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Each on petitions to secede. alabama, florida, louisiana, florida, texas leads the pack with more than 115,000 signatures by itself to, quote, peacefully grant the state of texas to withdraw from the united states of america and create its own new government. as "the washington post" dana milbank put it in a recent column, if obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation's finances, he would let them go. did you hear that? because many of those states are what dana milbank said are government takers, they take more in federal money than they pay in taxes. alabama gets $1.71 from ...

Alabama, florida, louisiana, florida, texas leads the pack with more than 115,000 signatures by itself to, quote, peacefully grant the state of texas to withdraw from the united states of america and create its own new government. as "the washington post" dana milbank put it in a recent column, if obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation's finances, he would let them go. did you hear that? because many of those states are what dana milbank said are confederacy of takers, states that get more federal money than they pay. alabama gets $1.71 from the federal government for ever...

Collected more than 30,000 signatures. each on petitions to secede. alabama, florida, louisiana, florida, texas leads the pack with more than 115,000 signatures by itself to, quote, peacefully grant the state of texas to withdraw from the united states of america and create its own new government. as "the washington post" dana milbank put it in a recent column f obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation's finances, he would let them go. did you hear that? because many of those states are what dana milbank said are government takers, they take more in federal money than they p...

Jenna: welcome back, everyone. let's talk about sething that really affects all of us and that is gas prices around this country. right now the average price for a gallon of regular is $3.71. we'll have a little context for you in a moment what that looks like compared to last month or last year but turns out those higher prices that we're seeing are really not stopping us from making plans to hit the road this labor day. sort of an interesting story here. edson with the fox business network has more for us live from washington. rich? >> reporter: good morning, jenna. you would think with gas ...

>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm craig boz wel. rising gasoline prices may prompt the white house to release oil from the strategic petroleum reserveful they are waiting to see if prices drop after labor day. today, the white house says it has no plans to tap the reserve, but the option is on the table. gasoline prices average around $3.71 a gallon, up almost 30 cents from a month ago. planees take to the skies over dallas, texas, spraying insecticides, for mosquitoes with west nile virus. the cdc says pesticides can stop 90 to 100% of bite reactions, but some have petitioned to s...