morning and there is nothing inevitable about recessions. the economy faces 40 your high inflation including food and travel especially energy. aaa says that the average cost of a gallon of gas is it just shy of $5 a gallon. up from about $3 a year ago. the president says he s considering supporting a positive 18.4 cents a gallon federal gas tax. there is opposition. they say it s too small to make much of a difference in would rob funding from infrastructure. it s been a substantial burden on americans households and i think why not perfect, it should be something under consideration as a policy to address at. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell accused democrats of playing political games with a gas tax. head of the midterm elections i the presidents electoral two years later republicans across the country are hammering
preview. lots of turbulence this holiday weekend for travelers. delays and cancellations lef many passengers stranded as wel as angry and frustrated. more than 2.4 million americans pass their checkpoint on friday making it the busy busy as so far this year. according to tsa data, more tha 300,000 travelers in the same day a year ago. the nation s airlines are struggling to cope you. at least 14,000 flights were either canceled or delayed over the weekend. for many passengers it, that meant disappointment and a change of plans at. were going to go to maine fo a national park and a father s day step our son. it s all canceled at. on monday as many folks luck enough to reach the holiday destination try to return home, an additional 2500 flights either never got off the ground or relate. as bad as the situation is now, there s concern over the months ahead it s going to get worse.
house. good evening. president biden arrived at this evening after a week in and delaware. his administration confronting series of economic challenges o americans paying a lot more for goods and services at than they did a year ago. concerned that that could pull the economy into a recession. walking with his family and delaware, president biden stopped to speak with the press when the reporter asked about a majority of economists saying a recession is more likely than ever. not the majority are saying that don t make things up. now you sound like republica politicians are. joking. economists are mixed on the timing severity or likelihood. newly 70 percent of academic economist pulled earlier this month say the us will be in recession next year. even former clinton secretary and obama economic advisor says his best guess is it that it recession is ahead. i was talking to someone thi
hailed as a hero announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone vice president kamala harris is isolating at home tonight after joining millions of americans who have tested positive for covid-19 the white house says she does not have symptoms and her list of recent close contacts does not include the president or first lady whom she last spent time with over a week ago. tonight as new covid cases in the u.s. continue to trend upward, deaths and hospitalizations remain lower even as the country gradually lowers its guard, learning to live with covid. many, including vice president harris, counting on vaccines and boosters to protect against severe illness. the news breaking as the cdc today offered a stunning glimpse into how many lives the virus has touched. new data revealing more than half o americans have shown
talking about what the borders, how we re covid funds distributed. there s been no nco accounting r that . the riots in twentyhe twenty we can t just care about one riot, not the five hundred and seventy four other riots that killed dozens of americans and injured thousands of copss. we need an investigation into parents being castas as domestil terrorists and our fbi looking into them teachers unions involvements with the cdc guidelines. anthony fauci ending energy independence. we need that and we need one other thing where what will republicans promise the american people that they will doat? ti will there be investigations into all these things and what will the republicans promise the american people they will ? t accomplished not only will we do those investigations we have already started we have t put the lettes out to maintainin that information. there s also one other one that you didn t didn t bring up all