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after a costumed character appeared to snub two little black girls. mother's response right here on cnn as the park called the incident a misunderstanding. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start in our earth matters series. half of humanity is in a climate danger zone. that is the message today from the very top of the united nations and the record temperatures many of you are feeling right now are just a symptom, multiple heat waves across the globe are creating a series of crises just look at this video from london. a row of houses on fire. officials say because of the...

Us? >> they tell the economy was strong at the end of the year, and the price problem is not fully vanquished yet. when you look at how prices have come down from 9.1%, the annual inflation rate in december of 2022, that is why inflation is issue number one for so many families. now you're down to 3.4%. in november, it was 3.1%. there has been real steady progress but this was a little hotter than expected. it shows you that progress isn't defined and perfect. this is a bump in the road there. a lot of people expect inflation to continue to come under control in 2024, but when you look at food...

>> go ahead, david. >> i was just going to say, the sitting president did not do himself any favors, governor dean saying it was his mistake, he's been transparent. he did not do himself favors by not getting it all out there and saying, look, there are other documents, whether from the podium or his lawyers, somebody putting the full information out. if another document shows up in some place tomorrow, it will be really bad. >> let me be frank about this, i think that is a price problem. i think the press always gets indignant if they don't get a full serving of whatever, and this is an issue...

President biden is doing about inflation? >> well lawrence, look, i think that prices are high. we need to bring them down! you covered earlier, the fact that one thing the president did was tackle a price problem that really pinches americans. which is the price of gas. it's a number one price thing we hear about, and over the course of the summer, 98 consecutive days, we brought the price of gas down by the releases from the strategic petroleum reserve. by other actions we took to bring the wall together. to get the price of gas down. went down all summer, started to go back up at the beginn...

Your basics are costing you more so as a result, you have to choose what you're not going to buy that you were buying before. that's why president biden is using that, today, this bio fuel center he's touring in iowa, to make this announcement about what the white house hopes will be a step that will lower gas prices a little bit by allowing consumers this summer to purchase what's called e-15, a bio feel that has up to 15% ethanol in it. it costs about 10% per gallon less than a normal gallon of gasoline. this is not something that's going to solve the price problem for people, but it is an e...