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.
eric williams and latavia mcgee. the four crossed the border for mcgee to get cosmetic surgery. officials believed they got lost. the cartel gunman opened fire and this video shows them throwing mcgee in a back of a pickup truck and dragging the two men, two of them likely dead to the same truck. the president takes this seriously. the fbi and other agencies have been on top of this from day one. some critics of the biden administration have said the president must now send a message to the cartels, possibly through military action. others argue financial pressure would be a more effective tool. we need to bankrupt them and put them out of business and the people responsible for these murders need to be brought to justice. whatever happens next is clear than ever that the cartels control much of mexico s border. it has the potential to turn into this kind of violent tragedy. jonathan, thank you. standby if you will, i want to bring in marianne ratliff. the biden a
this is cnn. the world s news network. we are continuing following breaking news on multiple fronts. let s start with a major escalation in the middle east right now. the israeli military military officials say dozens of rockets were fired from lebanon into israel today. what you re looking at is what they believe is some of those rockets being intercepted by the iron dome. this marks the largest attack coming from lebanon. since 2006 officials in israel say some of them as i mentioned were were intercepted, but unclear how many lebanon now says that israel is also responding with artillery fire. all of this comes amid tensions over israeli police operations at the alaska mosque in jerusalem. cnn sadhus gold is back with us from jerusalem. tell me very latest that s coming in. we know now that kate to people have been injured as a result of shrapnel from the rockets. that s according to israeli emergency services this coming after what israeli officials say were dozens of roc
community now under fire for being scooped by the new york times. the white house correspondent kevin cork is live in the nations capitol with more on this. the doj being the justice department, announcing the rest of a massachusetts air national guardsman for leaking a trove of classified intelligence documents some of them containing some of the nation s very biggest secrets. the fbi has arrested a young man by the name of jack. of the 102nd intelligence wing of the massachusetts international guard. this rest hoopenned just out asked his home. the justice department arrested texeira for remueller of classified national defense information. he will have a united states initial appearance at the u.s. district court. this investigation is gaining. ongoing says the ag. meanen time the fbi in part thanks to the help of the new york times and eve than washington post, tracking down the suspect through a trail of digital evidence left on the site discord where texeira, who
second day in a row. the man accused of murdering his wife and one of his sons took to the stand, saying it wasn t him, but people who hated his son, paul. disgraced attorney alex murdaugh spent six hours on the stand friday, admitting he lied, had a drug problem, but believes the deaths of his wife, maggie, and son, paul, stemmed from someone who had it out for paul. the person, or people, who did what i saw on june the 7th, they hated paul murdaugh and they had anger in their heart. paul is facing charges in the february 2019 boating wreck that killed 19-year-old malory beach. murdaugh clarifying he didn t think anyone on the boat that night was responsible, but someone who had heard about it. because i did not and would not hurt my wife and my child. but prosecutors pressed murdaugh about trying to manufacture an alibi, which he denies. they then reminded him there is evidence he lied to police about where he was on the night of the murders. other than lying to t