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>> thank you. jenna: if you're in a hurry to fill up your gas tank, let this be a lesson to you. the pain at the pump is much worse when your car goes up in flames. we'll have more video and the whole story on that. stated obvious a little bit there, jon. we'll tell you more about that. rick has more coming up. rick? >> reporter: we have so many rules about texting while driving. wearing seatbelts and smoking. we want to know what you think about this. do we live in a nanny state or do we like the rules and regulation as little more than we think we do? we have a couple of polls at "happening ...

Disconnect sometimes. but i think what you're seeing here on a lot of sort of simple things like texting while driving, that kind of thing, people go, that is clearly safety issue. i'm okay with that. i think what is greater concern we have a gigantic regulatory state on the state level, local level, federal level, constantly growing. people adding regulations all the time. not really thinking about the cost benefit analysis or whether they actually work. these things almost never have sunset qualities so it piles up and piles up because a bunch of vain politicians say i'm going to solve the p...

and children last weekend in kandahar, afghanistan. today he remains in solitary confinement at ft. leavenworth. he's not yet been formally charged. gas prices go up for the ninth straight day. it is now on average close to $3.84 a gallon, but if you live in some big cities, you're already seeing gas prices average more than $4 a gallon. the record high was $4.11 back in july of 2008. a colorado dad is going the extra mile to stop his children from texting while driving. and he's getting an early start. his triplets are just 8 years old. he's already created a special cell phone ...

Trace gallagher in the west coast newsroom with a short list of new things to worry about. this isn't exactly what people were ush wishing for, more laws, and regulation and i want to be controlled more by my government. >> reporter: 800 average per state. everything from georgia saying you could drive golf carts on the road as long as you have a horn. utah banning happy hour all together. a lot of new laws by the way are dealing with distracted driving. states like pennsylvania and nevada pushing new very tough texting while driving laws. in north dakota, drivers under the age of 18 can't use...

List of new things to worry about. this isn't exactly what people were ush wishing for, more laws, and regulation and i want to be controlled more by my government. >> reporter: 800 average per state. everything from georgia saying you could drive golf carts on the road as long as you have a horn. utah banning happy hour all together. a lot of new laws by the way are dealing with distracted driving. states like pennsylvania and nevada pushing new very tough texting while driving laws. in north dakota, drivers under the age of 18 can't use a cell phone at all. across the country now, truckers a...