martha: excited to see the tree show up. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now on the story, this quote from the white house just moments ago, it s not the age, it s the experience. responding just a couple minutes ago to some reports of panic behind the scenes on the president s 81st birthday. a lot of people concerned and getting louder about it as it gathers momentum saying he needs to step aside, that he s too old to be president for another term. so meanwhile, there s numbers to back this up. he s just hit an all-time low in his job approval, this is an nbc poll that just came out. 57% disapproval number for president biden. for the first time in these numbers, he loses to former president trump in a hypothetical matchup. his support slipping while trump s numbers have stayed roughly the same. what is increasing are the number of people that say that they are not sure who they want to vote for. also, since october 7th, a new road block has emerged for this
A Hong Kong-registered cargo ship carrying 22 crew members sank off the southern island of Jeju on Wednesday, and five of them were rescued, while a search is under way for the others, the Coast Guard said
struggling to ingest this cargo into their domestic supply chains. right now the wait time for a cargoship is around ten days. before the pandemic, there was no wait at all. all of which is impacting consumers right across the country. toy manufacturers say it may mean that for the families cannot get the gifts that they want for their kids this holiday season and everybody is seeing more and more gaps on the shelves of supermarkets, local target, walmart, wherever it is that you do your shopping. the white house says they re doing everything that they can to tackle the cargo crisis. listen here. a range of issues we re working on to address them on several paths and several fronts. i can t make a prediction when it will be concluded. it s a top priority of the
hospitals with no supplies. i have a army now, they know the mayors of the town, and the death toll is way higher than we re hearing, we just have not had all of those deaths confirmed. some are dead and they can t even get them out. we know because of the deaths atranscritributed with the store is so many more because people have become ill or died in the hospitals because they didn t get proper stream. we will go back to puerto rico when we get this cargoship there. it s a major under taking. it s much harder than all of my businesses that i have run together.