prompting concerns now that the fed could keep raising those interest rates well into this year. welcome to fox news live, i m aishah hasnie, hi, griff. griff: i m griff jenkins. and it s great to be with you. and the biden administration is facing scrutiny over the massive amount of spending over ukraine. lucas tomlinson is on the snowy white lawn of the white house kicking things off for us. high inflation is reducing savings nationwide and producing more credit card debt coupled with higher interest rates. many americans are feeling the squeeze and we don t have to tell the viewers, we feel it every day. let s look at the new inflation index that just came out. this is the personal consumption price index, the feds preferred gauge of inflation. and it rose and beating analyst expectations roughly 4% increase and annual rate 5.4%, as you mentioned the first inflation in inflation data since it peaked in june making some wondering if fed is behind in inflation fight. and p
cnn tonight. listen, one of the most catastrophic storms in florida s history, possibly the deadliest, regained strength to become a category 1 hurricane tonight. south carolina is now bracing for ian s wrath sometime happening tomorrow. and the very latest on its track in just a moment. we have yet to learn the full scope of the destruction caused by hurricane ian in florida. but what has certainly come into focus today truly is hard to find words for. at least 17 people have died so far, and that is linked to hurricane ian. president biden warns there could be substantial loss of life, perhaps more killed by a storm in florida than ever before. but it s really too soon to know more. and also too soon to say that the danger has now passed. i mean, there is debris everywhere. there s water everywhere. power lines are down. trees have been shredded. boats thrown on top of one another. countless homes destroyed, entire buildings washed away. fort myers beach took the brunt of
like a winter wonderland here. two feet of snow building behind me and we re expecting so much for as you see how quickly that snow is falling here. you re seeing and hearing the plows trying to make a dent, but the snowfall rates are definitely challenging things here creating travel headaches across the region. more than 115,000 customers in the golden state, across the golden state without power. meanwhile, major freeways like i-5 and the grapevine remain closed. snowy conditions there, no word on when that will reopen and other issues, lower elevation levels. l.a. seeing major flooding there. some people had to be rescued. one man last lost his life driving into a flood canal. this is definitely something impacting much of california for the last several days. the blizzard warning remains in effect through this afternoon. aishah: all right, nicole valdez live for us. thank you, nicole, stay warm.
level that even if we have a surge, we are safe. and it s exactly what we did. anyone can go on the west side and check their elevation levels. and the news tells you that your home is going to be on elevation with a surge that you need to evacuate, then you need to do that. so, that s exactly what we did. we checked our level, and our home was safe. and that s why we stayed. so, for everybody in zone a, i believe that most people in sanibel got evacuate. and people in zone b also got evacuated. and that s it. we were in an area that later on we were told to possibly evacuate, that maybe we would see surges in certain levels. and we made sure that our home was safe. and we were safe. we didn t see any flooding whatsoever in our home. we then we don t have any damage in our home. and that s what we do in
took it really, really bad. fort myers beach took it really, really bad. thankfully it was just buildings. like i said, we ll build it back. you know, i m looking at this and thinking about it as a mother myself, and i cannot imagine having to do this and try to go through it. you have four children. you have your dog as well. some of them are very young. when was it like being there with your children. you must have had your own fears, your own concerns. but, you know, us mothers, we have to make sure that we re not always showing that and trying to comfort our children. what was that like in your home when that happened? well, we were very safe. that s what we do. we boarded up. we made sure that we were safe. and we are. we made sure that we are at the elevation that if waters rise up, we are safe. and that s exactly what we did. we made sure that the elevation levels of our home are on the