the first covid vaccination given to children under five, what parents need to know the iconic art museum giving its own employees a chance to shine announcer: this is “nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. americans determined to stay on the move this holiday weekend despite inflation headwinds finding frustration at every turn to yet another holiday marred by airlin schedule meltdowns and stubbornly high prices at the pump. but tonigh relief may be on the horizon for drivers. president biden enjoying his own getaway in delawar revealed he may call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax perhaps before july 4th. a gas tax holiday if you will would knock 18 cents off the price of a gallon of gas which remains just under $5 but such a move has its risks americans paying high airfares and finding no relief from airport chaos and ruined vacations we ll get to that in a moment first, kelly o donnell on lowering the cost of driving reporter: the great getaw
committee, three top officials who led the justice department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election and will detail how he and others resisted trump s pressure to back the baseless claims. a preview of newly obtained footage from the documentary film crew that followed former president trump and his team for six months before and after january 6th. it was just released by discovery plus, which, of course, is cnn s parent company. watch. okay. my father, he s very honest and he is who he is. he believes everything he s doing is right. i think i treat people well, unless they don t treat me well, and then we go to war. can we talk about january 6th? yeah. obviously people want to hear what he had to say there. so that documentary filmmaker alex holder has said that he will be deposed today after receiv
it is an expensive summer of travel stress at airports worldwide with airlines struggling with staffing shortages and schedule meltdowns. giana s flight was canceled only to rebook on a different flight that was also canceled. from thursday to monday, airlines in the u.s. canceled more than 5400 flights. makes me not want to travel at all. no airplanes, nothing. reporter: new analysis says that flight cancellations have jumped 34% in the last month. domestic ticket prices are up too by 18% since 2019. even still, passengers are packing planes. last weekend, the tsa screened more people at airports nationwide than any weekend sense the start of the pandemic. travelers are willing to pay more and they are willing to face potential disruptions because they really want to go on these trips that they have put off in many cases for two years. thank you very much for all
the first covid vaccination given to children under five, what parents need to know the iconic art museum giving its own employees a chance to shine announcer: this is “nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. americans determined to stay on the move this holiday weekend despite inflation headwinds finding frustration at every turn to yet another holiday marred by airlin schedule meltdowns and stubbornly high prices at the pump. but tonigh relief may be on the horizon for drivers. president biden enjoying his own getaway in delawar revealed he may call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax perhaps before july 4th. a gas tax holiday if you will would knock 18 cents off the price of a gallon of gas which remains just under $5 but such a move has its risks americans paying high airfares and finding no relief from airport chaos and ruined vacations we ll get to that in a moment first, kelly o donnell
travel still expected to roar back to life this season. meanwhile airlines are on the hot seat in capitol hill testifying about how they spent the covid relief money they received from the government. cnn s pete muntean reports. reporter: the central question here was whether or not the federal government got its money s worth for the $50 billion it gave airlines in pandemic aid to prevent major layoffs, but there were still staffing shortages that caused massive flight cancellations and schedule meltdowns at spirit, american and southwest in the last few months. testifying here to the senate committee were executives from american, united, southwest and delta. american c.e.o. doug parker says it was schedule issues were really the exception and not the rule. united c.e.o. scott kirby says the federal government did get a return on investment, seeing as though airlines survived the pandemic. the industry would not only exist, anything like it does today, had this not happened. it s