steve patterson has more on how to save. >> reporter: nearly 40 million americans expected to hit the road or take to the sky ahead of memorial day. but with heavy demand rampant inflation, and surging prices, it comes with a warning -- brace for headaches. >> it's a little bit of a perfect storm we're just seeing a lot of people come back to wanting to travel >> reporter: average domestic flight prices expected to soar, up 46% from 2019, with some flights sold out for weeks. not much better on the ground demand for rentals spiking 130% while the gas forecast could average $4.65 by next weekend, up 51% from last year >> we're having to, you know, go a different route than we usually do. >> reporter: amanda's family is driving from arkansas to florida. to vacation before their son's football training with rental car inventory so low and gas so high, this year they're calling an audible >> it definitely is a whole new ball game this time. and we're trying to budget things. >> reporter: they plan on meal prepping instead of eating out and a game changer, pay for the room in zero interest

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nbc's steve patterson has the late rest i firefighters in new mexico in a tess rit battle against the largest wildfire in the country. extreme heat and high winds helped fuel two fires merging into a massive one. it's burned nearly 300 structures forcing many to evacuate their homes. >> it's our parents, grandparents. they are from there. it's been hard. >> reporter: now it's feared more will have to flee as the fire jumped a marriage major highway on sunday. >> extreme temperatures is extremely concerning and i need as many people out of the evacuated areas as possible safely. >> reporter: residents near the los alamos nuclear lab facility warned they may have to leave their homes with the fire three miles away. others forced to watch helplessly as columns of smoke and fire spreads towards their homes. >> scary blowing right towards all of our properties up here. >> reporter: they are using specialized water tankers known as super scoopers to douse swaths of the forest. every single super scooper in north america is currently in northern new mexico to fight the fires. staind high win

steve patterson, nbc news >>> all right. we're back in a moment with the british royal family the major week ahead preparing for a celebration and historic change. >>> welcome back queen elizabeth set to mark 70 years on the throne her platinum jubilee celebration begins this thursday, as the british monarchy is approaching a turning point. keir simmons now on the queen and the man who would be king. >> reporter: this week, queen elizabeth and her country will journey sentimentally through the pages of history and begin a new chapter, celebrating 70 years few of us remember a time before her. >> reporter: how would you describe the queen? >> she's amazing. >> unique. once in a lifetime. >> she's a symbol for people all across the uk, which is quite nice >> reporter: prince william joining rehearsals for four days of pageantry and parties, but the prince of wales will take center stage. prince charles, aged 4, stood beside his mother after the coronation now 73, he will stand beside her again this her first jubilee without he

the price of gas, airfare and car rentals is soaring, and could shatter all-time highs nbc's steve patterson has more on how to save as we approach the unofficial start of the summer >> reporter: nearly 40 million americans expected to hit the road or take to the sky ahead of memorial day but with heavy demand rampant inflation, and surging prices, it comes with a warning -- brace for headaches. >> it's a little bit of a perfect storm. we're just seeing a lot of people come back to wanting to travel >> reporter: average domestic flight prices expected to soar, up 46% from 2019, with some flights sold out for weeks not much better on the ground. demand for rentals spiking 130%. while the gas forecast could average close to $4.65 by next weekend. up 51% from last year. >> we're having to, you know, go a different route than we usually do >> reporter: amanda's family is driving from arkansas to florida to vacation before their son's football training. with rental car inventory so low and gas so high, this year they're calling an audible >> it definitely is a whole new ball game this time. and w

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steve patterson in orange county. laware state university, that's an hbcu, is condemning a drug search that was carried out on the school's women's lacrosse team's bus, which players and coaches are now calling traumatizing. this happened while returning from a game in florida. the team's bus was stopped in liberty county, georgia. officers told the bus driver he was improperly driving in the left lane. what happened next is drawing nationwide scrutiny as the police and a drug-sniffing dog began searching the players' bags. the liberty county sheriff says he didn't believe any racial profiling took place. delaware governor carney is calling videos of the event is concerning, upsetting and disappointing. joining me now is nbc news continental blayne alexander in atlanta. what more do we know about this incident and what's the sheriff's office saying now? >> reporter: well, garrett, this happened down in liberty county, georgia. this is in south georgia about 3 1/2 hours south of atlanta. this is something that really st

