are seeing a new round of trouble. more than 300 flights have been canceled today and more than 2,000 are delayed. pilots are protesting around the country. they say they are overworked and understaffed. it s been extremely frustrating. our pilots continuously step up day in and day out to get our passengers safely to their destinations, and the cumulative effects of these fatiguing schedules is adding up. and despite the high gas prices, it will also be a busy weekend on the roads. aaa predicts an all-time record, 42 million americans will hit the road, driving 50 miles or more for independence day. gas prices are dropping slightly, but they re still high. the average price per gallon of gas at $4.84. cnn s pete muntean is at reagan international airport and leyla santiago is at a gas station in miami. airlines have been bracing for this. how are things shaping up so far? reporter: this is the biggest test yet for airlines since they started to recover from the depths
And theyre all coming . Those who are still with us, yes. Grandpa whats this . Your wings. Light em up gentlemen, its a beautiful. Day to fly. Preferred, better science, better results. I, Hanako Montgomery and tokyo and this is cnn just about 9 00 p. M. Here in new york. Fascinating day 14 of the trump hush money criminal trial. Now in the book Stormy Daniels ramped up two days on the stand. Manager thank to turn a portion of defense crossexamination aimed at undermining her credibility into some embarrassing moments for the former president at one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today. Also Saw Testimony from a Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attack finishing he paid two amounts considerably smaller than 35,000 checks he wrote to Michael Cohen. The day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for mistri
Into some embarrassing moments for the former president. At one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today. Also Saw Testimony from Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attention he paid two amounts considerably smaller than 35,000 checks. He wrote to Michael Cohen the day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for mistrial and denying his request to modify the gag order. He is under so we can talk about Stormy Daniels and capping it all off. Stormy daniels tweet this evening saying this about the former president , quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court oh, wait. Never mind. Back of the panel joining us conservative lawyer george conway, who was in court today what were your takeaways on my takeaway. Was that the continued crossexamination of Stormy Daniels was a com
what do you make of it? one, donald trump knew the crowd was armed. i have not seen anything to cast doubt on her testimony about that. and, two, that donald trump wanted badly to go down to the capitol. do you know who has confirmed that? at least two other staffers we saw testimony from, documents confirm that and donald trump has said publicly, although he s changed his story several times, but he has said publicly he wanted to go to the capitol. we re in this credibility battle between cassidy hutchinson and tony ornato about whether the president lunged at the steering wheel. either cassidy made this up, she didn t see it, she said tony did tell her that story. i think the new reporting from ryan mitigates pretty strongly in cassidy hutchinson s favor because now we know this story is out there, that people are telling this story and it s being passed from person to person. to me it makes it more likely that cassidy hutchinson is correct on the one detail about
the call of duty. i want to thank them for doing that on behalf of the whole prosecution staff. i want to thank the family, the loved ones, friends of george floyd. they have been through so much more than families involved in murder cases. he s right. it is a fraternity you don t want to be part of. but they ve been through so much more because of the pandemic and because of security, safety precaution that s we ve had to take. they have been through a lot. at a time when they try to grieve like everybody does the loss of someone, they are going through so much more. and i want to thank them, all of them, the family had, the court saw testimony the family.