careful. gas prices, are they going up or going down? most of the people traveling this weekend are going to be driving, 37.5 million of those 44 million because gas is cheaper, the price is $0.04 cheaper than the same last year, the average price for a gallon of gas is $2.24 on thursday morning, the previous low in 2017 was $2.26 on february 8th, aaa says gas is usually pricier in the summer because the price of crude oil came down this year. rob: that is why venezuela is a disaster. mainstream meltdown over donald trump s tweets about the host of msnbc s morning joe. you attacked a man repeatedly who is a proud man, an accomplished man, you want him to act presidential, you have respect for the office of the president. i m not saying you should have tweeted that but it is not the end of the world that he did tweet it either. the bottom line is msnbc has a
was shot near his face x he miraculously survived. authorities say he suffered non-life-threatening injuries. a massive search is underway for that shooter, the motive is not yet known. cia director mike pompeo blaming intelligence leaks on what he calls the, quote, worship of leakers like edward snowdening. he says the department is, quote, incredibly focused on stopping any further leaks. with summer travel season in full swing, the average price of a gallon of regular gas is $2.26. that s 10 cents less than a month ago 5 cents less than this time last year, so now it s cheaper to go visit grandma or go to the beach. i saw schumer criticizing the bill a couple of weeks ago, and he had no idea what was in the bill. he was saying this bill is this and it s that. he had no idea. in fact, the republican senators didn t know because it wasn t released. very few people movement so he was criticizing a bill that he
today, friday, and then to monday, january 2nd. those will be the busiest travel days over the course of the holiday stretch. you mentioned 103 million travelers, those are the people traveling more than 50 miles. if you re just going to denver to colorado springs, you re on the list. so that may not seem like a long trip but that s a big number. a third of the country traveling and the rest going by stageco h stagecoach, moped, train, you name it. pick your mode of transportation. we re at $2.26 for the national average right now. that s about 26 cents more than a year ago but historically, pretty low. we re at the second lowest prices since 2009. so all in all, you and i have both covered miserable travel periods in years past. we re looking pretty good today, and if everybody is to
fact that gas prices are coming up. 2.26. and that is $0.24 high are than the same time last year. and why is gas and oil and other energy up? opec agreed to a production cut and there is certain about tighter supplieses. and break down the dow jones industrial average. health care stocks. united health group and ph yser. president-elect trump is vocal about not liking the obama care. we ll see about that. and that s the things we are working on here today. you got it. thank you. and right now, amazonรง prim fulfillment centers are in
information, the current stage of the mississippi is 42.26. so we re literally less than 3 inches from the crest. and as expected, around 6:00 tonight. but it s just a few more inches. we re looking at forecast crest for illinois, in chester, illinois, that would be for tomorrow and also as we go southward towards cape g girardeau, going forward into the first week of squan, it will eventually take a while for all of that water to flow into the gulf of mexico. another immediate threat is the southeast. i mentioned we still have rain. luckily it stopped in the st. louis area but still coming down into florida, alabama, georgia, so hard hit in the atlanta area. so there s more in the forecast for today. we could see another one to two inches of rain. locally three to five inches possible. and this is already a very saturated area. so the risk for flooding exists in this part of the country as