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expires. so we ll take you down to the southern border this morning. also, it looks like turkey s presidential election is head for a runoff. we have christiane amanpour here to hear why this race has global implications. and aaa is predicting one of the busiest travel day weekends in decades. an expert with tips on how to beat the rush. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. but here s where we begin this morning. new overnight, a bus of migrants dropped off at the official home of the vice president, kamala harris, in d.c. texas governor greg abbott sent the bus to the naval observatory after title 42, that covid-era immigration policy expired last thursday. many were expecting a surge of migrants over the weekend, but according to the biden administration, that s not what happened. here s president biden sunday after a bike ride. how do you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than much better than y all expected. of course, t ....
gone. she was hysterical saying they shot her best friend, they killed her best friend, she was not breathing, and she was trying to kill the cops, and i asked the little girl the name, and she told me she said amerie. she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mommy and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was creative. she made things for us. she never got in trouble in school. like, i just want to know what she did to be a victim. fellow classmate, matae rodriguez also just 10 years old will be laid to rest later today. at sacred heart church, where the funeral is taking place, there are 21 crosses, one for each of the 19 children and two teachers killed a week ago today, and funerals for 12 of the victims will be held there. cnn s nick valencia joins us from uvalde, tell us what happens happening as this little girl s funeral is starting. reporter: amerie s funeral is reportedly being attended by many people wearing the col ....
Four people died on state highways over the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend. The Mississippi Highway Patrol said the fatal crashes happened in Benton, Tunica, Itawamba, and Harrison Counties. ....
Season that kicks off with memorial day. and in some cases, it may be even bigger than pre-pandemic. that 42 million number you mentioned. aaa forecast those people that would travel 50 miles or more over the memorial day travel period. it s really only 1% off from what we saw back in 2019 before the pandemic. the good news here is the price of gas is down significantly. the average price for a gallon of regular, according to aaa, $3.35. compare that to a year ago. it was $4.45. so we re down nearly a dollar a gallon. the best times to travel, according to aaa are friday it . the real worse time is when people come home, monday between noon and 3:00 p.m. aaa tells me that you can really tweak your travel if you try to work from home to try to miss some of this traffic. ....
Lis listen. so if you can extend that weekend trip to tuesday, perhaps, or maybe work remotely on tuesday, come back wednesday, play around with your schedule to avoid those big delays because some metro areas could be seeing double traffic times, double than what they normally see. if your commute is normally two hours you could be looking at a four-hour trip. reporter: the vast majority of people will drive during the memorial day travel period, but the thing that s really driving the numbers is so many people who will travel by air. aaa anticipates the number of air travelers will actually be 11% greater than what we saw back in 2019 before the pandemic, it could be a record breaker, kaitlan, and it s only just the start. what s the sense of why air travel has increased since 2019? reporter: you know, the really interesting thing here is that so many people plan to travel internationally. we re seeing long wait times for passport processing. that s a sign that people are rea ....