summer is now off to an unofficial start for so many americans out there. millions of people are hitting the roads right now. we have full coverage. cnn's atheen yena jones has the latest on gas prices and jennifer gray has the latest forecast. athena jones is out there in the middle of the holiday traffic. what is going on there, alexander? >> reporter: wolf, you like rain and gridlock in your travel companions, you're in pretty good shape. otherwise, we hope that where you are going is going to be worth it. it's been slowly moving out here. we left midtown manhattan at 4:20. that was about an hour and 20 minutes ago. we've gone the distance that it would take us to go 20 minutes just getting on to i-95 north,