good afternoon lucas. good afternoon mike to ours by the first air force c-17 arrived in indianapolis curing 70000 pounds of for to fill half a million baby bottles. the pallets are now being loaded onto fed ex trucks waiting next to the plaintiff. the first time in history the u.s. military has launched an emergency mission like this to rush critical nutrition to millions of hungry american babies. some are calling this disaster relief here at home. normally the military wise admissions like this to countries devastated by war, famine or national disaster but only three companies make about 90% of the nation s baby formula. the white house says that needs to change. have a president now is saying you need to pursue competition across the economy in this sector and in others by creating more pathways for businesses and entrepreneurs to get into these markets. president biden secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack out on the ramp coming off the plane writing and to the w
very latest pain on the pump. however nay. hey mike aaa projects 39 million americans will travel for the upcoming holiday weekend for 35 million of them are expected to drive to their destination. and they will be spending a record or near record prices for gas for the national average sitting at $4.59 which is the same as yesterday but people and many states including here in new york and especially in manhattan where we are, are paying more this particular station charging 6039 cents a gallon for regular just a penny shy of $7 per gallon for supreme. as i mention this impacts every state. take a look. some states are getting hit harder than others to see a cluster of states on the west coast getting hit especially hard as it was a cluster of states in the northeast. in california the average price for gas is $6.6 a gallon illinois by the way just to sense a shy of $5 per gallon. now, i want to take a look at how quickly prices have gone up at according to aaa in the past week the