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grady trimble has a story, grady. >> hey liz, public schools in chicago were closed again today as acago teachers union walkout continues. more and more parents are intrigued too because so many public schools have gone virtual in a new type of schooling called micro- school. they have smaller class sizes and fewer students. you can see that parents are interested in this type of education because public school enrollment has dropped off by about 3% and the u.s. from 2019, 22020. kristin is the director here at humboldt park we have kids in the school it yourself. why do you think parents are interested in this? especially during code they have in person in classroom interaction. >> this pandemic really gave parents the opportunity to look for something that might be different as far as education for their children. we are able to offer things like we play outside for two hours a day. we have a lot of hands on individual learning. we have multi- ages in the same classroom. looks obvious so there are certain drawbacks to a private education. one is cost. what are some other concerns p

elizabeth: grady trimble, thank you so much. really appreciate it.ucation committee, congressman james comer. great to have you back on, congressman. there is an uproar, chicago educators, mocking their strike on facebook saying they will take sick pay, days out for sick pay, even while on strike. that they could do this until june. should they quit and give other jobs. the mayor said if they don't show up for work they shouldn't get paid. where do you come down on this? >> i agree with the mayor first time ever. their job is to teach our children, unfortunately, what we're seeing is, the teachers unions have taken control of the public school systems in the largest cities in america. guess what, those are the school systems failing, those are the school systems we see the test scores decline the most. it is direct correlation to having virtual learning. students need to be in the classroom. if teachers, teachers unions are going to still work with democrat party to create an environment where they can opt out of going to school in lieu of virtual le

grady trimble has more. grady?united states are suspending elective procedures to deal with this latest surge of covid. that is something many hospitals did at the start of the pandemic and they are once again doing it. across the country from maine to michigan, from wisconsin to washington governors are calling in national guard members to help overwhelmed hospitals that are dealing with staffing shortages. nationally nearly 80% of hospital beds are in use right now. about 20% with covid patients. more than 1000 hospitals are reporting critical staffing shortages with more expecting to in the not-too-distant future. that is because after combination of factors, from burnout among health care workers to those who are getting sick. in california, for example, health care workers who test positive for covid but are asymptomatic are allowed to keep working according to the state's health department. the american hospitalization also says that the vaccine mandate for those who work in health care could worsen staffing

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stuart: grady trimble, thanks very much. by the commerce department shows delivery of semiconductor chips from start to finish has doubled from maximum of 182 days to 365 days a year leaving us companies in the auto industry with chronically low supplies. the biden administration is touting the us innovation and competition act, which includes $52 billion in funding to boost domestic chip production. the house and senate debating bills that would provide additional funding for chip manufacturing, the white house claims us chip companies announced $80 billion in new investments on 2025 but that doesn't help the current situation. stuart: bernie sanders doesn't want to provide that money. and biden praising gm and their $7 billion investment in electric vehicles. what is he saying about this? ashley: a sign the administration's efforts to strengthen the economy leading to a manufacturing come back. 7 million will be spent, make electric pickup trucks which will cost $4 billion total as well as building a us battery cell plant

grady trimble has our report. ♪♪ a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on?ns of polygons here! what's going on? where's regina? hi, i'm ladonna. i invest in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to the nasdaq-100 innovations, like real time cgi. okay... yeah... oh. don't worry i got it! become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq stuart: two big-name tech stocks which are way way down this morning dragging the nasdaq down, look at tesla down 4.7%, $56 lower. nvidia down 4.5%, two major losses from big-league tech companies. americans lead blue state in droves last year. you've got the report. my question is will the mass exodus continue this year? >> experts think so. it carried over from 20222021 so there's no reason to believe that won't happen again in 2022. if you look at this new survey from united van lines, they move a lot of people, they find people are moving from areas with higher cost of living and high taxes. they are also moving for more space. where they moving to? places like vermont topping the list, south dakota, south carolina, west v

grady trimble is in chicago with the very latest. grady? reporter: hey, ash.day, but the chicago teacher's union is threatening to walk out later this week. they put in a request to the school district amid the rising cases to go back to virtual learning for two weeks while the school district implemented new safety protocols. they asked for a requirement that all students and staff show a negative covid test to return to the classroom today, they asked for 300 testing sites across the district and for the district to handout better face masks like n-95 or k n-95 that didn't happen the district insists classrooms are safe without those measures and now the union will vote tomorrow whether to walk out on wednesday. there's a similar back-to-school standoff taking place in new york city because of dispute between the district and the union, and more than 2,100 schools across the country are either closed for the first few days of the new year, or are going all virtual for a week or two, to start the new year, because of these rising cases. all of this though, de

