and reduced flights creating nightmares for millions of people coast to coast ahead of the travel season. hopefully it won t be that bad. we re live at o hare airport in chicago. so far the security lines and flights are running smoothly. the bad news is that folks are paying a heck of a lot more for travel this thanksgiving. $350 on average per ticket according to hopper. 43% higher than a year ago. despite that, aaa predicts this thanksgiving travel season will be the busiest, the third busiest since they started tracking the numbers going back to 2000. an estimated 49 million people going by car. 4 1/2 million by plane. 1.4 million by bus, train or ship. those numbers are pre-pandemic levels, which is notable. across the board right now prices are higher for everything. people still want to go and
day one when biden signeddic executive order to discontinue building the border wall, why would you do that? they laid out the welcome mat for illegal aliens, this is greatest country in the world. if you throw its borders open, and you tell illegal aliens come on this, come in world, people will come here, they will create a crisis, that is why more than 4 1/2 million human beings have been trafficked by the mexican drug cartels working hand in hand with joe biden and mark kelly into our country. we bear the brunt of this in arizona. over 300,000 people crossed this southern border every month. mostly in arizona and texas, if is a humanitarian disaster it is causing crime in our big cities p
day one when biden signeddic oexecutive order to discontinue building the border wall, why would you do that? they laid out the welcome mat for illegal aliens, this is greatest country in the world. if you throw its borders open, and you tell illegal aliens come on this, come in world, people will come here, they will create a crisis, that is why more than 4 1/2 million human beings have been trafficked by the mexican drug cartels working hand in hand with joe biden and mark kelly into our country. we bear the brunt of this in arizona. over 300,000 people crossed this southern border every month. mostly in arizona and texas, if is a humanitarian disaster it is causing crime in our big cities po
administration on this issue. also critical of the president is democrat katie hobbs she is supporting the strike force to combat drugs flowing across. between october last year and this past september, land border encounters between the yuma and tucson sectors alone were well over half a million. democratic senator mark kelly has brought billions to the state for new technology and more border agents, he said. washington failed arizona and other states on the border for decades. on my 22 months in office i m fighting to fix this problem. like kelly his opponent black masters says he will complete what he calls the trump wall along the yuma sector. 4 1/2 million people have walked into our country and been allowed the stay in the last 21 months. it is not just the people, it s the fentanyl.
4 1/2 million dollars. this is believed to be the largest seizure of methamphetamine laced fake adderall pills in the united states. to connecticut now, where the middletown press leads with a story about a food insecurity crisis in the state. new figures show 17% of adults in connecticut have been unable to afford food at some point in the past year. that is the highest total for the state in the last five years, and comes amid a rise in inflation and the expiration of federal benefits. in mississippi, the clarion ledger reports the capital city of jackson finally now is seeing water clear of contaminants, thank goodness, a series of independent tests by the paper mirror the state s results and show no bacteria. the results reinforce the announcement from governor tate reeves last thursday that jackson s boil water notice could in fact be lifted. coming up on morning joe, a check in with the nation s doctor after president biden said on 60 minutes quote the