las vegas, cancun, chicago, new york city as well, big cities, airports, of course, expected to be busier than usual with an increase of 2.5% heading out ceia airplane this year over last year. i mentioned, gas prices definitely better s here in the metro talking $2.64 a gallon. national average, $2.66. last year, you may remember, we were at $3.47. we paid that last year this memorial day weekend. so a lot of people excited to get on the road and head out of town and hopefully everybody s getting a little good weather. steve? indeed. karen from minnesota today, which could be the land of 10,000 traffic jams, maybe. karen, thank you for joining us. all right. coming up next on this friday, the moment we ve been waiting for. country star jerrod niemann kicks af our summer concert series, live in the plaza. first, bill hammer down there eyeballing the show and looking for free barbecue. sounded great, too, by the way. barbecue wasn t bad.
3.47 a gallon to nearly $7. it seems a bit too much to me. reporter: why? existing subsidies expire in december, triggering a 1940s era rule that the sect staff the agriculture explains requires the government to buy milk, butter and cheese at about double the going rate. so a producer has a choice of buying it and selling it to me, usda, or selling it to the normal processor. obviously if they re gets twice the price, they ll set it to the u suismt da. that will lead to shortages. reporter: shoppers weren t happy. i think it s horrible, especially as a mom with a family. i think milk is something that most people have always thought as something essential to have in their fridge. reporter: prices for products made with milk would also go up. i would still buy milk and
the problem is that they would buy milk prices at double the rate. if congress doesn t come to an agreement by january 1st, that is what you may see happen and it may reduce the quantity of milk seen in stores. the average price of a gallon of milk is $3.47. you may see that price rise as much as $7 a gallon. anything that contains milk, butter, cheese, those price could also rise and also other commodities like corn and soy and wheat and that kind of thing. now you would think that congress would have a political motivation to pass the farm bill f that happens, people will be really mad. not only will people be mad but even move away from milk and find alternatives. the bottom line is that a lot of people are saying that congress is definitely motivated to pass this bill, especially because nobody wants consumers to pay up to $7 a gallon for milk. here is the problem. the farm bill in and of itself
it s only a matter of tile. we are seeing 70 cents on the dollar for everyday folks like ourselves when we see that inequality for actresses and actors it s only a matter of time. it will have to be somebody very special. i don t know if this is accurate but most moviegoers are male so if you get a big enough draw. marilyn monroe. yes, then she would get big bucks. there s a woman in germany that deserves a big old medal, she gave birth to the biggest baby that country has ever seen, 13.47 pounds at birth. did you say 13? 22.6 inches. he was not born via c-section, came out naturally. he was the largest ever born in germany but not the largest born ever. the biggest baby ever was born in indonesia, almost 20 pounds. no, cannot be 20 pounds?! i can t follow that.
from brutally hot and dry, to drenching rains that have washed out parades and fireworks displays, those are the extremes covering much of the country this 4th of july. chad, don t rain on my parade. i just wanted to say that line. where are you going, carol? nowhere, i m staying here. you have to go about 200 miles away from atlanta to get anything dry. it s just been a mess there, hasn t it? it has. it s been awful. my mom lives there, three and a half inches yesterday, that s a lot. then i looked at some of these pictures here, out of florida, inlet beach, 13.47 inches of rain and it s still raining here. it s just been awful. there s a not so bad shot, i guess. that s just outside of my old office right there in atlanta. still is my office, but won t be for the next nine days while i stay up here. i get to fill in while she goes on vacation, only way i can get