weeks. a mustang used to take regular gas. a recent survey finds the average cost for regular gas, 2.73. that s still 20 cents higher on average, over last year. jackson, mississippi has the lowest price among cities surveyed at 2.43 for regular. that s a lot of gas news. san francisco is the highest at 3.16. gretchen: electric car maker is going to shift two prototype models to toyota this month. they re complete with rechargeable batteries. you may recall they recently sign add partnership in california where toyota pledged to pump $50 million into the electric car company. despite this news, don t expect to see the cars in the u.s. any time soon. this program still in the experimental phase. brian: huge, if you go to santa monica building, it makes you think it s close. steve: it s close if you re on that highway. gretchen: coming up, bp says the checks were sent out, but hundreds of fishermen and women
weekend say they are going to be visiting friends and family. they are going to be travelogue average about 600 miles to do it. one of the good bits of news about traveling over this weekend is the fact that the price of gas is quite reasonable. you can recall two years ago it was over $4 a gallon where as today it s standing steady at about $2.73 or $2.75. unless you live in chicago which seems to have the highest prices where it s about $2.90. good news for travelers. they have good sunny weather throughout the midwest and traffic is moving smoothly. don t forget to pack your sunscreen wherever you go. good advice. along the highway there outside of chicago, thanks so much and have a good weekend. just ahead, are you looking at fourth of july weekends with zero plans? we will consult a travel expert
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.
$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
you need a 4% polling average in new hampshire or in iowa in order to make it onto the debate stage, even if you are doing terribly nationwide. and so good new hampshire numbers like these put john kasich and chris christie and carly fiorina all very comfortably on the main stage even though their national numbers stink. now we get to the part that s really weird. now we get to the part that i sort of can t believe isn t a big national news story. because these are the polling numbers for a candidate named senator rand paul. nationwide. again, he would need to hit a polling average of 3 1/2% in order to make the main stage. he does not get it. he s at 2.73%. unlike those other candidates i just mentioned, rand paul also has bad numbers in new hampshire. he would need 4% in new hampshire to qualify for the main stage. he s not at 4% in new hampshire. he s at 3%. how about iowa? again, he needs just 4% at his polling average in iowa in order to make the main stage. rand paul does not mak