hurricane aid should be based on equity but after widespread criticism of those remarks, what is she saying now? john: a hint, sandra. not much. juan williams, mercedes and more to break it down coming up. sandra: fox weather alert, death and devastation, the death toll at 65 in the united states, families along florida s west coast, many now homeless wonder what is next. sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: good to be with you. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports. some estimates put the damage at nearly $50 billion in florida alone, receding water bringing the extent into view, fort myers beach, lee county unrecognizable from a week ago. thousands of utility crews, the infrastructure simply no longer exists. president biden will visit the damage wednesday. sandra: shocking new images, update on the historic search and rescue efforts from coast guard, rear admiral coming up next. john: what do we expect from the president s trip on wedne
recession is, and why we re not quite there yet. plus, how much longer will prices rise as supermarkets and how much more interest you pay and credit cards, cards, homes? all of that and more coming up. we are gonna begin this afternoon though with this devastating floods in eastern kentucky. governor abbott shear confirming on twitter, and at a press conference a short time ago that at least 25 people have died so far. and is warning that that number will only go up. we shear also confirmed that four children have died as a result of these floods. down from the original total of six. the federal government is pledged its support, but beshear is warning that certain rescue efforts could take weeks. nbc s maggie baskin joins us now from jackson kentucky. maggie, it has been called the worst flooding the state have ever seen. how are people dealing with this? lindsey, the short answer is, anyway they can frankly. they are in survival mode from what we have seen at this point.
pbs, rick stengel, an msnbc political analyst and gordon chang, newsweek columnist. yammish, what do we know about this call between president biden and president xi jinping? we know the president for a long time has called china the u.s. s main competitor and said there is this really tug of war between democracy and autocracy this is really a high-stakes call and also a call president biden is welcoming because he has said diplomacy is the thing america should be known for. he s said over and over again that america is back. there s a lot going on there. we should also note that hanging over this call is the potential trip between house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. there s a lot of criticism coming from china, based on reporting, that says she should not take this trip and it could set off a sort of crisis. others are saying, if she cancels that trip, the u.s. would look week, including to nations like japan. there s a lot going on the domestic front and the nationa
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