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with governor ron desantis as the white house pledges more support. today hundreds of thousands of floridians are still without power, shelters filling up as homeless numbers grow. and emotions are especially high on sanibel island. today for the first time, residents are returning by boat to see what's left. entire homes lifted by the storm surge and moved. we have crews covering it all. let's go to kaitlan collins traveling with the president. kaitlan, he just arrived. the president will soon take this aerial tour. then what? >> reporter: yeah. he's getting an aerial tour. that's...

7% year-over-year inflation, right? >> it was. and i think that that's something that the administration needs to own up to. that last still the plus package that we had -- stimulus package that we had effectively poured gas lean on the fire, and we found -- a university of chicago study found that 1.5 million spouses drop out of the work force thanks to the child tax credit being delivered starting last july in cash. so the economy has suffered, and this has caused, you know, butter people in the work force, it's caused wage inflation which is a company's biggest line item, biggest expense to...

A lot of people feel very anxious right now because this virus continues to disrupt way we live and kill countless people every day, and the shortage of testing is not helping the matter at all, and then on inflation, i mean, look the cost of living is very high right now. consumer prices are going up at the fastest pace we've seen in nearly 40 years. that means paychecks are not going as far and clearly, phil, people are not happy about it. >> yeah. eating into and overcoming some of the wage gains. i want to dig in on inflation with you. if you bring up nearly four decades high year over yea...

Also, with respect to energy, oil has come down so much. it was trading in the $44 range, that gasoline prices have dropped precipitously around the country. while the president's taking credit for that, it also means that consumers are getting a break on gas lean. we're down in the low $2 range for regular unleaded. that's effectively going to help consumers free up their pocket books at a time when we're worried the economy might be slowing down a bit here and abroad. >> ron, gas prices typically drop a little lower in the winter anyway, right? >> yeah, because you switch over to heating oil...

Congressman trey gowdy joins me live in a moment. first, ed henry at the white house tonight with the top story. hi, ed. >> good to see you, martha. gas lean on the fire that was already raging with lawyers for president trump saying there should be a second special counsel appointed to investigate the fbi and career officials at the justice department for an alleged bias against president trump. in the hot seat today as you noted the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who appointed the special counsel in the russia probe. he testified he does not see an appearance problem with people on r...