across the country. and democrats in a race against the recess, trying to pass president biden s key agenda items with the midterm elections looming. how much can congress get done? we re grateful that you are starting your week with us, bright and early this sunday, july 31st. good morning, sarah. good morning to you, boris. great to be with you. we begin today with an update to the ongoing weather emergency in kentucky. the death toll there continues to rise as search and rescue crews make their way through flooded areas and we are expecting yet another round of heavy rain and flash flooding today. at least 25 people are confirmed dead. it is still hard to get the exact number of missing with one local mayor calling the death toll only the tip of the ic iceberg. complicating the response, rushing waters washed away roads and destroyed bridges making search and rescue efforts all the more difficult. i m worried we re going to be finding bodies for weeks to come.
may or may not match up with what you are feeling every day. we re about to get the biggest hard data dump of the summer. a multifaceted look at what the cold hard facts tell us about where the u.s. economy stands. you have these big hitters all announcing their earnings this week. it s going to be a big reflection of where we are, what we re buying out there. what we re not buying and participating in in this market. look at the reports coming out this week. it s a huge week for this summer. you have gdp, the cost of goods. perhaps the most important, consumer sentiment that we ll get at the end of this week. as you know, two quarters of gdp contraction. we ll get that second quarter gdp number. signalling a recession in the u.s. economy. the white house is changing its tune on the long-accepted benchmark. janet yellen is starting to hedge on what the definition of a recession is. with that, we bring in neil cavuto from your world. always good to have you with us. neil:
administration down playing the recession call. there s semantics. what is a recession, how do you technically define it. no matter what, there s widespread agreement no matter who you talk to. that is that economic growth is slowing. the treasury secretary, janet yellen acknowledges as much. but then she maintains that that does not mean a recession is inevitable. this is not in an economy that is in recession. but we re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing. and that s necessary and appropriate. we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace. yellen says the job market is still strong. she says a recession would have to be a broad-based economic contraction. consumers are still spending. household balance sheets are still in good shape. all of that said, the economy did contract the first quarter. economists think at beast we ll see slow growth when the numbers release thursday. the white house insists even if that number does go negative and some
Start collecting everyones dog photos its more like a join our own friends. Im sorry, its 7 00. We wrap up here. Thanks. All of you for joining us. Some kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now evacuated immediately the warning now from the Israeli Military telling estimated 100 civilians to get out of Eastern Raffa in gaza right now, warnings of longtrack tornadoes and giant hail, millions of americans are under a Severe Weather threat today and we now know the historic flooding over the last several days in texas has turned deadly. Dramatic, disturbing video. A gunman pulls the trigger on a pastor in the middle of services what happened next to save lives im john berman with kate bolduan and say assignor, its monday. And this is Cnn News Central happening right now, as many as 100,000 people in gaza are being told to get out of Eastern Raffa, the israeli the military is preparing it appears for a possible in long anticipated Ground Offensive in the Southern Gazan city in the las
Threatening weather coming today. Im kate baldwin with john berman and sara sidner. This the Cnn News Central donald trump just slept trump tower for court as his criminal Hush Money Trial resumes in less than 30 minutes. The big question today, who will take the stand . Among the most notable witnesses who may be called his former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen, adult film star Stormy Daniels, and former playboy playmate, Karen Mcdougal on friday today hope hicks, who was one of trumps closest and most trusted former aides, took the stand. She had dramatic testimony briefly coming to a stop at one point when she began to cry during crossexamination over the weekend, trump hosted donors and potential Vice President ial picks at the Republican National committees spring retreat. He also he ramped up his attacks several attendees telling cnn he accused democrats of running a gestapo administration. Cnns beringia and grasses outside court and Kristen Holmes is in washington. Brynn, were