Towers there. Innocence lost. Join me of a moment of silence. They kept on saying a terrorist attack. 20 kwyears later. Do you think that day affected your life, of two you are today . Not many people would have thought i would become a cop. I had my stumbles, i have been to prison twice. It is always going to be about our lives. There were only 16 of us with him. We get to be the people two tell story. Their story in a cnn special report. Front row to history. The 9 11 classroom. Hello, i am victor blackwell, most of us remember where we were on September 11th, 2001. I was in college and i remember clearly walking into class and seeing my professor fixated on the tv, his hands was over his mouth and i looked at the tv and i saw Smoke Bellowing from the skyscraper. That was all i knew. I remember seeing the president surrounded by young School Kids that morning. We learned president george w. Bush got words of the first plane crashed into the center. He was there to honor a second Grad
report released today figure in? reporter: well, it complicates the figure that they re trying to paint. because, yes, there are several signs that the economy is recovering. those are the big, strong indicators that the white house is trying to point to, but they also have to grapple with the fact that people are paying more at the pump, at the grocery store, and those inflation concerns that we ve seen people say is now one of their number one concerns when it comes to the national outlook, is of course, a priority that the white house is trying to address. with prices at their highest point in nearly 40 years, president biden is predicting its, quote, the peak of the crisis. but inflation is affecting people s lives. reporter: inflation reached its highest point in november since 1982, when ronald reagan was in office and joe biden was a senator from delaware. tonight, president biden is pointing to other signs that the economy is recovering. every other aspect of
consumer prices, up 6.8% this year. and that is the fastest pace since 1982. that, of course, is back when ronald reagan was first coming into office. just to give you a look at what this means, okay, got a lot of things on the screen. let me just highlight a few. egg prices, up 8%. steak, 25%: used cars, if you can get one, 31%. gas, just over 58%. and today, president biden acknowledging the problem. but saying that he thinks it s the, quote, peak of the crisis. it s a real bump in the road. it does affect families. when you walk in the grocery store and you are paying more for whatever you re purchasing, it matters. it matters to people. when you are paying more for gas, although in some states, we have got the price down below 3 bucks a gallon but the point is it s not gone down quickly enough. but i think it will. right. now, when it comes to gas, right, i mentioned up 58%, so far this year. it has dropped, though, from its peak. down 2.4% from its november high. so
ally. he s now accusing the former israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu of disloyalty. i ll speak with a journalist who said trump wrote off his pal with two words, f him. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight the white house is facing a double threat from soaring inflation. it s adding a new challenge to its agenda. it appears to be taking a toll on the poll numbers. kaitlan collins is joining us right now. inflation is now, what, a 39-year high here in the united states and that s posing a real problem for the president. yeah, and, wolf, these are numbers the white house was bracing for. they tried to get out ahead of them yesterday saying they don t think it paints the full picture of where the u.s. economy stands right now. but they have to balance that with acknowledging that, yes, prices are up and consumers are concerned. with prices at their highest point in nearly 40 year
. you have a minute this weekend, look at the entry of mass hysteria through the ages befor the authorities inevitably delete it right as you read the entry, ask yourself if any of this sounds familiar to your. thoughts of which trials of course, many of them, many many many of them over many centurie were placed with spontaneous dancing. fits of laughing ends babbling, entire towns at once for no apparent reason. that s all there. and then there are more esoteri outbreaks of mass hysteria. they re is a medieval french nu who according to the entry inexplicably began to be out like a cat leaving the other nuns in the convent to meow as well. this did not stop until the police threatened to whip the nuns. it s hilarious is you read it. at the time they did not see th humor and a pair of base in chile thought they were cats. hysteria is like that. when large groups of people start acting totally crazy, the reference points disappear. it all seems normal to matter how nuts it is