The now muddy nevada desert. Plus, an escaped killer on the loose. The search intensifying after a convict was caught on a home surveillance video. And ukraines fired Defense Minister, president zelenskyy sacking him in the middle of crucial counteroffenses. Hi there, welcome to a special Holiday Edition of early start. Im david culver. We start with what is anything but a relaxing Holiday Weekend for Tens Of Thousands of people at the burning Manifest Value in the nevada desert. They are trapped in a sea of mud out there this morning. What a mess out there. Theyre waiting for organizers to give the allclear to exit the site. That is expected to happen sometime today. Amid a downpour friday and saturday transformed the Dry Desert Dirt into thick claylike mud that traps bikes and organizers alike. Organizers asked the attendees to shelter in place and shelter and food. And also plans to set fire to the iconic Burning Man Effigy in tonight. Police out there are investigating one death at the festival. A 40yearold man but organizers say it was unrelated to the weather. Despite the tough conditions, many attendees, theyre keeping positive, they say theyre coping with harsh conditions and thats part of the point of burning man and they came prepared. Cnns Camila Bernal is on the ground at burning man. Reporter it is still night, it is still messy for thousands of people stranded here in black rock city. Where we are right now is the main entrance and exit point to the festival. So thousands are expected to exit here on monday. We saw many, many cars trying to get out. Because this is the entrance to la playa. This is the entrance where people are getting stuck in that mud, i want to show you what that mud, that cakey mud looks like. This is what a lot of people are walking hours in. And youre seeing it in their shoes. They are covered in mud is what youre seeing it on this bike. It makes it impossible for not just bikes but also cars and rvs. Behind me, this rv, they told me they were stuck here for hours trying to get out of the mud. So its difficult to get out, the concern, of course, is for people that did not bring enough supplies, enough food and water and need to get out. Heres one person who told me she just needed to get out today. Its quite expansive out there. And it probably took me three hour of slogging to walk just from my camp to the road. Around i did get a little bit of a hitchhike in, too, in the back of someones truck. But, yeah, its just really thick dense mud. So wherever its wet, its just heavy and sticky and its a real sloppy mess out there. Most everythings turned off but theres still some people partying. Reporter and everybody that ive talked to has remained extremely positive, telling me theyre making the best out of a very difficult situation, saying theyre still having fun, that theyve enjoyed this festival. Unfortunately, though, authorities did report one death, they said one body was found. They did not give any details as to what happened. And organizers here are continuing to tell people to be safe. Theyre preparing to get thousands of people out of here. So, theyre telling them that this is going to be a long process. The exodus as they call it. Camila bernal, cnn, black rock city. Lets stay on the Festival Mess as we bring in Meteorologist Derek Van Dam in the cnn weather center. Give us expectations of what were expecting today for burning man, obviously, thats going to be difficult for those folks as they look to get out. Maybe explain how less than an inch of rain turned this Desert Landscape into a mud trap. I dont know if you heard what camilla said, she talked about a playa. A playa is a desert land in a basin, where burning man is located, in one of these playas. Typically, when we see water in a playa, tell seeevaporates. You can see that strip of white land. Look at the precipitation that moved over the area. It saw roughly two, three months rainfall in that area. Theres a significant difference between, while lets say, the type of soil you have in your home garden, for instance, we call that loam, a mixture of sand, grit, a bit of dirt as well, that easily absorbs water. But when youre talking about a desert basin, when you have kind of a claytype soil, unfortunately, that water can puddle up and easily mix in with the clay and it creates that muddy mess. And it makes it that difficult for vehicles and people to exit that particular region. So that caused the catastrophe there, is really the type of soil and impermeable surface within the playa which you saw here a moment ago on the satellite. The radar is showing a drying trend. There are no watches across Western Nevada at the moment. So the good news here, were not expecting any real additional precipitation. Generally, the precipitation has come to an end. Were going to see High Pressure take control of the weather and keep the forecast dry for northwestern sections of nevada. So the burning Manifest Value, even though they did get a significant amount of rain in a short period of time. Earlier, we do believe that the rain is done, of course, the damage is done as well. David. Yeah, no doubt theyre hoping to dry out there in the desert. Thanks, derick, we appreciate it. Zelenskyy has fired his Defense Minister. This has