a horrific chain of events and fast rising death toll in the capital city. 120 people confirmed dead by officials in seoul. we have to warn you this video we re about to show you is very graphic. you can see complete chaos and terror on the scene there. you can see people performing cpr on some of the injured and maybe the dead who are on the ground where they fell. it s not clear what happened, what caused folks to collapse. will ripley is on the scene. will, incredible work being there as all of this is unfolding. what can you tell us? what more do we know? reporter: yeah, jim, as we were talking last hour, they were holding a briefing. we learned the death toll more than doubled. another is set to get under way any minute now. if we get any new numbers of casualties because we were told they are expected to go up considering a lot of people brought to area hospitals were in bad shape when you talk about cardiac arrest, their heart stopped. we ll keep you posted on that.
it with the midterms fast approaching. sandra, the busiest woman in television. sandra: great to be with you this afternoon, john. president meeting with fed chair jay powell yesterday as the white house kicks off a months long effort to focus, it says, on the economy. but inflation has been on the minds of many voters in this country for months now, especially when filling up their tanks. price of gasoline rising almost daily with the new national average for a gallon, 4.67 today, a jump of 1.60 a year ago, and up $0.05 since yesterday. john: 11.4 million unfilled positions. labor shortage driving up wages and keeping inflation high as businesses continue to struggle with hiring. minnesota congressman and national republican congressional committee chair tom emmer will join us. sandra: we head to the white house, peter doocy live from the north lawn to kick things off. hey, peter. peter: good afternoon, here at the white house hearing two different things about how
our army and passers by that we were tv. there was the first shot. returned and found her on the ground. borisjohnson signed a new host security deal with amanda swindon. both countries are considering joining the nato military alliance. ukrainian forces are advancing against russian troops just north of the country s second largest city, kharkiv. kharkiv is just 30 miles from the border and the operation may pose a wider threat to russia s war in the east. you can see in purple in this map the ukrainian counter attacks, which have taken a number of towns and pushed russian artillery back towards the border. the ukrainian military says it has recaptured four villages near kharkiv in recent days. he air raid sirens. the spectre of russian victory once haunted this city. but no more. for months, the invaders were at the city gates, but kharkiv has cast doubt vladimir putin s foot but kharkiv has cast out vladimir putin s foot soldiers, forcing them back towards the border. this
Put it, many in the media badly screw up when it came to that terrible bombing of the Hospital Grounds in gaza city. New york times, and the paper was not alone, ran this Banner Headline israeli strike kills hundreds in hospital, palestinians say. At least theres that attribution, but that really means hamas said it. The Terrorist Group that controls the gaza government with, that launched the war with unspeakable atrocities, that that has a long history of deception. Well, it turns out the accusation wasnt true. Israel never targeted the hospital. What sense would that make in its hamas that carries out massacres. Israeli intelligence said it was an errant rocket fired if from within gaza by the Palestinian Islamic jihad, and President Biden backed that up citing pentagon intelligence. Based on what ive seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. Howard israels channel 12 the later showed video of a rocket being launched near the hospital and the explosion outsi
Lets speak to our scotland Political Correspondent, jenni davidson. Jennl jenni, for those of us that dont follow the Politics Of Scotland that much, who is this activist . Follow the Politics Of Scotland that much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a track much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a track record much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a track record of has a bit of a track record of challenges to the snp leadership. He is a former lawyer. Last year he stood against former snp msp and former government minister mike russell for the snp presidency. And quite memorably, he also described the snps Independence Policy as flatulence in a trance, whatever that might mean im not quite sure. So we have been Hearing Reports in the last couple of days that Graeme Mccormick is planning to challenge john swinney for the snp leadership. It had looke