costs more to fill up. 12 cents in a week. about 11% so far this year. we ve never seen gas prices this high so early in the season. usually you see gas prices going up into the spring and summer driving season. never so high so early. what goes into a gallon of gas? here s the breakdown according to the way the government looks at it. 12% of the price of gasoline are the taxes that we pay. 6% goes to distribution and marketing. 6% is refining. look at that, kyra, 76% is crude oil. crude oil is a price that is set in the global market that is a lot of different head winds and cross winds and when crude oil prices, gasoline prices rise, crude oil is above $108 a barrel. mostly because of this fear factor about iran but also because of, you know, consistent global demand for energy and oil, kyra. so you ve got the demand for oil, you ve got the arab spring, you have the fact that look what s happening here in the united states with regard to the economy. all of that combine
antigadhafi brigades. human rights watch is calling on the libyan national council to investigate this. conditions in syria are getting too dangerous for the u.s. ambassador. the state department has pulled ambassador robert ford out of syria citing what it calls credible threats against his personal safety. u.s. officials say an armed pro-government mob attack ford an some colleagues in an embassy convoy last month. ford has been an outspoken critic of the syrian government s violent crack dourn on protesters. u.s. officials say they don t know when it will be safe for ford to return to syria. a growing danger in the skies with more people on the ground shining hand-held lasers into airline cockpits. it usually happens while planes are taking off or landing. the most dangerous times for pilots to be distracted or even temporarily blinded. the faa reports more than 2,700 laser incidents so far this year. nearly ten times the number reported in 2005. there are new stiff pe
bad and that ee s exactly what unfortunately i think has happened. i want to ask you if you think this is political theater as well. senator claire mccaskell was really upset during this hearing talking about some of those graves that are either mismarks or unmarked at arlington national cemetery. do you honestly believe mr. metzler if you had come and said we have a crisis, we need manpower so we can check this cemetery because we re afraid that we have lost bodies of our heros. this is not complicated. it s called keeping track of who you bury where. in that political theater, matt, or is that the kind of passion that will serve the democrats well? it s the kind of passion that would serve us all well.
211 graves at arlington national cemetery were unmarked or misidentified. now the man in charge at the time says he takes the blame, but also says it was his staff and a lack of resources behind this scandal. well, missouri senator claire mccaskill is having none of it. she says her own investigation shows that the number of mixed up graves could be as high as 6,600. do you honestly believe, mr. petsler, if you would have come to congress and said, we have a crisis. we immediately need resources and man power so we can check this cemetery because we re afraid that we ve lost bodies of our heroes. did you ever write that up? did that ever go up the chain of the command? did the chief of staff of the army ever see a document from you that we ve got a problem, we found cremated remains and we don t know where they belong? no. did that ever occur, mr. metzler? we buried the remains as
you bury where. shepard: john ran that cemetery some 19 years before the scandal forced him to resign. he told lawmakers he accepts full responsibility for the problems. today, he apologized to the affected families. trace gallagher live in our west coast news hub. trace, that doesn t begin to explain how this happened. what s he saying. john metzger saying he was short on resources. he didn t have enough staff. he also says that the system that was used to track all those grave sites, will also relied on a very complicated paper trail that was prone to mistakes. in the 19 years that john metzler ran the arlington national cemetery. 110,000 veterans were laid to rest there. metzler, as you heard, took blame for the mistakes. but he also warned the committee not to rush to judgment. listen. yes, we did find a few graves in each of these sections where the head stones were missing. and those head stones were ordered as soon as we could