julie wolf has the story. reproter: more than 40 opposition groups signed along long-awaited peace deal on monday, giving them cause for hope. >> it was a very tough and difficult talks, but what is important which was resolved which we got at the low end of the long process and i think this agreement will lead us to sustainable peace in chad. reproter: the deal comes after five months of negotiations and pave the way for a return to civilian rule. a cease-fire, amnesty and a national dialogue will be the first articles to be implemented. the dialogue is meant to lead to the formation of a government of national unity, constitutional reform and democratic elections. qatar says the agreement is just the beginning. >> we are very hopeful will end hostilities, it will move the military process to a political process and allow for an easy transition toward the negotiations in chad. reproter: a noticeable absence was the main rebel group. >> i think at the beginning, we were a little bit sure that fact would not si

since july, we feel occupying parliament wolf is a research associate at johns hopkins university. he isn't shocked by thought of announcement. frankly, i think this is solder, being solder. i do believe that this is, i wouldn't call it a start per se, but i do believe that he is jockey for leverage. and in this current crisis, the past 2 lectures that you'll get the same exact result. date, you know, he's not, you know, and one of the things it's pushing him is that he has not been able to get a prime minister of is choosing the coordination when the think that band with that support nation framework nominate someone who weighs, quote unquote, independent from missouri out molecule. that's one thing that and the 2nd thing is, is that, you know, he's resisting, you know, in the us and of rainy. and so these are a couple of the things that are pushing. but these are tactics that if you, since 2000 the break, i don't believe that he's retired. all that and i know that he's also like on a hunger strike. so, you know, solder is one of the few figure in the rocky sphere, some and hundre

a search for those suspects is still ongoing on july 17th patrick conn wolf and was shot and killed during an attempted robbery while he was driving for uber eats. 2 people have been arrested in connection to his death after several demands to crack down on crime. oakland police introduced officer and when as little saigon as liaison officer last month. but city leaders say more still needs to be done. council president nikki fortunato bass saying in a statement, quote, what does it say about our community when we cannot walk down our own street, visit the neighbor or enjoy a picnic on the lake on a sunday afternoon. we can and must do better. no one should presume they can come into oakland at any time and commit a violent crime without repercussions. now, later this afternoon, oakland police chief leronne armstrong will be holding a news conference to discuss this latest fatal shooting. >> council president bass is planning a vigil at the scene of the crime on east 11th and 5th streets that's set for 5.30, this evening. to san francisco. now we're shooting over the weekend killed one per

july report is that those numbers did not budge. they did not go up as they have been doing for so many months now, wolf.e looking at. also in congress, that inflation reduction act, because that is what they are urging the house to now pass and then president biden can sign it. of course, the big question then will be how long it takes to help reduce inflation. obviously something the white house would like to speed up, wolf. >> kaitlan collins at the white house, thanks very much. >>> turning to georgia, where stacey abrams tested positive for covid today. it comes as the state's race >> reporter: it is the top issue for many voters across the country. >> inflation. these gas prices are crazy. >> my number one issue is probably the economy. >> reporter: with prices rising to the closest annual rate in decades, republicans hope to ride the wave to victory in inflation. democrats are working overtime to address pocket but issues including in the peach state where stacey abrams laid out her economic vision before business owners this week. >> i personally understand how rising taxes hurt those that have t

july. the homebuyer affordability index is at its lowest point in 33 years. to talk more about housing is ali wolfre having the same conversation in canada with affordability in the second quarter weakening at the fastest rate in decades. when interest rates are ratcheted up in a few months, that is what happens to affordability. ali: that is exactly right. what we are going through is a historic affordability shock. i was looking at market dachshund numbers yesterday, we have markets where home price appreciation is up between 50% and 70% compared to 2019. add in higher mortgage rates and economic angst and the market is slowing in response. taylor: how are you thinking about the impact of higher rate? if it does lower prices, does that bring buyers in? or is it really the rates that is what is pricing people out? ali: that is an important question. what we are finding when we talk to consumers is they are not as aware of mortgage rates as we think they would imagine. when we sat interest rates go up to 7%, mortgages slowed because shoppers were like that is massive, but is rates have come back d

details of the conversation with the father of the wolf, who claims that his daughter recently called him, allegedly from lithuania . at the end of july, she left ukraine for the european union, just at the end of july, according to the fsb, vovk was forwarding the russian border. and as stated by the deputy chairman of the federation council committee on international affairs. vladimir dzhabarov estonia in case of non-extradition of the suspects tough measures can be expected , foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke bluntly. i can’t judge what it was, and who is terrible, i think that this is a barbaric crime, which we have no forgiveness for. and those who organized it. and now, as i understand it, the fsb has already established the facts, which are now being investigated. i hope it will be completed quickly and, as a result of this investigation, of course, there can be no mercy for the organizers-customer-executor. the murder of daria dugin and will be discussed today at a meeting of the un security council, the russian delegation promised to raise the topic. this statement by permanent representative vasily ninja according to him

