los angeles, air fare down 10%. hotels down 17% new york city air fare down 14%, and hotels down 20%. there is an easy way to save even more. >> on average, consumers can save about $315 per couple by booking a package deal as opposed to booking their flight and hotels separately. >> if you travel over labor day, don't forget that many airlines have reached their baggage fees which can eat into your saving. >> it depends on the airline you fly because everyone's baggage fees vary. but you could save up to $100 round-trip just by carrying on your luggage. >> so if you didn't think you put up for a trip this summer, take one last look. procrastination may pay off. but the deals will last forever. >> we haven't seen prices go up just yet. but chances are prices will start creeping up into the fall and into the winter. >> brian curtis for nbc news. >> one final bit of a device. if you know you will be traveling over thanksgiving and christmas, not too early to start booking. >> hope your doing well this afternoon. so fo

air fare is down 20%. hotel rates are down 23%. los angeles air fare down 10%.ew york city air fare down 14%. hotels down 20%, and there is an easy way to save even more. >> consumers can save about $315 per couple by booking a package deal as opposed to booking flights and hotels separately. >> if you travel over labor day, do not forget that many airlines have raised their baggage fees, which can eat into savings. >> it depends on what you fly, but you conceive of to $100 round-trip just by carrying on your luggage. >> if you did not think you could afford a trip, take one last look. procrastination they pay off, but the deals will not last forever. >> we have not seen prices go up just yet, but chances are prices will creep up into the fall and winter. >> one final bit of a vise. if you know you will be traveling over thanksgiving and christmas is not too early to start booking. youtube is extending and revenue sharing. if your video is funny enough, you will get paid for it. youtube says it will e-mail you a revenue-sharing message. individual partnerships a

airlines are offering their followers first dibs on discounted air fares.weets are a way to fill seats. they are similar to the discounted airfare e-mails that many sent out starting in the late 1990's. >> for more travel deals, you can log on to our website. also, honda is recalling more than 1500 vehicles because of a ruptured air bag. there is more to losing weight than just exercise. cutting your fat intake is an essential and shedding pounds. two unkown pieces of work by mozart. the green balls appeared 3 times over the weekend during the green ball double draw. the 3 green balls led to an addinotal 3000 winners. the green ball double draw runs through august 16. employees are upset that their pay increases are being held up. we will explain why. >> that is the newest dolphin here at the national aquarium. it is hard to believe that she was born a year ago last week. we are celebrating her >> there is a birthday celebration this weekend. it has spent a year since the newest dolphin was born. everybody can help bailey celebrate. >> right now, she is eat

just amazing. >> shannon: how are the air fares looking into the summer?e airlines are cutting back on capacity. i don't think that air fares are going to go up that much because of the capacity cuts. you know, as long as demand continues to fall and it does typically in september and october, we going to see some really, really good deals. >> shannon: talk about the cities where they are having air service cut. that is not a good thing for them. who is getting hit? >> delta has cut way back. they are cutting another 20%. pittsburgh has been hit pretty badly, too,. >> you can't even fly nonstop from pittsburgh to l.a. or san francisco. people can still get where they want to go, just have to have a stop to get there. >> shannon: what are the better deals for folks right now? >> during the fall the dynamic changes and you need to pay attention to weekend travel. during the week, business travelers are out there keeping rates up but on weekends rates come down. i was down at best western avitar hotel in the san jose and silicon valley area. their rates durin

that is despite relatively cheaper gas prices and air fare bargains from struggling carriers. >>> let's talk about the weather. labor day is getting close. it is hard to believe this summer is almost over. >> is next two weekends are the last ones. we had some rain from hurricane bill and now we have tropical storm danny. we have rained coming in the next few days but it is not directly from danny. ours is just a tolic cald front. we need the rain, but it is c nt the best timing. l akkeoo aook at the latest statistics for danny. wins out of -- they continue to be sustained at 60 miles per hour. you have to have gwynns sustained at 70 miles or more. -- you have to have winds sustained as 7 miles or more. it could possibly become a category one sometime saturday morning and curving back out to sea. we do have that system off the coast that is wedging as in, so it should be off the coast just enough that it affects minimally locally. there could be some problems at the beaches, so if you are going to be sure there will probably be some showers and maybe i hop into the water. let's look at

