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A covid case on the ride so fears of more government power grab like we saw last year, wil they happen? just that part thought of it sparking major backlash. weve made it halfway through the week,. >> exactly halfway through the week so we are halfway through the show. good to spend the second hour with you. there was even talk about requiring people to carry some sort of health pass proving tha they arent sick before they ca go into places like bars and restaurants. it went over really well in ...

Better for their health, but you cant figure out how to keep mom home alone, and how to do it or dad. elder care is a good piece of this. paid leave. we are one of the only industrial countries in the world, and you dont get paid leave if you have a sick son, daughter, mother, wife, husband to take time to take care of that. bring more people into the workforce and enhance the productivity and raise wages, and bring down the cost for working families. i was born up in scranton and lived nup -- l...

Better for their health, but you cant figure out how to keep mom home alone, how to do it, or dad. elder care is a big piece of this. paid leave. were one of the only industrial countries in the world that you dont get paid leave if you have a sick son, daughter, mother, father, wife, husband, to have some time to take care of that. bring more people into the workforce, enhance our productivity, raise wages, and bring down the costs for working families. you know, i was born up in scranton and m...

Helping as pass the tax cuts fo families with children. people who are seeing now in their bank accounts, showing up in their bank account every month. and working with our administration to expand home care for seniors. weve got a generation between the child and the mom or dad needing help. and they need help. provide better. pay for caregivers freight and want to thank bobby casey, a great friend of mine who champions this because in the united states and it eldercare. you know, john mack sta...

Do you have any idea what time well get out of here? >> this is michael scott, scranton. well, we dont want to work. its not fair to these people! these people are my friends and i care about them! >> from the 1990s, were definitely working more than ever before and as a result of that you start to see more workplace settings than might have been possible previously. >> were a superstar short. did we have any luck on jim carrey? >> we never let him plug "ace ventura". >> larry sand jerz broke th...

>> reporter: inevitably you will have to? >> oh, yeah, i will, theres no way to get around it. >> cnn, scranton, pennsylvania. >> thanks to vanessa for that report. now that the flashy opening ceremonies are in the books, it is the athletes who are taking center stage at the olympic games. up next, well take you to tokyo for an update. heres a quick programming note for you. be sure to catch a new cnn exclusive. youll learn how people pay the ultimate price when three empires collide. tomorr...

Including wall street, are suggesting that it is highly unlikely that it is going to be long term inflation thats going to get out of hand. there will be near term inflation because everything is now trying to be picked back up. >> vanessa yurkevich took a trip to scranton, pennsylvania, to ask how people feel about rising prices. >> reporter: the price of just about everything is going up. from used cars to gas to food. >> when things go up, it hits immediately. >> reporter: consumer prices up ...

Biggest jump in annual inflation in nearly 13 years and in president bidens hometown of scranton, pennsylvania, which he often uses to take the temperature, theyre feeling it firsthand. >> the worst its been. >> mike moleski is it at the auto auction. you have more guys bidding against you driving the price up. >> the price of a used car will cost you 27% more. >> reporter: are you seeing prices that you have never seen before for vehicles? >> yes. yes. theyre outrageous. >> reporter: and thats ...

Joe biden. they know me. period. >> go on. >> theyre not saying it. republicans are saying it on the far -- im not -- anyway -- >> no, i want you to talk about this because i mean its an important narrative. there is no more important issue, i think, right now, than safety. you can -- you can rebuild a home. you can, you know, get a lot of things back. but, mr. president, you cannot get back a life. >> thats exactly right. >> yeah. and if police arent doing their jobs, that increases. >> no. if ...

Menu costs him more to make, but he hasnt raised prices just yet. >> im wondering when theyre going to stop. then ill know where my baseline is. >> reporter: inevitably you will have to. >> i have to raise prices. theres no way to get around it. >> reporter: now, president biden and the federal reserve chairman jerome powell say that these price increases are temporary, but a lot of the small business owners that we spoke to think that some of these higher prices will actually stick, and the cus...