harris making administration case on wednesday. there s no question we still have work to do but it s important to note these numbers do not fully reflect the recent drop in gas prices. average national gas price have fallen everyday nearly 30 days. since mid-june, prices are down 40 cents a gallon. paul: republican constant kevin brady of texas, top republican on the house ways and means committee. welcome mr. chairman. you heard the vice president say this is out of date, the numbers are out of date, what do you think that? they have no good news to talk about, maybe that s their effort but the fact is, most americans are learning joe biden s economy is a cool economy and we got to double down and inflation is raising both for families and mainstream businesses. it s getting worse, accelerating. you are seeing significant pay cuts for families, mainstream businesses already struggling with shortage and high prices. this tells inflation staying high for an extended perio
Weve got to go to terminal six. This is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Justice correspondent jeff pegues is following this. Jeff . Reporter scott, the meeting in the oval office occurred last wednesday. President trump spoke with both a Russian Foreign minister, sergei lavrov, and Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. According to the Washington Post, the President Trump went off script and began describing details about an Islamic State terrorist threat related to the use of Laptop Computers on aircraft. The information the president shared reportedly came from a u. S. Ally and was considered so sensitive that it had not been shared with other countries. National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster told the Washington Post, the president and the foreign minister revealed common threats to include threats to aviation. At no time, mcmaster says, were any intelligence discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known pub
System but not the older versions. Microsoft hasnt been supporting their decadeold systems hike windows xp, and this attack took advantage of that. So microsoft issued an emergency patch this past weekend. Reporter the fix was too late to help those already attacked. In a blog post, microsofts president , brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. But went on to point a finger at the National Security agency, which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u. S. Military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. In so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure. Reporter in seattle, kyle kosher works to defend against hacker rs and thinks the nsa could have done more to prevent this attack. They could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors
Scrambling to respond to a damning report in the Washington Post alleging that President Trump revealed highly classified information about isis to russia. The white house called the story false but did not deny classified information was disclosed. Last week, according to the Washington Post, the president shared details about an isis threat provided by another country with the Russian Foreign minister and ambassador. The move has the potential to jeopardize a critical isis intelligence source. The post reports the information was so sensitive it was restricted even within the u. S. Government. The u. S. Did not have permission to share the intel, and after the meeting, white house officials called the cia and nsa to try and contain the damage. Hena daniels is here in new york. Good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding answers. The Trump White House is back in crisis mode as it reacts to yet another bombshell. U. S. Officials tell the Wa
That cyber attack that infected computers in every corner ever the world began to slow today. A pair of engineers figured out how to stall the attack for a few dollars. Charlie dagata has our coverage. Reporter from china as main oil company to a hospital in indonesia, to japans nissan car company. The ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. And today, asia bore the brunt of the attacks. Chinese University Students were even locked out from their term papers. Elsewhere, germanys railroads were hit. Frances renault car to close. Businesses in mongolia were hit. The scale of the attack is called unprecedented. It indicates 150 countries are affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. Reporter the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files, with hackers demanding 300 in ransom to decorrode them or theyd be destroyed. Called wannacry, it exploits a weakness in Microsoft Software first stolen from the nag security ag