Friends, its a jobs report smack dab in the middle of the president ial election. We have the details for you. Plus hours after entering a not guilty plea donald trump filing a motion to sever his case from his accused coconspirators, the former president wants to delay while others want a speedy trial so how will the judge respond . Plus a Record Number of americans are packing in one last summer trip this Labor Day Weekend. Im Rahel Solomon alongside kate bolduan and Boris Sanchez this morning and Cnn News Central starts right now. The latest jobs report has just crossed and here is what the report shows on the surface, 187,000 jobs were added last month, the Unemployment Rate ticked up to 3. 8 , but there is so much more in there than just that. Cnns Vanessa Yurkevich has the details for us. What do you see inside these top line numbers . This is a good report, a little bit above expectations but still a comfortable number both on the jobs added and the Unemployment Rate ticking up
Cnn is on the scene of cleanup and Recovery Efforts as President Joe Biden is now set to visit the disaster zone. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt, and youre in the situation room. We begin with new legal maneuvers by Donald Trumps defense as his criminal prosecution in georgia is now moving forward. Lets get straight to cnns sarah murry. So sarah, walk us through what happened today including trumps request to separate his case. Lets start with donald trump entering his not guilty plea officially, saying he is going to waive his arraignment. He now joins about a handful of folks in this sprawling 19 defendant case who have entered their pleas on paper, not guilty pleas those include sidney powell, attorney ray smith and attorney el. Hes not going to have to show up in this courtroom i will february 6th. Attorneys say they want a speedy trial. Donald trumps team is making clear they dont want anythin
One every couple of weeks, and femas primary Disaster Fund is nearly out of money. And a nightmare in south africa, a fire ripping through a Building Full of homeless men, women, and children, some literally throwing babies out of windows in a desperate attempt to save their lives. The death toll 74 with potentially more to come. But we start with the former president , opting out of his first chance to respond to the charges against him in open court in georgia. Trumps decision to plead not guilty and waive his arraignment means no televised court appearance, yet another example of an event that would have been the first of its kind. At least four of the 19 defendants have now waived their right to appear, trump joining ray smith, sidney powell, and trevian coo tee, that includes Rudy Giuliani the subject of a blistering decision from a d. C. Judge finding him liable for defaming two Georgia Election workers and accusing him of intentionally ignoring basic rules of evidence in order t
This is what that actually looks like or looked like in keaton beach, florida. And gabe showed us the aftermath there. Some boats are being sent in to check for survivors. The water thankfully seems to be receding here after all of the storm surge. But i just wanted to show you the National Guard here. With response to your question where we could see the wind, we saw a lot of tree damage. A lot of tree damage. Downed power lines. You can kind of tell where the worst of it was. As it blows through. And in some places it looks like a tornado came through. It is remarkable when you see the intensity of this storm. The power of a hurricane as it comes on shore. That is our colleague gabe gutierrez. He spent his morning in perry, florida, about a half an hour north. Where roaring winds blow over this Gas Station Awning before knocking out a billboard right where gabe was doing some of his reporting. A few minutes later, gusts nearly lifted him and his crew and their equipment including the
Doing hard work. Thank you. The residents of florida getting the job done. Weve seen State Troopers out big time in force helping out the residents. Neil this is what you call fox team coverage, fox weather, fox news all at hand as Hurricane Idalia ripped through florida. Now officials are assessing the damage as the state begins to try to pick up the pieces. The storm is still a threat as it makes its way through georgia and South Carolina. President biden says he met with all three states governors. Coming up, well talk to floridas director of Emergency Management on whats being done right now. Im neil cavuto. Lets get to it with Steve Harrigan in tarpon springs, florida where sets say they got hit hard. How are things now, my friend . Hit hard, neil. Certainly a huge mess left behind. A big step up from where we were at dawn. There was three feet of water on the streets. Fire trucks couldnt get through, electric power trucks couldnt get through. Now you can see traffic is beginning