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And the great thing is governor gavin newsom stands among the garbagevi goes what the hells going on here? ithe looks like a third world country. well, youre the banana republic dictator of this third world country. how come you dont know whats going on in your country? i was i do in the same train. why the am i in new york paying the highest amount of taxes in the country? youre out there in california. you pay the highest the second highest. what is wrong with us ? we need to leave and pay les...

February 2020, the highest on record was 7.7 million. so, we have record job openings still. why cant we fill them? >> well, a, thats great. b, we have been filling a lot of them. as i say, the year 2021 was a record-breaking year of job growth. i think dougs 100% right, we have to get past the virus, deal with the supply chain issues. the thing about the trump administration was they started this snap back and then their mistakes led to a stall-out before the biden administration took over. bid...

To 475 witnesses and received over 60,000 pages of documents so they might want to go through that and get things in order before making a call to the vice president. >> jiang: another covid milestone for the united states. the virus has now claimed more than 900,000 lives. at the same time, new infections are waning, down 40% over the last week. cbs lilia luciano is in pasadena with the latest. lilia, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, weijia. that 900,000 number is double the deat...

At the soil, thats all it is. theres absolutely no way these people can make a living out of farming, and thats why they come here, desperate for food. there are five categories in a food crisis. this area is the second highest, level four. four is actually . emergency level. that is one step. before starvation. youre an afghan, you come from this area. what do you feel about the situation here? i feel terrible for my people. its so sad to see how- dependent people are and how desperate people a...

Staff -- are not appointees, and some of them are republican, some of them are democrat. you just dont know. but, that never plays into how they perform their duties. would happen to ron jackson, i have no idea. all i know, he knows better. he knows that vaccines work, that masking work. yet, he continues to promote scientific and medical disinformation to his constituents, which is dangerous. his district has one of the highest death rates per capita, of all the congressional districts in the c...

Study -- and doctor celine -- infective disease specialist -- and a former member of the biden transition covid advisory board. tom, let me start with you. if you are given the top line answer of, why has it been so much worse here? particularly, omicron, where we have watched this go through other countries and we have had a more elevated death rate. why? >> the short answer, for the reason why the u.s. has more elevated death rate, its first, we have had extraordinarily high number of infectio...

This. >> reporter: add gas prices to the list of surging costs weighing on americans wallets. >> the price has been a little bit more each time. >> reporter: the national average now around 3.44 a a gallon, up more than a dollar from a year ago, and the highest since 2014. >> it changes the way i pump gas. >> reporter: its only getting worse approaching the national average of $4.11. do you think we could hit that record in the months ahead? >> i think we have a very good chance. >> reporter: it...

Reason why the u.s. has more elevated death rate, its first, we have had extraordinarily high number of infections. the second highest among high income countries in the world. population adjusted basis. as you rightly pointed out, the background health of our population is poor, in particular, with regard to that -- obesity. and when we looked in our study, those are really the factors that are within government control that really distinguish how countries did in this pandemic, the successes f...

All the various sources, we had so much misinformation, politicize asian out there, so many people are confused, and now theyre hearing two different things. what do they do? >> chris, i think its important for people to understand, that the role of the cdc is to provide guidance, to provide advice for the entire country, not for the specific city or town where you may live. so that means that the cdc is going to be somewhat more conservative. they are going to be giving advice based on how thin...

Some places, some places more. >> actually, oil prices rose on the day of the announcement, and only fell in days later because of the threat of the omicron variant and fears of more lockdowns. as you said right now, the price of oil is more than $91 a barrel. some experts predict $100 a barrel by this summer and that directly impacts gas prices, which as you said, $3.44 a gallon for regular unleaded, highest since 2014, when it was vice president joe biden. and ralph norman uncovering three adm...