aaa says 92 million americans are going to travel for the holidays. now in time for your road trip the official numbers are on gas prices, we figured that out as we were driving cross country this weekend. it s amazing how much higher it was. reporter: i know. if you re a driver, chances are you know you are feeling it at this point. many drivers are paying more than $3 a gallon. the lundberg survey says the national average is at $2.99. that s up 7.5 cents in two weeks and 39 cents from the same time last year. so sure, we re paying a premium here. but analysts are saying this could be much worse. we ve had oil prices making this a steady climb andableleys expected oil prices to rise more. still take a look.
many prices, many places are paying over $3 a gallon including san francisco, boston, miami, seattle, i drove by one station in new york paying $3.22 a gallon. we experienced i think it was $3.18 over the weekend. so, what about prices on wall street? how s the open looking? reporter: we are expecting to have a modestly higher open. in a few seconds we ll hear the opening bell. the averages doing well considering where we re coming from. we don t have economic reports coming out today but we re seeing this upward momentum these days and it is expected to continue. we ve got a shortened week because of the holiday coming up over the weekend. the market is closed friday for christmas. so don t expect many investors to be trading too much these days for this week that is. we heard the opening bell. the dow right now in the green
coverage for rescuers and survivors after the attacks at ground zero. the house has passed the bill. for millions of illegal immigrants the dream is dead for now. owe strer the weekend a procedural vote in the senate failed, shelving the so called dream act during this session. the dream act promised a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants who entered the u.s. as children. democrats say they will keep fighting for the legislation. this week president obama will sign the new legislation that repeals the don t ask, don t tell policy that means for the time being gays and lesbians will be allowed to openly serve in the u.s. military. it s a historic change that will require a lot of work in the coming weeks. barbara starr is joining us with a closer look. what does the military have to do before fully implementing a full repeal? reporter: there will be an implementation period as you say. it could last months, a good
and but they simply are against arms control agreement. the senate resumes debate next hour. let s get to the hill, dana bash going to tell us what s going to happen with this bill. what do we know? reporter: it s a question mark. the fact is that you heard the top senate republican tell candy crowley he is going to vote against it. perhaps a bigger blow, john kyle with the white house also said he s a no. and the white house is really trying to make concessions for him, hope they could bring him over. that s not going to happen. democrats are hopeful that they are going to get 67 votes that they need to ratify this. it s going to be a nail biter, no question about it. because we re talking about the fact they want too do this in the next few days. this afternoon will be interesting. there will be a closed session, pretty rare, of the entire senate. and they are going to have a briefing from intelligence officials about some classified secret information around this treaty. what we
deal of bureaucracy to get through. this here is the pentagon implementation plan for don t ask, don t tell. 87 pages of a road map of what they are going to do. and basically, they are going to look at every regulation, policy, directive, every piece of military bureaucracy you can imagine and adjust it, rewrite it, do whatever needs to be done to make it conform with this historic change. that gays and lesbians can openly serve in the u.s. military. then after they do all of that, more bureaucracy. they have to certify to congress that the military is ready for all of this. and then it goes into effect, 60 days after that, don don t ask, don t tell will be gone. so advocacy groups are warning military members don t come out just yet. wait, make sure. there is a long way to go. what do we know about housing and benefits? reporter: well, you know, these are going to be the big questions, aren t they. everyone believes as