hostages on the wrong side of the border. on a desolate road outside of matamoras, mexico a convoy of vehicles carries victim s friday s attack. police found the two alive in a small house, their friends brown and woodward dead in a field nearby. [siren] at the border an ambulance took the two survivors to a brownsville, texas hospital. the deceased for now remain in mexico. attacks on u.s. citizens are unacceptable, no matter where or under what circumstances they happen. some on capitol hill want the u.s. military to go after the cartels with or without mexico s permission. i recommend we take the fight to the cartel and use extreme prejudice, extreme prejudice because they are killing americans. attorney general merrick garland spoke today without addressing that issue. the cartels are responsible for the deaths of americans and we are fighting as hard as possible. mexican president lopez observe door says one man is in custody while they look for others. mex
good evening to you ryan. once again. what do you learning about these top-end states testifying before the grand jury? don, i was good to be with you, this is a significant development. in terms of the department of justice s investigation into donald trump s election interference and how that led to what happened here on january 6th. both jacobs and marc short were really kind of the first big win this is that the january 6th flight committee were able to cooperate that right inside that war room of the white house, the west wing, the oval office, on the days leading up to january 6th. but their testimony revealed to the committee at that time with the intense pressure campaign that was put on by president mike pence is period of time. and the steps that pence did to resist that. it also really shed a light on things like the fake elector plot that was going on around the country. these are all things we didn t previously know until the committee was able to really crack
developments in the doj s criminal investigation of january 6th and the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. cnn is live in the capital with the latest. good evening. we appreciate having you. what are you learning about today? reporter: this is a significant development in terms of the department of justice investigation into donald trump s election interference and how that led to what happened on january 6. both jacobs and marc short were the first big witnesses that the january 6th elect committee were able to cooperate that were inside that orbit of the white house, the oval office, west wing and the days leading up to january 6. what the testimony revealed at that time, was the intense pressure campaign that was put on vice president mike pence and the steps that he stood to resist that and satellite on the fake collector plot going on around the country. these are things we did not previously know until the committee was able to crack core of mike pence and the inn
incredibly important for policymakers and for washington. look, we ve got consumer confidence numbers tomorrow, i mean, they could be really rotten. we know that people feel terrible about where the economy is going, a lot of people feel like they are already in a recession already. terrible consumer confidence. we will get those numbers. on wednesday we have a federal reserve interest rate hike expected, we are expecting another 75 basis points. that s big. we saw that in june, 75 basis points that was the biggest move since 1994, we re expecting that again. why? because the fed is trying to tamp town on inflation. that s going to be incredibly important to watch. we will get the first reading on second quarter gdp that comes thursday and that s expected to be negative again and that would mean as you guys just said two quarters in a row of negative growth. that s a big slowdown from where we saw at the end of last year 6.9%. but gdp alone is not the only gauge of whether we
quit. more than 60 million americans are under heat alerts, with temperatures expected to once again soar into the 90s and heat indexes receiving 100 degrees. newark, new jersey, hit 102, and boston hit 100 degrees yesterday. relief may be on the way for the northeast, but temperatures are now expected to build throughout the week in the pacific northwest and central plains. in california, a wildfire is raging outside yosemite national park. the oak fire it s called, which exploded over the weekend has burned more than 16,000 acres and forced evacuations of multiple towns. it s just 110% contained right now. cnn s reporter is standing by live in california with the latest on this. camilla, what are you hearing right now? reporter: hey, kate. for the first time since this fire started, we are seeing some progress, that 10% containment. it is a big deal. over the last couple of days, we ve been at sooepercent. the early morning hours, the ke cooler temperatures are really hel