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Aaa reporting the national average for regular inching up another penny overnight to $3.85 a gallon. prices are now up 3 cents in just the past week, 30 cents from a month ago, and 99 cents from a year ago. meanwhile, president obama is taking aim at skyrocketing gas prices. >> the attorney general is putting together a team whose job it is to root out any cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices, and that includes the role of traders and speculators. we're going to make sure that nobody is taking advantage of american consumers. >> all right. nbc's mike t...

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>> the gas company, trying to make money what is going on there. >> reporter: marie is heading for a long drive for the easter weekend and it costs her almost $100 to fill up the honda civic. oil companies are a predictable target at times like these and so is the president. when mr. obama took office in january of 2009, oil costs just over $38 a barrel. today it's more than $112 a barrel, increase of 189%. gasoline cost $1.84-gallon then. today is almost $3.85 a gallon. increase of 108%. the steep climb may be one of the reasons that the president announced a new task force to proactively see...

Because their salaries are stagnant, if they have a sag la. food prices are going up. the gas average now is $3.85, up 30 cents from a month ago, more than a dollar than we paid last year. i want to bring into the conversation nbc's mike taibbi in chicago where they're paying the average price here, mike, what, $4.26? >> well, $4.26 may be an average. we're standing in a place where it is $4.599 for gasoline. this is the blues town, if there wasn't bad news, there wouldn't be no news at all. this is one of the six states where the average price is north of $4 a gallon. they also are aware that...

Check out this aerial photograph, it shows a large home burned to ashes, on possum kingdom lake. all that is left is the chimney. a member of the damage assessment team surveys a home destroyed in the same area we will continue following all the new developments in texas as they battle to try to contain the wildfires as that rages on. skyrocketing gas prices now fueling a federal investigation. the administration is creating a federal task force to investigate any illegal activity that could be causing high prices for you at the pumps. already the national average is approach $4 a gallon, 3.85...