and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that is the highest level in more than 40 years and it means the prices we pay over all are 9.1% higher than at this time last year. so unless you have benefitted from an unlikely 10% raise since then, you now have less money in your pocket than you did a year ago. much of the increase is driven by gas prices, which we should note have fallen in recent weeks, but they remain insanely high, up nearly 60% in this report, and the increases are felt across a range of categories, prices on groceries are u
i understand. it does. but we have so much to get to. and this incredibly tragic news out of highland park, illinois. we learned more about the victims. a toddler is without both of his parents this morning after reportedly being rescued from beneath his father s body. meanwhile the suspect is formally charged and due in court today as new information about his past raises questions about how he was able to legally purchase firearms. and new developments in the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. as senator lindsey graham and donald trump s former lawyer rudy giuliani get hit with subpoenas. and the date has been set for the next hearing into the january 6 attack on the capitol. we ll have the latest on all of that. but first, willie, so much, so much tragedy over the july 4th weekend. yeah. and we ve got new details this morning, mika. the suspect in the july 4th massacre in highland park, illinois, a fourth of july parade has
18-year-old who walked into a classroom and murdered in cold blood more than 20 people, including 19 innocent children. it s unbearable news for many of us, me included. the country is broken. something is wrong here. there is something in our culture that s rotting. we all know something is wrong. fixing it will be hard. i want to be straight with you. the america my kids are growing up in is not the america from three decades agree i grew up in. and guns have nothing to do with why it s different in were guns around back then. the america i group in, real guns and toy guns were woven into our daily lives. i grew up in queens. i jump on my bike and go to liberty park in glendale and i played war with toy gurns all day. a specific friend of mine group around shot guns and rifles. their friends would bring them to school in the back of their trucks in a gun rack right there in the parking lot. parents were paralyzed with fear every time their kids board bus to go to those scho
massacre. i saw more tears this week than i ever want to see ever again. my first guest tonight is the uvalde justice who was inside the crime scene and identified the victims. our first year of the night. how are you holding up? it s been tough, ups and downs from the time it happened to that evening, yesterday morning but it then tough. have been involved in the work of trying to get the paperwork to the medical examiner s office coordinating with funeral homes to ensure the bodies are released back to the funeral homes and brought back to the families here in uvalde, it s a full-time job and kept me busy so it s kept my mind off the reality of what happened to our town. for those who don t know, what is your job entailed? will have a medical examiner, we are the corner so in most cases we handle deaths that are called unattended that s, from people not admitted into the hospital, people not admitting into a nursing home or hospice so anybody who dies outside of tho
18-year-old who walked into a classroom and murdered in cold blood more than 20 people, including 19 innocent children. it s unbearable news for many of us, me included. the country is broken. something is wrong here. there is something in our culture that s rotting. we all know something is wrong. fixing it will be hard. i want to be straight with you. the america my kids are growing up in is not the america from three decades agree i grew up in. and guns have nothing to do with why it s different in were guns around back then. the america i group in, real guns and toy guns were woven into our daily lives. i grew up in queens. i jump on my bike and go to liberty park in glendale and i played war with toy gurns all day. a specific friend of mine group around shot guns and rifles. their friends would bring them to school in the back of their trucks in a gun rack right there in the parking lot. parents were paralyzed with fear every time their kids board bus to go to those scho