became the republican national committee chairman. i expect to see him on cable tv in the next month or so. and of course probably join a law firm in town as most politicians, brooke. i want to mention something a little bit different before you go. we re noticing the presidential approval rating doing a bit of an uptick. let s show the poll. it shows his approval rating actually eclipsing his disapproval rating 52/47. what s going on there, mark? i think what we re seeing is after the election we saw president obama not doing very well before the lekts. election. right after the election, he was still at 45%. however, there was the lame duck session, able to get a lot of things done, specifically the tax cut compromise. we also heard president obama talk a lot about compromise and working together and the whole idea of bipartisanship. i think that s where we re seeing the numbers tick up. they could continue to tick up over the next couple of weeks specifically after the state of
obama supporters applauded him for the bipartisanship he showed the last couple of days. bill: alan, thank you, see you in the hallway and karen you are welcome to new york any time! thank you. bill: see you guys. martha: driving around, doing your christmas shopping, have you noticed the price at the pump is getting higher these days? and aaa says the average price for a gallon of unleaded nationwide is closing in on $3. laura ingle is live in our news room with more. laura, this is not good news for the folks. reporter: that s right, and crude oil hit $90 a barrel, yesterday, and, it has since come down to $88.40 and sending us red flags there will be a big pinch in the pocketbook for secures, coming up. gas prices are up 30 cents from a year ago and may hit a national average above $3 per gallon, before christmas and, home heating oil, averaging $2.47 a gallon, up 20% over last year s prices of $1.99, causing people to pay several hundred
his high-profile inflammatory web videos condemning the u.s. and praising the 9/11 attackers. north korea says it won t move forward on nuclear disarmament in response to a joint u.s.-south korea military exercise. those exercises are just getting under way and will last ten days. talks with north korea weren t really going anywhere before this. because of the exercises north korea now claims it is free to build up nuclear defenses. unwelcome news at the pump. the average price of gas jumped nearly ten cents per gallon in just two weeks. you can blame a spike in crude oil prices. self-serve regular now averages $2.73 a gallon. that s 76 cents higher than a year ago. the cheapest gas is in cheyenne, wyoming. $2.47 a gallon. honolulu has the most expensive. $3.33 a gallon. jacqui jeras, we talked a bit earlier about this. almost the summer driving season. we want the warm weather but we don t want the high gas prices.
a check of prices across the nation shows gas cheapest in cheyenne, wyoming. $2.47 a gallon. most expensivexpensive, honolul here s something you don t see and hear every day. an abortion play by play. not exactly something to tweet about. but angie jackson did. she actually put it on youtube, too. take a listen to the very public abortion that s got 125,000 youtube hits. yeah. i m having an abortion right now. it s not that bad. it s not that scary. it s basically like a miscarriage. i m live tweeting my abortion on twitter. not for some publicity stunt or attention or to justify this to myself. i am at peace with my decision. so what motivated angie to end her pregnancy? she says she used an iud for birth control, but it failed. she also said that her pregnancy
$2.73 a gallon. that s 76 cents higher than a year ago. the cheapest gas is in cheyenne, wyoming. $2.47 a gallon. honolulu has the most expensive. $3.33 a gallon. jacqui jeras, we talked a bit earlier about this. almost the summer driving season. we want the warm weather but we don t want the high gas prices. i know. it s march. it s spring break. what are those college students going to do? yeah. i m sure more people are probably worried about going to work next week and what that s going to be like. but you know. yeah, that s true as well. well, we kick off the work week tomorrow. and the most active weather in the country is going to be across the southwest and moving into the nation s mid-section. here you can see that swirl really on the radar. where we ve had showers and even some thunderstorms today. for the most part it s been relatively light. everybody seeing maybe half of an inch or less. finally starting to pull out of los angeles. but we re going to continue to see s