cost of pens and papers and notebooks and all of that that went up. back to school sticker shock as inflation sent the price of school supplies soaring. the impact it is having not only on parents, but also on business owners and teachers. how some people in california are making money by having their front yards ripped out. it is sunday, august 21st, welcome to a new week. we re so grateful you re waking up with us. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. happy sunday. and we begin this morning with the extreme weather threat across the southwest and southern plains. more than 12 million people under flood watches. yeah yesterday s search and rescue crews were out looking for a missing person in utah s zion national park. rangers say hikers were being swept off their feet by flash flooding on the virgin river. rescue teams were out in the mojave county area of arizona after rushing water washed out roads and trapped vehicles across that region. cnn meteorologist
digby is right. they are doing that thing ofjust passing it on. they take it on and pass it on and make whopping great profit at the same time as you have people who are forced to stay at home, and that is the problem, forced to stay at home, and perhaps they are on kidney dialysis or, like tammy, they are doing chemo, they have had to give up doing chemo, they have had to give up theirjob, stay at home. her husband goes out and works 60 hours as a chef. all those people doing their best, trying to make ends meet, when you ve got companies that are raking it in, hand overfist, and not giving anything to help at all, i do not even know if there is any proper hand wringing going on. let me move on, because time is pressing. we ll talk more about this story in our next review at 11:30 p:m.. fairwarning, iwould like p:m.. fair warning, i would like to quicken your thoughts, and your former life, about the impact on businesses. we have heard the talk about politicians helping us,
the school district and teachers union middle and high schoolers will show up two days a week to complete classes online. what a complete fraud. the teachers union should be ashamed of themselves. ainsley: that s a beautiful shot of our capitol and i happened to be in chicago because k through 8 grade all back in school. last week k through 5 went back. the second week of this and the high schoolers are not back in school yet. we have a panel of business owners, some of them have lost their businesses, some are struggling to pay employees and we have a high schooler who plays sports and just want to be back in school. hey, bipartisan, hey, steve. it s going to be exciting because major cities have been slow to open up and the kids have been frustrated and some of them just want to save their senior year. i m glad that you re up close and personal and i think it s great because we will be talking about getting up and going in california, not so much as well as up a
york city to the new york port authority, which is really the bus terminal right here in new york city, as they exit the bus, they are greeted, they are taken to an area where they can get clothes, whatever they may need, then an area for toiletries and school supplies, whatever they think they may need. the next step is housing. and a bidding process is going on right now with the city of new york and hotels because they would like some of the hotels to house these migrants so they can live in the hotels. there are also shelters. but they do want schools that the children are going to go to to be in close proximity to where the families are staying. i want you to listen right now to david banks, the chancellor of the new york city department of education. already our incredible public school staff are stepping up, working tirelessly to ensure a smooth transition for these new
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