Donald trumps legal team is prepared to go back to court later this month, and the many deflections they are testing out in public. A dramatic attack in a russian port overnight. It shows an unmanned drone seriously damaging a russian warship. And the update of the gilgo killings. Sara is off today. Im kate bolduan with john berman, and this is cnn news central. A new month of job growth extending Employment Strength in the u. S. Economy. 187,000 jobs were added in july and the Unemployment Rate ticked down to 3. 5 , and now the 187,000 jobs added were lower than what economists were expecting. Joined now by acting labor secretary julie sue, and thank you for joining us, and economists were expecting more jobs added and what do you think of that . Well, this is the stable steady growth that the president predicted a year ago. We were hopeful that we would go from the recordbreaking numbers of jobs created on the numbers created coming out of the pandemic, and now over 13. 4 million job
announcing a tentative agreement to avert a nationwide freight rail strike. a shutdown that could have had catastrophic consequences for the economy. talks involving the unions, rail companies and labor secretary marty walsh went on for 20 hours. we re told that president biden, who calls himself the most pro-union president ever was instrumental in getting over the finish line. last night was a historic night for rail labor. we re proud of what was accomplished. we wanted to take a few seconds and thank secretary marty walsh, deputy secretary julie sue and definitely president joe biden, everybody pulling together to make sure we could get our members what they deserve. this is the quality of life issue that we have been trying to get to our members. so we re going to hit the ground running. we ll have more information here in the coming hours. some tired looking leaders emerging as the sun was arising there. jeremy diamond is at the white house. what do we know abou
president himself played a critical role in getting the deal across the finish line. his message, emphasize the harm that families, businesses and communities would feel if a shutdown went ahead. the final hurdle to come, and that is a full union vote. also this, an immigration battle escalating near the vice president s doorstep. buses of migrants sent from texas dropped off just feet from her residence in washington overnight. this happening a day after officials on martha s vineyard were sent scrambling after dozens of migrants unexpectedly arrived there. the office of florida governor ron desantis says it was he who sent two planes to the massachusetts island with more than 50 migrants on board. you see a picture there. cnn s steve contorno live in washington. i saw a group of migrants dropped off in front of the vice president s residence in d.c. this morning as well. what s happening? reporter: the governor of florida has been promising for months really that he i
to martha s vineyard in massachusetts and even to the doorstep of the vice president s residence in d.c. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. but gets begin with jeremy diamond live at the white house on the very late night and early morning negotiations to avert this rail strike. what are you learning about the deal, jeremy? 20 hours of negotiations between the union leaders. the railway companies and also involved the white house and the labor secretary marty walsh. president biden was being kept updated throughout the day yesterday. the negotiations began at 9:00 a.m. yesterday and they ended at 5:00 a.m. today with this tentative agreement that is now going up to the union s membership for a vote. that is expected to pass. because these union leaders say they would have not have struck the deal if they didn t believe it had the support of the membership. let s get into the details. a 24% wage increase over five years from 2020 through 2024. an immedia
Trumpbranded bibles on line as his massive legal bills pile up. Record numbers of israelis protesting against Prime Minister netanyahu overnight for a ceasefire and hostage release as the idf does withdraw from gazas Shifa Hospital and meetings on alternatives to an allout offensive in rafah. I will be joined by a filmmaker on a new documentary as the Kennedy Family bands together against Robert Kennedy jr. s thirdparty challenge to President Bidens reelection. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. Todays weather could not dampen the joy of the annual white house easter egg roll, a Tradition Dating back to 1878. President Biden Jokingly told participants eggs roll faster in the rain, but the morning storms did mostly clear in time. This mornings fun follows an Easter Sunday message saying, warmest wishes to christians around the world. The simple message is a stark contrast to donald trump who posted 77 times on social media this weekend. He started with happy easter, then devolume fd into