>> martha: that's "the story" on this halloween. tomorrow we'll be in ohio. at 6:00, i'll co host a town hall with bret baier with j.d. vance and tim ryan a week from tomorrow is election day. "your world" starts right now. see you in ohio. >> eight days away. as martha said, the tension is building. so to the close races. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world" board to board political days. it's more political and more nastier as each hour and day goes by. we're tracking with that and what role the president will be playing. oddly, a little passive and standing back. peter doocy is at the white house. peter? >> there's so much attention in the closing days on just a

handful of battle grounds. ohio, georgia, pennsylvania. the republicans who are trying to flip control of the senate say they see opportunities in some races that have not been getting as much attention. >> i think we clearly pick up georgia, clearly pick up nevada and a good chance in new hampshire. we have a really good chance in arizona. and joe day is behind. and levy is behind five points. depends on the night. i think we'll have a great night. >> the closing argument for democrats is all about republicans. warning if congress clips, social security and medicare benefits are in danger. the republicans say they want to undo the inflation reduction act even though they'll need biden's signature to do that. there's a new abc poll that shows 38% of voters will trust

the gop more with handling inflation as 21% say they truth democrats. the president himself has had really limited exposure to the campaign trail lately. the only battle ground on the schedule this week is pennsylvania. again, he's also going to drop into florida and new mexico. >> i'm feeling good. i've been in i guess now 36 constituencies. i'll be spending the rest of the time making the case that is not a referendum. it's a choice. it's fundamental choice. a choice between two very different visions nor the country. that's what it's about. >> later on this hour, president biden will go into the roosevelt room to deliver marks where we expect him to blame big oil companies for recent high gas prices. there's a trick-or-treating event. based on everything that we've seen, the scariest costume this

year is somebody dressed up as he's approval ratings or the economy. >> neil: wow. you went there. that was clever. i'm going to take that and run it as my line. peter doocy at the white house. let's go to aishah hasnie following thinks developments right now particularly in georgia. you have a gubernatorial race there, a senate race. you have the former president there. the pile-on is on eight days out. how are things looking in cartersville, georgia? >> interestingly enough, we've heard a lot of talk about former president obama. his name has come up quite a bit from herschel walker himself. he did not like the former president's visit on friday because the former president went after him hard. so for the past couple days here, including today, herschel walker has been hitting back hard on the former president. so take a look at the event that just wrapped up here in cartersville. a big crowd for walker. 100 to 150 people.

very excited to see him. and walker really hit the former president and his criticism because obama called him a celebrity that wants to be a politics. walker says he's not a celebrity. he's a warrior for god and obama doesn't belong in this state. listen. >> i tried to tell obama, i'm that warrior for god. he said i'm -- what he say? what did he call me? i'm like a celebrity. what in the world in he only hangs out with celebrities. he never hung out with me. >> never hung out with me, he said. you know what? every single vote here matters right now. if you were to look at recent polling from the university of georgia, you'd see that this race is at a dead heat. we're looking at a run-off if voters went to the polls today. now, democrats still a little

bit shocked at how little walker's scandals have hurt him even after the second woman came forward accusing him of pressuring her to get an abortion. walker, of course, has denied that. really hasn't affected him in the polls. senate majority leader chuck schumer was caught on a hot mic last week telling the president that the senate where we're going downhill is georgia. what is interesting, especially about the abortion issue, neil, that i've been talking with voters, conservatives asking them about this. they say look, even if it were true, if he had done that, they feel like he has basically changed his life, that they're welling to forgive him. because now he's pro life. they also just want to make sure that they send a republican to washington to gin back control of the senate. that's the goal for republicans in this state. neil? >> neil: thanks very much for that, aishah hasnie in georgia. let's get the read-out where we

stand eight days out. you always talk about who is getting a late surge, who is bet if it from the recorderly voting. early records for the mid-terms to say nothing for the hundreds of thousands for those that vote in the key states with mail-in ballots. samantha is here and josh. let's get your take first, san man that on what trends you might be picking up. in key races in the past and josh and i got into this, we've seen late surges that defied polls at the time. in 1994 when republicans were expected to gain but nothing like the 54 seats they did or 1980 that weekend before the presidential election when as hard as it is to believe, ronald reagan and jimmy carter were tied and a few days later a blow-out. anything like that that you're picking up or getting sort of vibes on? >> neil, i was in arizona the last week.

