advisers about the president's plan to alleviate the strain on american families. meanwhile, a massive aid package for ukraine is one step closer to reaching president biden's desk as the war on the ground intensifies. we're going to bring you the latest from kyiv. also happening today, a major vote on a bill that would lock in protections for abortion rights, but is expected to fail. and we're learning new details about a palestinian american journalist killed in the west bank overnight. we begin with a sign the soaring inflation may be peaking. the government reported a short time ago that the consumer price index rose 8.3% between april of 2021 and april of 2022. now, that's down slightly from the 8.5% reported in march. but prices are still high. very high across the board. food up nearly 9.5% from this

time last year. gas prices fell 6% in april, but are still up more than 40% from this time last year. and if you're planning to travel this summer, airfare rose nearly 19% last month. hotel rates are also up. when it comes to food, milk, eggs, chicken, butter, margarine, all saw huge jumps last month. gas prices may have fallen in april, but they're shooting up again. aaa says the national average for regular up to $4.40 a gallon, despite inflation being higher than expected. the markets are in positive territory. they're up about 250 points right now. president biden is facing a lot of pressure to do more to fight rising prices. he is about to leave for illinois, where he will visit a family farm to talk about what his administration is doing to lower the cost of farming and

food. one day after he told the nation he is taking this issue very seriously. >> i know that families all across america are hurting because of inflation. i understand what it feels like. i come from a family where when the price of gas or food went up, we felt it. it was a discussion at the kitchen table. i want everyone american to know that i'm taking inflation very seriously and it's my top domestic priority. >> with us now to talk about this, nbc news correspondent morgan chesky, and shaquille brewster in florida, and insider columnist lynette lopez. what should we be taking away from this report this morning? i don't think i can hear you. i don't know if we can hear you. >> sorry. >> there we go. >> am i back? >> you're back.

so what can we take from this report this morning? >> we have a very complicated picture when it comes to inflation in this country because there's only so much we can do about some of the pressures that are on, especially the most volatile elements, food and energy. those elements are being really blown out by the war in ukraine. the faster that conflict is solved, the easier it will be on the rest of us. but hopefully, hopefully we are peaking here. we won't know for sure until we see a few more, but this is looking good. the job numbers from last month were still really strong, so the fed still has a mandate to continue pushing up interest rates. as we look at the economy now, the fed doing its work has not put us into recession. we're still looking strong. so the medicine is still -- how

can i explain this? we can still take the medicine, we can still take it. >> so the question of taking the medicine, of course, is important, but when we go to the market and we see the price almost every day of essential food going up, lynette, this is really troubling. is there any on the food issue, for example, is there any relief in sight? >> i wish i could say there was relief in sight. i wish i could say there was. the best thing that could happen is -- they can move food around the country more quickly. biden had mentioned something about that in his speech. but there isn't a lot that the united states can do about this situation. we are a rich country, we have a lot of resources to deal with

the situation, so in that sense we are in a good position. but a lot of the factors here are completely out of joe biden's control. >> so, morgan, let's talk about gas prices. they're on the rise again after falling in april. what's behind this new spike? >> reporter: josé, a couple of different factors are contributing to the record we've seen. the average gallon of gas in the u.s. sitting around $4.40, according to aaa. we'll talk about that in just a minute. but i do want to point out that everyone is trying to find a solution to this surge in prices, and that includes drivers, those here at dfw international airport. i'm standing in front of one of the jets that's using what they're calling sustainable aviation fuel and this is all part of an initiative between dfw and a company that uses used cooking oil from restaurants inside the airport. they're trucking it down to a refinery and then turning it

into, believe it or not, actual jet fuel that can be distributed as needed to part of dfw's jet fleet. they say this is going to greatly reduce carbon emissions and hopefully take away some of the sting from the rising fuel prices in the future. this is just an early part of this program. but as for those gas prices that everyone is absolutely feeling, josé, the numbers speak for themselves. $4.40 for an average gallon of gas, diesel about $5.54 right now and that number is crucial, because that's what we're all going to end up feeling with so many goods being transported all across the country by those semi trucks. we can only expect as consumers that that rise in diesel cost is going to trickle down to us because it will be much more expensive to get things from point a to point b. couple that with the fact that president biden has a ban on russian oil, there's a potential european embargo on russian oil as well.