nbc news correspondent steve patterson is on the ground in california. t now it is the constant hum of fire trucks pierced with the constant blast of hoses. this has turned really into a hot spot suppression effort mixed with a smoldering containment effort. crews are trying to get the last remnants of the ruins of these homes out so assessors can assess the damage. meanwhile, they are dealing with catastrophic damage in this neighborhood. multi-million dollar homes but most of them are now the shells of homes. at least 20 homes burned down in this home alone, really in every direction that i can see. the fire was small and fast and moved so quickly. yesterday it started at about two, three, four, five acres, not something any of us would pay attention to. then it jumped to ten acres, 40 acres and then 200 acres and started move being quickly up the hillside, which is right behind me, leaping over the canyon and then raining down embers on the top of these roofs. one of the things these firefighters said was because the houses are so large, they had a pro

let's go to nbc's steve patterson, following the story from los angeles for us. parents want to know, when can they expect that formula to be on the store shelves? >> yeah, alex, the eyes of the entire nation are fixated on what is happening over there in germany. fixated on that one flight, so important to so many families. so here's where we are. a bit of a pivot over the last 24 hours. the administration wanted to originally use commercial flights from switzerland to indiana. those guys were not available until they pivoted to using the u.s. military from germany to indiana. and the images that you just showed, so now they are coming into waves. the first wave is expected to bring to branson formula, 132 pilots worth. followed by a second with with 114 pilots worth of a third brand of formula for a grand total of one point 5,000,008 ounce bottles of formula for the u.s. and mothers that are so desperate to have this. and it may take a few days before we see any impact on store shelves. but the most important part of this, is that these bottles that are coming,

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yasmin. >> all right steve patterson, thank you. i'm gonna let you go, i know you have other stuff to get to so we appreciate your reporting on. that >> let's talk to some of. this we are looking at a gap of 6 to 8 weeks. that is a lifetime for new moms. for moms of any kind of the of three kids at home or this is your first kid. and i know someone who depended on baby formula along with rest milk for my first child, it is incredibly stressful. had we bridge that gap, had these moms and the stats these parents bridge that gap? >> i think it is incredibly stressful. the first thing is actually what not to do, and we have heard this before. do not overdo your formula. i know that when you are a mom, and you are so stress you can just get that liquid in. but can actually be harmful. so the best thing to do is if, now the american academy of pediatrics is giving some guidance if you are six months and above, in a pinch, for short term until you got to your pediatrician. you can use kozma. that is not apply to people obviously have track

steve patterson is in kirkland, washington. d 1 million people that have lost their lives to this disease. >> reporter: incredible to think about 1 million individual tragedies. the pandemic was just as bad here as it was anywhere else in the country, right? small towns in the midwest to the horrors we saw in new york or l.a., as you described. the difference here, it was first. as you mentioned, this was the first epicenter so people here were getting sick and dying before they even knew what covid was. health care workers, hospital workers, nurses, doctors, firefighters, people that were trying to treat their patients were handling them without the proper protective equipment, so masks and gloves, so they were getting sick in droves and taken away in quarantine from the patients that they trying to treat, and here where the epicenter was, the fire department here in kirkland had to quarantine, and one of the most important things about the virus is the separation of families, the inability to see your loved one after they have

we have steve patterson who was there. >> reporter: this morning, after 100 hours of testimony over sixnow in the hands of the jury. >> there's a victim of domestic abuse in the courtroom. it is not miss heard. >> reporter: she wanted to destroy depp's reputation. >> a deeply troubled person. >> reporter: heard's team responding to depp's drug abuse and made him prone to blind rage and leading to sexual and physical abuse. >> let me be clear. if amber was abused by mr. depp one time, then she wins. >> reporter: depp brought the suit against heard after the washington post op-ed where she described herself as a public figure and victim of abuse. the actor said it derailed his career. >> i never struck a woman in my life. >> reporter: heard is counter suing for $100 million. >> he just hit me over and over and over again. i thought this is how i die. he's going to kill me now. >> reporter: the virginia jury has the power to award or withhold any amount on both sides. >> they can make a statement and say you know, we think both of you are defamed and we will not award damages. >> reporter:

let's go to steve patterson who has the latest on this. steve, to you. >> the longer this crisis stretches on, the more desperate that parents are going to get to try to track down this formula to take care of their children. this was a production chain problem, followed by factory shut down. production has now restarted. with millions of infants relying on that formula, parents are doing anything they can to try to track it down. >> with store shelves barren across the country, more parents are forced to face their worst fears. >> how will i feed my baby? >> new mom, stephanie jones, would thought she never had asked this question. >> you are deathly trying everything in your power to see what you can do and how you can get formula. >> as of this morning, a record 43% of popular baby formulas are out of stock, with major retailers putting limits on how much you can buy. >> i have gone to every store and called every store to search for it. we cannot find it anywhere. >> with criticism mounting over the white house's response, president bid

