hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all blac
mcdowell and janine garrotte below. i hope you had a good week. i did, no thanks to howard stern. the new york times post reported that stern hit a chic restaurant at nyc with the crew of a listers including jimmy kimmel, jennifer aniston, john hamm, justin thoreau, jason bateman. i was not invited. i guess because my first name doesn t begin with the letter j. did you notice that? it s okay. i had other things to do that evening. music playing imagine a conversation with that group. how is your health? two boosters and echo nation. and i only got covid for times. i did a triple backs plus i gave dr. fauci a reach around. he said come on jimmy, don t worry about your sofa. i am not a superspreader. the dinner is in the story. it s what howard said later on his radio show. quote, i really had an exhausting weekend. emotionally, physically, for the first time in two years i ventured out of the house. may be he s exaggerating. we all do that. the more successful and you get
tonight we have kennedy, kagin, minkow, haggen and jimmy garoppolo. you re a long way from. okay, okay. i hope you had a good week. i did.i and no thanks to howard stern,eo drew. the new york posest reported tht stern hit a chic restaurant in nyc with a crew of a listers include putting jimmy kimmel, jennifer aniston, jon hamm,m, justin thoreau, jason bateman, i was not invited, i guess, because my first name doesn t begin with the letter j. did you notice that?gs to but it s okay. i had other things to do that evening. thank you for being great. traveled down the road back again. but imagine the conversation with that crew. so how s your health?heal six packs is ttho boosters and n and i only got covid fouri only times. oh yeah, i did got a tripl ce pu packs and an iv booster trip. plus i gave dr. fauci a reach around. nd he was like, come on , jimmy , don t worry about your sofa.t yr i m not a super spreader. but the dinner isn t the story . later on his radio show,
the price spike is top of mind once again for voters. the white house says this, listen. the president was responsible for gas prices coming down. is the president responsible for gas prices going up? so it s a lot more nuanced than that. there have been global challenges that we have all had dealt with. pandemic and putin s war. putin s war has increased gas prices at the pump. despite white house efforts opec agreed to cut oil outputs by 2 million barrels a day. it could spur a more dramatic rise in price over the coming weeks. this is really bad news for american consumers. the truth of the matter is the dependency on foreign countries for american oil and gas is a choice. it is a choice of this administration has made repeatedly unfortunately with the policies that they have pursued so far. policymakers can reverse that choice if we do the right thing. there is also the national debt. the nation s tab now higher than ever as the new fiscal year kicks off. more t
streak could be ending. meanwhile, the busy father s day and juneteenth holiday weekend was a nightmare for airline passengers. according to flight aware, more than 900 flights were canceled sunday across the u.s. since thursday there have been more than 4,000 flight cancellations, another 1,500 flights have already been canceled today. let s bring in cnn chief business correspondent and early start co-anchor christine romans. we were talking last week about a vibe shift and, man, does it feel like we are right there. it really does. the mighty american consumer, the backbone of the u.s. economy remains strong but how long that lasts in the face of decades high inflation, that s what experts are scouring the data for. now, gas prices have been a daily tax on families and sentiment. prices at the pump have stopped rising at least, the average price per gallon dipping below $5 to $4.98 but the busy summer travel season is about to start, that could push prices higher agai