that, combined with the fact that we are in a summer season where demand and that special blend of gasoline is more costly to produce, all kind of creates this perfect storm for drivers, josé, that are no doubt going to be having to pay more with no clear end on when that $4.40 record, the highest that we've seen, will be dropping. >> and we were just speaking with jacob ward on the west coast. we're seeing prices of $6.80 a gallon in some places. that average is high. boy, some of the gas prices that we're seeing around the country are really shocking. shaq, you've been talking with voters about how they feel about the pinch from soaring prices. what are they telling you? >> reporter: yeah, and these conversations shed light on why this is such a big political priority for the president and it's because it's such a big personal issue for them. you and morgan were just talking about the increase in gas prices.

we also know you go to the grocery store and see the increase in food prices. here in florida the big problem is the increase in-housing prices. the one thing we learned from that report, another thing we learned from the report that came out this morning is that the shelter index, the cost of housing is rising at its highest pace since march of 1991. here in the jacksonville area we've seen a 30% increase in rent prices just in the past year. so this is something that people notice, they feel, and i want you to listen to some of my conversations about how much it's impacting them. >> worse, worse. >> how so? >> well, obviously a lot of my friends are talking about the gas prices and being able to travel this summer. >> in the grocery store as well, sort of picking and choosing my battles now is what i really need versus what i want as the prices increase. >> we're being more picky about what we shop for. i'm trying to pick things that i can turn into two and three

meals. >> reporter: the last person you heard from, we met her at a food pantry in the jacksonville area. they say they've been seeing an increase in people. they saw numbers shoot up with the start of the pandemic and it's only stayed at that level and they say the one thing they're noticing is that more than 80% of the people they are serving have a source of income, for most of them it's a fixed income at a time when you see a rise in prices. then it brings you to the question of who folks are blaming for this. i want you to look at this poll from last month. you see folks are spreading the blame around a little bit more than you might expect. 64% say the biden administration is very or somewhat responsible for inflation. you have 83% of those voters saying covid-19. 62% saying the war in ukraine. i think there are many different areas that folks are blaming. but the clear point is in these conversations, when you're talking to folks, is that

they're not happy about it and they're definitely feeling the impact of the rise in prices. >> shaq, i think something you started the conversation with is housing. it is really a problem. >> reporter: that's exactly right, a serious problem. and like you saw in that report, you saw housing is continuing to go up at a pace that didn't taper off when you look at the other sources of inflation. and this is something that when you talk to economists, many people spend about 40% of their income on housing, so if that price is going up, if you are paying $600 for rent last year a month, and now that goes up to $900, a 30% increase, that is something that you will feel. and if you don't have that disposable income, if you don't have that add in your income, then you really are going to have to resort to other things. that was a significant reason why, when we went to that food bank, that's why they said they're seeing so many more

people. they say the biggest thing they're hearing is the increase in-housing is affecting a lot of people. you add on to the fact the increase in gas, increase in food, there's not many options that people have when everything is increasing except their paycheck. >> and lynette, "the new york times" pointed out this morning about how price increases are being measured, saying, quote, increases are now being measured against high price readings from last spring, when inflation began to take off, instead of depressed 2020 levels. that higher base makes annual increases look less severe. president joe biden will visit a farm in illinois to announce steps the administration is taking to lower the cost of farming. what exactly does that mean? in other words, is there something going on with how the numbers are being read, or is this normal? >> what they're saying is that because we've had this inflationary problem for so

long, the year-over-year numbers are a big number on top of a big number, which is why it feels even worse than it actually is. that's all that means. and so the government started talking about fighting inflation early last year. they knew it was a problem. but the problem just became more and more complicated with the war in ukraine and with china in lockdown. the port at shanghai is just absolutely clogged with ships, goods that have not been able to make it here to the united states. and china is having the same problem with mobility within the country that we are having. so what was already known to be a problem, and we fed watchers and people in the government thought would only last for as long as we were getting out of our covid misery, has actually been prolonged because of these