demand for air travel remains weak despite double digit declines in the air fares. >>> starbucks sayswill be raising the price on some beverages. the price increases are as high as 30 cents on some drinks. most items would increase about 10 cents to 15 cents but changes will eventually expand in other markets in the coming months and some basic items have price cuts like a plain old cup of joe. >>> a big financial boost to our area. the port of baltimore will help cut diesel pollution and also create jobs. the money is coming from the recovery act funds. the port of baltimore receives a total of $16 million. >>> here's an interesting new concept popping up all across the country now. it is called baby-sitter co- ops. basically, i'll watch your kids, you watch mine. parents aren't just saving money, but they are also getting peace of mind. deborah fairic has more for us. >> reporter: it's 7:30 on a wednesday and expectant mom michaela is taking the night off from her own family to baby sit someone else's kids. >> my house is a mess right now, so to come to someone else's house is a lit

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jet blue offering twitter followers discount the air fares, the flights usually go out on monday, andunited fares can come any time. how good are the deals? how about less than 10 bucks each way? worth getting on twitter for that. now back to will thomas with the fox 5 news top five. >> and heads up for anybody riding metro's red line, delays will continue tonight, the national transportation safety board wrapped up the investigation into the crash site, now crews start to replace the broken track circuitry, taking about 30 days. they ask you to be patient. >>> and number four, your toddler may not be sad, but depressed. a new study finds that depression can be in children very young, they can experience the same chemical changes in the brain that affect older children. >>> and number three, a recent study showing that 70% of u.s. children havelow levels of vitamin d putting them at risk for bone and heart disease. a solution? vitamin d supplements, and eating riching foods in vitamin d, like fish and milk, and spending more time in the sun. >>> and city council lifting a $19 tap on c

>>>last week there was a lot of buzz about jet blues all you can jet air fare deal.599 pass and fly all you want anywhere jet blue goes between september 8th and october 8th. the program was so popular that the airline has already sold out of its month long passes. jet blue has not said if it will make that same offer next year. well, it has been a wild ride, but the cash for clunkers program will screech to a halt on monday. that's the word tonight from the government which was already having trouble keeping up with plans for the runaway success. many people have bought cars under the impression that uncle sam is owing payment to dealers. >>reporter: dozens of dealers have already stopped participating in the program that allows customers to trade in gas guzzlers for up to $4,500 in government rebates because they can no longer afford to front uncle sam the money. >>a very, very small amount of the transactions have been done and paid by the government. >>reporter: the gm says the company will today begin providing cash advances to dealers that are equivalent to the

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. >> for consumers if you're trying get a good air fare, jetblue is offing unlimited flights for a month covering all 56 jetblue cities for $599. there are some night destinations in mexico and the caribbean and costa rica. the pass is good for a month with no blackout days. jetblue said it has never done anything like this before. why are they doing it now? they are trying to sell seats. take a look at stock index futures. firmly higher thisorngni. that gain yesterday fueled by comments yesterday about how the economy and household spending is stabilizing. we'll see if the gains will continue today. at 8:30 we'll get weekly jobless claims and a report on july retail sales. back to you. >> linda, thanks. 5:26 and 72 degrees. news continues with "good morning washington" at 5:30. >> still ahead, crews dig up a deadly chemical weapon. we have the fuel story. >> and remembering eunice kennedy shriver. how her life is being celebrated today. >> the weather may actually feel a little bit better today. storm chances and with just a few adjustments, the plan we worked on for your retirement mak

after writing a colleague about a possible job in macedonia he opened his account and found cheap air faresdonia. >> creepy. somebody's reading the -- the content of my emails to discover what i'm talking about. >> reporter: but some see the online snooping as a tradeoff for free services or a way to save money. >> in the beginning like, huh, how do they know that i like to travel to mexico, things like that. over the course of time i got used to it. the deals that came through it helped me out. >> reporter: google maps can figure out where you live, where you like to eat, and can track you nawhile driving. the feature street view allows users to see neighborhoods as if they were driving down the road with one big difference -- the zoom. here is the same spot in downtown seattle. and nobody seems bothered that we're shooting video. but google street view had been taking a lot of heat lately for allowing web suvers to peek into people's homes and lives. the company now blurs faces and license plates before posting the images, but those unedited versions are still alive and well on google's i

