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>>guest: of course, 61 percent is the price of crude oil, a big thing. but federal and state taxes are 18 percent. and the federal tax is 18.5 percent unchanged since 1993, but when you get down to the states that is what changes. maryland considering a ten cent gallon officer. utah state senate killed a bill that would raise taxes. that is the big change. and what is going on they are looking where they can for extra money. >>shepard: and a huge affect on the market as with oil going down, the markets have gone up and we are up $152 and good news from bank of america, and we will get into tha...

Transportation employees. >>neil: where does the money go, congressman, that we fork over the 18.5 percent federal gas tax. >>guest: it goes do trail and other things nothing to do with the gas tax. and we have a bureaucracy that is iting standards and doing other types of compliance issues, cut out the middle man. let the states do it. >>neil: but they have a lot of high taxes: california, new york, hawaii, connecticut. as congress men you would have no discretion over what the states do but if you get the feds out of the picture and remove the 18.4 cents that is a third of how much the price...

Cancelled. you don't say they are late if they don't plan to arrive. arctic air is a big problem. in texas, rolling power outages. the power grid is getting stressed here because everybody is trying to keep their heaters going because you're not used to three degrees below zero. they are asking people to conserve. you can expect periodic power outages throughout the day. snowfall totals, racine, wisconsin, 21.5, midway, 18.5, moline, quad cities, 16.7 inches. we have a live pictures to show you. racine, wisconsin, with the 21.5 inches. look at the visibility and winds

Literally in front of your eyes right now. the middle east will never be the same. what are you seeing on the ground there? >> well, joe, it's hard to tell what we're in the middle of in terms of what begins now, what perhaps started in tunisia, where it goes, what the future looks like. i just came back from a walk from our broadcast location down to the square. an entirely different feeling today. it should be noted, the crowd we saw, the crowd we were with, very buoyant, empowered, upbeat, a lot of families, a lot of kids, volunteers warning people to show their i.d. up ahead. an area for f...

And multiply it by itself. then you take the first number and divide it by the second and your result, for me, is 23.7. that's my body mass index. what does that exactly mean? well take a look at the scale they have set up. if your body mass index is less than 18.5 you are considered underweight. normal is between 18.5 and 24.9, where i fall. overweight is considered 25 to 29.9. anything over 30 is considered obese. that is how it breaks down. now, let's get back to this ohio law aimed at lowering the number of obese children there. joined now by perrysburg senator, what was the idea in the fi...