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Good morning. >> that fire closed a link that leaves the port. with the supply chain there is a lot of finger pointing. the truckers and the warehouses and the biden administration. did it make sense to pay people not to work through unemployment benefits when you had 500,000 job openings in the transportation sector. this is where we are. 58 ships off the coast of california right now on the ports of long beach and l.a. waiting to off load one million containers. the president's solution extend the port hours. instead of 5 days a week, 3 shifts 7 days a week doubling capacity and asking fed-e...

United states and around the world. brand-new this morning, an urgent push to fix the tangled global supply chain, what the white house is calling a 90-day sprint to unchoke the bottlenecks that are feeding into inflation. a senior administration official said the port of los angeles would move to 24/7 service. the port of long beach has already been working around the clock. those two ports, they handle 40% of the container traffic in the u.s.. the white house also said walmart, fedex and ups, three the largest goods companies in the country will move to 24/7 operations. the supply chain nigh...

Lisbon. lord— to trade. yesterday, in a speech in lisbon, lord frost, the brexit minister. _ lisbon, lord frost, the brexit minister, called for the northern ireland _ minister, called for the northern ireland protocol to be entirely replaced — ireland protocol to be entirely replaced by something completely new and completely different. what we are going — and completely different. what we are going to get it today is the eu response — are going to get it today is the eu response. they are going to propose some _ response. they are going to propose some pretty major tweaks to the prot...

Country as the white house tonight keenly aware that any big issues with the backlog could severely affect the holiday shopping season and potentially the president's political standing. >> this is a big first step in speeding up the movement of materials and goods through our supply chain. >> reporter: the port of los angeles, the nation's largest, will now operate around the clock, along with the nearby port of long beach. together, they handle about 40% of the country's container traffic, carrying laptops, tvs, and toys, and holiday gifts, soon to be in higher demand. >> the commitment is b...

And restock empty shelves in th port of los angeles as it operates 24 hours seven days a week. a supply chain in shambles and rising inflation and skyrocketing gas prices. bill standing by to weigh in. madison's live at a supermarket in new jersey but first a long beach california were dozens of cargo ships are offshore waitin to be unloaded. this is the largest port in the us about 40 percent of all container traffic i can show yo why this is the epicenter of th supply chain crisis. right now about 50 ships anchored offshore waiting to ge in.