price stability. we will continue to monitor the developments closely and are prepared to respond as necessary. shepard: he said the most likely scenario is a temporary jump in prices, rather than a threat of runaway inflation. but that did little to sway investors fear with the price of crude on the stock exchange rising to more tan $100 a barrel and settling at $99.63, the high of the close since september of 2008 and where oil prices go, gas usually follows, and it went up seven cents overnight the average for a gallon of regular now $3.38, up 21 cents from a week ago. the feds report that they have traced the guns used to kill a u.s. agent in mexico. it came from the united states. investigators say they arrested three suspected weapons smugglers as part of a crackdown across the country. a live report coming up on that. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement
headquarters, i m ainsley earhardt. secretary of state hillary clinton is warning that libya could slip into a civil war unless muammar al-qaddafi steps down right now. the violence already the bloodiest of the recent uprisings in the middle-east. more than 100,000 refugees have fled. two u.s. warships will pass through the suez canal on wednesday, off the libyan coast as military options will be considered. the unrest in libya has oil prices topping $100 a barrel in early trading overseas. crude briefly going over the $100 mark on the new york exchange on thursday. a $99.63 close, the highest since september of 2008. gas prices continuing to climb. triple-a reporting the national average for a gallon of regular $3.38. i m ainsley earhardt. back to on the record. governr rick scott is in washington, d.c., meeting with
well willie, i know this is an especially difficult morning for you to be on the show and i want to just thank you this morning because a lot of people who saw the world record broken last night, would not have the strength to come on this morning and just wake up and do the job but you are now the second fastest man in the world. yeah. i know. i think i talked too much trash before the race. unbelievable what happened here last night. this is it time were you whispering to bolt going, you have weights on your shoulders? what were you doing to trash talk? you know, a lot of people were a lot of people were saying that to him before the race. he d heard he maybe had lost a step, wasn t training hard enough, so he went out last night and ran a 9.63, which is an olympic record, with a bad start. he said i stumbled out of the blocks and had to make up some