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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 yea ....
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 i ....
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. ....