that s my thing. chips are the good deal, 4.54 for a bag of chips. another form of potato, the potato salad. that s up 5% in cost, $2.44. when it comes to a good cook-out you have to have something to wash it down. beer, of course. you talk about beer, bud light seeing a lot of market cap loss. they ve unseated by modella. regardless of what beer you choose you ll pay 6% more. maybe you want to go fought lemonade. that s down 16% in cost and something i can drink on television. ryan is working hard and i ll give him one. thank you for all this work. it all equals a more expensive meal and we want to celebrate with friends and family so it s worth it. send it back to you.
that s why you get an estimated 132 million americans who now live in states with sports betting is legal. so that is bound to give a whole lot of money to the sports betting front and those numbers are set to climb, could even be higher depending, of course, on how the results go within the tournament. and, of course, friday is usa/england. maybe we need to put a little wager on that. live from london, thanks so much, my friend. the thanksgiving travel rush is under way with roughly 44 million americans planning to travel by road and air this holiday. tom costello has the details. reporter: on four wheels this holiday week, nearly 49 million americans are hitting the roads. that s still below 2019 levels when we were paying $2.44 a gallon for gas. the national average $3.66, down 16 cents from a month ago.
got tighter. republican adam laxalt was ahead by 2.7%. now that is 2.44% against his opponent democratic incumbent catherine cortez masto. all this as we learned that there are tens of thousands of ballots that haven t been processed, not part of the results yet, just here in clark county where i am, the most populus county home to vegas. i want to break down where the ballots are and where they came from so we get an idea of what we re talking about. this is according to the clark county registrar he said 12,700 mail ballots were picked up at the usps wednesday alone, there were 300 drop boxes on election day that were only picked up, not counted, only secured by police, they re working on those as well, don.
reporter: jim, this is a nail-biter. this race is only getting tighter and tighter. when you went to bed last night, republican adam laxalt was ahead by 2.7%. when you woke up this morning, that margin tightened to 2.44%. as jim mentioned, the margins here in clark county appear to be in favor of the democratic incumbent catherine cortez masto. all these races are nail biters. it want to talk to you about the secretary of state race. that is even tighter. the challengers there are sysco aguillar. he s a former harry reid staffer. he s vowed for transparent elections. his opponent, republican jim marchant, he is probably one of the sharpest election deniers in the country. he started the america first
the majority of delays and cancellations have not been caused by air traffic control staffing issues. the airlines that are selling the tickets need have the crews and the staff to back up those sales. reporter: after passengers set a new pandemic era record, the tsa thinks this weekend will be big. the question for travelers, is will it be smooth. is staffing an issue for tsa as well? staffing is a challenge for everybody. it will not impact wait times for travelers. reporter: this is the biggest test yet for airlines as they recover from the pandemic. the tsa carscreened 2.44 millio people just yesterday. they are expecting today to be the busiest day here at reagan national airport. they will screen 35,000 people here, alone. the cancellations and delays are already climbing today. nearly 1300 flights delayed