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. >> reporter: leslie rakowski from westfield, new york, says gas prices are literally keeping her family apart. her husband who works in virginia used to come home every two weeks. now he can't as often because it costs too much. >> my husband is part time in arlington, virginia, and he comes back every few weeks to new york, that's a 400-mile drive, which costs quite a bit so he's been stretching the time in between the trips and not coming home as often. >> reporter: and in omaha, nebraska, tanesha johnson said she's had to curtail her kids' activities. >> my oldest didn't do volleyball this time because between paying for volleyball and paying for the gas to get across was just not feasible. and my little one, we just don't have the gas to do the extra play dates. >> reporter: with spring vacation just about over, the next big travel weekend on the calendar, memorial day, and according to aaa, the national average could be well over $4 a gallon by then. dan? >> and they're talking about $6 a gallon at some point. t.j., thank you. >>> now to politics. and potential republican president

and the -- but poor grace, she was so scared of the attention she got in westfield, new york, that day that she ran home and hid under a wagon and they couldn't find her for hours, 11 years old. she got a kiss from the president elect. to show you it really influenced him, he got to town and he said in one of those speeches from the train, i believe there's a little girl here who wrote me a letter about my whiskers. i think her name is barley. and if she's here i would like to know if she's here. and they nudged her forward and he kissed her and so from that -- >> she changed the face of history, no? >> literally. she absolutely did. and lecture -- you asked me what sources i used. one of the sources i had to go to was grace bidell. she had at least 12 versions of the story that she wrote up until her -- through her 80s. and, you know, she was either on the platform or the tracks or he lifted her up or he bent down. it got a little hazy but we know the connection was made. >> it was a real story, nonetheless. >> yes. >> didn't lincoln ever waiver? did you find him wavering in the respo