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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Thursday. It's May 19th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. President Biden took urgent action on Wednesday to address the nationwide baby formula shortage, invoking the Defense Production Act to increase production and creating Operation

Fly formula to deploy defense department planes and speed formula shipments into the United States

from overseas. The move is President Biden's first major initiative to respond to a crisis that

has shown fear and frustration among parents

across the country and prompted Republicans and Democrats alike to demand action.

We're on like lookout for baby formula. My brother has twins and so she sent us what they eat

and, you know, any variation of it. It was like, look, if you're at any store, just check.

If you see it, get it and, you know, we'll get it from you.

Yeah, there's a big cooperative, right?

Yeah.

There's a bunch of, excuse me, mothers online and trading information and so on and so forth. Yeah. Yeah. The one thing I saw was that if you go to Amazon, and I did this, you switched your country to Canada. Oh, it'll ship from Canada? Yeah, I don't know if it's shipping from Canada or if you're just a...

I'm sorry?

That might be the issue.

Yeah, yeah,'t know if it's shipping from Canada or if you're just a...

Interesting.

That might be the issue.

Yeah, yeah, especially when people flood that deal. But you'd think it'd be kind of easy, right? Well, that's what I had heard. And then so I did that. I went on to my Amazon and I was... Yeah. And I checked. But I, what I didn't do is I didn't check Amazon from America to see what the

baby formula situation was from, you know, from a regular Amazon.

Right, right.

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