Old company, ask for higher title, more salary, more flexibility and companies are willing to meet their employee demands because they are so desperate for workers. one recruiter telling us if companies are not willing to be flexible, not willing to work with employees coming back, they are going to be left behind in the hiring and job market. alex? covid upending so much. thank you so much for that report. now back with a splash, four usa naughts returning to earth after six months up in space. did u.s. intelligence help ukraine send the russian warship to the bottom of the black sea? the pentagon is pushing back on that claim, but we re going to speak with john kirby, the spokesman for the pentagon, ahead.