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77.5. this is what economists had expected, not to be so high, but they had expected it to go back up. the big concern, let's talk about oil and oil prices. here we are in february talking about this. normally, we would be doing a segment like this probably prior to summer season. >> exactly, in may. >> yeah. and here we have the price of oil passing $100 a barrel last week in the u.s. national average gas price now $3.35 a gallon. but as we focus a lot on libya and what's going on in the middle east and the unrest, can it all be attributed to that? >> not necessarily. i mean, yes, there is a ...

Good are these sanctions? how long is it going to take them to really have an impact, or is this just showboating for the international community? >> no, i think it's more than showboating. this will have a profound impact on many of the internal audiences that gadhafi's got to keep under control. that includes the armed forces. we've seen significant defections from the armed forces to join the benghazi protesters as an example. and i think also the sanctions where it comes to direct actions against gadhafi and his four children and inner circle will signal to him, hey, gadhafi's going, you'v...

Lumbering, slow planes. they must have been accompanied by fighter jets, because they were making their way through libyan air space -- that's enemy air space at the moment, of course. there were apparently special forces soldiers on the planes, too to secure the area to keep it safe while the evacuees went across the airport, got on the planes, and then everybody got on the planes and flew away. so, that was the first military operation by the british government to rescue its citizens in libya. and of course, it raises the stakes in a sense. a military operation, and we'll see what other kind...

Miracle? that's what a couple is calling their survival story after being stuck in a snow bank for five days. hear their amazing story of how they got rescued. going for the gold. that's right. a preview of what you can expect at tonight's oscars. predictions on the big winners. star-studded night for you coming up. hi, everybody. great to have you with me. i'm thomas roberts. alex witt has the morning off. welcome to "msnbc sunday." in libya this morning, the international community taking new steps in response to the deadly crackdown on antigovernment protesters. the u.n. security counci...

Now, to step down. he made these remarks yesterday, less than 24 hours after the white house kind of side-stepped this topic. so, what do you make of the turn-around on this, and the hard turn-around on this, especially timingwise? >> sure. well, you know, the white house has said their greatest concern really was getting those americans that were in libya safely out of the country, and i think the majority of americans that have been accounted for certainly have been. they did not want to get us into a hostage situation, which you know, sitting on the other side of that now, i think that was ...