sending controversial cluster munitions to ukraine. what that could mean for the war. also today, extreme weather. millions are at risk of record-breaking temperatures and severe storms as well. and then in washington, new fallout from the discovery of a bag of cocaine at the west wing of the white house. what congress is now demanding. and a medical breakthrough, the fda gives full approval for a new alzheimer s drug, but it comes with a serious warning about potentially deadly side effects. we begin this hour, everybody, with another sign, the economy may in fact be cooling. the government reported that employers added just 209,000 jobs last month. below the 240,000 the economists had expected. and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.6%. when you break it down by race, black unemployment rose by .4%. and hispanic unemployment rose by .3%. the president reacting to the news in a statement saying in part this, we are seeing stable and steady growth. that s bidenomics,
this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, i am lynda kinkade. after unleashing u.s. military on iranian backed targets and syria and iraq, president joe biden is making it clear, this is just the start of the retaliation in the deaths of three americans. this video from what appears to be one of those strikes early, saturday morning local time. the mayor of this town says the strikes hit houses used for weapons storage. the pentagon says u.s. bombers hit 85 individual targets in iraq and syria. the u.s. says the locations were used by iran s revolutionary guard and by iranian backed militia. the pentagon says each was used by iran backed groups, the video you just saw comes from iraq on the border with syria. an iraqi military spokesman says the attacks violated iraq s 70. the white house says iraq was notified before the attacks. u.s. president joe biden issued the statement, our response began today and will continue at times and places of our choosing. the united sta
delegitimized and apply double standards to the state of israel is, in fact, what we should be condemning. it is very, very sad. and the i ve soojee, in many ways, has to make the decision, is it going to be a court of justice like in the trial or will it be a court of injustice just like in the dreyfuss affair. mikael, i want to thank you for our time. i m sorry it is abbreviated. we did lose the connection at first. i m very glad that you could speak with us on holocaust remembrance day. that is this edition of alex reports. i will see you again tomorrow. at next, the weekend. i am ari melber let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with the record-breaking penalty for lying about a sexual isn t to cues are. the defendant ordered to pay $83 million to eugene carroll who is the victorious plaintiff in this case and right here you can see she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. we could tell you the jury deliberated for under three hour
i m sorry, albert let s get right into the headlines. a jury just hit donald trump with this record breaking penalty for lying about a sexual assault accuser. defendant trump, ordered to pay $83 million to the writer e. jean carroll. she is the victorious plaintiffs in this case, and right here you can see as she first walked out of court with her lawyers today. now we can tell you the jury deliberated from just under three hours, that is fast, and they dubbed trump a huge loss, which set its records, and shows a very costly miscalculation that he, an ongoing defendant made by, according to the court system, lying and defaming her again after a previous court victory. here are the numbers tonight, if you ve been watching the news, you may have seen some of this. i want to break it down for me. $18 million to compensate carroll, okay, that is what the jury found she should get for what she went through. and then that larger number, a massive $65 million to punish this defian
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