grady trimble is live. ately, sandra. several government agencies are warning people to beware. people are looking for personal details like information from insurance companies or identifiable information. these testing sites in many states are unlicensed and unregulated by the state. one company said the center for covid control operates more than 300 sites. they have an f rating from the better business bureau and under investigation in illinois and several other states. they received numerous complaints and now they say they're shutting down for the next week to try to get a handle on all of these problems. the illinois attorney general, sandra, says your best bet is to go to state-run sites or city-run sites where you won't be preyed on. >> sandra: grady trimble in chicago. thank you. thanks for joining us. by the way, i'm going to join our friend, larry, at 4:00 on fbn. i'll be co-hosting "the five." >> john: looking forward to that. i'll see you sunday. "the story" with martha starts now. >> martha: g

grady trimble is in princeton, illinois, with more on those details, grady. reporter: hey, ashe, america's farms are the first step in our country's food supply chain. they are dealing with extremely high prices right now. you can see what they're doing today is hauling grain. this is oy beans being loaded into the truck. one of the reasons that they are paying more in general is because fuel costs have gone up but evan, the farmer out here in illinois will tell us it is not just fuel prices are a lot higher. it is just about everything you need to do your job. >> everything from fertilizer, equipment, capital investments with our operating, everything, has gone up. reporter: eventually that does trickle down to grocery stores. we saw from the cpi numbers today meat prices climbing higher. beef up 18% from a year ago. all the other categories also higher from last year. that is because you know, livestock is fed your corn and soybeans. if you're paying more eventually it will trickle all the way down to the grocery store. >> not a direct correlation with all

. >> martha: grady trimble reports. grady? >> martha, mayor lori lightfoot and chicago's top public health officials say schools should stay open here in chicago, this cdc and dr. fauci says it's safe and president biden says schools should stay open. yet the chicago teacher's union members voted by 73% to shut down in-person classes today in the city of chicago. the district says there are no classes going on today either in-person or virtually. in discussing why schools should stay open, president biden pointed to the more than $122 billion allocated to schools as part of the american rescue plan. you can see by the numbers, new york city, los angeles and chicago got nearly 10% of all of that money with $1.8 billion going to the city of chicago's public schools. schools got more money from previous stimulus packages and yet the chicago teacher's union says that the district is not doing enough to keep them safe. they want more testing and they want the district to hand out better masks. >> that money went out to the states.

grady trimble has been following this. from chicago o'hare international airport. grady. >> reporter: hey, david. despite that deal, some international airlines like british airways, air india and emirates canceled flights into the u.s. today over fears from the 5g rollout. here in the u.s. though the domestic airlines, the majors, seem to be expecting maybe some minor disruptions. but it appears the worst of the fears that they had like mass cancellations of cargo and passenger flights has been avoided. and that is thanks to that agreement between verizon and at&t to launch towers everywhere in the u.s. as planned except for some close to certain airports. and even the international airlines that were worried about the 5g rollout seem to be less worried today. japan airlines says we have received confirmation from the faa that there's no longer a problem with the operation of the boeing 777, and we will resume service to the u.s. mainland with the boeing 777 starting tomorrow. at issue here, the main concern from the airl

to grady trimble at o'hare international airport with more on this back and forth. grady?er international airlines have cancelled flights over concerns with the 5g roll-out. here in the united states, the major airlines have put pressure on the telecom industry and government officials saying that the roll-out of 5g could create chaos for flyers. it seems that pressure worked. at&t and verizon say they will delay turning on some towers around airport runways. at&t says we're frustrated by the faa's inability to do what many countries have done, to safely deploy 5g. so instead, verizon and at&t will launch towers everywhere else as planned with the exception of the limited number of towers around airports. the airlines say 5g signal could interfere with instruments on planes. president biden says that this agreement from the cell providers will avoid devastating disruptions to passenger travel, cargo operations and our economic infrastructure. more than 90% of the wireless towers will be implemented as scheduled. so it seems like the worst has been avoided but we'll see whe

