one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
[shouting] bill: there was a lot where this came from. last night. chaos in d.c. pro-palestinian protestors on the streets fighting with capitol hill police outside a dnc headquarters. this went on for a while. quite a contrast from the march the day before. good morning, everybody. bill hemmer live in new york. friend and colleague rejoins us today. good morning. martha: i m martha maccallum. dana is off today. this is america s newsroom. bill: she got the invite to go to nashville. we re back home. martha: we have a little nashville promo this morning. you see the video of what happened last night and it was pretty disturbing. at least six officers were injured in that melee. one protestor was arrested. the crowd falling for a cease-fire in the israel/hamas war and using the violence eventually last night to try to make their case. bill: they were in the faces of police officers shoving them. trying to grab hold of barricades. police trying to keep the peace. th