u.s. soldier as wanted to know he was missing for nine months. holt says he was a former soldier working as a civilian contractor in iraq. u.s. officials said all missing soldiers had been accounted for. and no civilian was recently reported missing. in this country, gas prices go up for the ninth straight day. the average is close to $3.84 but some big cities are already seeing gas prices average more than $4 a gallon. the record high was $4.11 back in july of 2008. and extreme weather. while most of the u.s. enjoys unseasonably warm weather, a look at what is going on in northern arizona, a late winter storm is dropping between one and two feet of snow in the area around flagstaff. winds are gusting and roads crews are working overtime. jackie jar ras will jacqui jeras will be here in about 20 minutes from now. robert bales is expected to meet with his legal defense team and in the shooting death of the men, women, and children in kandahar, afghanistan. sergeant bales
italy s prime minister. i want to start with jason carroll. jason, we know today s weekly news conference with the legendary joe paterno canceled. the new york times reporting that he has days, maybe weeks numbers. what are you hearing? well, for one thing, let me tell you just literally, we have a comment from joe paterno, caught up with him outside of his house, i m reading this for the first time. i know you all have a lot of good questions. i want to answer them. we re going to have more of his comments coming up. also, i can tell you with regard to that report that he would be stepping aside or retiring. his son, scott paterno, tweeted something a few hours ago basically saying those reports were premature, according to his tweet. we live in the world of twitter now. no discussions about his retirement. that is what we re being told now at this point in terms of whether or not joe paterno for his role in all this, whether he will step down. as you know, he was schedu