are hit with major delays at the nation s a airports, a lot of pain at pump and sky-high groce ifly bills. that has a lot of americans asking this july 4th weekend, when is freedom from these challenges coming? we re tracking all of it with alexis mcadams at missouri s laguardia international airport new york s, kelly to grady and stew leonard jr. from his supermarket in norwalk, connecticut. happy fourth, everyone. hope you re dealing with some of the headaches but all of the patriotic positives that comes from this special weekend. i m neil cavuto. let s get right to it with alexis mcadams at new york s laguardia airport with how the crowds are handling the pressure. reporter: hi, neil. that s right, yeah, there s a lot of pressure and people worried if their flight s going to be delay or canceled, but after we ve had so many air travel delays, people are not surprised if hair flights are canceled or delayed. take a look, this is at jetblue area where people are trying
we don t understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there the, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry. hey, when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: five days after the shooting, still questions as to could a number of them have been prevented. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. for the next two hours, we re going to be exploring exactly what happened in texas and the mixed signals we re getting out of that school and what happened in t
kevin: done with the stuffing and now it s on to the shopping. could be a record season for your spending. hello. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is a special thanksgiving edition of your world. with consumers giving thanks for a cooling inflation, they are not thankful for a rash of retail theft across the country keeping prices higher. to madison al worth with the latest on what you can expect when you hit the stores. madison? hi, edward. the national retail federation forecasting that holiday spending is expected to reach record levels in november and december and 966 billion. black friday deals are already in full swing. amazon and best buy started their black friday deals a full week early november 17. target began offering seasonal discounts on november 19. according to a recent detail me not survey, 83% of shoppers say they intended to start holiday shopping before today, thanksgiving. you re heading out the door right now to snag some deals first, w
you really want to get frugal, you can throw some pizza in there too. but i think what we re feeling right now is just like probably people traveling, they really want to celebrate. this is the last big food event you have before thanksgiving. and it seems like covid is like the flu now. people are out and and about, and we re feeling it right now at stew s, and we felt it on father s day too. neil: so the best advice with a lot of this stuff is don t buy as much stuff. you don t necessarily have to cut back on individual items, but do you really need seven or eight different dishes, what do you think of that? well, there s definitely strategies you can have is. and one of them is buy what you need and not what you want. that s one thing. the other thing you can do is shop the specials. there s a lot of specials out there. we have specials every week.
the discharges but how are they pivoting? what are they doing? well, first of all, the vibe on the store floor is really good this memorial day. i mean, customers are looking for value right now, neil. and and, you know, what i recommend everybody shop the specials. we re seeing a lot of people when we put things on special at stew s, we re seeing those sales go way up on things. so people are conscious right now, but they are buying. the parties are back, graduation, you know, events are happening, catering s up, flowers are up. balloons have a little supply chain thing because helium, i guess they use, the medical field uses them for mris, so it s hard to get helium, but other than that [inaudible] this memorial day. neil: do you think a lot we get these statistics all the time, we re going to be exploring it later in the show that the worst of the inflation,