that the cold war ended more than two decades ago. wolf blitzer is off today. i m gloria borger and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the average price for a gallon of regular gas today is about $4. make that $3.92. our new poll shows nearly half of americans expect that price to hit $5. that s $5 this year and most blame the oil companies. president obama tried to hitch a ride on those sentiments today. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here. jessica, is the president going after big oil? again. believe it or not, it really felt like today was let s play politics with gas prices day in washington. the president played his part from the rose garden. think about that. it s like hitting the american people twice. he called on the senate to pass a bill that would have eliminated billions in tax breaks for oil companies. american oil is booming. the oil industry is doing just fine, with record profits and rising prod
tearful broadcaster broke the news last night on north korea s state-run tv. she reported that the 69-year-old died of a heart attack on saturday. he was a reclusive dictator who starved his own people while building a nuclear weapons nation. bill richardson who has traveled to north korea many times points to several major concerns now. the peninsula is a tinderbox. this we knew was coming because of the health of kim jong il. the issue is going to be will there be stability in the north korean leadership. will they continue the recent efforts of engaging south korea and the united states over food eight over nuclear snauks. newscasts showed north koreans weeping inconsolably for the man they called the dear leader. kim s youngest son, kim jong un now in charge. very little is known about him, but the ruling workers party has already dubbed him the great successor. the white house says it is closely monitoring the situation in north korea. we are told that president obam
jerry sandusky who is charged with child molestation. effective immediately, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach. effective immediately. that means paterno won t coach the final home game against nebraska. paterno accepts the board s decision but adds, quote, it is going to take some time to get used to. overnig we are going live to penn state. when tom bradley speaks. take a look at those live pictures. greece has a new interm prime minister to avoid an economic collapse. lucas pkcas papademos. . in eastern turkey, rescuers are digging through piles of rubble to try to find dozens of people who are trapped still after earthquake struck last night. at least seven people were killed and this moderate quake hit less than a month after you may recall the major quake that struck the same area killing more than 500. major league baseball s wilson ramos has been kidnapped now at gunpoint. it happened at his family s home in venezuela. the 24-year-old, catcher
with experts from the region. another consequence of the recession? green is no longer hot. we ll explain why that could be good. what is the cheapest city for a world in an american ex-pat. we ll get to the debt ceiling in a moment. i wanted to give you my take on something else of importance that happened this week. amid karzai was gunned down by a close family associate. he was hamid karzai s half brother and ran the crucial southern provinces. his death has been described as a huge setback for karzai and the international coalition that is trying to support the karzai government in kabul. let s try to understand why he was such a crucial figure. it provides a window into understanding the future of afghanistan. amid wally carsi karzai was rut with troops not supporting his brother, cutting them off from any aid. he gave the american and brid tisch forces information on hostile tribes, provided crucial intelligence on key groups and militants. he was the first afghan l
1973, has this sense of representing egyptian identity. and they they hew to this ideal of being the guardian of the nation. in iran, it s the revolutionary guard that is the ideological representation of post revolutionary iranian identity. and it represents the revolution, not the people. how important is this shift in consciousness is the fact that so many in the army and all of these countries is there are so many young people? is that a factor, the youth element of the army itself? well the youth issue in egypt is critical because you can t get married as young man if you don t have a job. and youth unemployment in the 20s it s huge. it s 50% ap you have all these youth in the army, as well. so in a sense you can think of two egyptian armies. you have the army that s milita military, inc., as in pakistan, has up to 40% of the egyptian