good. a remarkable, remarkable turn-around in sentiment. you can thank crashing gas prices for the increase in confidence, the feeling better about the economy. gas prices down a record 90 days straight. that s never happened. that s according to tripaaa. average prices now 2.35 a gallon. it puts extra cash right in american wallets this holiday season. guys, you can see it, you can see it in the poll numbers. you can see it in the stock market. you can see it in the gdp numbers. it looks good. even diesel is really low. you know traditionally diesel is much higher than even super high test. now it s lower. great thing. all right. the dow reaching record highs this week. now the president s job approval seeing improvement. the new cnn/orc poll gives president obama his highest rating since may of 2013. let s talk about all of this, what it means for your wallet and for the president with cnn global economic analyst and
paul, your live shot really sets it all. reporter: indeed, pam. it s really a rock slide. billions and billions of rocks coming down here. eight homes severely damaged, perhaps more as they start to take a count of it. nobody killed and nobody injured but harrowing moments. an elderly couple and their caregiver, at one point, pinned in their home by all of this rock and mud. the fire department raced in here and got them out. 125 people were evacuated in this part of camarillo. this is on a hillside and it s below an area that suffered from a severe and fast-moving fire back in may of 2013. if you look over this way, you can see where all of the rocks came from, up in these hills. the vegetation stripped by the fire and they had worried for a long time that possibly rainstorms would cause trouble and indeed it did.
he and somers died after being transferred to the navy vessel. we have cnn s karl penhaul with more. what did his widow have to say? reporter: the wife of murdered south african hostage pierre korkie is urging forgiveness and not to start pointing the finger about the manner of his death. that certain is a huge gesture for her taking into account how this rescue operation went down and what the prospects were for that south african teacher kidnapped back in may of 2013. because there was a south african charity gift for givers, trying to mediate in the crisis and what they said in a statement, pierre korkie, the hostage, was hours from being released. that after a painstaking hostage
emails, the mission emails are the thing that can answer the question about what were people thinking and doing as these misdeeds occurred. bill: how significant so far is the judge s ruling? you start to see the time is running out for a slow walk approach the administration has taken. this was may of 2013 this news broke. we still have not seen anything from a an internal investigation from the administration. we have these bizarre-sounding stories about recycled hard drives that contained the data. you get the sense the judiciary is growing frustrated with the administration s ability to answer the questions substantively or they are making
security when they passed the border security hr which is also called the mccall-thompson legislation 14 months ago. the majority leader has failed to bring the measure to the house floor for a vote. what would that legislation have done and what is its status right now in the house? well, that legislation has been stalled since may of 2013. and what that legislation does is it sets forth a framework so that the secretary of homeland security can establish operational control of the border. it was co-authored by a republican chairman, mike mccaul from texas, and from our ranking democrat on the committee, bennie thompson. if we had had a vote on that bill any time in the last 14 months, we would have had a border security bill in place. i think what we need to do is bring that border security bill on the floor as soon as possible and i think that s the first step that we can take in making