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Its the most important. Inflation is the most important but thats 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. Well 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. Well bring you reaction from President Biden. And well 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. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Weve got a lot to get to this morning, and well begin with new data that shows that the u. S. Inflation has hit its lowest level in three years. Its positive news for the economy and could setup the federal rese
And celebrations take over in an apparent coup in guinea. Thanks for joining us. The Death Toll in louisiana is st still climbing a week after hurricane aid. The latest victim is a 74yearold man who died from the heat without offering any other details. That brings the tally of stormrelated debtaths in louisiana to 13. Nearly 600,000 customers are still without power and facing another day of scorching temperatures. Here is governor John Bel edwards stern warning. Heat is a major factor right now. That is especially true in areas without power because you cant go in and cool off with air conditioning, you typically cant get a cold drink of water and that sort of thing. So please take advantage of Cooling Shelters if you can. Run your generators if you have them but do it safely. And make sure that you continue to check on your neighbors especially those who are elderly or have special needs. Louisiana residents are also navigating a Mine Field of other challenges including shortages of
Democratic senator Joe Manchin now declaring hell oppose the voting Rights Bill championed by his party and also making clear that he budging despite the pressure and he wont support ending the filibuster. Both parties are in something of an upheavel this morning. For republicans, Congresswoman Liz Cheney is speaking up again, blasting former President Donald Trump and calling out republican leader Kevin Mccarthy for this moment, this picture. Mccarthys trip to visit Donald Trump right after the attack on the u. S. Capitol. Listen to Liz Cheney speaking with David Axelrod. I think what Donald Trump did is the most dangerous thing, the most egregious violation of an oath of office of any president in our history. And so the idea that a few weeks after he did that the leader of the republicans and the house would be at maralago essentially pleading with them to somehow, you know, come back into the fold or whatever it was he was doing, to me, it was inexcusable. Cnns reporter is live on
The Santa Cruz mountains. Firefighters working to contain a small fire burning at big basin state park. Flames broke out just after noon. The fire burning within the Czu Lightning Fire complex. Spread to about two acres before it stopped moving. No buildings were threatened. At the same time in Solano County, firefighters are dealing with strong winds. They had to battle the conditions when the fire erupted off Hay Road in vacaville and it appears to be all contained now. It was burning where red Flag Warnings are posted and meteorologist Darren Peck joins us now with more on the fire danger. Just to outline where the red Flag Warning is and how much longer its going to last. You can see it on the map behind me. But if we come in for a close up look it does include ofea spically solano Tyeventhoughe U Auresg Tobay T shaded neto on another one of these strong surges of offshore winds. You can watch it play out on the futurecast right there. Theres going to be two surges in fact. Heres t