thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with new questions emerging following israel s raid on gaza s largest hospital. video evidence analyzed by cnn suggests israel s defense forces may have rearranged weapons found at the al shifa hospital before international news crews visited the scene. it comes after the idf claimed they raided the facility in an operation against hamas last week. israel has claimed hamas operated a large-scale command center and these tunnels, like the one in this video. doctors say they were ordered to evacuate the al shifa hospital by the israel military, though the idf disputes that claim. six doctors are staying at the medical complex to treat around 120 patients too vulnerable to evacuate. meantime, the first plane carrying children from gaza with urgent medical needs to the uae today and it comes as the palestinian authority s ministry of health says only nine of gaza s 35 hospitals are still operating.
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only 600 cancellations nationwide since thursday, and only 60 so far today. so far so good. we will see if the airlines can keep it together as people are coming home. today is a busy day according to the transportation secretary and the faa, and also, a really busy day on the roads. remember that memorial day is much more of a driving holiday, and aaa anticipated 50 million people driving 50 miles or more, and the worst time to travel is right this moment, between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. aaa says, so try to leave later if you can, and it depends what metro area you are in, and on i-59, between richmond and d.c., it is one of the worst stretches, and everyone knows it and the east coast, and traffic there is four-times the norm, so try to put it off, and aaa says wait
rush. 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. today. that is the worst time. that is the time to avoid. if you re trying to time your trip out, maybe wait until after dinner, trying to time your trip home, maybe early saturday or sunday, but it s tricky when you consider so many places have traffic like what we re sees. metro areas across the sundays. atlanta, new york, san francisco, l.a., chicago, you may see suggestion twice the norm today, according to aaa. we touch on travel by road first, because thanksgiving is very much a driving holiday, according to aaa, 48.7 million people expected to hit the road, 50 miles or so over the next five days. that s not all that far off from what we saw in 2019 before the pandemic. when it comes to air travel,
listen to what he says when i asked him whether or not airlines are up for the challenge now. we saw a lot of airlines during the pandemic thinning out their schedules and thinning out their workforce not knowing when demand was going to return. now, faster than expected the demand has come roaring back and they are struggling to keep up. that s true whether we re talking about flight attendant crews, whether we re talking about pilots and so we ve got to make sure that we ve got short-term and long-term approaches. one of those short-term solutions, delta airlines is proactively cancelling flights in the month of july shedding about 100 flights a day from its schedule. remember though that memorial day is really more of a driving holiday. aaa anticipated 34.9 million people will drive 50 miles or more over the five-day memorial day travel period, and this is all coming as people are really shelling out for gas. the national average $4.62 for a gallon of regular, and even when you