food prices too have gone up. nothing s being done about it. it s going to kill the people, these diesel prices. they have no i have no choice but to fill up my tank. there s no other choice. definitely too much. and it has to change, hopefully soon. neil: it is the story of the week, and right now it is hitting americans hard. i m talking about inflation, and it is still out of control. here s how bad things are getting. we re grateful if the rise isn t as dramatic as we had experienced in just the prior month. that is the state of things now with prices spiking at near 40-year highs. the last time we saw that is when jimmy carter was president. concerns that we re seeing the same thing roll out now and rolling around hoping for relief. good luck on that front. but kelly o grady on how customers and you are feeling. kelly. reporter: hi, neil. well, week we saw new inflation data with april s consumer price index out. the 8.3% year-over-year number was worse than ex
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that, and especially it looks cheap if he can get twitter for $10 billion cheaper. neil: real quickly, for tesla a lot of tesla shareholders were nervous that he might get his eye off the ball here and that was the currency, certainly the collateral he was going to use to buy this. yeah. neil: the stock was moving up over the last couple of days on the notion that maybe this isn t such a sure thing. that would be a relief if you re a he s tesla shareholder yeah, you know, elon musk already heads up two big companies, spacex launching rockets, and tesla which it was worth a trillion dollars up until recently. but he s pledging $20 billion of his own shares. he s pledging roughly around 10% of his own private wealth and worth to buy twitter. but again, as i said to you with the stock collapse that we ve seen, you know, the whole calculus has changed and whether or not, you know, he wants to put up that kind of money in these type of uncertain times.
tepco bows out as the world s largest energy company pays a record price. and they double on their market debut. ceo jeff weiner tells us there s no trouble in the media sector. we begin with the former imf managing director, strauss-kahn, who s expected to walk out of jail in a few hours from now, but he will not be a free man. the judge granted him bail on thursday but with strict conditions and a warning. and even as the judge was approving the bail request, grand jury indicted strauss-kahn on multiple felony charges including attempted rape. he s accused of attacking a maid last saturday at a manhattan hotel. he denies it. he has to post a $1 million in cash and a $5 million bond. he also has to agree to a 24-hour confinement and an armed guard at the door. he has to surrender his travel documents and agree to wear a monitoring device. the judge said, quote, we don t want his money. we just want to make sure that he comes back. so the top job of the imf has been v