puerto rico today, devastated by hurricane fiona two weeks ago and the president and white house officials did their part to try to tamp down that controversy. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. white house officials are putting out the word that federal help is on the way for people who need it the most. race is not going to be a factor, despite what the vice president said. hello. surveying damage from hurricane fiona. president biden is already sounding the alarm about storms that won t hit for years. today i m announcing more than $60 million in funding to help coastal areas in puerto rico. [applause] become better prepared for the glorm he says his response doesn t favor friends. times like these our nation comes together, put aside our difference our political differences and get to work. we show up. that s different than what vice president harris suggeste
li on the difference in 24 hours. susan? a new reality that inflation is higher and may stay elevated for some time. today s wholesale prices are the inflation that producers pay still much higher than a year ago. sure, coming down from the previous month. couple that with yesterday s consumer price jump and we re close to the 40-year highs and that s more than four times the way the federal reserves thinks is healthy for the economy. close to a third predicting a full 1 percentage point rate hike from the central bank. that could be the biggest central increase since 1984 when paul volcker was fed chair. before yesterday s report, that probability was at zero. elon musk weighing in. he thinks the federal reserve should cut interest rates because of the drop in lumber, cop per and oil. nobody is expecting a cut in rates until next year. stock market didn t recover much from yesterday s sell off. you have more job cuts by big technology companies. that s why some are calling
incredible. just gives you goosebumps, all the feels, what a loss, and what a way to honor his dad. a special moment from the foo fighters. good morning to you, everyone. welcome to your new day. i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. there was a bizarre scare in the sky, a man stealing a plane threatening to crash it over a small town in mississippi, even posting a good-bye on facebook. what we re learning about the pilot and how the situation was ultimately resolved. and for a second time, nasa is forced to call off the launch of the artemis i rocket. this time because of an hydrogen leak. how long will it take to fix the issue and when will they try to launch again? plus, over 40 million people under heat alerts today amid dangerous temperatures. we re going to tell you which cities could potentially break records and what it means for the rest of your labor day weekend. and troubling news in the classroom. testing scores plummeting across the country after t
they say is lip service to a border crisis that to a party they demand presidential action and now. one of those lawmen, the montgomery county texas sheriff is here. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto on top of fast-moving developments at the border that don t ease with the changes now in government policy that shows no change in government policy. we have matt finn in eagle pass, texas with the very latest. matt? and neil, border patrol tells us that eagle pass, with we are is one of the busiest port of entries for illegals in the united states. safe to assume that some of the migrants are in washington d.c., have crossed in to this country here. we ve seen 100 plus migrants illegally cross in over my shoulder right now. this is a small group. they re waiting to be processed by border patrol. you can stand here every day in eagle pass, texas and basically see it s happening. we were here yesterday and the day before and saw 100 plus migrants each day. border patrol tells
those who cause chaos that day. but i will tell you, they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election, because they re smart and they see, and they saw what happened. i believe that was a big part of what happened. so, also this hour backlash today to a comment from a white house spokesperson aimed at abortion activists, that come even as the president himself urges those on the front lines, to keep fighting. keep protesting. keep making your point. it s critically important, we can do a lot of things to accommodate the rights of women, in the meantime, fundamentally the only is if we have a national law against roe v. wade. that s the bottom line. and as one community in illinois continues to bury those lost to a july 4th student, is counting its blessings july for shooting there stopped at the last moment by attempt from a citizen. i m gonna talk to richmond mayor, lavar stony, about how it all went now also talk to a teenager, who said say four