Varney and company is about to begin we start earlier and we stay with you much longer. Watch out. Well look here. Never mind the global crisis. Stocks still at near or approach record levels. 18,319. More on that in a second. Take a look at exit. That is the website that sells hand crafts, knickknacks by any other name, it lost money. Down it goes 22 . Look at lowes. Profits disappoint, sales in the Building Materials market and its down 4 . The stock with the rather exotic strange name, pep boys, its a winner. Its being approached by several potential buyers we hear and its up 16 . As for the price of oil coming off its biggest drop in five weeks, that was yesterday, back up by 60 cents today at 58 a barrel. And the price of gasoline keeps going up, 2. 60 is your National Average, it was 2. 65 when i left last friday. Up she goes. The cheapest gas in america still just under 2 a gallon, and it would charge you 1. 97 and that is in texas. The white house. Calling it a setback. We call
History without a fight. [applause] and nobody knows that better than the woman that we are honoring tonight. We admire tori clinton because she has sex fully thought to expand opportunity here and all around the world. Because without her, we would still be talking about universal healthcare as if it were some sort of pipe dream. And yes because she did put 18 million cracks in that glass ceiling. But she didnt get to do any of that stuff the easy way. Nobody in american political history has faced more unfair attacks, more desperate opposition, or older you overwhelming diversity yet through her courage and resiliency and integrity, she has shown us all how to shake off the setbacks, ignore the haters and focus on moving our country forward. Thats why shes more than an idle. Shes an inspiration and whose talent we desperately need now more than ever. I am so proud to have her with us tonight. [inaudible] [laughter] for every human being in every society we cant continue to campaign f
Less likely to be happy. And some of the most miserable places in the world are places where people die of starvation and preventable diseases. Once you get beyond basic subsistence, the four things that bring happiness are faith, family, friends and work. Those are the things we have to keep in mind those are part of human flourishing. Host from your book Gross National happiness, this is a book about americas happiness. Doing sums across our population, can we say that the United States is a happy country . Whats your answer to that question . Guest the answer is generally, yes. Now theres so many indices of which country is happier than another and theyre generally not reliable. And part of the reason is because different cultures answer the question differently. So just getting a survey how happy are you, youre going to find that countries that have germanic languages answer the question different than those with romance languages, for example. Its that, its really that ridiculous.
Life, but they werent sufficient and so some of the things of cultural integrity, of family values, of being able to maintain ones faith, ones faith in god, that these are the things people needed for a truly flourishing life. And in so doing in a developing country, had a lot of lessons for the rest of us. Host can you measure happiness via economic success . Guest no. You can find some predeterminants for having a relatively good life by looking at economic indicators, but that doesnt get you far enough. There are really four things that can lead us to happiness and they dont involve money per se. Let me back up for a second peter. Money, one of the things that we find is enwhen people are poor and that when people are poor and they have deprivation and deciding whether or not to pay for medicine or food theyre less likely to be happy. And some of the most miserable places in the world are places where people die of starvation and preventable diseases. Once you get beyond basic subsi
Off to the south. Youll see some rain linger through early afternoon but everywhere else were going to see increasing sunshine working its way from the north down to the south. Visibilities still an issue. Fog is around for areas off to the north but well see that go away pretty fast. Temperatures today, yes, you can look at this. Mid60s by the afternoon and a lot better afternoon. All right, larry, i know you have a lot to tell us. Its certainly been a busy morning this morning. Good morning you to, by the way. Want to let you know that things on canal road still no progress at this point. We do know that emergency crews are on the scene again canal road closed between fox diss hall road and Reservoir Road foxhall road and Reservoir Road because after doubled tree injuring two people there. If youre going to be traveling on 66 were just talking about building volume on the eastbound side. Westbound free and clear. Maryland 270 free and clear as you make your way from frederick toward