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united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i'm christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden's aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration's decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now fro...

and we've just heard they're evacuating civilians from the line there. >> and russia continues to target critical infrastructure in ukraine, triggering power and water outages. overnight, central ukraine was hit, quote, all night long by russian attacks. also a new round of kamikaze drone strikes. ukraine claiming it shot down 13 drones in the mykolaiv region. clarissa ward is live with the latest. can you tell us what you're hearing happening near kherson? >> reporter: it's an interesting picture. one we didn't expect to see quite this quickly but what appears to be happening is the...

children at risk. seizing rainbow colored fentanyl pills. kids as young as 13 years old dying every day in their house. >> >> it not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use. flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in water treatment plants. >> nasa will try to launch the artemis moon rocket after scrubbing monday's blast off. nasa plans to return astronauts to the moon by the middle of the decade. ♪ there ain't nobody ♪ we turned this cornfield into a party ♪ >> steve: live from new york city, this is "fox & friends" on this, the final day of aug august ...

Levels for the seven tax brackets raising from 10 to 37%. it applies to individual income of $578,000 and $693,000 for married couples. the irs raising the contribution of flexible spending accounts by $200 and raising the estate tax and annual gift tax limits. i see christine romans standing there. she can help explain it more. basically what's happening here is the amount that you will be taxed up and down the tax rate -- >> that's right. >> -- you're going to get to keep some more of your money because cost is going up in other areas. >> this is all about inflation. taxes are based on there...

297,000 in 2020. now it's up to 693,000. and i think you know the year is not done yet. guatemalans 48,000 came in 2020. now we have 200,000. el salvador up to 84,000. it was 17,000. honduras, 41,000, now 182,000. colombia had 404. it has switched to 97,000 and 128,000 from venezuela. when donald trump was in office it was 2700. cubans it's off the charts. now 175,000. we had just 13,000. let me ask you, what changed? those scenes are allowing everybody in is the go sign to everybody who wants to come here not necessarily refugees hey, this is a great time to go to america and join the rest of...