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
taiwan there is what growing speculation that she will visit taipei as soonest tomorrow. of course that s not sitting well with beijing because it views the independent nations as its territory. chinese foreign minister terry spokesperson is making it abundantly clear there will be serious consequences if that visit goes ahead saying we would like to once again warned the united states that we are fully prepared and solemnly waiting to bear the people s liberation army will never sit by idly and if nancy pelosi insists on visiting taiwan as for what measures exactly, we will take and see if she dares making the visit. you know i think about, this doesn t have to happen in my view. this be the first time in 25 years you d have a house speaker visit, the biggest visit of united states official going back to 1987. it s an porton it happens because a verbal commitment was made and we must show strength. and you think about all of the foreign policy debacles we ve had starting
it s backed off a bit, but if you look at the tech heavy nasdaq, it is off 4% and plunging. john: debbie dingle standing by with her thoughts on how this could affect her party s midterm chances. but first, to jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn this hour and rather ironic the president has a celebration of the economy this afternoon. how are they reacting to the cpi report? either the white house expected numbers a whole lot better than this or someone in the scheduling office had an unfortunate oversight and getting an earful. it is ironic they are hosting a bunch of democratic lawmakers here today to mark the signing, last month s signing of the inflation reduction act just as those new numbers come out showing inflation, core inflation shot up last month 6.3% in august, up from 5.9% in july. and that is a key metric that the fed watches very closely and these numbers are more than the 6.1% that economists predicted, the next set of rate hikes will likely be quite a
and will be cueing for quite a long time because this does not begin until tomorrow. her lying in state. you can see right here, the folks that lined up and were able to say their final good-bye to the queen in scotland both yesterday and earlier today. it s been a remarkable set of images and just a reminder, this is her last trip home to buckingham palace as well. once she leaves, she s never going to go back. let s bring in molly hunter who s live for us. also, andrew roberts, her british historian. molly, you are buy where those people are lining up right now. what have they been saying about why they got there so early? reporter: that s right. we are in front of westminster. i want to show you where the actual hall is she will be lying in state. it s closest to big ben, but this is the line. 24 hours in advance. i just want to give you a sense. it is raining as you know, you re on the other side of town. people are lining up prepared to wait 24 hours. i met these lovel
herschel walker a slight lead over raphael warnock despite the attack ad spirit a lot is going on in atlanta and the braves are desperately trying to catch the mets but they lost one and a half games out. ainsley: george is the number one team in the country, was it when they were playing ufc? brian: ted does not talk much but he nods a lot. ainsley: you should be the mascot for the georgia team, t ted, because mascots can t talk. brian: mascots can t talk, that is true. a lot of times they know you and we will talk about that later. all morning long lorentz is having breakfast in washington, pennsylvania. steve: he is at the spring house and joins has now and larence we have big final hour at fox & friends. the biggest names the republican party will be sent down. that is right, good morning, family. we have a house full of republicans today and we have the leadership here. they are going to be talking about their commitment to america where the republicans are