negative way. there s serious concern that the mandates themselves may be causing this backlash that may bring portions of an already fragile economy to its knees. some u.s. state officials push back against the president s vaccine mandates as democrats do their own policy and joe biden s economic agenda is on the brink. world of homicide. officials relesion details on how gabby petito was killed. william shatner, whose action to go where no one boldly goes is making his voyage to the stars a reality. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. hello, everyone. welcome to the show. it is wednesday, october 13, and we begin this hour with political tensions brewing in the united states. not just over president biden s domestic agenda. the fight over how to handle the pandemic is deepening the political divide as republican leaders in texas and florida ramp up their attacks on covid vaccine mandates. now, those states have seen more covid case
united states and around the world. brand-new this morning, an urgent push to fix the tangled global supply chain, what the white house is calling a 90-day sprint to unchoke the bottlenecks that are feeding into inflation. a senior administration official said the port of los angeles would move to 24/7 service. the port of long beach has already been working around the clock. those two ports, they handle 40% of the container traffic in the u.s.. the white house also said walmart, fedex and ups, three the largest goods companies in the country will move to 24/7 operations. the supply chain nightmare is slowing the economic recovery. banks have been slashing their growth forecast and moody s analytics warns these disruptions will get worse before they get better. obviously it s a problem. it all goes back to the pandemic. i mean, the pandemic is disrupted all markets, you know. we can see in the global supply chains. it s not going to be next month, next quarter. i think this
vowed to lift bans on overseas travelers. as coronavirus numbers continue to trend in a positive direction, obviously down. 38 states holding steady. 44 states are seeing cases tphrtline or decline. priscilla alvarez with more on this easing of travel restrictions. this is a big announcement. reporter: this is significant for local businesses who rely on cross border travel and have struggled to stay afloat. change is coming and it s coming in a phased way. starting in early november, fully vaccinated foreign visitors will be able to cross the border both mexico and canada, for nonessential reasons. that is visiting a friend or family or for tourism. then in january of 2022, the vaccination requirement will apply to essential travelers like cross border trade which has been able to continue over the course of the pandemic. now, the current set of restrictions are set to ebg pyre october 2021. but officials say they will remain in effect until early november, which they have
los angeles, the port of los angeles announced today that it s going to be given operating 24 hours a day seven days a week. this follows the port of long beach s commitment to 24/77 that it announced weeks ago. 24/7 system, what most of the leading countries of the world operate on except us until now. it s a key step toward moving our entire freight transportation and logistical supply chain nationwide to a 24/7 system. here s why it matters. traditionally our ports have only been open during the week monday through friday. they are generally close down at night and on weekends. by staying open seven days a week through the night and on weekends, the port of los angeles will open over 60 extra hours a week. in total, that will almost double the number of hours the port is open for business from earlier this year. that means an increase in the hours for workers to be moving cargo off ships onto trucks and railcars to get to their destination. more than that, the night hours
at the gas price were david lee miller sees the cost of filling up still soaring and at the white house where sees the president now scrambling. blue origin guys are back safe and sound, the rest of us it s safe to say just sounding off. we begin right now with madison at new jersey grocery store checking in on the eye-popping cost of simply checking out. prices here are on the rise, they just continue to go upgrad this consumer price index up today over the course of the past year prices have gone up 5.4 percent for things like gas and other shopping, the biggest contributor being housing and food. within food, there are some categories that have increased more than others. let s look at some of the highest hitters in terms of tha increase. when it comes to meet, using an increase of over 12 percent annually. makeup of over 19 percent. fish and seafood up over 10 percent. we spoke to shoppers today and many say they are clearly notin things skyhigh prices when they shop.