she goes. >> there you go. >> jarred hill, thank you.

attorney general merrick garland is speaking out for the very first time since the historic federal indictment of donald trump. he's defending his prosecutors and agents against heated attacks from the former president. trump is falsely claiming president biden is directing cases for the justice department. garland says a special counsel, jack smith, conducted the probe and touted his department's independence. >> as i said when i appointed mr. smith, i did so because it underscores the justice department's commitment to both independence and accountability. >> trump pleaded not guilty tuesday to 37 federal charges alleging he mishandled documents. on the campaign trail mike pence said trump can defend himself. >> i can't defend what is alleged in this indictment, but the president's entitled to his day in court. >> top sources close to trump's rivals tell our robert costa

they sense growing vulnerability as trump faces mounting legal challenges. still, trump has a commanding lead in the polls, and his campaign says it raised over $6 million since he was indicted. demolition work on a section of i-95 that collapsed in philadelphia is expected to be completed today. pennsylvania's governor says as soon as that's done, work on fixing the highway and rebuilding the collapsed overpass will begin. he did not say how long it would take, though. the overpass collapsed sunday after a tanker carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel crashed and caught fire. the truck driver was killed. overseas, the search continues for what could be hundreds of people missing after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized and sank off the coast of southern greece. the boat believed to be heading from libya to italy sank yesterday. nearly 80 bodies have been recovered. more than 100 people have been rescued so far. authorities say it appears the vessel capsized after people on

board abruptly moved to one side. survivors were taken to a warehouse shelter in greece. heussi i than 20 ukrainian they were taken prisoner last year as they fought russian troops in mariupol. they face sentences ranging from 15 years to life if prison if convicted. russia has since captured mariupol which has been reduced to smoldering ruins. meantime, russian forces hit southern and eastern ukraine with missiles yesterday killing at least six people. the attacks come as ukrainian forces continue to take back land seized by the russians. ian lee takes us inside the front lines.isally for ukrainian troops. night vision gives there territorial defense brigade an advantage as they silently get into position. when day breaks, they attack. this soldier, call sign black smith, stormed the russian positions. "their defenses are strong," he

tells me. "the russians had time to dig in and defended fiercely, but lately they started running away." his squad just returned from the counteroffensive in what the deputy minister described as extremely fierce battles along the front. these troops are recalibrating their weapons after heavy fighting on the front lines. this captain commanded the troops as they advanced under cover. >> we have some groups which goes through the trees because the field's not good. >> reporter: there's a rule here when navigating land mines -- >> to be slow, to be silent, and to be safe. >> reporter: slow, silent, and safe. that lesson helps them reach a russian trench. but war has taught them don't touch, he says, anything could

be booby trapped. after moving hundreds of yards, the call comes in, mop up and dig in. does it feel good to be finally on the offensive? "yes," he tells me. "morale was getting a bit low. but now we're attacking. we're ready to go." ian lee, cbs news, in southern ukraine. coming up, starbucks payout. why the coffee chain has been ordered to pay millions to a white employee. and disturbing allegations. what a former morgue manager at harvard medical school is accused of doing. this is the "cbs morning news." orning news." need relief for tired, achy feet? or the energy to keep working? there's a dr. scholl's for that. dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles

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overhead power lines. the driver, though, was able to get out safely. there are disturbing allegations involving a morgue at harvard medical school, and starbucks was ordered to pay millions in damages in a racial case. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "the new york times" reports a federal jury ordered starbucks to pay more than $25 million to a white former regional manager who was fired amid fallout there -- from a racial incidents. shannon phillips said that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the 2018 arrests of two black men. the men were sitting in a philadelphia starbucks without ordering anything. phillips, who was not involved in the incident, claimed starbucks was looking for a sacrificial lamb to calm the public outrage after the arrests. cbs news philadelphia says police and the family of a missing teenager are asking for help finding her. 18-year-old shalaya porter was last seen ten days ago. family and friends have been handing out flyers looking for

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