close to a, quote, sputnik moment. martha raddatz on this tonight. your money tonight and the holidays. americans set to pay more. we ll go down the list tonight. and the popular items for christmas. they say what you should buy now and what you might want to wait on for a better deal. and $31 flights? from new york to florida, l.a. to vegas, boston to d.c. how long will this last? and will other airlines follow suit? good evening and it s great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin tonight with authorities speaking at length for the first time today about that disturbing and deadly movie set shooting on the set of the movie rust. tonight authorities now confirming it was a live bullet that that gun had that was handed to alec baldwin when he fired, that bullet killing cinematographer halyna hutchins
there is a photograph showing that he has taken himself of speeding on his way out from l.a. to vegas in august of 2018. he s doing 175 miles an hour. that is insane. that was the sort of thing that he used to do. and yet he always seemed to go right to the edge and then i don t know, a guardian angel or looking after him, or several, who knows, but he was operating at a level of you know, in the elite of the elite of the chinese and the russian government s. this was someone who was bumbling around. this is the heart of my question. if you remember when adam schiff got sandbagged by russian comedians that said that they had compromising materials on the president, naked trump. does vladimir know?
side for new york. the average across the entire united states is $2.84. that s up two cents since yesterday and 10 cents since last week. we re seeing it climb higher. overall, about 10 states that have joined the $3 club where they re climbing well above $3. if you re wondering, where should i get to avoid to get the most expensive gas? that would be one small convenience shop or gas station in excess, california. it s $5.24 a gallon. in the middle of the desert should you be doing a drive from l.a. to vegas. it s a little off the track on route 66. the cheapest gas in plainview, texas at $2.19. what is contributing to this increase towards that $3 mark? a lot of it has to do with oil and the price of oil. we re seeing instability and the supply with iran sanctions looming and decrease in supply
crackdown. in any dangerous bus crash, there is the fear that passengers have no control. millions of us share the road with these buses from coast to coast. 52 companies are not just under fire, they have been shut down. companies that continue to defy basic safety principles let alone national standards and demonstrate a complete disregard. really they put profits before passenger safety. reporter: the government investigation operation quick strike. targets include those so-called curbside buses that take you from new york to philly, from l.a. to vegas. essentially anywhere and used by millions across the country. a lot of kids come home from school using motor coaches. seniors traveling on excursion trips. scouts, band school trips, kids trips in to our nation s capitol. over and over again you see motor coach travel. reporter: investigators found unsafe behavior, company-wide failure and maintenance. inadequate drug and alcohol testing for drivers and a lot of hours on the