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Flowers and teddy bears in her memory. >> thank you so much. back here at home, the pain at the pump is actually easing, after months of record highs, gas prices have been dropping for the past five weeks. analysts say that may last for a while. >> reporter: on the nation's roads this morning, filling up is getting a bit less painful. gas prices have declined for the fifth straight week. >> they have been really high lately. it's about time. >> the national average is now $4.50. down 15 cents since last week and 49 cents a month ago. >> reporter: americans are paying $1.33 more than a year a...

Pressures. it is his top domestic economic priority. now, in terms of the out of date, i think what the president meant there, is since that report came out, the price of gas is down about 50 cents a gallon. that's about the fastest decline in about a decade. it is still way too elevated. let's make that clear. we have more work to do in that space. but it gives americans a little breathing room at the pump. there are key other aspects. you actually mentioned some of them that this president is the congress -- democrats are lined up here can undertake to improve the affordability of prescripti...

What the president meant there, since the report came out, the price of gas is down about 50 cents a gallon. that's about the fastest decline in about a decade. it's still way too elevated. let's make that clear. we have more work to do in that space, but it gives americans breathing room at the pump. some mentioned the president and the congress, democrats are lined up here to undertake to approve the affordability of prescription drugs. >> i'm going to talk about that. but let's talk about breathing room. president biden said declining gas price just like you said here are providing more bre...

Middle class and working class americans to afford health care insurance. health care is the sector that the president and congress has more for costs to americans. and we've seen the leading sector in the principal doe mains. why has not a single republicans joined in the effort for americans? it's a repeat of 2017 attempt to try to repeal the affordable care act and then again during the pandemic trying to kick americans off. >> and the democrats are in the house and senate. they set the table. you mentioned gas prices coming down, 4.50, down from $5, but clearly too high for americans, hitt...

This year you can see it's been a wild ride. 75 bucks at the start of the year, hit about 125 in march and now we are closer to 103. the reason why crude matters for prices at the pump is because crude is 60% of what we pay at the president trump. when crude moves one way or the other it impacts what we see at the pump. now, in terms of recession fears, a lot of commodities have gotten hit hard with concerns about a recession, copper for one, so crude -- this is an interesting thing. crude prices are already sort of still elevated. there is not a ton of support for this idea that they're going...