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For the sales tax. weve got a quick morning market check for you. the dow down almost 18 points at the close, nasdaq down eight, and the s&p down nearly five points. >> i wonder what happens with the oil up at $105 a barrel today if that affects wall street. >> futures looking so/so. >> great to see you. >> thank you. the nuclear crisis at the daiichi power station in japan has regulators scrambling to start safety checks here in the united states. "the daily beast" has identified three of t...

Background role inning days in libya. telling cnn he hopes the no-fly zone gives the rebels there a chance to start talking about how to organize themselves and create a legitimate government for libya. and oil prices on the rise up to just under $105 a barrel. traders are nervous as the violence in libya threatens to affect long-term oil production there. oil has surged 20% since the middle of last month. >> i would say i do the vast majority of my shopping online. one of the biggest perks of...

Galaxy providing what they say life, maybe even intelligent life, may exist out there. well, now heres your first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,018 after falling 17 points on tuesday. the s&p shed four points. the nasdaq drops eight. taking a look at overseas trading n tokyo the nikkei lost 158 points while in hong kong the hang seng was down 32. well, despite losses which quietly ended a three-day rally on wall street tuesday, traders welcomed a lack of ...

Shepard? >> shepard: wendell goler at the white house tonight. as you know energy prices have been rising in recent weeks while traders worry how the violence middle east and others have. today americans have not cut back on the use of gasoline even though some areas have surged above $4 a gallon. that news sent prices even higher today 78 cents in trading to settle above $105 a barrel. that is a high since 2008. new clues tonight about what caused last years oil spill in the gulf. and there is ...

Situation, saying wait a minute, were not going to get any oil out of libya for a long time to come. that takes oil -- continues taking oil off the market so the price of oil has gone up again. you just showed the price of oil at $104 a barrel, the news martha is this morning, its gone to $105 a barrel and the price of gasoline, since february 16th, when the libyan events began, has gone from 3.13 a gallon to 3.55, 3.56. thats where we are today. so youve got the price of oil going up a little b...

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Campaign began, is going to take some of our questions. hes going to take questions from the media here, chilean press as well as the u.s. press and you can bet theres going to be one at least not more questions about libya. first time to quiz him on this and press him. white house aides tell us this morning again that the u.s. is going to take a lead role for only days, not weeks. but what if after just a few days here the u.s. starts pulling out of the air strikes and in a lead role and gadhaf...

They dont pay $105 or $120 because they produce billion barrels which they sell. russia will not play. no-fly zone or u.s. attack on qadaffi would put the rebels in place and maybe free flowing oil would happen again and prices would retreat. $4 a barrel higher today, maybe it is back down so russia likes this. >>neil: what if muammar qaddafi makes good on threats to wipe out the rebels? the air raids would be moot. >>guest: they are moot until there are other protesters and another country says...

>> i cant imagine someone who joke about that so soon after a tragedy. >> we have some good news to talk about. >> we do? youre going to talk about the twins with me, arent you? >> i would like to. i just got the picture emailed to me. i was looking at this amazing shot. good for kyra allowing a camera in there for something that will be seen worldwide. >> john looks so fresh and preppy and kyra looks exhausted because she had twins. kellan and sage are their names. >> and they were just welcome...

Completely wiped out. then that affects not only the fishing community but the seafood processing community. when you realize that we used to be a timber logging community, kind of the wild west, we are on the ruggess north california coast, and now weve been devastated with the tsunami surge. as youve mentioned weve had this before in 05 and 06 we had a couple of events. were just now 60% into the design of the new harbor and its going to cost $20 million from that episode, so it looks even wor...