sandra: and he s going to go to the middle east. bob nardelli was on last hour and had some seriously dire warnings about where the direction of this country is going based on the current decision making that is happening and he went as far, larry, i know larry: i know nardelli. sandra: you are the eternal optimist, a bright side and path forward because bob said everybody should go to cash right now, listen. it will have a continuing devastating impact on the consumers. i would encourage the consumer, again, we saw what happened on baby formula. build up a supply of nonperishables in your home, sustainable inflationary periods. sandra: are you worried, too, like bob is, who used to run home depot and all these big companies? larry: i knew him when he ran home depot. sandra: the environment we live in today is going to be
make sure you are building up cash reserves. i would encourage the consumer, again, saw what happened on baby formula, build up a supply of nonperishables in your home. make sure that you are prepared for sustainable inflationary periods. sandra: bob, these are dire warnings coming from you. i mean, are you you started out by saying you believe the effects of the interest rate hike will be devastating for the american consumer. but point out the purpose of this dramatic potential action from the fed is to try to tame inflation and bring those prices down, but to your point, because we have seen the federal reserve and this administration take so long to respond to these high prices, it s going to be a lot of short-term pain for long-term gain. fair to say, though, that the end result is to bring prices eventually down? eventually down. but i ve been around long enough now, 50 years in business, and
now that our fighting is done, it is only natural we revert to diplomacy. again, diplomacy based on taliban actions. courtney, can you give us a sense when we talk about americans left behind, 100 to 200, are these people desperately trying to get out, trying to get to the airport or people that are actually just living there? reporter: it is a combination of both. there are some, one category, i don t think gets a lot of attention, are people that are american citizens, dual afghan, american citizens with family members that are afghan and don t have any american citizenship at all. we heard anecdotal cases of people that have come to the airport, they have access, were allowed to get in with the blue american passport, but family members couldn t. they had to make a difficult decision, many times right there on the spot to leave without their family members or stay behind. we are hearing a lot of cases of
we have our reporters covering every angle of this across the region. want to start with sam brock. 24 hours ago you and i were talking about hundreds of people trapped, needing to be rescued. please tell me they re safe. reporter: largely from what we can gather they are, stephanie, amazingly. you said the name of the town correctly. laplace, la feet, two areas that saw so many rescues going on. we got mixed signals whether there needs to be hundreds of folks rescued, then we saw it with our own eyes that there were high water vehicles coming through communities. this spot, the big issue is when. the power lines are strewn in the yard. this is a microcosm of what you ll see on highway 61. there are power poles turned like this, 45 degree angles, barely hovering above the