it's very clear that this race, especially in the senate, is very close. you can see what the situation is looking like as to whether or not president biden decides to campaign with these different candidates. we're seeing that he is not in certain states like arizona, nevada, states like that. and you know, that is because the president is really a drag on these candidates. these candidates are really trying to separated themselves from the president. we've seen that in their approach. you know, having the president there would be a problem. however, we are seeing president obama as we saw in the earlier report in georgia. we'll see him going to arizona mid week. we're also going to see him going to nevada. it's interesting to see whether or not democrats will be able to get their people out based on that excitement for obama. you have to remember, a lot of these states it is -- they're really going to be relying heavily on these independent voters. they're going to have to get

some of these, even some republican, in the case of arizona. so the big question is will bringing obama or any of these democratic people out, will that hinder some of the efforts there. >> neil: i always wonder how it cuts when you have a big gun coming out on your behalf. you know, in the case of barack obama, a gifted politician, no matter what you think of him. you know, he does well when he's on the ballot, not so well when he's pushing other people on the ballot. i'm wonder if it will have the same effect here. what do you think? >> yeah, neil. all you have to do is ask the democrats that were running when obama was campaigning for them in 2010, 2014. they didn't have good nights. obama may be the most popular serrogate but i don't think he will energize folks that wouldn't be otherwise going to the polls. this race as samantha said is

all about president biden and his pretty weak job approval numbers. i'm looking at that travel schedule closely. the president will be in pennsylvania later in the week. but you know what his last campaign stop, what state he's going to be in? it's maryland. that is a sign of how blue you have to go where the president is wanted to campaign for a lot of these democrats. yeah, he's just not welcome in a lot of thinks classic swing states. if you look at the polls, his job approval is around 40%. >> in the end, also samantha, i've been reminded by mick mulvaney, one of the things that came up when i was talking to him is this idea of all of the other stuff that is going to be happening before election day. we'll have the employment report

out from the month before. later on on friday. then of course we get the next move for the fed to raise interest rates. we'll have that to digest. he also spoke about inflation. i want your take on this. >> so as you sit here and look at inflation, too much money chasing too few goods. the fed can sort of help on the supply of money. but they're actually hurting on the supply of goods. they're making it harder to get stuff to market. the biden administration continues to make it hard to get stuff to marked. i don't think it's going away any time soon. >> martha: if it doesn't go away, there's no improvement there. that's yet another overhang. what do you make of that? >> absolutely. we're seeing this from democrats. there's a group of them that are calling on the federal reserve to pump the brakes. they don't want to see that increased rate hike, another one. we're seeing democrat john hicken looper and shared brown,

they're writing to the federal reserve to look at how these rate hikes are impacting the economy. as we know, this is going to be something that voters are going to feel. they're going to look at it. as we're talking to voters in arizona last week, that was among one of the biggest issues that we saw. as we know, the federal reserve is an independent entity. jerome powell was put in place under president donald trump. he is a republican. but you know, it's a big question of how the voters will see this. a lot of times they forget that fact. >> neil: yeah. how does yet another rate hike sort out in this election? i don't think it would be a shock to people getting numb and used to it. for the voters, who have not yet voted, what do you think? >> yeah, i mean in the short term, it's not good nor the white house. it's going to slow the economy down. there's a lot of worry as samantha was saying about the progressives speaking out about

the rate hiking of the fed. i do think if -- in the future in the medium turn, if republicans take the house or the senate, they've had ownership in that. right now they've been on the sidelines and not been able to comment and the rate hikes. republicans will have to look at what they would do to tackle inflation if they get control of congress in november. >> neil: we'll watch closely. something that might be too little too late for voters depending how much they own in stock and how much it's been battered, october one of the more notoriously awful months having one of its best. the nasdaq, s&p 500 all the major averages racing ahead in a month known for big crashes like in 1929, the one in 1987 and numerous disruptions since but not this year, not this time.

