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Strikes. we'll talk to general mccaffrey later this hour about all of that. now we want to turn our attention to some oil prices. for more than three straight months of daily drops in the price of gasoline. aaa says the average price is now $2.32. that's down from 2.81 a month ago. and 3.27 a year ago. it's all due to the free fall in oil prices. let's bring in oil expert tom klosa. i think the question everyone's going to ask is how low can they drop. >> i think we'll see two of every ten people will be able to buy for less than $2 a gallon this winter. it may rally a little bit into the spri...

Back to solid ground, his feet touching the new mexico desert. >> great job, felix. great job, buddy. >> reporter: back on earth but forever marveling over his journey into the stratosphere. aditi roy, abc news, san francisco. >> it's incredible. >> he walks away. >> so, he broke through the sound barrier about 30 seconds into the fall but he was spinning at that point, and he said he didn't even realize he had broken the sound barrier. he said, quote, i didn't feel it at all. amazing. >> he just broke it. we knew it but i guess back there, he didn't know it. apparently when he pulled that chu...

Creeping up again. you've got at the moment the average u.s. price of a regular gallon, it surged about seven cents in the last three weeks. sitting at $3.30 a month ago, chris, we were at $3.27. mind you, we are still lower than the $3.39 of a year ago. diesel, i do believe, is remaining unchanged at around $3.96 a gallon. if you want to know where the highest prices are, lowest prices are, of the places surveyed in 48 states, salt lake city has the average lowest price, long island new york has the highest at $3.75. unlucky us. >> cnbc's mandy drury. thank you. >> thank you. forget about w...

Federal reserve hinted it may fake more steps to stimulate the economy. that's driving the price of gas higher, too. the national average for a gallon of regular is $3.27. a disappointing new development on the jobs front. today the weekly jobless claims rising for a second straight week. 372,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits, a jump of 4,000 claims from a week before and a stubborn reminder of the fragile economic recovery. hours after those unemployment numbers came out the white housr president obama is doing enough to head off what looks like a coming economic crisis...

Put into place are gone. we're in the negative now since the tax plan. just as disturbingly, the nasdaq is currently off 2.64%. the s&p 500, the broader gauge of the markets where the dow has 30 components, the s&p has 500 components, the s&p 500 which has had a historic run-up is down 3.27% on the session. what is all of this? well, you can look toward vicks sometimes for a little clarity. the vics is an indication of l volatilit volatility. it's a number that comes together with a lot of different things. but if the vics is over 30, you expect wild volatility. if it's under 20, you expect ca...