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going to be. dolly saget ended up being 100% right. i brought that up during our interview in july and, of course, he turned it into a joke. >> i'm sorry that you had to hear that i was going to be a big star from your mother. i literally was living in a single apartment in west l.a. >> bob saget was only 65 years old. to his friends, his wife kelly and three daughters, our deepest condolences on the loss of such a warm and special guy. may his memory be a blessing. coming up on "the lead," new questions about the bronx apartment building where nine children were killed in a fire. stay with us. with the right balance of risk and reward. so you can enjoy more of...this. this is the planning effect. this is your home. this is your family room slash gym. the guest bedroom slash music studio. the daybed slash dog bed. the living room slash yoga shanti slash regional office
vehicle bearing down on the hood of a red prius. another image captured schwarzenegger's friend and actor jake steinfeld present at the scene as they stood next to an officer. the accident took place in an upscale residential neighborhood of west l.a. the los angeles fire department/paramedics responding to the scene where one adult female was injured in the crash. the woman was taken to a local hospital with an abrasion to her head a representative for schwarzenegger confirmed his involvement in the crash and stated, his main concern is for the woman in the other vehicle. authorities also say neither alcohol nor drugs are suspected as a factor in the collision. with schwarzenegger unharmed but concerned as he waits to hear news of the injured woman's recovery guad venegas, nbc news, los angeles. still ahead tonight, who's to blame for the high price of beef? the president is blaming just four companies for the price spikes. also, a takedown caught on camera
weekend arnold schwarzenegger is reportedly not hurt after he was involved in a four-vehicle accident that sent one woman to the hospital. a spokesman for the former california governor says their only concern was a woman who was injured. what are they saying now? >> reporter: police responded to us today they would not give more updates on this case. they did release a statement overnight after this accident saying it happened around 4:35 p.m. friday on the busy sunset boulevard in the brentwood area of west l.a. and as you mentioned arnold schwarzenegger his representative told people magazine he is fine but he is concerned about the woman who was sent to the hospital from this accident. police did confirm they sent one woman to the hospital with an abrasion to the head. now, there were four cars involved in this wreck according
gallon. the states highlighted there in yellow, prices are already well above that. and they seem to be heading further northward, though there was a little bit of mitigation, prices for the barrel of oil after president biden made his announcement today. william in the los angeles bureau has been following all of this. you talk about pain at the pump, you are at ground 0 there, william. >> 6.09 in west l.a., nearby, 6.99 # in mid city. the single largest driver of inflation. it has to absorb the price hike, why this is turning into the blame game with president biden blaming putin and warning of price gouging by big oil. critics blame the president for energy policy that does not encourage investment or underwriting of oil and gas production. caught in the middle, consumers.
fell ill to exposure to burn pits. we don't know if we will hear him talk about russia. neil? >> neil: thanks, peter doocy at the white house. william la jeunesse is seeing first hand how people are reacting to the oil prices and the gas prices as high as they are. in fact, in dollar terms, the highest they've ever been. particularly painful in california where they heap a lot of taxes on top of that. william, what is the reaction there? >> well, neil, people are beginning to cut back. 6:09 in west l.a. 6:99 in mid city l.a. nationally, 4:17 a gallon. a barrel was crude was $65 when president biden took office. today it's 130. about $1 a gallon in just two weeks. that means less spending on other consumer goods and restaurants. forcing people to make choices.
i'm between bell of early house in west l.a., beautiful here, but the predominant members of population during the weekdays are workers who trucked 30 or 4. not a big transportation come as often as that would help. they don't have it here like they do on the east coast. they all have to gas up here at some point. who can afford that? >> most of america has -- does not have access to public transportation but in any way can help them live their life. but back to the iea, this is a political group. they've done a horrible disservice especially to europe as far as their leading climate change agenda. they honestly have have the europeans convinced for more time than i could even think right now that they're going to get rid of fossil fuels. they're going to go to wind and solar. were going to get a rate of oil. they have completely ruined -- now you have several of these
been saying. they claim inflation is the biggest concern of the nation's voters at the moment barring some enormous entirely unforeseen event inflation will remain the voters' biggest single concern in november. the national average for a gasoline gallon is north of $4 and in los angeles that average is more than $6. i'm out here now doing the broadcast from here working on a special project for fox and i'm seeing $6.99 is the baseline. in fact, yesterday on the cusp of beverly hills and west l.a. where you have a predominant worker-based employee-based type of people who are in the city most of the day in beverly hills working at restaurants and doing that they have to pay these high prices, $7 a gallon nearly and if you want somebody else to pump it for you it is $8.04 for diesel. in "focus" now house minority
it is not a crisis for him. >> that's right and that's what everyamerican is feeling, right? we hear things from politicians that don't seem to mesh with reality. it is like a fantasy but we wake up every day and know it effects our life. very often policy doesn't. these are bigger conversations, vague and we go about our lives but now you can't go about your life without feeling it especially in the urban areas, especially in the inner cities, los angeles has the same problem. gascon the d.a. had a press conference the other day touting his successes. everyone in l.a. was thinking what are you talking about? they even now have a rash of follow home invasion robberies in beverly hills, downtown l.a. most neighborhoods, west l.a. god forbid should you go shopping and you go home and you are an older or single woman and they follow you home and go to our house.
this vote is so important for the people. it's for the people, and that means working people. it means new voters. it means the elderly. it means people of color. everyone should be able to vote. then we have a democracy. right now we really don't have a democracy. it's a sliver of people able to vote. >> lana, you're from arizona. what is your message to the democrats and also the republicans on the other side of the table? >> well, being in arizona, they have passed these laws or trying to pass these laws to stop us from voting. we have to think about our native american siblings out there. they're not able to vote. that's why i'm here, also to show my kids this fight is not over. we will continue to fight until we don't have to fight anymore. that's why we're here. the basis of this was the civil
as you travel towards the west l.a. in the upper 60s, triple digit heat for arizona. by the end of the long holiday weekend we rebound our temperatures nicely. look at new york city 72 and plenty of sunshine. back to you, laura. >> derek, thank you. what a difference a year makes, a stark difference between last memorial day and this one. in 2020 the big concern was americans going out and spreading covid this, year states are encouraging people to go out while ramping up efforts to get everyone vaccinated. new york, colorado and now california are offering more incentives. it's worth noting not a lot of incentives in states that are struggling to actually get people vaccinated, though, places like mississippi and alabama, although kroger health just announced $5 million -- $1 million payouts to people who get vaccinated. new research in morning, nearly all adults who want a vaccine have already gotten at least one dose but that's only 62% of americans. "early start" has the pandemic covered coast to coast. >> reporter: i'm nick watt in