geopolitical issues. and so what we thought was once going to be a transitory thing is even stickier. and that makes it even more important that the feds -- cool demand. that means that people will experience higher prices and say i need to make choices at the grocery store, i don't want to buy that house right now. that's when prices will start going down. but this is looking like it should and, unfortunately, that's not great. >> no, no, it's not good at all. and lynette lopez, thank you very much. shaquille, thank you for being with us. with us is a member of the white house economic advisers that advises the president. it's great seeing you. what do you take away from the numbers today? >> well, we've seen a little bit of a deceleration in the top line numbers. inflation was 8.5%, now it is

8.3% in april. but that's, as the president will tell you, any time he talks about that, we know that's too high. that is uncomfortably high, as your last panel was just discussing for american households. this is a president that grew up in a household where when the price of gas went up, they talked about it around the kitchen table. so he is acutely aware of these challenges and that's why he has dispatched his economic team, of which i'm a member, and he talked about this yesterday, to do everything we can to help with these price pressures. and we have a robust agenda to do so that i'm happy to take you through and i think that's probably what's most important, what are we doing to help. because we are on the case recognizing how tough this is for family budgets. >> jared, let's go down a little bit of that meaty thing here. because i think when we're talking about things like food, which is up 9.6% -- i mean, look

at these numbers. and then what are the things that are essential? food is number one. look at the cost. and gas, shelter, rent. >> yep, exactly. so food and energy are important cases right now because both of them are negatively affected by putin's invasion of the sovereign nation of ukraine, obviously something that we're working on in tandem with other allies. and the president, from the beginning, has said that this will create upward pressure on commodity prices, but we have to do everything we can to help. when it comes to food, he's traveling to the midwest to talk to farmers about ways in which we can work with our usda, our ag department, to help increase yields and boost food supply. when it comes to energy we know this president has overseen the largest release of oil from our

strategic reserves, 1 million barrels a day for six months, he's increased ethanol 15 waivers in order to increase the supply of gasoline. that can lower the price of gallon by 10% to 20% at the pump. we know he's internationally engaged to help urgent all producing companies to meet their quotas. so reducing energy costs is one of those buckets. another is reducing transportation costs to make sure goods are flowing in and out of this country without a snarled supply chain. there we've made some real progress. container times are dwelling less on the ports, shelves are actually stocked at about the level pre-pandemic. there's reducing kitchen table plus, taking down the deficit, helping to decrease the labor supply. many of those initiatives we can do ourselves, some we need congress for. and one other thing, and this was the focus of his speech yesterday, in every one of those categories we simply see no helpful, coherent ideas coming from the other side, from the

opposition. >> right, and i just want to remind everybody, the war in ukraine is 77 days old and a horrendous situation, which is no doubt affecting a lot of things. but this seems to be a pattern that is on the increase for more than 77 days. i came across this tweet from the former council of economic advisers, the chair, jason furman, who wrote this is the inflation story, this is the story to worry about, core services inflation has increased for four straight months. we're getting the much predicted hoped-for reprieve on good price increases, but services matter five times in the computation of the cpi. what does that mean, jason? >> you mean jared. >> what do you think that means, jared? >> it means that there is -- one of the things the president talked about yesterday is that when you think about the causes of the current inflation, certainly the pandemic, he called it the first cause. when the pandemic hit, and this

is what my good buddy jason is talking about -- when the pandemic hit, demand for goods over services shot up. so people were buying exercise equipment, they weren't going to restaurants. as that demand rebalances, jason is right, we have to look at the service sector. one of the ways we can help keep inflation down in the service sector and by boosting the supply of labor. as long as we have strong demand for services and strong response on the labor supply side, that's going to help better align as that rebalancing takes place. now, we've seen labor supply coming up pretty strongly in recent months, but, again, we need congress' help there. and in the area of providing accessible, affordable child care, we know that that would help create a pathway of entry into the job market, that would improve labor supply and put downward pressure on the point

that jason is making. so these pieces fit together well but we need congress' help to move with speed on helping ease family budgets in this area of child and eldercare. >> jared, thank you so much for being with us. i very much appreciate your time and your analysis. thanks. >> thanks so much. coming up, today's senate vote on a bill to make abortion legal nationwide is expected to fail. we're live on capitol hill with why. but, first, we go live to ukraine with a dire new warning from the mayor of mariupol. riders! let your queries be known. uh, how come we don't call ourselves bikers anymore? i mean, "riders" is cool, but "bikers"...is really cool. -seriously? -denied. can we go back to meeting at the rec center? the commute here is brutal. denied. how do we feel about getting a quote to see if we can save with america's

