vote for a gun violence protests that they held the last week on the floor of the house in the wake of the mass shooting the covenant school just a few miles away. representative justin pearson of memphis, who has just been speaking he now his fate hangs in the balance will be up to report to republicans who control the two thirds majority needed to expel him to decide his fate expelled earlier today , representative justin jones of nashville will talk with him in just a moment a measure to expel representative gloria johnson, knoxville failed by a single vote. to the nation. keep watching. we re losing our democracy. we need to make sure that we stomp out this march to fascism. absolute power corrupts. absolutely and we cannot forget that. as on everything, folks. there was a difference in the alexander. you want. i will answer your question i might have to do with the color of our skin. we should point out that justin pearson. now it s the voters just taking place has been
of strikes aimed at southern lebanon and gaza. and we re learning this morning that the idea has mobilized its reserve forces, the latest on this fluid situation. cnn is on the ground important new jobs numbers just in moments ago, 236,000 jobs added, but that is below expectations. the unemployment rate is down to a low, low low 3.5% there are signs that things might be cooling off. expelled in an extraordinary move. tennessee house republicans vote to remove two young black democratic members for protesting on the capitol floor backlash and how republicans are defending it. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central . major retaliatory strike in the middle east is really forces firing rockets overnight hitting palestinian targets in lebanon and gaza. and the i, d f is now ordering the mobilization of reserve forces. israel strikes are in response to the dozens of rockets fired from southern lebanon into northe
lot of new information in the middle of all of that. yeah, that s exactly right, john. so from the very beginning, the marion county sheriff kept alluding to this idea that detectives were looking into whether or not at least one of these three teenagers that were killed were involved in some type of gang activity. i interviewed the sheriff earlier this week and i asked him look, is this one? is this going to be a case where possibly ah, some of the folks that were in the car. some of the teams that died may not have known that one of their friends was involved in a gang. he said. they were looking at that possibility. however we now know this morning that at least according to the sheriff, as well as the detectives in marion county, it is now clear that all three teenagers that died were involved in some type of gang in marion county, the one thing that was asked a couple of times throughout the news conference was exactly why these three suspects the three people that are b
here in the cnn newsroom i m fredricka whitfield in new york , and today s jobs report revealed a slight cool down in the labor market. employers added 236,000 jobs last month, the figure that missed economists expectations and sit significantly below the number we saw the last two months. the unemployment rate, meantime, dropped to 3.5% a new cnn poll found half of americans say their personal financial situation is worse than it was a year ago. and the president of the nation s largest bank exclusively, telling cnn that the threat of a recession still looms following the recent banking crisis. has this banking crisis even though you think it s almost over which i m really glad to hear, though. increased chances of a recession here. yes. but i look at like it s not definitive. it s just like another weight on the scale . people say it s like raising rates, another 50 basis points or something like that. we are seeing people reduce lending a little bit. cut back a little bit.
hello i m abby phillip in washington. welcome to cnn newsroom we begin this hour in the middle east, where both violence and tensions are escalating. today israeli forces unleashed air strikes in southern lebanon and gaza and israel says it struck targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. israel blames hamas for firing 34 rockets from lebanon yesterday and the latest barrage since the two countries were at war back in 20 in 2006. now that has raised fears of an escalating conflict across the region, and just overnight, we learned that israel has mobilized some of its military reserves. a short time ago, israel s defense minister ordered security bolstered across the country after two israeli women were shot to death in the west bank. israel has called it an act of terror. let s get straight to cnn s fred pleitgen, who is near the israeli gaza border, and scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, for us as well. but let s start with you, fred. fred you did talk to t