with me is nbc news correspondent steve patterson. all remember the kirkland nursing home, it was the epicenter of covid cases at the beginning of the pandemic. what's it like in kirkland now two years later and what are you hearing from folks here? >> reporter: i was here when it was the epicenter and here the year after to come back on the anniversary of that horrible, horrible time. i would say the mood just about anywhere else when you're looking at a milestone like this is incredibly somber, although just like anywhere else, this place has tried to move on and put it past them and in so many ways, they can't do that. this place was a blur with ambulances and the center of the -- where people died from covid. talking to people who had family members, carmen gray stood outside of the window when they were quarantined. they didn't know what was happening. just that fear was permeating through this community so heavily. i asked her what that was like, especially with her mother being one of those covid victims. here's what she told m

joining me now is steve patterson from kirkland, washington, the u.s.'s first major covid hot spot.seeing the images of the care center early in the pandemic. how do those residents react now? >> reporter: this was a case study of the fear and unknown. i was here a little over two years ago and there were emergency workers and fire trucks carrying people out of this facility. it was a constant search for answers. family members looking for answers from the cdc and local hospitals and from this care facility, where 39 residents and seven more would end up dying. one of them, her name was carmen gray. you could remember the image of her standing outside her mother's window inside that facility kick with covid, before a lot of people knew what covid was, and they were sick and dying here from that virus. we spoke with carmen about that fear instilled in her in the early days. here's what she told me. >> they gave me everything. i gloved up and i went in because i didn't know if that would be the last time that i could hug my mother. and i just really wish that in the beginning they wou

steve patterson, thank you so much. >>> tomorrow a louisiana district judge could decide whether theexpulsion policy will end on may 23 as planned. yesterday the judge said, no part of the policy can be lifted until he makes a decision or until the 23rd. but officials estimate tens of thousands of people are already coming to the border, waiting for the policy to be lifted so they can seek asylum. look at this. brand-new video captured by an nbc team yesterday the moment cuban migrants celebrated making it across the rio grande and getting to the united states. gabe gutierrez is live from the eagle pass southern border crossing in texas. gabe, what are you seeing, what are you hearing this morning? are rt good morning. you just saw that video of the cubans. that's something we're seeing more and more of. some 80,000 or so so far this fiscal year. texas department of public safety officials tell us they're seeing an increasing number of migrants. you can see their clothes thrown about here near the rio grande, this razor wire. they're seeing groups of 100, 150 migrants at a time. thos

steve patterson gives us a all the details. >> reporter: that seven-member jury deliberated for aboute resting for the long holiday weekend. they will reconvene once again tomorrow following what has been a tumultuous trial all the way through closing arguments. with his defamation case soon to be in the hands of the jury, johnny depp sporting new blond locks headed overseas this weekend seemingly unphased film star scene performing several song england alongside friend jeff beck. closing arguments in the trial were contentious. >> there's a victim of domestic abuse in this courtroom. but it is not ms. heard. >> reporter: johnny depp's team painting his ex-wife as a manipulator who wanted to destroy their client's reputation. >> he just hit me over and over and over again. >> reporter: heard's team presenting their evidence to support her allegations of abuse including an array of photos of her face bruised and swollen after depp attacked her, texts that document the incidents and wince witnesses who testified say thaw saw dp vooi lent. >> if amber was abused one time, then she wins.

steve patterson is in laguna niguel. >> reporter: the firefighting operation continues here. you can see behind me the cleanup in this neighborhood is immense. i want to show you around. take a look. it has been home after home. at least 20 homes destroyed. 900 homes remaining under mandatory evacuation. and everywhere around here you see teams like this. multimillion dollar homes hollowed out, moldering in many cases. the main operation right now for firefighters is to try to get these under control. this fire spread so fast. this started yesterday afternoon. it was maybe three, four, five acres. it exploded to 10. it exploded 240. it exploded to where it is now, which is around 200 acres, racing up the side of a canyon cliffside on extremely dry brush. it shot over the canyon into homes, almost raining down on these multimillion dollar homes. a very large homes. firefighters have a lot of problem getting them under control because of how large they are, how much flammable equipment, material is in these homes. and then now homeowners dealing with the tragedy. firefighters e

plus, our roving reporter, steve patterson, hits the streets to talk to kids about their moms.