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>> neil: early voting underway in new york. it is a contest that is getting some attention all over the country because this bluest of blue states could have a contest on its hands to determine who the next governor will be. kathy hochul has the advantages being in such a democratic state. but that does not mean that lee zeldin has not made an incredible contest out of it. eric shawn in thornwood new york with the very latest. eric? >> hi, neil. yes, that he has. you know, it's a precedent that lee zeldin hopes to replicate in westchester north of new york city. to turn a largely blue suburban

county red. here glenn youngkin and lee zeldin teamed up. the governor came up on the stage and ripped to lee zeldin's challenger, kathy hochul. he said that her lacks policies have led to a spike in crime. she stands up for criminals and law enforcement haas been left demeaned and demoralized. youngkin says crime has become a major flash point of this campaign. >> the number 1 issue that i hear from so many new yorkers and rising crime, soaring crime, das letting criminals run free. kathy hochul says he doesn't

understand why it's so important why we want to lock up criminals. it shows that she's out of touch with the reality on the ground. >> hochul campaigned here eight miles away from where we are now with first lady jill biden over the weekend. she cause at controversy by claiming that the issue of crime is a conspiracy by republicans and the media. she crime isn't as bad as it seems. that people are scared noting that some gun crimes are down and it's not as bad as people feel. she did hold a news conference with the gun safety group moms demand action touting gun safety laws and red flag lous and trying to outlaw automatic weapons. she slammed zeldin's gun policies. >> people have been involved in the effort to get the guns off of our street and stop the slaughter and are sick and tired of being used by candidates like lee zeldin as part of a narrative that is false. that is that you can be tough on

crime, but refuse to talk about any common sense guns safety legislation. >> and then neil, there's this. this is the campaign sign that they had here at the rally today. typical normal one. look at the other side here. 94 pataki for governor. that's when george pataki defeated governor cuomo who served three terms. they hope that mr. zeldin can again repeat what mr. pataki did. we'll know in nine days. >> neil: yeah. 20 years ago the last time we had a republican governor in new york. it bears watching. eric shawn following history and politics in real time. cooler than that. meantime here, this issue of crime has been the central one for lee zeldin. but it was a bit of a surprise out of the blue we heard that the policeman's benevolent

association written a $25,000 check to governor hochul. lee zeldin was on with me on my weekend show and was as startled as everyone. take a look. >> we heard from a lot of nypd officers that are pissed off learning that their money went to kathy hochul who is pandering to these pro criminal allies in the state legislature. >> neil: all right. the pba itself says it does not have a position in the race. this was something that it did on its own separately. many the rank and file are saying whats going on? howard safer is the former nyc police commissioner. did you think of that? as of this date, no $25,000 check for lee zeldin. there's some very angry members within the association wondering how did that get done in the first place? >> well, i think you have to understand, number 1, the pba is not the police. the pba is the union.

and it's a union that has a pretty clever president, pat lynch. when you think about it, this is a bizarre way of hedging his bets. he knows where lee zeldin is coming from on crime. hochul is not big on supporting the police and crime. they can get favor with her by donating to her campaign. you have to realize that a lot of the legislation that takes place in albany that pass the legislations, they get money from the pba. this is a bizarre way not to -- a very dumb move. >> neil: i see what you're saying. you're hedging your bets. you think you'd write a check to both in that event. if she's the prohibitive favorite, you're just trying to assure keeping her in your good graces, right? >> absolutely. i think that's what donation was

