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Showed revolving credit. a measure of debt that includes credit cards reaching record highs in april. now that's not necessarily bad. but president and ceo of green path works with people who are often overwhelmed by credit cards. and she is seeing signs that's coming again. >> people who called us in 2021 on average had about $10,000 in credit card debt. so people on average calling us this month. hit $14,000. >> that's significant. >> yeah. it's 40% higher than last year. that to me is like holy cow. >> in this financial environment, credit card debt is a compounding problem. today, families...

Ceo of green path, works with people who are often overwhelmed by credit cards, and she's seeing signs that's coming again. >> people who called us in 2021 on average had about $10,000 in credit card debt. so people on average calling us this month, it's at $14,000. >> that's significant. that's a lot of money. >> yeah, so it's 40% higher than it was last year. like that to me is like, holy cow. >> reporter: kristen says in this financial environment, credit card debt is a compounding problem. today families who struggled before the pandemic may be struggling again. but kristen worries the cre...

>> isn't covid part of the issue here, though? i mean, they got rid of masks and more people are out sick. >> covid is part of the issue. increasing fuel prices. staffing shortages across the board due to covid. all of it has created a compounding problem. and the expected decrease in passenger ticket purchase has not really occurred. what we're seeing actually is a surge in ticket sales during the vacation season and a shortage of aircraft, a shortage of crews as a result of covid. and these compounded problems with airport infrastructure and air traffic control. >> yeah, it hasn't slowed peo...

He doesn't believe this is about banning masks. he believes there was a choice in all of this. we have not yesterday heard from the governor's office. i imagine he has a lot to say, this is an issue that he campaigned on heavily. we heard from the lieutenant governor on fox. she said they're not going to stop fighting this. >> sandra: thanks, mark. now to the scene out of texas. conditions stranding hundreds of vehicles for hours. the blast putting air travel on ice. brutal conditions forcing 3,700 flight cancellationed today on top of 5,000 frozen out yesterday. to fox weather's nicole valdez...

Cal, it's good to have you with us. we've been hearing, obviously as we just heard there from ambassador mcfaul, and we also heard earlier from the senior economic adviser to president zelenskyy, and he described to us the horrors of what's taking place. we've all seen these images now. describe for us what your hearing and seeing on the ground there with these russian attacks against civilian neighborhoods continuing. >> it's a compounding problem that's been going on now for five or six days. it's not just happened overnight. for five or six days some of the cities, you've had no electricity...