i'll pay your air fare. >> i don't think it's a matter -- >> i believe this country, we are -- we elect people to make this a nice place to live, to raise your family, to have opportunities of all different stripes. if you have to go to a developing nation to do that, oh, my gosh. >> i'm going to france. i'm going to france, i'm not going to china. >> listen quick. >> i get a meal in france. i can get a decent pair of shoes in france. >> chris gardner, i will send you a postcard from our fact-finding mission in shanghai. >> four out of five say the recession is over. i guess in the pinstripe suits they can figure out the recession is over or almost over. what do you think, is it over, chris? >> do me a favor. i'll be give being the key note address at wayne state university in detroit next week. give me the names of those economists so i can tell 1,000 people in detroit that the recession is over. >> the same economists who were hesitant to tell us we were in a recession while the dow was down to 7500 telling us we're in a recession, now they tell us, we think we're coming out of a rece

i got three words for you, first class air fare. what's so bad about that?fend lawmakers using them but i will defend that gentlemen and gentlewomen like general petraeus whose time is of essence in a war that those men and women do need rapid transport between certain areas. i will not defend lawmakers using them, but i will defend those four-star generals and i will defend the secretary of defense that needs to use their time to get to certain places rapidly. that's why the defense department requested four, not eight. >> turning to the other congressman, republican. i believe the defense department said these jets were not needed. they didn't need them, right? >> no, only four they said were needed. >> dennis, joe acts like they don't have any planes right now. they got 24 of them right now. no need for four more, my goodness gracious, especially in this fiscal crisis we have. what we need to do is cut it to zero. i hope the congress will do that when we get back in september and then hopefully the speaker will allow folks the opportunity to actually read

colleague about a possible job in macedonia he reopened the g-mail account to find an ad for cheap air fareso macedonia. >> it's creepy. somebody is reading the content of my e-mail to discover what i'm talking about. but some see the online snooping as a trade-off for free services or a way to save money. >> in the beginning, how do they know i like to travel to mexico, things like that, but over the course of time i kind of got used to it and the deals that came in through it helped me out. >> google maps can figure out where you live, where you like to eat and track you while driving and the feature street view allows users to see neighborhoods as if they were driving down the road, with one big difference. the zoom of the spot in downtown seattle and nobody bothered that we're shooting video, but google street view has been taking heat for allowing web surfers to peek into people's homes and lives and they blur faces and license plates before posting the imams, but the unedited versions are alive and well on internal servers. >> google knows more about us, it has a greater ability to con

rates are attractive, air fare is track -- attractive.hoenix probably one of the leading resort areas in the country, with golf courses and all of the amenities. with people being laid off, the tourist industry is being hit significantly, and that has had a significant impact on the revenues that governors -- governments as well as private have and joy. host: wayne from phoenix. on with mayor gordon. caller: my name is win. i am calling from tucson, but i grew up in phoenix. we do have a lot of nice resorts in phoenix. i want to congratulate you on phoenix spending $600 million to own a resort. i don't know where it came from. my primary concern is i live in tucson because phoenix is so violence because, first off, it take the funds from anyone trying to do anything to do about immigration in our city. last time i had my windows shot out, then my car stolen. i can't live there. i grew up in south phoenix, and that used to be a nice. and all there is not as taco stands and graffiti and check cashing places. if you want comprehensive immigr

rates are attractive, air fare is track -- attractive.enix probably one of the leading resort areas in the country, with golf courses and all of the amenities. with people being laid off, the tourist industry is being hit significantly, and that has had a significant impact on the revenues that governors -- governments as well as private have and joy. host: wayne from phoenix. on with mayor gordon. caller: my name is win. i am calling from tucson, but i grew up in phoenix. we do have a lot of nice resorts in phoenix. i want to congratulate you on phoenix spending $600 million to own a resort. i don't know where it came from. my primary concern is i live in tucson because phoenix is so violence because, first off, it take the funds from anyone trying to do anything to do about immigration in our city. last time i had my windows shot out, then my car stolen. i can't live there. i grew up in south phoenix, and that used to be a nice. and all there is not as taco stands and graffiti and check cashing places. if you want comprehensive immigrat

