it with the midterms fast approaching. sandra, the busiest woman in television. sandra: great to be with you this afternoon, john. president meeting with fed chair jay powell yesterday as the white house kicks off a months long effort to focus, it says, on the economy. but inflation has been on the minds of many voters in this country for months now, especially when filling up their tanks. price of gasoline rising almost daily with the new national average for a gallon, 4.67 today, a jump of 1.60 a year ago, and up $0.05 since yesterday. john: 11.4 million unfilled positions. labor shortage driving up wages and keeping inflation high as businesses continue to struggle with hiring. minnesota congressman and national republican congressional committee chair tom emmer will join us. sandra: we head to the white house, peter doocy live from the north lawn to kick things off. hey, peter. peter: good afternoon, here at the white house hearing two different things about how
gillian: georgia s education board is approving a resolution to limit the push for critical race theory in classrooms. the measure was approved 11-2. education leaders are also asserting the state of georgia and the country as a whole is not racist and that classroom discussion is related to race. they believe the discussions should be kept to a minimum related to race. the resolution is symbolic but doesn t impose actual restrictions on schools or teachers. bill, this issue as we discussed yesterday kind of like heating up the country. parents with school kids now. a lot of the heat is focused in a couple of counties in virginia just outside d.c. loudon and fair fox county because the voting demographics have changed and school boards changed over the last few years. bill: my sense we ve been reporting that the parents started pushing back on this and parents are winning, would you agree?
proves me wrong. it s unpredictable. you don t want to come out in there. there s the big gust. you don t want to come out in this. we saw people walking around and driving around. it s not a good idea. stay home. stay inside. don t come outside. when you do, when the sun does come up, be careful driving around. there are so many trees down in this area. you never know when there will be a live power line involved with a tree being toppled. indeed. driving around may be severely compromised. there have got to be places where there are trees down. suzanne kennedy, thank you so much for that. you re welcome. indeed, one other place we know about where there s a tree down, this one had much more violent intent, did the two that suns was telling us about, the 3700 block of ingamore street in washington, d.c. a tree went into a house and knocked out power. it s 4:00 now, 4:01. we want to do resetting for you. maybe the most potentially serious situation, frankly it s not all