welcome back to morning joe. it is 6:00 a.m. on the west coast and 9 a.m. here in washington, d.c. we have breaking news on the economy. it is bad news for consumers, it is bad news for working-class americans. it is bad news for middle-class americans. it is bad news for people invested in the stock market. it is bad news if you have retirement accounts because they will be going down. but it is good news if you re a republican running for office in four weeks. the year-over-year inflation rate barely slowed last month from 8.3% in august to 8.2% in september, the last report before november s midterm elections and the last report. a key federal reserve meeting early next month on how much they re going to raise interest rates. let s bring in cnbc s dom chu. dom, wall street s going to be partying like it s 1981, which means they re not going to be partying. going to be ugly out there. take us through it all. all right. so, joe, mika, to your point here, there s no easy
killing 14 students and three staff members at marjorie stone douglas high school. kerry, what do we know at this hour? reporter: well, the families of the victims who have been enduring this really difficult penalty phase where all the information of every minute of every second of what happened have been notified by the court that the jury of 12 has now reached a decision on what the sentence will be and we expect that sentence will be delivered here at about 10:30. family members have been notified to be ready to go in the courtroom and sit where many of them have been sitting for the last four months. these are the pictures of the 17 victims. the students as well as the staff members who were massacred four years ago. it has been an extremely long journey for what they hope will be some sense of justice. the jury needs to be unanimous. if they are unanimous, it is a decision for death, then it will be up to the death to go forward with that as the actual sentence, but i
knowyourvalue.com. this is a big day. we re going to hear from the president on the economy? the main event is just a few blocks away. january 6 hearing, 1:00. what are you looking for? to see if they are able to put a bow on what they ve been doing this whole time. a sweeping conversation they ve been having in the january 6th hearing. so are they able to do that in a way that s going to resonate with people in this country. that does it for us this morning, but we ll be back tomorrow with a full recap of the january 6th hearing, which takes place this afternoon. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning. it s 10:00 a.m. eastern. we begin with breaking news in the jury sentencing trial of the parkland massacre shooter, the jury had decided whether he should receive the death penalty or life without parole for