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Really want, jose, what we haven't had yet are the record closes followed by a major breakout and that's really proving tricky. a number of things you know extended evaluations, lackluster revenue growth, weak economic growth last week really highlighted that and this morning home builder sentiment unexpectedly fell, not great news right in the middle of the spring selling season but before i let you go gas prices here at the start of the week, another weekly increase. the national average is now -- >> what's going on, mandy? >> pegged to what's going on with crude. >> i know. >> we were a wee...

Strongest year for job growth in the u.s. since 1999. the country added 321,000 jobs last month, according to the bureau of labor statistics, well beyond what economists predicted. the unemployment rate is still at 5.8%. compared to 7% this time last year. if the jobs news is good, well, the price of gas should make you overjoyed. you could soon pay less than $2 a gallon. right now, the national average is $2.71 a gallon, down a quarter in the last month. let's bring in cristina alesci. some drivers already cashing in on this deal. >> reporter: that's right. we found three gas stations in okla...

And a year ago it was only $2.71. bottom line, the prices are going up. joining me now, oil analyst peter butell. this is a real problem for a lot of people, especially people who have to drive, 30 minutes or more to work. we already see $4 a gallen in some places. how high are you predicting it may go? >> well, we usually see a high around memorial day, and the way we're going, it looks like we may have already hit my earliest predictions, which were -- was for it to get this high. i think we probably have another 25 or 30 cents to go. and i may be conservative there, as well. but we do have ...