one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
major tammy spicer with the missouri national guard, thank you. thank you jon. jon: we appreciate it when you our viewers send us what you re seeing on the ground. we put out the call last hour for pictures or video from joplin. take a look. william got back to us, he stayed safe in a furniture store as the storm was roaring in. when he went outside, he heard screaming. this is video he took when he went searching for anyone who needed help. he says it s absolute chaos, he has never seen anything remotely close to this. look at those trees, stripped bare of bramples, every leaf is gone. william says his family is safe but he has friends who remain missing. thanks for sending us that video william and for those of the rest of you, accepted us your images of any tornado aftermath. go to foxnews.com/you decide. please be sure, there are downed power lines, obviously, nails sticking up in the debris, we don t want you getting hurt in the process of helping us report this very big story.
we ll keep you updated but again, according to local media reports there, several people are dead and we ll keep you updated as we hear more on that. in the meantime, back to news state side, he s not spider-man, he s skyscraper man i guess you can call him, his real name is dan goodwin, a well-known stuntman, you can see him, american flag and all, he s scaling san francisco s millennium tower, one of california s tallest skyscrapers. jon: it looks like he has suction cups. jengen he obviously made it. he made it to the top in three hours time. cops promptly arrested him and cited him with trespassing and causing a public nuisance, but as we said, at least he s patriot ic. it looks like he got the flag up there before anything else. jon: whatever notes your boat. there s an alarming new report out on iran. wait until you hear what the world nuke watchdog is saying now about just how closed iran close iran
welcome back. i m rob marciano. here is an update on tropical storm colin. temperatures temperatures wind as well at 40 miles an hour now moving west northwest about 23 miles an hour it is expected to strengthen just a little bit but possibly not get to hurricane strength. here is the forecast from the national hurricane center. it does make a bit of a right turn toward bermuda and potentially toward the carolinas. at this point that is almost a week away. we will be watching colin very, very carefully. big other news state side is, of course, the heat. look at these numbers from yesterday. believe this stuff? 108 in wichita. topeka, 106, jackson, mississippi, 105 a hole slew of other records across the mid and deep south. cooling showers and thunderstorms across chicago, not severe but dumping heavy, heavy rain to slow down your morning commute south of lake michigan. heat indexes or indices, 105 to