who returned fire, no officers were injured. overnight, national average of gallon of gas hits another record high, we re at $4.76 per gallon, up five cents from just yesterday. president biden will visit saudi arabia later this month to try to push down gas prices here at home. and mike avenatti is accused of stealing monthat he belonged to stormie daniels. convicted of cheating daniel out of $300 dollars. trump denied having any affair took place. the boston celtics upset warsaw 120-108 in a remarkable fourth quarter comeback in game
the like. brought stability to the dollar and the economy responded positively. right now the only thing the federal reserve knows how to do is austerity. it is not what the economy needs right now. gillian: let s switch gears for a second while i have you to gas prices. seems like groundhog day at the pump. prices up again for the second time in two days jumping 5 cents overnight to a new record of $4.76 a gallon. it is just shy of double the cost per gallon when president biden took office. he said this hour he has no direct plans to travel to saudi arabia. you heard that. he reiterated that just now in the press conference. he is not ruling it out, though. what do you say about that? if he comes face-to-face with the crown prince, any room to make more moves with opec to bring down prices for americans or is that just political
approach to crime which critics say is a culture of lawlessness. we will be joined with thoughts. john: brand-new numbers, a pulse on the u.s. economy. latest jobs report beating expectations, but still head winds from the highest inflation in four decades and record high gas prices. welcome to you today. anita: happy friday to you, the u.s. economy adding 390,000 jobs for the month of may one employment rate of 3.6%. number of job openings remains near record highs, 11.4 million positions going unfilled. john: gas prices keep climbing, more expensive to top off the tank. national average for a gallon of gas increasing another $0.05 overnight to 4.76.
does that mean gas prices will drop? unfortunately, probably not. in fact, oil prices are trading higher right now than they were before opec announced this. why? it s because the message from the market is that this just isn t enough. that the problems caused by the war in ukraine has set off so many disruptions in the energy market that maybe not even opec can solve this problem. and that means unfortunately gas prices may stay high or go higher. $4.76 a gallon average. it s 35% more expensive to fill up your tank than it was on the day before russia invaded ukraine. we need to watch what happens next very closely. because an economist told me today he s getting more optimistic about the economy, but the one catch is oil. he said if oil goes to $150 a barrel, all bets are off, because that would mean that we probably are going into a recession. we ll watch that oil price number. meantime, gas prices aren t the
catalyst for upward mobility, especially to minority community, is somewhat incorrect or somewhat wrong. allegedly abrams joined the casey foundation board last year and does not share the same views as the foundation. interesting. well, there is a new spelling bee champion after a history making sell off. 14-year-old logan of texas won the 94th scripps national spelling bee after the first ever lightning round. she spelled 22 words in the 90-second speed round. she won with the word more hen which is a type of bird. fourth spelling bee. congratulations to her. how about that? gas prices hitting a new record high for the second day in a row. the average gallon now costs $4.76. that grim milestone comes just