trying to reach you about your car s warranty. well, good news, the ftc is cracking down on the annoying calls. plus, waging war on misinformation. a new program that looks to train the next generation of public officials and journalists to stop one of the growing issues facing democracy. you are in the cnn newsroom . up for you first tonight, president biden s physician says he is continuing to improve after testing positive for covid. we learned it is likely he is battling the ba.5 variant that is causing so many infections in the united states. like so many americans right now, he is isolating. the press saw him holding a briefing on the economy friday and got a silent update on how he is feeling. sir, how do you feel? are you feeling better? thank you, guys. cnn is following the latest
direction but it needs to go further to give families the breathing room they very much need these days. you are right, there are some states that have gas under $4, particularly in the south. but the national average is still above $4. new york times today highlighted the administration s focus on gas prices, writing, celebrating the daily declines at the pump has become his version of president donald j trump s rampant bragging about gains in the stock market, a single objective in hopes of driving a winning narrative with consumers and voters. is the white house missing the broader picture of what americans are worried about right now? i would push back on that comparison in the following way. it is very much the case that global energy prices are by definition global, and so there are many forces that go into setting that price. but one of them directly relates to the actions this president has taken. by releasing 180 million barrels
shortness of breath and that his oxygen saturation levels are excellent and his lungs remain clear. hugh is here dr. anthony fauci, the president s top chief medical adviser, who has been consulting with kevin o connor, sum r summarized the president as condition earlier today. i spoke to dr. o connor to get an update and as you heard the president continues to improve. we have every reason to believe he will do very well. having a runny nose. having someone who has a history that when he gets colds that have nothing to do with covid, he has a history of asthma and uses a bronco dilator to make sure he breathes well. he has no trouble breathing at all right now. reporter: now, while the president remains in isolation here at the white house, his wife, first lady jill biden, is spending the weekend at their home in wilmington, delaware. her spokesperson tells me the first lady tested negative for covid-19 earlier today and she
right. i mean in l.a. county, for example, it may reinstate an indoor mask mandate and, you know, given the fact that what you said, that, look, it is to the point now that for most people the experience is like a common cold given all of the treatments you have. ashish jha, the white house response coordinator saying it is going to be around forever, at what point do we just as a country treat it like a common cold and not have the mask mandates? at my kids school they re still mandating masks for all of the kids. i mean at what point do you think collectively as a country we just need to be treating it the way we treated a cold before the pandemic, if that makes sense? i think most of the country is already at that point. i mean go to airports or grocery stores or shopping malls and people are not taking precautions. i think that it is this is a matter that i hope the white house does address at some point, that the biden administration does address at some point, because as l
than $4 a gallon, more than a dollar of what they were a year ago at the same time. is the decline in prices at the pump really something to celebrate? it is certainly providing us some breathing room for families as they fill up at the pump, but the implication of your question is correct. they need more breathing room, and we would like to see those prices come down further, and the president is working to try to make that happen. but i think it is really important not to overlook a decline of 64 cents per gallon since the peak in mid-june of a little bit north of $5. now, for a family with a couple of drivers that s $60 a month. if you aggregate that across the country it is about $220 million a day. now there s one in five gas stations across the country that is selling gas for less than $4 a gallon. so heading in the right direction. the trend and it is a trend as you pointed out. 38 days in a row. the trend is moving in the right