morning. it starts right now. the dow had its worst week of 2012, and jp morgue annan s gap drives investors away. plus, one senator says the president s reversal on same-sex marriage couldn t get any gayer. and it s mother s day. we take a look at moms around the world and have a time magazine cover that sparked outrage in america has received eye rolls abroad. good morning, everyone. i m randy kay. it s 7:00 on the east coast. 4:00 a.m. on the west. let s get straight to the news this morning. we start with your money on the line with several factors weighing heavy on our economy. overseas many greece. newly elected leaders are meeting right now to try and put together a coalition government. that new deposit was supposed to bring them out of the financial ruin that has sent shock waves through our own economy. you see, banks bet big on greece s recovery and the failure is being passed on to you. if greece capital come to a consensus, there could be new licks and more o
early to tell what killed her. that s, of course, all pending the toxicology results. don lemmon is covering the story for us just outside the l.a. county coroner s office. don, bring us up to speed. you and i were listening to the press conference, our viewers were as well. beverly hills police, you also spoke with the assistant county coroner there in l.a. what do you know as of this moment? reporter: well, you heard some of it, brooke. you heard them say that their investigation at the hotel pardon me; we re right outside the coroner s office where there is an ambulance coming through here but you heard me say the investigation at the hotel was over. whitney houston s body has been released, and the coroner told our producer here just a short time ago that to the best of his knowledge, whitney houston s body has been removed from the coroner s office and it will be on a private flight soon back to the east coast, back to new jersey. what we also know, brooke, is what
energy efficiency and drilling that could give us an energy policy. one of the points that the new york times columnist always makes is if das goes to $5 a gallon, that would prompt america to fast forward and push towards an alternative energy future. people just don t want to pay that. it could have a positive unintended consequence. i asked him that exactly. he paints a bleak picture in his commentary. in a column he wrote for the daily beast, he talks about when things do get to that point, you know, we re looking at serious civil disturbance potential. we would like to resolve this before we reach the rye sis moment. it may take getting back to the level of cost. can i play something else? he talked about how frus dated the american people will be. they will be frus tratded and they will be angry. the fact that it s an election year, the american people could say the people in office haven t
drilling off our coasts between now and the rest of the time they are in office if they get a second term. and $5 gasoline, i think is going to go in the face of them getting a second term because they haven t done anything about it in the meantime. what do you think it s going to take getting gasoline prices up to $5 a gallon for something to happen, and what could happen when the prices reach that high? americans are not going to be very eager to embrace that price. i think they will be frustrated and they will be angry. the fact that it s an election year, the american people could say, you know, the people in office haven t done their job. they haven t deliver affordable energy. i said to candidate obama in 2007, to him directly, if you don t provide more hydrocarbons in the period of 2009 to 2012, you will not like the gas price which you will be running against when you go up for re-election in 2012. john, you have been a big proponent of increasing hydrocarbon capacity.
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