Phase. it was something i had to go through. i think that they re trying, but it kind of seems like a bare minimum response. several studies have found links between the covid-19 pandemic and mental health challenges. one report last year from the cdc finds that almost 41% of adults report mental health challenges stemming from the pandemic. christine and laura? so important there. jacqueline, thank you so much. if you or anyone you know needs help, please call the national suicide prevention lifeline at 1-800-273 talk. 273-8255. you might think you can t get a job without a degree. employers don t care. tech companies like google, amazon, salesforce, for years they ve been trying to solve
Christine, let s put in context beijing 2022 olympics. that s where the world stage is coming back here to the people republic of china. it puts on the pressure of showing a unified china, more powerful china, certainly more powerful than 2008 the last time they hosted an olympics. you also have next year the congress party. that is traditionally, christine, the transition of power, but we know that president xi is very likely to move forward with continuing on as the leader here as he abolished the term limits. and so it s likely that he ll want to continue to build up his legacy. what better way to do that than by reunifying taiwan and the mainland. david, this is an incredibly important story with implications around the world, no question. and a challenge for this white house. thank you so much. david culler from shanghai this morning. coming up for you a mental health crisis. college students facing enormous pressure, enormous anxiety during this pandemic. what one major unive
All right. more pressure on the white house this morning after another round of provocations from china against taiwan. the chinese military carrying out drills in a province directly across the sea from taiwan. taiwan, of course, is democratically ruled, but beijing is stepping up pressure to force it to accept chinese control. the u.s. caught in the middle here. david culver is live from shanghai. david, we ve seen air force incursions into air force defense zone. they are making a push to change the status quo here. reporter: if we go back to that video, christine, you were showing, this was put out yesterday which was the day after taiwan celebrated its national day. and it was clear propaganda. but as you pointed out, the geography of where this was taking place cannot be
we ve been worrying about it the past 24 hours. literally couldn t sleep last night really because we didn t know what was going to happen. looking through, there s just nothing, nothing, nothing, for the next few days. very anxious to get home now. reporter: southwest airlines has issued a new statement in which it says it is offering a tremendous apology to its customers. it is also underscoring that these problems were not the result of employee protests over its new vaccine mandate. christine, laura? all right, pete muntean, thank you for that. growing challenges on the roads and in the air bring president biden s economic agenda into sharper focus now. the house still hasn t passed the president s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, the one on roads, trains and airports. also a new report says a quarter of critical infrastructure in the u.s. is at substantial risk of failure due to flooding. that includes roads, airports, hospitals, police and fire stations and waste wa
Racism racist tropes and intolerance is not over. this is not about an email as it is a pervasive belief by some that people who look like me can be treated as less. gruden signed a ten year $100 million contract in 2018 to be the head coach of the raiders. laura, christine, the raiders announced special teams coordinator rich will take over as the interim head coach. seems like this is just the first of other things to come. a lot of emails there, corey. thank you so much. trouble on the roads. the price of energy skyrocketing. oil prices crashed, remember, at the start of the pandemic as roads and airports were closed. they sat empty. now demand is ramping back up as the economy reopens, but supply just can t keep up. u.s. oil prices finished above 80 bucks a barrel monday. the highest in seven years. it means a pain at the pump for drivers. the average gallon of gas hit a seven year high. prices have doubled since bottoming the $1.77 at the