john: another fox news alert to kick off america reports for this thursday. biden administration cancelling a massive oil and gas lease sale in alaska and the gulf of mexico. scrapping the potential to give drivers desperately needed relief at the pump. hi, i m john roberts in washington. gillian, good to see you again. gillian: great to be with you, i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. so, america s economic woes are continuing to mount. one red flag economists are pointing to now today, april wholesale prices. up 11% from a year ago. one part of the overall inflation problem. consumer prices up 8.3% from a year ago, a slight drop from march but still hovering near a 40-year high. john: filling your tank could drain your wallet. the national average of gas prices a record high, costing 4.41 a gallon. look at where it is compared to a year ago, gillian. gillian: tremendous pressure on the biden administration. americans are skyrocketing with the cost of everyday
border, taking up law enforcement s resources in order to deal with them, more and more drugs come across that border. gillian: john, i m hearing we now have the former special agent in charge joining us here. derek, are you with us, can you hear us, can you see us? yes, gillian, thank you very much. gillian: awesome, thanks so much for being with us. let s pick up where john left off a moment ago. we are hearing from the c.d.c. that fentanyl is, they believe, the primary drug that s driving this overdose crisis, if you will. let s take a look at the numbers. fentanyl seizures to date, 4,956 pounds. last year, 10,586. the year before, 4,558. you can see the pattern here, we are on a dramatic upswing. what gives, why is fentanyl
loving state for the individual law and i have been vaccinated. i believe in vaccinations, 70% of people over 50 have been vaccinated but the population between 16 and 4956% of those people have been fully vaccinated, that means almost half and that s a big segment of your working population, 16 to 49 and if people don t want to vaccinate that is their right. i own a business. i would never tell my employees they have to get a vaccination and the idea that the president of the united states mandated this, putting bigger companies in this position was wrong, he said before get elected he wouldn t do it. it is an of his business how a person takes care of their health. they need to stick with their employees. there are tax and some of the other cable networks was that abbott is trying to dictate what businesses do, the argument doesn t work because president biden is trying to dictate what