[Romans:] Wildfires are raging in the Russian arctic. One of the coldest places on earth. The fires have spread across almost all of Siberia. President Trump telling reporters he personally offered to help Vladimir Putin in the fight.
[Trump:] I spoke with President Putin of Russia yesterday. They're having massive fires in their forests. They have tremendous I've never seen anything like it. It's very big. I just offered our assistance because we're very good at putting out forest fires, frankly.
[Romans:] The fires, according to Greenpeace, have created an ecological catastrophe. Smoke covering the Siberian cities in this toxic haze. Let's go live to eastern Siberia. We have CNN's Fred Pleitgen there with the latest. Hi, Fred, what are you seeing?
[Frederik Pleitgen, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Hi, Christine. Well, the fires indeed are extremely toxic and extremely dangerous. And one of the things about this fire is you're absolutely right. They're absolutely massive as well. Just to give you an example, if I took a flight from here from Yakutsk, where I am, in eastern Siberia, for about 3 12 hours I would still be in the fire zone. Now one of the reasons why President Trump apparently offered that help to Vladimir Putin is because the Russians are having a lot of trouble fighting these fires. Essentially what the Russians have said is they'll try and contain the fires around the areas where there are urban settlements where they threatened cities, but they're not going to do anything against those fires in more remote areas. However, the big problem is those fires are spewing megatons of CO2 into the air and into the atmosphere. One of the things that you're seeing is what you were just talking about, that smoke covering those cities. People having trouble breathing. And that's been going on for months. But of course that's also a global problem as well as some of that smoke, we've learned, has already reached the western part of the United States as well. And of course these fires still very much raging. Now the Russians have now stepped things up a little bit. They say that they've mobilized the army. There's 10 planes and 10 choppers that are now working on all this but of course with the fires of those size, that simply is not going to be enough to combat these blazes. That's one of the reasons also why the U.S. has offered that assistance. But the fires are ranging this large, Christine, because of global warming. This is not a problem that's going to go away. One of the things that we've learned since we've been on the ground here in Siberia is that this permafrost region, that's supposed to be frozen year-round is melting extremely quickly. And that of course unearths more carbon. That then gets burned by these fires. And that of course gets blown into the atmosphere once again. So this is a problem that's not going away and certainly one that this country is having a lot of trouble coming to terms with Christine.
[Romans:] Fascinating. So glad you're here to tell us that story and show us pictures. All right, Fred Pleitgen. Thank you so much for that. Let's get a check on CNN Business this Friday morning. A look at global markets here. You can see disappointment around the globe here. Asian markets close lower. European markets opened lower. And look, 2 percent moves are significant moves in one day in the market. Dow futures on Wall Street also leaning lower here indicating it could be a little bit of a soft warning. U.S. stocks closed lower after the president imposed 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods starting in September. The Dow closed down 281 points reversing a nice early rally. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also lower. Retail, tech, industrial stocks all hit hard by the announcement. Caterpillar closed down almost 4 percent. Nike finished more than 3 percent lower. And look at Best Buy down 10 percent. There's a real concern that U.S. consumer electronics will be hit very hard. U.S. oil fell nearly 8 percent. That is a huge one-day move and it's sort of indicative of the fear of how this trade war will hurt global growth and kill the demand for oil. Important piece of economic data in the U.S. Jobs report will be released in just a few hours. The estimate from economists, about 164,000 new jobs in July. The unemployment rate steady at 3.7 percent. That will represent a little bit of a cooling from the 171,000-job average over the past quarter. According to the National Federation of Independent Business, finding qualified workers is still a big concern for many sectors. The question also remains how many workers are left to be pulled back into the labor force. The Senate passed that huge budget deal that would stave off the looming threat of a potential default on U.S. debt and prevent automatic spending cuts to domestic and military funding. The deal suspense the debt limit through July 2021, sets top line levels for Defense and non-Defense spending for the next two fiscal years. Now goes to the president for his signature. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says that if the deal becomes law President Trump will have signed into law legislation that adds $4.1 trillion to the national debt during his first term.
[Sanchez:] A third case of Ebola has been confirmed in the eastern city of the Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The city of more than a million people is a major transit hub and located on the border with Rwanda. The announcement raising new concerns that the virus could spread across that border. CNN's David McKenzie is following developments. He joins us now live from Johannesburg. And David, really the fear here is a geographic one, right, this being a transit hub. That means the virus can spread further and faster.
[David Mckenzie, Cnn International Correspondent:] That's right, Boris. And that's the real fear here. Good morning. This Goma is a major city. We were there recently. And you had the situation that several people have showed up at that city's border with the Ebola virus disease, this deadly disease that has killed some 70 percent of people who contracted it. Here's why everyone should be paying attention to this. For the last year now, this disease has spread through parts of the eastern northern part of Congo and is flaring up again despite the use of experimental vaccine. We were there recently and just the mistrust and the conflict in that region is making it that much harder to stop this disease. Just a couple of weeks ago as we reported there was an announcement that this is a global public health emergency. It hasn't gotten nearly the attention it should. And the worry is now, because it's near these border regions, that it could spread further. Overnight we had a statement from the region from the U.S. Ebola czar that has been brought in some weeks ago to try and stamp this out. Take a listen.
[David Gressly, U.n. Emergency Ebola Response Coordinator:] I think it will be a long fight. It will be a hard fight. But with vigilance, and we need vigilance as I've mentioned before, with discipline and it will take discipline, and determination we can see this through and we can bring this epidemic to an end.
[Mckenzie:] And although heroic responders on the ground have been trying for months to get a handle on this disease outbreak, so far it doesn't seem like they can Boris.
[Sanchez:] David McKenzie reporting from Johannesburg. You know, President Trump tweeted out some unfortunate things about Ebola, the Ebola crisis years before he was president. We'll see if his tune changes now that he's in the White House.
[Romans:] All right. Thanks to our international viewers for joining us. Have a great rest of your day and a great weekend. For our U.S. viewers, EARLY START continues right now.
[Sanchez:] The Trump administration pushing for a peace deal with the Taliban to bring thousands of troops home from Afghanistan.
[Trump:] Until