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
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 4-year-old prince louis who steals the show. why the 96-year-old monarch will miss a major part of her celebration. gals 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 motherov 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 and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. as we come on the air, president biden is preparing to address the nation. you re looking at live pictures at the the w
of continuing pain including a phone call he made yesterday. when he was not able to be seen immediately, he drove to a gun star and one hour later was at the hot shooting. he bought the gun and went in to kill those people that same day. the first 911 call came in at 4:52. four minutes later, police were on scene. officers entered the building on the first floor and made their way to the second floor based on the information they received. while on the second floor of the vast building, officers began yelling tulsa police, this is something that we train to do. as officers were calling out tulsa police and advancing towards a suspect location, they heard a gunshot. we believe that was the final gunshot with the suspect taking his own life. the gunshot was at 4:52 p.m., approximately 39 seconds after the first officers entered the building. police say they know the shooter s motive because they found a letter on his person that confirmed he came to the hospital with the i