for a closer look at the impacts, i'm joined by patrick de haan, he's the head of petroleum analysis gasbuddy, an app that tracks fuel prices and shortages. patrick de haan can you help us understand something, looking at the shortages are those driven by all of the panic purchasing, or is it driven by the pipeline that was shut down for six days? >> well, i think if you were to slice this into a pie, i think 10% of it would probably be because the pipeline was shut down, and the slow replenishment of fuel. but i think 90%, really, or more, is the result of panic buying and hoarding. we saw gasoline demand shoot up instantly. and it wasn't just limited to the states in the southeast where there was primarily happening. it was across the entire country to a lesser agree. certainly very impressive. areas of south florida that generally receive gasoline not from the pipeline but from barge were starting to see outages go up. in fact, miami had no outages yesterday morning. now they're up to 40%. it seems like fear and hoarding is starting to grip miami. >> brangham: so it's sort of amazi

gas buddy's patrick de haan says the spike in prices has more to do with americans emerging from the coronavirus pandemic than the shutdown. >> there's a very small amount that prices have gone up because of the pipeline, maybe a penny or two. and that's likely as bad as it's going to get. >> reporter: according to aaa, the average national price for gas is above $3 a gallon for the first time since 2014. president biden is going to be talking about the gas shortage at the white house this morning. that's expected at 11:30. and we can also expect him to use this as an opportunity to try and convince congress to pass his infrastructure bill. we should also mention, anne-marie, that yesterday he signed an executive order aimed at boosting our country's cybersecurity defenses. >> all right. laura podesta in new york. thank you. >>> there was new violence in the middle east overnight. israel stepped up its attacks against hamas, and there are no signs of letting up. large explosions rocked gaza city. at least ten senior hamas major -- military figures were killed yesterday while the over