all about. >> neil: another thing governor hochul mentioned as you know, howard, this idea that lee zeldin has one plan, talks time on crime but won't do anything about the guns. she says she's nod doing anything about bail reform either. where do you think this goes? >> well, i think if lee zeldin gets elected, the nypd is going to become much more assertive. they're going to go back to doing stop and frisk. they're going to do the things that made the city the safest in my tenure. if hochul gets elected, you'll see more pandering to criminals. as i said before, the only people that should be afraid of police are criminals. right now they're not. if they do something now, they get right back out on the street. we have to stop the madness and

enforcing the laws. she's says crime is not so bad. if you look at the 25 innocent people that have been shot, pushed in front of subways, assaulted on the streets, you know that she's not coming from the right place. >> neil: we're not making up the numbers. she said the numbers are exaggerated. the numbers are what they are. we report them. as a numbers nerd here, that's what i provide folks. anyway, howard safer, thanks very much. good seeing you again. i want to go to the other side of the country where we're getting federal charges being formally filed against the man that brutally attacked paul pelosi. let's get the late forecast christina coleman in san francisco. christina? >> hi, neil. yeah, according to this criminal complaint, the suspect admitted that he wanted to hold nancy pelosi hostage and possibly break her kneecaps. now he's facing two federal charges. one count of attempted kidnapping of a u.s. official.

police say 42-year-old david depape broke into pelosi's home, went upstairs, woke up mr. pelosi and demanded to see his wife. when mr. pelosi said she wouldn't be home for a few days, depape said he would wait. pelosi slipped in to the bathroom and called 911. when police showed up, he ran to the door and grabbed on to the hammer. police say depape gained control of the hammer and swung it in to pelosi's head. during an interview, the complaint states depape stated that he was going to hold nancy hostage and talk to her. if nancy were to tell the truth, he would let her go. if she lied, he was going to break her kneecaps. he said she was the leader of the pack of lies of the democratic party and by breaking her kneecaps, she would have to face the consequences of her

action. police say they found a backpack at the scene which contained a rope a roll of tape, a hammer and rubber gloves. they searched a garage that he was living in near berkeley and found a sword along with other things. also depape is in the u.s. illegally as a long-time visa overstay. paul pelosi is expected to fully recover from his injuries. neil? >> neil: christina, thank you for that, i think. it's a little bizarre. we have a lot more coming up including the bad well the world's richest man with the new company he's taken over and interesting vibes he's given as to what he's going to do with it. let's get the latest from kelly o'grady in san francisco. >> good to see you, neil. lots of changes coming from twitter's new chief twit as elon musk is styling himself. we'll tell you what and who might be upset about it coming up.

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speech. a lot of advertisers are pushing back. g.m. specifically has said that they're pausing advertising on the platform. they said they're engaging with twitter to see what their platform will be. we've temporarily paused our paid advertising. we're hearing from a number of other advertisers that if president trump is let back on, we're not going to continue to advertise with twitter. a lot of critics say, it's interesting. you're going all in on tik tok. they have their own issues with china and how they use data. it's an interesting development to hear that from these advertisers, neil. >> neil: do wonder, he's got rid of the top three or four executives. he had to pay close to $200 million in severance for these guys. has he hinted about who else and how many might go?

there's been talk 75% could lose their jobs. he dialed that back. he hasn't given a number yesterday, has he? >> no, he hasn't. so i'm talking to sources inside the company. we've known that lay-offs are coming nor awhile. he's talked about this. at one point, there was a 75% number figure reported. now it's looking like it's around 25%. of course, he's going to go and hire folks as well because he's go to shift his focus to free speech. he's even joking, maybe not joking on twitter that he might bring vine back. the short form video platform that twitter killed in 2016. we don't have a number yet. there's a lot of trepidation from folks in the company. this is not the time that you want to get laid off from a tech company. hiring freezes are going on rights now. >> neil: not the ideal environment it was. kelly o'grady in san francisco.

we're moments away from hearing the president of the united states. he will be talking about gas prices and maybe a familiar target what do we know, hillary vaughn? >> the president is expected to give oil and gas companies a choice. trick-or-treat. either treat people to relief at the pump or he has tricks up his sleeve. taxes. we have more on what the president is expected to announce today coming up.

