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44 past the hour. this morning the labor department announced the weekly number of americans applying for unemployment rose to 244,000. that's an increase of 9,000 from just last week. that's on top of another rough inflation report today showing wholesale prices rose near record 11.3% from last june. this comes after the announcement that the price of consumer goods increased by more than 9% over the year. joining us now, msnbc's lindsey riser at the largest food bank in new jersey and victoria soto, dean of clinton public school at university of arkansas and msnbc analyst. lindsey, what are ...

Stunning speed. >> certain regions in the country, there's up to 50% of the isolates are omicron. that's a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. when you have a doubling time that is that short a period, pretty soon, that isolate is going to take over. >> we could be having a million cases a day if we're not really attentive to all of those mitigation strategies and, you know, a small traction of a big number is still a really big number. >> do a million cases mean really sick people? let's bring in lindsey riser right here in new york city. kerry sanders down in miami. andy slavit...

Allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. good morning, everybody. i'm lindsey riser in for craig melvin. as we speak, the u.n. assembly general is holding a meeting about the crisis. we got confirmation that government web sites were hit with a cyber attack. ukraine is moving to impose a state of emergency, even while kyiv's mayor is telling people not to panic. some families are sending

Resisting russian aggression. that does not include fighting inside ukraine, which president biden has properly said we will not do. we're not a european union nation, they're not part of nato. >> matt, i want to go to you on the ground in moscow. put putin delivered an address saying the interest of russia and security of its citizens are, quote, unconditional. you watch and pay attention to a lot of state media. what does he mean by that and what does that signal for where his mindset is right now? >> reporter: thank you, lindsey. well, this is basically -- what we're seeing from the kremlin...

And gas and to modernize it, diversification away from you russian energy and by fortifying nato's eastern flank in the most unified and determined way in the past 30 years. we can do all of this with confidence with our way of life, our economic and political model. if russia wants to sequester itself from the west, that's a bad choice and we're ready to step up and advance our principles in defending ukraine. >> it is a pleasure to see you this morning. thanks for being with me. that wraps up the hour for me. thank you so much for the privilege of your time. lindsey riser picks up with more ...