horrendous shootings happening and party like atmospheres but everything turning wrong within just a few seconds. as a busy saturday night in philly, hundreds of people out on the streets according to investigators. it all ended up as one of the countries latest mass shooting spree take a look on your screen this is where it all happen in phillies at south south street neighborhood just last night. south street had dozens of bars and lots of restaurants. it s a pretty popular to hang out pretty special in the summer. police say it was slammed last night to put investigators telling us at least 14 people were shot, three of those people were killed. just before midnight investigators spotted a multiple gunman opening fire into that large crowd, that is when a philly police officer pulled out his gun and tried to take down one of the shooters. this normally busy strip now a crime scene. there are at least two guns that have been recovered from the scene. one with an extende
approach to crime which critics say is a culture of lawlessness. we will be joined with thoughts. john: brand-new numbers, a pulse on the u.s. economy. latest jobs report beating expectations, but still head winds from the highest inflation in four decades and record high gas prices. welcome to you today. anita: happy friday to you, the u.s. economy adding 390,000 jobs for the month of may one employment rate of 3.6%. number of job openings remains near record highs, 11.4 million positions going unfilled. john: gas prices keep climbing, more expensive to top off the tank. national average for a gallon of gas increasing another $0.05 overnight to 4.76. up $0.17 from a week ago, and 1.72 higher than last year. president biden speaking on the may jobs report and acknowledging the toll inflation is taking on american families. the president putting the onous on congress. anita: karl rove in a moment, but first white house correspondent peter doocy live from the north lawn
gasoline. peter doocy starts us off with a complete picture of the economy live from the north lawn, good evening, peter. good evening, bret. officials around here saying two things that sound like they both can t be true at the same time. on the one hand they say they think the president s economic plans are working. but, observed they say they know that people are paying more than ever for essentials. fighting inflation is my top economic priority. and despite rising prices on just about everything, biden officials are celebrating a stronger than expected 390,000 jobs created in may. we aren t likely to see the kind of blockbuster job reports month after month like we had over this past year. that s even though the economy remains 822,000 jobs short of pre-pandemic levels. inflation has been an issue since last year. before russia invade ukraine but the president continues to blame. putin s war in ukraine. putin began amassing troops. this is a putin price hike.
category here is national security correspondent jennifer griffin. f-35 fighter jet and a 1 abrams tank sur gas to radio and handheld radio all have in common? all rely on rare earth minerals. make up the world s high tech electronics. right now china controls nearly 90% of the supply of rare earth minerals a supply chain so crucial to national security that the defense department submitted its own legislative proposal to the house armed services committee asking for $253.5 million to build up a bigger mineral stockpile. we cannot continue to rely on our adversary especially china. it s initiative that has rare bipartisan support. mark kelly introduce legislation legislation to create a larger stockpile along with more incentive to mine these minerals
proposal to the house armed services committee asking for $253.5 million to build up a bigger mineral stockpile. the chinese government has formally requested a meeting with u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin who will be in singapore next week for a high level defense meeting to discuss managing competition. anita. anita: it s interesting it took a rare earth mineral to bring about rare bipartisan support. such an interesting report. thank you so much. john. john: you know where they have a lot of rare earth minerals, alaska. state department quietly adding back a line on the taiwan fact sheet, states the u.s. does not support taiwan s formal independence from china, the line was restored after china rebuked the u.s. for political manipulation and petty act of fictionalizing. and underscores the biden administration mixed messaging over backing taiwan against