23 54 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The, telling you you're a victim and, you know, poor you. the other thing it's not addressing, by the way, ladies, is the underlying cost of higher education which is outrageous. and this is going to do nothing, forgiving loans, to bring those costs down. i love talking to young people who are so financially responsible as you. i hope the rest of your generation takes note, and hay certainly might just have to, because the supreme court has now saidst the unconstitution aal to forgive those -- unconstitutional to the forgive those loans. kiara, kate, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for ...

Week. the latest was this morning's chicago to denver with the first leg of my trip. i am now in san francisco and getting ready to drive at least six, seven hours. >> reporter: she's got company, a record 43 million americans are driving with gas averaging $3.54 a gallon, $1.30 cheaper than a year ago. on i-35 in texas, the hill family is headed to austin to float in the san marcos river. >> we want to make sure that our kids have a great summer. don't let the prices scare you. you only get these memories once. >> reporter: it is summertime even if the living isn't always easy. >> all right, ...

Thank you for joining us. let's get into the gas prices and where they can stand. if we pull this graphic up as it stands a gallon of gas in the u.s. $3.58 yesterday, $3.57. or we could go $3.54. obviously, not a big change, we are talking pennies but it is starting to tick up summer. where do you see these prices going in the coming months? >> i'm afraid they will be going higher. perhaps a lot higher. if we look at the job the u.s. industry has done to keep prices under wraps, it is amazing. producing gasoline at a record pace. we have added refining capacity to keep up with demand but they ...

Consumer sentiment hit six-month lows since friday. and debt ceiling drama is unresolved. the nasdaq finished higher. inflation rose $3.54 a gallon. retail sales, existing home sales, weekly jobless claims but really, the most important thing is getting the debt ceiling fixed. the end of the month, that's when the u.s. could run outside of money if the agreement isn't found to raise the debt limit. talks are set to continue. no end in sight. joining me gene marks, president of the marks group. excited to have you on this morning. we're running out of time to fix this. you advocate specifically...

We'll likely see numbers this summer exceed pre-pandemic levels. of course the vast majority of people will drive. 37 million people forecasted by aaa to drive 50 miles or more out of that 42 million people expected to travel in total. that total number, only 1% up from what we saw back in 2019 before the pandemic, likely helped out by gas prices nearly $1 a gallon lower than they were this time last year. $3.54 is the current average. it was $4.47 this time a year ago. here are the worst times to travel. friday between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. before memorial day. and then monday coming back, when ...