today, friday, and then to monday, january 2nd. those will be the busiest travel days over the course of the holiday stretch. you mentioned 103 million travelers, those are the people traveling more than 50 miles. if you re just going to denver to colorado springs, you re on the list. so that may not seem like a long trip but that s a big number. a third of the country traveling and the rest going by stageco h stagecoach, moped, train, you name it. pick your mode of transportation. we re at $2.26 for the national average right now. that s about 26 cents more than a year ago but historically, pretty low. we re at the second lowest prices since 2009. so all in all, you and i have both covered miserable travel periods in years past. we re looking pretty good today, and if everybody is to
i didn t have anything to drink but that s seriously killing my buzz right about now. killing your buzz. the buzz killer hat. yeah. i ll do my carlton. anywhere. and this is happy hanukkah. i ve got all of this for $9.26. not bad. the finance department who will be watching. is that off? it s off now. we ll have to put this away. we re going to do a very hard turn. it s going to be a hard turn. as beautiful as it is to celebrate the new year, there are some suffering today. you think about the heavy hearts in asia. we re going to begin with the developments in the airasia crash. the crew recovering bodies this morning on borneo island. much better weather is allowing the search for other victims and debris to speed up. we get more now from abc easterry moran. reporter: two coffins garlanded with flowers carrying
$2.26. a lot of people going wow! let s bring in jered burnstein. we re hoping that the santa claus ekes into 2015 and keeps on going. you re the big brain here. is the economy peaking or is it taking off? are we going to see the big hockey stick? well, look predicting where the stock market is going is a fool s error. nobody knows that if i knew that i would own the station. i would be your boss and i would promote you. so let s just but look, i just noticed a statistic this morning the stock market has grown on average 71% of the year since 1825. so it usually goes up and typically the returns are in the 7 to 8% range. as you mentioned 13% strong year for the stock market. it makes a lot of sense to me. the u.s. economy is doing so much better than every other
reintroducing the bills to put the cost on all of the packaging. violators face 10-20,000 dollar las. another reason why we spend our mown on champagne. cheers. have a great day. the time is 11 after the top of the hour. the music used to torture terrorists. why the band is de p manning a payday by the u.s. government. selena gomez checking into rehab. could bad boy justin bieber be rubbing off on her? goil the gas the national average $3.26. that s down one penny from yesterday. ho ho ho
let s get you the first look at business today. for that we turn to jackie. good morning. good morning. more fallout from massive data breach at target. estimating customer transactions fell 3% to 4% versus the final weekend before christmas last year. target offered 10% discount to all customers in an effort to limit damage. analytics firm saying despite heavy promotions sales likely fell by mid-single digits at brick and mortar stores, does not include online sales, which have been strong. drivers getting a stocking stuffer. that s cheaper gas. the latest industry survey finding the national average for regular unleaded dropped two cents. we re now at $3.26 a gallon. hit the road for the holidays. scramble politics is just ahead. including better late than