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Prices of necessities in the u.s. are still going up. another key inflation gauge just hit double digits. >> cnns matt egan is here to explain. so, where were seeing the steepest price hikes. >> not surprisingly, its food and energy, gasoline in particular. new report out today shows that selling prices from producers jumped by 10% year over year in february. thats tied with january for the biggest 12-month gain since tracking began a dozen years ago. as you can see from that line chart, prices ...

Like this. you look at the line chart of inflation, this is the worst in years and certainly the most meaningful price inflation we have seen in our recent memory. strip out food and energy, and this growth rate is 4.9% year over year and half a percentage point, half a percent for the month from october to november. and it has been energy driving much of this. youve seen that, we have talked about gas prices and those prices have been moderating in the past few weeks, which is why some economis...

Direct correlation, why is inflation, well the government is spending money. that is not the reason for the inflation. the reason for the inflation is that we have a supply chain problem that is really severe and it is causing a significant increase in prices, in things that in fact are hard to get access to. because at the bottom, the bottom of it all, is covid. >> with us now are cnn business reporter matt egan and white house correspondent phil mattingly. matt, lets start with you and put the...

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4:22 p.m.: Boone County reports 10 new cases The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health & Human Services reported 10 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of active cases to 66. According to the Missouri vaccine dashboard, an estimated 45.2% of Boone Countys 180,463 residents have received at least one vaccine dose.  149,107 total doses administered of a vaccine 81,545 COVID-19 vaccine regimen activated 69,380 COVID-19 vaccine regimen completed 8,414 d...

5:30 p.m.: Over 35% of Cole County has initiated vaccination The Cole County Health Department will now show positive case totals by day, which reflects the date the specimen was collected instead of the date the results were received by the Health Department. This change will cause a delay in the daily totals being reported for the current day. The county is also no longer reporting active or isolated cases. There have been 7,846 cases in Cole County, an increase of 6 cases over 24 hours. T...

Second dose administered same place/time on Thursday, May 27 7:25 a.m.: Missouri reports 225 new cases, no new deaths in last 24 hours The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services added 225 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in Missouri now stands at 503,303.  DHSS reported no new deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of COVID-19 related deaths since the pandemic began is 8,745. DHSS started reporting vaccination data on Jan. 27. Numbers will ...

3:50 p.m.: Over 150 residents vaccinated at Audrain County events 157 Audrain County residents were vaccinated at two events over the past two days, the Audrain County Health Department announced Friday. 76 residents received a vaccine at an event in Vandalia on Thursday, and 81 residents received a vaccine at an event in Mexico on Friday. All 157 residents received the Moderna vaccine. Those who received the vaccine in Vandalia will return to the YMCA on Thursday, May 13th for their second dos...

6:05 p.m.: CPS 14-day case rate continues to decease, 35% of CPS staff members vaccinated The Columbia Public Schools 14-day case rate per 10,000 people is at 10.9. The updated CPS student tracker shows 220 students in the district currently in quarantine and 28 active student cases. The district has seen 2,629 quarantined student cases and 623 positive student cases since June 2020.  The updated CPS staff tracker also shows 24 staff members currently in quarantine and 4 active staff c...

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