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was, as predicted by some, overshadowed by technical glitches. also new overnight, america s credit rating is at risk. a key rating agency now put the u.s. on watch. the one week to go until a possible default. and house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to send house members home for the weekend with no deal. meanwhile, u.s. intelligence is indicating that a ukrainian group may have been behind that recent drone attack on the kremlin. officials picking up chatter of ukrainians blaming one another. and anti-lgbtq campaign takes on corporate america again. target remove sometimes pride merchandise after some employees were threatened. and fans around the world are san. she was the queen of rock n roll, tina turner died at age 83. we re going to remember her life and her legacy on cnn this morning which starts right now. she was the queen. the queen. simply the best. we re going to honor her this morning. you re going hear a lot of tina turner this morning. get re
i don t drink coffee at all. tastes like a puddle. i can t do it. that s because you re not drinking it correctly. you have to prepare it a certain way and with creamers. that s not coffee anymore. no. all right. at least 23 people are dead after russia unleashed a deadly attack on ukrainian civilians. our cnn team is live at the scene where rescue efforts are continue this morning. more than 50,000 people have left sudan after fighting broke out there just a couple weeks ago, including hundreds of americans. one of them shares her story. millions are facing the threat of severe storms. where we could see those storms fire up today. we begin in ukraine, where the death toll from a russian strike on an apartment building is expected to rise. the attack killed almost two dozen people, including five children, and is believed to be the deadliest strike on civilians since january. it targeted more than ten apartment buildings and other civilian targets. but ukra
both be president i think is really a little bit ofirish malarkey [ applause ] the history and hope and the heartbreak my ancestors must have felt leaving their beloved homeland to gain new life in america. i said all this not to wax poetic about bygone days, but because of the story of my family s journey and those who left and those who stayed is emblematic of the stories of so many irish and american families, not just irish-american families. and these stories are the very heart of what binds ireland and america together they speak to a history defined by our dreams. they speak to a present written by our shared responsibility, and they speak to a future poised for unlimited shared possibilities. so today i d like to reflect on the enduring strength of the connections between ireland and the united states, a partnership for the ages it begins in our shared history, dating back to the very founding of the united states the irish hearts that helped kindle the torch of lib
going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. we ll tell you what we know about his condition this morning. and inflation is cooling, gas prices are dropping, but the cost of other items remains painfully high. what the new numbers say about the current state of the economy. welcome to your weekend. it s saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. so good to be with you. feel like i ve been missing boris in my life. nice to be here. pleasure to be with you, as always. thanks, boris. we begin with new details this morning on what led the fbi to execute and unprecedented search warrant on former president trump s home, according to court documents unsealed friday, investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material that were marked as top secret, sci, which stands for sensitive, comp