>> wolf, we know that former president trump was vacillating between an announcement of a 2024 presidential campaign in july of this year or later this fall, either before or immediately after the midterm elections. what our sources are telling us now however is that timeline has been pushed up or at least trump is being encouraged to push up that timeline by his allies on capitol hill and also a number of his political advisers who feel like this moment is ripe for him to capitalize on frustration among republicans with what they believe is political persecution. we have seen them a number of republicans, both on capitol hill and in former president trump's orbit, describe this as extraordinary overreach by the justice department, and as political persecution, and they're privately encouraging trump to move up his 2024 campaign announcement and do it sooner rather than later. my colleague melanie zanona was told one senior house republican actually spoke with trump this morning and encouraged him to announce a 2024 campaign, and i want to read a quick quote from michael caputo who was a long time trump adv

wolf. but that standoff has ended. >> thank you very much. also tonight, a second key benchmark showing inflation cooled in the month of july here in the unitedat the surging prices that they are paying for everything from food to electricity, could decrease, decrease in the coming months. i want to bring in our business correspondent, she's got some analysis on this new report just released. so what does this tell us about the u.s. economy? >> well, wolf, this is now back-to-back reports that showed inflation is actually easing, that inflation is cooling. so this report today, the producer price index report, essentially it's factory level inflation. what it showed is that inflation fell, monthly inflation fell last month half a percent. this is yearly inflation, and it's still hovering just below 10 10%. coming off its peak, what we are seeing in this report is similar to what we saw yesterday. largely driven by the declines in energy prices. however, this report is very important, because it gives us a sense of what we will see a few months down the road in terms of consumer inflation. so we're seeing declines for wholesale prices. the hop

wolf blitzer and "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> happening now. a stunning new jobs report shows hiring in the united states was hot in julyion fears but adding to concerns about inflation. also, u.s.-china tensions rise even higher after beijing's missile fire near taiwan and its new sanctions against the house speaker nancy pelosi. we're tracking all the fallout from pelosi's taiwan trip. and now that brittney griner has been sentenced to nine years in a russian prison, moscow says it is ready to discuss a proposed prisoner swap that could lead to the wnba star's release. i'll discuss that and more with white house official john kirby. he's standing by live.

more precisely, or that the wolf, along with her twelve-year-old daughter , arrived in russia on julyand rented an apartment in the house where adugina lived in order to collect information about her lifestyle to monitor the journalist, the perpetrator of the crime used a mini-cooper car at the entrance to russia, there were dpr numbers in moscow, the kazakhs, when leaving the ukrainians on the day of the murder with their daughter , were at the festival, a tradition where dugina attended as. the guest of honor, after committing a controlled explosion of a car at the wheel, which was in dugin, on august 21, the twenty- second year, the wolf, together with her daughter, left for the pov region through the pskov region to estonia , the special services were added and the investigation materials were transferred to the investigative committee of russia, yes, well, quite quickly in the investigation. it has passed that we can, of course, we can only welcome on the other hand what e those who committed, this crime is already in estonia and the hope for the fact that estonia will go there t

wolf blitzer and "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> happening now. a stunning new jobs report shows hiring in the united states was hot in july, throwing cold water on recession fears but adding to concerns about inflation. also, u.s.-china tensions rise even higher after beijing's missile fire near taiwan and its new sanctions against the house speaker nancy pelosi. we're tracking all the fallout from pelosi's taiwan trip. and now that brittney griner has been sentenced to nine years in a russian prison, moscow says it is ready to discuss a proposed prisoner swap that could lead to the wnba star's release. i'll discuss that and more with white house official john kirby. he's standing by live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." surprisingly strong new jobs numbers are capping off what has been a big week for the biden administration. let's go straight to jeremy diamond. amid fears of a recession, the president has some momentum when it comes to the u.s. economy. at least in the short term. give us the latest. >> no doubt about it, this jobs repor

wolf will speak with him about that plot to kill him. >>> economically we still have some work. the bureau of labor statistics reported that inflation finally cooled in julysed 8.5% year-over-year, slower than the 9.1 increase in june. >> when you couple that with last week's booming jobs report of 528,000 jobs created last month and 3.5% unemployment, it underscores the kind of economy we've been building. we're seeing a stronger labor market where jobs are booming and americans are working, and we're seeing some signs that inflation may be beginning to moderate. >> cnn business correspondent rahel solomon is joining me now. so listen, still high. >> still high. >> not as high, though. >> not as high, and not only was this a decline, but this was also better than most economists were expecting, so we don't get to say that much these days when talking about inflation. core inflation remains steady, and month over month inflation, we didn't add to that, right? you saw that 0% there. that is certainly positive news. when you take a look back, a step back, and think about where we're coming from and look at inflation over the last few years or so from januar

wolf. >> it's important that susan glasser and peter baker both truly excellent journalists are also reporting that trump didn't want any injured u.s. military veterans at a julyhe was planning. is that right? >> that's right. and according to what we're reading here, and this stems from trump at the time going with friends to see a bastille celebration which included a military parade. he was enthralled by it, he loved sees the splendor, the power, the force of the military parade, but what he didn't like seeing was all of the injured service members in the parade. he told his chief of staff at the time, john kelly, to make sure that in the parade he was thinking about, that he was dreaming about, he didn't want to see injured service members. it was kelly who told them those are the real heroes. >> kelly was right. oren liebermann, thank you very much. let's get more on all of this. joining us, cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling. how angry must general milley have been to write such a forceful resignation letter and what does it tell you that he decided in the end not to resign but instead stay on and fight from the inside? >> wol