because of the pandemic, when factories shutdown in asia they had no idea they were supplying essential materials to us, shutdown around the world. these small computer chips, the size of your finger tip, they affect nearly everything in our lives. our cell phones. automobiles, refrigerators, weapons systems, everything. america invented these chips we made them smaller, faster and more powerful. but over time we went from producing 40% of the world s chips down to just 10% of them despite leading the world in research and design. you saw what happened during the pandemic when the global economy came to a halt overseas factories that made the chips shutdown driving up the costs for everyone around the world, particularly american families every new car built needs as many as 3,000 of these chips during the pandemic, that s the reason car prices skyrocketed. and in some cases new car production shutdown because the chips were in short supply but now the private sector at home
in that year hundreds of thousands dead, tens of billions of dollars in damage and there s no end in sight. we ll look at how russia views this with the anchors of exiled russian broadcaster tv rain. then we ll examine the present and future on the bloody battlefield and is a stalemate in, and how will it end? i ll ask the experts. while all eyes are cast upward looking for more chinese balloons, which of beijing s other actions are we missing on the ground and in the cyber realm? we ll explore. in the 360 days since russia s invasion, crane has become the front line in the global battle for democracy. it s a fight being fought on the airwaves as well as on the battlefield. putin s minions are working overtime to control the message overseas and at home. under a law passed last year journalists in russia can be jailed for up to 15 years for reporting what the kremlin considers fake news about what its military is doing and to wit, calling the war in ukraine a war could
state showdown. we begin with the fox news alert and we are awaiting the white house briefing next hour where karine jean-pierre will be pressed for the president s massive $6.8 trillion tax and spend budget plan. a lot to unpack in america reports in the next two hours. i m john roberts in washington and, s sandra, weather correspondent made it to washington. i m sandra smith, glad to be with you, john. this massive new tax and spend plan as inflation remains stubbornly high and as a brand new jobs report is just released by the labor department. it did show payrolls rising by 311,000 last month. that was higher than expected and as the wall street journal references what they see as evidence of resilient economic economy. the unemployment rate meanwhile ticked up to 3.6%, that s from the record low in january. but there s still a big question on what s coming down the pike as more rate hikes could be on the horizon. so with that in mind, let s get right to it wi
victims. a manhunt underway for the next mexican national leslie but some 2 miles in the crime scene. christina coleman has the latest on this live from los angeles, christina. hi jon, 30 say. two of the victims died while shielding children from the gunfire shooting. a manhunt is underway for the kill a preacher step is identify the gunman 38-year-old francisco or pasa a mexican national shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. last night in cleveland, texas that is about 45 miles north of houston port authorities believe he has since fled into a heavily wooded area less than 2 miles from the horrific crime scene where he is accused of shooting five people in the head. authorities are using sent tracking dogs and drones to help track them down. there are a lot of water and things like that i don t know if the horses are bogging down the doctors stuck in the mud whatever scenarios out there. the sheriff said the deadly shooting happened after neighbors complained about gunfi
lapping now, gut-wrenching images of homes and lives destroyed near the earthquake epner. cnn is on the scene as the death toll in turkey and syria soars above 12,000. also tonight, president biden is doubling down on a line of attack against republicans that prompted gop jeers during his state of the union address. he is taking the top themes on the road in key presidential battlegrounds. and ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy is now in ha included a stop in london, a visit with. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situati situation this hour a race against time in the earthquake zone as the window for finding survivors narrows and the death toll grows more catastrophic. cnn s nick paton walsh is in turkey right now. nick, tell us what you have been seeing and experiencing. reporter: yeah, it is sadly, wolf, around this time that it seems the race against time for survivors is slowly being lo