and oil and things like that. here s the press secretary on air force one talking about it. as the president has said from the beginning, a shutdown is unacceptable. because of the harm it would inflict on jobs, families, farms and majority of unions have voted to ratify the tentative agreement and the best option is still for parties to resolve. this should move forward in good faith and get this resolved. steve: the white house intervened but the people of those four unions that have rejected it want a better deal. p. ainsley: fox news contributor and kings college executive vice president and associate of business business and economics here is his take. really wanted a deal in september because he wanted to get this off his plate before the midterms. some would say that he actually forced a deal on to union leadership that workers didn t want. and now midterms are over.
death toll in the state is expected to exceed 50 and could reach as high as 100 meanwhile crews in southern illinois working to rescue workers after a roof of a amazon warehouse collapse. it s unclear how many were killed officials have confirmed that there are, indeed, fatalities. one person is confirmed dead and several others are injured after the roof collapsed at a nursing home in arkansas. we ll be covering this story all morning so stay with us. pete? pete: thank you, rachel. all right, just when you thought our economic crisis couldn t get any worse, well, grim numbers reveal just how bad inflation really is. fox news contributor and kings college executive vice president and our friend brian brenberg joins us now to break it all down on the big wall. 39 year high of inflation. do the numbers tell the whole story? look, inflation is high 6.8%. we haven t seen that in almost 40 years. here s the problem.
pete: well, as democrats roll out another massive spending plan, a new op-ed claims bidenflation is real and democrats will only make it worse this as consumer prices jump over 5% in june, the biggest monthly jump since the height of the great recession in 2008. here to react is the kings college executive vice president and fox news contributor brian brenberg, brian, good morning, thanks for being here. you bet. pete: inflation, is this almost wholly due to the policy of the current administration or longer trends? why are we seeing this? well, look, part of the reason we are seeing this rise in inflation is because we shut down our economy and we opened it up again. so that s not surprising. but the problem is we are not taking it seriously. the issue is the biden administration is acting like inflation doesn t exist. and so they are spending money in a way that almost certainly