he is a career criminal. free on $1,000 bond a year and a half ago. rap sheet, charges on both coasts dating back to 2010. dana: a growing memorial for brianna kupfer outside where she worked and was killed. jonathan hunt is live in los angeles with the latest. good morning, jonathan. good morning. brianna kupfer was alone in the store and texted a friend saying someone who had walked in was giving her a bad vibe. minutes later, kupfer lay on the floor of that store covered in blood stabbed, police believe, by the person who was giving her those bad vibes. they are looking for 31-year-old shawn lavalle smith, the man seen leaving the score where kupfer worked via a back alley and 30 minutes later seen in this video by a nearby seven/11 paying for a vaping pen and calmly walking out. he is believed to be homeless, has a long criminal record across the country and is currently free on a $50,000 bond from charleston, south carolina following an arrest on suspicion of firing
now. will they include rulings on some fast track federal vaccine mandate cases. vaccines are not stopping the omicron variants from spreading. our legal-medical panel is standing by live to discuss. the search is on for new york city for two beggars who attacked and stabbed a man outside broadway in times square for refusing to give them money but we begin tonight with the ever increasing financial pressures on your pocketbook caused by the highest jump in consumer prices in almost 40 years. trace gallagher is on the case tonight. good evening, trace. good evening, economists say the math here is simple. you take massive amounts of government aid, add that to low interest rates. it equals big demand for goods and when demand exceeds supply prices go up and sure enough everything from cars, gas, food and furniture went up 7% in december compared to a year earlier and that 7% increase is the highest in 40 years. in fact, even if you take out volatile prices for things like f
i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. susan li has more on what s driving the inflation surge. susan? charles, that s right, get used to the higher prices. they ll be here for a while. you re paying the highest price jump in 40 years in december. consumer prices as you mentioned rising 7% last month. that is the highest year over year increase since the summer of 1982. prices rising almost twice as much as wages were last month. so there s still sticker shock at the stores. food prices were up 6%. filling up your gas tanks cost more than a year ago and used cars are fetching premium pricing. the white house is sticking to the promise of eating pricing. the president said the report underscores that we still have more work to do with price increases still too high and squeezing family budgets. the white house trying to calm household concerns. the latest fox business poll shows a third of americans are worried about higher prices. in fact, it s the overwhelming top issue
biden s controversial federal and private employer covid mandate. sean hannity putting the blame on where we are now on one man. we now know there was no plan to shut down the virus. joe didn t have a plan to get enough covid-19 tests into the market. and december 2020 joe biden called the testing shortage a travesty. where is joe s operation warp speed for testing american when they need a test? harris: adding to the president s concerns or woes at this point, another legal blow as federal judge granted temporary reprieve to group of navy seals seeking religious exemption to the military vaccine mandate. reporter: president biden is expected to make some brief remarks today on the rapidly spreading omicron variant and the steps the white house is taking to address it. we ll hear the latest data on omicron as public health officials say it is unclear when it will peak. that is difficult to predict. we ve seen the rise to the peak, it s been several weeks in south afri
house for letting therapeutics fall by the wayside for this near exclusive focus on vaccinations that we ve seen. they ve also accelerated the timeline when they ll be delivered from september to june. we were looking at an order of ten million initially. the white house announced that they will get the full ten million by june. by the end of january, they ll have four million covid treatments on hand. a lot of the same sort of vibe that we got from the president when he gave his remarks today ahead of the briefing warning folks that are unvaccinated that they re at risk with this highly transmissable omicron variant telling people that are vaccinated to get boosted. also speaking about the numbers as we ve seen this really record-breaking number today, one million cases in the u.s. here s what the president said earlier. if you re vaccinated and boosted, you may get covid but you re highly protected against severe illness. schools can and should be open this winter. we hav