john: another fox news alert to kick off america reports for this thursday. biden administration cancelling a massive oil and gas lease sale in alaska and the gulf of mexico. scrapping the potential to give drivers desperately needed relief at the pump. hi, i m john roberts in washington. gillian, good to see you again. gillian: great to be with you, i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. so, america s economic woes are continuing to mount. one red flag economists are pointing to now today, april wholesale prices. up 11% from a year ago. one part of the overall inflation problem. consumer prices up 8.3% from a year ago, a slight drop from march but still hovering near a 40-year high. john: filling your tank could drain your wallet. the national average of gas prices a record high, costing 4.41 a gallon. look at where it is compared to a year ago, gillian. gillian: tremendous pressure on the biden administration. americans are skyrocketing with the cost of everyday
we hear about the soviet union or cuba or places like that or venezuela, but you don t hear about things like that in the united states. john: seems to be a perfect storm of a number of different problems, including that abbott recall, and now trying to get the plant up and running but that s going to take some time. let me switch gears if i could and ask about the attacks the president has been levelling against you, and he is still taking a broom stick to you over the rescue america plan you put out earlier this year. here is what the president said in recent days. plan, make america great again plan, it s in writing. here is what it does. it raises taxes on 75 million american families, it puts social security, medicare, the republican plan now, the only one out there, and medicaid on the chopping block every five years. john: senator, you ve become the face of ultra maga. what do you say to the president in response?
now. just seeing the video and the silence and then the gunshots. it s tragic. thank you for your reporting. we appreciate it. now to the stabbing stree at a rabbi s home outside of new york city where nearly 100 orthodox jews were celebrating hanukkah. let s go live to new york where the stabbings unfolded. brynn, what do we know about what happened and also the motive? reporter: yeah, poppy. well, we know that a hundred people were gathered in this home here behind me celebrating the seventh night of hanukkah. it was supposed to be a night and peace and reflection and it turned into a night of terror. reports are people were throwing furniture at this attacker, grabbing their loved ones, trying to get out of this house as the suspect pulled out a knife so big it was described as looking like a broom stick. a gruesome stabbing on the seventh night of hanukkah leaving five people injured just
new york. the latest attack against jews in the state and across the nation. brynn gingras is live in monsey, new york. reporter: this is a community on high alert. the attack happened on saturday night in the home right here behind me. there was about a hundred people gathered inside celebrating the seventh night of hanukkah when police say the 38-year-old suspect named grafton thomas walked in carrying a knife that reports are so big that it looked like a broom stick. and he went allegedly on this rampage sniring five people in all. one person we re told has a skull fracture. there were people throwing furniture, grabbing family members trying to get out of the way and fight back. then thomas ran allegedly across the street or really next door and tried to get into a synagogue. but the worshippers inside were able to lock the doors and prevent him from getting in. then he was able to flee the