after days of drama, 15 rounds of voting. the house finally elects a speaker. how the chaos ended and what it means for the future of kevin mccarthy and the gop. and there are new details in the horrific murder of four idaho college students. what we re learning from a recently released affidavit and a former fbi agent will be joining us with her perspective on that investigation. also remarkable progress for buffalo bills player damar hamlin. an update on his condition and the moment he face timed his teammates from a hospital bed. and a major policy for military parents. the change that will allow them to spend more time with their newborn coming up on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it s january 7th. alex is gracing us with his presence. thank you for being with us, alex. hopefully you got some sleep last night. i got some sleep, that means i missed the historic, you know, end of the speakership race. yeah. and woke up to that news
a lifelong dolphins fan. that misconception was i was misleading. director anthony fouts he says never got political. he was responsible for closing schools. i had nothing they are going to sneak it. he gets the push and the first down. pittsburgh is going to snap they re 4 game losing streak. what a drive. steve: good morning on this monday october 17th. you are looking live at nashville and listening to jay allen saying it sounds good to me. they were said to be married in fort myers beach on october the 1st. but as you know, there was a terrible hurricane. they put that particular nuptials off. today, they are going to be appearing on fox & friends this hour, because they are sponsoring a relief fund for fort myers beach. find out how you can help the folks down there coming up this hour of fox & friends. brian: that frustration is kicking in now. the best scenario he could have the best response. it s been three weeks. how i think it s going to to
dana: i don t have high hopes. here is what we re going the talk about today. in the latest fox news poll inflation and higher prices topped the list of voter concerns. you can see the steep declines just this year. your 401k has lost 2.1 trillion, america, this year alone. average plan is down more than 25% year-to-date, not a cool thing to look at. dana: 71% of voters say their family has had to cut back just to afford the necessities. president biden over the weekend seems to think everything is a-ok. president biden: our economy is strong as hell internally. inflation is worldwide. worse off than in the united states. so the problem is, the lack of economic growth and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours. bill: that was from saturday. karl rove has analysis today. first we go to mark meredith at the white house. dana: is there landscaping this morning, mark? there is landscaping and construction. i have the price is right mic ready this morning.
kansas city championship game would be at a neutral site. if they both lose and the ravens win, again, a buffalo versus k.c. game would be at neutral site. or if they both lose and the bengals win, then a buffalo or cincinnati versus kansas city championship game would be at that neutral site. also because they re playing one less game, the bengals are already afc north division champions based on win percentage, but if the ravens beat them on sunday and the two teams play in the wild-card round, they ll have a coin toss to decide where that game is, cincinnati or baltimore. bengals coach zac taylor criticized the changes saying it feels like it benefits everyone except for cincinnati. according to a report out of minneapolis, they turned down hosting a potential title game because they have a volleyball game that weekend. atlanta has been thrown out as another possibility.