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ukraine, a dire humanitarian crisis is rapidly unfolding. the mayor of mariupol is warning that 10,000 people in the city could die by the end of the year, as people grapple with increasingly limited access to food, medicine and water, and we're learning more about the toll of the trauma of this war on the lives of everyday ukrainians. the head of at the maternity ward say mothers are experiencing immense stress. >> we get out because no

soldiers were there, they just came in the sky. but after five days my friends wanted to go home -- to other places, and they -- to them, there's babies, homes everywhere. >> they shot at them is what she was saying. meanwhile, back in the u.s. the house of representatives has passed a massive $40 billion package that includes both humanitarian aid and military assistance for ukraine. that bill now heads to the senate. joining us now, nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin, live from ukraine, and pentagon correspondent for "the new york times." good morning, what more are we learning about the situation in mariupol? >> reporter: josé, we've been hearing, really, harrowing stories of survival. i was speaking earlier today to a woman who says she was deported from that devastated city to russia. she described how in the early days of the war she and her

family sought refuge in the middle of the city. her apartment caught fire, her husband, as well as her son, ran out to see the situation, assess the damage being done, when she says they were shot by russian snipers. she was going to go out to try and attend to them, but mer daughter-in-law pleaded with her to stay, saying don't leave me alone with her granddaughter. they then sought refuge, she said, in the stairwell of that apartment building. luckily, she says that though there was smoke throughout the apartment, it did not reach their floor. but she had no food, no water, no electricity. there was no heating. and the bodies of her son and her husband lay on the street outside of that apartment building for seven days. eventually they were collected and eventually they were picked up by some russian journalists,

who took them to a so-called filtration center where they were interrogated and searched. from there, they were deported to russia. it wasn't until they got into contact with a western aid organization that they were able to escape russia for western europe. i asked her what it was like when she arrived on russian soil. take a listen to what she had to say. >> what did it feel like to arrive in russia, given everything they did to your family? >> translator: i could not even look at them because every one of them is guilty for what happened, even civilians for their silence. >> reporter: now, the mayor of mariupol says that 10,000 additional civilians could die by the end of the year, given the catastrophic humanitarian situation that is playing out in that devastated city right now. he says civilians trying to flee are returning to mariupol because those filtration centers

will only allow them to go to ukrainian -- to russian controlled territory, not to ukrainian controlled territory. he says the entire city, thousands of civilians, needs to be evacuated and needs to be evacuated now. josé. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you very much. what a story. i mean, experts say the new round of aid would break down to roughly $100 million a day. how does this aid get to ukraine's needs on the ground? >> hi, josé. thank you for having me. i mean, that's the big question, and what erin just reported emphasizes that. we're sending in all this aid, but when you look at mariupol, when you look at some of the particularly besieged areas, it's hard to get that in there. and, by the way, what erin just said about russian journalists taking this woman and her

daughter to a filtration center, i don't think you can call them journalists in that case. they're like assets of the russian government. but, anyway, the aid has been going over the border by land, particularly on the weapons front. the humanitarian aid is also going through by land and they're getting to places -- obviously they're getting to places, they're getting to kyiv, some of the places where the ukrainians have been mounting more of a fight. they're fighting and pushing back the russians near kharkiv, they're doing so in other places around the country, and that enables a lot of the aid to come into the besieged areas. but mariupol is its own particular issue because that city is still encircled, and apparently still not ready to give up. and that's sort of the dilemma

that's been confounding aid workers, government officials, people in europe, nato and the u.s., is how can we hope mariupol. i don't think we have an answer yet. but i can tell you that that question is going around and around and people haven't given up yet, that there has to be a way to get it in. >> and thank you, helene, by the way, for mentioning the thing of the russian supported reporters that were doing the government's and military's work. it's part of that whole authoritarian use of official press. we've seen it. there are news organizations that work for governments. helene cooper, thank you for being with us. appreciate it. up next, we hear a lot about trigger laws, state laws that would ban abortion if roe is overturned. what about the states working to make abortion more accessible?

