National security meeting alongside vice president harris. It comes as iran issues issues a chilling threat as hezbollah said they launched a drone attack against israel previewing a possible larger attack an allout war. Hello i am john roberts in washington and guess who we welcome to washington today. Sandra: great to see appeared good to be back at the studio in washington and good to be with you. I am sandra smith in washington. This is america reports. Israel s defense minister is visiting with the israeli air force. It is happening today. They are briefing them on air defense capabilities in that region. The u. S. Deployed ships and fighter jets to the middle east as axios is reporting secretary of state antony blinken warranted g7 allies and iranian attack could happen as soon as today. John: fox team coverage free. Lieutenant general keith kellogg and the threat of a widening war. Sandra: let s get right to alex hogan live in tel aviv. Israel for us at this hour. What do we kno
The president s treasury secretary is sounding the alarm about inflation. Janet yell len s comments added to the concern voiced by st. Louis fed chief james bowler. The inflationary impulse, i think, is more intense than we were expecting. There are some people who are looking for rate hikes in 2022. Where do you kind of come down? i put us starting late in 2022. Bret: while stocks are lower, many consumer prices are getting higher. Liz claman host of the claman countdown on fox business joins us tonight from new york with the latest. Good evening, liz. Good evening, pretty. You know, it was almost as if the stock market had a delayed reaction to what the federal reserve chairman said three days ago at his interest rate meeting news conference that was simply that inflation is sizzling hotter than an anticipated the federal reserve raised forecast from rising prices for inflation to 3. 4%. Then today, days later, st. Louis fed president james bollard said as much in an interview this m
inexcusable. welcome. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is your world. we have fox team coverage to kickoff the hours. hillary vaughn on what the white house is saying and chad pergram on capitol hill where democrats are fuming at the no. we begin with hillary. hi, hillary. hi, sandra. the white house today admitting that they were surprised at senator joe manchin announcing on fox news yesterday that he s a no on president biden s build back better when jen psaki was asked why the white house was so surprised when joe manchin has been very public and clear and several policies in the package. she said there were private conversations and discussions with the white house and senator manchin and commitments made them behind closed doors that threw them off guard when he went public. senator manchin in a radio interview says the white house is the one that did things so wrong, they pushed him to his wits end. and steve clemens said the final straw is when the white
nbc news business and technology correspondent jo ling kent joins me. jo, it s great to see you. you have big new numbers for us in the billions in spending yesterday. right? reporter: jose, that s right. we just got fresh new numbers about thanksgiving day online spending. adobe reporting $5.1 billion were spent on thanksgiving. now, when you look at what was expected, it s actually on the lower range of what was expected. so this may be a cause of inflation. a cost of living going up, gas and food prices on the rise right now. but well within the range of expectations. we do expect to see a record amount of money spent across retailers on this thanksgiving weekend. but on an anecdotal note in virginia and across the country including mall of america and minnesota, we are seeing the traditional lines and door busting parades of people really come down significantly. and that may have been accelerated by the pandemic, of course. but we re seeing online spending really incre
sounding the alarm. so far at least ten countries have banned travel from south africa and surrounding nations. the w.h.o. announced it s holding an emergency meeting today on this new variant. earlier, dr. fauci said the u.s. is set to meet with south african scientists this morning to learn more about what this means. it all comes as here in the u.s. we re seeing another surge in new cases over this holiday weekend. at least 31 states are seeing a rise in new infections. in places like pennsylvania officials are seeing over 6,000 new cases a day. nbc is in montgomery county, pennsylvania, one of the highest daily covid case rates. and from rome, italy, one of the countries that just banned travel to south africa. gary, what s the latest going on there on the ground? reporter: hey there, jose. yeah, it s really a one-stop shop here. we ve got a vaccination center back here. we ve got a testing center right up here in montgomery county. real one-stop shop on this black frid