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move closer to shore what you can do to avoid what lies beneath. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we begin with breaking news massive ground stops and delays across some of the country s biggest airports, making the holiday travel chaos even more complicated. a difficult summer travel season is now going from challenging to worse before the severe weather even moved in, americans facing a rare combination of high gas prices, high airfare, and mass cancellations across the country. the july fourth getaway is under way it is unclear how far people will get. nearly 50 million navigating clogged airports and roads gas prices down slightly, still painfully high for so many americans tracking it all for us tonight, tom costello who starts us off. reporter: friday night and america s july 4th getaway looks dicey. critical airports up and down the east coast in ground stops with severe thunderstorms f ....
Stand. The s p and dow both down more than 2 in march. As for the full quarter, the dow is down 0. 6 . It is a short but busy week. The always important jobs report is due on friday morning and even though the markets will be closed well be here on squawk box, at least joe will bringing you the numbers for the jobs report. Well also be getting personal income and spending at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time today and spending home sales at 10 00. United health right out of the gate at 6 00 is announcing that it is acquiring catamaran ct rx for 61. 50 a share in cash. And that is not i dont know what that quote youre seeing right there is because this is going to move sharply higher i think, United Health probably can write a check that wont bounce on the deal is to be net earnings by 30 cents a share for United Health by next year. By 2016. Lets see, the company is also making some othe ....