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33 past the hour. this afternoon the senate will vote on a democratic bill to protect abortion rights nationwide. that vote will all but certain fail. this comes on the heels of the leak of a draft supreme court opinion indicating roe v. wade would be overturned. nbc's ali vitali is live on the hill. what is being voted on today? what is actually in this bill? >> reporter: the women's health protection act is the same bill in many ways that was brought up in february in the senate and failed then. it's the same thing that we expect to happen now, although the landscape around this issue has changed significantly because of that leaked supreme court opinion, that would all but strike down roe's protections and thusly trigger more than two dozen states across the country with abortion restrictions and abortion bans that are already on their books from antiquated laws. that's what senate democrats are moving here today to try to stop

from happening. this bill would codify the protections of roe, meaning it would allow a baseline regulation that all states allow access to abortion for those seeking to get it. where it starts to get broken down is this bill is slightly different than the one in february because of some language that had been taken out at the top. it was sort of like a statement of the sentiment of the bill that's nonbinding. that was taken out in an attempt to try to get more democrats on board for this. one of them who did is senator bob casey, someone who voted on the motion to proceed on to the bill the last time it came up for debate, but who was not previously for the underlying protections in the women's health protection act. casey came out yesterday, the pennsylvania senator, saying that he actually was both for this motion to proceed vote that's going to happen today, but also for the underlying protections in the women's health protection act because of the way the landscape has changed over the course of the last few weeks. at this point what we're

expecting is that 49 democrats are going to vote to move on to this effectively voting for the women's health protection act, and joe manchin is the only one we don't know how he's going to vote, but judging how he voted last time, he voted with republicans on the women's health protection bill last niem and we don't have any reason at this point to expect that it will change. >> ali vitali on capitol hill, thank you so much. on the state level both sides of the issue are taking action to either protect or restrict access to abortion if roe is indeed overturned. in california lawmakers are working on a bill that would expand abortion access and extend protections to people from other states. joining us now is california assemblywoman garcia, the legislative women's caucus chair and coauthor of that bill. thank you for being with us. so if roe is overturned, california would be home to almost 30% of america's abortion clinics. if your bill passes, what

happens? how does it work in terms of protection of abortion rights for people from other states? >> thank you. so the women's caucus actually started working on this in january when we introduced a package of 13 bills that both expand access, but also protect privacy. we want to make sure providers, patients coming from other states are protected and they're not able to have any sort of financial consequences for either providing an abortion or coming to seek an abortion here in california. so we're working to be a sanctuary. we've made it clear that a right without access is just an empty promise, so we want to improve on access everywhere, so we've been working on this package. california is prepared to be a sanctuary for anyone seeking an abortion. but even before this leaked document there was a sense of urgency because our most vulnerable communities have lacked access, even here in california. >> so how would, indeed, california become a sanctuary

state? how would that work? >> we have ab 1666, that would not allow individuals who are seeking an abortion or who have provided an abortion have anyone come after them financially, so no civil lawsuits. we're protecting privacy, we won't be sharing any information for patients or providers who are here in california providing these services as well. we're working with our clinics and our communities to expand that. we're working with nurses, practitioners, so they can help facilitate this process for individuals. we're creating a clearinghouse, a website for anyone from out of state or even here in california in a rural community, where they can go online and figure out where they can get an abortion and how to connect to private groups that help make the process easier. >> during a committee hearing on monday, opponents of your bill said it would create a national trafficking system open to widespread abuse.

