. >>> the price is right steve sedgwick joins us from london to preview the new u.s. inflation numbers and how they could provide new relief for consumers. >>> and america's sweetheart fights for her hive. mary lou retton is battling a rare illness what her family is saying about support pouring in from around the world. it's thursday, october 12. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm frances rivera >> i'm phillip mena. we begin with the war raging between israel and hamas, the bloody conflict entering the sixth day. 22 americans are among the dead with 17 more still missing >> antony blinken will be in israel meeting with benjamin netanyahu showing support for one of america's closest allies. for more on washington's response, we're join by brie jackson in d.c the president also spoke again about support for israel >> reporter: that's right, good morning, frances the president hosted a group of jewish community leaders at the white house and in the meeting said military assistance was being rushed to israel, including ammunition to help support israel's ea

steve sedgwick joins us to tell us what's going on. >>> and join the national zoo in saying good-bye to two giant pandas heading back no china. it's thursday, october 26. "early today" starts right now. >>> good early morning. i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. we begin with that breaking news in lewiston, maine. another mass shooting in america and the gunman is still on the run. law enforcement sources say between 15 and 20 people are dead, about 50 people are injured. some of them were trampled as people tried to run away. there is still an urgent search for the suspect. >> police released this photo of a person of interest named robert card. they believe he is armed and dangerous. a recent bulletin said he recently reported mental health issues. a nurse told nbc news it was youth night last night. and we have not learned any of the age of the victims. >> officials released this feet over a car believed to be linked to the shooting spree found in nearby lisbon, maine. people in lisbon and lewiston are urged to shelter in place while authorities search for the shooter. >>> le

of voting for speaker >>> ahead of today's closely-watched speech by fed chair jerome powell, steve sedgwick joins us to talk about what we can expect >>> the fbi is warning of a new war super charged by ai. >>> and working on the golf game with the pga hope program. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. there are inclaereasing signs tt a deadly strike on a hospital was not caused by israel but by a palestinian rocket that misfired while visiting tel aviv yesterday, president biden told the israeli prime minister, quote, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. >> for the latest, let's go to claudio lavanga. how does the president know? what evidence does he have that led him to that conclusion >> reporter: good morning, guys. president biden has based his conclusion on evidence that was provided by the u.n., u.s. defense department i'm sorry. nbc news has made its own assessment by consulting with four ministry and munitions experts. we show them tens of photos of the blast and aftermath and concluded that it's unlikely that

we have steve sedgwick with us good morning >> good morning, frances at the moment i can say that theket reaction is measured as well let me go through asset classes. we saw a flight to safety, money going into gold. what we've also seen is the european equity markets under a bit of measure around about to a mean seven-tenths of 1% the london market is trading around the flat line because oil stocks, bp and shell on the london market which have been moving north wards, moving up as the price of oil has gone up at one point the price of oil was between 4% and 5% higher that morning, that's come back brent and u.s. measured wti are trading between 2 and 3% higher as well. the narrative seems to be at the moment if this remains a war between hamas and israel then this will be contained as well, but if there are other players who get involved, the likes of hezbollah and iran as well, there are concerns about what the ramifications could be from a wider conflict, especially on the oil markets and that will have ramifications on the global economy and of course inflation once again which se