whether we will ever have a seat at the table. truly profound question. karoun, thanks so much for time tonight. that is it for american voices. i m alicia mendes, as we continue to follow this breaking story, and this press conference. 100 over two hello mehdi. hello, alicia. horrific day of breaking news. the worst kind of breaking news. we are now waiting for police press conference on the shooting in california. that is gonna be a very important press conference. it s good beaver in portland press conference, a lot of big questions still outstanding. mehdi, of course, this question of public safety. you heard representative shoe saying she had people come up to her all day saying, can i send my kids to school? then i go to another event that is planned. trying to reassure them. and then of course questions about motives i what is driving the suspect to commit this horrific. act and this a lot we don t know, mehdi, about the victims. we know there are ten people de
ukraine. he assumed that he could roll into kyiv. he assumed that ukraine could never mount a counter offensive to retake its sovereign territory in kharkiv and beyond. ladies and gentlemen, if you want to see how mistaken those were, look at the battlefield today. there was a new round of missile attacks in ukraine this morning. at least seven people were killed and eight others wounded when russia targeted a market in eastern ukraine in the city of zaporizhzhia and its suburbs were struck overnight. cnn s frederick pk pleitgen is in kyiv. what can you tell us about the new round of russian attacks. reporter: it doesn t seem as though the attacks are letting up in any way, shape or form. throughout the entire night in the ukrainian capital in kyiv, we heard air-raid sirens that kept going on. it seems as though the ukrainians take down most of the missiles shot at the capital. zaporizhzhia hit by russian missiles. the ukrainians interestingly say it was surface-to-air mi
awaiting as a major victory heads into the victims as he makes this case that democrats are actually now getting things done. plus the former president bringing his continued focus on election lies to cpac. they are there to talk to the mega faithful. the chinese hacked the machines, labor all kinds of discrepancies. this time they found something different that they hadn t seen before, they re gonna join us ahead to talk more about that. first, to capitol hill, where we expect the senate to finally prosecute inflation reduction act as soon as this afternoon, we are hoping. but not before gop senators forced democrats to take some tough votes. during that vote-a-rama on, amendment it seems another amendment from john 15% minimum tax rate could create some problems for democrats. let s get to nbc s, julia before we see the potential hiccup and talk about that, and who it actually might involve, talk to me first about where we are at this hour, julie. yeah, yasmin,
get out the dictionary. we ll define recession for you. here is the bottom line. the biden economy is shrinking as the fed unleashes rapid fire rate hikes to stave off the highest inflation in 40 years. let s get right to it. maria bartiromo joins us now. go ahead and give us the news because they projected .5% on the positive side. the number was a negative .9. we are now in recession and we can confirm that because it is two quarters straight of contraction. the economy shrank in the second quarter by 9/10 percent on top of shrinking in the first quarter by 1.6%. now so far all of the commentary that i m hearing is talking about a shrinking of the economy but the good news for the economy is that job growth has stayed strong. that was why some people were questioning well maybe it is different this time. it is hard to believe that job growth can be up to 300,000 in one month when you are in a recession. what s different this time is that we have an inventory build-up. a l