friends, it s a jobs report smack dab in the middle of the presidential 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 co-conspirators, 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. i m 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. cnn s 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 unemplo
campaign account. that s georgia governor brian kemp criticizing members of his own party who were calling for a special session to remove the district attorney who was prosecuting donald trump, and that comes as the former president officially pleads not guilty in fulton county. we ll have much, much more on all of that straight ahead. plus, we ll go through the ambitious plan by the biden administration to eliminate the so-called gun show loophole. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, september 1st. we ve made it to friday, and we re already in september. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. former president trump is officially pleading not guilty in the fulton county election case. trump s team entered his plea yesterday for the 13 felony charges he faces including racketeering and conspiracy. the plea was entered in writing as they file a waiver to tell the court he would not physically appear for next week s scheduled ar
night. we have hurricane idalia lashing the southeast at this moment, and threatening flooding. storm surges in strong winds as it goes. look at this incredible video, by the way. a car flipping over in the tornado in south carolina. almost like cgi for a second. oh, my god. meanwhile, some communities in florida s gulf coast are cut off. thousands are without power. we ll go to the weather center before the brand-new forecast. plus, a health care. dr. sanjay gupta is here to explain what might be going on with mitch mcconnell that appeared to freeze in the middle of a q&a in kentucky today, like he did at the capitol last month. senator, you re up for election in three, short years. what are your thoughts at this time? i had a hard time hearing you? that s okay. what are your thoughts about running for re-election in 2026? my thoughts about what? did you hear the question, senator? running for re-election in 2026? all right. i m sorry. we re going to need a minut
temperatures batter the areas and dozens of cities could hit record highs tomorrow. fox weather meteorologist adam klotz is here now9 with the forecast. adam. adam: hey, jon. we just got a new update from the national hurricane center just an hour ago. this storm is continuing to sit off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. not a lot of movement so far. there the have been tropical storm warnings across areas of mexico as this system s been something we ve been paying very close attention to as it kind of sits there stuck, moving there just 3 miles an hour. here are our storm paths as the storm, ultimately, is going to lift up through the gulf of mexico. you see all of those paths ultimately taking it into the big bend of florida. there s still a little bit of time where you could see this moving to the north here in the next 12 hours or so. that s why we have our cone of uncertainty, but it gives us a good idea of where this forecast is ultimately going to be. that is wednesd
we re responding fully. and our priority is on providing every assistance possible. investigators are looking into what caused the aircraft to crash. this is a developing sorry. we ll bring you updates throughout the morning. god bless those three marines. we think of those hurt and nothing routine ever when you re operating on behalf of the country. we ll keep up-to-date on that throughout the morning. the new york post revealing that biden staffers met with special counsel jack smith s aides before indicting former president trump. he denied he was involved in the justice department s decision to indict trump. we have more from washington. this report indicates the meetings began in 2021 when former do president donald trump was talking about the return of the documents to the archives. according to the new york post, jay bragg who joined the special counsel team took a t meeting in 2023 with the deputy chief of staff for the white house counsel s office. nine weeks