the nation s strategic oil reserves and a lot of people are talking about this, of course, as part of an international effort to make up for supply disruptions in libya and elsewhere adding to strains on the global economy. now the u.s. will release 30 million barrels of oil over the next 30 days. and that is the largest ever released following today s announcement oil prices plunged 4%. take a look at the dow right now, and you see that it is down 169 points, and s&p down slightly and nasdaq and a lot of people will be talking about whether this is a political move even though the gas prices are not as high as we have seen them over the last few months, and this is a big move. all right. a formal charges against a military suspect tops the look of stories around the nation today. the u.s. prosecutors are charging this man with shootings at four military buildings around washington including the pentagon. officials say it appeared he was also trying to build a bomb. and police in v
don t concern reporters and then we ll jump in for the q & amount. it is getting very heated. as i mentioned you have the deputy national security adviser coming out and taking a direct shot at top republicans on capitol hill saying they knew that this guy, abdulmutallab, the christmas day bombing suspect, was going to be mirandised, they knew he was in fbi custody and knew we were going to treat him as a criminal defendant rather than a military suspect. then the top republicans come out and say that s crazy, that s not true, we didn t know, it was never clear with us and now pete hoekstra and kit bond have called for brennan, that security official, to resign. so far, obviously, he hasn t, and he has the white house s backing. that s going to be the topic on the docket at this press briefing which is one of the reasons why we re going to take it for you. we expect to get answers or at least we hope. in the meantime back to weather, you know it had to happen, back-to-back