requirements and the online learning, all of a sudden out of the blue in the middle of all of this , grady trimbleent in public schools, so they're seeking out alternatives. grady has the latest from chicago. grady? reporter: hey, neil, and we are at one of those alternatives. we're at humbolt park montesorri and this is smaller class sizes, fewer students and more one on one-time with the kid. let me show you the numbers in terms of public school enrollment because you're right. its dropped pretty substantially in chicago specifically over the last couple of years. down about 25,000 students from the 2019 school year, to now. kristin ediger is the director of this school and you also have some kids here and you started this because you're a parent yourself, so tell me about, you know, why you think enrollment might be increasing, especially now during covid. >> i think parents were just looking for different options and what might fit their kid better and having this shift with covid brought that about so they look for a school like ours that might have more outside time, more hands-on instructio

grady trimble following these developments in chicago.l these spikes of omicron cases, three days running million new cases today, everyone seems to be getting this thing, but the good news is not as severe, hospitalizations are up but they're running about 50% lower than they were a year ago. let's get the latest on states like mississippi, also seeing a spike in cases but i must preface here, not the dangerous cases that we were seeing a year ago. tate reeves the governor of mississippi kind enough to join us, governor, good to see you. happy new year. >> happy new year neil, thanks for having me on today. neil: could you update us where things stand in mississippi with the whole omicron thing? >> i can. we've seen as you mentioned earlier, a significant uptick in the total number of cases. in fact just about 15 days ago. we had a seven day moving average of about 200 cases per day for seven days. as of yesterday that number had risen from 200 cases on a seven day moving average, to 4800. with today's number, what i expect to be reporte

grady trimble has the latest on where things stand right now for the kids and their parents. est? reporter: they're not, neil. the mayor and the union have long had a contentious relationship but even public health officials here in chicago and federally, dr. fauci, they're saying schools should be open, and so is president biden. he went on yesterday and said that schools here and everywhere should be open right now, yet 73 % of chicago teachers union members voted yesterday to shutdown in-person classes. the chicago public school ceo said they're not doing classes in-person without the teachers but they're also not going to do it virtually so there are no classes whatsoever today. in discussing why schools should be open, president biden pointed to the $122 billion schools across the country got from the american rescue plan. look at new york city, la, and chicago. they got a huge bulk of that, almost 10% of it. they got even more money when you count the previous stimulus packages, yet the teachers union here says the district has not done enough with that money, they say t

. >> sandra: grady trimble in chicago. thank you. thanks for joining us. by the way, i'm going to join our friend, larry, at 4:00 on fbn. i'll be co-hosting "the five." >> john: looking forward to that. i'll see you sunday. "the story" with martha starts now. >> martha: great. we'll see you soon. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. so after a bruising week and critics on all sides, signs on this friday that there are changes that they're working on at the white house. that after this brushing off of the press by president by den. >> martha: the white house has announced that the president will hold his first formal press conference at the white house in ten months. it's going to happen wednesday at 4:00. that will be appointment viewing. we'll be there. so far, we don't expect big policy shift because of what we're hearing in the tea leaves from washington. the latest moves seem to be digging in deeper on their existing policies. like what? like more covid money? another go-around at build back better and also they say the way they want to tur

first, grady trimble is in chicago.if they have to go back. >> yeah, hi, martha. chicago schools are back in session today but that could change because the teacher's union is threatening to walk out. they asked the district to go virtual the first two weeks in order to implement new safety protocols. they're asking for testing for all staff and students. they want 300 test sites established and they want the district to hand out masks like n-95 and kn-95 to all teachers and students. the district insists the classrooms are safe without the measures and the union will vote whether to walk out on wednesday. there's a similar back-to-school standoff taking place between the district and the union in new york city. despite the fact that public health officials and the education secretary have said classes should take place in person. >> any decisions on very short term or emergency closures are most likely based off of staffing issues. they're safety issues when you don't have adequate staff. the goal is full time. the stu

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patients is putting a strain on many hospitals are really dealing with critical staffing shortages grady trimble outside of swedish hospital in chicago to tell us how the hospital is dealing with the increase. >> like so many other hospitals here in chicago and across the country they put a pause on elective procedures for the time being so they can deal with the latest wave of covid patients, that is something the hospitals did at the beginning of the pandemic looks a bit of a problem for them those of the most profitable procedures. nationally nearly 80% of hospital beds are in use 20% with covid patients, more than 1000 hospitals reporting to the dhhs they have critical staffing shortages right now, more are expected not to the not too distant future in the week or so that's because of a combination of factors burnout they have been dealing with the pandemic for the last two years. on top of that many workers are getting sick in many getting sick for the second or third time throughout the pandemic. in california workers don't have to quarantine for five or ten days if they are asymptomatic b

