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Weve seen all year. meanwhile, here are your three big money headlines this morning. consumer cringe, quitting time and deadline date freebies, im joined by consumer expert regina lewis. good morning. food and gas prices are up but the rate of inflation is slowing. how much is your average consumer going to be affected by this all do you think? >> the consumer price index was up 2.7% in march year over year, economists usually look for 2%, that encompasses everything we buy in a given month from...

later, its a bird, its a plane, its a flying car? well have a live report from new york. cnn saturday morning starts right now. good morning, everyone im randi kaye. we start with the manhunt underway in tulsa, oklahoma. local police, fbi and u.s. marshalls are all part of the team searching for what they think is a lone shooter who is responsible for three deaths. two others were injured in the series of shootings carried out over several hours. earlier i talked to jack henderson wh...

unconscious in the tub of her beverly hills hotel room where she was pronounced dead. the site also claims her bodyguard attempted cpr and pills were found at the scene. this is also courtesy of tmz. a picture of the 18-year-old daughter of whitney houston and bobby brown, bobbi kristina rushed to a los angeles hospital in the last few hours. no word on why but her condition was thought not to be life threatening. fans gathered outside the hotel where houston died laying down roses and...

Torrential rains causing severe flooding there sweeping away a car, killing a mother and her one-year-old son. harris has the story. >> reporter: actually, you know what, jon im going to start with what is break opening the story right now. its crossing the associated press wires, its the outage of electricity that is crossing. 280 customers in three different counties, including seattle, tacoma and olympia, washington. and then there is this. officials have closed down, the washington departmen...

Assault. in a -- various and sun dri ways, but you are at war with the federal government, they come in here... [applause]. >>... with their justice department, their justice department is suing south carolina. over your voter identification law. >> rick: trying to stay alive in the race and john roberts is live in myrtle beach with more. hi, john. >> reporter: good evening to you, rick. yeah, things tightening up in south carolina. newt gingrich running a strong second and trying to make a play...

Being closed down, in order for the business to survive. is that not true? >> its absolutely true. and theres always a lot of nuance in any of tease types of situations, martin, but were talking about what might be on a tv ad in a general election campaign could have a devastating affect, as you mentioned, that 1994 campaign when ted kennedy ran bain capital ads to much success in 1994. >> mark murray, as ever, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> well be right back to clear the air. ...

So is swift voting romney on his perceived strength, business and leadership, do you think thats a workable strategy? >> im glad you mentioned the swift voting. this actually does remind me of how republicans went after john kerry in 2004 when he became the nominee, in a way. john kerrys a very big strength going into that general election had to do with his military experience and service. and what republicans did in that swift vote campaign, and a lot of it people said was incredibly unfair, b...

offer the spending and deficit cuts that republicans thought it would. cnns chief white house correspondent jessica yellin spends the next 18 seconds giving us the big picture. >> reporter: whats happening now is democrats are waiting. theyre just waiting to see what happens with the republicans bill before making their own move in the senate. the big picture here is neither the republicans bill in the house nor the democrats bill in the senate seems to have the votes to get through bo...

government goes about raising debt ceilings. senate leaders from both parties are hammering that out. the kick the can deal, a short-term deal that would raise the debt ceiling for a few weeks or months. the president has said he doesnt like that idea. coming up next the just get to 2012 deal, a compromise that would give the government spending power to get through the president elections. fourth, the grand compromise, the one the president is pushing for, the long-term deal that coul...

Cancelations. and, alex, the super bowl is something thats always been controversial in terms of how much economic impact it usually has. we see estimates go from $100 million all the way up, as youve said, to $600 million. but the simple fact of the matter, theres a lot that doesnt get reported at all. so i suspect that the numbers usually err, theyre too low. for instance, theres apartments right around here, ive heard that have rented this week for $40,000 for the week. >> whoa! >> those kind...