john: reversal from the manhattan district attorney s office, good tuesday afternoon to you and you as well. gillian: nice to see you on this happy tuesday. i m gillian turner, who is out on assignment. new york city bodega worker charged with murder is now off the hook after fending him off in his store. hi, alexis. the nation has been closely watching and waiting for the decision. manhattan d.a. office says after reviewing the surveillance video and interviewing witnesses and the people who called 911 they will not present the case to a grand jury. in the motion filed here, the manhattan d.a. office says the people have determined we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly physical force. this case, we had an innocent, hard working new yorker that was doing his job and someone was extremely aggressive towards him and i believe after the d.a. review, made the right decision. that was mayor eric adams commen
one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
Harris this is President Bidens america. Illegal immigrants trampling all over our nations sovereignty. And in a stunning reversal of course, President Biden is about to do something he told his voters he would never do. He is doing exactly what donald trump knew would work, build that wall. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. The Biden Administration is now saying a border wall is needed immediately. It is listing more than two dozen federal laws to build 20 miles of border wall in texas. Let this statistic sink in. More than a quarter million Illegal Immigrants in the last fiscal year, thats a record. Homeland security secretary alejandro mayokas, who will be in mexico city today along with attorney general garland for highlevel talks says the need for the new barrier is acute and immediate. The move is completely a 180 from what biden said when he was a president ial candidate. President biden there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration.
the taliban has dealt another blow to afghanistan s smart and ambitious girls. all classes at kabul s university were officially canceled on wednesday. the taliban say the school will remain closed until it can get rid of coed or mixed gender classes. the closure comes as thousands of girls are being forced to stay home and watch their male siblings and classmates return to middle and high school. for months, the taliban has tried to convince the international community that it s a more moderate, more humane version than the vicious intolerant regime that it was 20 years ago. it has allowed girls to go to school through grade six instead of stopping them at just 8 years old like it did in the 90s. but the recent crackdown on education suggests they re the still barbarians they always war. this article reads in quote, girl schools in parts of afghanistan under taliban control have been closed since last year, but the acting foreign deputy minister said
mr. gandolfini may have missed and why so many don t know who they are. controversy erupting after a republican law maker makes a speech on traditional marriage. during his speech he said children need fathers and mothers, children need fathers and mothers and mothers need husbands and suggested that schools might want to offer gender classes. on gender roles and what men and women can bring to a marriage. you know, maybe part of the problem we need to go back in the school at an early age at the grade school level and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys, and say this is important. this is what a father does that is maybe a little different, maybe a little bit better than,