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
The PACT Act is designed to help veterans who were exposed to toxins in Iraq and Afghanistan and now suffer a litany of health issues ranging from asthma to deadly cancers.
operative. and we re seeing that with obviously senator toomey who said it publicly. more and more republicans privately have been saying this for a while. but, also, with the number of republican donors, really the top finance people who work with the rnc over the past years, in the trump years and before, they re starting to say, you know what, i ve had a little too much of the drama. and it s not about ketchup on a wall. it s about going to the capitol, knowing that they were armed, everything we ve seen over the hearings. they just want to inch away from donald trump bit by bit. laura, we ve heard privately from republicans for years who have not been supportive of or found some of the president s decisions distasteful. if they re not stepping up and that likely won t happen before the midterm, why should there be confidence in what toomey is saying, that people are going to walk away if they re not coming out publicly to talk about the president? yeah, i mean, just to your poi
cataclysmic for the most part unless it goes on for a long time. so you can t really bring this up to the deadline. i think we ll see markets start reacting sooner than october 17 or 16. congress really doesn t have a lot of time here. what toomey is saying there, is that the overall republican stance? yes. because the republicans raised the debt limit twice under trump and they did it with democrats. now they re saying it s about future spending. no, it s about debt that was incurred under the trump administration. yes and no. you have to raise it for past spending and future spending. government needs to be able to borrow money, period, no matter who s spending the money. republicans voted for government funding packages. it s not like one party supports all the spending all the time. there s plenty of bipartisan spending in congress. so it s not as neat and clean as that. and yes, democrats helped out and yes, republicans have helped out during republican demonstrations and