fox news, grady trimble has more now from chicago o'hare international airport. the major u. s.lines are putting pressure on government officials and cellular company saying that the rollout of five g could cause chaos for flyers and it seems that pressure is working because both verizon and 18 say they'll delay turning on a limited number of towers around certain airport runways. a tnt says. we are frustrated by the f a's inability to do what nearly 40 countries have done, which is to safely deploy five g technology without disrupting aviation services. and we urge it to do so in a timely manner. both companies say they're launching towers everywhere else in the country as planned on wednesday, with the exception of a limited number of towers near airports. the airlines say the five g signal would interfere with critical safety instruments on planes and the rollout could cause mass flight cancelations as well as a suspension of cargo flights. that means that goods aren't moving around as as quickly and effectively as they need to in order to not have supply chain disruptions. s

grady trimble shows us how it works. you can think of these as high tech fire spotters. get mounted on mountaintops and high vantage points all across the west coast of the country and even in australia, and they can pick out using artificial intelligence technology fires. sonia kastner is the ceo of this company, pano that is pioneering this technology. and it's already in use in the real world as we speak. absolutely we're in four states and the united states and also australia and tell me what the goal is because, you know, traditionally decades ago, there were people in fire towers looking for fires. this is essentially the same thing, but it uses cameras. absolutely where it's the exact same principles of fire tower you mount on a high location where smoke you can see smoke rising and we used the are we use artificial intelligence to detect the smoke, and then we use triangulation methods, same as what would be using a watchtower. to determine the exact latitude and longitude and send crews there. nip it in the bud before it gets out of control. exactly every mega f

foxes grady trimble reports. you can think of these as high tech fire spotters. cameras get mounted on mountaintops and high vantage points all across the west coast of the country and even in australia, and they can pick out using artificial intelligence technology fires. sonia kastner is the ceo of this company, pano that is pioneering this technology. and it's already in use in the real world as we speak. absolutely we're in four states and the united states and also australia and tell me what the goal is because, you know, traditionally decades ago there were people in fire towers looking for fires. this is essentially the same thing, but it uses cameras. absolutely where it's the exact same principles of fire tower you mount on a high location where smoke you can see smoke rising and we used the are we use artificial intelligence to detect the smoke, and then we use triangulation methods, same as what would be using a watchtower. to determine the exact latitude and longitude and send crews there. nip it in the bud before it gets out of control. exactly every

grady trimble at chicago's o'hare airport. how long's this delay going to last? emirates, they've canceled flights into the at least for the short term. how long that will last, i guess we'll have to wait and see. we haven't gotten word yet from verizon or at&t on how long they'll keep that down. but it does appear that the worst of the 5g rollout concerns have been avoided thanks to that last minute agreement from the cell carriers. they launched their towers everywhere as planned today except within certain distances of some airports across the country. delta says though while this is a positive development for preventing widespread disruptions to flight operations, some flight restrictions may remain. at issue here is that the 5g frequency is close to the frequency of certain safety instruments on some planes which they use to land, especially in low visibility. i spoke to a tech consultant. he has verizon among his clients, and he tells me that there's plenty of blame to go around for the rollout of 5g and the issues with it and that this will have a lasting

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grady trimble in chicago, explain to me what a micro school is. >> i learned that today as well.u think is by the uptick in enrollment? >> it is because parents have been looking at what kind of education they want for their child advocate things like we can offer different we like we go outside a lot and have individualized learning and hands on learning during our school day. >> reporter: you are not going outside today when it is 6 degrees here but if you look at the numbers for chicago public school enrollment they have been going down over the past few years while your enrollment has been going up. one of the reasons could be parents want their kids in schools and you state open through the much of the pandemic. >> we been able to stay open and in person. a lot of it is because we are really small, we can keep track of who is coming in possibly second do a lot of testing on site and keep track of the community. >> reporter: obviously you have to pay for this type of schooling. it is more expensive for some parents but you have an interesting pay structure. >> one of our miss

