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over the weekend. all of it part of that effort to address the nationwide shortage. as more babies are hospitalized. the flight was the first of several shipments expected from europe this week. we have new details this morning on when we could see some other flights. let's begin this morning with president biden's trip to asia. jeremy diamond is in tokyo. selena wang is in beijing. jeremy, first to you, president biden's indo-pacific economic framework, as it's known, agreement of a number of nations, a dozen nations in the region, something of a replacement for the transpacific p...

Ukraine has quote compounded the effects of the covid-19 pandemic slowing the economic recovery, also fanning inflation. she also added the world faces a quote potential confluence of calamities for the supply chain, volatility, markets and that's a lot at once. >> i was thinking the exact same thing. in the meantime, cnn learned exclusively president biden is exploring tapping into a diesel reserve to ease the spike in prices. an emergency decoloration, would enable biden to release diesel from a rarely used stockpile. the reserve is relatively small. it would be a temporary solution but coul...

Even though we don't put it in our cars, this is the workhorse of the economy i often hear it called. >> yeah, prices are very high and is causing anxiety in the white house for a good reason. diesel is what powers the trucks, boats, trains, tractors, anything that hauls stuff around the country. national average for diesel is $5.55 a gallon, that's three cents off the record high last week, 75% higher than a few years ago. energy demand is strong. two, the war in ukraine scrambled energy supplies and also, there is a series of retirements of refineries in the united states and canada so the s...