about the same gas prices as they did last year. the national average is about $3.66 a gallon. compare that to last year when it was $3.63 for a gallon of regular unleaded. but most parts of the country will be seeing slightly lower gas prices. back here in atlanta, not any major problems. airfares will be up about 6% on average this year. richard, back to you. >> all right. good to hear there's no delay there is. amazing it's the busiest airport in the world. it's often quite calm in atlanta. appreciate that. it is no holiday for 1200 firefighters out west battling the slide fire in arizona. they are slowly making progress this morning containing about 10% of the blaze and igniting controlled burns to keep the flames from reaching homes. that fire now about 20 square miles large. meanwhile, there is a fire ten times that size scorching parts of alaska.