grady trimble is in princeton, illinois, what is always inflation doing to our farmers, grady?up exorbitantly, in some cases from 30% to 50%. parts are harder to get on for replacement for that farm equipment and you grow corn and soybeans out here in illinois and connect the dots for us, higher prices could lead to higher prices at the grocery store for everyday consumers. >> our corn and beans and the livestock which becomes the meat and biden the store and to a certain degree those increases make their way down. >> reporter: we are dealing with those increases in meat specifically, 12.5% compared to a year ago. the white house came out with a statement president biden says they are making progress in slowing the rate of increasing prices. are you feeling that progress? >> i hope progress is being made but doubt we see any relief tomorrow or next week, we are strapping in and getting ready for a long haul. at least another year or so. >> reporter: you heard it could be a year or more before they have real relief and in the first step of the food supply chain for the nation, i

grady trimble joins us from long grove, illinois. hat people have become too reliant on government these days , grady? reporter: they are, stu, and they are still having a heck of a time finding employees we're at joanie's pizza in long grove, but several other business in town and you have so few employees at all those businesses that you're actually shuffling people around to try to stay open. >> no, absolutely. what we've done is cross-trained my head chef over at chatterbox, comes over here and helps us, and we have the bartenders moving back and forth. it's so tough right now. reporter: what do you think the main factors are, because we've seen reports that 22% of americans personal income came from the government last year, whether it was through social security but also other things like the child tax credit, stimulus checks. that has to be playing a role, right? >> oh, absolutely, absolutely. i think they are still getting government-funded money. we're doing everything we can, giving them more money, giving them 401 (k), givi

grady trimble is in chicago. how the hospital is dealing with wave of cases there? the country are suspending profitable elective procedures to deal with this surge in cases just like they did at the very start of the pandemic. according to dhss numbers, nationally nearly 80% of hospital beds are in use, 20% with covid patients. more than 1000 hospitals are reporting critical staffing shortages, with more expecting to in the not-too-distant future. combination of factors, health care workers experiencing burnout, others getting sick n california, health care workers who test positive for covid but are asymptomatic are allowed to keep working. the american hospital association says the vaccine mandate for health care workers could worse renn staffing issues saying that the aha will work with hospital field to find ways to comply that balances the requirements to the need to retain sufficient workforce to meet the needs of their patients. in many states the national guard is being brought in to act as nurse assistants or provide help for overwhelmed hospitals. i will

grady trimble, just outside chicago this morning, and grady, how are the gun store owners handling this: ash, when they can find ammo, they're buying it and buying a lot of it by the pallete full in many cases but unfortunately, they're paying a lot more for it so that means customers are paying more for it. jeff regner is the owner at key firearms so how much more are you having to charge customers because of these inflated prices >> the prices pre-pandemic are about twice as much currently in the market. reporter: and what about it's hunting season so big game rounds that you'd need to go hunting that's even more ex possessive and more difficult to find right? >> absolutely it's non-existent and when we do find it we pay a lot of money for it. reporter: you've got a big stash but certain rounds are hard to find? >> anything other than .9- millimeter is challeng ing to get and when we do find it it's very expensive. reporter: if you look at the numbers of background checks during the pandemic in general in 2020 and 2021, the increase in background checks for gun sales has gone up , it'

grady trimble is live in illinois where grady, you've been talking to the farmers.corn and soy bean farmer. your costs are going through the roof for everything you need. >> yeah, we've seen 30 to 60% increases the last year. it's getting hand to handle. >> that causes down the line. this is used for feed. so that causes meat prices to go up. >> yeah, it's not a direct correlation. if our prices are up, meat prices will be up, too. >> and we've seen that with beef, with chicken. you name it. prices are going up, sandra. this is the first stop in america's food supply chain. unfortunately they're paying more and down the line to the stores we're paying more. >> sandra: such an important story. thanks, grady. in america's heartland. people in middle america and the midwest know the price of a bushel of corn, wheat. they know it like gasoline by the gallon prices. >> john: my wife went to the grocery store. he said grocery store shelves empty. i got the last jug of milk. looks like we're in a depression. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and

grady trimble in chicago with the latest. grady. >> hey, ash.nal information. things like insurance information and identification information. this company runs this site, it is called center for covid control. they have 300 sites across the country according to their website. they are close right now as they are under investigation here in illinois and multiple other states. they have been operating from the better business bureau who says they received complaints about people not getting results back, terrible customer service and some locations asking for id info. for its part, the company says it is committed to serving our patients in the safest most accurate and most compliant matter regrettably due to our rapid growth in the unprecedented recent demand testing we have not been able to meet all of our commitments and that is why they say they are closing for the next week to try to close out those problems. in the meantime, the better business bureau is giving people advice and how to avoid getting scammed. only use authorized testing sit

