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outfront tonight we have breaking news. a surge of the day. stocks just jumped to the moon. dow and s&p had their single best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the central bank chief said officials stand ready to act and there were reports of talks of a possible deal ...

the pig -- i mean, they will eat anything, won't they? they are sort of cute but they're pigs and the watch dog group citizens against government waste, sorry, i mean, what are those little spirit i spots? something is en dearing but it is not about lawmakers. we brought some of these little friends along from the farm. better than a lot of things they usually eat, isn't it? the good news first. pork is down. since the big push by lawmakers to ban earmarks and appropriations bills we have seen an improvement in capitol hill and don't say that often. we want to emphasize good news and...

polls. economic conditions vary greatly from state to state. let's take a look at a few. vermont's unemployment rate is at 5.1%. that is much lower than the 8.3% national average. in january, only one in about 21,000 homes in vermont were in the foreclosure process. a very different picture in ohio. unemployment much higher there, 8.1%, though lower than the national average. 1 in 616 homes is in foreclosure in ohio. in georgia, it's seen some of the worst numbers. unemployment there, 9.7%. higher than the national average. 1 in 328 homes are in the foreclosure process in georgia. cn...

lot more good for the economy. >> the energy issue is enormous. an enormous flow which would drive down prices to $2.50 a gallon would help us balance the budget and create millions of jobs. >> president obama disagrees. >> you can bet that since it's an election year, they're already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. and i'll save you the suspense. step one is to drill and step two is to drill and then step three is to keep drilling. >> so how much can the president, for that matter congress, really control? stephen moore is an editorial writer for the "wall street jour...

Here in the united states. but right now that's seen as the biggest impact with obviously everybody watching the outcomes at the nuclear power plants in japan right now. >> and, steve, what does this do to the price of oil? i was just wondering over the weekend could it be that if we think that suddenly the idea of more nuclear power plants popping up in the united states lessens, does that mean our demand on oil grows again and spec laters go nuts? >> that's certainly a well thought out long-term impact, chuck. the issue, though, becomes if the japanese economy is going to contract as a resul...