right now. out front next, the breaking news u.s. air strikes in the middle east tonight. u.s. fighter jets right now striking parts of yemen with tomahawk missiles. we are waiting to hear directly from president biden as the entire middle east and the world right now are on edge. and more breaking news tonight. trump s tirade, a judge shutting the former president down after an outburst at his fraud trial in new york. could this be the beginning of the end for trump s business empire? and christie s hot mic moment everybody s been talking about. we have the man on the other end, who was speaking to christie on that mic. what else did he say and what was it really an accident? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett, and we do begin out front tonight with the breaking news, the united states striking the middle east this hour. a u.s. official telling cnn that right now the u.s. military is carrying out strikes with fighter jets and tomahawk missiles on ye
here in the cnn newsroom i m fredricka whitfield in new york , and today s jobs report revealed a slight cool down in the labor market. employers added 236,000 jobs last month, the figure that missed economists expectations and sit significantly below the number we saw the last two months. the unemployment rate, meantime, dropped to 3.5% a new cnn poll found half of americans say their personal financial situation is worse than it was a year ago. and the president of the nation s largest bank exclusively, telling cnn that the threat of a recession still looms following the recent banking crisis. has this banking crisis even though you think it s almost over which i m really glad to hear, though. increased chances of a recession here. yes. but i look at like it s not definitive. it s just like another weight on the scale . people say it s like raising rates, another 50 basis points or something like that. we are seeing people reduce lending a little bit. cut back a little bit.
trial after a revealing court hearing. prosecutors arguing that the air national guardsman is a dangerous flight risk with a history of violent threats. also tonight, more powerful testimony by trump accuser e. jean carroll. under heated cross-examination she told the former president s lawyer, and i m quoting here now, i m telling you, he raped me. whether i screamed or not. as for trump, he s campaigning in new hampshire tonight amid an escalating war of words with likely gop rival ron desantis. this as desantis is turning his fire at the walt disney corporation, blasting the company s new lawsuit against him as political. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, the accused pentagon leaker is behind bars as a judge decides whether he ll stay there in the leadup to his trial. prosecutors revealing very disturbing new details about the suspect and their case as they argued he should
preplanned this attack for several weeks. people need to place to go when they re going to do harm. neil: people making sense of that awful attack on innocence. we re learning a little more about the alleged shooter. let s get the latest from mike tobin ahead of authorities giving us an update as well in highland park. mike? neil, the very sad detail today is that another of the shooting victims as you mentioned succumbed to the victories. the death total here from the highland park parade shooting is now at 7. we re getting more details about the suspected gunman. bobby eugene crimo iii, 21 years old. he lived in his father s basement. police say he dressed like a woman on the day of attack to avoid detection. the weapon used is a rifle similar to an ar-15 purchased legally in illinois. crimo possessed another rifle and additional guns. he accessed the roof from which he fired 70 rounds down on spectators. he dropped his rife and blended in with the crowd. following