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The operator of a major U.S. fuel pipeline said Monday it hopes to have services mostly restored by the end of the week as the FBI and administration officials identified the culprits of a ransomware attack as a gang of criminal hackers. The attack stunned the Biden administration and the energy industry.
Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, was forced on Saturday to halt operations after revealing an attack that it said had affected some of its systems. On Monday, U.S. officials sought to soothe concerns about price spikes or damage to the economy by stressing that the fuel supply had so far not been disrupted. Colonial Pipeline said it is working toward “substantially restoring operational service” within days (The Associated Press).
FOX News contributor discusses the GOP potentially ousting the Wyoming congresswoman on Your World
This is a rush transcript from Your World, May 5, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
NEIL CAVUTO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: All right, the cost of all of these rescue and recovery plans is going up, dramatically up, and now concerns that the president s own call to pay for everything he s offered might be off the map.
Take a look at this. The cost of the American Families Plan, originally thought to be about $1.8 trillion over 10 years, now closer to $2.5 trillion. That s an increase of $700 billion. If you want to put it in perspective with the American Rescue Plan, the American Jobs Plan, the American Family Plan, brace yourself here, the total cost now more than $7 trillion.
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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths as of each morning this week
: Monday, 577,045; Tuesday, 577,523; Wednesday, 578,500.
President Biden on Tuesday updated his months-long effort to encourage Americans to treat July 4 as a kind of COVID-19 liberation opportunity among those who long for baseball and barbecues, parades and patriotism, and something approaching normal life.