good morning, everyone. it s friday. we re glad you re with us. it s been quite a week for this country. quite a week. it s framing what is going to be ab intense consequential months ahead. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, august 4th. sour, defiant, we have new reporting this morning about donald trump s state of mind after he was indicted for the third time in four months. the former president proclaiming his innocence and accusing the special counsel of leading a political persecution. also new overnight, democratic lawmakers want to watch the trial. they want a judge to allow cameras in a federal courtroom. the july jobs report will come out. a key number for the fed. also this morning a reenactment of the parkland high school shooting. as part of a lawsuit against the officer who failed to enter the build whg a gunman killed 17 people. two sailors under arrest and have been indicted for allegedly sending sensitive military information
saturated from recent heavy rain. rob marciano timing it all out. the midair emergency. a bird strike shortly after takeoff forcing a southwest airlines plane bound for austin to instead make an emergency landing in fort lauderdale. gio benitez with late details. the crisis at the border. top u.s. officials head to mexico for major talks with the country s president about slowing the record migrant surge, as a caravan of thousands of migrants, some of them families with small children, make their way towards the u.s. border. and tonight, the urgent plea from the mayor of new york city. mireya villarreal reporting. the new fears of a wider war in the middle east. u.s. troops come under attack again in iraq. militants claiming responsibility for the latest drone strikes just days after the u.s. hit targets in iraq. and the urgent effort to free the hostages still held by hamas, some of them americans. president biden talking with leaders in the region. terry moran in wash
address, president biden is expected to present a picture of a nation on the rebound making solid progress, especially in regards to the u.s. economy. republicans will portray the president as largely failing. and they have a boat load of new poll numbers to back them up. perhaps, most striking of all those polls, results showing a majority of americans and most democrats do not want president biden to run for re-election. and after the spy balloon journey across the country and increasing aggressive actions around the world, china is expected to be a major topic tonight as well. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. this speech is widely seen as an anchor to president biden s 2024 announcement. but, looming over it is the fallout from his handling of the chinese spy balloon exposing division within his own party and doubts about his job in office. hours before his speech, the pent
people in the us state are being urged to turn off major appliances in the afternoons and evenings. now on bbc news, click. this week we are at the hospital that s using ai to try and cut waiting times for surgery. we are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the fringe festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. there is so much scope for error. and there s so much stuff that s not in our control. on tiktok it is actually all in our control. and talking of control, we ll see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. i said no laughing matter.oh, never mind. you are back, we re back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it is a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. please, neverspeak to me again. filled with experimental per
this week we are at the hospital that s using ai to try and cut waiting times for surgery. we are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the fringe festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. there is so much scope for error. and there s so much stuff that s not in our control. on tiktok it is actually all in our control. and talking of control, we ll see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. i said no laughing matter.oh, never mind. you are back, we re back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it is a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. please, neverspeak to me again. filled with experimental performance, innovative shows and, my favourite, comedy. one of the beautiful things about the fringe is that it takes over loa