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competition between the two world powers president biden and xi jinping spoke about cooperating on issues like climate change and global food security they also spoke about russia's war in ukraine, which beijing has refused to condemn so far. and then there's the biggest point of contention, taiwan. mr. biden told xi that america's position has not changed but china did not mince words after the call the country's minister of foreign affairs saying, quote, those who play with fire will perish by it the latest pressure point is house speaker nancy pelosi's still undecided visit to the county china says they would see a trip there as provocation, threatening forceful measures. the u.s. does maintain back channels with taiwan and makes sure the island has forces to 2k5 defend itself. taiwan produces 92% of the

world's most-advanced chips, including the ones that power iphones. but that could soon change yesterday the senate passed a bill to shore up manufacture of chips at home. >> this is a sputnik moment where america realized, this time it wasn't russia but china, another rival power would get way ahead of us if we didn't pull out all the stops, and this legislation is the first large step in pulling out all of those stops. so that we can stay number one >> reporter: the bill also got the okay from the house and is now headed to the president's desk for his signature >> a lot to weigh, especially with that potential trip thank you, brie. there is new data this morning showing the economy shrank for a second straight quarter. but the biden administration is pushing back on the idea that we already in a recession here's emily ikeda

>> reporter: the numbers confirm it the u.s. economy is showing. >> two back to back negative quarters is not good >> reporter: gross domestic product fell slightly by .9% fueling fears of a recession fears president biden tried to calm >> we created 9 million new jobs so far just since we became president businesses are investing in america at record rates. that doesn't sound like a recession to me. >> reporter: slowdowns in the housing market and consumer spending contributed to the decline but are also part of the federal reserve's goal to rlessn demand >> this is a very unusual situation. in that coppming out of pandemi we have a set of supply chain challenges that continue to affect the economy

>> reporter: that reality is being felt first hand far from washington in pella, iowa. >> this particular chipper is missing this one part. >> reporter: mark helps run agricultural and industrial equipment maker vermeer. it is a driver of the economy, but ongoing supply chain problems and labor shortages mean vermeer cannot drive as fast as it would like. >> there may be a thousand parts in a machine, but it needs all thousand so missing one part means you don't generate revenue as an organization it doesn't fit into the gdp number >> reporter: that's despite the once in a generation high demand forty products crafted by its 4,000 employees. >> but we need more, hundreds more, to keep one demand >> reporter: in pella's nearby town square, a reminder from this mother of three that it's always personal. >> you need to work and you

can't afford day care. >> reporter: hoolook at all this inventory behind me. there's really strong demand, but challenges in meeting it back to you. >> emily, thank you. tragedy striking kentucky after devastating floods leave at least eight people dead officials fear the death toll will rise with still many unaccounted for. maggie vespa has more. >> reporter: in a swath of the south submerged, total devastation and the death toll expected to climb. >> we've got so much damage, bridges gone, the whole roadway is gone. >> reporter: the city of hazard, kentucky devastated after torrential rain spurred sweeping flash floods and mudslides >> everybody knows everybody around here. everybody tries to help, but when it comes this fast,

anti-nothing you can do. >> reporter: eight people killed, including an 81-year-old woman. >> we probably have not seen the worst of it. sadly, we believe that we will lose kentuckians, and a lot of kentuckians will probably lose most of what they have >> reporter: recovery efforts complic complicated by the storm's strength, knocking out power to 25,000 people and wiping cell coverage rescuers scour an assisted living facility for the stranded this give you an idea of how fast and strong the waters were moving there's a power pole snapped in half look at all this this is just debris on the side of the road. it looks like a tornado hit. the sinister system wreaking havoc. repeated rounds of showers and storms pelting eastern kentucky, dumping rain onto ground already saturated from recent rainfall the same type of storm that

walloped st. louis earlier this week >> oh, my gosh >> reporter: fema and the national guard are on the ground in kentucky. jude eye butler's home flooding for the second time this year. round one back in march. >> the first time we had insurance. this time we don't but we'll make it. we always do with god's help >> and our thanks to maggie vespa for that report. on the heels of those storms, las vegas a bit of a conundrum where they have decla declared a state of emergency over water the city has less than 50 days left of clean water supply and just as soon as we saw the clean water alert, overnight, sin city was experiencing flash flooding of their own with the national weather service issuing warnings in las vegas valley wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour reported. thousands are without electricity and several roads are closed with the fire dp

department urging drivers to avoid needed areas spectrum has been ordered to pay more than $7 million in damages after one of their repair men murdered a customer the woman was stabbed to death the attacker was off duty that day but arrived in a spectrum car and is serving life in prison the suit alleges that charter had not verified holden's employment history, which he had lied about and ignored multiple red flags in his behavior. charter says they will appeal. a truck carrying propane and oxygen tanks went up in flames one of the tanks shot off the freeway and into a construction site below thankfully, no one was injured the fire department believe it is started with a mechanical failure, but an investigation is

ongoing. a massive wildfire has scorched nearly 20,000 acres it sparked up late afternoon in woodward count and is still going despite the rainfall it has improved conditions a bit but not enough to extinguish the flames from the dangerous fires to deadly flooding, is there any calm as we look ahead to the weekend? michelle grossman has also had a very busy week good morning, michelle >> happy friday. we looking at extreme weather continuing some of us seeing nice weather in the northeast we're looking at a flood watch in parts of kentucky, western virginia so we're looking at flash flooding, where you see the red. as we go throughout today we're looking at a flood threat in the four corners we had all that rain come

through the las vegas strip. where you see the darker colors, the reds, yellows, oranges, that's where we're seeing the heaviest rain falling, and then portions of kentucky and west virginia we're looking at rain falling. we could see nflash flooding as well this is what we are expectin the authority west, 101 in boise all right, the heat continues in the northwest. we'll talk more about that and look at your weekend forecast in just a bit thanks, michelle find out why the u.s. state department just offered a $10 million bounty for information

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