what would you say to that? >> i would say that there's a lot of fearmongering out there, but the reality is that we must do all we can to ensure a woman has a right to control her body and have a family whenever they want. and let me be clear, overturning roe or sitting around and doing nothing is not going to stop abortions, it's just going to create more back alley abortions that are going to lead to complications and to deaths. but it's going to be deaths in low income communities, to women of color, lgbtq+ communities. if you have means, you will be able to travel and have access to reproductive justice and everyone else is going to be left behind. this is a scary time. it's not a time for fearmongering. it's time to figure out how we ensure everyone is able to control their destiny and bodies. it's insulting to hear they're saying this is about human trafficking when it's about giving someone the right to decide when and how they're going to start a family. >> california assemblywoman

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44 past the hour. in just the last six months, 80,000 cuban migrants have entered the united states. that's more than five times the number who came to the u.s. at the same time last year. nbc news now anchor, morgan radford, has more on the desperate journey many are making to get here. and, morgan, that doesn't include the many that were found at sea and turned back immediately, and those who didn't make it, dying on the way

to florida or to the border. >> reporter: that's right. josé, you and i both know how important this is and what that means. this is the largest, fastest wave of cuban migration since the 1980s. it continues to have a powerful ripple effect on our history and politics right now and right here at home. by land and by sea -- >> we have another one. >> reporter: -- one of the largest mass migrations in american history. nearly 80,000 cubans crossing the southern border in the last six months. nearly five times higher than the same period last year. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: and now on track to outpace the mass cuban exodus of 1980, the boat lift that forever changed history and u.s. politics. a journey today, one we saw

firsthan. >> this is the second one today. >> reporter: we're here just miles off the coast of florida and this is where the coast guard says they have encountered more cubans trying to cross in the past six months than the past three years combined. what goes through your mind when you see dozens of people inside one of these boats? >> i try to have some sympathy, what kind of situation in my life would i have to be in to risk this journey, get on a makeshift vessel that looks like it was made in somebody's garage. >> reporter: which is why many are choosing a different path. this woman crossed into the u.s. from mexico just two and a half months ago, while eight months pregnant. >> you were walking on foot, pregnant? >> her husband, was on house arrest back in cuba after being detained in an anti-government

protest last july. >> how did you feel knowing your wife was crossing the border alone? >> i was afraid. >> you were cold. so you got to a river where the water was about up to your knees. did you cross the river? >> yeah. >> one month later, they were reunited. raul fled to miami on a pre-pandemic visitors visa. covid, he says, created the perfect storm, and high prices, a shortage of basic goods, and a political environment that made him fear for his son. >> what changed for you? what is it that you didn't want your son to see? >> i didn't want him to grow up in a place where his family doesn't have a voice. [ speaking foreign language ] >> you're saying no one wants to have to leave cuba. what kind of point does someone have to reach to want to cross

90 miles, to want to wade through a river? you have to get to a point of desperation to make that type of decision? >> exactly. for everyone it's going to be different and we have a breaking point. but when you reach that point -- >> [ speaking foreign language ] >> that's it. so many people are leaving your country. something is wrong in your country. >> in the end they made it, their son born in the united states a month ago. was it worth it? >> si. [ speaking foreign language ] >> it was worth it, when you look back and you look at how things are going in cuba, you know it was worth it. josé, i think it is so important to underscore what raul said when he said he never wanted to leave his country. and when i spoke to his wife, she said, look, what does this mean to have an entire generation of young cubans who feel like they have to leave the island to make anything of their lives or to have that type of freedom.

of course we are journalists, so we ask for statement from both governments and for reasons for most of this recent surge. the cuban government continues to point to the fact that the u.s. embassy closed in havana five years ago, which has made it harder for cubans to come legally. the state department did resume some services, but as of today they are still processing far fewer visas than before. >> and we have to remember the reality of people leaving cuba didn't start five years ago. it started as of january 1st, 1959, more than 60 years ago. people have been trying to get out of an island that they see has no future for them. morgan radford, thank you so much. extraordinary reporting, as always. you can catch morgan's live newscast every day at 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific on nbc news now. up next, a palestinian

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i am josé diaz-balart kicking off another busy hour. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. breaking this morning, a new report shows inflation increased 8.3% from