one of the areas of the country to get out while they can, and grieving families in texas are furious with officials over their lack of answers about the uvalde school shooting. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we re now learning that the funeral for japan s shinzo abe will be held next week. a wake is scheduled for monday, with his memorial service set for the next day. a hearse carrying the former prime minister s body arrived a few moments ago. he was gunned down while giving a campaign speech on monday. doctors spent hours trying to save him but his blood loss was too great. police are hinting at a possible motive. listen to this. translator: the suspect committed the act as he had a grudge against a specific organization and believed former prime minister abe was part of it. we would like to refrain from getting into the details. condolences have been pouring in from world leaders who knew and worked with abe during his years as p
welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with the money lead. wall street closing this hour mostly flat after today s jobs reported exceeded expectations. great news, obviously, but not slowing rising prices and fears of a recession. according to the bureau of labor statistics, the united states added 372,000 jobs in june and on average american paychecks are up 5.1% in the last year. but that s not keeping up with inflation, which jumped 8.6% annually in last month s report. that s a problem for president biden as he is struggling to convince americans his economic agenda is working. my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. reporter: more signs on friday of a robust u.s. labor market. the economy adding 372,000 jobs in june, far beating economists expectations and the unemployment rate remaining at 3.6%, near historic lows. president biden celebrating the news, saying the u.s. has now recovered all of the jobs lost du
translator: i he loved this country and worked hard for a brighter future of this country, leaving behindable be successes. reporter: u.s. president biden stunned and outraged, calling him a champion of the friendship of our people. this hasn t happened in japan in decades and decades. i ve been told going back to the late 30s. reporter: former presidents barack obama and president trump. abe s contribution to promoting the improvement and development of japanese relations. relations with beijing were sometimes contentious.
the former prime minister visited pearl harbor and placed a wreath at the site of the world war ii attack by the japanese and hosted president obama at hiroshima, and of course the vice president at the time is now the current president. phil mattingly reports from the white house. reporter: president biden said he was shocked. he was angered. it was certainly a surprise that nobody here at the white house expected. the assassination of a former world leader, and one with very close ties to the united states across administrations, across parties, and alliance that has been made stronger because of the work prime minister shinzo abe did over his time in office. now president biden ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff. he referred to the prime minister as his friend, somebody he worked closely with on several issues when he was the vice president to then-president obama. and it underscores a reality here that over the course of
prime minister abe s time in office, regardless of the president or party, whether it was george w. bush, barack obama or even former president trump, abe worked very closely to ensure that the alliance between the two countries became stronger, that it was rigid, that he was willing to do whatever it took to ensure that the u.s. efforts in the indo-pacific were bolstered, in large part because of that alliance. president biden said he didn t believe it would have any affect on the alliance itself. but he did say he thought it would have an impact on the psyche of the japanese people, given the fact there are so few gun deaths, so little gun violence in the country. something americans have grown quite used to over the last couple years. very much not the case in japan. something president biden alluded to, but he did make clear the work he had done with the former prime minister, the work former administrations had done as well, set the u.s.-japan