Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Were glad youre with us. Its been quite a week for this country. Quite a week. Its framing what is going to be ab intense consequential months ahead. Lets get started with five things to know for this friday, august 4th. Sour, defiant, we have new reporting this morning about Donald Trumps 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 to chinese Intelligence Of
united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. crowded confusion as a strict border policy ends. we ll look at what comes next for the migrant crisis on america s doorstep. plus president zelenskyy ask pope francis expected to meet at the vatican. we re live in rome and london with the latest and the default is feeling more real with time running out on a plan to raise the nation s debt ceiling. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin this hour at the mexico border where several key cities report fewer migrants arriving than expected. the covid era policy allowed authorities to expel most migrants. a senior official says there was no substantial influx of migrants at the southern border on friday after title 42 expired thursday night and the number of migrants and border patrol custody has dropped slightly compared to earlier this week. still across all levels of government, official are preparing for more arrivals. th
3.4%. black unemployment a lowest ever level of 4.7%. job gains in health care, in the restaurant industry, construction, wages climbing, us is purltives are plenty. but yes, also disruptive. the fed suggesting this week it might be done with interest rate hikes, but these jobs numbers spiking after a downward trnd the past three months underlies the effect to cool the economy to tame inflation. let s get to new york and matt egan. walk us through the big numbers, and forgive me if i have to interrupt. this historic jobs boom continues. despite everything going on now, despite the fed slamming the brakes on the economy, despite the worst banking crisis since 2008, and despite the wave of tech layoffs we keep hearing about, people thought hiring would slow down in april. instead, it accelerated. 253,000 jobs added. 3.4% unemployment rate. to go low you have to go back to 1953 under dwight eisenhower. we saw across the board solid numbers here. professional services, health c
a department store around 1996. he is likely to appeal, but this is certainly a victory for e. jean carroll. and jean casarez, president trump s lawyer trying to make a big deal out of the fact that the jury did the not find him liable for rape, but this is a big verdict for e. jean carroll. $5 million, donald trump found liable for defamation and battery. it is very interesting. it s definitely a victory for the plaintiffs. no question about it for e. jean carroll. she got justice today this was a trial where she testified for hours and she testified with great detail of how he raped her. she went through every single bit of how she did it and then went immediately to her friends. she told them exactly what happened. both of those friends who testified told her in 197, he raped you. and the jury did not believe more like ly than not because that s your standard legally, that he did rape her. they went to the second loo n line, which would be sexual abuse. it would be fas
it will severely impact millions of people and put the barrier island communities completely under water. joining me this hour, the acting director of the national hurricane center to update the track of the storm. i will talk to mayors up and down the coast as ian comes onshore. let s go to our meteorologist with the latest on the hurricane s path. what are you seeing from the latest updates? with each update, the conditions continue to grow dire. right now, we are seeing lots of rain and strong winds moving into ft. myers. if you look at the latest trajectory, we have this making landfall as a mjor hurricane, a strong category 4, 155 miles per hour winds. once you are in 157, you are in cat 5. they are seeing strong winds move into areas. streets are under water. i want to note that it s not until the center of the eye makes landfall that we call it a landfall. we are anticipating within the next three to four hours this will make landfall just outside of ft. myers and so