rob: welcome back. check this out. a recent survey finds that more than half of californians want to leave their state because it is just too expensive to live there. isn t that amazing? new york not too far behind. and with many people fleeing from these high tax states, what s the impact on the rest of the country? here to weigh in, former chief economist for the u.s. international trade commission, peter maurici. it s great for the other states, right? they re getting good people coming in that want to pay tax. the people that go to florida and texas from california a and new york are those that can work at a distance or bring high value added industries with them, people like software companies and oil company headquarters and so forth.
police say the alleged kidnapper is holding the boy at an underground bunker, wired with electricity and stocked with food. jimmy lee dykes is accused of taking that boy off a school bus after killing the driver. negotiators are talking to him through a pvc pipe. snowmobiler caleb moore has died from injuries he suffered in an accident during the x games last weekend. the 25-year-old was hurt when his 450-pound snowmobile didn t complete a flip and landed on him. his death is the first in the 17-year history of the x games. espn issued a statement saying, as a result of this accident, we will conduct a thorough review of this discipline and adopt any appropriate changes to future x games. rescuers in mexico city are searching for possible survivors of an explosion at the state-owned oil company headquarters. at least 25 people have been killed. 100 injured. investigators say they don t know what caused the blast, but they are not ruling out an attack. and today begins heart hea
times and not at all the second year. the president says that many of the recommendations were taken into account, and we re still waiting for that fob cleared up. fingers crossed. shepard: there s breaking news now on fox news channel, an update for the breaking news earlier in this hour. pam ex in mexico city where the explosion happened, 14 people killed and 80 others injured in the explosion in the mexican oil company headquarters. but we have 14 dead and 80 injured with more to come at this hour. crisis averted, the house passed a bill in a suspended the debt ceiling in may. president obama will sign the measure so the government can keep borrowing and paying the bills for a few more months. gas prices rising more than usual this year. trip 8a reported $3.42.