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It that 2.8% of the people who had covid died, and that is a low number, and that is significant and represents many, many lives. long covid patients were twice as likely to have a stroke, heart failure or other cardiovascular events in that year. >> all right. elizabeth cohen, thank you. well, the president is giving an honorary honor to a man who saved soldiers, and we will have that story. applicat. go to getrefunds.com to learn more. a third kid. whwhat if she likes playing golf? its expen...

The virus that causes shingles is likely already inside of you. 50 years or older? ask your doctor about shingles. time now for business, for that lets bring in cnbc live from london. stock futures flat this morning, as investors await the first read of the fourth quarter gdp due out later this morning. what are economists predicting? >> 2.8% is certainly the figure that looks to be for that fourth quarter number lower than the 2.3 figure number. john, good morning to you. it does point to a l...

Increases. we want people to earn more money but if it creates inflation they are worse off. we need wage increases to come down. this is good news. they peaked at about 7.5% rate increase a year ago down to 4.2%. we need it at the red dotted line which is the 2.8% before the pandemic and everything that turned the economy upside down and we have no history of that happening without unemployment rising. not something to root for but we have a hot labor market. we have not seen that happen yet an...

Some have interpreted that as an invitation for a government oshutdown, for example. >> well, neil, first of all, ill have to get into these issues in more detail after ive had a chance to work with my colleagues. ive only been sworn in for a couple weeks yet. we have to rein in our spending in washington, d.c. weve successfully done that in nebraska, keeping the growth of our budget to 2.8%, compared to the 6.5% before. its hurting our families here, making it hard for families make ends meet. ...

Loans students, in other words to help them with their living costs while state university, being set at 2.8%, clearly with inflation racing ahead of fact, it effectively means ahead of fact, it effectively means a reduction in the amount of support for living costs, particularly tough for living costs, particularly tough for students who do not have families that can help sub that lots of money which has been estimated to be around one half thousand pounds a year, and bearing in mind that the l...

To be the tightest squeeze on living standards since the 1940s, theyre still 8.9% down on pre—pandemic levels. these figures confirm that this is a very challenging economic situation here and across the world. it will get worse before it gets better. but we have a plan that will more than halve inflation over the next year and, if we stay the course, we can get back to the strong economic growth that we need. activity in manufacturing dropped by 1.8% and the sector has now been in a slump sin...

To be the tightest squeeze on living standards since the 19a0s, they are still 8.9% down on pre—pandemic levels. these figures confirm this is a very challenging economic situation here and across the world. it will get worse before it gets better. but we have a plan that will more than halve inflation over the next year and, if we stay the course, we can get back to the strong economic growth that we need. activity in manufacturing drop by 1.8% and the sector has now been in a slump since the...

Over the next year and, if we stay the course, we can get back to the strong economic growth that we need. activity in manufacturing dropped by 1.8% and the sector has now been in a slump since the summer of last year. the figures also suggest the economy produced 4% less electricity and gas in october than a year before. with temperatures higher and prices soaring, households and firms put the heating on for an average of only 2.8 days. but that was two months ago. that was then, this is now. a...

In october from september. venues also saw a modest bounce back in octoberfrom september. we are in the midst of what is being predicted the midst of what is being predicted the tighter squeeze on living standards since the i9a0s. there is still 8.9% down on pre—pandemic levels. still 8.9% down on pre-pandemic levels. , , .., , levels. these figures confirm this is a very challenging _ levels. these figures confirm this is a very challenging economic. is a very challenging economic situation h...

So its going to be a tight race. its going to be a while. >> john king again. gabe, appreciate your time. just to the point you were just making, then, were at 1.4 and 1.4. so were just shy of 2.8. what do you think the final universe is? about 2.8 million. a little shy of that right now. what do you think the final universe is? >> i think 3.3-ish, somewhere in that range is what were looking at for all the stuff. the only thing we dont have any strong clarity into is the absentee ballots that c...