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americans get ready to shop for the holidays they re finding prices on just about everything have skyrocketed. the white house now getting intense criticism for the crisis but transportation secretary pete buttigieg is defending the administration s handling of it. as soon as the president came in, he issued an executive order to i think in february to look at the supply chain from all angles. when you think about the scale and complexity of the ports, obviously it s not something you can do overnight. look, we re constantly going to re-evaluate all of our options. but the steps we re taking right now we re going to make a difference. arthel: let s go to david spunt now live at the white house this morning. reporter: this supply chain crisis, backup, log jam, may be making headlines over the past few days and in the days to come but the core problems, the root of this issue began several months ago as secretary buttigieg was talking about and the consequences of thi ....
alone. alexandria hoff has the details. reporter: it is believed gang members took over a bus that the missionaries were riding on and that someone onboard reached out to other contacts to tell them what happened ask for prayers. the group, made up of mostly americans, is part of the ohio-based christian aid ministries operating in haiti. they remain in the struggling island nation despite growing unrest. many are fleeing. everything difficult over there. there is no security, people keep shooting on people, people keep kidnapping people. it s not safe over there. reporter: citing kidnapping specifically in august, the state department issued a do not travel advisory. the department told fox news they are aware of the missionaries in peril stating, quote: the welfare and safety of u.s. citizens abroad is one of the highest priorities of the department of state. here s illinois congressman adam kinzinger. we need to see if negotiations without paying ransom are p ....
pressure is building on the biden administration to ease the impact of the supply chain crisis. the bottleneck of cargo ships continues to threaten the economy. this combined with a shortage of truckers to deliver goods to stores has many families fearing it may last into next year. i spoke with the executive the director of the port of long beach earlier today on fox news live. if we don t fix this going forward, again, it s a national crisis. it s not a global crisis. $1 trillion industry here in the united states, i m talking about the supply chain. so, obviously, again, everybody s impacted, business, consumers. and you go down that list. arthel: david spunt is live at the white house with more on how the biden administration s responding. david, he also had some encouraging things to say about the situation, so it s not completely all doom and gloom, but it is definitely dire at the moment. reporter: it is dire at the moment. good news he had some positive th ....