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>> you might not get much of a raise at work but for many people, lower gas prices are acting as a substitute for a bigger pay check. take a look at the difference one year makes. today the average price per gallon of gas, $2.24. last year new year's day it was $3.29 but the question comes, should you be preparing for a rainy day when gas prices starting to up again? joining us now, steve moore, chief economist for the heritage foundation. so new year 2015, a lot of folks would say that the economy is exploding and traditionally as the economy gets better gas prices, oil prices go up. we saw t...

Year's eve alone. uber says its surge pricing policy helps guarantee available cars and has people agree to the price hike before they buy. a gallon of gas on this first day of 2015 will cost you just under two bucks, that's on average. $2.24 on average. since summer gas prices have been declining all across the country. states with the lowest prices here are seen in dark blue with a gallon of gas averaging as low as $1.91 a gallon. isn't that crazy? this mirrors plunging oil prices of course. oil prices finish 2014 down a stunning 46%. but the big drop in prices could come with a hefty pric...

Widens and the clock ticks. searchers may only have 19 days left to find the box with the flight data and cockpit voice recorders and the batteries might be down to 53%. >> the odds of finding out are very slim. even when you know roughly where the target is, it can be very tricky to find the ping. >> reporter: and you can't find that box until you find the plane. >> this is an enormous search area and malaysia cannot search on its own. >> reporter: 2.24 square nautical miles. an area as large as the continental united states. china and kazakhstan are taking the lead from northern thailand int...

Senators. >> your "new day" starts right now. good morning. welcome to "new day." i'm chris cuomo authorities there holding a press conference. the headline, they have expanded the search area. there's a new search saying the pilot used the plane's computer to alter the course. >> thanks chris. malaysian officials say the search area is 2.24, two and a quarter million nautical square miles, bigger than the size of australia. the u.s. will scale back the role in the search as other countries pick up the slack. meantime, emotions

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