families can t buy baby formula. bill: 40% of brands are out of stock nationwide. one republican lawmaker saying she is hearing from border agents who say their facilities have entire pallets of formula set aside for illegal immigrants crossing the border. these agents themselves have families and they have family members that can t get this baby formula in the stores. in texas and arizona, new mexico. the richest nation in the world and we re scrounging around for baby formula? the formula crisis is just one of many disasters facing biden s administration. americans scrounging for gasoline money as inflation is running at nearly a 40-year high. today the average price hitting yet another all time high, $4.43. bill: crime is another concern. the president will meet with police chiefs and mayors today to talk about it in cities across the country see a staggering rise in homicides. let s go to the white house where peter doocy is reporting live from the north lawn. w
Hello, everyone, thank you for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. And we begin with a National Crisis averted. At least for the next 45 days. Just a few hours before midnight, the deadline to shut down the government, the u. S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill to keep the nations government open until midnovember. The breakthrough came after House Speaker mccarthy surprised everyone by pushing a shortterm Spending Bill through the house with democratic help. It is a deal that may cost mccarthy his speakership. Republican hardliners are vowing to bring a motion to the floor to oust the leader for ignoring the Spending Cuts they were demanding in a package. I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker Mccarthy this week. I think we need to rip off the band aid and move on with new leadership that could be trustworthy. Look, the one thing that everybody has in common is that nobody trusts Kevin Mccarthy. He lied to biden and house conservatives. The on
brought over the border through no fault of their own need to be fed. while american families are scrounging and being told at the store they can only buy a certain amount of baby formula for their children i think there are big questions how much product the federal government is buying, whether it s local stores in texas or they have some kind of contract and storing it at these facilities while americans can t find it in their stores at home. katie, it s the year 2022 and parents are struggling to feed their babies. that s where we are right now. i will channel dana perino and ask the question is there no one inside the white house who can get ahead of a crisis, a scandal, who can anticipate this? even before the abbott labs plant was shut down in february, there were supply chain problems and shortage problems. back then they could have alleviated the trade barriers
much more money for that reason so there for their situation is a lot better than it was last year. a lot better than it was last ear. ~ , ,., y a lot better than it was last year. absolutely. ask any farmer in year. absolutely. ask any farmer in the year. absolutely. ask any farmer in the land - year. absolutely. ask any farmer in the land how. year. absolutely. ask any i farmer in the land how much year. absolutely. ask any - farmer in the land how much he has the paper fertiliser and farmer in the land how much he has the paperfertiliser and it is more than doubled in the last three or four months. so, yes, that is an encouraging sign that that should continue at the moment as someone said earlier on there is no better time to be producing ammonia at the moment. so we are very hopeful that production will continue and we will not have any shortage problems. but if production any shortage problems. but if production does any shortage problems. but if production does not any
they mark our arms to get into the store. reporter: it was only matter of time before somebody tried to come up with a solution. jose, a college student, the 21-year-old who still lives with his mother has created a mobile phone application that allows consumers to tell each other where to find scarce products. translator: i spent a week without milk for my coffee and i said well i may not have a solution for the shortage problems but i can help people with my knowledge of mobile applications. reporter: the app is spanish for supplying. it s been down loaded more than 14,000 times. it s free and relies on a senator phone gps to tell consumer where is to find square products. translator: at first he would share it with his friends to see if something failed. reporter: the government says