the dozens of deadhe americans and the billions in property damage that people suffered. democrats will purposefully omit details about what happened on the 6th and before the six. but we will give you thoseel details that you likely never heard before and we have special guests that will confirm all of this for you people involvednf in all of this . but first, joe biden is finally back from the beach. wow. and he is seething with rage tonight not because record highh gas prices which have now more than doubled in justnt 18 months under his watch. he s not seethingg because the american people are suffering from back breaking of what ? forty two year record highre of inflation and looming stagflation, a looming recession not because the borderer crisis which is getting worse every day. oh , and by the way, as we speak, the biggest caravan toca date isra now approaching our southern border. so buckle up and let s not forget that joe is simply turn the page on our fellow americ
great white shark spotted off the beach of a popular vacation spot. and the big announcement from apple. why texting will never be the same again. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight, there is an urgent manhunt in philadelphia police there searching for a gunman in a shooting that left at least three people dead, including a staffer at a nearby school for boys who worked with second graders. a second suspect, an 18-year-old, already in custody the mass shooting one of more than 13 over the past 72 hours in the u.s. putting june on pace to be the deadliest for mass shootings this year. it all comes at a time when americans are asking washington what can be done with bipartisan talks on capitol hill a top democrat saying his goal is for a proposal this week gabe gutierrez with a video police are analyzing frame by frame. he starts us off from philadelphia reporter: a party turning into panic on the str
attempts to take taiwan by force. doug luzader has details. hi, doug. doug: this emerging trade pact is called the framework for prosperity, but other headlines are emerging and the white house had to clarify a surprising comment the president made about taiwan. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons, are you willing to get involved militarily for taiwan, if it comes to that? yes, that is the commitment we made. doug: that sounds like a major change in policy for the u.s. the white house very quickly issued this statement denying there was any policy change. the president said our policy has not changed and reiterated our one china policy and commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait to provide taiwan with military means to defend itself. the president made news speaking about the u.s. economy, no longer talk about transitory challenge. president biden: our gdp will grow faster than china s for the fir
nearly two years, the dow dropped nearly 1200 points, it came after target reported a huge 52% drop in profits for the first quarter, walmart slashed its outlooks. these stores are pocketing less money because they have to pay so much more to get product on their shelves. wal walmart s stock fell more than 11% on tuesday, the company s worst day since 1987. and then of course there are also gas prices to talk b now above $4 a gallon in every state in america for the first time ever. the national average this morning $4.52 a gallon and climbing and that ripple effect is now hitting markets around the globe. overnight european markets opening lower, stocks also tumbled in asia after wall street s hellish day. inflation fears now depressing investor sentiment, many ceos publicly stating their concerns about a possible recession, something fed chairman jerome powell is keenly aware of. what we need to see is inflation coming down in a clear and convincing way and we re goin
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