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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. he's 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 that's been identified as matar from new jersey to charge that stage. >> i'm alex marquardt in washington in for pamela brown this evening. you are in the "cnn newsroom." we begin this hour with the nation's top intelligence official, the director of national intelligence being asked for a damage...

going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. we'll 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. it's saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. >> good morning, boris. so good to be with you. feel like i've been missing boris in my life. nice to be here. >...

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 peddling wild conspiracy theories about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the theories range from ridiculous a...

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. it's 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, it's been over 24 hours and that video is still shocking to see, showing the moment of the attack. it was not long after salman rushdie had actually taken to the stage to partic...

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 sheriff's 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 residence linked to him, also going through electronic devices in a backpack that was recovered at the sce...