petroleum oil reserve. they're down 26% and falling for the best part of the last three weeks. in june the average price, not the most common price, the average price nationwide was over $5 a gallon. today the average price is $3.76. that is adding up to real savings for american families. the difference between those prices. this difference makes a difference in a difficult time. americans across the country have stepped up to do the right thing. not everyone has stepped up. the oil industry has not. has not met its commitment to invest in american support of the american people. one by one major oil company

have reported record profits. every company is entitled to that a fair return for the work that they do. that means -- but i mean profits so high it's hard to believe. the second quarter, the profits were high. shell announced that they made 9.5 billion in profits for the third quarter. 9.5 billion. that's almost twice as much as made in the third quarter of last year. i think that's something. you think that's incredible? i thought that's as high as it's going to get. along came exxon. exxon's profits were $18.7 billion. one quarter, 18.7 billion. nearly triple what exxon made last year. the most in its 152-year history they never made that much profit. the last six months, six of the

largest oil companies have made more nan $100 billion. we had a little discussion about this, the three of us and others. $100 billion in profits. less than 200 days. that's not bad. here's why this matters. it's outrageous what the size of the profit. here's why it matters. these companies are making average profits they've been making by refining oil the last 20 years instead of the outrageous profits they're making today. if they past the rest on consumers, the price would come down and additional 50 cents. if they're investing their profits at historic rates and their u.s. operations, then america would be are producing more oil today and prices would be down even with further. rather than increasing their investments in america or giving america consumer as break, their excess profits are going to

buying back stocks. give me a break. enough is enough. look, i'm a capitalist. you heard me 0 say this before. i have no problem with corporations turning a fair profit or getting a return on their investment in innovation. but this is remotely not what is happening. oil companies, record profits today are not because they're doing something new or innovative. their profits are a wind fall of war. the wind fall from the conflict ravaging ukraine and hurting tens of millions of people from around the globe. at a time of war, any company receiving historic profits like this has a responsibility to act beyond their narrow self-interests of the executive shareholders. i think they have a responsibility to act in the interest of their consumers, community and their country to invest in america by increasing production and refining capacity. because they have -- they don't want to do that. they have the opportunity to do that.

lowering prices nor consumers at the pump. if they don't, they pay a higher tax on their excess profits and face other restrictions. my team will work with congress to look at these options that are available to us and others. it's time for these companies to stop war profiteering. meet their responsibilities to this country and give the american people a break and still do very well. the american people will judge who is standing with them and who is only looking out for their own bottom line. i know where i stand and i want to let -- you'll hear more from me about this when the congress gets back. thank you all very much. appreciate it. >> how was your call from brazil today, mr. president? your call from brazil. the president-elect. how was it? >> it went very well. putting a team together to get together and discuss what we can do together. he wants to focus on the

environment, democracy and dealing with the poor in his country. >> are you inviting him to the white house? >> neil: all right. didn't get much out of the president there outside of commenting on the surprising election of the former president of brazil back in that job. just a couple of quick clarifications on what the president said about rocketing gas prices and the industry should do its part. a couple of points on that attributing this to the war. 40% of the oil that we saw under this administration occurred long before boots were getting even near the ground near ukraine back in early 1921. we should also say that the big catalyst, the upward run in prices had to do with the fact that the president had almost immediately cut off the keystone pipeline.

