democratic governors. kids were out three months. it was much longer than three months. she s confusing herself with ron desantis. just so you know, january 2021, 23% of michigan schools were fully in person. 70% were not john: thanks, marc. that does it for us, sandra. sandra: i m sandra smith. john: i m john roberts. the story starts in moments. it s called the newday 100 because it lets veterans borrow up to 100% of their home s value. not just 80% like some typical loans. that extra cash can make a huge difference in these times of skyrocketing prices. here s more good news: home values have skyrocketed too. that means even more cash! take out an average of $60,000 to pay down your high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage, personal loans, and car loans, and lower your payments by $600 every month. best of all, there are absolutely no upfront out-of-pocket costs with this loan. and even if you have credit concerns, give us a call.
wrangling with. that announcement coming as a big surprise when it did to the white house causing something of a melt down in the west wing, john. all right, jackie heinrich at the white house. the debriefing was pushed back a bit. we will let you run back in. sandra. all right, john thank you. the economy is front and center in this big race in ohio we are watching, j.d. vance trying to pull off victory there, our power rankings have the state lean republican for the senate race with tim ryan making the case himself on the economy in a state where they are battleing a higher than national average unemployment rate right now as of september 20224 percent in that state obviously the economy a key issue with inflation continuing to surge not just nationally but focus on the
global fuel prices but president biden told us right before he left, the opposite. well first of all, that s not the purpose of the trip. we know the saudis decided to cut production and weeks later they are now warning the world to brace for impact. it is my profound duty to make it clear to the world that losing emergency stock may become painful in the months to come. and that might be a real shock to people that pay attention to what white house officials and the president have been saying, particularly over the back half of the summer where they were bragging that these spr releases were bringing the price of gasoline down every day. john. it s going to cost a lot more to fill it up than it did during the trump administration.
john: parents across the country fired up heading to the mid-terms. it s not all about parental rights. they re studying test scores and wondering if elected officials are doing anything about it. marc thiessen is here. eighth grade proficiency in reading, 31%. in math, it was 26%. fourth grade proficiency, reading 33%, math 36%. i guess we re not going to see them on the screen there. there they are. the white house today is focused on electric school buses. ask yourself a question. if your kid came home with a failing report card, would you care if he brought it to you on an electric school bus? i don t think you would. our kids are failing because our
political leaders are failing them. reading scores dropped to 1992 levels. the pandemic lockdowns wiped out three decades of progress in reading. they re talking about electric school buss? have their lost their minds? john: they re setting aside a billion dollars for this. shouldn t they be setting it aside for other things? like reading, writing, arithmetic? how about summer school so the kids can get caught up? once you get the learning losses, you never make a comeback. if you can t read in third grade, every year it s cumulative because you can t do the higher work in the higher grades. john: i wanted to put this up. gretchen whitmire suggested schools weren t closed that long. listen here. mrs. dixon says i kept kids out longer than any other state. that s not true. i worked with my republican and