the world health organization has announced that it would start calling monkeypox m-pocks after hearing complaints that monkeypox was racist and stigma tieing. it s not clear how many of those complaints were serious or if they were made by anyone hurling feces. who has a mandate to rename existing diseases avoiding any association with a country, region, animal or ethnic group. so i guess my idea that san francisco smash rash is out. [laughter] greg: it s also not clear how you might accuse another person of racism for using the term monkeypox. sure, experts say that monkeypox is mostly found throughout africa until recently, but it was called monkeypox, not africa pox. and you can t associate the term monkeypox with racism unless you yourself are already associating the word monkey with africa.
it contributes to 4% of the country s gdp and officials would always say it is too important to seal off. however, due to the surging cases, this is the worst outbreak in china since the pandemic began. officials took those drastic, draconian measures some may say, to lock down the city. so yes, obviously if people can get out, even if it s just to go to the grocery store, because obviously we ve. hearing complaints of food shortages, medicine shortages, people screaming from their windows down at community workers saying we are starving, feed us, this is making the rounds on social media. we re hearing also today from officials, lynda, that they re easing restrictions on e-commerce platforms. they re allowing them to resume operations. which means deliveries of groceries will be made to homes, which has been a huge problem. yeah. that is some good news. anna coren for us in hong kong.
shannon. well, listen, when she gets to the court probably sworn in officially in late june/early july, she will hit the ground running, and the newest junior justice, she will have to do things like when they have the private conferences, she sits by the door and opens it, and the cafeteria committee. big cheers from the press corps, but they sit on the committee and are tasked with hearing complaints about what needs to be fixed and taken care of over there. and lighter notes. and it s a collegial body, and even judge kavanaugh was welcomed with open arms, and they close ranks around each other. no doubt she ll be warmly
handing out flyers. they were speaking and negotiating in the last few days and now they have said enough is enough. we are getting the streets back from the protesters. listen now to the interim police chief telling protesters that look, he s hearing complaints about police brutality and this was his answer. this occupation is over. we have advise them if they peacefully leave, they may go home. that still exists. we also indicated we would escalate and forcibly remove people from the streets if they did not comply. some of that is what you re seeing. i will stand here today, again, and say this demonstration is over. go home. if you don t go home, we will remove you from the streets. what s been so unconventional about this is the kind of protest that it is, and the protesters will say we re peaceful. that s not the way residents have seen it and more than that, police have said that the complicated task of getting cars and trucks, hundreds of them off
the bottlenecks that are driving shoppers and shippers batty. we begin with susan. we re looking at the fastest jump in consumers prices since 1991, 30 years ago when prices went up this quickly. you re paying 4.5% more than a year ago. strip out food and energy, core inflation, which is the federal reserved preferred gauge, that still went up 3.5%. still a three decades high. you ve been hearing complaints from americans biggest companies about the high prices that they have to pay. starbucks being the latest today with the stock having to single worst day in a year and they said they were making less because they have to pay more for raw materials and labor. when these companies pay out more, they pass on the costs to consumers by hiking their own prices and just this week, caterpillar, kraft, heinz,