that was expected. the economy was coming outs of its doldrums and when we were shut in and that produced a boom in the economy because everyone was getting back to work and the commensurate boom in prices. it was aggravated by the fact that production opportunities were limited for the industry. the president made a note about capacity and we're not using what we have. we have the oil companies running 95% of refining capacity. i'm not an apologist for them. i hear this line again and again how they're gouging the american people. there's been no evidence of price gouging going on in the industry. the federal trade commission, the justice department, others the last 40 years under republican presidents and democrats alike have tried to find evidence and investigated that, whether there was a cabal going on to deliberately gouge the american people. no proof was ever found over all of this time. the industry has come back to say a number of times that if

they had more leases on more lands where there was greater promise and they weren't going to be investing billions of dollars at a time the administration has said it wants to phase out fossil fuels, might be a different environment. when you have to commit that type of dough and you're hearing from a administration that isn't keen of what you're doing, you think about, well, committing that kind of dough. i want to put that out there. i have no political axe to grind. i want to make sure everybody is accurate. hillary vaughn, the administration has mentioned this again and again, not for ukraine, if not for the greedy oil companies we wouldn't be in the pickle we're in. it is a reminder a little more than a week at the mid terms. what do you think? >> neil, absolutely. what is interesting is the president left it open to congress to decide what is excess profits and what the higher taxes should look like.

he didn't endorse a specific proposal. there's proposals by progressive democrats that would put a wind fall tax on big companies like oil and gas companies. senator bernie sanders has a proposal that he introduced in the spring that would put a 95% tax on wind fall profits to try to punish oil and gas companies that democrats think are responsible nor these rising prices at the pump. it will be interesting to see after the results of many did term election whether or not that has any movement if control of congress were to change hands in the house or the senate. this is an issue that the president had to come out and talk about today. it's the top issue on voters minds just over one week out from election day. a new poll from abc found that inflation and the economy, over half of americans registered to vote say those are the top issues that they're thinking about when they decide who to vote for next tuesday.

additionally the oil and gas industry reacting to reports to what the president was going to announce this an, which was opening up the door for more taxes because the president, the administration does not think that the industry is doing enough, doing all they can to lower profits. the u.s. oil and gas association president telling me more taxes is just going to make things worse and gas prices higher. neil? >> neil: one of the things the administration has done and i noticed before the hurricane ian hit, he had a finger wagging industry that said don't think about gouging people as if -- so he throws it out there oftentimes without the proof. what bothers me about that is a lot of people buy that hook, line and sinker and take a look at profits and say that doesn't add up. as a percentage of revenues again, i don't want to get boring here. i had plenty of that in droves myself. i think, hillary, we're not really looking at companies and where and how they make money

and when. now the industry is doing well. a couple years ago, not nearly so well. so everything averages out. it would be a message to other companies making a lot of money that if you make what is deemed to be too much money, we don't know what is, that's a moving target like companies and individuals paying their so-called fair share. it's a slippery slope, is it not? you can go after an apple or someone else making tons of dough off of a cool device. where do you draw the line? >> that's something that democrats have pushed for. the bernie sanders wind fall tax is not just targeted at oil companies but companies that make over a certain dollar amount of profits. the chamber of commerce interestingly looked at this and said it's been proven that wind fall taxes when applied to energy actually reduce supply, reduce production and by extension make energy prices go up. when it's applied to other industries as well, it ultimately just hurts the consumer.

it gets passed down. so the chamber of commerce has come out to say that that is not a good idea but it could be opening the door for more taxes like this in the future. >> neil: we'll have to watch closely. thanks. susan crabtree with us right now. sorry to keep boring people. it's my career. when we talk about permits and licenses and the 9,000 or so that the industry has available, it had 16,000 a little more than 18 months ago. it's gone through a lot of them. about a quarter of those still left are being protested by environmental groups. finally there's the issue of committing yourself when you have a permit or license. you're not sure it's a gusher. you just bid on it because you want that security. they're not all gushers. finally you have the administration saying longer term, we want to be all electric anyway. if you're a industry that is all fossil fuels and you're looking

at expanding production or building up your industry beyond what it is and it's substantial now, you know that the party in the white house, the party that is dominating capitol hill doesn't like it. doesn't support you. you could be wasting your money. that doesn't come out. i'm curious about your thoughts. >> well, i was there right during the presidential debate. the primary debate where he said i do want to end fossil fuels. the u.s. dependence on fossil fuels. it was in motor city, in detroit. and the stories that came out of that was that it's going to be a very pivotal moment for joe biden if he wins the presidency and people will come back to that moment. now he wants to crack down on oil companies but he wants them to increase production. it's a lot of mixed messages going on here. when prices, gas prices go up, it's the oil producer's fault. when they go down, he gets to take credit.

