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Winning game by 2:00 p.m. saturday. she says emotions and adrenaline kept her going. i so admire her. fear and unrest could spread to other major oil producers. price for crude oil is hovering around a hundred dollars a barrel. standing at $99.88 at last check this morning. gasoline prices soaring, too. a gallon of supreme gas at this los angeles station selling for more 4 bucks a gallon. aaa says the average is $3.39 a gallon. jet fuel is also skyrocketing and that means it's going to cost you more to fly. one travel analyst warns air fares could actually double by this summer. let's get th...

Nationwide, aaa says the average for a gallon of regular gas is $3.39. we have fires in florida, floods in the midwest. it's a nasty march. >> here in atlanta, it's actually very nice. can we have some sliglights? thank you. the only time anyone's ever listened it me. not sure if we have the video of the fires loaded up, but if he with do, we can talk about that. there it is. fires across florida, this within just about 25, 30 miles away from the kennedy space center. that's still burning. the other smaller ones a little bit farther to the north, they have been -- still burning, but they're ...

Issues? >> reporter: he's not going to refinance the debt because that can only happen if 14 democrats came back and layoffs are a very real possibility. every city and town is looking at a cut in state aid. some small towns like sbeuperio $3 million people for one small town. they'll have to lay people off until and unless there is savings and flexibility that governor talked about getting givebacks from the union. the governor says it could be as many as 12,000 by the end of june. >> mike, thank you. on wall street now, u.s. stocks were pointed toward a lower open on wednesday as oil prices ...

The value of the dollar goes up as tensions around the world rise. but something unusual happened this week. despite the chaos, the good old american greenback took a good old american beating. "wall street journal" senior writer steve moore is here with this story. steve, why did this happen? >> great to be with you. i think the explanation is what we've been observing ben bernanke doing they've been printing so much money. it's quantitative easing. the fed is pumping dollars and printing dollars into the u.s. economy. when that happens, what happens to the value of the dollar? it falls. i be...

Getting cheaper to borrow money to buy a home if you could get a bank to lend you money. that is the catch. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages dropped to 3.39% according to the zillow. that is the lowest rate ever since sill loy -- zillow began following the data back in 2008. senate democrats want to move quickly on the president's plan to raise taxes on america's high wage earners while keeping bush tax cuts for those making $250,000 a year but republicans are saying not so fast on this measure. they're saying it is not just their side of the aisle that is opposed to the tax hike for the upper e...