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Well show you how break downs in every step of the process have led to shipping delays for you. this is the iphone, even running shoes. eson precision, they make components for the iphone. they had to shut down due to both health concerns and power issues. this is not the only factory in china that had the issues. but this is one that impacted the iphone. theres your delay in manufacturing the iphone. now, they get the iphone done and theyre putting it on a container ship. guess whats happening ...

Chain isnt going away, and the longer the backups at the ports last, the deeper the long-term economic damage is to this country. ports are ramping up towards 24/7 operations. scott cohn is in long beach. talk us through exactly how they plan to rightside this situation. >> well, its going to be a long process. we talked about this some yesterday, yasmin, about this idea of 24/7. that is a process in and of itself. its not a matter of flipping a switch. and basically officials are saying that we...

Getting back to work and as a result gas prices have gone up. now on bettys way home she stops for groceries because shes all out of toilet paper except so is the store. she finds empty shelves and reminded at the time of the start of the pandemic but this time the store isnt out of toilet paper because of panic buying, the toilet paper is stuck on a container ship stranded at the port of los angeles because of a major backlog at that port. and once it gets off the ship, it still needs a truck t...

President Joe Biden wants to clear traffic jams at US ports and save the holiday shopping season, but experts say he can't solve the problem.

Across the country. >> the white house is not putting a date on when americans can expect to feel some relief from this and they are certainly not guaranteeing inflationary pressures are going to go away by the holiday season. >> you see the pictures of all of those container ships on the water among them, our own and the port of long beach. hello, william. to get everything jackie is talking about basically means youre not going to get what you want when you wanted at the price you want to pay....

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Of course the pandemic has just complicated all of that. the pandemic itself has just really made things a jumbled mess. ill also throw into the mix demand. weve all been stuck at home more or less, and weve been buying stuff, all kinds of stuff, everything from appliances, computer equipment, furniture, clothing, toys, you name it, weve been buying it. the demand is as strong as its been by order of magnitude. you got all this stuff coming through the pipe and the pipe is being disrupted by the...

Companies like costco, home depot, et cetera, they are renting the ships now at our cost of about 100-0000- $2 million a month. that doesnt include the containers, 1,000 containers, you could have a couple of hundred dollars per container. thats another 1 million or two per month. smaller retailers, they cant afford to do that very they cant rent a container ship there the big companies are beginning to do it. also a problem with we shifted lot of these companies, particular toy stores and stuff...

What should have been a quick errand turned into a multi-hour, multi-store scavenger hunt that demonstrates how the shipping crisis changed shopping.

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNBC on Friday that US consumers will likely feel the impact of the supply-chain crisis well into 2022.