the president visits a family farm in illinois today. a new government makes clear that inflation is here to stay. it suggests the worst might be behind us. the consumer price index rose 8.3% compared with last year. that s a big number. 8.3%. it s down from a 40-year high from last month. look at it month to month. inflation 0.3% in april. that s down from the 1.2% gain in march. a closely watched data point within the report was up not down. beware of anyone who tells you they are certain things are trending for the better. even if inflation is retreating from the highest tide, prices are still up at the fastest rate in nearly 40 years. we start with a look inside these numbers and with cnn s christine romans. reporter: issue number one for the american family. the cost of living. so many categories it has been going up for almost a year now. those headline numbers in normal times would be very, very scary. they appear to be moderating, leveling off, peaking as one econom
feel any significant relief at the grocery store or gas pump. fuel costs just hit another new high, $4.40 a gallon on average for the first time ever. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is traveling with the president. jeremy, the president gave a speech about inflation yesterday. today it s supposed to be more about food supply. what can we expect? reporter: yeah, victor, but inflation will still be very much top of mind for the president as he addresses this dueling issue of rising food prices, as well as this global food shortage. part of it sparked by the war in ukraine. ukraine/russia, key suppliers of wheat around the world. we ll hear the president address both of those. and the fact that he s talking about inflation for the second day in a row, a reflection of the extent to which he s facing serious political pressure on this issue, a top issue for voters heading into the midterms. today we ll hear the president announce several new steps to help farmers
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Washington in this is cnn yeah im here on the east coast welcome to cnn this morning. Im kasie hunt. We have Breaking News right now. Violence on the Ucla Campus A crowd of proisraeli demonstrators clashing with members of a propalestinian encampment on campus after School Officials declared the encampment illegal in video from the scene, you can see protesters throwing a wooden pallet, fireworks, parking cones, a scooter. These classes lets have been ongoing for hours. There had been minimal police intervention, but we are told that the lapd is now on seeing that from tweets from the lapd and from the la Mayors Office joining me now is denial hartmann. He is with georgetown universitys emergency and Disaster Management at department and ill good morning to you. How would you assess the response here we know that there has been some reluctance on the part of these universities to call police for fear of escalating the situation. But the violence that were seeing at ucla does seem uniqu
restrictions up to the states. the percentage who prefer to instead push for further restricts on abortion nationwide has doubled to 34%. they now lean in favor of state level restrictions 66% to 34%. do you think your republican colleagues are feeling pressure? do you hear that when you talk to them to play to the base on this issue? i think we witnessed the power of the people and that issues matter and that messaging matters. so i think that republicans do need to reevaluate their strategy. i think you re starting to see some republicans come around. we had, again, some republicans, goran ivanisevic john kasich and bob taft who supported issue 1. i m not sure where they stand on the effort that will take place in november. but what i do know is no one wants to be on the extreme side of things. and so in a state like ohio, after the dobbs decision was made and roe v. wade was