by nearly a dime over the last three weeks. the new average coast to coast, $3708 a gallon. the experts can t agree on whether those prices will keep climbing, though. defense secretary robert gates in china and that turns the spotlight on china s strengthening military might. beijing s officials say it s targeting no other countries and poses no threats. deep trouble in the deep south, the massive winter storm in the south could snarl air travel across the u.s. just last hour, air tran airways canceled all its flights in and out of atlanta. extreme acts of violence. they change the refresh my memory between the people and their public servant. from the street corner to the sidewalk to the parking lot. it s official now. the president is dead. president kennedy s assassination. americans would not see their president in open car motorcades
winter storm is bearing down on the southeast. snow is already falling in pars of texas. the rest of the south is expected to get slammed later tonight and into tomorrow. significant amounts of snow, and here s a word you really don t want to hear, ice. they are in the forecast. the storm has the potential to cause major travel disruptions. hundreds of flights have already been canceled. and here is the airtran counter at atlanta s hartsfield airport. if you ve got a ticket to fly, check ahead with your carrier. that s some advice to you. watches and warnings in effect all across a huge area of the country and all the way from texas to the carolinas. let s check in with our meteorologist jacqui jeras. not used to that snow down here in the south. i know but, you know, most people can handle a little bit of snow. it s that ice you were talking about. that s the big concern here tonight. it s already caused dozens of accidents and possibly reaching into the hundreds as well, today, i t
we want to show you some of the troops, this is not just affecting domestic travelers. we ran across a couple of hundred troops, u.s. troops. they were waiting to fly back out to active duty in afghanistan, but because of the oncoming storm, they were sent to a hotel room tonight where they will be staying in the hotels until they figure out when they can head to afghanistan, but delta earlier today, canceled 330 flights just tonight alone. tomorrow, 1400 flight rs already been canceled by delta. these are delta and delta connection flights. that, don, is about 25% of their flights and they of course are based out of atlanta. united and continental have a dozen flights canceled. air tran has about 280 flights canceled. snow not even on the ground yet and already cancellations. we understand these airlines are offering, if you call before
outside a baltimore nightclub. four others were wounded. police were called to a downtown establishment after a fight broke out overnight. no arrests have been made. developing now, a major winter storm is threatening to hit the south. emergency crews are mobilizing on tlaents. delta airline says it will cancel hundreds of flights tonight, tomorrow and perhaps into tuesday morning. eric fisher is at atlanta international airport. eric. the saturday of sunday, rather peaceful at hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta. the blue skies will give way to the clouds and the snow before midnight. the airlines are taking preparationes and precautions in advance of this winter storm. they ve canceled hundreds of flights as we head into the late evening hours and as we head into the day on monday. talked to officials from delta and air tran. they re telling everyone, check your updates and air status as
that s the magic word, reveal. the airlines don t want to reveal anything. that s our big problem. we have been trying all this year to get the airlines to at least tell travel agents how much all of the fees are. to for some reason they don t want to let us know. the department of transportation is entered into the fray and it looks like they are going to come up with a rule which will require the airlines to release ancillary fees sometime in the next three months. that much is really go ahead. the other thing we know is we also know that airline airfares are going to be going up. just last week the airlines, the big four, usair, american airlines, delta and united have all announced they are going to increase round-trip airfares by $20. we will see if that sticks because southwest which is now becoming a national airline when they acquire air tran has not raised any of their fares. so we might be seeing a southwest effect on a national basis in the next year. so explain to us th