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Now to the story on the minds of millions of you out there, the high gas prices. prices at record highs after president biden announced a ban on russian oil imports last week. but there is a sliver of good news. joining me now in santa clara, california, nbc news correspondent scott cohn. let's focus on the good, my friend. what is it? >> reporter: well, the good, alex, and this is all really, really relative, is that prices are starting to level off and in some parts of the country come down. if you think you have it bad where you are, come out here to san jose where the price of regular this...

Filled up their car, so 14 gallons, 15 gallons for $89. that's the kind of thing we have been seeing here. you can look at the way the prices have been going nationwide. they are starting to level off. so $4.32 a gallon nationwide. as i said, $5.74 in california. that can be tough to take. >> we're going to see a lot less driving. a lot of angry people. yeah, i myself was one of them. i'm a firefighter. so me driving to work, every time i fill up, it's $100, if not more now. and yeah, kind of makes me want to bike ride or walk mostly. and i live right down the street. >> oh, my god. i'm moving...

Concerns. arguably, nowhere is the situation more dire than in the state of california, where fuel prices are among the highest in the country, averaging more than $5.70 a gallon, which is steep even for californians who are used to paying higher prices for gas. that's where we find nbc's scott cohn outside a gas station in san jose where the price of a gallon is almost $6 a gallon there. scott, there are some oil industry experts who are saying that prices have reached a peak at this point. what have you been hearing from the everyday americans this is impacting the most there in california? ...

The class of 2020, which clearly also had difficulties during the pandemic. a whopping 20% up on the last set of students to sit a—level exams in 2019. that debate about grade inflation is live and active here. the welsh government say they are certain these teacher assessed grades are valid and that they will stand the test of time. and asking everyone to remember what this cohort of students have been through. speaking to the students, it�*s a point they make. they say the majority of their learning of the past two years was done online. they didn�*t have the advantage of face—to—f...

They say the majority of their learning of the past two years was done online. they didn�*t have the advantage of face—to—face teaching for much of it. they hope the class of 2021 will be remembered for their great achievement in a very tough time. more than half of a—level results have received top grades. more than 50%, 51% in fact, receiving a stars and or a5, 74% receiving a grades or b grades. students in this part of the uk have been picking up the results here. a number of them here in lurgan, one of northern ireland's biggest schools. pupils have been coming and going all morni...