in the end an hour and 20 minutes before i got answers. peter goldberg, thank you so much. it s peter greenberg and you are welcome. appreciate that. philadelphia mayor michael nutter declared a state of emergency before the snow. they could get more than a foot of snow. a live interview coming up in a half hour. to make it easier for you to find out about the travel delays where you are, go to cnn.com/travel. click on the link airport delays. you ll find a status update on the busiest u.s. airports, average delay time and what s causing it. a trip abroad takes a deadly turn for a group of american tourist. next, details on the crash that killed them and a country where thousands die on the road each year.
substantial jumt. from last year, so you want to get going now and make the plans earlier. the people who are planning flights thanksgiving week, taking off on tuesday and coming back on sunday are not only paying more, in a lot of cases, on average playing $170 more. travelocity says the best deals you can get would be instead to talk off on thursday, thanksgiving day and come back on friday or the following tuesday. all of that information is up at travelocity.com. everything i m seeing, when i look at cnn.com/travel it will be more expensive the closer we get to the holiday period. take a look at this. this is an article that we had up yesterday, the mad as held site. you are not alone. it s all about this mad as hell about hidden fees.com.
take a look at these numbers. not a surprise, but, still, a big struggle for american people out there. nearly 15 million unemployed americans, almost 9 million underemployed americans. a big jobs crisis. we talked to folks about how they feel. is the recession over for them? i guess the top economists don t live in the communities everybody else lives in. i think the recession is ongoing. i think some communities it s more like a depression. it is nowhere near over. i do some inspections for people, housing inspections, and i feel that the market it s going to take four or five years to recover. i m a law student right now, and so until i either get a job or get a job interview, it s not over. i have a masters degree and i haven t found a job yet. i graduated in may and i m working retail and my other roommate is working retail and
marn will do for education what an an inconvenient truth did nor climate change. it opens today, and we want to take a look at what it means and the debate it s creating. kareen wynter has more. you think most people are getting a crappy education right now? i don t think they are. i know they are. reporter: davis guggenheim has a message for america. if we don t fix our public schools, we re in trouble. reporter: he knows how to get his message across. his last film earned $50 million at the box office, and if lightning strikes twice, his new film waiting for super marn would do the same thing for public education. cnn caught up with guggenheim at the sun dance film festival. the system we built works really well for the adults, like
they have tens of thousands of significants from people out there, concluding those who work in the airline industry who say they can t take it anymore, what happens when you get your ticket, and everything they thought they were going to pay, they didn t realize it was another $30, $40, $50. get to the airport and didn t realize how much they were going to have to pay for their bags. seems like the airlines are starting to hear it. take a look at this, cnn.com/travel. we don t get a lot of time to talk about it on the air. you find good discounts and ideas, and between now and the end of the year, when everyone startings to fly home with big trips, you might find this to be a valuable resource. kyra, rough economy. now is the time to take advantage of what deals are still out there while you still can. thanks. 10:00 a.m. in the east. we have a lot happening, including steve 57 colbert. he s testifying before the house