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Recipients. cnn's matt egan is joining me with more. matt, what are you seeing? >> unfortunately prices are still soaring, sort of like a rocket ship. in september we saw consumer prices jump by 5.4%. that's an acceleration from august. it's tied for the biggest gains since 2008. month over month prices up .4%. both numbers are moving in the wrong direction. if you take out food and energy, which tends to be more vulnerable, core prices were up by a more modest amount, but still significant. of course, americans can't take food and energy out of their budgets and the budgets are getting squeez...

Officer of that ship are now being charged with essentially sanctions taking that iranian oil on board that super tanker, trying to take it to a refinery in syria. in the meantime, however, the state department does seem to be leaving the door open to diplomacy a little. they have decided for now at least not to put sanctions on iran's foreign minister. boris? >> show of restraint even as the revolutionary guard declines to admit that anything happened. they're still apparently in denial. reporting to london, thank you. the if he had may have to -- a key report on consumer prices was stronge...

Slight 1/10 of a percent in march, while core prices remain flat. it's important to know that consumer spending makes up nearly two-thirds of the overall economy, still, household budgets are under pressure as the hourly earnings are on the climb. stephen moore will dip into that from the "wall street journal" in 30 minutes, too. martha: here's a bit of cheery news for you this wednesday morning, turns out there's a plan that could mean more of your money gets burned up at the gas pump courtesy of uncle sam, a small bipartisan group of senators says here's a good idea to help raise money, how ...

Core prices which are considered to have more of an impact on consumer spending, so the consumer is still propping up the consumer is still propping up a lot of economies right now, it will be interesting to see if they can do that at the end of the year, every will have price increases of four or five or 6% every month. have price increases of four or five or 696 every month.- have price increases of four or five or 696 every month. good to talk to you. _ five or 696 every month. good to talk to you, thank _ five or 696 every month. good to talk to you, thank you _ five or 696 every month. go...

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