probably helped fuel a subsequent covid surge in this country. this year americans are hitting the roads and the skies with travel expected to be way up from last year to near pre-pandemic levels. and gas prices are the highest they ve been, though, in years. on tuesday president biden announced the release of u.s. strategic oil reserves in a joint effort to ease gas prices along with china, india, japan, south korea and great britain. while our combined actions will not solve the problem of high gas prices overnight, it will make a difference. it will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank. and in the longer term, we will reduce our reliance on oil as we shift to clean energy. truly a unique holiday this is. vax-giving than thanksgiving. it is one of the busiest travel days of the year. the crowds will remind you of pre-pandemic times. preside aaa estimates travel will be up 80% over last year. it s a holiday t happe
that with secretary clinton. we will talk with her a lot about what is going on in the country right now. i m really looking forward to that interview. but before we get there, i want to give you an important update tonight on a story we have been covering closely. this is a story that is more than four decades in the making. we have been covering it for a while now just because it is a through-the-looking-glass, absolutely bizarre, impossible to believe story out of missouri related to a man named kevin strickland. kevin strickland was 18 years old in 1978 when he was arrested in kansas city, missouri. he was put on trial for a triple murder he insisted he had nothing to do with. he had an al buy. it didn t matter. he had people who corroborated his alibi, it didn t matter. there was no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. it didn t matter either. it was an all-white jury. he was 18 years old. he was convicted on all counts. he was sentenced to life in prison. to
i m really looking forward to that interview. but before we get there, i want to give you an important update tonight on a story that we have been covering closely. this is a story that is more than four decades in the making. as i said, we have been covering it for a while now just because it is a through the looking glass absolutely bizarre impossible to believe story out of missouri. and it s related to a man name kevin strikland. kevin strikland was years old when he was arrested in kansas city, they put him on trial for a triple murder that he insisted he had nothing to do with. he had an alibi, didn t matter, he had people who cooperated his alibi. did it matter. there was no physical evidence at all connecting him to the crime. that did not matter either. it wasn t all white jury, he was 18 years old. he was convicted on all counts. he was sentenced to life in prison. well today he is 62 years old. and for the entirety of the more than four decades that kevin strikla
old in 1978 when he was arrested in kansas city, missouri. they put him on trial for a triple murder that he insisted he had nothing to do with. he had an alibi. it didn t matter. he had people who corroborated his alibi, it didn t matter. there was no physical evidence connecting him to the crime.al it didn t matter either. it was an all-white jury. he was 18 years old. he was convicted on all counts. he was sentenced to life in prison.as today he is 62 years old, and for the entirety of the more than two excuse me, more than four decades that kevin strickland has been behind bars he has maintained his absolute innocence of the crimes for which he was convicted. last year the kansas city star god bless them, did an in-depth investigation into his case. they found very extensive problems with his case, like problems you can t believe even if you are not a lawyer, r e. problems you can t believe even if all you have ever see is a cop tv show. like, for example, the two oth
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in afghanistan with a distressing snapshot of the unravelling humanitarian situation. the un has warned that millions are facing starvation with the situation deteriorating sharply, since the taliban seized power in august. international funds, which propped up the economy have been stopped as the world debates how to deal with the new regime. our correspondent, yogita limaye cameraman sanjay ganguly and producer imogen anderson have witnessed, first hand, the dire situation on the ground in herat. a warning there are disturbing images, in this report, from the start. this is what starvation does to a country. to its tiniest lives. six month old usman. habib ur rehman, born three months ago. afghanistan was barely surviving before the taliban took over, but now foreign funds which propped up this country have been frozen. putting at leasti million children at risk of dying. in this ward, one i