we have a date for when kids under the age of five may be eligible for a covid vaccine get your calendars ready. the platinum jubilee for queen elizabeth ii. the royal family gathers. harry and meghan are there, but it s the queen s great-grandson, four-year-old prince louis, who steals the show. tonight, what we re learning about why the 96-year-old monarch will miss a major part of her celebration. gas prices up 52 cents in just a month. will a big announcement from the world s oil producers help at the pump? protecting the nation s food supply. why a group of scientists hope these killer bugs could help. and we end tonight with the inspiring story of a mother of nine children who just graduated from medical school, planning to become a neurosurgeon. tonight, her message to others: follow your dreams. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us
from now. let me just add to, carley shimkus, as everybody knows, you play the trumpet, the little thing we did at the top. a good shot as always. carley: thank you, todd appeared to be when you are watching fox & friends first on a thursday morning. carley: that is exactly right, it is called the party of a lifetime. of course the platinum jubilee celebrates queen elizabeth 70 year reign, the longest-serving u.k. monarch. there will be a lot of pomp and ceremony today but most of all, it is a big party due on or queen elizabeth and her royal family and what they have done for the u.k. throughout history. todd: i like going over numbers because i find numbers fascinating carley shimkus. the silver is 25 years, the gold is 50 years, the diamond is 60 years, and of course, the platinum coming in at a whopping 70 years. carley: jubilee ceremony is an anniversary celebration and of course, being the most important because she is the only monarch to reach platinum jubile
one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
deemphasized. brian deese will be elevated. he will join us in a few moments. we ll ask him what that means and what s going on there. the biden white house takes incoming from those usually on the president s side. listen to this. when inflation is above 4 and unemployment is below 4, you re almost certain to have a recession in the next two years. going to the fall election with inflation running at 5 or 6% with gas prices just as high as today, could be higher, that is not a great recipe for electoral success. so nose are some former obama-biden officials speaking about what they see coming, recessionary pressures. here s some folks in leesburg, virginia, a state that president biden won by ten points. everything is sky high. i usele to fill my tank for $50. now it s $80. since the new administration has come into play, our sales have come down dramatically. it s not attributable to the democrats or the republicans. i a biproduct of the ukrainian war. their a
texas elementary school that left 19 students and two teachers dead. and yesterday, if you are people were killed in that tulsa medical office shooting when a patient went after his doctor. take you both places live. the president has been under increasing pressure to do something about gun violence, but he has consistently deferred to congress where talks are continuing. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. it s only been two and a half years or so since president biden referred to saudi arabia as a pariah with little redeeming social value out of concern about potential human rights abuses. but, here at home, gas prices have apparently gotten high enough that he is reportedly set to visit saudi arabia to ask them to pump some more oil. that is brand new. it s unclear what in the president s speech about guns tonight will be new. he going to renew his call for action. renew our ban