in africa rather than containing a small village because of globalization and widespread use of air fare it quickly spreads around the world. look at the most recent bayh riss you can see it started in mexico but within two days it was an almost every country of the world so globalization is dangerous in this regard if economists don't understand economics perfectly if our politicians don't know how to plan the future if there is always on uncertainty and risk we are no longer exposing it just to one state or city or country we are exposing it to the global economy and that is very dangerous. >> a few questions. number one with the debt overhang issue is it the only possible solution to deanne fleet, create inflation in order to decrease the real value of that? >> that's the conclusion i came to and how disturbing to read in the paper today bin bernanke went to congress and promised them the one thing he would never do is to inflate the currency. he's reading out of the playbook that is 30-years-old. we know that inflation is harmful to an economy. we found that during the carter years b

if everyone takes a look at the less time they spent on the road or traveling, on air fare traveling from point to point across the country, it helps to diminish the carbon footprint and the energy we all expend. it is another benefit to this gov 2.0 and productivity. going back to those expectations that citizens have now for technologies and user interface and how they are able to access information, gone are the days of the point, click and find. now the reality is that citizens are expected to engage, and want to engage in their government. so we are seeing some new initiatives and pilots where citizens can actually participate in policy development. we have seen that with some of the national dialogue campaigns that the add stray has launched, and -- administration has launched, and we have seen that with specific objectives, where citizens can come in and have a dialogue with the government and make suggestions. with the recovery.gov process that was going on, there was a lot of ideas from the citizen community as to what that should look like, and that could not have been done

plus, you can see the entire interview that fareed had with secretary clinton. that will airn "fareed zakaria: gps" this sunday. they also talk about iran, the war in afghanistan, the health care debate raging on capitol hill, and a lot more, all coming up sunday on "fareed zakaria: gps" that airs at 1:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. >>> contractors vent their stimulus frustrations. >> generally, too much red tape? >> too much red tape. and by the time we get to work and the money flows and gets here, we're going to be in the dead of winter. shovels ready now. we won't be able to put the shovels in the icy ground. >> why billions of dollars aren't trickling down fast enough to help struggling employers. >>> also, 200 days in office. how does president obama compare to former president george w. bush at this point? that and more coming up in our "strategy session." >>> plus, lawmakers confronted with health care outrage. are these protests really grassroots, or is someone else behind them? >>> the transportation department received $48 billion from the economic stimulus plan to g

hardware like the playstation 3, xbox 360, and the nintendo wii fared even worse, falling 23%. >>> air travel will get more personal as we now have to provide our birth date and our gender to book a flight. it's the tsa's new program called secure flight. for many passengers already taking off their shoes, unpacking their laptops, and putting their toiletries in little plastic bags, this latest security requirement is no big deal. the demand for birth dates and gender information is part of a shift that now has the government and not airlines in charge of checking passenger names against the watch list, a key recommendation of the 9/11 commission. >>> and all you can fly for $599. that's the new promotion making a big splash from jet blue. here's how it works. you must buy the special pass between now and august 21st. then you can fly anywhere the airline goes virtually as often as you'd like from september 8th to october 8th, and there are no blackout dates. however, flights must be booked no later than 1:59 a.m. eastern time three days before the flight's scheduled departure. so, pri

cotton candy, corn dogs, all of the typical fare that you would find act f air buts, , the also haved find at fairs, but they also have text messaging contests. there is also a youtube competition, where they should videos and enter them. we saw this one generation ago when video arcades first showed up in fairs. this is the latest trends, and is working this summer, at least, it 20% increase of teenagers across the country at fairs, and the iphone competition is one of the favorites. so you can ride the rides, take pictures with your iphone, enter it, and you could win a blue ribbon. i do not know if this has to do with one of these pie eating contests. shepard: i think this is our first live shot from a ferris wheel. continue to break new ground, sir. thank you. i am shepard smith. you are on fox report hd. a controversial program that began to report rumors about health-care reform. they called it "flag," f-l-a-g, and email address that they asked people to use if they found anything fishyç about health care reform. as reported last night, that email address is gone. today, the w

