107 million americans hitting 50 miles. 50 miles or more. Locally, its about 1. 2 million philly area residents headley ad to grandmas house are somewhere else about 30 of the local population. So about three out of every ten people will be traveling at least 50 miles much thats an increase of 3 over last year, and its the ninth Consecutive Year of rising travel for this year end holiday. All of this points to a strong economy, growing consumer confidence, according to aaa, said to be the reasons why so many people are hitting the roads. In fact travel for every major Holiday Weekend this year has been up. Here at the airport theyre anticipating about 82,000 philly area residents going to be flying some place thats about 2 . So two out of the 100 of us will be flying. If youre driving, we did some check wig aaa as far as gas prices right now they average 2. 69 a gallon. That is up 24 cents over last year. You want to give yourself extra travel time if youre in a car, according to one s
A live look at storm scan three shows us the Holiday Weekend off to a rainy start, wet weather moves in the region and Chelsea Ingrams tracking possibility of snowflakes by christmas. On the shopping calendar today is known as Super Saturday, and malls in our area will be overflowing. We are live, with why some people say they wait until the last minute, to buy their holiday presents. I did that within year it was too stressful for me. It is saturday december 23rd, good morning, im jan carabao. Lets get over to meteorologist Chelsea Ingram with the eyewitness Weather Forecast g saturday morning. I was out there running yesterday and running my typical errand and it was pack my husband went out to the Grocery Store yesterday and said it was husband. I said why did you go to the Grocery Store a couple days before christmas. If you are doing that last minute shopping you need to make sure you bring rain gear because it is a soggy, saturday, out there let me show you a live look here at th