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gasoline prices jumped 3 cents a gal just overnight to a national average now of $3.61. that makes 16 straight days of higher prices. and experts say were heading for $4 a gal gas by summer if not sooner. president obama seized the political warning signs and knows the attacks already coming. this afternoon in florida he tried to stay ahead of the curve. >> since its an election year, theyre already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. and ill save you the suspense. step one ...

Survivable. if you get something by something the size of a 225-mile-per-hour storm, it is not survivable. and that is not to scare anyone. but the people that did it right are not to blame. this is a graph. im going to take you all the way back to 1875. the other end. the number of deaths per year by tornadoes, 400, 500, 600, 700. follow the graph. the line that averages the graph off has gone from 200 all the way down to 55 in 135 years. so fewer people are dying every year. but, this year has...

but those voices leave no doubt. 20 terrified strangers huddled inside a stores industrial-sized refrigerator. outside a tornado is ripping apart joplin, missouri. and take a listen again -- >> were good. were good. were good. [ screams ] [ wind sounds ] >> jesus. je jesus, jesus. >> i love everyone. i love everyone, man. i love you. >> jesus, jesus, jesus. heavenly father. >> this is joplin this morning. after daylight revealed the devastation, the tornado cut through the center of to...