it is costing you now more to fill up. gas prices are skyrocketing. this last week the national average for regular unleaded $3.66 a gallon. but check this out. five bucks a gallon at some stations in los angeles. sorry for those in l.a. egypt s uprising is actually what s helping push up the oil prices. crude oil supplies are down as refineries stop for maintenance. also skyrocketing, profits of bank of america. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange with that. these are big numbers. bank of america reporting its profits jumped more than 60% in the latest quarter earning about $4 billion helped by a strong environment for wall street deals. we are seeing share of bank of america right now up about 3%. it is one of the biggest gainers on the dow. which isn t moving too much. but bank of america is moving pretty well. alison, thank you. coming up next, amid the news of a glee star s death, our special report. a half hour we re dedicating, calling it heroin s deadly
and dip below normal again. there s a new report that says it will never happen. diane macedo has the story. the days of paying less than $3 a gallon of gasoline are likely gone. that was the key take away. it was aimed at petroleum prices risen despite massive increases in reduction. the days of the national pump o a e below $3 is probably a number of factors including hurricane overseas and increase demand in countries like china and india. national average is 3.66 cents
because it doesn t get the bacteria that helps to stabilize the metabolism hold on, i ll get through this stabilize t through the birth canal. dr. perez, i enjoyed that. beef prices, record highs. farmers pass along the skyrocketing costs. nationwide the average price for a pound of sirloin up 7%. extra lean ground beef, up 19%. i don t know why anybody would buy that. doesn t taste good. poultry prices are also up. boneless chicken breast, up 4%. the bargain is pork. the price of pork chops is down 3% since last year, costing about $3.66 a pound. not bad. well, memorial day is the unofficial start of summer and the official start of cookout season. i love this season. your favorite time of the year. today is national hamburger day. but it s not quite as all-american as we may think. not seeing hamburgers on the set. just saying. general agreement ground beef
attorney general eric holder personally signed off on the search warrant that identified chief washington correspondent james rosen as a possible coconspirator. if you re hitting the roads this memorial day weekend we ve got bad news. memorial day gas prices may be the highest in about two years, around $3.66 a gallon. before we go, let s get a check of your memorial day forecast. maria molina has that. hi, maria. if you re hitting the roads, more bad news. unfortunately if you re hitting the roads across the northeast we re looking at showers and storms not just early this morning but they re expected to fire up again this afternoon and even into tomorrow. temperature-wise across the northeast very chilly. by tomorrow the high temperature in new york city just 53 degrees. only in the 40 s across parts of new england, parts of the southeast and also the south looking warmer with temperatures well into the 80 s. the west coast remaining relatively cool,
number of 10. two people died so far. all of the patients have had the same symptoms fever, cough and shortness of breath. they hope to get preliminary lab results back today. an estimated 31 million people will hit the road for memorial day weekend. after seeing gas prices fall in march and april those prices have been steadily rising again. jolene kent from fox business network joins us with more on this. good morning. thank you for being here. prices go up for the 7th day in a row. 3.66 cents a gallon. especially the midwest is going to be hit hard with prices hitling 4.28 in minnesota and the rest of the country prices are up between 2 and $0.11 a gallon. 2000000 americans will drive 50 miles or more this weekend. certainly a lot of pain at the