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>> julie: millions of americans are hitting the road for thanksgiving this holiday but they are digging deeper into their wallets to make the trip to see their family and friends. aaa is saying the national average for a price of regular gallon of gasoline is now $3.40. that is a whopping increase of $1.28 over last thanksgiving. in fact, this years price is the highest since 2012. >> benjamin: china and russia bolstering defense ties with each other to counter a growing military threat from the...

One of the highest amongst the major economies in the world right now. if you want to be optimistic, you say, like the federal reserve or the white house, this is just temporary, and once you start getting businesses investing and expanding their capacity and their ability to meet demand, once you get some of the supply chain glitches basically taken out of the system, it will heal itself. thats the optimistic view. the pessimistic view says that actually, its going to take a long time to get th...

More expensive than before. it is demand driven inflation and all they want to do is pump money into the system. >> kevin: josh, you are in the heartland and people tell you how they are feeling this. you talk about inflation, its not just a theory but talking about real changes everyday lives. 15 seconds for you. >> very quick. you have dr. fauci you cant get together for thanksgiving and biden creating inflation where you cannot afford to get together. these are crises created by biden and lac...

South Korea on Wednesday recorded 4,115 positive COVID-19 cases, the highest number since the start of the pandemic, the Korean Disease Control and Prevention A

Of these positives. i think we need to pay more attention to what americans are doing, rather than what theyre saying. how much theyre shopping, what theyre doing in terms of quitting their jobs. big picture, i think americans are saying they hate the economy, but acting like they love it. >> spending a lot of money. gas prices, a lot of folks filling up today and tomorrow. national price $3.40. those 50 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve, thats just about 2.5 days consumption ...

Expected to visit people outside of their own households this weekend. clearly theres a desire to put the pandemic in the rear view mirror. cnns stephanie elam is live at lax airport and pete muntean is watching interstate 95 outside of baltimore. gas prices as we know are at their highest in years, but is that keeping people off the roads? >> reporter: it doesnt really seem to be holding people back, alisyn. i just checked google maps, and theres more red on the map than there was earlier. i ha...

A year ago, it was $2.10. if youre driving 456 miles, a year ago, you would have paid $38 i gas. today, $62. the president accuses the oil and gas industry of price gouging americans, just as 48 million are driving over thanksgiving. meanwhile, across the country today, mostly clear skies and packed airports. the tsa screening more than 2 million people each day since friday. the highest since the pandemic began. sunday will bring the most passengers yet. and today, the tsa chief tells nbc news,...

Whit? >> steve, our thanks to you again. lets get right to abcs chief legal analyst dan abrams. and dan, two of the defendants, greg mcmichael and william bryan, were not found guilty of malice murder. but travis mcmichael was. could you explain those differences between the verdicts? >> yeah, the jurors basically assigned slightly different blame to the different defendants. travis mcmichael not only chased down ahmaud arbery, but he also was the one who shot and killed him. he was convicted of...

Rate approaching 11%. >> that was a brief survey of the economic landscape back in the first two years of ronald reagans presidency. average inflation rate topped 10% in 1981. unemployment reached 10.8% by the end of 1982. high interest rates made conditions even worse. this is not how things were supposed to go in the early 1980s. reagan was elected on a wave of optimism and the former movie star was going to turn around the stagnant jimmy carter economy with a new vision of economic conservati...

Are again being asked to work from home where possible as part of a tightening of covid measures. northern ireland has the highest infection rate in the uk, and its been climbing in recent days, with ministers at stormont saying that hospital admissions are up and will increase further in the coming weeks. scotlands first minister today said the vaccine passport system for entry to hospitality venues would not be extended, as cases there have fallen slightly. but all four uk nations are on alert...