some positive comments from the st. louis fed is boosting the market a little this morning, mr. bullard is president of the st. louis fed, says we shouldn t be too concerned about rising oil prices and that s been enough for a boost for the dow. we ll have an eye on the markets now the morning, we ll see how it goes. bill: fill up over the weekend? bill: what s you day? martha: 3.37. you should check it out, new jersey, bill, it s really a nice place! bill: i ll get there. three point six eight in new york. crazy weather across the country, even bringing snow to hollywood. a rare picture out of burbank, california. doesn t last long, does it? martha: huh-uh, and a reporter becomes part of the story. look at this video, during a street scuffle. find out how this one turned out. you re not going to believe this situation, when we come back.
to work together to reduce the decifit for the state governments, as well as the federal government, and that s going to require a compromise on all sides. take the state of wisconsin. you ve got the workers there who have already agreed to a lot of concessions, both in terms of health benefits, as well as their pension benefits, as they should. everyone has got to be part of the belt tightening. but to suggest that they somehow were the cause of this economic meltdown and they have to bear the entire brunt is nonsense. i come from the state of michigan. maryland. we have collective bargaining in the state of maryland, maryland is one of the few states that has a aaa bond rating. so let s not confuse the cause and effect of different things. we do need to work together, and people need to make these compromises. bill: to that end the workers are willing to do that, but the kind of rhetoric we re hearing from governor palenty doesn t help solve the problem. bill: in the bigger pic