now they're going back up again and in these key battleground states so he has a trust problem with the american people because he's been all over the map on the issue. if you look at the abc poll that hillary mentioned, said that 36% of voters trust republicans more when it comes to handling inflation and gas prices. that's 12 to 14 points more than they trust democrats. we have in battleground states right now, we have nevada, one of the major battleground states for the senate. it's fourth highest in gas prices and arizona is seventh higher. you have a 50 to 100% increase in gas prices in these battleground states. the voters are feeling the pain at the pump and they are deciding that republicans are the people that they trust more to vote for this -- next week. >> neil: in other words, i would

love to blame my weight thing on a thyroid condition or something like that. no, no, i like napoleons. and i have to take the bullet for that. i can't blame anyone for that. so i don't think it would hurt the president to say this happened under any watch. i didn't gauge the reaction we would get. call it a day and move on. when you question the average for gasoline sold in this country and go to some bizarre, this is lean a mean average -- i don't know what he went to. you can't reinvent the statistics out there. >> that's right. he said the gas prices were $5 when he came into office. no, they were $2.39 on average. and you know, these battleground states, we're seeing this is the top three issue. you have the economy, inflation and including gas prices and crime and you have abortion, which democrats have really pushed.

biden has made it a big issue. 14%. so maybe there's a miscalculation going on here. we'll find out next tuesday. >> neil: if you're not going to take the blame or at least address oil prices when they're high and only when they're low, that alone should give you pause, right? we'll see how it falls out. susan, great catching up with you. madison is looking at another problem the president did not address. that's what's going on with diesel fuel prices vital to this economy. madison is in bud lake, new jersey with more on that side of the story. madison? >> hey, neil. yes. i like the point you made. the importance reaches further than you might think. if we pull up to a gas station, most likely you're filling up with gas and not diesel. there's certain cars and trucks that deliver all of the goods that we get that all rely on that diesel gas. the issue today we're in a shortage of diesel.

our current supply is 25 days. normally we have a 35 to 40-day supply of diesel. there's just no wiggle room. >> from a diesel standpoint, we're on just in time inventory. there's just not a lot of ability in the overall system when you beat the industry up, they close facilities that are not profitable and we're reaping some of that right now. >> sandra: >> the ban on russian oil has put immense pressure on the market and production here at home has been crushed over the past couple years. these are all refineries that have been closed in 2020 and 2021. so crude oil not only makes diesel, which i've been talking about but also makes home heating oil, which is also seeing a huge run up just in time for winter. this year alone, home heating oil is up 68% in price. over the last couple weeks, it's

jumped 21% in price. people are starting to fill up their home heating oil tanks. diesel goes in to the trucks that gets us our every day goods and christmas gifts. $5.30 is the average. here in new jersey, they're charging $5.95. nearly $6, neil. >> neil: you don't realize how farther the tentacles stretch. thanks very much for that, madison. meantime, some more threatening moves on the part of russia and ukraine. if you think about it by ab abandoning a key wheat deal, they effectively sent food prices climbing. they've been attacking the country. now we're hearing about 80% of ukrainians have a tough time get water. greg palkot keeping track of the craziness in kyiv. craig? >> yeah, this war continues and

continues on many different fronts. as you noted, let's talk about the offensive activity first. over 50 cruise missiles and drones targeting kyiv, several other cities across the country. many were knocked down. many got through. the civilian infrastructure in the sites of moscow, electrical grid, water supply, heating systems. that is triggering shortages of water and power. we went to one neighborhood. take a look at what we saw today. >> regular monday thing here in kyiv. we're told that at least one russian missile and a drone here a nearby target. also knocked out the windows there. that happened around 8:00 a.m. disturbing the morning routine. >> i saw it flying over my house. >> i feel bad. it's very dangerous. >> moscow launched these attacks following an alleged ukraine