he spoke with foxbusiness grady trimble on the future of ford. grady. >> hey, jackie.of that build back better proposal. forward is ramping up production and so is it detroit rival general motors. investing $7 billion in electric battery and truck plants in michigan. forward wants to ramp up production from 600,000 electric vehicles per year by 2023. of course, part of that plan is a $12,500 ev tax credit for people that purchase new electric vehicles. i asked ford ceo if you would consider standalone legislation that was an ev tax credit separate from the build back at her plan. we also talked about how ford can stand out amongst all of the different makers from the industry leader like tesla to smaller setups like caribbean and lucid motors. listen. >> what makes us different is we are electrified our most electronic vehicles. we know our customers really well and we are scaling now. half of the electric vehicles are sold in china. we have to catch up. whatever form it takes for government to work with us we will do the investment in the product in that capacity expa

grady trimble is digging deeper into all of this in princeton, illinois. grady?reporter: edward, america's farmers are dealing with rising prices for essentials like fertilizer, up 30% from a year ago. fuel to run their equipment up 50-60% from last year. even the farm equipment itself costs more. evan holstein is a corn and soybean farmer out here in illinois, so connect the dots for us as to how higher prices for you eventually leads to higher prices at the grocery store. >> sure. so our corn and soybeans get fed to livestock which in turn becomes the meat you buy at the grocery store. so ingredient increases we're seeing eventually trickle their way down to the consumer. >> reporter: the latest cpi numbers show that all types of meat from beef to chicken up substantially from a year ago, and that is likely because of, what we mentioned, your costs are just through the roof right now. >> yeah. i think, you know, we're just seeing an immense amount of inflation and, hopefully, we'll see some relief down the road, but it'll probably be a while before we expect th

larry kudlow is here to weigh in, and also team coverage with kelly o'grady, but first with grady trimblehe shelves full, here they have too much beef and largely because of the omicron surge as northwest meat company will tell us, basically everybody canceled reservations over the holidays and you have all this left over. >> the omicron surge happened, i lost a lot of reservations with customers. as a result, any of the product i purchased for holiday parties i'm sitting on and it's about 25 to $30,000. on the grocery side, you are wholesale, empty shelves down the meat aisle, extremely high prices. the president is blaming monopoly, what do you see? >> efficiency, how quickly you can dismantle the animal and process, and if you have thinks that hinder efficiency, trucking, spreading out people because of covid, you'll have higher prices. >> this is dry aging beef, soaking in bourbon, it smells absolutely delicious. they just need people to go back to restaurants and start enjoying it again. >> sandra: meat soaking in bourbon, did you just say that? >> right here. >> sandra: that's a fri

grady trimble has more on a farm in princeton, illinois. how are they doing and dealing, grady?tely everything is costing farmers more from fertilizer to fuel to equipment like combines and tractors. we're not talking about small increases. we're talking about 30 to even 60% in some cases. evan is a farmer out here in illinois and you are trying to plan for the upcoming year. it is hard to do when costs are exorbitant right now. >> definitely looking at a much different environment from a year ago. just trying to figure out how we can navigate the next year with the massive price increases. >> you grow corn and soybeans used for livestock feed and impact meat prices down the line. up 12 1/2% year-over-year already. what does the future hold? when your costs are higher the livestock farmers more and more at the grocery store, too, and it is already way up. >> unfortunately we're looking at a couple of years of increases here before things settle out as this trickles down from us all the way to the consumer and everyone in between it will be a long time before we get relief. >> wh

fox businesses grady trimble is live in chicago. hi, grady. >> we're at one of those microschools.udents in total at the school in class right next door to us in a separate classroom. i'm with the director kristin and you have seen an uptick in enrollment during the pandemic. while other schools were closed you guys stayed open for in-person instruction. >> we've seen a little increase, 10 to 20%. >> what do you attribute that to? >> parents are more engaged with their children's education as they've been dealing with online school so they've been looking at how do i really want my child to learn and they are looking at alternative options and other ways of learning. they looked at montessori. >> if you look at the numbers at cps, public school enrollment has gone sizeably in the last three years or so but switching from a public school to a school like this does come with some concerns i would imagine the price and some other considerations. >> i think price comes into it. that's why our school is focused on accessibility and having a mind shift from making sure my child is reachi

