plus, the latest on house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. the uncertain visit is straining an already tense relationship between the united states and china. and a texas man gets the longest prison sentence to date tied to the capitol attack, but his daughters want someone else locked up, too. good morning, and welcome to way too early, on this tuesday, august 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. after decades on the run, the top leader of al qaeda has finally been taken off the battlefield. ayman al zawahiri was killed this last weekend by a cia drone while standing on a balcony in downtown kabul, second in command to osama bin laden during the september 11th attacks, and became the top leader when the united states killed bin laden in 2011. a senior administration official tells nbc news that the strike was so precise, none of his family inside the home were killed. in a rare evening address last night, president biden still isolating from covid said j
much right at the moment. not necessarily feeling it right now, but in the future, i have big plans. if interest rates go up on the home mortgages, i could be a little screwed there. i m in the corporate world. it s concerning. with the prices going up, we cannot afford sometimes what i you know. so it s hard for me. have to pinch here and there. still living our life. neil: the white house learning what americans knew all along. we re indeed in a recession. the economy pulling back as prices refuse to let up. stocks ignored this and moved up what is really up? we re going to talk to senior economic adviser, gene sperling in just a moment. this is neil cavuto and your world. first to edward lawrence at the white house on how all of this is being digested there. edward? the president confident that we re not in a recession. we re hearing it from everyone in the administration. don t look at the gdp numbers. look at job growth. in fact, the jobs that the adminis
had flooding, that we had a video of flooding, with the national guard rescuing lots of people, a heart breaking scene, we re looking at some people still trapped, an ongoing story, and also we re going to start to see the heat really starting there, we have a lot of people without power, so it is just really look at these scenes. can you even imagine how this is happening? we will start seeing better news. the for fortunate part we are seeing less rain. and flooding in kentucky and west virginia and southern ohio and looking at flash flood warnings, where you can see the red box here. and the orange box is showing a severe thunderstorm warning and we have strong storms this morning. and let s zoom in here where we see the radar and looking at very, very strong storms this morning and some really heavy downpours, looking at heavy downpours in portions of illinois, into western parts of kentucky, and looking okay in the eastern part of kentucky, although we do expect some
we hear helicopters overhead. 15 brings are completely washed out here in the town of hazard alone. right now, the kentucky river is rising rapidly. this is the energy state s emergency. i m watching couches, homes, rooftops, parts of the kitchens just floating down as the creeks are emptying out. it s a heart breaking scene to watch unfold and this emergency is still ongoing. more rain is in the forecast unfortunately, neil. neil: it happened to fast. like they weren t prepared. they knew the rain was coming. but knew like the flooding that came. yeah, eight to nine inches in less than a 12-hour period. when that water is just raising down, you know, everybody is living in the valley, there s no where for it to go. the roads are washing out. the bridges are washing out. homes are bursting apart in the creeks like they were toys. it s unreal to see.
latest. reporter: this story is just so terribly sad. the two-story home is behind me. you can see that people have already started to leave cards and flowers for the children. and again, investigators say that this is a tragedy that could very easily have been avoided. it was a heart breaking scene as erie firefighters desperately tried to save the children they had pulled from a burning home. the fire broke out early sunday morning and spread quickly at the harris family day care. neighbors were the first to rush in to try and help. i heard screaming from my porch. so i immediately started down the street. reporter: this man says he tried to get inside the house but the flames with for just too intense. i got low. i tried to go inside. i made it to the open living room and i couldn t go any farther. reporter: five children were killed. the youngest, a baby just eight months old. four of the children were siblings. erie fire officials say they had been sleeping at the day ca