As a part of the Government of India s initiative towards market intervention to control the price of wheat and flour, the fourth e-auction to offload wheat under OMSS (D) was held on Wednesday
reporter: tonight, holiday air travel soaring back to near prepandemic levels. i knew it would be the busiest, but i still have to make the trip. reporter: wednesday, the busiest of the season so far. flightaware showing the crowded skies from 6:00 a.m. to noon. planes swarming from coast to coast. tsa screening more than 9.5 million passengers since sunday. when it comes to thanksgiving holiday travel, houston airports is seeing a larger crowd than it did in 2019. reporter: so far, major airlines only seeing four flights canceled. united zero. but for some, trying to avoid the travel crunch by flying thanksgiving day didn t go as planned. it was actually pretty bad, like, hours.as delayed for, - reporter: and it s not just the skies. nearly 49 million americans are hitting the roads despite record-breaking costs at the pump. gas prices are the highest we ve ever seen for thanksgiving. i filled up my car i think before i came up here. it was $5.40 something.
winter for too many americans. the cost of heating oil at an average of $5.70 a gallon last month. that s up 70% from the same time last year. the northeast is so short on oil supplies, fuel oil, that it is being rationed. fox business correspondent is live in new jersey. families will be paying a lot more to heat their home this winter. you look at home heating oil as an example. if a family bought their year s worth of oil today they pay $2 thousand more than they would have last year. this is a discount home heating oil company and their prices you can see how much they ve gone up in the past year from under $3 a gallon and today they re charging $5.40. part of it is a lack of inventory. the entire east coast is struggling to access home heating oil at a time when our
false claims after moscow said uk forces helped with a drone attack on russian fleets near the crimean port of sevastopol. there s major disruption to rail services across scotland due to a 24 hour walkout by scotrail workers. more than 2,000 rmt members are on strike. coming up at 5.40pm, we ll bring you the latest technology news in click. i m maryam moshiri. the household energy supplier 0ctopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices.
straight after the news. 0ne lucky euromillions player from the uk has won £171 million in last night s draw. thatjackpot winner is now richer than adele or ozzy osbourne. the prize is the uk s third largest ever just 16 uk players have won more than £100 million in the lottery s history. you can see more on all of today s stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at 5.40pm. bye for now. hello. we are going to have a mixture of sunshine and scattered showers through the rest of the day. good day for chasing rainbows,