airline carriers call -- fox business network grady trimble is live in chicago.lines say the 5g roll-out could ground a large number of flights potentially causing chaos in the u.s. and stranding tens of thousands of americans overseas. in a letter to transportation secretary pete buttigieg and other government officials they said immediate intervention is needed to avoid significant operational disruption to air passengers, shippers, supply chain and delivery of needed medical supplies. to be blunt the nation's commerce will grind in a halt. they argue 5g could interfere with critical instruments on planes and propose launching the service everywhere in the country except within two miles of runways at certain airports. at&t and verizon did not respond today. 5g has been safely rolled out in nearly 40 countries. the faa tells us they are continuing conversations with the airlines as well as the wireless companies in order to avoid any 5g-related flight cancellations or delays. the clock is ticking and they go into effect tomorrow, the 5g roll-out. >> dana: we'll

grady trimble has details for us. grady. >> reporter: hey, jackie. help prevent wildfires. what this company does is they mount these cameras on mountaintops, overlooks, on cell towers where they can see landscape, and the cameras are artificial intelligence. they use machine learning software to scan for wildfires. and as soon as they spot one, they alert authorities that there is one. and here's a % example of that a playing -- perfect example. the camera picks up on that smoke in the distance and then it triangulates and lets authorities know exactly where the fire has broken out. the company has 25 cameras installed right now with the goal of expanding that all over the west coast where these fires have become so prevalent. i spoke with the ceo who described how she expects this to play out in the real world. listen. >> in today's worsening wildfire conditions, every minute matters in response. every mega-fire started as a small fire, and if fire authorities can detect, confirm and pinpoint the fire rapidly, they can get a heavy response to the f

fox business's grady trimble is in chicago with how much pain we could be feeling at the pump. grady? reporter: ash, prices for car and gas you need to drive them are outpacing just about every other sector when it comes to inflation. look at the numbers over the last year. edward just noted motor fool up almost 50% from a year ago -- fuel. used vehicles cost 37% more than last year. new vehicles up about 12%. new car prices head records last year. in fact edmunds is saying the average transaction price is now higher than the average msrp. americans are paying on average $662 more for a new car than the automakers themselves say they should be selling for. and as far as those gas prices go, ashley, you say buckle up. $4 could be on the horizon. price cost rise even more if demand coming off the omicron wave is higher than expected. typical runup between now and memorial day with the folks at gas buddy is 35 to 85 cents a gallon. we could top that. in chicago where the gas is 3.79 at this gas station. we'll hit four bucks a gallon soon. same goes for california, new york, new jer

our own grady trimble is live at a wholesale meat supplier in chicago. his , grady? reporter: hey, david. at the grocery store, they can't get enough meat delivered but here on the wholesale side, where they delivered these products to restaurants, they had so many reservations canceled during the omicron surge that they have too much of it. andrew nevis is the owner at northwest meat co. tell me what happened you basically have double the meat you'd like to have on hand. >> yeah, so in october prior to omicron i purchased all this product because as we know everybody wanted to get out so i bought all this product back in october had to pay for it in november about 25 to $30,000 worth of product, and then when omicron came and the cancellation all my high end steak houses canceled their reservations so as a result, i'm now sitting on all of this product that i still haven't gotten paid on. reporter: more than $20,000 worth. now switching gears to the grocery side which you don't handle but you're in the industry so you know enough about it, the biden admi

factories, grady trimble is live in whitewater, wisconsin on the factory floor at generac. , all of the challenges lauren just described, they're seeing first- hand here at generac, and they were already dealing with the labor shortage and then you throw the omicron surge on it and aaron yagfeld, the ceo will tells it was a tough combination absentee rates were as high as you've seen them during the peak of the surge. >> they were between 10 and 15% over the last month so its been a really challenging environment to operate. reporter: the good news is you think you're on the back side of that. cases are going down, amongst workers. the problem is the worker shortage persists. >> it does. we're at an unemployment rate of 3% in the state of wisconsin so it's a competitive environment right now. reporter: what are you doing to compete for workers? >> obviously you have to raise wages, you got to have starting, hiring bonussings, we have benefit plans that we had to enhance, a lot of flexibility in the workforce in terms of the ships and everything. the first shift, second shift

