candidates ready to take it on. we can t wait for that one. south carolina senator tim scott is here. former texas congressman will hurd is here. one is a lock for the debate. the other is getting close. guess who else is stopping by? none other than the chairman of the president s council of economic advisers. republicans might be pounding inflation these days, but jared burnstein has a question for them. what inflation? what a show. it begins right now. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so glad to have you. get ready for a lot of this. yeah, even in the case of iowa, we re still a half a year away from all of this, all of these boxes, so little time to get to that. to rich edson on why you would never know this thing is still half a year away. rich? neil, feels like caucus time. it s about 50 degrees warmer now. several of the republican presidential candidates are in iowa over the next few days. florida governor ron desantis is scheduled to campaign across seven iowa
todd: we begin our final hour of fox & friends with a fox news alert. moments ago egyptian officials say they received a list of 13 israelis to be released today. jake sullivan said there is reason to believe at least one american is expected to be part of today s planned hostage release. rachel: this comes on the heels of 13 israelis including four children being freed yesterday evening bringing the total so far to 26. joey: alex hogan is live in jerusalem. she has the latest. alex. reporter: good morning. it is officially 4:00 p.m. local time, meaning we could start to see the release of more hostages from now, moving forward throughout the day and while we do expect potentially to see one american citizen among those, we will continue to wait and monitor all of these changes but we re also seeing more footage come you out of the reunions of these family members many take a look at this video, 9-year-old emily, an irish and israeli citizen, her father initially thought
12 months in a row of slower inflation. down 2/3s. you know, you and i were talking a year ago on this very date, we would be talking about inflation that was 2/3s higher than it is now. when you have that kind of a trend, you re talking about relief from a set of price pressures that were much higher before than they are now. one of the other outcomes of these recent dynamics is that real wages are up. the buying power of the hourly wage of working people, say middle wage workers, it s up 1.6% the past year. that kind of progress is giving housing some breathing room. the price of gas down $1.50 over the past year. that is real breathing room. but our work is not done, neil. we re going to keep pushing. neil: got it if i wanted to compare to food prices, the wage
Now. they re not even putting over 1.4% of their gdp into defense. they have just squandered a wonderful opportunity to help nato and help the west. instead their kowtowing towards russia with the nord stream pipeline getting 30% of their energy from russia. they ve not helped at all. martha: thanks, general kellogg. thanks for your time. the breaking developments in russia and ukraine having big implications on wall street. stocks selling off late in the day from the news on the white house. the dow fell 4%, a 500 point drop there. all three major averages closed sharply lower. the nasdaq moving down 2. 2%. tech heavy indecember taking the biggest hit. we will keep watching the markets for you. quite a wheel on wall street. much more on preparations the pentagon is making.
Single inning and try to win every single pitch. game six is tomorrow night. the last team to come back after trailing 3-1, the cubs in 2016. let s go to the nfl where saints quarterback jameis winston faced his former team and division rival buccaneers. winston leaving with what s being called a significant knee injury in the second quarter. tom brady threw four touchdown passes. he says an interception cost his team the game. down 2 with under 2 minutes to go. throwing the ball into the arms of new orleans corner p.j. williams who breaks a couple tackles on his way to the end zone. the pick 6 seals the win for new orleans. defense rallying and third string quarterback trevor simeon coming off the bench there. 36-27 win for new orleans. now is there a quarterback controversy brewing for the now 2-5 new york jets. mike white starting in place of injured rookie zach wilson.