good morning, everybody, it is 11:00 a.m. in the east. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m yasmin vossoughian. it s good to see you. in just a couple of minutes, the president is set to deliver remarks on this memorial day at arlington national cemetery. we re going to bring you that live, and you re seeing live pictures there. but first a major breakthrough on the bipartisan effort to raise the debt ceiling and save the economy from what would be a historic debt default. and now the race is on to get enough support from congress. we re going to talk to congresswoman jan schakowsky about that and much more. in south carolina a state judge has pressed pause on the state s restrictive new abortion ban. we re going to break down what s next in the battle over abortion rights, and then in turkey, president erdogan has won an unprecedented third term in a hotly contested election. we ll take you live to ankara. we re keeping a close eye on arlington national cemetery where president biden is
coming up this hour, an honor that is long overdue, president biden will award a vietnam veteran with the medal of honor for his incredible bravery almost 60 years ago. we begin with breaking news out of south carolina where just in the last hour disgraced ex-lawyer alex murdaugh was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. after he was convicted of murdering his wife maggie and youngest son paul in a high profile case that captivated the country. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the rest of your natural life. before he was sentenced, murdaugh addressed the court this morning. i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son paul paul. pretty much all he said. last night in just under three hours
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, brand-new reporting about what led the fbi to execute a search warrant as trump s florida home. the wall street journal said the department of defense may have got a tip from an insider after feds visited mar-a-lago in june to ask about government documents possibly stored there. the journal reports this. in the following weeks however someone familiar with the storm papers told investigators still may be still more documents at the private club after the national archives which he 15 boxes early in the year, people familiar with the matter said. and we see news is not can confirmed this reporting. the justice department has not commented on the search either. trump is wrapping up their bases attacks even suggesting that the fbi couldn t be planning incriminating evidence. do i know that the boxes of material that they took from mar-a-lago, that they won t put things in those boxes to entrap him? his lawyer said the
these brothers and sisters, aged 2 to 8, dead, family members say they were ripped from their parents arms. witnesses say the waters were so powerful that in just seconds they swept away homes that had been standing for generations. cnn just obtained new video from one flood victim who says his family is trapped and cannot get out of that neighborhood. the whole road is blocked off. survivors are pleading for some help after losing every tangible thing. it is unbelievable. i took a chance to go up in the hollers. there s no internet or power. in a lot of places they say we won t have water for months. people are bringing stuff in, but as fast as they bring it in, it goes out. we need help more than anything. i don t care if it s a pair of fruit of the looms. babies need diapers, formula. we need everything that s possible to get here. cnn s evan mcmorris is there. are the rescues still happening right now? reporter: yes, victor, they are. i will say in perry county
sign for the u.s. economy. inflation finally starting to cool off and it was flat for the month of july. consumer prices increasing by 8.5% year over year. that s slightly lower than the 9.1% increase back in june. and we ll be talking about what that means in just a moment. it is really good news for every consumer out there. plus, former president trump set to be deposed today by the new york attorney general s office. this is in connection to a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances. we have details on that. we are also learning this morning much more about that fbi search of president trump s mar-a-lago home. the justice department was concerned that trump had not returned sensitive documents, which could have national security implications. new details this morning about how trump may frame his defense in all of it. let s get straight to the good news. relatively speaking, on the economy, this morning. wall street poised for a positive open in just