fox businesses grady trimble is at chicago's o'hare airport with more on this. grady? david, the airlines, have been putting pressure on government officials as well as the cell providers saying if 5g roll out takes place without any immediate action it could lead to chaos for flyers and it seems that pressure that they have been putting on is working because at&t just confirmed to us that they will delay turning on a limited number of towers around certain airport runaways, saying in a statement they're frustrated by the faa's inability to do what nearly 40 countries have done, which is to safely deploy information sufferingses and urge us to do in a timely manner. they're launching towers everywhere else in the country tomorrow, with the exception of limited number near airport runways. the airlines say the 5g signal interferes with critical safety instruments on planes. united said without any action the the roll out could have suspension of cargo flights into certain major cities, causing a negative ripple effect own already fragile supply chain. that is what at&t

illinois among those overrun states grady trimble is in chicago with the very latest on that story. >uding this one at hospitals across the country are suspending elective procedures just like they did at the very start of the pandemic because there's so overwhelmed by the rising number of cases and hospitalizations. in other states from maine to michigan and wisconsin to washington governors are calling in the national guard to overwhelm hospitals. there acting as assistants to nurses and fulfilling other duties at those hospitals, nationally 80% of hospital beds rn news and 20% of those with covid patients. as you said more than 1000 hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages right now with many more expecting to in the not-too-distant future. right now 17% of hospitals that report to the dhhs. there's a combination of factors leading to the staffing shortages. healthcare workers burden on others getting sick. in california there trying to combat that the state health department says healthcare workers who test positive for covid but asymptomatic are allowed to keep working as

grady trimming in -- grim -- trimble in chicago. is this fight over for good?hicago public schools is saying, at least through the end of this school year, but with the union and cps involved, you never know. as you said, teachers are back in the classroom today, students will be back tomorrow: here are some of the highlights of this agreement. there are new metrics for individual school closures. a certain percentage of teachers and students have to be out for a single school to close, not a district-wide shutdown. they're also expanding covid testing and making better masks available for staff and students. the teachers were pushing for n95 or kn95 masks. in speaking about this agreement, mayor lori lightfoot said district-wide virtual learning was not an option again. listen. >> would you completely factor remote learning again without a public if health reason to do so? it would have created and amplified the social, emotional and economic turmoil that far too many of our families are facing. >> reporter: a grape -- a group of parents is trying -- suing to

grady trimble at chicago's o'hare airport. how bad are we talking?n a large number of flights in the airlines collectively say it could potentially strand tens of thousands of americans overseas. in a letter to transportation secretary pete buttigieg and other government officials major airline ceos that immediate intervention is needed to avoid operational disruptions to air passengers, shippers, supply chain and delivery who needed medical supplies, the nation's commerce will grind to a halt. they argue 5g could interfere with critical safety instruments on planes and instead proposed launching faster service everywhere in the country except within two miles of runways at certain airports. for their part, at&t and verizon will operate these 5g services declined to comment today but previously pointed out 5g has been successfully and safely rolled out in 40 countries elsewhere. on planet earth, the faa says talks continue between the airlines as well as the wireless providers to avoid any mass cancellations or flight delays related to the 5g rollout

grady trimble in chicago. the tests still haven't been sheped. are the shortages -- shipped. preying on people desperate for tests in order to try to get personal details like insurance and id information. finish and these pop-up testing sites across the country in many cases are unregular regulated and lice licensed. one company called the center for covid control operates more than 300 sites across the u.s. according to their web site, but they also have an f rating with the bbb and are under investigation in several states. they received complaint about not receiving results from tests, bad customer service and that some locations are asking for that id info. the company says its problems are because of rapid growth and high demand for testing. they told us they were temporarily closing all of their operations across the country starting today for the next week, but this is the center for covid control location, and they are open right now. here's a statement from the company. they say we've made this difficult decision to temporarily pause all operations until we are conf

grady trimble is there. do we have any idea when kids will be back in the classroom? only if they get enough teachers to show up. the district says just about 10% of all of its teachers went into the classroom yesterday. the vast majority of them staying home and not doing virtual learning either because the district has shut that down. we talked to one teacher, joe, he's one of the few who went to the classroom. he hasn't participated in a work stoppage by the ccu since 2005. he even has cancer, and he's still going into the classroom to teach. this district-wide shutdown, he says, doesn't make any sense when he points to his classes of 82 students and not a single case of covid that he knows of this week. >> but zero? zero? nobody has covid and they have to stay home? i think that's not fair. that's not fair to the students, that's not fair to the parents. >> reporter: democrats, republicans and public health officials are all in rare agreement that one of the safest places for students to be right now is in the classroom. school districts across the country, they'v