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outfront tonight we have breaking news. a surge of the day. stocks just jumped to the moon. dow and s&p had their single best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the cent...

the pig -- i mean, they will eat anything, wont they? they are sort of cute but theyre pigs and the watch dog group citizens against government waste, sorry, i mean, what are those little spirit i spots? something is en dearing but it is not about lawmakers. we brought some of these little friends along from the farm. better than a lot of things they usually eat, isnt it? the good news first. pork is down. since the big push by lawmakers to ban earmarks and appropriations bills we have...

polls. economic conditions vary greatly from state to state. lets take a look at a few. vermonts unemployment rate is at 5.1%. that is much lower than the 8.3% national average. in january, only one in about 21,000 homes in vermont were in the foreclosure process. a very different picture in ohio. unemployment much higher there, 8.1%, though lower than the national average. 1 in 616 homes is in foreclosure in ohio. in georgia, its seen some of the worst numbers. unemployment there, 9.7...

lot more good for the economy. >> the energy issue is enormous. an enormous flow which would drive down prices to $2.50 a gallon would help us balance the budget and create millions of jobs. >> president obama disagrees. >> you can bet that since its an election year, theyre already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. and ill save you the suspense. step one is to drill and step two is to drill and then step three is to keep drilling. >> so how much can the president, for tha...

Here in the united states. but right now thats seen as the biggest impact with obviously everybody watching the outcomes at the nuclear power plants in japan right now. >> and, steve, what does this do to the price of oil? i was just wondering over the weekend could it be that if we think that suddenly the idea of more nuclear power plants popping up in the united states lessens, does that mean our demand on oil grows again and spec laters go nuts? >> thats certainly a well thought out long-term...