cancel or dramatically change her travel plans. we are traveling to orlando today but unfortunately my flight got canceled but he got text message saying the flight was canceled as we were pulling up to laguardia. and in addition to the flight delays and cancellations the average price of airfare is up 45% compared to this time last year. so definitely a pricey start to the summer travel season, michael. mike: i m getting sticker shock or look at those prices over your shoulder. pushing $7 a gallon per jew are speaking to friends and family so they started to change their summer plans based on these prices? absolutely pregnant tight about my we are all hanging out the backyard. i m going to have to do grocery shopping with inflation we know it s going to cost more to barbecue just to get our meat. definitely less and catching a flight and heading to the east coast or somewhere.
have difficult answers in terms of the way the school handle that? they had all these procedures but did not seem to follow many of them. i think that is right, mike. let s let the report become the report. looks like the training failed and it looks like we are asking a lot of police officers to run into the fire. but they did not do with their 78 minutes went by. does not look good in times of crisis things go completely offkilter. i think we have got to again, i bet matt and i could create a lot of us today but find some new solutions but make incremental progress forget head of each party s respective and traditional talking points here. i just got out of four months across asia we are admired around the world her ability to solve problems except for problems like this one. we seem to get stuck in a politics and not bring common sense solutions to began to fix this. matthew bassett, david morey, thanks for joining us have a wonderful day gentlemen. thank you mike.
horrific loss in the fact you re making it a big thing oh boy this is a way to get more gun control i think is horrible. we are all suffering from what happened to uvalde. i m all for a mental check or something like that needs to happen. the process failed. multiple performers, mike and politicians are scheduled to be on stage or this weekend canceled their trips or to houston but some say it was out of respect for the tragedy that occurred 300 miles away. others said it was due to scheduling conflicts, mike the. 36 senior correspondent try to dictate in thank you very much for the spring and the former assistant secretary of the u.s. department of health and human services and david a democratic strategist in global ceo. gentlemen, welcome back rex good to be with you mike.
application of all of our emotions and feelings towards those who have served. mike: craig come up to two plus years of covid what is it mean for this performance to be live? words cannot describe it it s one thing to sit in the room in front of a tv screen and play and sing. but it is another to be there and see and feel and see the emotions of the people in the audience but less that were in daytona doing a hero show and the difference is so much more impacting. and as an entertainer we get to receive the emotion that we are putting into what we are doing. arthel: craig this is memorial day weekend. how important is it for folks at home to take a moment of silent prayer, bow their heads or a moment of silence to remember our fallen? here s what to tell everyone. we are a great nation we celebrate freedom of religion. we have the opportunity to excel at both mentally, physically, financially, emotionally and most importantly spiritually.
jeff, for those who wanted an outside independent review without breaking news on that front just moments ago. we are told the mayor of uvalde, texas has asked the department of justice to review the investigation surrounding the shooting. the department of justice has agreed to do so. this comes at a time when just a few days ago many facts in this case have changed but one of those the fact the shooter was not confronted on the way into the school. the fact 19 of the 19 officers stood and the hallway for more than 45 minutes waiting to get inside that classroom. when investigators say there might have been children inside who could have been helped. all this happening 48 minutes mother waiting in the hallway were children, mike, were on the phone with 911 banking operator should bring in police to help them. mike. mike: jeff i m curious with the mood is like in that community with the presidential visit today. office after a horrific week in