does it post it instantly to facebook with sound ? droid does. droid with color for facebook. it s the ultimate status update. get a droid razr maxx by motorola for only $199.99. gas up, housing revival and feeling confident, consumer expert regina lewis joining me to help make sense of it all. good afternoon to you. first of all, let s start with gas prices. good news here and i understand it may be getting even better. what can we expect at the pump over the next few weeks? it could be getting better. to some extent, it matters less to people. so that s good news because right now, the average gas price nationwide is $3.66. usa today did a big cover story ant travel outlook for the
big difference in the appearance of your yard. welcome back. time for your news by the numbers this morning. first, $47,000. that s how much the occupy wall street protesters are suing new york city for. they claim the nypd destroyed thousands of books evicting them from zuccotti park. next $100 million. that s how much 4 of wall street s biggest financial firms claim they lost because of nasdaq s botched handling of the facebook ipo. finally $3.66. that s the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline right now. that s good news as 35 million people plan to travel more than 50 miles from home this memorial day weekend. dave? thank you, clayton. whatever happened to good old fashi fashioned respect, a school nurse in florida accused of denying a student his inhaler during an asthma attack because
his help, after all, was instrumental in taking down one of the world s most notorious murderers. reporter: the senate has passed a bill cutting aid to pakistan by $33 million, a million for each year of dr. afridi s sentence. congressman king thinks the house will probably follow suit. jon? jon: wendell goarl at the white house, thank you. it is such an important story not only for our intelligence community, but also for our troops in the region and our security in the united states. so why has the media largely given this story a pass? we will hash it out with our news watch panel just ahead. jenna: look forward to that. are you seeing any lower prices at the pump? are you? there are some signs of relief at the start of the summer driving season. as you look over the last month, gas prices on the national average have gone down about 18 cents, the national average is at $3.66. so is that it? is that all? we re not going to see higher
don t dilute the good news. this is memorial day weekend. we re setting out to drive around the country with gas prices way down. probably will two down some more. bill, if it wasn t for the west coast, that national average of 3.66, 3.67 would be a lot lower. california, washington, oregon, the average price there is well above 4.20 for regular. if you took that out of the national average, we would well be below 3.60 for gas. probably coming down some more. bill: slightly lower on average from a year ago. remember all the headlines. you have trouble in europe, china, india, brazil. yeah. bill: if they re slowing down that could slow us down too. yes, that slows us down. this is the underlying reason for the decline in oil prices and gas prices. there is a worldwide slowdown. as you said, europe is, much of europe is in recession. china is slowing down from its break neck rate of
today given the dire straits that we re in. they promised senators such a mod legal be forthcoming in weeks. but in the absence of a plan they are proposing other cost savings measures including closing postal locations across the country. privatizing the postal service but the sheer size and scope of the postal service. it s the second largest private employer behind walmart. it runs the world s largest vehicle fleet. brett: doug, thank you. the price of iorl was down slightly today, crude futures dipped 43 cents to close at 86.02 a barrel. national average for gasoline, 3.66 a gallon. in world news a customs official along the libyan border