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Aaa reports the national average stands at $2.19 for a gallon of regular unleaded. and to think we paid more than 5 bucks last summer out in the hamptons. wow! that's down $1.13 from a year ago on average nationally. analysts predict drivers will save about $97 billion overall this year due to those lower gas prices. that's about 750 bucks a household. john bussey is executive business editor and assistant managing editor for the "wall street journal" newspaper. who'd have thought? >> who'd have thought, and that's a lot of money per household. you can read this one of two ways -- great for th...

The shuttle smashed into the side of the trailer. crews took 16 people to hospitals and a spokeswoman says at least two are seriously hurt. hackers in iran reportedly accessed software that runs u.s. oil and gas pipelines. that's according to the "wall street journal" owned by the parent company of our network. hackers recently stepped up so called infiltration missions against american energy companies. the government denies hacking anybody. john busy is executive business editor for the "wall street journal." what to make of this? >> this is kind of the next step, more serious than launchi...

Off on it. what they can do now is re-instate the tax cuts. >>gerri: extend them. >>shepard: the president is vetoing them for the richest. if they don't do anything they expire if everyone. the fiscal cliff has had problems and impact on how corporations are doing business. >>gerri: these are new numbers, the "wall street journal" put these out saying that overall spending by companies is down 1.3 percent and capital spending down, as well. companies are retrenching, spending less. they decided they want to spend husband h -- spend less because this is uncertainty. >>gerri: we need the compan...

>>shepard: a phone company is take the f.b.i. to court after they sent a secret letter demanding they turn over customer records. in what could become one of the biggest legal fights over the aspect of the patriot act. that counterterrorism law passed in the bush administration expanded the government's ability to collect information about its own citizens. now the "wall street journal" which our parent company owns, reports that after the phone company challenged the national security letter, the justice department filed its own civil complaint accusing the company of interfering with the uni...

That americans buy health insurance or face a penalty. the court calling this "unconstitutional," and also ruling the rest of the wide-ranging law can remain in effect. but the individual mandate is a cornerstone of the president's health care law and some believe the ruling could send the case to the supreme court. and now looking at the ruling, the executive business editor for the "wall street journal", john bussey. no real surprise, john, though, the white house in a statement saying they strongly disagree with the decision and is confident it will not stand. should they be confident? >>gu...