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desperate hours in the search for the missing "titanic" sub. still no sign of the craft as oxygen quickly runs out. plus a deadly tornado strike, three people killed in north texas, the state's second fatal storm in less than a week. and president biden is welcoming narendra modi for a state dinner even though some of his policies may be a little tough to swallow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm christine romans. we begin with just hours remaining until the air runs out on that "titan" submersible. the sub went missing sunday morning less tha...

a criticism that, you know, the obama administration maybe didn't do enough to settle and explain and talk about their stimulus efforts and want to make sure that people around the country really know what's in the bill, know what's coming and the kind of impact it's having. >> there's a conversation that we'll watch how it plays outside of washington. do the additional benefits help people. they showed up at their briefing wearing masks and trying to make the case, the republican argument that the biden administration is not pushing aggressively enough there. you see follow the s...

Districts of 15 vulnerable democrats including representatives tom malinowski, and others. they're zeroing in on inflation in the booming economy. consumer prices did rise 5.4% over the past 12 months that's the july the reality is inflation is the downside of an economy roaring back to life from an unprecedented collapse. demand for just about everything is coming back faster than producers can keep up. supply glitches mean they can't make and deliver goods as quickly. blaming stimulus efforts, that's risky for the gop. that began in the trump administration. still, the pocketbook complaints ...

Are spending more. electronics up 8%, shoes up 8%, dresses up 19%. call -- >> finding the pocketbook angle, blaming democrats for higher prices in school supplies, part of a campaign from the national republican congressional committee, targets 15 vulnerable democrats. they are zeroing in on inflation in the booming economy and blame the democrats for it. consumer prices did rise 5.4% the past 12 months. it is real. but it is misleading of course to blame it on biden. the reality is inflation is the down side of an economy roaring back to life, demand for just about everything is coming back f...

Unemployment payments, and had a whole host of other benefits. since then we've added to the relief effort twice more, first with a $900 billion package in december and then again with biden's $1.9 trillion american rescue plan in march. we did all that to prevent a full-on economic collapse in the midst of a once in a century pandemic. this week we learned just how well those stimulus efforts worked. a new report out of the non-profit research group the urban institute shows that the increase in government aid from the pandemic will "cut poverty nearly in half this year from pre-pandemic leve...