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declared brain dead. >> she led a life of public highs and lows, but through it all she thrived on screen and strived to stay hopeful. hes currently breathing with the help of a ventilator. >> the question is looming over investigators right now as to what drove this 24-year-old suspect thats been identified as matar from new jersey to charge that stage. >> im alex marquardt in washington in for pamela brown this evening. you are in the "cnn newsroom." we begin this hour with the n...

going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. well tell you what we know about his condition this morning. and inflation is cooling, gas prices are dropping, but the cost of other items remains painfully high. what the new numbers say about the current state of the economy. ♪ welcome to your weekend. its saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. >> good mornin...

espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. no one has been charged with a crime that we know of as of now. this just in, the democratic chairs of the intelligence committee and the oversight committee and the house have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment, and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, and of course trump and his allies are of course spending and peddli...

A fake id on him. now, the stabbing occurred on friday just moments after rushdie took to the stage to give a lecture that was in western new york. take a look at this video. its incredible. it shows multiple members of the audience rushing on stage to help in the immediate aftermath of the shocking attack. polo sandoval has more from outside the pennsylvania hospital where rushdie is being treated. >> reporter: alex, its been over 24 hours and that video is still shocking to see, showing the mo...

I was fighting for the things that i most believe in against things that i most dislike, which are bigotry and fanaticism and censorship and so on. so, yeah, i came out of it in a way clearer. >> reporter: at that event yesterday, that lecture event, there was a new york state trooper as well as a sheriffs deputy that quickly sprang into action. the suspect that was quickly apprehended identified by authorities as 24-year-old matar, investigators spending all day yesterday looking into a residen...

Injuries suffered by acclaimed author, salman rushdie after a man rushed on stage and began stabbing him multiple times. as you can see from the video, its very alarming. people in the audience rushing on stage to pull the assailant away and help rushdie. polo sandoval has more on all of this. theres new information coming in. whats the latest. >> reporter: this new information helps paint a cleaner picture when it comes to just the violent nature of the attack that the world witnessed yesterday...