美国9月CPI同比升3.7%超预期，油价与核心通胀双升

AMNA NAWAZ: Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. GEOFF BENNETT: And I'm Geoff Bennett. On the "News Hour" tonight: Rising gas prices drive inflation higher, adding to Americans' cost of living concerns weeks before the midterm elections. AMNA NAWAZ: Ukraine accuses Elon Musk of restricting his Starlink Internet systems and undermining troops on the front line against Russia. GEOFF BENNETT: And Judy Woodruff explores how immigration to the U.S. and the policies governing it have evolved throughout U.S. history.

NANCY FONER, Author, "Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present": Immigration has been tied into our history for so long. So to see this rejection of immigrants, this victimization of immigrants is very, very concerning. (BREAK) GEOFF BENNETT: Welcome to the "News Hour." With the midterm elections just three weeks away, a new inflation report shows prices rising faster than expected, putting more pressure on Americans struggling with the cost of everyday essentials.

AMNA NAWAZ: Prices climbed 3.7 percent over the past year and by more than half-a-percent in just the last month. It's the largest monthly increase in five months. The price increase was driven by gasoline, up 9 percent in September. For more on all of this, I'm joined by Heather Long. She's vice president and chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. Great to see you. HEATHER LONG, Chief Economist, Navy Federal Credit Union: Good to be here.

AMNA NAWAZ: Well, let's start with that headline number, Consumer Price Index rising 3.7 percent from a year ago, rising faster than a month ago. How much of that is due to those rising gas prices? HEATHER LONG: Yes, that's the key question. Half of it is coming from the high gas and diesel prices. But, honestly, the reason most people gasped today when they saw this data is because the other half is coming from everything else.

Sure, it's spilling over into higher airfares and higher home heating oil, but the war in Iran is not causing medical care, dental care, toys, apparel. I hope nobody's shopping for a suit. Those really jumped up. Software prices. There were just so many items, repairing a car, that rose, and that's what really caused the alarm bells today that this is way more broad-based than we thought, and that's going to take a long time to ease.

AMNA NAWAZ: We saw core inflation, which excludes those energy and food prices, also edging higher. What does that say to you? HEATHER LONG: Yes, it says that this is more than a gas and oil problem, and that it's going to be harder to get it down than we expected. The Federal Reserve will have to raise those interest rates again. It's already a pain point with the mortgage rates back above 7.5 percent. And so that's the pain that a lot of Americans feel, and probably the most important data point today, and people are feeling it, inflation up 3.7 percent, wage growth only 3 percent.

AMNA NAWAZ: And that combination of the higher inflation, weaker wage growth, we have talked about