nervous. the national average politician are trying to take advantage of the gas prices and he s bragging about all the thing he s trying to do. he won t mention the keystone pipeline, which republicans will and he probably won t mention that a lot of his energy agenda didn t happen. the national average, $3.61. you re saying what the president won t mention, you also have newt gingrich saying gas will drop to $2.50 if he s elected. i don t know if that s fantasy island, but needs to back that up. this didn t just happen overnight and you don t have gas prices drop because newt gingrich becomes president. no. oil and gas is a commodity. it is. this president is not doing anything to help the domestic market. he s not opening up to drilling. he s not doing the keystone
gasoline prices jumped 3 cents a gal just overnight to a national average now of $3.61. that makes 16 straight days of higher prices. and experts say we re heading for $4 a gal gas by summer if not sooner. president obama seized the political warning signs and knows the attack s already coming. this afternoon in florida he tried to stay ahead of the curve. 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. anybody who tells you that we can drill our way out of this problem doesn t know what they re talking about, or just isn t telling you the truth. let s take a closer look at the problem. our chief business correspondent ali velsshey. oil. increase of oil prices up $1.53 a barrel to end at $107.83. that s for the oil that we buy here in the united states. that s not a huge increase. opeq has sort of said they w
miguel marquez is joining us. what more can you tell us? reporter: it sounds like an accident. they were training late at night. it may have been a live fire exercise. it sounds like there was fairly intense training. these are two that provide close air support for marines on the ground. they were training for afghanistan, as you said. and they trained very, very hard at night and it s possible that it was just an accident. the marines are saying that they collided in the air. obviously something went very wrong during that training, whether it was darkness, dust or dirt that blocked their view. it s not very clear yet. but the marines are investigating it. and among those items they are looking into it, those are new images that you were showing as we were talking, miguel, that is believed to be that cash site. they are looking into whether there could have been any mechanical problems? it s possible. look, the one huey helicopter is typically can hold up to ten indiv
families being notified today, receiving the sad news. one was a uh 1 helicopter, one an ah 1 w helicopter. very routine training exercise by all accounts and sadly a mid-air collision killing all seven marines on board both heel lows overnight. we will follow all of the breaking details that we get from you, barbara, and also the investigation now taking place. barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks. sure. look, it s no surprise when you reach the top, you get a target on your back. and poll surging rick santorum found that out last night at cnn s debate in arizona. while i was fighting to save the olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. you re entitled to your opinions but you re not entitled to i ve heard that line before. misrepresent the facts and you re misrepresenting the facts. you don t know what you re talking about. yes, governor you balanced the budget for four years. you have a constitutional requirement to balance the budget i
of almost like front-runnerish position. that was the 20th gop debate last night on cnn and really hit from all sides accused of being a big spender and accused of being a washington insider and accused of being a fake at which point he s like, i m real, i m real. some of the toughest attacks came from mitt romney. they literally yelled at each other. listen. while i was fighting to save the olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to no where. just as torturous as they were kind of going at it. al stewart national press secretary for the santorum 2012 presidential campaign. nice to have you with us this morning. there were some comments from if you scan the headlines. some people said he did a great job in the debate and others said he was deep in the weeds of the debate. he outlined his record and also pointed out the fact that despite the distortions from other candidates, he never voted to raise taxes in washington and voted against the wasteful spending i