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$5 a gallon. >> reporter: americans already feeling the pinch when they fill up are facing new economic uncertainty this morning. less than 24 hours after russia's military invasion into ukraine, oil on the global market temporarily topped $100 a barrel for the first time in eight years. experts say for every $10 increase gas prices can jump 20 cents with a national average now of $3.55, prices have surjtds 89 cents from a year ago but it's even higher in some areas, california currently the highest, $4.77 a gallon. >> california is going to be probably paying $5 a gallon in a matter of one to...

Production. part of the issue in america is we have generally speaking, a higher cost of production than saudi arabia, venezuela and russia. a lot of it come into play when you're $60, $70 a gallon a barrel, and it will help. but the only immediate step, all of that takes months or years, is to temporarily eliminate the federal gas tax. >> even as you near the $4 mark, colorado has some of the lowest gas prices in the united states. california has the highest. they are averaging more than $5.50 a gallon. the california governor discussed a rebate for californians. might you do that for colorad...

Children. in fact, unicef says every single second another ukrainian child becomes a refugee, and then there's this from the u.n. >> before the conflict, roughly the estimate was about 2% of the ukrainian population living below the poverty rate. that's about $5.50 a day. the number of people below the poverty line could reach 28%, and if the war were to continue indeed up to 90% of people could be at risk of falling into poverty or fall below the poverty line. >> poverty, death, homelessness, it's against that backdrop with the urgent appeal from president zelenskyy freshly delivered to congr...

Fuel and oil and, you know, keeping track i know it's been, you know, every day, every week it was up a dollar or two a barrel. so it's been a steady increase for the last year and three or four months. so, it's something that's very concerning to us for sure. >> steve: especially if yesterday you paid $5.50 a gallon. today it's 5.25. monte thank you for joining us live keep on trucking just saying. >> thank you, steve. >> steve: congresswoman and ukrainian immigrant victoria spartz joins us live just days after visiting refugees in poland. her story coming up next on "fox & friends." ♪ ♪

As you see in the chart, it's been a fast and furious increase. sean, we've never seen prices rise this quickly for the period of one week. the last time we saw anything like it was back in 2005 when hurricane katrina hit. that's at the national average up $0.49 a gallon in one week. as i sit here this evening, the national average is up $0.61 a gallon. that's only for gasoline, sean. the price of diesel there in your shot, you see it, $6.99, the price of diesel nationwide is about to skyrocket to $5.50, potentially $6 a gallon, sean. >> sean: what is the answer? obviously you think the answer...