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the unemployment rate with an unexpected jump from 3.5 to 3.8% all pointing to an economic cooldown after that post pandemic boom. experts reacting this way. the 3.8% is the biggest surprise. the unemployment rate is actually a pretty meaningful indicator. a lot of times that s one of the first places that we see a recession coming on. so jumping to 3.8 is potentially the start of something concerning. unemployment rate is pretty shocking. the uaw goes on strike as many anticipate, i guess we might cross over 4%. there is no doubt the yellow bankruptcy impact of the numbers. sandra: we heard the trucking company yellow filed for bankruptcy leaving 30,000 people without jobs. the actors strike in hollywood and white house announcing new regulations with more negative impact on businesses, new wage standards for construction workers and extended overtime pay. steve moore, former economic advisor to president trump joining us ahead of the president s speech a few moments f
four indictments now four not builty please. donald trump pleading not guilty in the georgia election interference case. why he now wants to cut off his case from his 18 co-defendants who are also facing charges in fulton county. senator mitch mcconnell looks to reassure allies and donors that he can still do his job. this after freezing in pup lick for the second time in weeks. what the senator s doctors now say is going on. president biden weighs on on concerns whether one of the most powerful republicans in washington can and should stay on the job. plus, travel on a gop donor s private jet. a paid trip to rome. new disclosures from justice clarence thomas and justice samuel alito revise supreme court ethics concerns. now lawmakers responding to calls for congressional action. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central . we ve been watching a lot of movement from donald trump s defense lawyers today, ha
trees knocked down, a fire station blown apart. i ll speak to a lifelong floridian who rode out the storm from his house boat. senator minority leader mitch mcconnell increasing mid-sentence. what his team is saying tonight about his health. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news. a destructive storm now making its way up the coast. idalia now hitting the carolinas. this after nearly half a million customers were left without power between florida and georgia. the rain and wind already leaving a trail of destruction across a swath of florida and, again, now into georgia and the carolinas. we are beginning to get new images here into outfront including a home in pasco county on fire, amid the floodwaters. another one on fire in that same county. officials there say some 600 homes were destroyed. meantime in cedar key, there was so much concern and conversation last night about cedar key. water levels reachin
idalia dangerously close to being a major category 3. now within about 100 miles of the florida gulf coast where some areas of florida s big bend could get catastrophic 15-foot storm surge. matt finn is live in saint pete, florida as it idalia closes intricate is beginning to look bad where you are. trace, the wind and rain has been very consistent for several hours now. the beach where we are is a barrier island to the tampa bay area. only about a 20 minute drive rest up tampa bay. this is considered zoned a of evacuation area. this is under a mandatory evacuation because of how low-lying this area is. fema and the national weather service in pinellas county officials have been warning that this area could see a 7 to 10-foot storm surge. anybody who remains here at this hour now perhaps faces that storm surge. governor desantis has warned that if you have not evacuated this area now, if you were to dial 911 are called emergency services, they may not be able to respond t