Ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. Former President Obama to hit the Campaign Trail for Kamala Harris. Details of his 27day Battleground politics for the vp. New reporting on Donald Trumps high Profile Weekend Rally returning to the site of the first Assassination Attempt in pennsylvania. Also ahead, the Death Toll from helene climbs over 200, as hope fades that the missing will be found alive. And breaking news, israel launching massive strikes into lebanon overnight, this time, targeting the new head of hezbollah. Good morning, you made it to friday. It is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from new york, and with just over a month to go, the president ial campaigns are seriously picking up the pace in the 2024 race. Vice president harris in michigan this morning after campaigning late with an unlikely ally, former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, and we learned just this morning that one of the biggest names in the democratic party, forme
oh. oh. don t goes goodman. bret. jesse: in politics it can be the kiss of death. remember thomas dewey holding up the dewey defeats truman newspaper? remember that? if you were born later you probably don t. i have seen it. it looks like they had fake news back then, too, didn t they? it looks like joe biden had his dewey moment this summer. remember when he declared victory over inflation? actually, i just want to say a number zero: today we received news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of july. zero percent. zero inflation last month. jesse: just like he declared victory too early over covid, same thing happened with inflation because, today, just like the rent is too damn high, so are prices. this just in, the august inflation report chief business correspondent christie romans has the numbers what are you seeing? forward cooling but too high. you have the overall inflation number 8.3%. you get inside these numbers, some of the year over
Im Christie Romans in for john on assignment. Im zoraida sambolin. 5 00 a. M. On the east. Half a million bucks, what do you think . Are you in yet . The Powerball Jackpot tonight is the second largest in lottery history. Thats a lot of office pools. We are in on it over here and have defied serious odds to get here. 16 consecutive powerball rollovers without a winner yet. And that streak is likely to end really soon. A lottery official calculates a 5 chance no one will win tonight if sales spike as they are expected to. And if you do happen to win the cash value of the jackpot, it now stands at 324 million dollars. But time for a quick reality check, your odds of winning are 175 million to 1. Alison kosik closely monitoring powerball fever is live from new yorks times square this morning. The odds are not good but the fever is really high, isnt it, alison . Reporter it is. We walked into this Convenient Store here in times square and you see the advertising over my shoulder near the C
Money youve got. How long can you go with the money youre saving and if you dont have must have, if you already know, like the people who responded to this hsbc survey, youre not going to have enough, you got to figure out how to invest in some stocks because you cant make up for lost time without stocks. You cant all be in fixed income or bonds, because there say little bit of inflation. You dont even get enough interest in order to make up for inflation. So youre actually losing money as opposed to growing it. The whole point is time is your best friend. Were saving for shortterm goals like vacation, but we need the more time you have, the more of a mix in your portfolio, and the more money youre going to make in the end. Save for your retirement first over saving for your kids college. Thats what a lot of people dont do. Fidelity says you need to look at it this way, at end of your working career, you need to have saved eight times your Financial Year salary. If you make 100,000 or
Continues. A 57yearold corrections officer who worked on the block where matt and sweat were housed he is now on administrative leave and undergoing questioning by authorities. His attorney telling us he received a painting that was made by richard matt while behind bars. There was a focus on the paintings, because joyce mitchell, the prison seamstress who is charged with helping them escape received a painting. Gene palmer told me 100 his client denies knowing anything about the escape before it happened. Chris . Thank you. Police are really moving on tips. They have been pouring in about possible sightings of the escaped killers. Law enforcement sources close to the investigation telling cnn there was a credible sighting over the weekend near the town of friendship new york. Its on the new york pennsylvania border. Its where Alexander Field is this morning. Whats going on there right now with it . Reporter good morning, chris. Look this tip really rose to the top of the heap even tho