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It's a quarter of the top of the hour here on this easter sunday. happy easter to you all. rising gas prices keep you closer to home maybe for this national holiday. the national average of regular has crept up to $3.86. compare that to last year roughly $1 more per gallon regardless of the grade. president obama, check that out, the president is acknowledging the financial reality at the pump. take a listen to him. >> whenever gas prices shoot up, like clock work you see politicians racing to the cameras waving three-point plans for $2 gas, you see people trying to grab headlines or score a f...

Susan? >> i, fred. you're right, talk about high prices with the national gas average of, what, $3.86 now according to aaa? people are coming to car shows looking for cars where they can save money any way they can. so there are about 25 hybrid models at this particular car show, and then there is this car. it's the nissan leap. the thing about it is 100% electric. you never have to go to a gas station again with this particular kind of car. this nissan leap has also won a world award for this year at this car show. let me show you. so it charges, right? this is what the charger looks like. it...

And has an extensive criminal back ground, predator drone strikes in libya are working and hurting qaddafi forces while avoiding civilian casualties and, the review finding only a small portion of texas's $128 million worth of firefighter grants handed out in the last decade went to the areas seeing the worst wildfires and the texas forest service will change its policy in the future to include wildfire risk, as a factor when divvying up the funds. >> heather: the pain at the pump is getting worse and worse and, the national average price of a gallon of reg gasoline is $3.86. that is backup 30...

3 to 5 inches of rain. certainly not out of the question and all the way down to louisville and more possible by the mid-part of the week. al next. >> okay, alex wallace, thanks for the head's up on this. this easter sunday nothing sweet about the prices people are chelg out at the pump. national average 25 cents off the all-time high. ron allen is here with more and excuse the grumbles as we toss it over to you. >> well, we haven't even hit the summer driving season for another month or so and more grim news. numbers that won't make you happy. take a look at all of this. overnight, as a mat...

An area here for us through april that is already seeing 300% of the rain that we typically find ourselves dealing with, and that's plenty of moisture. disturbances riding up. that will happen to the moisture lending to heavy rainfall over the next several days. through parts of the ohio valley and back into the southern plains. and then a widespread area. and then in missouri, we could also see by the end of the week, maybe up to 10 inches of rain, and that's going to leave us a big flooding problem and a risk of strong to severe storms for our sunday, alex. >> thank you for the heads up on t...