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Roads are going to be busy as summer kicks off. aaa says a 6% increase in road travel this memorial day weekend, but i am here with some good news because despite the rising demand the cost of road trips is actually going down. drivers are being greeted by cheaper gas prices this year, much cheaper, the national average is $3.57 a gallon, down by more than a gallon from the $4.60 years ago, miles away from the record high last june of $5.02 a gallon. gasbuddy says drivers in all 50 states are seeing lower gas prices, some of them a lot lower. in california the average is down by $1.31, new yor...

Highway altitude routes so that's supposed to help improve travel throughout the air. the factor in all of this as it is most memorial day weekends, the weather, obviously that's something they cannot control. severe storms moving through the south could have an impact for those getting ready to go in and out of that hub. the other part of this, the roadways, an estimated 37 million driving. gas much cheaper this year, 3.57 per gallon as opposed to 4.60 last year. something to keep an eye on, namely the airlines. >> george solis, we appreciate you, thank you. for more on this, i want to brin...

Up for the holiday weekend, right? >> reporter: they'll spend a lot less, wolf. and they'll deal with serious price competition among gas stations. we've got four gas stations alone just at this intersection competing to undercut each other on prices. motorists are telling us, given how we've been hammered with food prices, clothing prices, and other things, we'll take this. >> reporter: at this bp station in mclain, virginia, pleasant surprises at the pump. >> i am surprised because everything else is going up a lot more. so, at least gas prices have kind of been stable. >> i mean, for the pa...

Renew a new policy with the saudis. but otherwise, let's work together and get this done. >> ashley: right now the national average for a gallon of regular gas is $3.50 this morning. this morning, i filled up for $3.57 and always a smidge higher in new york. how much more can americans take of this? simply has to give because when you look at it, guess has not come down. it is still low, it is not high. where does this end? >> unfortunately we are not where we were at last summer. but we see the same mistakes lester this time. again from the u.s. perspective, $90 is high. the last thing as a p...

Because the white house views because president biden intervened again and called on congress to really pass a bill forcing both the labor unions and railway companies to accept a deal that maybe some union members didn't want because it lacked paid leave, because president biden did that, they avoided economic calamity, really averded a risk which would have, the white house contends, likely sent the u.s. into a recession. of course, the economy here is what really matters to the president, top priority, and we saw that when he signed that bill on friday. amara? boris? >> jasmine wright repor...