drone strike on russian naval ships. it also pulled out of the u.n. brokered grain deal. that deal aimed at much-needed food supplies out to the world. the state department again saying that russia is weaponizing what the world eats. what might be re-assuring though is we're also getting records that as many as 12 ships full of wheat have left the ports today. so far russia is holding fire. ukraine is calling russia's bluff. all of these moves were triggered by the fact that they weren't doing well on the battlefield. might turn out also that vladimir putin's efforts to manipulate the price of food, the supply of food might be faltering as well. the folks here in uefa very squarely in the line of fire. back to you. >> great report, greg. back to you. meantime, they are illegal migrants after all, but one local range owner along the

border has taken that to a whole new level. maybe complicated how we deal with this at the border. nate foy in eagle pass, texas with more. nate? >> hey, neil. yeah. a smaller group of migrants crossed the boarder illegally on the same normal did ranch today. we saw a bigger group in eagle pass. take a look at this video between 150 and 180 migrants here crossing illegally. some venezuelans which under the new dhs policy will be deported to mexico. take a look at this video that you just showed again. the infrared drone video, shows 400 migrants crossing the rio grande in a single file line and going on the private ranch. a lot of cubans and columbians here as well. men, women and children. single adult men were picked out here. 59 single adults were arrested for criminal truss passing. the ranch owner has cleared the

way for the texas dps to charge the migrants. these migrants were not trying to hide but some are. take a look at this the hero stood migrants. i can report that border patrol in the past 48 hours has encountered five to 27 offenders trying to enter our country illegally. >> thank you. back with us -- the national border patrol council president. i always learned a lot, but nate revealed to me another layer i didn't realize. the fact of the matter is that this is illegal, trying to get into the country they are -- the way they are doing it is again not legal.

the state government is trying to deal with it, but nothing seems to move the needle. >> and it's not going to right now. this -- set on allowing us to continue. a report came out today that the president of guatemala offered president biden a chance to deport individuals before they got into mexico, let alone the united states. the president of guatemala said "all you have to do is to provide us with planes and we will deport them back." taking the burden off the united states altogether. but, this is something the biden administration has continued to refuse. all solutions that would -- that have been presented to this administration -- no new programs. what is devastating about what you are seeing is that it is texas dps. it's not even us that are out there patrolling the border.

i had senator -- go on friday. we drove along for space like 4e across one border patrol agent, not one of my fellow agents. all of us were assigned to doing -- and that makes this a lot more dangerous for everybody. >> you can educate me on -- with the administration have a third country option where some of these migrants answered or could be processed, adjudicated, what do you think -- no country per se has been named, apart from obviously the united states. what are you hearing on this? >> that would be a solution, but this administration is not working towards solutions. that's something the trump administration was already doing with the border in mexico. they were negotiating several

different programs, allow to control the biter, and this organization scrapped ever everything. they're working on something so they could -- there could be helpful to say they were working toward something, but there's nothing in the works. that report just came out, the president lambasted -- the report lambasted president biden because he refused to act. that's another example, this administration doesn't care about border security and will let the border completely be wide open. border patrol agents will have handcuffs on -- rather than bad guys and people will continue to get away. we won't feel the effects until the future, but we will ultimately feel the effects of everything that is -- >> it is interesting, because guatemala did have its differences with mexico, but they seem more pronounced to us. it's a win-win situation. thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> brandon deals with this all the time, so it's not made up. the 2.4 million, the hundreds of thousands. all of the real numbers on top of the one, 1.5 million. a lot in this country become legal immigrants and eventually u.s. citizens. that's the process right now -- but there is no process. here is "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, i'm jesse watters along with katie pavlik, -- 's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ joe biden says the most important election in our lifetime is eight days away, but he is kicking his feet up in delaware with violating his former boss do all the