Right now on andrea mitchell reports, its Decision Day for Vice President harris before her first rally with her new Running Mate in Philadelphia Tomorrow. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper who took his name off the list joins me as we break down the contenders and the behind the Scenes Vetting Process. Also today, President Biden returning to washington from delaware for an emergency national Security Meeting this afternoon as iran threatens a multipronged retaliation against israel for assassinating the hamas political leader in tehran. Something President Biden says was a setback for Cease Fire talks. The second week of olympic competition kicking off after a Photo Finish Victory for noah liles. Huge disappointments this morning for simone biles. And Hurricane Debby hitting hard in florida. The big question now, which way will the Storm Turn. He storm tu. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The anticipation is building as Vice President harris promises to announce
And julia coronado, former economist at the federal reserve. Good morning to you both. We are 30 minutes from president biden making remarks on the economy. Mon, these numbers are not what economists thought we d be seeing. What are you hearing from the white house pokes behind the scenes? reporter: they re trying to highlight some of the good signals of hope in this jobs report, for instance the fact that the unemployment rate fell to 5. 2%, which is the lowest it has been since march of 2020, when the pandemic of course kicked off in full swing, and so many jobs were lost, and the fact that so far, 76% of those since the pandemic began have been recovered, leaving more than 5 million jobs still to go. This is something we really got a preview of about a month ago when the president spoke on the july jobs report. He wasn t ringing a note of celebration, he was worried about the hard work to come and the potential impact of the delta virant. You can expect a repeat of those things toda
Lifesupporters standing team of reporters standing by. We are in houma not far from where the starm made land fall. It is getting serious where you are, jason. What can you tell us? reporter: yes. The conditions, we ve seen them getting progressively worse with each passing hour as we ve been standing out here. It s the severe wind. It s the severe rain that s been coming down steadily. And we re not even really in the thick of it yet. As bad as some of the conditions are now, if you look, i don t know how much of this reads on camera as you see the wind gusts come through here. But the eye wall still two hours away from where we are at this point, jim. And houma at this point is still in the direct path of the eye wall of hurricane ida. So what we re being told is conditions here are just going to be steadily getting worse over the next few hours. So what we re going to be doing is bringing you updates, obviously, as we re out here. I ve reached out to emergency officials to gauge wha