could perjury charges follow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. welcome to early start. we begin with what may be a clue that could help solve the mystery of one of those unidentified objects shot down by the u.s. military. a group of amateur balloonists says one of its small balloons is missing in action, its last reported location right over alaska on sunday the same day fighter jets downed three unidentified objects, one in that same region of alaska. the northern illinois bottle cap balloon brigade is not blaming the u.s. government for taking out its 32 inch balloon, but here is what president biden said yesterday. intelligence community s current assessment is that they were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research. jasmine wright is joining me live from washington. what else is the white house saying about balloons? reporter: the p
still more classified documents at the private club, closed quote. that signals there was potentially additional material there of interest to the u.s. government, even after trump turned over those 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. and last night, the director of the fbi chris rwray refused o answer questions about this search. he expressed real concern surrounding violent threats against fbi agents. take a listen. any threats made against law enforcement including the men and women of the fbi as with any law enforcement agency are deplorable and dangerous. and this morning, cnn has learned that some within the justice department believed that the department should have provided a public statement on the search. so let s start right there with our cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, we have been talking a lot this week about the real escalation from a meeting that investigators had back in june, with trump lawyers at mar-a-lago, leadin
rose to 262,000, up a little bit from the previous week and what is known as the producer price index, or ppi, that just shows the prices that are paid to producers for their goods and services, that fell in july from the month before. still painfully high. the news comes on a better day for drivers. your gas prices, folks, are now below $4 a gallon on average for the first time since march. chief business correspondent christine romans is here. so, good ppi relatively good ppi number. relatively good cpi number this week. and gas prices. and the gas prices. the president is very happy, we saw yesterday, have we peaked? it is a reprieve from runaway inflation. that factory floor number inflation level is important. much of that is because of gas prices, fuel prices for the factory input were down. but when you look from month to month, i say from june to july, factory inflation fell 0.5%, i
Consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in five months as widespread COVID-19 lockdowns across major cities hit supplies of household items, but remained relatively benign despite surging global commodity costs.