Youve been waiting all week to get to the weekend, and now we have arrived. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Its saturday, july 15th. Im Victor Blackwell. And im rahel solomon in for amara walker. Victor, good to be with you, my friend, even if remotely. Even if theres distance between us, its good to have you on the show. Coming up, scorching hot temperatures and dangerous conditions, now 45 Million People are under heat alerts this weekend. Well tell you whos going to see the worst of it. A pizza box and Burner Phones. A cold case gets cracked over after decades. How authorities track down a string of killings in new york that went unsolved for years. I worry that its going to go on for a long time. I hope that its not. Right now we cannot make a liveable wave on what were living. And hollywood grinds to a halt as actors join writers on the picket line. How long it could go on and what it could mean for your favorite shows. And the Mega Millions jackpot soars again. We tell
sending controversial cluster munitions to ukraine. what that could mean for the war. also today, extreme weather. millions are at risk of record-breaking temperatures and severe storms as well. and then in washington, new fallout from the discovery of a bag of cocaine at the west wing of the white house. what congress is now demanding. and a medical breakthrough, the fda gives full approval for a new alzheimer s drug, but it comes with a serious warning about potentially deadly side effects. we begin this hour, everybody, with another sign, the economy may in fact be cooling. the government reported that employers added just 209,000 jobs last month. below the 240,000 the economists had expected. and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.6%. when you break it down by race, black unemployment rose by .4%. and hispanic unemployment rose by .3%. the president reacting to the news in a statement saying in part this, we are seeing stable and steady growth. that s bidenomics,
Youve been waiting all week to get to the weekend, and now we have arrived. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Its saturday, july 15th. Im Victor Blackwell. And im rahel solomon in for amara walker. Victor, good to be with you, my friend, even if remotely. Even if theres distance between us, its good to have you on the show. Coming up, scorching hot temperatures and dangerous conditions, now 45 Million People are under heat alerts this weekend. Well tell you whos going to see the worst of it. A pizza box and Burner Phones. A cold case gets cracked over after decades. How authorities track down a string of killings in new york that went unsolved for years. I worry that its going to go on for a long time. I hope that its not. Right now we cannot make a liveable wave on what were living. And hollywood grinds to a halt as actors join writers on the picket line. How long it could go on and what it could mean for your favorite shows. And the Mega Millions jackpot soars again. We tell
Youve been waiting all week to get to the weekend, and now we have arrived. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Its saturday, july 15th. Im Victor Blackwell. And im rahel solomon in for amara walker. Victor, good to be with you, my friend, even if remotely. Even if theres distance between us, its good to have you on the show. Coming up, scorching hot temperatures and dangerous conditions, now 45 Million People are under heat alerts this weekend. Well tell you whos going to see the worst of it. A pizza box and Burner Phones. A cold case gets cracked over after decades. How authorities track down a string of killings in new york that went unsolved for years. I worry that its going to go on for a long time. I hope that its not. Right now we cannot make a liveable wave on what were living. And hollywood grinds to a halt as actors join writers on the picket line. How long it could go on and what it could mean for your favorite shows. And the Mega Millions jackpot soars again. We tell
good morning. it s saturday, february the 3rd. i m ali velshi. the israel, gaza war continues. it s steady creep outward, threatening to explode into a widespread regional conflict or worse at any moment. now, the united states has upped the ante, conducting what the biden administration says is the first in a series of strategic retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed proxy forces operating in iraq and syria. and their iranian handlers operating alongside them. these groups are among those responsible for more than 160 tags on u.s. troops in the region since the october 7th attack on israel. that include last sunday s deadly attack on tower 22. it s a u.s. base in the extreme northeast corner of jordan. right near the border with iraq and syria. more than 40 u.s. service members were wounded and three u.s. soldiers died in that attack. 24-year-old specialist, kennedy sanders, was posthumously promoted to sergeant. 46-year-old sergeant, william jerome rivers, and 23 year o