No one ever wished for a smaller holiday gift. it s the lexus december to remember sales event, and for a limited time, we re celebrating some of our greatest offers of the year. see your lexus dealer. all right. with the holiday season comes traffic madness across the country. according to the department of transportation more than 4 million miles of roads chris crossing the country and on those rods there are more than 255 million registered cars. and probably some unregistered ones. we are a car driving nation like no other and in today s big i i want to tell you about brand new
October s median home price was $194,000, that s the lowest price in seven years. last month um to $213,000. now, let s just talk about the number affecting home sales and that is mortgages. the rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage, a rate to get if you have good credit and put 20% down on your house, 4.85%. why does that matter? because mortgage rates can entice you or deter you from buying a home. and knowing that, i want you to look at these graphics that i have got here. this is the rate of home ownership by country. here in the united states, the place that champions home ownership more than any developed country that i know of, home ownership is at 67%. in the united kingdom, 68%. canada, 68%. in australia, 70%. what are these countries doing differently to encourage more home ownership? more importantly, should we be encouraging home ownership?
There s a major drug shortage in hospitals around the country, affecting everything from painkillers to chemotherapy medications. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now. is this a fact? it is a fact. it s not talked about a lot and it s becoming a big problem. as many as four people died because of these drug shortages and take a look at how many drugs there are shortages. this list goes on and on. shortages of the drugs. my arm is tired here. there s the end. and what s happening is that the hospitals are not able to use the drugs they want to use so here s a list of bad things happening. for example, propofol, jackson juice, a patient woke up not giving him enough. they couldn t give the right dosage. part of the right dosage and the patient woke up. there s things that are worse. a patient was supposed to get morphine, got another drug that
That was so devastating for southern california. time being, things are relatively clear. that s the good news. the bad news is that that area of low pressure that caused all the trouble is now stirring up over parts of four corners. pretty quiet, almost dorr nant but what we anticipate is that that low is going to get on the move and really cause a few more problems. let s put it into motion. notice animation going from into friday. going to settle in the southern plains. rain to parts of texas. fast forward into saturday and sunday, that same low will kick off the eastern seaboard. two things. brings in very cold air from the north and then pile on the overrunning moisture from the atlantic ocean. that could give us some snowfall in the parts of country. for example, in atlanta, we might see dusting of snowfall in extreme north georgia. could see one to three inches of snow. there s uncertainty. that s the latest scenario of how it may play out. in terms of forecast around the rest of the nation, many people have to do some traveling.
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