and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. breaking overnight, a another mass shooting. this time in baltimore, maryland. at least two people have been killed, and dozens of others injured after gunfire of wraps at an annual block party. we are live with the latest. plus, supreme fallout, the reaction from both sides of the aisle to the historic rulings from the high court, we re going to take a closer look at the decisions impacting student debt relief, and lgbtq plus rights. and, legal lines, hundreds of new laws, including crackdowns and undocumented migrants and the lgbtq+ community are now being enforced in florida. what this means for rhonda santa says presidential playbook of making america florida. all of this and more is coming up. a good sunday morning to, you i m katie phang. we are following the breaking news out of baltimore, maryland this morning as america experiences yet another mass shooting that has left at least two people dead and 28 others i
economy. florida s economy is really based on three industries. construction agriculture, and and all of those it s so heavily on the population. now we are seeing just fields of crops that are not going to be having workers on their, both to planting, but also harvest dame. what this is going to do is you re going to workers who will come back to the state of florida. not only will you have agricultural commodities increasing cost not just here for the state, we feed 150 million people across the entire united states. exporting to 37 different countries. 130 billion dollar economic impact for the state of florida. when workers go away, not only are you not going to have food, but the drastic impacts it s going to have on the actual cost of these commodities. then you go to construction. you re already seen all these construction sites not having workers. it s going to slow down the already very high demands of housing market here in florida.
if you look at the budget and the investments we re making in research and development, 130 billion dollar go the highest water mark ever for this department in terms of rnd investments. a lot of those capabilities, cyber, space, 5g, artificial intelligence, hyper sonics, you look at that stuff and it will help us against the facing challenge of china but will help us what we consider the acute threat of russia. let me go to phones here. with the movement, are you seeing a movement of artillery
defenses and the president saying that we re succeeding in our mission and democrats and republicans unclear what the mission is. and protests continuing in syria and thousands demonstrates near damascus at the same time and the human rights group reporting 70 political prisoners and stocks in saudi arabia, more than 2% today. that s right, the market was over there. one the view on the planet that was, reacting to the kingdom s 130 billion dollar plan, some say buyoff to keep the peace. with the bombs in libya dropping the costs for the u.s. are indeed mounting, all the while the arab league nations who urged us to do it, are nowhere to be seen and maybe we can send them the bill. and john boulten at the republican president con fab.
. the gas surprises are surging, how bad could it get. joining us out of houston, john, it s interesting how, yes, they re higher, 105, in and out. 105, 106 a barrel and gas closer to $4 a gallon. if all this have i thought it would be worse. are you surprised? no, i think that the price that we have now gotten to, neil, is actually having some kind of a moderating effect on demand and i think that people are nervous, so that means inventories will remain high enough and so, unless something really penetrates into saudi arabia, and unless we see the kind of turmoil that we re seeing in syria and we saw in egypt, if we see that kind of turmoil in saudi arabia, then i think the lid comes off the oil price. i m wondering again about this, affect here, you mentioned saudi arabia and the marker was up today and they re handing out the 130