It s the most important. Inflation is the most important but that s part of the economy. Well, there you have it. Donald trump undermining what his campaign had hyped as a significant economic address, but the former president was predictably light on policy and heavy on personal attacks. We ll show you more of his speech straight ahead. Speaking of the economy, the united states just reached a major milestone in the fight to bring down inflation. We ll bring you reaction from president biden. And we ll have the latest on the diplomatic efforts in the middle east on two fronts a ceasefire in gaza and preventing retaliatory attacks by iran against israel. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, august 15th. I m jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. We ve got a lot to get to this morning, and we ll begin with new data that shows that the u. S. Inflation has hit its lowest level in three years. It s positive news for the economy and could setup the fed
Connection with the ketamine overdose death of friends star matthew perry. More on the lapd probe. Also ahead, the race for the white house. The president and vice president appear together today, their first official white house event since the campaign shakeup. This as donald trump holds another press conference today. And the two vp contenders trade jabs on the trail. Also ahead, her cain ernesto bearing down on bermuda after causing widespread power outages in puerto rico. The latest on the storm s track. Good morning. It is 10:00 eastern. I m ana cabrera. We begin with breaking news this morning. An arrest just made in connection with the overdose death of friends star matthew perry. Perry was found dead in his home at his pool in his home last october. The los angeles medical examiner attributed his death to the effects of ketamine. Joining us now, steve patterson from los angeles, ken dilanian, former prosecutor and legal analyst and eric degans, tv critic for npr. Steve, give u
Their way home to the us expected to arrive in the next couple of hours. They are wall streetjournal reporter evan gershkovich on the left, and on the right, former us marine paul whelan, and radio free europe journalist alsu kurmasheva. This photo shows them on a phone call with presidentjoe biden after their release. In addition, vladimir kara murza, the russian british journalist who holds a us green card, was freed in the deal. In an address to the nation after news of the deal was made public, president biden said the deal was the result of difficult, complex negotiations. He said that the us will continue to work to free americans who are detained abroad. The president and the vice president, kamala harris, are scheduled to welcome the freed americans on the tarmac ofjoint base andrews in maryland. This is expected to happen in a little more than two hours from now, at 11:30pm local time. With more now on the prisoner swap, here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. He was ou
Lots and lots of questions as lots of celebrations as americans included in the wall street journal reporting evan gershkovich finally come home in the largest prisoner swap since the earliest days of the cold war. Swap that included the release of a russian hitman. Among many other on savory characters. Welcomed by russia president vladimir putin himself but for now, relief for the families who mark the moment with president biden earlier at the white house and now wait to hug their loved ones in person upon their arrival back in the u. S. And soon. We are all over with jackie heinrich at the white house on how this deal went down. Julian turner at the state department are work continues to get other americans out and former cia director leon panetta on why russia president vladimir putin did any of this now. Welcome everybody i m neil cavuto let s get right to the white house on how this all came to be peer jackie. Reporter: in the last couple hours neil the president made individual
That communication was not broad enough. It wasn t put out to secret service and other local law enforcement entities for them to action off of that. Again, so there was communication, but the breakdown was the bridge between local law enforcement the secret service in the coordinated response to this threat yeah. Especially when he says i lost lost sight of him. And the secret service at that point didn t know that he existed at a point in time, jonathan wackrow. Thank you so much for your great analysis. Appreciate it, and new hour of cnn central starts right now this morning the campaign of vice president kamala harris as they see a big weakness in the republican ticket. J. D. Vance, how they plan to use their new 200 million cash haul to exploit it? one of the nation s most restrictive abortion laws takes effect today. What you need to know about the near ban and troubled waters at the paris olympics as the sun is deemed too dirty to swim. Here is an existential question is a triat