And we begin tonight with a plunging price of oil. Good news for consumers. Here in the u. S. , but the price of oil is hammering economies like russia that dependent on an oil communicate. Financial markets, dow down about 100 points today. Gas prices are the lowest in about five years. Aaa says average is 2. 69 a gallon down 32 cents since last month. Jonathan betz is here with more. Jonathajohn as you just ment, its now 2. 66 a gallon down a dollar since april. Europe imports most of its oil. Its also seen a big drop, 74 cents in just a month. After weeks of rising prices russias gas has already dropped but no more than a quarter in the past few weeks. China economy has been helped, gas down nearly 70 cents there. Gas prices are dropping so fast its caught many by surprise. American drivers are rejoicing this holiday. Im liking the gas prices. It helps on my wallet and helps me save some money. Reporter while many others are growing. Oil prices are dropping like rarely seen before.
Organization. Get ready for the real story on jobs and the economy like youve come to expect ever day. Varney company is about to begin. 34ubg. Tom lets check the big board right now. Not too far away from dow 18,000. The dow on pace for its best week in three years, and look at that . Less than 100 points away from the 18,000 mark. Lets take a look at twitter. User growth slowing, but results were still better than expected in this result and as a result, that stock is moving higher up 16 . Meantime gopro is forecasting a Current Quarter profit that could miss wall street expectations, and they also have said their chief operating officer is resigning. The stock is down on that news down 10 at gopro. And linkedin is a winner after reporting strong numbers. Stock hit a new high 271. Were just a penny under that right now. Looks like the jobs report 257,000 createssed last month. And created last month. A lot of those are low paying jobs. And the labor force that Participation Rate we t
3 15 but the full eclip se happened right before 5 00 this morning lasting just five minutes. Very quick. Very beautiful picture. Very beautiful. We are talking about on our iphones looks nothing like that no. Thats why i didnt send it in. Welcome. Its saturday april 4th. Good morning. Its a bit of a chill out there i noticed the chill. The wind too. Whipping around. Cooling down. Whats it looking like . There is a lot of Easter Egg Hunts planned. I know. You are right. Tomorrow morn we will wake up with rain over parts of the bay area. Today is that transition day. We will have plenty of sun to go around. Partly cloudy. Even sunny. How about that sun . Giving you a live look as it moves its way into the sky. We have a Beautiful Day in store. Today a bit of a cooldown. Itll lead to bigger changes for Easter Sunday. Lets look at Storm Tracker too. Little bit of patchy fog along the coastline this morning. We have just high clouds. That will continue to stream in. Temperatures napa35 deg
This week on q a our guest is Judith Miller former New York Times reporter and author of the book the story, a reporters journey. Jewely miller author of this story. Deep in the book you have a chapter called inmate 454570083 this paragraph. The worst part of jail was not sleeping on the paper thin yoga mat on the cold concrete ledges that had replaced more expensive cots nor the vile food mystery meets drenched that an inmate dubbed sloppy nose. So what was the worst thing about being in jail in for me it was probably being locked up all the time without any control over my life. I mean, we take watches or cell phones for granted. You know what time it is, you know what youre supposed to be doing. All of a sudden jail means total loss of control. You work on their schedule. You sleep on their schedule. And because i was in a kind of high security jail it wasnt a Martha Stewart cupcake life jail. There was no access to the outdoors. I think i had about four hours of real air, breatheab
Sleeping on a paperthin yoga mat. Nor the vile food, mystery meat drenched in thick, brown sauce. Accompanied by starches and carbohydrate in shades of brown and gray. What was the worst thing about being in jail . Judith for me, it was probably being locked up all of the time without any control over my life. We take watches and cell phones for granted. You know what time it is, you know what youre supposed to be doing. Jail means a total loss of control. You work on their schedule. You sleep on their schedule. Because i was in a kind of highsecurity jail, it was not the Martha Stewart camp cupcake kind of jail. There was no access to the outdoors. I think i had about four hours of real, breathable, outdoor air in 85 days. For me, that was the toughest part of the adjustment to my new life. Brian when were you in jail, and where . Judith i was in the Alexandria Detention Center in alexandria virginia. I had to say this, it was extremely professional. It was very well run. The people t