happened in the middle of a major counteroffensive, Oleksii Reznikov has served as the Defense Minister. Just a short time ago reznikov said he submitted his resignation to parliament. Cnns Salma Abdelaziz is in london for us. Salma, why this move, why now . Its a very significant move, david. This is one of the key faces, one of the most key characters in the conflict. Reznikov has been able to develop strong friendships with his allies, with the united states. Now dismissed at a critical moment. You may remember it was just a few days Agatha Ukraine claimed success on the battlefield, able to pierce through the first line of defense along the southern present, south of zaporizhzhia, but the dismissal is part of something, a trend weve been seeing for months now from president zelenskyy who has been trying to clamp down on corruption. You may remember at the beginning of the year, a slew of senior officials were fired after the procurement of wartime supplies. In the wake of that, they resigned, the local heads of every single Recruitment Office in ukraine were fired. The important thing to remember is ukraine has long struggled with issues of corruption. In fact, president zelenskyy campaigned, his president ial campaign, was about rooting out corruption in ukraine. And, indeed, he believes it is important to root out corruption, in order to join the european community. The European Union and nato. But again this is coming at a Super Critical time on those front lines. A major change in one of the most significant characters, the most significant post in the handling of this conflict. And the replacement for this Defense Minister is going to be very immediately under pressure to rampup that counteroffensive, bring results as soon as possible, david. Yeah, the timing in all of this is just crucial. Salma, thanks. Good to see you. People in las vegas drying out after rare heavy rains trigger deadly flash flooding. Plus, can a destructive hurricane somehow give floridas governor a boost in the race for president . And theres a new report on the job market. It is just out, what is signals for the economy. Is hungngry. And while youre hittin the trail, im hihitting your cooler. Oh, cheddar ive got hot dog buns and your cutrate Car Insurance might not pay for all this. So get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem, like me. Roar. sfx family screams in background my brain. So i choose new neuriva ultra. 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That keeps more people working but also from the feds perspective could add a bit of slack in the labor market which is what we saw with that slight uptick in unemployment. It also puts less pressure on wages. We had a bit of driving up wages faster. Cooling job growth could pep the feds perspective because that is one of the major costs that feeds inflation. Can we look at Consumer Spending this is obviously a key indicator of economic growth. It went up 0. 8 in july. Do you expect this trend to continue in terms of outpacing inflation . So, we did see pretty strong spending this summer, particularly in july, it was not only on Services Categories which weve sort of seen in this long extended rebound from the pandemic, but also in retail categories. Some of that may have been tied to discounteding, things like amazon prime, but still a positive for retailers to see that big boost in spending. And as you mentioned, the slower inflation i think has really helped Purchasing Power for some consumers but in our data is the morning consult, it has tended to be more younger consumers and well bearer consumers, those less price sensitive who have been driving a lot of the strong spending recently. One concern with that, is that heading into the fall, there are a lot of headwind, one, we have higher interest rates, we also have the student loan pause ending. Things like that are going to tamp down spending. Not to mention the fact that many have splurged a bit more in the summer. We may see thats a pull forward that potentially could come with the cost of things like holiday season. I want to pull up on that, you said debt, you mentioned Student Loan Pavements starting back up next month. That represents a big share of debt for younger folks in particular. How is that likely to factor in here . So, if you take millennials for example, when i say younger, gen z, definitely theyll be impacted and millennials as well. Theres a couple of ways adding strain on those households when it comes to gen z, these are younger consumers, they havent worked as long and have time to build up savings buffers. Having being hit by repaying this debt that may change their Monthly Expenses quite a bit and they dont have as much of a cushion to absorb that blow. When it comes to millennials, these are consumers who do tend to be more often in their prime working years. But they havent been paying their Student Ledebt Repayments for the last few years i believe theyve been living as if they dont have the debts taking on things like auto loans, mortgages, adding more expenses to their life. On top of that other payments it may just be burdens from other directions. Kayla bloom on the morning consult, thank you for being with us. 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