either to report across any of the nation s airports. aaa estimating roughly 3.4 million people flew this holiday weekend. that is 11% more than last year. but despite the boost in traffic, about 70 domestic flights have been canceled today, according to flight aware, a few hiccups but we met mostly happy passengers. no delays no, cancellations. everything has been on time, thank god. you always get worried, always get worried but it s a sign of the times, i guess. we did everything early. we did our flights early and we got there early. the nation s highways and biways however have been fairly congested a.a.a. was predicting more than 37 million million americans were going to drive to destination. that s a 6% hike from last year. largely driving this? well, cheaper fuel, 3.62 the average price for a gal of
as they knew. yeah, that s what people get for having hope and believing there are still good people in this world. we have to just assume that everyone is a horrible and terrible human being and this is an example of that. this is an example of charge-back fraud or financial fraud in many cases where the individual they dispute a charge that they willfully made on their credit card, they rode in the tip. it s not as if there was an error by the restaurant charging him the $3,000, he wrote it in and then he wrote in the second number including the $13.62 that he paid for the pizza and then signed a piece of paper. it s an agreement he made and then to go back, i don t know if he was in impaired s date, but the reason was, now that restaurant is on the hook for that, because it s a legally binding, that s why you have to sign it. and now they put the restaurant on the hook for handling his debt and the only recourse that the restaurant has is to sue him civilly and i don t see a compe
pocketbook that s going on with americans. you can expect he will invoke his scranton roots as he does. how he shows an acknowledge it s not all rosy despite the successes he may have had with the covid relief package but how does he acknowledge there s still work to be done and covid is part of that. he s addressing a country tonight two years of exhaustion dealing with this pandemic. how does he try to put covid in the rear view mirror. we heard from white house aides that he plans to address we re at a new place and have proven we have the tool ifs a new surge of the virus emerges, we know,0know how to beat it back. gas price, $3.62.
release from emergency stockpiles. total size of the release could be 50 million to 60 million barrels and the goal is to cushion the shock to energy market. prices at the pump, $3.62 a gallon nationally, up 9 cents in a week, 24 cents in a month. ceo of chevron said this kind of a move could help in the short-term. emphasis though on short-term because there s a finite amount of barrels in strategic reserves and some context, 60 million barrels, a lot but barely half of what the world consumes every day. gets you to lunchtime. markets are not all that impressed here. u.s. oil prices up 9% as we speak, above $104 a barrel for the first time since 2014 and that is only going to drive prices at the pump higher. there s also, you know, we see these other companies, big companies pulling out of how they deal with russia here. but i know there is a lot of concern too about how putin may
but china also has an economic incentive here not to get on the u.s. and european union s bad side. the u.s. and european union are china s biggest trading partners there s a lot at stake for all involved. john. yeah, this meeting tomorrow huge consequences, jeremy diamond at the white house, thank you. gasoline prices tend to shoot up like a rocket which oil spikes but then crashes. and president is fed up saying gas prices should decrease. gas $3.62 a gallon. now $4.31 a gallon. joining us now is energy secretary jennifer granholm. secretary, thank you so much for joining us as i know so many americans are going to the gas pump and it s just killing, killing them, really, looking at what it s doing to their budgets. what s going on?