during covid how prepared is it for the next pandemic? good evening a catastrophe is how kentucky officials are describing the deadly situation unfolding there tonight after one in a thousand year floods left residents stranded on roof tops, washed roads away, and triggered mud slides after at least 9 inches of rain fell over 12 hours. by late afternoon the death toll climbing to eight with more feared all of it part of the same storm system that triggered massive flash floods in st. louis. it s the kind of heavy precipitation event experts say are becoming more common as the climate continues to change. the hard hit city of hazard, kentucky tweeting, help your neighbors and pray for a break in the rain. but more is expected the rain a compound disaster in a state still recovering from a deadly hit by an ef-4 tornado in mayfield back in december in a moment i ll speak to the governor for a late update. reporter: in a swath of the south submerged total devastation and a de
president welcomes all ideas to protect consumers and make sure oil companies are not taking advantage of putin s war and are competing fairly. no company should be engaging in unfair practices to hike up prices on american consumers press the president has said president putin s actions are what s driving the price increase at the pump. spring wall street journal columnist dan henninger. so mary, bad news continues economically. the gas prices the signs of slowing consumer spending on the stock markets have been just awful. what are those signals all telling us? are we headed towards stagflation or maybe recession? nothing has really changed. the fed was giving a lot of what we call monetary accommodation which is flooding basically the economy with money. and on the fiscal side president biden was spending a lot of money. there is a lot of concern that at some point that was going to cause inflation but begot the inflation the entertainment they re going to raise inte
move backwards. reporter: o connell says many covid supplies are still not covered in the stockpile s annual budget including ppe why isn t ppe in the annual funding the strategic national stockpile was designed to respond to very acute events, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear events it was also designed to have things that weren t available on the market ppe has a market. reporter: as of june the stockpile has 541 is million n95s, 4.8 billion gloves and 158,000 ventilators paid for using covid relief funds. we re working hard to be prepared with the countermeasures we need for whatever comes next if we aren t prepared we ll do everything we can to ramp up as quickly as possible but we haven t lost sight of the fact that covid is happening now and something else will come insideways next reporter: learning from the past in hopes of being better prepared for the future dr. john torres, nbc news. up next tonight, righting a wrong the overhaul at an
makers because they have a much smaller market if they dominate half the market in my reading that correctly? yes absolutely. and on top of it remember if you are a wic benefit receiver you can t even buy those alternate products because your benefits don t cover them. paul: alicia of the also unleash the defense production act which of course a president trump done done on a variety of covid supplies. he is doing it now i m baby formula. will that make any difference? no because the issue here is raw ingredients the president in the past has invoked the defense of production act it s done to marshall supplies were there is a shortage of ingredients or material. here there is no shortage of ingredients to make baby formula. again what we need is to reduce