you re watching a simply remarkable moment there at the white house. if we can stay on the pictures for a minute, it would be worth it. a reason to smile and be proud. a kcaptain during the vietnam wash, looeding special forces to an enemy base. he was shot despite being shot and wounded, he refused to be evacuated until he could get all of his colleagues evacuated from that battlefield as well. well worth our time. other big stories today, alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his liven behind bars. the convicted south carolina attorney sentenced earlier this morning for culling his wife and youngest son paul at the family sprawling hunting estate.
The number of flu cases skyrocketing across the u.s. just take a look at these stats. the flu season came in six weeks early with hospital beds across the country now at 79% capacity. and that national surge topped with rising covid cases and concerns over rsv is looeding to a shrinking pool of treatments. it s very hard to even find medicine. target doesn t have it. cvs doesn t have it. there s hardly anything to choose from. according to data from good rx, tamiflu hasn t been in such high demand in nearly a decade. it s just one of more than 260 drugs now in short supply according to the american society health system pharmacists. i want to bring in sam brock. i know we have been talking for awhile about how this is a perfect storm for a shortage of hospital beds. now apparently it s the perfect
Doing its part to protect you and help you and assist you, they re not leaving you on your own? i m confident. i ve talked to some federal fbi and local law enforcement and they re doing things to assist, yes. things are changing really rapidly. the latest development is russia is literally targeting the rebels we have been arming to topple assad. they say that they re targeting isis but they re not. they re targeting the rebels that we have armed, we have supplied. what is your reaction to that? russia is inserting themselves now because that part of the world needs leadership. normally it would be the united states. we should be looeding. we re not. russia just realizes because they want assad to stay there, he s a puppet for the russia, they can use that there. he realizes if he targets a lot of the moderate rebels or the so-called moderate rebels and wipes them out, then there will just be isis left against assad and we can t do anything other than want to fight isis, too.
Blatter. from him, this was a typical show of defiance and denial. he said he could not be held personally responsible and condemned the actions of individuals for bringing humiliation on soccer. so the u.s. authority are alleging systemic and deep-rooted corruption. he says he can t monitor everyone all of the time. he was moralizing, making big promises, plooeding that he s not responsible in spite of the fact that he s run world soccer for two decades. he said we have to earn trust back through the decisions we make. it was a performance. however, he is on track to be re-elected tomorrow as president for a fifth time aged 79. this is a man who has run world soccer for two decades. but they ve been two decades in which allegations of corruption and scandal have simply grown and grown. nevertheless the smaller
Needed higher oil prices to affect the changes he had. the president said in cap and trade that there will be huge increases necessary to be part of it. he didn t get cap and trade, but hee pursuing policies he is pursuing policies, both fiscal policies and financial policies, but also policies at the epa and other agencies that are looeding to a reduction in domestic leading to a reduction in domestic production, increase in imports, and higher prices. having said that, we re not looking at a vast conspiracy. we re looking at policy mistakes that are inevitably going to lead to higher prices, and policy right doing may not reduce dramatically the cost. but it certainly will over time make it not rise and get it back down. now one policy that is not in our study and there s over 200 footnotes in the study one policy which is temporary is quantitative easing. there s no question everyone knows that commodity prices are temporarily artificially high because they ve been a flight