. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, may 13th, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. welcome to the best day of the week. your favorite. nobody it is likes saturday. even if you have to work, saturday is pretty cool. good to have you along. here is what we re watching this morning. i have to admit it is nice to be able to breathe one more time, but we can t let our guard down because we still know it is coming. city leaders and workers along the u.s. mexican border say they are bracing for an influx of migrants after title 42 expired this week. the concerns from officials and the legal challenges the white house is now facing after letting the policy expire. guilty on all counts, an iowa jury convicted daybell in the murder of her children. and what her family had to say after the verdict. we all just want to new explosions reported in eastern ukraine. we ll take you there to the frontlines as ukrainian troops work to
hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster. he s likely meeting with leaders on tuesday, setting up another showdown on debt limits. we shouldn t be here. the united states border patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters. this is not a democrat or republican problem. this is an american problem. master of the optics. standing with all of the european leaders, ukraine taking its place in the european bloc. live from london, this is cnn newsroom. with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, may the 15th. 9:00 a.m. here in the uk where ukraine s president zelenskyy is meeting with the prime minister, mr. zelenskyy is fresh off a weekend of stops at european capitals to meet with other key allies. france and germany publicly pledged addition al military ai. the uk s package will include air defense missiles and air attack with a range of 200
deal, and i want you both to know that don t count on me in the back half of the fourth hour of this show, because the vikings game starts at 9:30. rachel: that s so early. pete: they re playing in london. so i ll have the game on my phone, you guys carry the show. will: i m glad you clarified, there are people asking why i m wearing tennis shoes with my suit, if i m going to copy pete. all the way. [laughter] i lost a bet. i lost a bet to pete. he beat me at fantasy football, so i am sporting minnesota vikings gear with, and you ve got a london a.m. kickoff. you ll be watching football while we do the muse. rachel: and, boys, explain what the bet and if you lose fantasy football team. pete: well, the bet is, i don t know that a will s committed ye- [laughter] rachel: come on, will. let s be daring, join the bet. pete: neither of those are true. will: that i m going to wear a dress? pete: if rachel is number one in the fox & friends fantasy league, and right now are you 2
president biden is set to lay out his plan to once again bring down sky high cost of gasoline at the pump. once again, by tapping into the nation s emergency oil reserves, even as it brings the needle even closer to e. i m john roberts in washington, happy wednesday, sandra. sandra: and that s a visual for you, starting to look like that, right? the president will announce that release of 15 million more barrels of oil, rounds out the 180 million draw down the president committed to earlier this year. john: the releases have brought the supply to the lowest level since ronald reagan was president. likely bring down gas prices for a brief period of time, but critics say biden is using the emergency stockpile to play politics. midterm elections now just 20 days away. former vice president mike pence will join us to discuss what all of this means for the elections. sandra: looking forward to that. begin with fox team coverage. marc thiessen ready to sounds out, and one way
times higher than when president biden took office. bill: threatening to make it worse a possible strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers. could happen as soon as friday. stoppage would cost the economy $2 billion a day. that leaves about a third of the u.s. freight in the lurch. dana: biden administration is working to broker a deal between unions and rail companies. the dispute is already impacting service with amtrak suspending some trains. kelly o grady has the latest on the possible rail strike and edward lawrence reporting on the inflation news from the white house. the inflation year-over-year 8.3% ticks down a little bit. the federal reserve would like to see the number around 2%. the federal reserve is going to be focused on the core inflation. inflation without food and energy prices. that number went up for the first time in five months and rose substantially to 6.3%. that will spook the federal reserve. the biden administration will tout the overall