than last year. still you have people out there looking for the cheapest gas they can find in their neighborhood and it is a welcome reprieve for consumers. yesterday we saw that those falling gas prices one reason why consumer inflation looks to have moderated a little bit in the month of july, we have producer price inflation, that is a factory-level gauge of inflation that comes out at 8:30 this morning. i will certainly take it if it s going to be, what, $3.70 versus $5 a gallon in the near future. thank you for that. the other major news this morning, reports that point to the possibility of someone inside donald trump s orbit raising concern about possession of classified documents. the wall street journal reports this morning that sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. so who could
let s get straight to our top story. we re just learning right now that a federal court in florida has instructed the u.s. justice department to confer with former president trump about its request to unseal the search warrant and to tell the court by 3:00 p.m. tomorrow if he opposes it. our reporter is working the story for us. kaitlan, what s the latest? reporter: wondelf, we re talg about a court document under seal right now, and the judge has set a deadline of 3:00 p.m. tomorrow to get an answer whether donald trump and his lawyers want this document out there in the public s see. so the justice department requested in court to unseal this document. they want to give the courtesy to trump s team, as you normally would do in court, to get a response. the arguments the justice department is making is that it s in the public interest to put this document out there. and that a lot of it is already been spoken about by trump and his team that a search occurred at mar-a-lago
20 dead. security forces are still trying to take control of the situation at this hour. also tonight, new data on long term covid and the increased risk of brain disorders. dr. leana wen is here to discuss. and actor gary busey in trouble with the law again. you re in the cnn newsroom. it is 2:00 a.m. in the capital of somalia and a terrorist attack is still playing out, more than 24 hours later. [ screaming ] harrowing images. at least 20 people are confirmed dead in the attack on the upscale hotel. dozens more injured. and an unknown number of people are being held hostage. [ sound of gunfire ] the al qaeda linked terrorist group al shabaab is claiming responsibility for the siege. cnn has not been able to verify that claim. police say the attackers and their hostages are now trapped in the middle two floors of the hotel. and they warn the death toll is likely to rise. a short time ago, this statement from the u.s. embassy there. the united states strongly condemns t
attorney rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, it s not really about taking the documents, it s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. right. it s not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. taking classified documented, some marked classified sci is as unsafe as keeping them in the national archives and west wing. the espionage act actually does refer specifically to willfully retaining documents and failing to deliver them on demand to the federal employee or officer entitled to receive them. as we said, this perfect phone call excuse has come after an evolution of excuses made by the former president s supporters for having the files stashed at a country club. here s his youngest song the evening after the search. my father
year. tropical storm warnings up for parts of texas. we re going to see some heavy rainfall in certain parts. we re going to tell you where and what that means for drought conditions. and a massive fire erupts at a boat yard in massachusetts. what we re learning about the fire and the damage that s been done. welcome to your weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re grateful to have you. thanks so much for waking up with us. great to be with you, amara. i can t believe it s august 20th. i wait for the weekends to know what the date is. i m realizing, oh my gosh, we re close to september. that s good. cooler weather, please. we were just talking about that, yes. it s almost halloween. good to be with you, boris. of course. we have a lot of news going on. we begin with the intense situation surrounding the z zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. that lies on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. the fighting around the area have intensified so have concerns abo