. your first concern would be the cost of diesel fuel. virtually everything you buy comes on diesel fuel. diesel prices get too high, transportation stops. nearly everything becomes unaffordable. inflation is directly connected to transportation. your second concern if you were transportation secretary would be domestic air travel. this is a huge country, it s fa too big of a country not to hav reliable commercial flights fro one place to another. we ll end on time, they don t crash. so maintaining that system of air travel is probably the top concern of the united states transportation department. that s what you re worried abou if you have a secretary, diesel and airlines. remarkably, in less than year i a half under joe biden, both these things have gone dramatically in the wrong direction. the price of diesel has hit its highest price ever recorded in history. the national average is up 70 percent since just last year it 5:53 a gallon. that s terrible for truckers, but al
abortion, as texans head to the polls. and news tonight the january six committee will only hold six public hearings next month. committee member, jamie raskin, i ll ask him about that. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. or just 11 hours away from polls opening in tomorrow s crucial primary electorate in georgia. and the two marquee races that republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. to trump back candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex presidents big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. b
republican primaries for governor, and for secretary of state. two trump backed candidates are essentially running single issue campaigns, on the ex president s big lie of a stolen election. you ve got former senator david perdue, close trump ally, who lost his senate seat last year. he s challenging the incumbent republican governor, brian kemp. and you ve got far-right congressman jody hice, who s hoping to oust the current incoming secretary of state, brad raffensperger. these races are notable, not only as a referendum on trump s attempt to do, but also to set the groundwork for the next one. because out of all of trump s attempts to overturn the will of the voters and steal the election, what is the state of georgia, where he put his most effort? part of that of course has to do with how humiliated trump appears to have felt by his defeat over there, not only because the election was widely seen as repudiation to him and his movement, and it has been years since a democr
president biden seeks to strengthen economic ties with other asian nations. diaz: plus, battle for ukraine. imtiaz tyab in odesa where russia s war in ukraine is having an impact on foot supplies around the world. diaz: later, johnny cash s hometown springs an unfortunate leak. it s like he s peeing. this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening, it is a weekend of weather extremes. more than 100 million americans are impacted in much of the lower 48 states. late today a suspected tornado ripped through arkansas. no word yet on damages or injuries. in colorado today, it feels and looks like winter. but across a swath of the country, it s more like summer. several cities are roasting and setting new heat records, and it s not even memorial day. cbs s michael george is in a muggy new york city. michael. reporter: adriana, good evening. it s near 90 degrees today in central park. add the humidity, feels more like 100. across th
that mortality rates in his second aren t that high if you exclude black women. i want to know, what s the hell. plus, new pentagon policy allows service members to request a transfer if they feel discriminated by gop state laws. i will talk to an army sergeant who transition it while in the service, about what this means for fighting forces. all that and much more is coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i am katie fang. we begin this morning by going down to georgia, where this re-week will get a look at how republican in that state feel about donald trump s big lie. over the last four years we will see don terms fixation with the peach state. especially after refused to go along with trump s lie about the 2020 election results. of, course some say the trumps of frustrations played into the state electing two democratic senators. there is a razor thin majority in the u.s. senate. now, trump is going full throttle to replace the two men who stood up to. him endors