hello, everyone. at this hour departure boards bringing post-christmas misery to travelers everywhere. one major u.s. carrier is the big source of a nationwide headache. plus, incoming congressman george santos says he should get a pass for lying about virtually every single detail of his resume because not telling the truth is not a crime. and new cnn exclusive reporting about why you ll pay less at the pump now, but should be preparing for more pain in the spring. this is what we re watching at this hour. we begin this hour with the blame game playing out at southwest airlines. thousands of stranded travelers just want to get where they are going but bad weather, bad planning and bad systems mean more than 25 hundred southwest flights grounded today so far. that s around 90% of all flights canceled in the u.s. southwest passengers can t get through to customer service and its employees are struggling to speak to the people in charge. it s just it s frustrating for pil
hello, i m abby philip in washington. thank you for being here today. the holiday travel nightmare is inflicting more misery across the country. more than 2900 flights in or out of the u.s. have been canceled today already. and just one airline is responsible for 90% of them and that is southwest. passengers stuck in one city, their baggage somewhere else. i am traveling with my son trying to go to a family wedding in miami. the next flight offered was in january, and they couldn t even get us home, back to pittsburgh. financially this is going to take a toll. how much could you guys potentially miss out on if you don t get on your flight to colorado? probably 30 plus thousand dollars for a group of ten. we come here. they tell us our luggage is here but they can t give it to us. i said we have medication, we need it. we can t pull it. we don t have the manpower. to add to all of that long ticket lines, hours and hours on hold with the airline company and the growin
compared to this year. gasp buddy sees pump prices coming in at $3.49 a gallon in 2023. that s down about 50 cents a gallon from this year. that is nothing to sneeze at. it translates to the average family saving almost $300 over the course of a year. unfortunately, though, gadbuddy is warning 2023 is not going to be a cakewalk. they see gas prices going back above $4 a gallon as soon as may. peaking at around $4.25 a gallon in august. that, of course, is way too high and it would come after what can only be described as an insane year for energy prices. listen to what patrick duhon told me about what we ve seen this year and what s expected for next year. you know, curveballs coming from every direction sums up 2022. i don t think we ve ever seen such amount of volatility as we
disrupt refineries we could again be seeing prices that are unseasonably high. reporter: beyond refineries there s a lot of other swing factors we have to pay attention to. everything from the war in ukraine to potential hurricanes could drive prices higher. on the other hand if the economy stumbles and there is a recession in 2023 that would translate to lower prices. at the end of the day hopefully after a year of painfully high gas prices next year brings some real relief. there are just so many unpredictable factors out of our control. so i mean look into your crystal ball, is there a risk of another $5 a gallon spike like we saw earlier this year? well, gasp buddy says that is improbable, but it s not impossible. right now that is not what they re forecasting. that spike to $5 a gallon was painfully high and, amara, hopefully we don t see anything like that in 2023. i m liking the 3s right now,