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Work to prevent the filibuster but as of now still no deal. price shock at gas pump. prices up 16 cent in the last week alone. the national average for regular $3.64 a gallon. why would gas go up so quickly right now? >> reporter: a big reason is the unrest in egypt. egypt controls the suez canal. when you combine the removal of their president mohammed morsi and all the uncertainty, the price of crude oil goes up according to triple aaa. gas supplies are tight and there are a lot of people on the road taking trips. so all that drives the prices up. while $3.64 for one gallon of gas is painful...

Payoff for the ticket collectors. trace gallagher has more on that. >> reporter: it's a cash cow for new york city. $293 million in the past five years alone. the reason new york is being sued is the drivers think the i is rigging them. federal law says the yellow lights at intersections where the speed olympic is 30-mile-an-hour has to be at least 3 seconds long. trim a seth sent out to engineers. they checked out a dozen lights and found all of the yellow lights were too short. some of them up to a half second short. that half second resulting in tens of thousands of extra tickets. the new y...

Led about it republican leader mitch mcconnell who said this is wrong-headed policy. >> somehow they thought doing this would set up some kind of political win for them which frankly i don't understand. i can't imagine anybody giving them any high fives for not lowering gas prices. but that was obviously the plan. >> reporter: as the bickering continues, they didn't move forward on that legislation and gas prices continue to go up. triple aaa says the national average has gone up 20 consecutive days, now inches towards an average of $4 a gallon nationwide. alisyn: maybe they will be listening ...

Day according to triple aaa. a year agree that same gallon would have cost $3.54. the current price is 6% below the all-time record high of $4.11 set back in the heat of the financial crisis in july of 2008. this fox news alert on the crisis ongoing in syria. word today that russian special forces just arrived in the war-torn country and may start fighting next to government forces. that comes on the same day as the fiercest gun battles in the syrian capital since the uprising began a year ago pop reports of 80 people killed today on the streets in syria. the u.n. says 8,000 civilians have die...

6:35 pacific:00 out of a commercial building on alameda street. it's a two-alarm fire, and 75 firefighters on the scene. 6:08 local time. so that time would not be accurate. you cannot get a call at 6:35 in the morning. it's 30 minutes being that time of day. check that at 5:35 pacific coast time. >> it looks like some sort of industrial building so nobody presumably would be in there at this time. bill: we'll get in touch with the fire department in l.a. how is this for news now? gas prices are actually down. a couple pennies but they are still down after weeks of relentless prize fights. tri...