respiratory symptoms. and jofficials are advising you to put your masks back on to protect you from the smoke. and derek van dam is joining us from the cnn weather whycenter. yesterday the fire alarms went off at school because of the smoke. how will it be today? you ve heard the term you wait a couple minutes and the weather changes. this was literally a 15 minute time lapse and you can see the smoke that inundated new york city, the skyscrapers just becoming a martian landscape. social media was lighting up. it was incredible to see but also very dangerous. and yet another day of the smoke and haze across many of the many populated areas of the east coast. and in new york we still have haze and smoke present, but it is not as bad as it was last night. majority of the thickest has drifted further south. so washington, philadelphia, baltimore, those areas will wake up to almost choking-like air and hazardous air really as this smoke continues to settle in. that stretches ac
verge of a new bull market even as you have all the worries about recession swirling. overall recession fears appear to be fading. and the nasdaq ending the day down more than 1%. the dow finished slightly higher. and gas prices rose a penny overnight to 3.5$3.56 a gallon. aaa says international travel it up more than 200% compared to 2022 with ticket prices for international prices 30% higher. and some are heading overseas to experience moment like this taylor swift concert. let s bring in the author of the article from the washington po post . nice to have you. i ve been studying what some are calling a discretionary recession. for example they are trading down on what kind of cuts of meat they are buying but buying
enough of a benefit of the booster. we have not seen the u.s. data and this is really important for us. it is important. we will watch for it. let me go through of the case count. number one, this map. it s horrific. 99% of the population right now lives in communities who are high, the red, or substantial coronavirus transmissions which is why the cdc says if you re vaccinate put on a mask when you go indoors because of the threat. case count. look at the steepness. 131,000 cases on average right now. two weeks ago, it was 80,000 cases. we were last at 130 cases on the way up last november. look how steeply we went up. two weeks 200,000 cases. the hospitalizations, doctor, are up as well as you noted. august 1st 50,000 people and now 83,000 people. i want to bring up this here to your point in your most recent op-ed piece in the washington po post . you talk about children going back to school. children and children and staff and custodians back in school.
same thing which, if there is a quid pro quo and it s pauses and it s hours later that he responds with this formal thing that he now will say that trump told him. according to the washington po post there is a phone call with the president. fiona hill, who was on the national security council, she worked in the white house and was in charge of the russia desk, she has testified it s been reported that sondland was in a meeting that happened weeks before these conversations back and forth with taylor, the american ambassador to ukraine in which sondland was there and was there to raise the issue of the ukrainian investigations into biden with ukrainians in the white house. so sondland s problem in my view is he wanted to say it wasn t me, it was donald trump. i didn t know anything about this he was doing it. exactly. i don t see how he gets out of this tomorrow without serious damage. corey, the thing is if sondland appears tomorrow it s under oath. they told him, look, it
making a bad joke. and breaking news. more dock uuments related to th confidential source during the campaign. a major concession from the doj. sit down. sit your [ bleep ] down. and police in arizona facing hard questions after the surveillance video captured t peting of a suspect. beating of a suspect. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. president trump expressing serious reservations going to canada for the g7 summit. he vented privately about prime minister justin trudeau after trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum to canada and mexico and the eu. according to the washington