air this coming holiday weekend. that's 3.5% drop from last labor day. airlines have cut flights, but there is a bright side. fares are lower, and those who do travel should face fewer crowds at airports. >>> the boss is coming to baltimore. [ music ] >> that's right, bruce springsteen and the e street band will play in charm city at first mariner arena. he's never head lined a he show in baltimore. the only time he's played here was 36 years ago, opening for chicago. a lot of big acts bypass charm city, but many say baltimore has more to offer. >> we came to baltimore. it was the fastest sell-out in history. they are going to be treated like royalty. in other market that they come all the time, it is what it is. it's not a big deal, for us, you're talking about king of rock 'n' roll, basically. >> stub hub is predicting the show will sell out quickly. the november is november 20th. particulars go on sale september 25th. >> write that date down. >>> you can see the president's picture and other sim balances of america, but what about what you can't see on those dollar bills? >> the substance scientists found cover

that way you don't have to stan in line at the fare card mnsz on the way home. >>> the judge who let the air out of the tire of an illegally parked car has been ticketed for his actions. charles county circuit judge, judge robert nalley, admits he deflated the tire of a car parked near the courthouse. he received a traffic citation today for tampering with a motor vehicle. nalley says the car was repeatedly parked in a restricted space. last week he resigned from his position as chief administrative judge. nalley still serves as an associate judge in charles county circuit court. a montgomery county police officer has been indicted accused of giving false testimony against a dui suspect. it stems from this incident back in may 2008 captured on surveillance video. a man was arrested and charged with dui in gaithersburg. last april the officer told the court that the driver was behind the wheel when she arrived on the scene. the video shows the driver was actually lying in the car's back seat when officer ffman got there. hoffman is indicted on one count each of perjury and misconduct in offic

the air tractor-trailer association expects 16 million passengers to travel during the holiday weekend, down 3 1/ 2% fr mi7 ion passengers who mitraveled la labor day. that is despite low fares that are making travel affordable. >> more people are signing up for cobra to keep health insurance after losing their jobs. our partners at "usa today" report the number of people who opted to continue their former employer's coverage has doubled. cobra is a federally designed subsidy to make health insurance more affordable for laid off workers. >>> it may take a little longer for tech fanatics to get the next big thing in television. sony is releasing the thinnest set to come to market. it is three millimeters thick. the "wall street journal" reports that sony decided to push become the new model until next year because the cost of starting production. if you can't wait there is one early version in store only 11 inches and it costs $2,500. now, three millimeters is about the width of a magazine. so pop that puppy on your wall. >> i saw some at consumers electronics in january. phenomenal. >> crazy technology. >>> how about this for a deal, a $1.6 million home for $100 if you are l

fare, to sample new dishes. part of chef ramsey's appeal was while cooking on television, he fielded live calls. future television had to add two operators to answer questions while he was on the air satellite television broadcast considered mandatory viewing. watching him felt like eavesdropping on an extended arab living room. once a bee plopped down into a cream dish just minutes before the show ended. the chef told me he could not ignore it because the cameraman, the donkey, a crowning insult, focused right on it. [laughter] so the chef scooped it out with a large spoon and pronounced the dish unsullied. a woman from saudi arabia called immediately to complain that for the sake of hygiene -- and wasn't the chef always harping about hygiene in the kitchen? -- he should have tossed out the whole thing. the sudanese woman who called next said bees were mentioned in the koran as exceptionally clean insects. he should have left it. [laughter] and then i'm going to -- since the iranian elections are friday, i thought i'd read a little bit about iran in here. and one of the chapters -- excuse me. one of the things i try and do particularly in the first half of the book is sort of loo

faring a lot better than euro europe european, u.s. or asian count counterparts. in june, demand rose compared to june of 2006. profits by air arabia is reporting profits up 10% for the second quarter of 2009 over 2008. even though these figures came in lower than analyst expectations, they're still in positive territory. back to you. >> okay, nadine, thank you. >>> malaysia's prime minister is optimistic about his country's prospects. in a cnbc interview, he said he expects southeast asia's third largest economy to hit a growth rate of 6%. but he didn't specify when. >> i mean, i've been talking about a new economic model. how to transform malaysia from high-middle income to high-income nation within a certain span of time. therefore, i'm looking for a higher growth rate for malaysia. >> how high, how fast? >> i'll be happy if i can get 6%. i know it's a tall order. we'll work very hard to achieve that. >> there are signs the economy might be bottoming out. industrial production in june registered its slowest pace of decline since november last year. here's a look at how malaysian currency is doing, 0.05% to the dollar righ