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Coming up an unmanned u.s. drone watch for hours after americans were being killed in libya. where was our military? our next guest says they weren't there because politics were put before people. >> the epa prepare to go ring in the new year with a regulation wind fall. you won't hear about it until after the election. before we go to the break a look at the gas prices. the new national price or average price is right there 3.66 per gallon. that's down $0.01 from yesterday.

Billionaires and how angry they are at president obama. in fact, they think they're being victimized by the president. givenl what we just heard from mitt romney, what is going on here? >> this is sort of the mystery that i tried to, you know, reveal, understand in my piece is the 1% and not even the 1%, sort of the 0.1%, the 0.01%, people who are even wealthier than mitt romney is, that group actually has not too badly. they have done better in their recovery than everybody else. you can call it a sort of super rich recovery. the 1% captured 93% of the income gain in 2009. >> 93%. and it's so...

Welcome back, everybody. a classic program on abc was "wide world of sports," remember that? the signature line, thrill of victory and agony of defeat. >> sometimes the difference between those two is the slightest fraction of a second as it was in the pool at the olympics this week. it's been incredible. abc's david muir explains. >> take your mark. >> reporter: the 100 meter freestyle watched so closely. you had to because a fraction of a second decided the gold. >> the u.s. by 0.01. >> 23-year-old nathan adrian winning in 47.52 seconds. the .52 very important. his australian competitor race...

At the olympics nearly the same as a strike of lightning. faster than a hummingbird can flap its wings. turns out the hummingbird can finish half a flap in the time adrian won. in fact, the only thing we could find faster than our american champion, a cheetah who travels nearly a foot in that 0.01. but he sure couldn't do that in the pool. >> that's 0.01! >> reporter: we have seen it at at the olympics before. it was just four years ago, michael phelps winning by the margin, side by side, by the time his opponent's fingertips right there, just about touched the wall, look at the left, phelps' ...

I'm tell you, you won't believe how small the numbers are. we're not talking about the top 1% of americans who control 40% of the country's wealth. when it comes to campaign spending, we're talking about small fractions of 1%. this chart shows about 68% of all donations. this amount of the total money in campaigns comes from 0.26% of the country. so fewer than two thirds of 1% of americans were responsible for more than two thirds of all the money spent in the 2010 election. how about this? here's about 25% of the money contributed to federal campaigns in 2010. about a quarter of the money cam...