a confusing world. welcome to your world. i m neil cavuto. happy to have you with us. let s go to jacqui heinrich on what we re likely to hear from the president. hi, neil. we re getting a closer picture of the strategy here at the white house. we ve heard from the president before and seeing more of now telling voters that things will get worse with the economy if republicans take back control of congress. we got an unusual e-mail in the white house press core from andrew bates telling us to watch an interview that house minority leader kevin mccarthy is going to be doing with punch bowl next week. bates writes to us in an e-mail, kevin mccarthy continues to show cause how eager maga republicans are to make inflation worse if it minds a wind fall for rich special interests at the expense of the middle class families. nobody gives more compelling proof for the fact that republicans in congress would exacerbate inflation and sell hard working families out to special intere
richest man to buy twitter. that s right. the legal battle is over and the deal is on. the shares after being traded most of the day surging 22%. many interpreted that as a sign that the deals are back and if it can win over the world s richest man, it s off to the races. buyers were in droves. we ll have more on that later. now there s this. nearly a week after hurricane ian hit, rescue crews in florida continue to comb through damaged home looking for anyone trapped inside. the number killed is 79, including 71 in florida. we re all over it with steve harrigan in hard-hit arcadia, florida where they re starting to pick up the pieces. madison alworth in charlotte county, florida where fema is distributing much-needed supplies. and pete buttigieg on the massive job of fixing cause ways and bridges. we have storms left and right and digging out from under them could prove the most expensive task in american history. we begin with steve in arcadia, florida. steve? neil, this
an update any minute on that massive search operation and the recovery. also likely to respond to questions on whether evacuation orders came too late. the number of people killed by hurricane ian now at 108. our team is standing by live in the storm zone with more. plus the new details revealed in that oath keepers trial including from an fbi agent about the militia group s digital footprint. what else we re hearing from a secret recording that was shown. and the world s richest man says he does want to buy trading. more on that twitter takeback takeover situation coming up. and president biden this hour set to announce new guidelines on reproductive rights. we ll take you live to the white house, 100 days after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, and just five weeks ahead of the midterms. i m hallie jackson, with me is dasha burns and jesse kirsch both in south florida. jesse, i ll start with you in fort myers beach. tell us about the latest on the ground. we
not ones to write home about. 11.3% is the jump in wholesale prices from a year ago and came in lot steamier than economists predicted coming off the you know what it feels like when you buy things. consumer prices are up substantially. fastest pace we ve seen since 1981 back in reagan years. you have to go to art laffer to find that out. white house points out wages are up. here is the deal. wages aren t rising at the pace of inflation. you look at a pay cut of 3.6%. if you crunch the numbers inflation is costing the average american household $500 a month. setting on fire every single month because you aren t getting anything for that $500. bill: questions now including this how did we get here? many economists blame out of control government spending along the way. democrats are passed more than $3 trillion in new spending under president biden and they aren t taking their foot off the gas as they look to revamp build back better. let s go to mark meredith live f
and, the race to save the giant sequoias in yosemite national park as a wildfire threatens trees that have stood for thousands of years. but we start with the january 6 house select committee final push with two more public hearings set to take place this week. this is going to be a really big week for the investigation. committee members are looking to build on the momentum. from the previous six hearings. the next one is set for tomorrow afternoon and will focus on what some panel members call the martialing of the upon. it will include evidence of coordination between former president trump, his top aides and associates, and white nationalists or militia groups such as the proud boys and the oath keepers who, members say, led the assault on the capitol. the thursday hearing will zero in on trump s actions. or inactions as vice president mike pence and house and senate lawmakers and hundreds of police officers came under attack. thursday s hearing is expected to be held in