food prices too have gone up. nothing s being done about it. it s going to kill the people, these diesel prices. they have no i have no choice but to fill up my tank. there s no other choice. definitely too much. and it has to change, hopefully soon. neil: it is the story of the week, and right now it is hitting americans hard. i m talking about inflation, and it is still out of control. here s how bad things are getting. we re grateful if the rise isn t as dramatic as we had experienced in just the prior month. that is the state of things now with prices spiking at near 40-year highs. the last time we saw that is when jimmy carter was president. concerns that we re seeing the same thing roll out now and rolling around hoping for relief. good luck on that front. but kelly o grady on how customers and you are feeling. kelly. reporter: hi, neil. well, week we saw new inflation data with april s consumer price index out. the 8.3% year-over-year number was worse than ex
government here says they already have 21 more such cases ready to go. finally, russian president vladimir putin got a call from finland s president today informing him of the country s intention to join nato. the president told putin how finland s security environment had changed since russia s invasion of ukraine. and, neil, allegedly not related to this nato move russia today pulled the plug on electricity it supplies to finland. luckily for the finns, russia only provides about 10% of its juice. still it s not mice to to mess around with the folks in moscow. back to you. neil: to your fine point, that doesn t look like coincidence. thank you very much. be safe, greg. greg palkot following all those developments in kyiv, ukraine. in the meantime here, we re focusing on this planned protest outside the supreme court, up to 20,000 could be marching later afternoon.