us on that topic and a lot more coming up in just a few moments today. sandra: we begin, america reports with a shake-up across the pond as prime minister boris johnson announces officially that he is resigning amid a string of ethics scandal. and look who came back for more, hello, welcome, everybody. i am sandra smith in new york. happy to have you. i am bill hemmer and for john roberts today, the outgoing prime minister acknowledging defeat after months of defiance with 50 senior lawmakers left office in a revolt against their leader, the final straw for some members of parliament coming after report saying that johnson knew about an investigation of sexual misconduct to a lawmaker that he had promoted. sandra: protesters gathered outside tenth avenue to give the prime minister a noisy send-off as they look for a replacement to lead the conservative party in the country now begins. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live on this from london for
be debbie downer today. we do have some good news to tell you, and that has to do with gas prices. what are we seeing? yeah. let s end on some good news. gas prices continue to plunge. the national average, $3.18 a gallon. that is down 14 cents in the past week. 56 cents in a month. lower than a year ago which is pretty amazing. this is actually the lowest price for gasoline since september of last year. again, it s also amazing because as you can see on that chart, not that long ago, back in june, the national average was above $5 a gallon. this is happening for a lot of reasons. some of them are good. some of them are bad. i mean, the same recession fears that are rocking the stock market are also hurting energy prices. u.s. energy demand has been kind of soft, but then on the positive side, we ve seen u.s. supply increase, and we also have those emergency releases of oil by the biden administration. that has helped, and these concerns about russia s energy
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