324-game suspension. the dodgers now will decide whether to release him or add him to their 40-man roster. and finally, our nbc affiliate in eastern iowa puts its sports broadcaster out in the cold to cover the winter storm making its way across the country. here s a look at how it went. mark, how are you feeling out there? again, the same way i felt about eight minutes ago when you asked me that same question. i normally do sports. everything is canceled here for the next couple of days, so what better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up, go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same. i didn t even realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning until today. it s absolutely fantastic, you know, i m used to these evening shows that are only 30 minutes
american desks to opioid overdoses last year any thousand to fentanyl this is due to fentanyl alone this is asymmetrical warfare we lost 29 americans day during world war ii and losing 293 a day just to opioid overdoses. so they were 324 illegal border crossings in april which was worst month on record that was 1258% worst than last trump informs office only eclipse by next mornghts and may which was 241,000 illegal border crossings we ve seen five million illegal border crossings under joe biden and 98 people that were caught were on the terrorist watch list and 160 countries have been represented by people crossing the border. this is a global crisis an american catastrophe and something needs to be done. jon: and the white house doesn t seem inclined to do anything. texas republican congressman pat fallen, congressman, thank you. thanks, jon. jon: more fallout over the deal to trade russia s merchant of
hired 15,000 employees or will be the end of the year. delta 25,000 between this year and last. that said, those reductions in service have really hit regional airports hard. 324 airports since 2019 have lost flights. 60 of them have lost half their flights and 14 airports now have no service at all anymore. also because of those reduced schedules, the costs have gone up. looking at christmas travel, hopper tells us the average flight christmas $463 domestic round-trip. up 39%. the good news is you can go and it is okay, bad news is it s going to cost you. griff and julie. griff: glad it s smooth. julie: democrats will maintain control of the senate the georgia runoff race between herschel walker and raphael
324 airports around the country. 60 of the nation s airports have lost half of their flights and 14 have lost all of their scheduled air travel. that makes it tough. drives up the cost of tickets because there s less availability. we looked ahead to christmas. what is the average round trip at christmas? 463. that s an increase of 40%, charles. good news is, you can go. bad news is, going to cost you. charles: thanks, jeff. flying is pricey. so are there any deals out there for your next trip? i want to bring in gabe. he s the senior editor at travel zoo. gabe, everyone is traveling these days, everyone loves it. it s the number one thing adults in america do these days. i got folks that never talked about going places. hey, guess where i am? i m in vegas. so now they want to know the
out there, not promising dealing better with absence from the employees and more people in reserve. they say the remote work thing, yeah, an impact, too, on the way people travel. they are not travelling on the big days anymore, maybe kind of able to sparse it out a bit and not all at once. despite that, we still have a pilot shortage, that means the reduced flights are causing trouble at airports in terms of convenience. 324 airports have lost flights since 2019. 60 airports in the u.s. have lost half of their flights, and 14 of those airports have actually lost all service. so yeah, it s going to cost more, it s not going to be as convenient, but so far so good. i leave you with another mode of travel, that s the price of gasoline. driving instead of flying, a little less than it was, 3.57,